Napoleon plan for a traveling library in 1808
In 1808 Napoleon conceived a portable library of about a thousand small duodecimo volumes to accompany campaigns. It would use morocco binding with green velvet lined cases, and a sixty volume per case layout. The catalog would allow quick access to works on religion epic poetry drama poetry history and novels with historical memoirs filling the remainder.
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Napoleon
Morocco
Jamesa Westfall Thompson
The
Atlantic
Biblical Baseball and Other Oddities in This Issue
A Canton Theological student riffs on baseball with biblical puns and oddities. Also advertised are Defiance Starch laundry aids, Allen’s Foot-Ease powder, and Dion Boucicault ancestry notes alongside a cynical quip about marriage. The snippet ends with stray lines about politics and a sea bloc reference.
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Canton
Abraham
Cain
Abel
David
Moses
Red Sea
Devil
Eve
Adam
Isaac
Rebecca
Samson
Diamonds Lead U S Gem Imports With Record Value in 1906
Diamonds dominated the rise in U S gem imports in the last fiscal year with a value about $55 million for all precious stones and $8 million more than the prior year. Uncut diamonds totaled around $10.5 million while cut diamonds exceeded $24 million. The trend shows growing uncut imports and rising lapidary activity since 1899, with total precious stones valued at over $40 million.
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Washington
United States
No Shave In Fifty Years
Meadville Pennsylvania resident M T Freeman of Cussewago township Crawford county is eighty one and has not shaved since 1856. An original Fremont Republican he voted Taylor in 1848 and Fremont in 1856 pledging no razor until Fremont won. He recalls the 1840 Erie mass meeting and era slogans Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Log Cabin and Hard Cider.
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Meadville
M. T. Freeman
Cusewago Township
Crawford County
Gen
Taylor
Republican Party
Gen. Fremont
Freeman
Fremont
Mr. Freeman
Philadelphia
Erie
Tippecanoe
Tyler
Olympia to be used for naval training after decommission
The cruiser Olympia, Dewey's flagship at Manila Bay in 1898, will not return to active service. It remains at Norfolk navy yard with a survey ordered to assess repairs to first class condition within a year, then it will be turned over to the naval academy for midshipmen cruises and instruction.
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Naval Academy
Navy Department
Admiral Dewey
Value of Rabbits to Australia
London reports a public hearing in Australia stating that rabbits valued at 5,000,000 dollars are shipped to England each year. The speaker said the rabbit as a commercial commodity is only in its infancy and the trade may grow to 25,000,000 dollars annually.
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Australia
London
England
Golf by Electric Light at Memphis Country Club
Memphis plans golf by electric light as an innovation. Tom Bendelow, arriving from Chicago, outlines the program for the Memphis Country Club to extend play after dark.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis Country Club
Tom" Bendelow
Chicaco
Tramp Eases Across Orient Express Car Underbelly
A Roumanian rode a dining car pipe shelf on the Orient Express from Costanza on the Black Sea for 53 hours. He left Paris dusty hungry and thirsty after a long ride and carried five cents.
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Orient Express
Costanza
Black Sea
Paris
Germany Plans Major Kiel Canal Widening Project
The German government will widen the Kiel canal from 60 to 130 feet and surface width from 130 to 350 feet to accommodate larger warships. The estimated cost is about 50 million dollars.
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Kiel Canal
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