Story telling owls amuse campers in Adirondacks
A Scranton observer recalls a night of laughter as a flock of story telling owls alighted above their wilderness camp in Herkimer county. The owls traded anecdotes about wheelhouse antics with a rattling chorus of hoots while loons on the lake joined the merriment. An alto voiced owl sparked the peak of their humor by tapping window panes and sparking a chaotic domestic scene.
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Adirondacks
Scranton
Herkimer County
World’s Fair Notes From a Busy Paris Exhibit
The Bon Marche of Paris presents a textile exhibit including a 5000 dollar bride’s trousseau. A carved powder horn with the New York map represents the colonial exhibit, and Canard Steamship shows modern shipbuilding from Britannic to Cranpania. Mme Wessenger, Austria’s famed painter, is featured with Morning at the Sea shore. Washington state building sits on ten logs 125 feet long, cut from 240-foot trees. A possible first American playing card is shown in the Anthropological building. An underground canal between Worsley and St Helens in England spans 16 miles, with coal transported through mines beneath the surface.
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Washington State Building
Chicago
America
Worsley
Bt. Helens
England
Duke of Bridgewater
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John Lee
Wadsworth, Nevada
Verdi Mill Co
Verdi
Wasnor County
Nevada
Lonkey
Preswenr
J. F. Condon
Securtary
O, Lonker
J. F.coxpox
O. Powsra
East Lake
Verpi
NevAna
S. C. Wells
Masonic Building
Reno, Nevda
Beolinghouse
Wadsworth, Nev
G. Hoskins
Reno
Nev
D. Horman
Wadaworth
Directoire
New York Evening Post
Paris
Trousseau
Wadsworth Hotel
E. M. Sterling
Wadsworth
W. T. Craig
Wilen
Craig & Lievre, Proprietors
Herz's
Beng Jeweler
Bae
Caiters
P.t.barnum
IAS
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