Measuring Our Globe The Great Geodetic Survey
The Coast and Geodetic Survey completed a 27 year effort to measure earth dimensions. It traced a 2,625.6 mile base line from Cape May to Point Arena and mapped triangulation towers across Ohio Indiana Illinois and Colorado. Observers climbed mountains and worked with precision bars and thermometers to ensure accurate planetary measurements.
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Coast and Cendetic Survey Corps
Uncle Sare
Ocean
Cape May
Point Arena
Colorado
Clonda
Rocklin
Sierras
California
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Green
Ind
Sigmaler
Kansas
Howe
Canyon
Still Pond
Uncle Sam
Personal Bet on a Club Personal Lights Social Scene
In a staged dating game at the Niposink Club, Laurence Meredith and companions turn a bet on personals into a social test. Kate Irving, a Northern debutante, visits with Margaret Deland as a lively scene unfolds around a mock advertisement for an ideal partner.
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Louise Holland
Datty Story Pub
Laurence Meredith
Charlie Norris
Laurence
Weill
Charlie
John Stronke
Niposink Club
Jack
Margaret
Maude
Millicent
Kate
John Strang
Margie
John
Sneker
Charle
Lillian
Neith
Yaquis as trailers and Liszt’s portrait fascinate
A New Orleans Times-Democrat article surveys Yaqui Indians as adept trackers and scouts, recalling a robber chase aided by a Yaqui named Pedro. It also reviews Dr. William Mason’s Century illustration of Liszt in 1854, noting his gait, dress, and expressive features.
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Pedro
Lmb
Liszt
William Mason
Altenburg
A Sosial Formally Plans A Rough Punishment
A stranger in Crim son Gulch asks what to do with a man. Rattlesnake Bote declares they will neither harm him nor show obligations, only hang him from a wagon or tree with a rope, then ride away leaving him. Washington Star reports the crude plan in period slang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crimson Gulch
Rattlesnake Bote
Washington Star
Stissons Memento of Tears and Christine Nilsson Rooms
Christine Nilsson cherishes mementos from her concert career. One room is papered with leaves from operas she performed in, another displays a bottle bike token made in her name from tours.
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Stisson
Christine Nilsson
Musta
Queensland Railways State Owned With One Private Strand
Railways in the colony of Queensland are described as state owned, with a single exception noted as a tine to the famed Chillages tin and copper Selde.
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Siete
Colony of
Queensland
Also Mentioned on This Page
United States Geodetic Surveying Corps
Linois
West Haven
Conn
John Merwin Hubbard
John M. Hubbard
Mr. Hubbard
Hime
Uman
Hela
Pond
Maryland
Grand Duke Hesse
Deni
Still
Margaret Deland
Kate Irving
Maude Clare
John Strong
Millicent Dean
Art Gallery
Yaquis
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