Remarkable Astrops art clock to be shown here soon
Julius Speath, Baden native, spent 16 years building an elaborate astronomical clock. The 7 foot high oak case houses moving figures from rooster to evangelists, Gabriel, and four age stages. It displays eclipses, star positions, milky way, zodiac, and date indicators. weighs 335 pounds and is valued at $40,000 in Germany.
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Julius Speath
Baden
Speath
Gabriel
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Germany
New York Journal
Mammoth Tusk Arrives in Pearl Street Warehouse
A giant mammoth tusk from Alaska, 15 feet long when complete, weighing 175 pounds, arrived at a Pearl Street warehouse. Brought by a Norwegian clergyman detailing a Yukon expedition in 1896 it is aged 3000 to 5000 years. Experts from the University of Minnesota note the tusk’s remarkable size and shape. The owner seeks no sale, contacting the Smithsonian Institution for appraisal.
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Alaska
Pearl Street
Yukon
University of Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution
New York Evening Post
Famous Convict Ship The Chamber of Horrors Reopens
Readable in Leith Harbor Scotland the old convict ship Success now serves as a museum titled The Tell of the Ocean. Built a century ago she carried inmates, explorers and criminals across seas, with grim two tier cells and torture tools later displayed attracting crowds. A separate note reports a French battalion in Tunisia creating a seven foot circumference omelet from 5 000 eggs and other ingredients.
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England
Success
East Indies
Admiralty
Western Australia
Stirling
Perth
Australia
London
Adelaide
van Diemen's Land
Tasmania
Leith Harbor
Scotland
New York Herald
Ker
Tunis
Never Be Caught Again Morals Grow by Time and Trial
A quotation attributed to Rev. G. Lee V. Roberts argues that the common house mouse can never be recaptured after escaping a trap, while rats may fail again. It frames reform and moral progress as slow, evolving processes governed by growth and divine right.
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G. Lee V. Roberts
Ornament Found in Ancient Tomb Shocks Parishioners
A country rector tours his parish with a party in a rectory room of curios. He points to a dull gold armlet said to be dug from a tomb in Central America and about a thousand years old. An elder jokes that Americans weren’t born a thousand years ago.
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Central America
Americs
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Orcutt & Riley, Proprietons
Wbells
North Dakota
Lesh
John Lesh
Bowbells, North Dakota
Birch & Berge
Bowbells, N. D
Movius & Son
Nurnberger & Sons
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