King's War Robe on View at American Museum of Natural History
A historic Kamehameha III feathered war robe, valued like jewelry, is on display in the South Sea Islands hall. The crescent cape, weighing six pounds, uses Iiwi and Oo feathers woven onto Olona bark netting and was given to Commodore Lawrence Kearney in 1843.
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Kamehameha III
South Sea Islands
American Museum of Natural History
King of the Islands
Lawrence Kearney
Brigham
Islands
Hawaii
George 5. Bowdoin
Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria
Lord Brassy
England
Captain Cook
Hawaiian Islands
Bride Clings to Clay Pipe Chooses Freedom Over Workhouse
An Irish bride Johanna Wood aged forty nine and her sixty two year old husband left the Faversham workhouse Kent after marrying on December eleventh. The couple, destitute, spent their honeymoon there and Mrs Wood refused to give up her clay pipe saying she had smoked since girlhood. They left rather than abandon the habit.
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Johanna Wood
Faversham
Kent
Willis-What caused his death satire line
The doctors said it was an excess of pure joy. He had just shaved with a razor that felt like the advertisement wore a suit that looked like the ad and smoked a brand of tobacco that smoked like the advertisement.
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Willis
Gillis
Ancestral Daguerreotypes Questioned
A quip wonders why ancestors endured daguerreotypes to prove they could look worse than they seemed.
A Chipper Chopper Cartoon Exchange
A comic dialogue features a customer insisting on ordering his wife around and a butcher replying that he faces the same dynamic at home, highlighting domestic role reversals with humor.
Error Corrected in Cannon Trophy Record at War Department
The bronze six pounder cannon, claimed as Yorktown surrender trophy, is actually misdated. Capt. A S Grant, former War Department superintendent, notes the gun was captured in 1776 during early revolutionary expeditions, not at Yorktown 1776 as the large plate states. The correction clarifies its history as the first American capture from Britain in 1775.
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Ashington
War Department
Benedict Arnold
Holland
George
England
St. Johns
Yorktown
Grant
New Ptarmigan Subspecies Found in Tanaga Island Alaska
A. C. Bent identifies a new ptarmigan subspecies named lagopus sanford from Tanaga Island in the Aleutians. The bird shows seasonal plumage shifts, with most specimens in June collected in summer tones of gray and buff, and a Smithsonian pamphlet notes the find for ornithologists and zoologists.
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Arctic
Alice
Bent
Tanagatoland
Aleutian
Alaska
Leonard ©. Sanford
Greedy Hawk Disturbs City Clock In Winter Snare
A hawk from Smithson Park attacks pigeons at the relay station and post office tower. It plucks a pigeon, its body wedged under the clock hands, stopping the dial as cold weather and hunger drive pigeons to shelter in the tower, where several deaths occur on the roof and around the court.
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Washington
Navy Yard
White House
National
Jack Gardner
Doston
Hugh Roland French
French
Captain French
da Wynne
London
Smithsonian Park
Independence and Monmouth Railway Schedule
Daily train times between Independence Monmouth and Dallas with connections to Airlie. Train 64 departs 6:00 6:15 am arriving Dallas 6:40 am. Trains 68 70 61 78 serve onward routes and Airlie with listed arrival times. Dallas to Independence trains 65 69 71 and Airlie to Independence trains 62 72 complete the timetable.
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Independence
Monmouth
Dallas
Airlie
Departure of Boat for Salem Ferry
Boat departs Salem at 8 50 am daily for Independence Lock and returns the same day leaving Salem dock at 4 pm. Fare is 50 cents each way.
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Indocerdence Sena
Salem
Salem Dock
Chas D Smiley Contractor and Builder Plans Offered
Chas D Smiley operates as a contractor and builder with quick estimate service. Dwelling houses are a specialty and Bell Phone 524 is listed for contact.
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Bell
International Correspondence School in Scranton
Scranton based International Correspondence School lists Alder Representative Street as part of its address. the item notes the institution’s presence in the city with its contact location.
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International Correspondence School
Scranton
Robinson & Norton's Tonsorial Parlor Ad
Electric shampooing and all services offered with careful attention. Bath facilities connected and located on Main Street in Independence Oregon.
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Main Street
Independence
Oregon
Cooper Bldg
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Barnes’ Cash Store
Salem, Oregon
Watt Shipp
The
Sun Typewriter
Jim Hillird
Zed Rosendorf
Will H. Bloch
Independence, Org
Crowley Bros
Malin
Garage
Independence, Oregon
New York City
West Point
Doc Crandall
Ney
Loone Kima
Army
Navy
United States
Capital Society
Fort Myer
Boston
Taft
Greedy Hawk
Big Clock
Independence and Monmouth Railway
Chas. D. Smiley
H. V. Reed
Alder
Representative Street
Portland
W. R. Allin
D. D
B. F. Swope
W. E. Vincent
Justices of the Peace
Bush Bank
Salem, Or
Homer Lodge
No 45
Castle Hall
Ore
GO. D. Tharp
C. C. J. W. Richardson, JR
K. R
Tonsorial
Bath
Independence, Ore
G. L. Hawkins
Dallas, Oregon
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