Boat Song by Samuel Minturn Peck to Harper's Bazar
A lyrical poem recalling boating with a beloved, with July imagery and wistful lines about love. The speaker reflects on past months and seeks assurance of affection, blending romantic longing with seasonal references.
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Samuel Minturn Peck
Harper's Bazar
A Farmer's Dream of the Sea
A Kansas drought era tale follows Ellen and her father Sol Bur fan in Kiowa as heat and dust press on windswept plains. Ellen contemplates city life while a restless world tests her hopes for marriage and escape from harsh frontier life.
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Jessie Llewellyn
Tally Story Pub Co
Oklahoma Strip
Kansas
Kiowa
Unisex Arcuni
Sol Burfan
Sol
Desperate Rescue Amid Fire and wreck Scene
Brutes and wounded men borne aloft through burning debris as a girl prays for strength to save her father. Abe signals, Eliza turns, and Jim and others move toward the wreck. Old Sol, dying at home, mutters about the sea while townsmen describe his broken body and the perilous scene.
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Abe
Eliza
Jim
Sol
Lise
Reading-rooms for the blind gain public praise
A Washington reading room for the blind, the Pavilion of the Blind, has drawn authors, bishops, and volunteers. It hosts readings and music, prints prayer books in New York Point, and relies on a twenty five person committee to escort attendees and copy in accessible scripts.
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Congressional Lbrary
Washington
R. G
Alngero
Seasion
Whipple
Rima Whitehead
Gilbert
New York Point
Bra
Fulal
Mountaineer
Benton Trickela
Kerrich
Europe
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Invention to Weigh Moving Trains by Vibration
Edward McGarvey of Bellefonte Pa patents an electrical weighing device for moving railroad trains. A ribbon and recorder system uses vibration to measure weight, recording loads on chemically treated paper. Tests along the Pennsylvania Central line showed rapid, reliable readings from moving cars.
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Bellefonte(Pa
Edward McGarvey
Hellefonters
Bellefonte
Be Central Hailroad
Pennsylvania
MI Hall
John J. Wala
McGarvey
Irony of Fate in Art Masterpieces and Fame
Analyzes how artists like Millet and Monticelli faced poverty and late recognition. Notes Millet’s posthumous fame and high sale prices for his works, while Monticelli rose from obscurity to vogue before dying in poverty. Compares Morland and Richard Wilson, whose landscapes gained value after hardship and years of struggle.
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Pearson
Lfe
Hia
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Pletares
B'Adalin
Jet
Millet
Richard Wilson
Odd Numbers in Siam Raise Superstitions, Shakespeare Quips
The passage notes that in Siam odd numbers govern room counts and openings due to luck, while even numbers are regarded as unlucky. It adds a reflective line about mirth not moving a soul in agony, attributed to Shakespeare.
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Siam
Exhibition globe railway design by Lyons for world expo
Herbert F. W. Lyons of Eaton Massachusetts designed a large steel globe for an exposition. It features a spiral scenic railway with multiple elevators and booths along the line to display products from continents. The globe would span about 600 feet in diameter, with pillars and a ground space of 100 feet each way, painted to depict continents and oceans.
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Herbert F. W. Lyons
Eaton
Mass
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