How to Build Guns Smoothbore and Rifled
A historical survey of gun construction from ancient powders to iron and steel, detailing smoothbore and rifled varieties, cast and built up methods, and the Parrott and Dahlgren systems. It explains patterns, molds, core barrels, and the steps for forming braces, hoops, and hoops welding for breech and barrel assembly.
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Woolwich
Ig. I
Gatling
Gardner
Nordenfeldt
B.L. R
B. L.R
B. L. St
Tradwell
An 1860s Gun Assembly Described for Rifling Process
A description details screwing a steel tube into a larger part of a lining, heating a gun in a charcoal furnace to fit the tube, replacing an iron band with a thinner one, and preparing for rifling and breech assembly. Notes promise future explanations of push guns and mechanisms.
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Stee
Various Late News Briefs From International Topics
A collage of short items notes Holman Sprague and Skidmore failing on New Street in New York, Boulanger's divorce suits in civil court, Carnot’s ball reception at Hotel de Ville, and Treasury bond details. Also reports release of Catholic missionaries for ransom, a Northbridge mill fire, habeas writ for William O Brien, and Alaska abuse denials. Hyde Park radicals plan a Sunday meeting while Downpatrick jail armory is looted. Cleveland nominees sent to Senate, Parnell’s health concerns, Milwaukee opposition to Beach testimony, new livestock pricing method, a collision near Hoboken, and ongoing Freheh Cabinet resignations over Boulangerism.
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Masa
Kting Manufacturing Company
Court of Queen's Bench
William O'Brien
Killarney
Louis L. Williams
United States
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Alaska
Parnell
Parnell Commission
Dublin Express
Mr. Parnell
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Major Beach
Sullivan
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J. G. Donnelly
Register of Probate
League
Beach
Milwaukee
Western Roads
Kansas Commissioners
Massage Treatment at Munk Clinic on Penn Avenue
An advertisement notes scientific and electric massage offered by Munk at 806 Penn Avenue. The item appears in a historical newspaper fragment, listing treatment type and business address.
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Munk
Penn Avenue
One-Day $10 Overcoats at Pittsburg Store
For today only, Pittsburg shoppers can choose any overcoat from the full stock for ten dollars. The stock includes kersey, chinchilla, castor beaver, silk lined, and trimmed coats originally priced at twenty five to forty dollars. Located at Grant and Diamond streets opposite the Court House.
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Po. C. C
Grant
Diamond
New Court House
Cor. Grant and
Diamond Sts
Watch for Bargains in Royal Worcester and More at Wattles
W W Wattles, jeweler and importer, offers Royal Worcester Doulton Crown Derby Pointon and other wares at 20 to 40 percent below market values. The sale aims to reduce stock before sending a buyer to Europe, with locations at 30 and 32 Fifth Avenue and 401 Smithfield Street corner Fourth Avenue. Capital stock $100000 surplus $38000 deposits from $1. Interest 4 percent.
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Royal Worcester
Doulton
Crown Derby
Pointon
W. W. Wattles
Fifth Avenue
Europe
Smithfield Street
Cor
Fourth Avenue
TTS
Proposals for Barges and Railroad Shop Constructions
Two notices detail bids in 1689 and 1880. The first invites bidders to supply thirty wooden barges for delivery to Cairo Illinois or Wilsons Point Louisiana, due by February 2, with compliance to acts of Congress and addressed to Captain Chas F Powell US Army Corps of Engineers. The second advertises sealed proposals to furnish labor and build machine, erecting, ballet, and smith shops in Altoona Pennsylvania for the Pennsylvania Railroad, with bids due February 2, including separate tallies for iron work brick and stone work carpentry and sheet iron work painting and drainage. company reserves right to reject any bid.
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H.W. Webber
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Jefferson Ind
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U. S, Army
Lewis
Board of Public Improvements
City of
St Louis
Condor
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Board of Public Improvemeans Ieee City of
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