Colorado museum by Mrs Maxwell in Boulder draws visitors
Helen Hunt recalls a remarkable but little known Boulder exhibit in a corner building. Mrs Maxwell's self taught taxidermy creates life like sculpted animals and dramatic displays that intrigue travelers and locals alike. The collection spans Colorado birds, minerals, shells, and a vivid wild landscape with animals posed in action.
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Helen Hunt
Boulder
Colorado
Wren
Mrs. Maxwell
Night Watch
Maxwell
San Francisco
Iere
Science and Religion as Working Theories Across Reality
The passage argues that neither science nor religion can prove reality with demonstration. Both rely on subjective tests and working theories. It states the external world and God cannot be demonstrated, yet belief in God may justify existence of things beyond self.
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Govenor Tilden
Utica
Govenor
Vales Terri
United States
God
Ztev
F. H. Hedge
Dry goods box keeps Teddy safe and happy at home
Grandma Williams recalls hiding Teddy in a homemade dry goods box to manage motherhood without help. She satin-tucked a box with scraps, added windows, strings, and playful trinkets so the child could peek out while she kept dishes and chores in peace.
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Grandma Williams
Cecelia Williams
Mamma Williams
Teddy
Admonition That Shaped a Sailor’s Life to Faith
A reminiscence from Admiral Farragut era at Long Branch recounts a cabin-boy vow made at age ten to reform from drink and gambling. The speaker credits his father’s rebuke and a conversion to Christianity with setting his life on a constructive path, shaping both his temporal and eternal fate.
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Borcy
Long Branch
Admiral Farragut
New Orleans
Burr
Cape Horn
David
Presbyterian Banner
Queen's gift to American widow includes royal portrait
Mrs. Dr. 8. Tredwell of Mineola receives a half length portrait of Queen Victoria in a bronze frame with doors. The inscription notes the gift honors Mrs. Tredwell for sending an 1774 family letter by governess Mrs. Planta about George III's children. Buckingham Palace sent thanks via the British Legation in Washington.
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Buckingham Palace
Washington
Temperance Influence and Social Pressure in Early Temperance Thought
A fragmentary critique argues that temperance rhetoric fails to reduce drinking, noting social pressure to abstain affects employment and marriage prospects. It cites Masonic and other lodge bans on drinkers, plus journalistic temperance advocacy. The piece Also invokes a nature parable about seizing growth before decay.
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Masonic
Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias
California
Coyote Fables of Salmon and Star Dance
An excerpt from Zancroft’s Native Races of the Pacific States recounts a Coyote tale. A flood dam collapses freeing salmon on the Klamath. Coyote seizes a key, topples the dam, and the fish return upstream. The star dance ends in Coyote’s death as punishment for vanity.
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Chareya
Klamath
Coyote
Heaven
Maynte
Mothers Should Dress Babies for Health Not Vanity
The Metropolitan argues mothers err by over bundling babies to showcase attire. It urges warm long stockings and careful wrapping of hands necks and chests while avoiding excess layers. Proper dress promotes healthier growth and a stronger future generation.
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Maximilian
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Fort Couns
Colorano
Coe
Larimer
F. Inman
McPhail & Co
Boston
Terme
P. O. Box
WM. B. Pabor
Pabor & Allen
Norv RK. Allen
Tas Vatuay
Conorapo
Cache la Poudre
Dence Senterrep
B., B. A. Haynes
A.E. Girson
Aynes & Gipson
Storneys
Jreeley
Sanborn
Life and Fire Insurance
D. Buckley
Weld County
Wilhiam Stein
Tribune
L. Childs
Justice OF the Peace
the Bakery
Greeley Weld So
Grant and
Sherman Sts
Freeman
Freeman & Shattuck
Fornvancal
Estarr
Rea
Bwrarx Securities
Denver
Masonic Block
Colo
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M. Moss
Maple St
Mr. Moss
Marvin
Watertown
N. Y
Maine
Geo. P. Ni. Gen
Park Row
New York
Dover
Royal Humane Society
Farragut
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