Apes Mutiny on Barnum Era Ship in Africa Tale
A ship's captain recalls an Africa bound voyage with Barnum era exhibits. Apes, including ten large primates, seize the rigging during a gale while the crew pursues them. The captain uses bananas to trap the mutineers inside their cage, securing the vessel for the rest of the voyage.
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Beacon
P. T. Barnum
Lower Broadway
New York City
Africa
Emerald Isle
Jack
Afteloa
New York
iMloté
Sol
Hirper
Reflection on a deaf and dumb wonder conversation
The New York Post quotes an albino opening a conversation with a harsh remark about a visiting photographer who claimed his photo graph was a speaking likeness. A dog faced man asks what for in a tense, coded exchange.
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New York Post
Tower of Babel at Babylon Described in Ancient Text
A claim describes the tower as eight square towers stacked to form a 6606 foot high pile. It adds that Babylon was a 15 mile square city with walls 87 feet thick and 870 feet high according to the source.
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Tower of Babel
Babylon
Anthony Hope Jr and his early legal journey
Anthony Hope Jr recalls his start as a student and self supporting scholar. He describes his first legal task at Aylesbury defending ruffians indicted for a murderous assault on a policeman, noting they were all convicted and properly so.
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Anthony Hope
Drawing Master Sparks Contempt and Witty Comeback
A drawing master had berated a pupil for poor pencil technique. He challenged the pupil to name what he would draw first if asked to sketch him. The pupil, with a meaningful look, answered simply, Your neck, sir.
Olive shaped buttons in gilt and silks revive old fashion
A description of olive shaped buttons covered in gilt and colored silks as a revived dress trimming. A fine collar band of white satin uses two narrow bands with machine stitching and a row of small gold olives about half an inch long set evenly, forming an insert. The collar protrudes slightly from the neck but remains as a normal width.
Shreveport Market Prices December 17 1897 Report
Local market prices for commodities including groceries grains provisions and farm goods compiled from first hands. Notable entries cover cotton middling and all grades, provisions such as bacon lard and hams, breadstuffs flour and cornmeal, coffee tea sugar and molasses, tobacco, oils and fats, vegetables onions cabbage kraut and seed potatoes, bagging twine and iron ties, various grains hay oats rye barley bran millet seed and cotton seed meal, chickens eggs butter and wool hides furs and leather goods with numerous price figures and pack sizes.
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St. Emma
Arkansas
Texas
WalSe
Ware Furs
Local Hardware Price List With Shovels and Wagons
A historical price rundown lists various tools and wagon parts. Items include Kelly Land Slides Boss at 140 per dozen, spades and shovels with multiple sizes and prices, corn shovels and diamonds, bolts, grass rods, and wagon components such as brakes and tubular iron axles for two to four horse wagons priced up to 470.00.
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Jan Arate
Ah Ayeh
Kelly
Kelly Land
Houston East and West Texas Railway Round Trip Ticket Offer
The Houston East and West Texas Railway advertises a round trip fare with travel starting December 21 and returning within thirty days. Tickets are sold via the Horuston East & West Texas Railway with fast service and fine equipment. No omnibus or ferry trains. Connections made at Houston both ways. For rates and schedules, contact Wu. Donerry or W. Yoakum, G.P. 4-5, Houston, Texas.
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Vin H. Els W. T. Ry
Horuston East & West Texas Railway
Ec Boutheist
Houston
Wu. Donerry
R. D. Yoakum
Pk G.P
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General Local Market
Shreveport
New
Louisiana
Catton
Shreveport -la
Indian
Italy
W. B. Ogilvie
Flence
the Times
the Times-Democrat
New Orleans
Teh
Houston, Texas
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