Early Modern Florentine Fleming in Pictorial Sport Tradition
The article surveys Giovanni Stradanus born Bruges 1528 and his prints of sporting scenes. It notes Stradanus helped shape 16th century visual culture alongside De Bry Bol and the Galle family. It discusses accuracy vs imagination in sport illustrations and one example the chamois print with a misdrawn horn.
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France
Dutton Sportsman
Elephas Primigenius
Ursus Spelaens
Louvre
Florentine
Bruges
Giovanni Della Strada
Joannes Stradanus
Michael Angelo
Stradanus
Bedes
Tschudis
Theodore de Bry
Hans Bol
Galle
Antwerp
Collaera
Wierx
Mallery
Sadeler
Golttlus
de Passe
Michael
Angelo
Aiza
Heron hawking and Stradanus’s plates in Northern Europe
The article discusses Stradanus’s herbal and hunting scenes including elephants, bears, and the now extinct heron hawking sport in England. It notes the popularity of his Nova Reperta engravings in Antwerp and the spread of Italian and Dutch artistic tastes across northern Europe in the sixteenth century. It also comments on the legend of the heron’s beak and the travel challenges of cross-border illustration.
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Ture
Stradanus
British Isles
Mr. Harting
Edward C. Newcome
Norfolk
Sultan
de Ruyter
Holland
England
Netherlands
the Loo
Apeldoorn
Newcome
Duke of Leeds
Stuart Wortley
Walter Scott
Germany
Tempesta
Rome
Galle Brothers
Antwerp
Europe
Italy
Naples
Don Juan of
Austria
Arno
North Sea
Florence
Columbus
Vespucci
Stanley’s exploits in New York lecture circuit emerge
The article recalls Henry M. Stanley’s harvest of earnings from a lecture tour ending with about $64,000 after expenses, noting $14,763 receipts from that lecture and a $5,000 agent fee. It compares to Alexander Graham Bell’s $253 nightly schoolhouse lectures and a Western city classroom day on February 22.
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Henry’. M
Stanley
New “York
Sun
Geholar
Roe the
Iight
New York
Au Charity
Alexander Graham Bell
Margaret
Remarkable Borneo Zoo Exhibit At Sandakan Hotel
The British North Borneo Herald reports a rare menagerie in Sandakan including a Nger, four orangutans, and a 28 foot python. The python killed a goat that was offered as food and swallowed it in two efforts taking about a quarter hour. The animals belong to Dr. Herzel who plans to take them to Europe.
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Borneo
Sandakan
British North Borneo Herald
Herzel
Europe
Cat With Egg Appetite Surprises Owners
A reader describes Sir Tom the cat’s egg craving to Our Dumb Animals. The fat lazy feline watched a bag in the kitchen, tore it with teeth and claws, and carefully rolled the egg to break it open with a gentle bump against a table leg before feasting.
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Tom
Trades of Little Animals A fable on animal roles and skills
A compact fable assigns humanlike trades to animals. Bees are geometricians building efficient cells, the mole is a meteorologist, eels electricians, nautilus navigator, beaver architect and dam builder, marmot civil engineer with aqueducts, white ants soldiers, wasps paper makers, caterpillars silk spinners, the squirrel a ferryman, and many others hunters or entertainers reflecting diverse jobs.
Henpecked remark turns playful with a quip
Comic exchange features Willie teasing his father figure. The stern warning about another question is met with a sly retort from Willie, noting the recurring "whip you where you sit" line. The moment blends humor with a lightly sharp edge.
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Henpeck
Man
Willie
Recess Game Of Fox And Dog In School Ring
A classroom recess game involves up to twenty five children forming a circle. One player is the fox inside the ring while Bruno the dog stays outside and mimics the fox. The farmer calls Bruno to chase the fox who moves beneath the raised hands.
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Fox
Bruno
Unusual Resource Of Boy Uses Roller Skate To Haul Wood
A boy ties a skate to an orange crate, loads it with firewood at a Broad Street grocer side door, and rolls away ahead of peers. The scene drew a crowd as small boys searched for wood scraps, amid a brisk scramble for the largest load.
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Lad
S Broadway
Saga
New York Sun
Secret of Colored Flowers Stuns At Flower Show
Spectators marvel at odd colored blooms after exhibitors dyed fresh cut stems with aniline solutions. Scarlet, blue, pink and purple hues appear within hours, with greens and stripes forming as color seeps through petals. The craze shows any clever gardener could imitate the effect.
FourYearOld Confuses Jar and Jug After Hymn
Frances, aged four, attended church with her mother and heard the hymn Drops of Mercy. At home she attempted to sing but faltered, then said she forgot whether the song was a jar or a jug.
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Frances
Fragments from a broken OCR note
The readable text shows stray words and incomplete phrases likely from a sports or school notice. Key terms include hollered and bounced, but no clear event, names, dates, or organizations are identifiable. The fragmentary line lacks coherent subject or outcome.
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Uae
Ita
J. Callaert
Mole
Becaann
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