Various Oddities From The Silver Messenger Cartoons
A collection of vignettes and quips spanning global affairs and social habits. Notes on Japanese misfortunes and radium beliefs, King Alfonso's marriage, women’s suffrage, bachelor woes, and stage stars. Humorous asides about U S culture, college students, and a Parisian banker’s intrigues mix with local anecdotes.
Waterloo Trip From Brussels Reveals Battlefield Relics
The journey from Brussels to Waterloo offers coach travel to view farm life and the battlefield, with stops at landmarks such as La Haye Sainte and the Mound of the Belgian Lion. The Waterloo inn museum houses relics, including Wellington’s chair, two beds, and a tattered arm chair, while the giant Belgian Lion monument overlooks the field where 1815 clashes shaped Europe.
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Brussels
Battlefield of
Waterloo
Belgium
Mount St. Jeanie
la Haye Sainte
Napoleon
Col. Gordon
Duke of Wellington
Europe
Countess of Richmond
Alexander Gordon
Britain
Fotion
Lta
Thought Reading by a Watch and a Fudge Recipe Card
A magazine page presents a trick titled Thought Reading by a Watch using counting up to twenty and backward hour tracing, with instructions on how to perform the illusion. It also includes a fudge recipe detailing sugar cocoa milk butter flavoring and steps to cook and set the candy.
Circle Puzzle and Vibration Experiments for Fun
A newsletter style note describes simple experiments on vibration and steady practice, including crossing a plank with a partner, a tangle party idea with ribbons and prizes, and a floating triangle trick using wet panels and a drawing on water to observe center of area shifting under a needle.
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Ines
Home Made Switch for Small Motors or Dynamos
A DIY switch built from copper strip, screws, and wiring uses a pivoted copper EB lever at F and a No 25 wire to theipper binding post. Six contact screws sit along a 4 inch radius arc with 4% inch spacing. finishing with binding post A.
Mystifying Card Trick and Dutch Island Notes
A fragment describes a will power card trick and notes on Holland customs. It mentions Marken island with tidal floods and houses on high piles. The text then explains living pictures using a spool device and circular cutouts with windows for optical effects.
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Holland
Marken
Zuyder Zee
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