Salutes Between Boats In 1880s Harbor Echoes
Fragmented account recalls shipboard salutes and whistle signals from New York to Providence era vessels. Details describe deck gestures, engine rooms, bells, and ceremonial rounds aboard a United States Navy ship in trials, with references to whistles, signals, and the role of officers aboard.
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Banat
United Btales
Naysae
New York
Wretes
Olof
Payy
York
Mar
Siaubints
States Naval Belia
Atibaywilts
Pner
Woods
Heaghoel
Eulertel
Long Distance identifies seaside defaulter by telescope
A British defaulter who evaded police for years was found after a seaside accident near Drymouth. While strolling the beach a sailor aboard a cruiser from the town where he fled spotted him through a telescope and alerted authorities.
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Stayine
Drymouuth
Fragmentary 19th Century Textile Trade Note
An incomplete OCR fragment describes various color dyes and fabrics spreading across regions such as North America Europe and Asia. It mentions Britain Germany China Java Australia and describes trade or distribution of textiles and colors, with garbled terms and unclear specifics.
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New Zee
North Americ
Germany
China
Dajun
Java
Australia
Debi
Fragmented note on playing cards and social classes
The text describes marks on playing cards with symbolic societal classes. Spades are linked to nobility from the Italian word spads meaning sword, clubs to serfs, hearts to merchants, and diamonds to the commoners. It mentions an experimental test and mentions weights and intervals in a disjointed way.
Curious Fragments From A Century Of Oddities
The passage catalogs quirky notes from a past era including tribal kettle customs, entries about a French navigator, a claim Catherine the Great stored vast riches, and a bread sculpture detective story. It also mentions a telepathy party, a misfit clock, and a weed destroying machine using oil gas burners.
Handing Around in Thomaston Aims at Diphtheria Prevention
In Thomaston Maine residents adopt a drastic health measure. Every member wears a tarred rope or tape around the neck to deter diphtheria, a practice extended even to pets and livestock to curb the disease.
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Thomaston
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Mies
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India
Jenness Miller
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