Ape Mutiny on Barnum Ship Ends With Bananas
Harper's Round Table recounts a ship chartered by P. T. Barnum to Africa to fetch exotic stock. Aged captain Ben Gon details how a crew of clever apes seized the deck, the ship’s wheel, and fruit, then how he lured the primates back with a box of bananas and secured the mutineers behind a cage gate for the voyage home.
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Bengon
P. T. Barnum
Jower Broadway
New York City
Sha
Africa
Marge o@ cen
Weacly
Emereld Isle
Mer
Aya
Advis
New York
Sol
Harper's Round Table
Reflection on a Speaking Portrait in a New York Post
A fragment from the New York Post describes an odd opening remark about a deaf and dumb man and a dog faced figure questioning a visiting guest who supposedly wrote of his slate that his photograph spoke. The dialogue notes mud and a speaking likeness in a theatrical, surreal tone.
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Albing
New York Post
Babylon towers and walls described in ancient text
The Babylon description notes an eight tower towered pyramid 660 feet high and a square city fifteen miles on each side with walls eighty seven feet thick and 870 feet high. Anthony Hope coached undergraduates and spoke of his early bar call after a case in Aylesbury where a judge sent him to defend indicted ruffians. They were convicted, he says cheerfully indeed.
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Tower of Babel
Babylon
Anthony Hope
Drawing Master Mocked Student Ends With Jibe
A drawing master mocked a pupil over his skill and urged a drawing exam remark. The pupil, with a telling look, replied that he would draw the teacher’s neck, turning the moment into a pointed dig.
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Bigel Beant
Bess
Ornate Olive Shaped Buttons In Fashion Revival
A description praises olive shaped buttons as revived dress trimming. The example features gilt and silver ornaments on a white satin collar with two narrow bands and encasing rows of mon atitohtog for four tete. A row of gold olives extends over half an inch in length, with a panel width variation and delicate detailing noted.
Local Market Prices and Provisions for Shreveport, Dec 17 1897
Wholesale and retail quotations list cotton grades, provisions, coffee and tea, sugar and molasses, tobacco, and grains. Prices cover flour, cornmeal, crackers, rice, coffee, peas, sugar varieties, molasses, bacon, lard, onions, beans, potatoes, cabbage, oats, rye, barley, bran, millet seed, wheat, chickens, ducks, hides, wool, tallow, sheep skins, and belting materials with unit figures and quality descriptors.
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Louisiana
Texas
Diz Batten
Burkeyssee
Seneagee
Unclear Item List of Tools and Prices
Fragmented OCR shows a catalog of hardware items with prices including spades hoes shovels and rods. It lists items such as spades per dozen, shovels with diamond ornament, lead items, wheels and wagons, and two horse wagons with various prices. Readable names and figures are sparse and inconsistent.
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Kelly Lod
Avai
Fragmented 1897 Louisiana cotton trade notes and prices
Fragmentary OCR expresses cotton prices and shipping costs, referencing Louisiana regions, various rates, and duties. Mentions teams, agents, and figures like sixty, eighty five cents per vote, and potential charges. Notes on burdens for shippers and pests, with scattered place names and dates.
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Lise Caine
de Wilbo
Lading
Stomure
Ile
Louisiana
Arkwrsas
Eael Tyas
Tedian
Steey
Consid
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Sin
General Local Market
Shreveport Maren
Lothd
Flay
Freud
Foe
Erized
B. Ocilvie
Civenle- Hon
the Times
Emocrat
Rae
Torbay Ates
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