Exposition's Bold Color Scheme Captivates Attendees
A fragmented 19th century style note recalls a grand exposition with vivid color schemes and imposing buildings. The passage hints at national pride, progress, and the dramatic scale of the event, underscoring the era's pioneering spirit and public awe.
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Ming
Pan American Exposition illuminations and art plans
The Pan American Exposition will feature extensive electric lighting using Niagara power and 400 miles of wire to illuminate the Court of Fountains and surrounding buildings. The arts exhibit in Buffalo will showcase New World artists with a large marble gallery and a focus on painting sculpture and allied arts.
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Court of Fountains
Pan-American
Pan- America
Buffalo
J. J. Albright
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
William A. Coffin
Selim H. Peabody
Temple of Music
Charles Graffy
Esplanade
Prometheus
George T. Brewster
Under the Sea Seaplane Train Proposal by Mottier
The railway project envisions an ocean railway car across the channel in a seagoing craft. An engine on the platform powers a drum to haul a submerged carriage across the water, with an estimated cost of 3 750 000 dollars and potential daily returns of 500 to 2000 dollars for twenty trips a day.
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M. Mottier
M. Mottler
Hotel Guest’s Disappointing Night and Father’s Resolve
An old man and his son checked into the Great Northern hotel. The father warns staff he will not wait for the son and insists the hotel stay open until the boy returns. Colonel Eden, proprietor, assures the hotel will remain open despite the delay.
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Hotel Tella
Colonel Eden
Great Northern Hotel
Sthree
Eden
Chicago Chronicle
Australian tree fends off insects with leaf ants
The arum lily leaves harbor a pair of horned hollow structures housing a small aggressive ant colony. When insects attempt to strip the foliage the ants emerge from their kopje like refuges to attack and kill intruders, sparing only fleeing attackers.
Remarkable Civil War Bullet Found After Forty Years
Capt Crowley recalls Antietam injury with a bullet lodged under his ankle bone since 1862. After a hospital examination in Baltimore surgeon Woodall removed the bullet, once thought lost, ending a long ordeal. The account links to West Point graduate Col George Grook and other Civil War anecdotes, including Dailey’s Cumberland prank and Crook’s headquarters incident.
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Fort Sumter
Washington Star
Crowley
Tacoma
Antietam
Olth Division
Woodall
Philippines
Baltimore
Evening Star
George Grook
West Point
Insantry
Grant
Sherloih
Rufus Ingalls
Dayton
Ohio
A ‘Wenty-Sixth
Ohio Infantry
West ‘Virginia
Department
Cumberland
John Dailey
Dailey
Oakland
Alleghany Mountains
Jim Dailey
Harry Gilmore
Crook
Grook
John Www
H.-Hee Hs Abseets
Mery
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