Corn Fields in the Alps Tour Through the Pieturiaque Region
M. J. Landa describes the Grisons high altitude corn fields perched above 5,000 feet where Romansh survives and a road-mender with a spade replaces a mysterious monk. The Rhine rises in a green lake at 7,000 feet as motors make way for a planned railway linking Engadine, Bernese Oberland, and the Rhone valley.
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Europe
Grisons
M. J. Landa
Oberalp Pass
Inquisition
Mackintosh
Engadine
Bernese Oberland
Rhone Valley
Rhone
Rhine
Campaign Buttons From Lincoln Hamlin and Douglas Johnson
A Boston Globe piece notes two period campaign buttons from the 1860 race. A. P. Curtis of Fitchburg sent a Lincoln Hamlin button and a Douglas Johnson button from his family, identical brass cores with tintypes and original ribbons indicating lapel use. A wave motor experiment in England proposes buoy mounted power with a self supplying electric lamp.
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Globe
Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
A. P. Curtis
Fitchburg
Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Herschel W. Johnson
Curtis
Douglas- Johnson
Mr. Curtis
Johnson-Douglas
Boston Globe
England
Periscope Glasses Claim 360 Degree Vision Access
The Commandant Gaulle de Cenac of the French Legion of Honor designed eyegians that let wearers see all around including behind via reflection. The instrument corrects myopia and other vision errors. Deaf users report it increases safety by revealing approaching dangers.
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Commandant Gaulle de Cenac
French Legion of Honor
Joyful Reunion After War-Loan Repaid
In a WW II era note from Chicago Journal archives a veteran recalls loaning a comrade 100 francs while in service. During a Christmas shopping trip the friend repaid 25 dollars plus interest, surprising the narrator who remained in Germany for surgery.
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Buddy
France
Bos
Germany
Chicago Journal
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Exide Storage
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Kamo
Dupont & O’neal
Fyfe’s
Chas. Sproul
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Pieturiaque
Brower Lumber Company
Noble Hotel
Frank Arnold
Bath
Joe
Marty
Lander
Oswald & Read
Devoe
Turepentine
Benson - Coolidge
Winchester
W. L. Vaughn & Son
First National Bank
Lander, Wyoming
Pioneer Bank OF Central Wyoming
United States
Geiser
Hatte
Lander State Bank
Lander Electric Light and Power CO
Edison Madza
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