Puzzling Pine of Upper California Baffles Botanists
A mysterious pine in Upper California and in Kew gardens defies seed release. Cones remain closed year after year, requiring intense heat to crack and free seeds. Experts consider fire as the plausible means for regeneration, noting seeds survive heat unreduced.
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Breezy exchange over wind instruments at music store
The bandmaster and a clerk josh about a piece titled for wind instruments in a breezy meet at a Chestnut Street music store. The facetious clerk suggests the air is easy, prompting a brief humorous exchange captured by the Philadelphia Enquirer.
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Turkish Red Tape and a Christmas Tree at Adrianople
A foreigner seeks a Christmas tree from Sofia but Adriano ple station officials regard receiving foreign items as Yasak. The tree is rerouted via the Orient Express to Istanbul then back to Adrianople, finally delivered as a Constantinople import to satisfy officials. Also notes on drowning fish traps in Japan and a snippet on genius advancing to posterity.
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Polly Rewarded For 812 Privateering
The two masted schooner Polly, aged 105, to receive a memorial tablet in New York for privateering feats during the war of 1812. Captain Welden presents the vessel to the Daughters of 1819 as they honor the ship at a New York wharf before a Boston to New York voyage.
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Polly the Privateer of 1812 Returns to Pride in Navy History
Spectators including Mrs. Sibyl Lincoln and Captain George W. Homans watched the Polly, an 1812 privateer with three inch oak planking and eight inch ribs, display its original tablet in the cabin. Captain Upton outfitted the fast schooner with long toms and pistols for raids, sailing from Salem on December 7, 1812, and scoring eleven prizes before being recaptured after a clash with a British frigate Phoebe.
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