Seredish musician makes aluminum violin and other dated notes
A miscellany of curiosities and items from the era cover aluminum violins, bamboo furniture cleaning with salt water, distillation tips, ship names, money origins, and various scientific and social snippets from newspapers. Many entries reference notable people, places, and events, including the Likelike from Honolulu, Anna Willess Williams, and the Lincoln homestead planning as a park in Kentucky.
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Honolulu
Colton
Vienna
Nis
America
Oklahoma
Hungry on an Ocean Liner Ends With Breakfast Confusion
Weber, a German veteran eager to make New Orleans home, boards a ship to the South via New York. Lacking English, he misreads the ship’s meals as ritual rites and chases the gong calls as portents. After a long hunt for words, he finally learns breakfast. Chicago Tribune.
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Weber
America
New Orleans
Jenyisin
New York
South
Custom House
Ving
Chicago Tribune
A Typical Stamp Collector and His Vast Vault
Louis Levison, owner of what’s called the finest stamp collection in the United States, travels to cities like San Francisco and New York, buying rare items at low prices. His holdings include about 25,000 varieties worth around 50,000, with vaults in New York and a $30,000 insured shipment from Europe. Also noted are a humorous Manchester police order about denying reporters information and a Brooklyn Life joke about a man’s fortune saved by his wife.
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Tulloch
Victoris
New South Wales
House of Lords
New York
London
China
Dass Anna Willess Williams
Philadelphia
Abyssinia
Tecumseh
Ontario
Britain
Sydney
McCormick
England
United States
Fiji
Queensland
National Treasury
Copenhagen
San Bernardino
Cal
J. N. Hooker
Bartow
Fla
John Dunlap
Lincoln Homestead
Hiville
Larue County
Lincoln
Lori
California
Kansas
Economite Society
Saxe-Weimer
Eder Rapp
Sowluty
Rapp
Mabella
Brooklyn Eagle
Louis Levison
Palace Hotel
San Francisco
Bar
British Columbia
Western Australia
Levison
Wroth
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australia
Express
New York City
Manchester
NFL
Manchester Caton
Elm Street
Hanover Street
Ventir
Highbee
Rooklyn
Useful Mentors in Memory Tales and Dinners
A memoir fragment recounts Capt. Du Baril’s rapid squadron command near Blidate Algiers and an inspector general test of memory. Humor and anecdotes follow about Dr. Holmes and a Virginia girl at a Boston dinner, then a blockade tale where a driver named Dexter keeps silent to remember his daughter My Darling.
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Geo. du Barsit
du Baral
Blidate
Algiers
L Bhang
L'Etang
du Bavail
Iin
Luy
Dr. Holmes
Virginia
Boston
Boston Transcript
Doctor Holmes
Mijas Vir
Yue
Sereur
Nellie
Dexter
Nelle
Poe
Trock
Nowie
Mer Lopsid¢dd
German Alsatian joins French Foreign Legion in Oran tale
In Oran a Bremen born German deserter explains his escape from confinement to join the Foreign Legion. He praises universal enlistment, notes an American killed in Africa, and envisions a future from sergeant to officer. He says pay and life suit him, while colonial service expands French reach.
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Foreign Legion
Bremen
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
French Foreign Legion
Soudan
Timbuctoo
London
Siam
Ad-L U.S. Couron
Africa
Oran
Jourtney Bigelow
Harper's Magasind
Domestic Virtues Highlight German Women Yet France Leads
A historical snippet contrasts German and French women, praising German domestic virtue and practical education while noting French women’s greater influence in national affairs. It touches on the German housewife’s knowledge of crafts, languages, and sciences, and references schooling like the Hohere Tochter schule before shifting to a humorous exchange about marriage and money. An election precinct change notice follows, detailing dates and administrative actions for Ravenna township.
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Tennyson
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