Columbian Souvenirs and Childhood Crafts
Collect Columbian postage stamps to make decorative keepsakes. Soak stamps, arrange in brick rows on a gilded vase or design a central motif with contrasting colors. A kindergarten friendly project cited from the Boston Herald, plus a poem about clovers and a note on kites as rescue tools. Also a feature on Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and her Munshi Abdul Karim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Victoria Eugenie of
Battenberg
Munshi Abdul Karim
Abdul Karim
Balloon Flight Reaches Ten Miles Upward Spectacle
A Paris venture by Hermite and Besancon sent a self registering balloon to 16 000 meters. It held at 10 miles for hours, instruments recording temperature and pressure, ink froze then thawed, and the craft illuminated like Venus by day. The record suggests lunar air density and weather effects on instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Hermite and
Besancon
Paris-Vaugirard
M. Hermite
Earth
Chanvres
Venus
Moon
Locusts over thirty miles and odd fishing bait claims
A Liverpool bound steamer reports a 60 mile sea of locusts between Cape Verde and St. Louis Senegal, dense as a floating field likened to grasshoppers with a single specimen five inches long. Other items note an India rubber fish worm, Dr. King's New Discovery claims, and Hood's Sarsaparilla as a constitutional remedy for catarrh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
African Steamship Company
Winnebah
West Africa
Liverpool
Cape Verde
St. Louis
Senegal
Morocco
Westminster Gazette
India
Columbus (Ga
Enquirer-Sun
J. B. Wilson
Clay Street
Sharpsburg
Dr. King
Tom E. Hildebrand
Indiana
Wm. I. Moore
Homer City
Milt G. Miller
Blairsville
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L. F. Chittenden
New York World
Eugenie of Battenberg
Frogmore
Henry of
Labor Commission
Geoffrey Drage
Holland
London News
Abyssinia
Solomon
Universal Postal Association
Bern
Postal Union
Menelek
Nile
Daugherty Bros
Hetrik Bros
Castoria
Daugherty Ros
Iseystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
J. H. McLean
the Atlantic Refining Company
Pittsburg Department
Pittsburgh, Pa
Standard Oil Company
Vicinity
J. F. Branes
Blood Builder
Pr. Williams
Medicine CC
Schenectady, N.Y
Trackville, On
Prof
Little
Liberty St
Pittsburg
Indiana, PA
Smithfield Street
Peoples Store
Indiana County
the Progress and the
New York Weekly Tribune
Mercial Gazette
the Progress and the Presbyterian Banner
the Progress and Farm Journal
North Sth St
Marvin
Ana
Frank Douglaze
Fifth Ave
W. D. Aythonry
New Roller Mill
Frantz Bros
Georgeville
Mahoning Township
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