Great Pipe Organs Highlight World’s Top Builders
The leading organ makers today include Walcker of Germany with Riga and Ulm organs, Cavaille-Celle with Paris landmarks, and Willis of England with Liverpool and Canterbury instruments. The Sydney town hall organ is the largest with 126 stops and thousands of pipes, followed by the Albert Hall London and Chicago Auditorium organs. Renowned living organists listed are Gullmant of Paris, Best of Liverpool, Dr Stainer of London, Warren of New York, Archer, Eddy, and Middelschulte.
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Walcker
Germany
Riga
Ulm
Cavaille-Cale
Paris
Willis
England
Liverpool
Canterbury
Sydney
Australia
Town Hall
Denver Paper Ad Request Note
A short notice from W N U Denver asks advertisers to mention the paper when placing ads. The brief appears in a volume and issue notation, with no additional details about dates or contact methods.
Mad Mountain Maids Defy Bailiff and Steer Ball
Betsy and Judith Lewis, known as Bet and Jude, thwart a bailiff seeking Ball the steer owed by Bet, blocking doors and kicking free. The dramatic chase ends as Ball, spurred by the Lewis dogs, bolts away with no one hurt.
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Coosa
Judy
Bet
Lewis
Jude
Bettie
Ball
Beggar Model Tale of Rothschild and Delacroix
A famed painter Delacroix used Baron James de Rothschild as a beggar model. Rothschild consented to pose, later kept a coin offered by a studio pupil, and received a letter revealing 10,000 francs in charity interest tied to the act at Rothschild offices.
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Baron James de Rothschild
Eugene Delacroix
James
Rothschild
Delacroix
Baron Rothschild
Delacrotz
DOWN HILL ON CAKE OF ICE UNIQUE RUSSIAN WINTER SPORT
Russian boys carve a hollow saddle in a cake of ice to ride downhill. They hollow a seat and line it with straw, then blow a hole through the ice with a rye straw to thread a string for a pull up the slope. The improvised sled lasts the winter if well cared for.
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Russia
Misleading Sign Sparks Cartoonish Exchange at Store
A Scribbler clerk disputes a shop sign while customers browse. The jab: a sign reading Dealer in Writers' Supplies in the window contrasts with the bookshop’s lack of the volume One Thousand Jokes of the Ancients.
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Scribbler
Mlle Augusta Holmes Opera and Painters Links
The essay recalls Mlle Augusta Holmes a pianist composer and painter who had mixed reception for her opera In Paris. It notes her early success, connections with Wagner Caesar Franck and Puvis de Chavannes, and mentions Henri Regnault using her as a model. it laments her ambitious evening delaying two decades of progress and cites her as a first opera night coinciding with a president’s debut.
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Mlle
Augusta Holmes
Ireland
Paris
Bertin
the Debats
Victor Hugo
Notre Dame
Fabio Campana
London
Henri Regnault
Ecole Des Beaux- Arts
Buzenval
Mile
Holmes
Caesar Franck
Wagner
Puvis de
Recovery From Acute Dyspepsia With Pink Pills
Mrs W Curley of Cedar Rapids recounts a long battle with acute dyspepsia and related ailments. After doctors offered little hope, she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength, sleep, and appetite. The pills, sold by Dr Williams Medicine Co, cost $2.50 per box or $2.50 for six boxes by mail.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
W. Curley
Clarence
Agate
Tien
Billa
Samantha Smith
Gré Town
Thurston
Oxford Junction
Davenport
Willams
Cas
Fragmented Tale Of A Ear Then Voice In The Gate
An unsure speaker describes accident and a strange experiment with telegraph points and voices. The account mentions a narrator hearing Halle hallo and instructing workers who then sang back, forming a baffling scene recalled by a Herald account.
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Sue
Halle
Senior partner pledges payment for uncured tax cases
Frank J. Cheney swears that F J Cav iEr Co will pay one dollar for each CaTaxuit case not cured by Hart's Catanen Cone. The document is sworn before a notary in Toledo. The remainder of the fragment includes a moral quip about conscience and a garbled line referencing banana peels and elections.
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Onto
Toledo
Gg Lecas Coury T
J. Crrexey
F. J. CaviEr & Co
Frank J. Cheney
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Walter Baker & CO
Higher Pocoks and Chocolates
Industria Wit
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Cers
Dorchester, Mass
Bes
Aessus Ls
Brockton
W.L. Douglas
Colchester
DR. Gunn
Bosanko Med
Philadelphia
Iumiaa
MAD Mountain Maids
Georgia
Betsy
Judith Lewis
Dan
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Hag
Draggiets
the. Ye Family
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