+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

During the interwar period, the U.S. Navy Command had placed considerable emphasis upon the role of armed aerial reconnaissance aircraft. To meet this interest, during 1931, the young Great Lakes Aircraft Company (founded in 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio) decided to embark on the development of a new naval combat aircraft to meet this role. The new aircraft, which was designated as the SBG, was a relatively modern all-metal design, even though some conservative traits like a fixed landing gear were kept.

In prewar use, SBG units were engaged in training and other operational activities and were gradually approaching the end of their useful service life with at least one aircraft being converted to target tug duty. By 1940, the US Navy was aware that the SBG had become outclassed by the fighters and bombers of other nations and a replacement was in the works, but it was not yet in service when the US entered World War II. By then, attrition had reduced their numbers to just over 60 aircraft, and with the arrival of the Curtiss SB2C “Helldiver” in December 1942, the obsolete SBGs were retired.

General characteristics:

Crew: 3

Length: 31 ft 9 in (9.682 m)

Wingspan: 45 ft 9 in (13.95 m)

Height: 10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)

Wing area: 288 sq ft (26.8 m²)

Empty weight: 4,251 lb. (1,928 kg)

Gross weight: 6,378 - 6,918 lb. (2,893 - 3,138 kg) for reconnaissance missions

7,705 - 7,773 lb (3,495 - 3,526 kg) for bombing missions

Fuel capacity: 200 US gal (740 l; 160 imp gal) in six wing tanks plus

7.9 US gal (30 l; 6.6 imp gal) in a gravity feed collector tank in the fuselage

18 US gal (70 l; 15 imp gal) of engine oil was also carried in a forward fuselage tank

Powerplant:

1 × Pratt & Whitney R-2180-A Twin Hornet 14 cylinder radial engine with 1,200 hp (865 kW),

driving a 3-bladed Hamilton-Standard Hydromatic, 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) diameter constant-speed

fully-feathering propeller

Performance:

Maximum speed: 245 mph (395 km/h, 213 kn) at 3,650 m (11,980 ft)

210 mph (338 km/h, 183 kn) at sea level

Stall speed: 110 km/h (68 mph, 59 kn)

Range: 1,260 km (780 mi, 680 nmi)

Service ceiling: 7,300 m (24,000 ft)

Time to altitude: 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in 4 minutes

4,000 m (13,000 ft) in 11 minutes 10 seconds

Wing loading: 116 kg/m² (24 lb/sq ft) to 130 kg/m2 (27 lb/sq ft)

Power/mass: 6.3–6.8 kg/kW (10.4–11.2 lb/hp)

Armament:

2x fixed forward firing 0.30 “ (7.62 mm) Browning machine guns in the spats, firing forward,

plus 2x flexibly mounted 0.30 “ (7.62 mm) Browning machine guns in ventral and dorsal positions

A total of up to 1,500 lb (700 kg) of bombs on hardpoints under the fuselage (max. 1.000 lb; the SCG-2

could carry a single Mk. XIII torpedo) and under the wings (max. 325 lb per hardpoint, SCG-2 only 200 lb)

The kit and its assembly:

I had the idea to convert a PZL.23 into a carrier-borne light bomber on the agenda for a long time and also already a Heller kit stashed away – but it took the “In the Navy” group build at whatifmodelers.com in early 2020 to dig everything out from the stash and start the hardware phase.

Originally, this was inspired by a picture of a Ju 87D with USN “Yellow wings” markings which I came across while doing online research. This looked really good, but since the USN would never have accepted a liquid-cooled engine on one of its pre-WWII aircraft, the concept had IMHO some flaws. When I came across the PZL.23 in another context, I found that the aircraft, with its cockpit placed well forward and the generous window area, could also be a good carrier-based recce/light bomber/torpedo aircraft? This was the conceptual birth of the SBG.

The basis is the vintage, original Heller kit of the PZL.23: a VERY nice kit. It has been crisply molded, fit is very good, and even the interior detail is decent, e.g. with a nice fuselage structure and dashboard. Surface details are raised but very fine, and the styrene is also easy to handle.

Basically the PZL.23 was built OOB. The only changes I made are a crew of three figures (all Matchbox WWII pilots, two of them with their heads in different directions), a tail wheel instead of the original skid, an opening for an arrester hook under the fin (there’s even plausible space available!) and a new engine: the PZL.23’s bulky 9 cylinder Jupiter radial engine with its generous cowling and the two-blade propeller was completely replaced. The engine dummy is actually a matching R-2600 and comes from a Matchbox SB2C, even though its rear bulkhead was trimmed away so that it would fit into the new cowling. The latter came from an Italeri La-5FN, cut off long time ago from another conversion project, and I added a carburetor/oil cooler fairing underneath. Inside of the new engine I implanted a styrene tube which attaches the engine to the fuselage and also takes the metal axis of the new propeller, a (rather clumsy) donor from a Matchbox Douglas A-20G. The whole package works well, though, and gives the PZL.23 a more modern and different look.

A late modification is the glasshouse for the rear gunner. Since the PZL.23 offered considerable comfort for its crew, at least for pilot and observer, I thought that a closed rear position would make sense. I found an old rear gunner station glaizing from a vintage Airfix B-17G in the stash, and with some tailoring (including an opening for the OOB manual machine gun) the piece could be inserted into the fuselage opening. Small gaps were left, but these were simply filled with white glue. I think this was a good move, since it changes the PZL.23’s profile a little.

Other small cosmetic changes include the machine guns instead of the original large landing lights on the spats, an additional antenna mast and a cranked pitot, made from brass wire. Furthermore, I added small underwing bomb pylons and a ventral hardpoint with a scratched swing arm and a 500 lb iron bomb from an Academy kit.

Painting and markings:

For proper anachronism and some color in the shelf, I wanted the SBG to be a pre-WWII aircraft in the USN’s bright “Yellow Wings” markings, just like the Ju 87 mentioned above. As a slight twist, the fuselage was finished in all-over Light Gull Grey (FS 36440, Humbrol 40) instead of a NMF – some aircraft like F4Bs were finished this way, even though some fabric-covered parts were still painted with alu dope. In 1940, however, the bright colors would be replaced by a uniform light grey livery with subdued markings, anyway.

The aircraft’s individual markings were a bit tricky, because the USN has a very complicated color code system to identify not only the carrier to which an aircraft would belong, color markings would also identify the individual aircraft within a full squadron of 18 aircraft and its six sections. I won’t go into details, but I chose to depict the lead aircraft of section two of the scout bomber squadron on board of USS Enterprise.

For this carrier, the tail surfaces became blue (I used Modelmaster French Blue for the authentic “True Blue”), while the 2nd section had white aircraft markings on fuselage and wings. The lead aircraft (connected with the individual aircraft code “4”) had a full ring marking around the cowling. The fuselage band seems to be rather optional on bomber aircraft (more frequent on fighters?), but I eventually decided to add it - pictures suggest that probably only lead aircraft of a Section in the scout or torpedo squadrons carried this marking?

Like the cowling ring, it was painted with white and then black borders were added with decal strips. The wings were painted with Revell 310 (Lufthansa Yellow, RAL 1028), which is a pretty rich tone, and the section markings on top of them were fully created with decal material, a white 5mm stripe over a black 6mm stripe on each wing.

The aircraft’s tactical code was created from single US 45° numbers; the “S” had to be scratched from an “8”, since the decal sheet did not contain letters… Other decals were gathered from the scrap box and improvised.

After the free-standing exhaust pipes had been fixed, the kit received a light weathering treatment and was finally sealed with a coat of semi-matt acrylic varnish (Italeri semi-gloss with some matt varnish added).

A colorful aircraft model, and the transformation from a Polish light bomber into an American armed scout aircraft worked well – for an interesting result with that anachronistic touch that many interwar designs carried. However, even though the conversion has been conceptually successful, I am not happy with the finish. The glossy Humbrol paints I used refused to cure properly, and the decals were also not without problems (e.g. when you realize that the roundels you wanted to use had a poor opacity, so that the yellow underneath shines blatantly through). But despite a lot of improvisation, the outcome is quite O.K.

Mercedes: The vehicle details for BLY 861Y are:

Date of Liability 01 02 2004

Date of First Registration 21 10 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2746CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

CX: The vehicle details for OCF 15X are:

Date of Liability 01 10 1994

Date of First Registration 21 04 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2500CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Heavy Oil

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

505: The vehicle details for BDU 775Y are:

Date of Liability 01 04 1993

Date of First Registration 05 10 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1971CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BEIGE

Cressida: The vehicle details for NYL 68Y are:

Date of Liability 01 08 1997

Date of First Registration 01 09 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1972CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour RED

Carlton: Date of Liability 01 02 2002

Date of First Registration 08 11 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1796CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour BLUE

Volvo: The vehicle details for ADX 945Y are:

Date of Liability 01 10 1997

Date of First Registration 17 09 1982

Year of Manufacture 1982

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2127CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour SILVER

+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

During the interwar period, the U.S. Navy Command had placed considerable emphasis upon the role of armed aerial reconnaissance aircraft. To meet this interest, during 1931, the young Great Lakes Aircraft Company (founded in 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio) decided to embark on the development of a new naval combat aircraft to meet this role. The new aircraft, which was designated as the SBG, was a relatively modern all-metal design, even though some conservative traits like a fixed landing gear were kept.

In prewar use, SBG units were engaged in training and other operational activities and were gradually approaching the end of their useful service life with at least one aircraft being converted to target tug duty. By 1940, the US Navy was aware that the SBG had become outclassed by the fighters and bombers of other nations and a replacement was in the works, but it was not yet in service when the US entered World War II. By then, attrition had reduced their numbers to just over 60 aircraft, and with the arrival of the Curtiss SB2C “Helldiver” in December 1942, the obsolete SBGs were retired.

General characteristics:

Crew: 3

Length: 31 ft 9 in (9.682 m)

Wingspan: 45 ft 9 in (13.95 m)

Height: 10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)

Wing area: 288 sq ft (26.8 m²)

Empty weight: 4,251 lb. (1,928 kg)

Gross weight: 6,378 - 6,918 lb. (2,893 - 3,138 kg) for reconnaissance missions

7,705 - 7,773 lb (3,495 - 3,526 kg) for bombing missions

Fuel capacity: 200 US gal (740 l; 160 imp gal) in six wing tanks plus

7.9 US gal (30 l; 6.6 imp gal) in a gravity feed collector tank in the fuselage

18 US gal (70 l; 15 imp gal) of engine oil was also carried in a forward fuselage tank

Powerplant:

1 × Pratt & Whitney R-2180-A Twin Hornet 14 cylinder radial engine with 1,200 hp (865 kW),

driving a 3-bladed Hamilton-Standard Hydromatic, 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) diameter constant-speed

fully-feathering propeller

Performance:

Maximum speed: 245 mph (395 km/h, 213 kn) at 3,650 m (11,980 ft)

210 mph (338 km/h, 183 kn) at sea level

Stall speed: 110 km/h (68 mph, 59 kn)

Range: 1,260 km (780 mi, 680 nmi)

Service ceiling: 7,300 m (24,000 ft)

Time to altitude: 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in 4 minutes

4,000 m (13,000 ft) in 11 minutes 10 seconds

Wing loading: 116 kg/m² (24 lb/sq ft) to 130 kg/m2 (27 lb/sq ft)

Power/mass: 6.3–6.8 kg/kW (10.4–11.2 lb/hp)

Armament:

2x fixed forward firing 0.30 “ (7.62 mm) Browning machine guns in the spats, firing forward,

plus 2x flexibly mounted 0.30 “ (7.62 mm) Browning machine guns in ventral and dorsal positions

A total of up to 1,500 lb (700 kg) of bombs on hardpoints under the fuselage (max. 1.000 lb; the SCG-2

could carry a single Mk. XIII torpedo) and under the wings (max. 325 lb per hardpoint, SCG-2 only 200 lb)

The kit and its assembly:

I had the idea to convert a PZL.23 into a carrier-borne light bomber on the agenda for a long time and also already a Heller kit stashed away – but it took the “In the Navy” group build at whatifmodelers.com in early 2020 to dig everything out from the stash and start the hardware phase.

Originally, this was inspired by a picture of a Ju 87D with USN “Yellow wings” markings which I came across while doing online research. This looked really good, but since the USN would never have accepted a liquid-cooled engine on one of its pre-WWII aircraft, the concept had IMHO some flaws. When I came across the PZL.23 in another context, I found that the aircraft, with its cockpit placed well forward and the generous window area, could also be a good carrier-based recce/light bomber/torpedo aircraft? This was the conceptual birth of the SBG.

The basis is the vintage, original Heller kit of the PZL.23: a VERY nice kit. It has been crisply molded, fit is very good, and even the interior detail is decent, e.g. with a nice fuselage structure and dashboard. Surface details are raised but very fine, and the styrene is also easy to handle.

Basically the PZL.23 was built OOB. The only changes I made are a crew of three figures (all Matchbox WWII pilots, two of them with their heads in different directions), a tail wheel instead of the original skid, an opening for an arrester hook under the fin (there’s even plausible space available!) and a new engine: the PZL.23’s bulky 9 cylinder Jupiter radial engine with its generous cowling and the two-blade propeller was completely replaced. The engine dummy is actually a matching R-2600 and comes from a Matchbox SB2C, even though its rear bulkhead was trimmed away so that it would fit into the new cowling. The latter came from an Italeri La-5FN, cut off long time ago from another conversion project, and I added a carburetor/oil cooler fairing underneath. Inside of the new engine I implanted a styrene tube which attaches the engine to the fuselage and also takes the metal axis of the new propeller, a (rather clumsy) donor from a Matchbox Douglas A-20G. The whole package works well, though, and gives the PZL.23 a more modern and different look.

A late modification is the glasshouse for the rear gunner. Since the PZL.23 offered considerable comfort for its crew, at least for pilot and observer, I thought that a closed rear position would make sense. I found an old rear gunner station glaizing from a vintage Airfix B-17G in the stash, and with some tailoring (including an opening for the OOB manual machine gun) the piece could be inserted into the fuselage opening. Small gaps were left, but these were simply filled with white glue. I think this was a good move, since it changes the PZL.23’s profile a little.

Other small cosmetic changes include the machine guns instead of the original large landing lights on the spats, an additional antenna mast and a cranked pitot, made from brass wire. Furthermore, I added small underwing bomb pylons and a ventral hardpoint with a scratched swing arm and a 500 lb iron bomb from an Academy kit.

Painting and markings:

For proper anachronism and some color in the shelf, I wanted the SBG to be a pre-WWII aircraft in the USN’s bright “Yellow Wings” markings, just like the Ju 87 mentioned above. As a slight twist, the fuselage was finished in all-over Light Gull Grey (FS 36440, Humbrol 40) instead of a NMF – some aircraft like F4Bs were finished this way, even though some fabric-covered parts were still painted with alu dope. In 1940, however, the bright colors would be replaced by a uniform light grey livery with subdued markings, anyway.

The aircraft’s individual markings were a bit tricky, because the USN has a very complicated color code system to identify not only the carrier to which an aircraft would belong, color markings would also identify the individual aircraft within a full squadron of 18 aircraft and its six sections. I won’t go into details, but I chose to depict the lead aircraft of section two of the scout bomber squadron on board of USS Enterprise.

For this carrier, the tail surfaces became blue (I used Modelmaster French Blue for the authentic “True Blue”), while the 2nd section had white aircraft markings on fuselage and wings. The lead aircraft (connected with the individual aircraft code “4”) had a full ring marking around the cowling. The fuselage band seems to be rather optional on bomber aircraft (more frequent on fighters?), but I eventually decided to add it - pictures suggest that probably only lead aircraft of a Section in the scout or torpedo squadrons carried this marking?

Like the cowling ring, it was painted with white and then black borders were added with decal strips. The wings were painted with Revell 310 (Lufthansa Yellow, RAL 1028), which is a pretty rich tone, and the section markings on top of them were fully created with decal material, a white 5mm stripe over a black 6mm stripe on each wing.

The aircraft’s tactical code was created from single US 45° numbers; the “S” had to be scratched from an “8”, since the decal sheet did not contain letters… Other decals were gathered from the scrap box and improvised.

After the free-standing exhaust pipes had been fixed, the kit received a light weathering treatment and was finally sealed with a coat of semi-matt acrylic varnish (Italeri semi-gloss with some matt varnish added).

A colorful aircraft model, and the transformation from a Polish light bomber into an American armed scout aircraft worked well – for an interesting result with that anachronistic touch that many interwar designs carried. However, even though the conversion has been conceptually successful, I am not happy with the finish. The glossy Humbrol paints I used refused to cure properly, and the decals were also not without problems (e.g. when you realize that the roundels you wanted to use had a poor opacity, so that the yellow underneath shines blatantly through). But despite a lot of improvisation, the outcome is quite O.K.

Frank G. Jester.

Date: 1905

Source Type: Photograph

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: A. H. Reading

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: Frank G. Jester resided at 701 Campbell Street in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. This house no longer exists.

Sources:

Bumstead & Company. 1905. Bumstead's Valparaiso City and Porter County Business Directory, Including Rural Routes. Chicago, Illinois: Radtke Brothers. 421 p. [see p. 99]

Reading, A. H. 1905. The City of Homes, Schools and Churches: A Pictorial Story of Valparaiso, Its People and Its Environs. Valparaiso, Indiana: A. H. Reading. 82 p. [see p. 69]

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Wheat Field. Washington.

Date: Circa 1915

Source Type: Stereoscope Card

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Keystone View Company (#F135, #P-11624)

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: Written on the reverse of this stereoscope card is the following text.

WHEAT FIELD, WASHINGTON

The wheat which we see in this large field may help to feed hungry children in far-away lands. In our country every boy and girl needs almost five bushels of wheat a year. But so much wheat is grown that we can send a great deal to other lands.

Some of the wheat must be saved for seed to be planted the next year. In many places in our country the ground is so good for wheat that the farmers do not raise anything else.

Early in the spring the ground is plowed. Then all the lumps are broken up by a harrow. A large machine is used to plant the wheat in this great field. The warm spring rain makes the seeds sprout. The wheat looks like little tiny blades of grass when it first comes up. It grows taller and taller. In a few months it is tall enough to reach the hips of a man.

At the top of each stem the kernels burst out. Some stems have thirty kernels. They are soft and milky at first. But as the wheat gets ripe they grow hard.

The large machine in the picture can do many kinds of work. It cuts the wheat and threshes it. It drops the grain into bags. The bags of grain are left on the field. Later a wagon comes to pick them up. Then the wheat is sent by train to places where there are large flour mills.

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Date: February 9, 1880

Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Edwin L. Brand

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.

Written in pencil in to album beneath this carte de visite is the following:

Louise DeMotte

Written in ink on the reverse of this carte de visite is the following:

2-9-1880.

Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.

The following death notice for Louise (DeMotte) Letherman appears in the September 27, 1905, issue of The Boston Daily Globe:

BODY TAKEN TO INDIANA.

Wife of Chief Postoffice Inspector Letherman Was Born There.

Chief of Postoffice Inspectors Lawrence Letherman has the sympathy of a host of friends in the death of his wife, Louise de Motte Letherman, who passed away Sunday.

Mrs. Letherman was a native of Indiana, the daughter of Congressman de Motte, and 46 years old. She was an estimable woman and of extreme domestic tastes.

She accompanied her husband a few years ago to Porto Rico, where he was assigned to establish the U. S. postal system. While there she suffered from the climate, and since here return to this country two years ago had been in declining health.

Besides her husband she leaves three children -- two girls, 17 and 8, and a boy of 13.

Brief services were held at the family residence, 59 Maple st., Malden, yesterday forenoon. There were many floral tributes. The remains, accompanied by the bereaved husband and Congressman de Motte, were taken on the 10:45 a. m. western express for Valparaiso, Ind. where the final obsequies will take place today.

On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:

Brand

210 & 212 WABASH AVENUE

Portraits.

Established 1858. Chicago.

The photograph was taken by Edwin L. Brand. Brand operated several photography studies in Chicago. The studio where this carte de visite photograph was taken, Wabash Avenue, existed from 1859 to 1900 when Brand passed away. The Wabash Avenue studio was known as the Temple of Art.

Edwin L. Brand was particularly known for his work in taking anatomical photographs of the human anatomy, including the dissected cadavers for use in anatomical research.

Brand is also known as taking a portrait photograph of Charles Guiteau prior to Guiteau's assassination of President James A. Garfield.

Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.

In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.

DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.

DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).

DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.

DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.

Source:

The Boston Daily Globe, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; September 27, 1905; Volume 68, Number 89, Page 10, Column 8. Column titled "Body Taken to Indiana."

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where applicable

C. B. Tinkham.

Date: 1905

Source Type: Photograph

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: A. H. Reading

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: C. B. Tinkham and his wife Mabel resided at 304 Napoleon Street in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. This house no longer exists.

Sources:

Bumstead & Company. 1905. Bumstead's Valparaiso City and Porter County Business Directory, Including Rural Routes. Chicago, Illinois: Radtke Brothers. 421 p. [see p. 149]

Reading, A. H. 1905. The City of Homes, Schools and Churches: A Pictorial Story of Valparaiso, Its People and Its Environs. Valparaiso, Indiana: A. H. Reading. 82 p. [see p. 73]

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Wm H. Sholl.

Date: 1905

Source Type: Photograph

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: A. H. Reading

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: William H. Sholl and his wife Margaret resided at 407 Napoleon Street. This house still stands though there have been substantial changes made to the design of the structure.

Sources:

Bumstead & Company. 1905. Bumstead's Valparaiso City and Porter County Business Directory, Including Rural Routes. Chicago, Illinois: Radtke Brothers. 421 p. [see p. 138]

Reading, A. H. 1905. The City of Homes, Schools and Churches: A Pictorial Story of Valparaiso, Its People and Its Environs. Valparaiso, Indiana: A. H. Reading. 82 p. [see p. 72]

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Production Date: January 12, 1900

Source Type: Photograph

Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Unknown

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: The post office and The White Drug Company are visible in this photograph, which is looking along the north side of Main Street.

The following information concerning this flood is published in A Centennial History of the Kendrick-Juliaetta Area, published by the Kendrick-Juliaetta Centennial Committee in 1990.

On December 15, 1899, the railroad also proved to be the source of a double tragedy. A freight train heavily loaded with steel rails for construction of the Lewiston-Stites branch of the Northern Pacific went out of control on the steep grade out of Vollmer (Troy). The train made a six-mile plunge before the cars jumped the curve within the Kendrick city limits and went into the river in a twisted pile-up 100 feet square, killing five members of the crew. Rails were still being dug from the scene of the wreck years later.

At least eight miles of railroad track and two bridges were washed out in the flood, and the lower part of Kendrick under water, with water rising eight inches every hour.

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1974 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super 1600 Familiare by Giorgetti

Sold For £29,120

Inclusive of applicable buyer's fee.

RM | Sotheby's - LONDON 7 SEPTEMBER 2016

Rare Giulia Familiare estate car

Desirable Super 1600 specification

97 bhp, 1,570 cc DOHC inline four-cylinder engine, five-speed manual transmission, front independent coil spring suspension, live rear axle with coil springs, and four-wheel hydraulic disc brakes. Wheelbase: 2,250 mm

Late in 1962, Alfa Romeo introduced the Tipo 105 Giulia, a successor to the popular Giulietta. The Giulia, initially a Berlina, featured a 1,570-cubic centimetre four-cylinder rated at 92 horsepower and fitted with a five-speed gearbox. A Sprint GT coupe version followed in 1963, with engines available in several stages of tune. The suspension had been revised, and disc brakes were featured all around.

The Tipo 105.26 Giulia Super debuted in 1965. Using components from the racing model TI, it used twin double-choke Weber 40DCOE carburettors, good for 97 horsepower. Power-assisted disc brakes were fitted as standard. For 1968, the suspension was modified to improve the geometry and an anti-roll bar was added at the rear. Dual-circuit brakes and a centre-mounted handbrake were updates for the 1970 models. Giulia production continued through 1974, when the model was succeeded by the Giulia Nuova Super 1.6.

Less well known than the Giulia Berlina, Sprint coupé, and the GTC spider is the Familiare, an estate car version of the Giulia. Produced in small quantities by a number of coachbuilders, they were used primarily by police forces and as ambulances. The coachwork was mainly by Colli, but a very few were built by Grazia, or, as seen here, Carrozzeria Giorgetti of Massa e Cozzile, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Combining the utility of the estate body with the spirited thoroughbred Giulia Super mechanicals resulted in an ideal vehicle for law enforcement, as might be found in a BMW Sportwagon today.

This Giulia Super Familiare was used by the Italian Ministry of the Interior, of which the police services are a part, until 1981. In 1984, it found its way into the hands of a dealer, who used it for two years as an advertising vehicle. It was subsequently discovered in a wrecking yard, recovered and restored. In May 2016 it received a comprehensive mechanical service (to the tune of €6.550) and is thus in condition to be immediately enjoyed to the fullest and with the whole family.

Date: January 10, 1876

Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Thomas D. Saunders

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.

Written in pencil on the reverse of this carte de visite is the following:

Jan 10th 1876.

Freddie Merrill Zeiler.

2 Yrs 11 Months

Frederick Merrill Zeiler was born February 10, 1873, in Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, the son of John W. Zeiler and Sara F. (Clawson) Zeiler. He married Viola Pierson. Frederick committed suicide at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel on May 31, 1927.

The following death notice for Frederick Merrill Zeiler appears in the June 1, 1927, issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune:

Fred M. Zeiler, Retired Broker Ends His Life

With a bullet wound to the head, the body of Frederick M. Zeiler, former head of a La Salle Street brokerage firm bearing his name, was found late yesterday afternoon in a room at the Edgewater Beach hotel, where he had registered Sunday. A pistol was found in the room.

Friends asserted last night, however, that they knew no reason that would have impelled him to take his own life, although they disavowed authentic knowledge of his financial condition. Bart L. Norton, general manager of his old firm, F. M. Zeiler & Co., 209 La Salle street, said Mr. Zeiler recently had suffered a nervous breakdown.

Maid Finds the Body.

The body was discovered by a maid, who went in to clean the room. Later the police were notified. Employes of the hotel said they had last seen the broker alive Monday evening.

On Jan. 1, 1926, Mr. Zeiler retired from the firm he had founded in 1913. The name was retained, however, with John W. Douglass, F. R. Wilkinson, and T. R. Benson as partners.

"He got out because he wanted to," said Mr. Douglass. "I don't known definitely, but I had reason to believe he was in good financial circumstances. On Feb. 1 of this year he formed a trading connection with Frazier, Jelke & Co., but I do not think he was very active. I saw him but three weeks ago and he seemed to be quite cheerful then."

Wife Away on Trip.

With his wife, Mrs. Viola Pierson Zeiler, and a son, Frederick Jr., Mr. Zeiler lived at the Sovereign hotel. Mrs. Zeiler was absent on an automobile trip to Wisconsin. Her son could give the police only meager information tending to show cause for suicide. At the Edgewater Beach hotel it was said the broker frequently registered there for a few days at a time.

Mr. Zeiler was a native of Lexington, Mo., and came to Chicago in 1894. He became head of his own firm in 1898 and in 1913 formed the present Zeiler firm by merging three brokerage concerns.

On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:

FROM

SAUNDERS'

City Art Gallery,

BUILDING No. 97½,

Opposite Court House,

Main St.

Lexington, Mo.

This photograph was taken by Thomas D. Saunders, a well-known photographer of Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. Saunders was born in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, on August 16, 1831, and passed away in Lexington on July 31, 1898.

Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.

Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.

In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.

DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.

DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).

DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.

DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.

Source:

Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; June 1, 1927; Volume 86, Number 130, Page 1, Column 6. Column titled "Fred M. Zeiler, Retired Broker Ends His Life."

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LOGIE-BUCHAN, a parish, in the district of Ellon, county of Aberdeen, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing 713 inhabitants.

The word Logie, expressive of a low-lying spot, was given to this place on account of its applicability to the tract in which the church is situated; while the affix is descriptive of the position of the parish in that part of the county called Buchan.

Logie-Buchan Parish Church is located on the southern slope of the River Ythan valley, in gently rolling countryside with small fields, rough grazing and enclosures of trees. There is a narrow trackway and footbridge across the river a short distance to the north. The church stands in a sloping graveyard, bounded by a rubble wall. The large former manse is positioned to the south and the church itself closed recently and a new use had not been found when it was visited (2012).

A church here was granted to Aberdeen Cathedral by David II in 1361, while the current church was built in the late 18th century with later additions and alterations.

Description (exterior)

The church is a small, simple building with little architectural detailing. It is aligned roughly east-west and has harled, rubble walls and a slate roof. There are narrow strips of granite stone around the windows and doors. The church is rectangular on plan, with a small, gabled porch and a lean-to vestry at the west end.

The east elevation has a hipped or piended roof rather than a gable. There are two rectangular windows with simple timber tracery and small panes of leaded glass. There has clearly been alterations carried out at this end of the church, shown by two blocked openings, a doorway and window, in the centre of the east elevation.

The north elevation of the church has four equally-spaced rectangular windows, each with simple tracery and latticed glazing. The opposite south elevation has two larger rectangular windows, towards the centre, again with tracery and latticed glazing.

The west end of the church has a small, gabled porch with a rectangular doorway on the south side, which is the main entrance into the church. There is a rectangular window in the west gable of this porch and a tall chimney rises from the apex, serving a fireplace in the small lean-to vestry extension to the north of the porch. The church has a tall gable at the west end, topped by an ashlar-built bellcote, which has a stone ball finial.

Description (interior)

Some of the fittings remain in the church but are likely to be removed if and when a new use is found for the church, which is no longer in use.

People / Organisations:

Name RoleDates Notes

William RuxtonRecast the interior 1912

Robert MaxwellMade the church bell1728

Events:

Church built on site of older church (1787)

Porch and vestry added to west (1891)

Interior recast (1912)

Logie-Buchan is separated on the east from the German Ocean by the parish of Slains, and is intersected by the river Ythan.

The river abounds with various kinds of trout, also with salmon, eels, lounders, and mussels; and pearls are still occasionally found.

It has a ferry opposite the parish church, where its breadth at low water is about sixty yards; and two boats are kept, one for general passengers, and the other, a larger boat, for the conveyance of the parishioners to church from the northern side.

A tradition has long prevailed that the largest pearl in the crown of Scotland was obtained in the Ythan; and it appears that, about the middle of the last century, £100 were paid by a London jeweller to gentleman in Aberdeen, for pearls found in the river.

Most of the inhabitants of the district are employed in agricultural pursuits, a small brick-work recently established being the only exception.

The great north road from Aberdeen passes through the parish, and the mail and other public coaches travel to and fro daily. On another road, leading to the shipping-port of Newburgh, the tenantry have a considerable traffic in grain, lime, and coal, the last procured from England, and being the chief fuel.

The river Ythan is navigable for lighters often or twelve tons' burthen at high water. The marketable produce of the parish is sent to Aberdeen. Logie- Buchan is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Ellon, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Mr. Buchan.

The church was built in 1787, and contains 400 sittings.

Cemeteries - Presbyterian / Unitarian

Logie Buchan Parish Church, Logie-Buchan, Church of Scotland

The church of Logie-Buchan was dedicated to St Andrew.

St Andrew's Church was built in 1787 and has been much altered. It contains a 1728 bell.

Logie-Buchan (Aberdeen, Buchan). Also known as Logie Talargy, the church was granted by David II in 1361 to the common fund of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, and this was confirmed to the uses of the canons by Alexander, bishop of Aberdeen in 1362, both parsonage and vicarage fruits being annexed while the cure was to become a vicarage pensionary.

Although possession was obtained by the dean and chapter, this was subsequently lost, and the church had to be re-annexed in 1437, the previous arrangement being adhered to, with both parsonage and vicarage remaining annexed.

St Andrew's Kirk, 1787. Undistinguished externally, porch 1891, inside original ceiling with Adam-like centrepiece and two-light Gothic windows, part of 1912 recasting, William Buxton. Pulpit was originally in the centre of the N wall with a horseshoe gallery bearing the Buchan coat of arms (George Reid, Peterhead, carver). Monuments to Thomas (d. 1819) and Robert (d. 1825) Buchan.

Bell, 1728, Robert Maxwell. Church bought by Captain David Buchan to ensure access and survival.

Kirkyard: plain ashlar gatepiers and rubble walls; some table tombs.

Depth of Field: Mid

Movement: Frozen/Not Applicable

Lighting: Large, Soft, 3/4 Back

Wheat Field. Washington.

Date: Circa 1915

Source Type: Stereoscope Card

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Keystone View Company (#F135, #P-11624)

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: Written on the reverse of this stereoscope card is the following text.

WHEAT FIELD, WASHINGTON

The wheat which we see in this large field may help to feed hungry children in far-away lands. In our country every boy and girl needs almost five bushels of wheat a year. But so much wheat is grown that we can send a great deal to other lands.

Some of the wheat must be saved for seed to be planted the next year. In many places in our country the ground is so good for wheat that the farmers do not raise anything else.

Early in the spring the ground is plowed. Then all the lumps are broken up by a harrow. A large machine is used to plant the wheat in this great field. The warm spring rain makes the seeds sprout. The wheat looks like little tiny blades of grass when it first comes up. It grows taller and taller. In a few months it is tall enough to reach the hips of a man.

At the top of each stem the kernels burst out. Some stems have thirty kernels. They are soft and milky at first. But as the wheat gets ripe they grow hard.

The large machine in the picture can do many kinds of work. It cuts the wheat and threshes it. It drops the grain into bags. The bags of grain are left on the field. Later a wagon comes to pick them up. Then the wheat is sent by train to places where there are large flour mills.

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Date: Circa 1875-1885

Source Type: Photograph, Cabinet Card

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Edwin L. Brand

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This cabinet card was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.

Written in pencil in the album below this cabinet card is the following:

Jane Letherman Brooke

Jane "Jennie" B. (Letherman) Brooke was one of ten children born to Dr. Joseph H. Letherman and Jane Mary (Peirce) Letherman. Jane was born June 14, 1867, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. She was the wife of Charles Lincoln Brooke. Jane died at Woodstock, Ulster County, New York, on July 17, 1850, and was buried at Maplewood Cemetery in Valparaiso.

the following death notice for Jane appears in the July 20, 1950, issue of The Vidette-Messenger of Valparaiso:

Word Received Here Mrs. Jennie Brooke, Native of City, Dead

Word was received here today of the death on July 17 of Mrs. Jennie Letherman Brooke, a former Valparaiso resident, at the home of her niece, Mrs. Nell Brooke Louderback, at Woodstock, N. Y.

The decedent was born in Valparaiso 87 years ago, a daughter of Dr. Joseph H. Letherman and Mary Jane (Pierce) Letherman. She was married to Lincoln Brooke, son of the Rev. C. A. Brooke, one of the early Methodist ministers in Valparaiso. They resided in Hinsdale, Ill., for a number of years. He preceded her in death in February, 1940.

Mrs. Brooke is the last of a family of 10 children, which included Dr. Andrew P. Letherman, William C. Letherman and Mrs. Alice Dalrymple, all residents of Valparaiso, at the time of their death.

Written in pencil on the reverse of this cabinet card is the following:

A Merry Christmas.

Printed on the front of this cabinet card is the following:

Brands Studios

EXTRA

FINISH

On the reverse of the cabinet card is printed the following information:

Brand

210 & 212 WABASH AVENUE

Portraits.

Established 1858. Chicago.

This Negative is carefully preserved for future orders.

Duplicates furnished at any time.

The photograph was taken by Edwin L. Brand. Brand operated several photography studies in Chicago. The studio where this cabinet card photograph was taken, Wabash Avenue, existed from 1859 to 1900 when Brand passed away. The Wabash Avenue studio was known as the Temple of Art.

Edwin L. Brand was particularly known for his work in taking anatomical photographs of the human anatomy, including the dissected cadavers for use in anatomical research.

Brand is also known as taking a portrait photograph of Charles Guiteau prior to Guiteau's assassination of President James A. Garfield.

Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.

Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.

In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.

DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.

DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).

DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.

DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.

Source:

The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; July 20, 1950; Volume 24, Number 13, Page 1, Column 2. Column titled "Word Received Here Mrs. Jennie L. Brooke, Native of City, Dead."

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The vehicle details for B68 OAC are:

Date of Liability 01 04 1998

Date of First Registration 01 02 1985

Year of Manufacture 1985

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1994CC

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

Export Marker Not Applicable

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour GOLD

W. E. Pinney.

Date: 1905

Source Type: Photograph

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: A. H. Reading

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: William E. Pinney resided at 504 North Lafayette Street in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. This house still stands in 2021.

Sources:

Bumstead & Company. 1905. Bumstead's Valparaiso City and Porter County Business Directory, Including Rural Routes. Chicago, Illinois: Radtke Brothers. 421 p. [see p. 127]

Reading, A. H. 1905. The City of Homes, Schools and Churches: A Pictorial Story of Valparaiso, Its People and Its Environs. Valparaiso, Indiana: A. H. Reading. 82 p. [see p. 76]

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Crew / Passengers Rank - if applicable Position e.g. Pilot Status

Anthony Winter Lane Flying Officer Pilot Killed

Charles Douglas Brown Pilot Officer Bomb Aimer Killed

Charles Leslie Grisdale Pilot Officer Navigator Injured

Raymond Gerard Rouse Sergeant Air Gunner / Instructor Killed

Miller Sergeant Wireless Operator / Air Gunner Injured

The crew were one of seven from No.28 OTU taking part in a Bullseye exercise from Wymeswold and the unit's satellite airfield of Castle Donington (which is now in use as East Midlands Airport), they had taken off at 19:19 on the 29th January. At 01:45 on the 30th January while flying in low cloud and wintry weather the aircraft flew into Birchen Bank Moss killing three of the crew and injuring the two others. They were eventually rescued and transferred to Ashton under Lyne hospital suffering from exposure and other injuries. Also lost during the exercise was Wellington R1538, which crashed near Stoke on Trent. Additionally Wellington Mk.III X3941 from No.27 OTU crashed in the Peak District after the Bullseye exercise it was taking part in was cancelled due to the weather.

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THE TRANSMODERN ALCHEMIST hacks the undifferentiated potential, exploring the theoretical usefulness of Dynamics for modeling processes in the alchemical art. Dynamics is an organic model, an alternative to mechanistic or cyber- models of process. It prioritizes life as the root science. Alchemy is a multidisciplinary pursuit focusing on mystic technologies, spagyrics, healing, life sciences, metallurgy, chemistry, dynamics and physics.Transmodern alchemy is a new Renaissance science-art -- a treasury of psychophysical meaning. Alchemists sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of matter and our nature.Universal Meta-Syn

Alchemy is a metanarrative, a way of framing all our experience. Alchemy begins and ends in the quest for eternal life. It is a spiritual technology of rebirth using natural methods that in their effect transcend nature by amplifying that which is immortal within us. It does not exist in nature but must be prepared by Art. Art is a form of manifesting, making and objectifying the world - spiritual physics.

Artists and mystics are aware of their own internal space and thus able to enter it, playing the mindbody like a musical instrument. Looking inside, they see the true nature of reality and can express that literally and symbolically. We all possess the creative potential. All creative acts are a marriage of spirit and matter, reaching down into the body as the source of our essential being and becoming."There is a generic process in nature and consciousness which dissolves and regenerates all forms. The essence of this transformative, morphological process is chaotic -- purposeful yet inherently unpredictable holistic repatterning. The Great Work of the art of alchemy is the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, a symbol of wholeness and integration. The liquid form of the Stone, called the Universal Solvent, dissolves all old forms like a rushing stream, and is the self-organizing matrix for the rebirth of new forms. It is thus a metaphor or model for the dynamic process of transformation, ego death and re-creation." -- Iona Miller, ‘Chaos As the Universal Solvent’

ABSTRACT: Physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychologist Carl Jung suggested, “We should now proceed to find a neutral, or unitarian, language in which every concept we use is applicable as well to the unconscious as to matter, in order to overcome this wrong view that the unconscious psyche and matter are two things.”

Jung thought both alchemy and physics mirrored the psyche and were central in the process of transformation, the Great Work. Alchemist Fulcanelli (1937) claimed that Great Work involved “…a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call a 'field of force.' The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-a-vis the Universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy.” Today we understand that primal unitive field is holographic in nature and we are embedded within it. Electromagnetic energy and particles arise from the virtual vacuum flux of subspace – the Void, which is the metaphysical root of all form. We are embedded within that field and our existential root is Likewise constantly in local virtual photon fluctuation. The fine vehicle of that interaction has been called the ‘energy body,’ ‘body of light,’ ‘diamond body,’ ‘astral body,’ ‘Merkabah,’ and a variety of cultural variations.

The classical magical operation known as The Middle Pillar provides a way of nourishing the energy body by feeding off that virtual light, connecting with Cosmos, our primordial Source or Groundstate for renewal. Alchemy provides a Unitarian language that reconciles the tension of opposites between magic and physics, between psyche and matter. A transmodern view of virtual vacuum physics allows us to employ the language of alchemy to move medieval natural philosophy into the 21st Century.

Transmodern Alchemy & Chaos

Alchemical philosophy supports the phenomenological notion that the universe exists primarily as we perceive it through what we know. Therefore, by changing perception, we can essentially change the universe and ourselves. Transmodern scientific imagination confirms this transformative postulate as the basis of matter/consciousness in dynamics, holographic and chaos theories. Trans- is the prefix that guides the vision of reality as virtual and fluctuating process. At the subquantal level, virtual photon flux, “cosmic zero,” or zero-point energy is the literal and metaphysical substrate of manifestation. An ocean of energetic flux boils into and out of existence as virtual vacuum fluctuation. The fiction of substantive ‘reality’ is revealed and nature’s transparent veil is ripped away.Alchemy is a science-art and tradition of participatory wisdom. Medieval alchemy was couched in the archaic language of its time, but we are not limited to that, or to theological, Hermetic, Masonic, Theosophical or New Age jargon. Philosophies and sciences evolve in articulation, theory and practice. New discoveries and statements of meaning inform our practice at all levels. In many cases, alchemy anticipated them. Like the cryptic tomes and dense texts of alchemy, unfamiliar scientific or philosophical theories require thoughtful reflection until they take root in our awareness. Models from many disciplines weave together, amplifying the meaning of alchemical process and patterns. Old experiments can be revisioned in a new light while new dynamical phenomena remain to be discovered. We can even revision the alchemical formula for surviving death.

At the zero-point time is no longer a flow, projection or hope. It accelerates at overwhelming speed, turns back on itself and becomes compressed and plays itself out. Instantaneously, everything takes place before us simultaneously, including retrievals of the past and projections of multiple futures. We have a greater understanding of deep time, earthly cycles and cosmic process than ever before. We communicate at light speed. We talk of supraliminality -- faster than light potentials. Light is our essential nature.Learning each technical or symbolic language is like learning a foreign language, but becomes second-nature once we sense the overall gestalt. It takes contemplation and consideration of implications. We unpack them one metaphor at a time as we descend into finer domains of existence, from particles to the subquantal world of the microcosm. Motivation theory suggests if we adopt a mastery orientation to our subjects, we exhibit all the productive learning behaviors we know will work. Even when challenged, we have the natural ability to learn and to keep at it while understanding grows. Simple concepts, not mathematical details, from dynamics and physics are all that is required for illuminating alchemical practice. Field and Flow Our worldview has evolved to include quantum physics and dynamics in our models of reality. As in the alchemical dictum, "As Above, So Below," a satisfactory theory must explain both cosmogenesis and microphysics. In the 20th Century, Carl Jung described alchemy in terms of depth psychology and the physics of his day, shedding new light on an old science. The Modern Alchemist, (1994) describes Jung’s process of individuation -- the transformation of personality and Self. Searching for the hidden structure of matter, the alchemists discovered that of the psyche. Depth psychology continues to redefine itself beyond postmodern notions as new research emerges in nonunitary consciousness, the fractal nature of archetypes and complexes and new models in microphysics mirroring cosmos and co-creator. The alchemical process is its own solution. Jung's notions of a heroic, striving Self have been transcended with imaginal, nonlinear models of consciousness, archetypes as strange attractors and metanarratives as healing fictions. If new theories in astrophysics, quantum physics and depth psychology supersede the old, can we expect any less from 21st century alchemy itself? The esoteric pursuit for the arcane nature of matter continues.Transmodern alchemy describes the secrets of matter in scientific terms with correlates of the alchemical worldview. The dynamic blueprints of nature as we comprehend them today are unfolded by stripping away Nature's etheric veil, revealing naked awareness. As we deconstruct our old notions, new realities emerge. The Philosopher's Stone is awakened consciousness.Hacking the undifferentiated potential, we can explore the theoretical usefulness of Dynamics for modeling processes in the alchemical art. Dynamics is an organic model, an alternative to mechanistic or cyber- models of process. It prioritizes life as the root science. Alchemy is a multidisciplinary pursuit focusing on mystic technologies, spagyrics, healing, life sciences, metallurgy, chemistry, dynamics and physics.

Transmodern alchemy is a new Renaissance science-art -- a treasury of psychophysical meaning. Alchemists sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of matter and our nature.Universal Meta-SynAlchemy is a metanarrative, a way of framing all our experience. Alchemy begins and ends in the quest for eternal life. It is a spiritual technology of rebirth using natural methods that in their effect transcend nature by amplifying that which is immortal within us. It does not exist in nature but must be prepared by Art. Art is a form of manifesting, making and objectifying the world - spiritual physics.

Artists and mystics are aware of their own internal space and thus able to enter it, playing the mindbody like a musical instrument. Looking inside, they see the true nature of reality and can express that literally and symbolically. We all possess the creative potential. All creative acts are a marriage of spirit and matter, reaching down into the body as the source of our essential being and becoming.Today, we might describe this resonance as accessing biophotonic or free energy that regenerates the mindbody. Healing is an aspect of creativity; nature is within and without us. Resonating with the whole, the Magus does not dominate reality but develops embodied psychophysical equilibrium, clarity, wisdom and compassion. We perform our greatest experiment on ourselves. Creative work originates in the body and is projected out into the world. The projections are then internalized into awareness. The bodymind of the artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux and lux of transformation. We feed on Light.

Awareness and consciousness form a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody. The mindbody is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries. Alchemy reduces all to the first state, the ground state of being - original experience that is timeless, infinite. The classical Void, the quantum vacuum is a carrier of information. The energy body or the field body -- along with the scalars (virtual photons) of our holographic blueprint -- connect us directly with the negentropic potential of the zero-point field. Radiant light literally emerges from this mystic void. Primordial structuring processes are common to both psyche and matter, working in the gap or empty interval between intention and action. Alchemy refines the way the mindbody generates and processes inherent light as medicine. It refines the aspirant's ability for tapping and amplifying Medicine Light. This primordial state is the luminous ground of our being, hidden deep in the heart of things.All other goals are subordinate to this prime directive which includes meditative techniques for continuing consciousness after death. This Philosopher's Stone is the Universal Medicine, the regenerative Elixir of Life. The greatest mystery is Life After Death: we don't die but continue in transcendent form. This is the secret of man and nature.

Paradoxically, when we look into the depths of matter, we look into the depths of ourselves. Scientists and mystics report similar phenomena in their models and phenomenology. Spiritual technologies, the software of sacred penetration and amplification, virtually predicted the fine nature of matter as nothing but a complex illusion. We now understand energy/matter as a hologram. Mystics have also always emphasized the primal nature of Light, and claimed that we are in fact made of light itself. Science has confirmed this in numerous ways. Ambient Vacuum is a Plenum of Transformation Light is an excitation of empty space. "Aether" means ‘shine’ in Greek. Scalar physics tells us the ambient void is omnipresent, yet inherently nonobservable -- it is an omnipresent field of radiant energy potential emanating from every zero-point in the cosmos. But we can observe and infer results of this virtual vacuum fluctuation. Quantum Mechanics demonstrates no discrete particle or solid chunk of anything exists in metric space -- the whole Physical Universe. Everything is made of Light. Only light matters. Nothing arises but standing waves from the seething zero-point field created by cosmic beings like ourselves. How we do so is a mystery to ourselves. But we are getting closer to non-religious descriptions of reality that curiously have profound mystical overtones. The properties of mass, inertia, charge and gravity -- and those who observe them -- are the result of space resonances produced by zero-point scalar waves. At zero-point, waves pass through waves without interference. We come from, are sustained by, and are returning to the radiant light of our mass. All electromagnetic force is mediated by virtual photons.

The void is not devoid. In the absence of "solid" matter, we can take a revolutionary view of today's alchemy as dynamic process using Chaos Theory, and related sciences to inform our search. We are indivisibly wedded to our earthly and cosmic environment through zero point field phenomena and resonance. Could consciousness order the world?

Alchemy's prima materia and 'sensitive initial conditions' of chaos are the same. Initiation recalibrates our "initial conditions" and sets transformational "butterfly effects" in motion. The potential of enfolded time energy is transduced into dynamic spatial energy as cosmic jitter (ZPE, Isotropic Vector Matrix). Zero represents the Cosmic egg, the primordial Androgyne merging positive and negative charge - the Plenum. Zero point creative process manifests cosmos, nature and consciousness from roiling quantum flux.

Biophysics tells us we are brilliantly disguised photonic humans -- Homo Lumen -- if we but realize that awareness. The quantum vacuum is a radiant sea of light, encrypted information waves, a dynamic matrix of energy exchange. Our bioplasmic energy pulsates along with this matrix. Because it is ubiquitous, inside and outside, we are blind to it. It is the groundstate of our being. Transmodernity is the synthesis of modernity and postmodern philosophy, reflected in alchemical notions of transcendence, transformation and transmutation. It transcends the construction and deconstruction of recent historical eras by re-enchanting the post-Millennial world. So what might a chaos-informed Transmodern Alchemy look like? First and foremost our existential state space is in flux. We arise from an infinite ocean of quantum foam. Phenomena no longer correspond with old-paradigm frameworks. Anomalies, the strangest phenomena have the most to teach us.

Nonlinear Recursive Process Paradoxically, chaos is the essence of order. That order is inherent in and emerges from chaos. Dynamics has successfully explained many natural phenomena and been heralded as a new scientific paradigm. The quintessence is now found in nonlinear dynamics, the holographic field and the virtual vacuum of absolute space. Only when we comprehend the groundstate of being can we fathom reality. It fundamentally changes and deepens our alchemical and scientific notions about transformations in ourselves, matter, systems, patterns and structure.Psychology and neurology now recognize the psyche and brain as a dynamic dissipative system. Therapeutic techniques lead to reorganization of the individual at a higher level of order. Medicine realizes chaos is essential to health. Biophysics recognizes the primacy of light in life processes. The artworld recognizes the aesthetic appeal, rhythm and beauty of fractals. But the poetic science of alchemy made a workable theoretical and experimental system in which chaos was central centuries ago. Each era views nature from the paradigm of its time. Chaos Theory has been associated with every aspect of human behavior. Alchemy is an irreducible fusion of mysticism, science and art that also happens to be therapeutic or growth-promoting and tantalizingly hints at illumination. The process begins in nigredo, with doubts and lack of conviction but time spent on self-knowledge, experiments and spiritual exercises is amply rewarded. Chaos keeps the process fluid. Alchemy calls chaos the "universal solvent." Virtual Physics describes jitterbugging quantum subspace plasma as a superconducting superfluid.

Alchemy is a nonlinear organizational framework, a model to make sense of our experience, and a means of facilitating transformation. The universe without and within is our alchemical laboratory. The fire is kindled and stoked in the ‘magic theatre’ of the mind and the retort vessel of the body. Alchemy plants virtual fractal seeds in the gaps or intervals of consciousness. We are the portal for the fractal seed to unfold its liberating potential. But we must remain open.

Cosmic Zero The universe is the cosmic "parent fractal" of the microcosmic scale. Matter and consciousness share deep unity. The outer world we observe through our senses is nothing more than a consistent series of mental images that exists in our mind. Matter itself is an image in the mind, and mental images are the natural phenomena of consciousness. Mining the soul, we disassemble ourselves to reorganize in more refined form, reintegrating at a holistic level.

Alchemy calls Chaos the prima and ultima materia. The prima materia is ubiquitous, everywhere all the time. As we practice spiritual and practical alchemy, we come to understand the deep nature of chaos as the source of all transformative energy. In this chaosophical philosophy, all systems emerge from and eventually dissolve back into chaos. Solve et Coagula: Chaos is the essence of self-organization. Chaos Theory allows us to follow the Hermetic Spirit deep into the heart of matter and beyond into the subquantal realm in our quest for Nature's secrets. The undecomposable domain of Chaos is not an emptiness, but a rich, generative source -- a bornless nothingness from which all form

emerges.Consciousness, like creativity, is an emergent phenomenon patterned by strange attractors which govern the complexity of information in dynamic flow. Our consciousness appears co-temporaneously with our embodiment, creating the imaginal flux of representational and nonrepresentational perception - the stream of consciousness. The cosmic trinity of chaos, matter, and attraction appears at the heart of modern chaos theory and alchemy.

The Vedas identify all creative intent and substance as a manifestation of primal consciousness -- the basis of all manifestation. In this worldview, there is nothing but primordial consciousness. Complex dynamics is implicated in the energetic translation of "waves of unborn nothingness". Healing is the biological equivalent of creativity. The more complex a system, the more stable and self-correcting it is.

The objective (Sol, Frater) and subjective (Luna, Soror Mystica) are not divorced from one another, anymore than the left and right hemispheres of the brain. They marry in the mystic, in entanglement with Cosmos. Science adapted the artist’s sense that the detail of nature is significant. Like yin and yang, they rely on one another in a dynamic meld that transcends the tension of opposites. Synthesizing and transcending opposites is the theme of alchemy.

Truth of the Matter Alchemy, quantum mysticism and the holographic paradigm reveal the secrets of nature's subquantal realm. Metaphors are instructive. They are a Way of leaping the chasm between old and new knowledge, old and new ways of essential being. We can tap the source of creativity, healing and holistic restructuring through imagination and metaphor, including alchemical operations. They can be deeply transformative -- more than mere language. They are a technology for changing our behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and beliefs -- our spirit and soul.

Alchemy is a science-art, a tool to describe and mold reality using experimental and meditative techniques. As an art medium, alchemy helps us illustrate nature and our own nature in contemporary terms by creating new paradigms and environments. Matter has lost its central role in physics to dynamics. Alchemy can be informed by this new physics. There is aesthetic pleasure in finding likenesses between things once thought unalike. It gives a sense of richness and understanding. The creative mind looks for unexpected likenesses, through engagement of the whole person. Organic metaphors of quantum physics, field theory, and chaos theory illuminate the alchemical art.

The many theories of reality are the post-Millennial version of the alchemical peacock’s tail that heralds the beginnings of integration, the Unus Mundus -- the Grand Unified Theory or Theory of Everything in physics. The search for the Stone is a long rite of initiation, culminating in the cauda pavonis which signals the perfect transmutation. It is a dazzling synthesis of all qualities and elements much like rainbow colors unite as white light. The iridescent tail represents all the colors of light while the "eyes" symbolize all potential universes. The Peacock's Tail is the central part of the alchemical process. The myriad eyes in the tail suggest the highly-chromatic view includes multiple perspectives of imaginal vision. The kaleidoscopic vision is a metaphor for the spiritual rebirth that awakens the Third Eye and consciousness of the deeper subtle and field bodies. The universe informs our awareness and being. Sometimes the universal laws of nature lead us beyond ordinary science. Subjects in isolation don't provide enough to accurately describe our complex world. More disciplines, more tools, better technologies lead to best practice. In theoretics we build up and tear down relentlessly, questioning our own underpinnings, adhering to no stale theory: "Solve et Coagula."Since matter remains a paradox, our Work, comprehending the spirit of matter, means learning more than the Standard Theory of physics. Both orthodox and heterodox theories stimulate our imaginative and spiritual perception. Energy and information fields, not just genetics, drive human psychophysiology. Libido (psychic energy) drives the imagination. When we speak of Mercury, Sulphur and Salt, we mean our spiritual, energetic and physical bodies as well as the elements. Each theory adds another piece to the puzzle of existence and meaning, potentially leading to breakthrough on the bench or in consciousness. Such a brief, conceptual survey of alternate theories in physics cannot do them justice, but it can provide leads for further contemplation and research for the esoteric physics of lab work. We study the nature of being and our own being, the essence of inner reality. Consciousness is a timeless transformative force unfolding in nature. Alchemy, art and physics are complimentary modes of inquiry. Symbolic contemplation and interaction transform the material and immaterial self.

BODY OF LIGHT

The body of light is a spiritual term for the non-physical body associated with enlightenment. It is known by many names in different spiritual traditions, such as "the resurrection body" and "the glorified body" in Christianity, "the most sacred body" (wujud al-aqdas) and "supracelestial body" (jism asli haqiqi) in Sufism, "the diamond body" in Taoism and Vajrayana, "the light body" or "rainbow body" in Tibetan Buddhism, "the body of bliss" in Kriya Yoga, and "the immortal body" (soma athanaton) in Hermeticism.Enlightenment is not purely psychological; it is psychophysical, including the energy or subtle body. In the course of realizing full human potential, physical changes also occur, most dramatically in the later phases of the enlightenment process. In the final phase, according to various sacred traditions, the body is alchemically changed into light. Enlightenment becomes literally so, through the transubstantiation of flesh, blood, and bone into an immortal body of light. Through a combination of personal effort and divine grace, a person attains a deathless condition through the alchemical transmutation of his or her ordinary fleshly body. This transubstantiated body is called various names in the traditions, such as light body, solar body, diamond body, or resurrection body. (John White) www.wie.org/j21/white.asp

The radiant ground is the fundamental source beyond the boundary layer of quantum foam. Our healing task is to somehow realize this radiant image of the body in earth, to ground this body in its essential nature, which is the source of creativity and healing. It is precisely in the world, in life itself, that we experience compassion, wisdom, enlightenment. It is only our persistent rigid delusions to the contrary that prevents us from realizing it every moment.

Meditation masters speak of an inner Light that pervades the physical and energy bodies, and now science investigates it as biophotons, and through quantum physics we can watch that matter/energy/information devolve back into the unstructured void from which potential emanates.

Mystics have often equated this pervasive Light/Sound with primordial Consciousness and the source of life as well as matter. Quantum bioholography shows the DNA literally produces coherent light, which transduces to sound that directs the formative processes of life. Radiant energy is radiant energy. Whether we look outside into our environment or inside into ourselves we find primordial Light.

Biophotons are weak emissions of light radiated from the cells of all living things. The light is too faint to be seen by the naked eye, but biophotons have been detected and verified using photomultiplier tubes. Light is constantly being absorbed and remitted by DNA molecules within each cell's nucleus, creating a dynamic, coherent web of light. This system could be responsible for chemical reactions within the cells, cellular communication throughout the organism, and the overall regulation of the biological system, including embryonic development into a predetermined form.

Photonic Body is a biohologram projected by coherent light and sound. We arise from and are sustained by field phenomena, waves of biophotonic light and sound, which form our essential nature through acoustic holography This coherent light transduces itself into radio waves (holographic biophoton field), which carry sound as information that decodes the 4-D form as a material object. We also suspect chromosomes transform their genetic-sign laser radiations into broadband genetic-sign radio waves. The polarizations of chromosome laser photons are connected nonlocally and coherently to polarizations of radio waves. Thus, we have an explicit physical analogue for the traditional mystical apprehension of inner Light and the Audible Life Stream.

Sacred Light is generated internally by DMT, the spirit molecule. Meditation evokes pineal DMT release through EM vibrations. Visionary experience with symbolic or religious content gives way to dazzling light of illumination, reported in eastern and western religions.

In the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is called "the resurrection body " and "the glorified body." The prophet Isaiah said, "The dead shall live, their bodies shall rise" (Isa. 26:19). St. Paul called it "the celestial body" or "spiritual body " (soma pneumatikon) (I Corinthians 15:40). In Sufism it is called "the most sacred body " (wujud al-aqdas) and "supracelestial body " (jism asli haqiqi). In Taoism, it is called "the diamond body," and those who have attained it are called "the immortals" and "the cloudwalkers." In Tibetan Buddhism it is called "the light body." In Tantrism and some schools of yoga, it is called "the vajra body," "the adamantine body," and "the divine body." In Kriya yoga it is called "the body of bliss." In Vedanta it is called "the superconductive body." In Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, it is called "the radiant body."

In the alchemical tradition, the Emerald Tablet calls it "the Glory of the Whole Universe" and "the golden body." The alchemist Paracelsus called it "the astral body." In the Hermetic Corpus, it is called "the immortal body " (soma athanaton). In some mystery schools, it is called "the solar body." In Rosicrucianism, it is called "the diamond body of the temple of God." In ancient Egypt it was called "the luminous body or being" (ankh).

In Old Persia it was called "the indwelling divine potential" (fravashi or fravarti). In the Mithraic liturgy it was called "the perfect body " (soma teilion). In the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, it is called "the divine body," composed of supramental substance. In the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin, it is called "the ultrahuman."

The idea of the “Body of Light” often called the “Rainbow” or “Diamond Body” is the perfection of a vehicle for the exteriorization (projection), and continuation of consciousness beyond material reality. In Qabala, the astral body has access to three levels of consciousness, and then must be shed, or encounter the ‘Second Death” in order to penetrate the Veil, or Paroketh, to the next three levels of the “Thrice Born.”

DIAMOND AWARENESS

In this dynamic model there are no “things”, just energetic events. Light and sound (acoustic cymatics) modulate all matter. This “holoflux” includes the ultimately flowing nature of what is, and all possible forms. All the objects of our world are three-dimensional images formed of standing and moving waves by electromagnetic and nuclear processes. This is the guiding matrix for self-assembly, and manipulating and organizing physical reality. It is how our DNA creates and projects our psychophysical structure.

Our brains mathematically construct ‘concrete’ reality by interpreting frequencies from another dimension. This information realm of meaningful, patterned primary reality transcends time and space. Thus, the brain is an embedded hologram, interpreting a holographic universe. Supernal light emerges from this ground of being, both in the cosmos and our human brains and bodies.

All existence consists of embedded holograms within holograms, fractally embedded waves within waves of clear light. Their interrelatedness somehow gives rise to our existence and sensory images. When we embody this intimate wisdom, our bodies become temples of the living spirit.

Absolute space is the womb of creation and the physics of virtual photon fluctuation reflects not only Nature, but also our nature. Only now are we learning just how literal that experience of Light is, and the interactive mechanisms it engages in our holistic psychophysical Being

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LOGIE-BUCHAN, a parish, in the district of Ellon, county of Aberdeen, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing 713 inhabitants.

The word Logie, expressive of a low-lying spot, was given to this place on account of its applicability to the tract in which the church is situated; while the affix is descriptive of the position of the parish in that part of the county called Buchan.

Logie-Buchan Parish Church is located on the southern slope of the River Ythan valley, in gently rolling countryside with small fields, rough grazing and enclosures of trees. There is a narrow trackway and footbridge across the river a short distance to the north. The church stands in a sloping graveyard, bounded by a rubble wall. The large former manse is positioned to the south and the church itself closed recently and a new use had not been found when it was visited (2012).

A church here was granted to Aberdeen Cathedral by David II in 1361, while the current church was built in the late 18th century with later additions and alterations.

Description (exterior)

The church is a small, simple building with little architectural detailing. It is aligned roughly east-west and has harled, rubble walls and a slate roof. There are narrow strips of granite stone around the windows and doors. The church is rectangular on plan, with a small, gabled porch and a lean-to vestry at the west end.

The east elevation has a hipped or piended roof rather than a gable. There are two rectangular windows with simple timber tracery and small panes of leaded glass. There has clearly been alterations carried out at this end of the church, shown by two blocked openings, a doorway and window, in the centre of the east elevation.

The north elevation of the church has four equally-spaced rectangular windows, each with simple tracery and latticed glazing. The opposite south elevation has two larger rectangular windows, towards the centre, again with tracery and latticed glazing.

The west end of the church has a small, gabled porch with a rectangular doorway on the south side, which is the main entrance into the church. There is a rectangular window in the west gable of this porch and a tall chimney rises from the apex, serving a fireplace in the small lean-to vestry extension to the north of the porch. The church has a tall gable at the west end, topped by an ashlar-built bellcote, which has a stone ball finial.

Description (interior)

Some of the fittings remain in the church but are likely to be removed if and when a new use is found for the church, which is no longer in use.

People / Organisations:

Name RoleDates Notes

William RuxtonRecast the interior 1912

Robert MaxwellMade the church bell1728

Events:

Church built on site of older church (1787)

Porch and vestry added to west (1891)

Interior recast (1912)

Logie-Buchan is separated on the east from the German Ocean by the parish of Slains, and is intersected by the river Ythan.

The river abounds with various kinds of trout, also with salmon, eels, lounders, and mussels; and pearls are still occasionally found.

It has a ferry opposite the parish church, where its breadth at low water is about sixty yards; and two boats are kept, one for general passengers, and the other, a larger boat, for the conveyance of the parishioners to church from the northern side.

A tradition has long prevailed that the largest pearl in the crown of Scotland was obtained in the Ythan; and it appears that, about the middle of the last century, £100 were paid by a London jeweller to gentleman in Aberdeen, for pearls found in the river.

Most of the inhabitants of the district are employed in agricultural pursuits, a small brick-work recently established being the only exception.

The great north road from Aberdeen passes through the parish, and the mail and other public coaches travel to and fro daily. On another road, leading to the shipping-port of Newburgh, the tenantry have a considerable traffic in grain, lime, and coal, the last procured from England, and being the chief fuel.

The river Ythan is navigable for lighters often or twelve tons' burthen at high water. The marketable produce of the parish is sent to Aberdeen. Logie- Buchan is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Ellon, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Mr. Buchan.

The church was built in 1787, and contains 400 sittings.

Cemeteries - Presbyterian / Unitarian

Logie Buchan Parish Church, Logie-Buchan, Church of Scotland

The church of Logie-Buchan was dedicated to St Andrew.

St Andrew's Church was built in 1787 and has been much altered. It contains a 1728 bell.

Logie-Buchan (Aberdeen, Buchan). Also known as Logie Talargy, the church was granted by David II in 1361 to the common fund of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, and this was confirmed to the uses of the canons by Alexander, bishop of Aberdeen in 1362, both parsonage and vicarage fruits being annexed while the cure was to become a vicarage pensionary.

Although possession was obtained by the dean and chapter, this was subsequently lost, and the church had to be re-annexed in 1437, the previous arrangement being adhered to, with both parsonage and vicarage remaining annexed.

St Andrew's Kirk, 1787. Undistinguished externally, porch 1891, inside original ceiling with Adam-like centrepiece and two-light Gothic windows, part of 1912 recasting, William Buxton. Pulpit was originally in the centre of the N wall with a horseshoe gallery bearing the Buchan coat of arms (George Reid, Peterhead, carver). Monuments to Thomas (d. 1819) and Robert (d. 1825) Buchan.

Bell, 1728, Robert Maxwell. Church bought by Captain David Buchan to ensure access and survival.

Kirkyard: plain ashlar gatepiers and rubble walls; some table tombs.

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My close friend Alex Joshua and two unknown guests - one of them is a German Shepard and the other one is a local dog, possibly from the local Fishermens' village. This is one of the most beautiful and virgin beach, I have ever seen in Goa. Also this beach is very very remote.

Velsao Beach

The fact that this seaside village was short listed as a venue for the Inter-national Film Festival of India speaks volume about this place. The beach here is quiet and peaceful.

How to get there

Close to Bogmalo and Hollant beaches, Velsao is 4km away from Verna on NH17. You can take a taxi from Dabolim Airport, 17km away and can either take a bus or a taxi from Vasco and Margao.

What to experience

There is not much to see around Velsao Beach, you can just lie on the sand, watch the canoes and trawlers that are out for fishing. You can listen to the waves beating on the shore or watch the eagles soaring high. The beach is yours to enjoy.

A long walk on the beach is a pleasant experience. Alternatively, you can cycle or ride a motorbike between Colva and Velsao. Among the places to see is the Velsao Chapel, from where you can enjoy the lush Salcette countryside.

In the evening, you can see the famous Goan sunset.

Many people flock to the Chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Remedios dos Remedios or Our Lady of Cures Chapel on January 6 to celebrate the Feast of Three Kings - three boys dress up as kings during the festival.

Safety Information

Though safe for swimming you should be careful to avoid the tiny creek. There is no lifeguard here and so venturing out beyond waist-deep water is a risk unless you are a strong swimmer.

Eating out

Though there are not too many options in the village to eat out, this stretch of Velsao beach has some of the best local and international cuisine.

Accommodation

There is not much in terms of accommodation. Arossim, Betalbatim and Majorda offer better facilities and cater to both low-budget travelers and those who are flush with funds.

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AN IDEAL FISHING SPOT

Date: Circa 1908

Source Type: Photograph Booklet

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Augusta Anderson, Inland Printing Company

Postmark: Not Applicable

Remark: Libraries holding copies of The Shadowy St. Joe indicate that this souvenir book was published circa 1910. After researching the life of Augusta Anderson, however, it is much more likely that the book was published in 1908 or perhaps 1907. In addition, it is very likely that Augusta Anderson was neither the author of the book nor the photographer of the images contained within the book.

Augusta Anderson was born circa 1885. On February 13, 1908, in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, Augusta married Fred D. Straffin. Straffin was a fairly well-known photographer who operated from a Spokane photography studio. Straffin published a souvenir book of the Potlatch lumber mill located in Potlatch, Latah County, Idaho, in 1907 that is very similar in design to The Shadowy St. Joe. Straffin also published a souvenir book of St. Maries, Benewah County, Idaho, which is located along the St. Joe River, that is also of nearly the same design as The Shadowy St. Joe.

Straffin was somewhat under duress when he married Augusta Anderson. According to a news item published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on February 8, 1908, Straffin had been “charged with the seduction of Augusta Anderson, 23 years of age…. Straffin claimed that the girl yielded readily to his request that she live with him, and denied that, except in a joking way, that he had ever promised to marry her. The girl denies these statements emphatically, alleging that she took the matter seriously. She broke down several times in court.”

It is learned from a June 18, 1908, news item also published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle that Straffin and Anderson had married on February 13, 1908, so that Straffin could avoid jail and have the seduction case dismissed in superior court. This same news item mentions that Augusta was now seeking a divorce after four months of marriage because Fred had “been drunk much of the time since their marriage and has not contributed to her support.” It also notes that before the marriage that Augusta had been a waitress and specifically states that “The groom was a photographer. He offered to teach the girl the art of the offer was accepted. Before the girl had mastered her trade, however, Straffin was arrested for intimate relations with her, and was bound over to the superior court to answer to the charge.”

The 1908 divorce case apparently was dismissed since there appears in the October 11, 1910, issue of The Press, published in Spokane, a notice of a pending divorce suit between Augusta and Fred D. Straffin. The Spokane Daily Chronicle’s January 19, 1911, issue reports that the divorce was granted and states that “She [August Straffin] charged that she was deserted on the day of her wedding, which occurred in Spokane in 1908, and that her husband had never contributed to her support. She was permitted to resume her maiden name, Augusta Anderson.”

Augusta Straffin appears in the 1908 city directory for Spokane with Fred as the proprietor of the Rembrandt Studio, while later directories do not tie Augusta to any photography business. Collectively, this information suggests that Augusta Anderson had neither taken the photographs appearing in The Shadowy St. Joe – there is no evidence that she was fully trained as a photographer – nor had she compiled the book as an author. Rather, evidence strongly suggests that Fred D. Straffin was responsible for the development and publication of The Shadowy St. Joe and perhaps had August listed as author as an inducement to initiate or maintain an intimate relationship with her. It is possible the Augusta had taken the photographs and authored the book while Fred was occupied with drinking and desertion of his wife, but this calls into question as to how Augusta was fully trained as a photographer.

Fred D. Straffin was born in 1869 and died April 23, 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah; he is buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery in an unmarked grave. His death certificate indicates that he was a widow at the time of his death, suggesting that he may have remarried after being divorced from Augusta.

Little is known concerning August Anderson after her divorce from Fred. A notice of marriage licenses granted in Spokane County published in The Spokesman-Review on February 11, 1914, mentions that an Adam Noble or Spokane was granted a license to marry Augusta Anderson, also of Spokane. It is assumed that this is likely the same Augusta Anderson that married and divorced Fred D. Straffin.

Sources:

Anderson, Augusta. Circa 1908. The Shadowy St. Joe. Spokane, Washington: The Inland Printing Company. 54 p.

The Press, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; October 11, 1910; Volume 8, Number 312, Page 7, Column 5. Column titled “Three Divorce Suits.”

Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; February 8, 1908; Volume 22, Number 139, Page 3, Column 5. Column titled “He Wronged a Woman.”

Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; June 18, 1908; Volume 22, Number 251, Page 4, Column 5. Column titled “Wedded to Dodge Jail; Divorce.”

Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; January 19, 1911; Volume 25, Number 124, Page 7, Column 6. Column titled “Deserted Bride is Given Divorce.”

The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; December 10, 1907; Volume 25, Number 178, Page 18, Column 3. Column titled “Takes Pictures of Potlatch Mill.”

The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington; February 11, 1914; Volume 31, Number 241, Page 7, Column 2. Column titled “City and County Records. Marriage Licenses.”

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Production Date: July 1925

Source Type: Magazine Advertisement

Printer, Publisher, Photographer: McClure's Magazine

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This advertisement for Lewis E. Myers & Company's Chatauqua Equipment has two connections to Porter County, Indiana. First, the Lewis E. Myers & Company was headquartered in Valparaiso, Indiana. Second, McClure's Magazine was published by Samuel S. McClure. McClure's youth was spent in Porter County; he later became the founder and publisher of McClure's Magazine, a rather well-known illustrated monthly magazine focusing on political and literary content that was a formidable rival of The Atlantic Monthly. The magazine began publication in June 1893, and ceased publication in March 1929. Due to financial problems and pressure from creditors, Samuel S. McClure sold his interest in the magazine in 1911. Pulitzer Prize winning author Willa S. Cather was editor of McClure's Magazine, and she has long been suspected as being the "ghost writer" of Samuel S. McClure's autobiography, My Autobiography, published in 1914. Chapters two through four of McClure's autobiography discuss his youth in Porter County. He briefly discusses his time spent teaching at a country school in Liberty Township in chapter two. This school was the Phares School, which was located on the northwest corner of present day Meridian Road and County Road 700 North.

YOUR TOMMY AND MARY

WHAT WILL THEY BE

dull or clever?

laborers or creators?

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OUR FIELD SECRETARY

Explains This Equipment

In Your Home

No Obligation

WE send directly to your home or office an expert who explains everything about the Chatauqua Equipment.

He shows you how sensible instruction may now be given to children while they are actually at play. He demonstrates how this equipment aids children in their school work and brings them closer to their parents in play and study. The Chatauqua Equipment brings into the home a modern form of play-study in which any parent can become actively interested.

What it Does

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A glance at the photographs in this advertisement gives you some indication of the amazing adaptability of the Chatauqua Equipment. But it must be actually seen and used to be appreciated. Already more than one million families have used and benefitted (sic) by it.

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DESK CONTAINS

Simple charts, which encourage study of drawing, architecture, penmanship, telegraphy, animal and plant life, shorthand and many other useful subjects.

Children find it so intensely interesting that they forget mischievous, wasteful playtime habits. Wat a relief to busy mothers -- and tired fathers!

Clip and Mail

LEWIS E. MYERS & COMPANY

250 Park Avenue

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Without obligating myself in any way, I should like to learn more about the celebrated Chatauqua Equipment.

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LOGIE-BUCHAN, a parish, in the district of Ellon, county of Aberdeen, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing 713 inhabitants.

The word Logie, expressive of a low-lying spot, was given to this place on account of its applicability to the tract in which the church is situated; while the affix is descriptive of the position of the parish in that part of the county called Buchan.

Logie-Buchan Parish Church is located on the southern slope of the River Ythan valley, in gently rolling countryside with small fields, rough grazing and enclosures of trees. There is a narrow trackway and footbridge across the river a short distance to the north. The church stands in a sloping graveyard, bounded by a rubble wall. The large former manse is positioned to the south and the church itself closed recently and a new use had not been found when it was visited (2012).

A church here was granted to Aberdeen Cathedral by David II in 1361, while the current church was built in the late 18th century with later additions and alterations.

Description (exterior)

The church is a small, simple building with little architectural detailing. It is aligned roughly east-west and has harled, rubble walls and a slate roof. There are narrow strips of granite stone around the windows and doors. The church is rectangular on plan, with a small, gabled porch and a lean-to vestry at the west end.

The east elevation has a hipped or piended roof rather than a gable. There are two rectangular windows with simple timber tracery and small panes of leaded glass. There has clearly been alterations carried out at this end of the church, shown by two blocked openings, a doorway and window, in the centre of the east elevation.

The north elevation of the church has four equally-spaced rectangular windows, each with simple tracery and latticed glazing. The opposite south elevation has two larger rectangular windows, towards the centre, again with tracery and latticed glazing.

The west end of the church has a small, gabled porch with a rectangular doorway on the south side, which is the main entrance into the church. There is a rectangular window in the west gable of this porch and a tall chimney rises from the apex, serving a fireplace in the small lean-to vestry extension to the north of the porch. The church has a tall gable at the west end, topped by an ashlar-built bellcote, which has a stone ball finial.

Description (interior)

Some of the fittings remain in the church but are likely to be removed if and when a new use is found for the church, which is no longer in use.

People / Organisations:

Name RoleDates Notes

William RuxtonRecast the interior 1912

Robert MaxwellMade the church bell1728

Events:

Church built on site of older church (1787)

Porch and vestry added to west (1891)

Interior recast (1912)

Logie-Buchan is separated on the east from the German Ocean by the parish of Slains, and is intersected by the river Ythan.

The river abounds with various kinds of trout, also with salmon, eels, lounders, and mussels; and pearls are still occasionally found.

It has a ferry opposite the parish church, where its breadth at low water is about sixty yards; and two boats are kept, one for general passengers, and the other, a larger boat, for the conveyance of the parishioners to church from the northern side.

A tradition has long prevailed that the largest pearl in the crown of Scotland was obtained in the Ythan; and it appears that, about the middle of the last century, £100 were paid by a London jeweller to gentleman in Aberdeen, for pearls found in the river.

Most of the inhabitants of the district are employed in agricultural pursuits, a small brick-work recently established being the only exception.

The great north road from Aberdeen passes through the parish, and the mail and other public coaches travel to and fro daily. On another road, leading to the shipping-port of Newburgh, the tenantry have a considerable traffic in grain, lime, and coal, the last procured from England, and being the chief fuel.

The river Ythan is navigable for lighters often or twelve tons' burthen at high water. The marketable produce of the parish is sent to Aberdeen. Logie- Buchan is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Ellon, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Mr. Buchan.

The church was built in 1787, and contains 400 sittings.

Cemeteries - Presbyterian / Unitarian

Logie Buchan Parish Church, Logie-Buchan, Church of Scotland

The church of Logie-Buchan was dedicated to St Andrew.

St Andrew's Church was built in 1787 and has been much altered. It contains a 1728 bell.

Logie-Buchan (Aberdeen, Buchan). Also known as Logie Talargy, the church was granted by David II in 1361 to the common fund of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, and this was confirmed to the uses of the canons by Alexander, bishop of Aberdeen in 1362, both parsonage and vicarage fruits being annexed while the cure was to become a vicarage pensionary.

Although possession was obtained by the dean and chapter, this was subsequently lost, and the church had to be re-annexed in 1437, the previous arrangement being adhered to, with both parsonage and vicarage remaining annexed.

St Andrew's Kirk, 1787. Undistinguished externally, porch 1891, inside original ceiling with Adam-like centrepiece and two-light Gothic windows, part of 1912 recasting, William Buxton. Pulpit was originally in the centre of the N wall with a horseshoe gallery bearing the Buchan coat of arms (George Reid, Peterhead, carver). Monuments to Thomas (d. 1819) and Robert (d. 1825) Buchan.

Bell, 1728, Robert Maxwell. Church bought by Captain David Buchan to ensure access and survival.

Kirkyard: plain ashlar gatepiers and rubble walls; some table tombs.

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GOOD FOR

5¢

JOHN

LUNDBERG

IN

TRADE

THE BRUNSWICK BALKE

COLLENDER

COMPY.

CHECK

Date: Circa 1890s

Source Type: Token

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: Most Brunswick Balke Collender Company tokens are "mavericks," meaning that the location of their customers' business is not provided on the token. Thus, research must be undertaken to identify the location given the name provided. This particular maverick token has be attributed to three possible businesses operated by men named John Lundberg.

One attribution is to a saloon operated in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, which was located at 1641 North Robey Street; today Robey Street is known as Damen Avenue.

Another attribution is to the John Lundberg Hotel and Saloon that operated in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota, which was located at 210 Lake Avenue South.

The third attribution is to the John Lundberg furniture and undertaking business that operated on the Valparaiso Road in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; Valparaiso Road is known today as North Calumet Avenue.

The John B. Lundberg of Chesterton was born January 13, 1840, in Sweden, and was one of seven children born to Charles and Eva C. Lundberg. When Lundberg was about twelve years old he came to the United States and settled in Chicago where the father soon died. He then lived with his step-mother, she having married again, until 1866, when he came to Chesterton.

Lundberg learned cabinetmaking in Chicago, and now began business for himself. Besides the furniture business, he erected a turning factory, by which he expected to furnish turned work for the Chicago markets, but, after about four years, the buildings burned; he rebuilt them, and in addition to that went into the broom-handle business. He also bought land, cutting and shipping timber.

In 1875, Lundberg sold his other interests, and has since confined himself to undertaking and dealing in furniture. He belonged to a Chicago Swedish society for the promotion of education, charity, etc. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, Westchester Township trustee for six years, and Westchester Township assessor for four years.

Lundberg married in the spring of 1871 to Phebe A. Hammond, a native of New York, a union that resulted in two children - Eva and Lilla.

Lundberg died in a diabetic coma in Chesterton on December 8, 1909, and was buried at Chesterton Cemetery.

Sources:

Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. 771 p. [see p. 304]

Wagaman, Lloyd E. 1981. Indiana Trade Tokens. Fairfield, Ohio: Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Token and Medal Society. 302 p.

TokenCatalog.com

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This is an artist concept of the X-34 Technology Test-bed Demonstrator. The X-34 will demonstrate key vehicle and operational technologies applicable to future low-cost reusable launch vehicles.

1999

The unpiloted X-34 is a technology testbed demonstrator that is designed to demonstrate key vehicle and operational technologies applicable to future low-cost reusable launch vehicles. The vehicle structure is all-composite with a one-piece delta wing design. The vehicle is 58.3 feet long and has a 27.7-foot wingspan.

The suborbital vehicle was designed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Virginia, and is powered by an oxygen and kerosene Fastrac engine that was designed and built by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, Alabama. Fastrac is only the second American-made engine of the 29 engines developed in the last 25 years. The vehicle is designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 8 and altitudes of up to approximately 250,000 feet. Specific technologies built into the vehicle include composite structures, composite reusable propellant fuel tanks, an advanced thermal protection system, low-cost avionics, leading-edge tiles, and autonomous flight operation systems.

The project's goal is to reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit from $10,000 per pound today to one of $1,000 per pound, thereby improving U.S. economic competitiveness. NASA and Orbital, using a small workforce, plan to demonstrate the ability to fly the X-34 every two weeks.

The X-34 was expected in early 2000 to undergo testing in New Mexico, California, and Florida. The first of three X-34 vehicles, a structural test vehicle designated A-1, began captive-carry flights at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in June 1999. Technicians from Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, have assisted in upgrading the A-1 vehicle with structural modifications and integrating avionics, hydraulics, landing gear, and other hardware needed to turn it into a flight vehicle-now known as A-1A-for unpowered glide tests in New Mexico.

Following a series of tow tests on the ground at Dryden, the X-34 A-1A will be used to conduct unpowered test flights at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, according to plans current in early 2000. This test series was expected to use Orbital's L-1011 carrier aircraft to air-launch the X-34. Powered flights, using the second and third vehicle (designated A-2 and A-3 respectively), are scheduled to be conducted at the Dryden Flight Research Center, California, and the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The X-34 vehicle A-3 was expected in early 2000 to be brought to Dryden for envelope expansion to the maximum capability of an approximate speed of Mach 8 and altitude of 250,000 feet. Plans called for A-3 to explore additional reusable launch vehicle technologies as carry-on experiments. Dryden's project manger was Seunghee Lee as of early 2000.

FAC-SIMILE OF EMBROIDERY DONE ON THE

DAVIS

VERTICAL FEED SEWING MACHINE

MANUFACTORY : WATERTOWN, N.Y., U.S.A.

SAYLES & CONOVER

DEALERS IN

HARDWARE, STOVES &C,

No. 9 E. Main St., Valparaiso, Ind.

Date: Circa 1870s

Source Type: Trade Card

Publisher, Printer: Unknown

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: The following is a transcription of G. A. Sayles biography from Goodspeed and Blanchard's 1882 history of Porter County, Indiana.

G. A. SAYLES, of the hardware firm of Sayles & Conover, was born in Warren, Warren Co., Penn., January 3, 1830, one of a family of seven children, five of whom are yet living, born to Scott W. and Rhoda (Ballard) Sayles, who were natives respectively of New York and Vermont. Scott W. Sayles was a manufacturer and dealer in hats, caps, furs, etc., in Warren, and after his removal to Cleveland, in 1836, continued the same until he was burned out. He was then elected County Treasurer of Cuyahoga County, serving in that capacity eight years. After this he engaged in ship-building for three years, after which he established steam saw-mills at Cambridge and Erie, Penn. From the latter place, he removed to Cleveland, and from there to Bay City, Mich., where he died February, 1865. His widow survived him until July 5, 1881, when she, too, died. They were members of the Congregational Church, and Mr. Sayles was a Republican, but formerly a Whig, tinctured with Free-Soilism. He served two terms as County Clerk of Bay County, Mich. G. A. Sayles lived with his parents until about the age of twenty-four, during which time he received a fair education from the common schools. He learned the tinner's trade at and near Cleveland, and worked for one year at the same in Anamosa, Iowa. In August, 1855, he came to Valparaiso; at that time he was only worth about $400, all of which he had earned by his own labor. He in company with Isaac Marshall engaged in a stove and tin store, but after Mr. M's death, a few months later, William Wilson was admitted, and this firm added hardware to their stock. Mr. Sayles has remained in the hardware trade ever since, and has been very successful. He formed his present partnership with George Conover in August, 1881, and this firm now carries a full line of hardware, stoves and tinware. Mr. Sayles is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. They were married in Cleveland, Ohio, the winter of 1854, Mrs. Sayles at that time being Miss Sarah Foote, daughter of Caleb Foot. They are the parents of five children - Anna, Henry, Kate (now Mrs. George Conover), Emma and Gilbert.

Source:

Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. 771 p. [see pp. 270-271]

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STATE OF INDIANA

No. 6181 A

THE LA PORTE & PLYMOUTH

PLANK ROAD COMPANY

ONE, TWO OR FIVE DOLLAR

in current Bank Notes,

on demand. LA PORTE,

June 3, 1857

E, L. Bennett, Cashr. O. P. Ludlow, Pres.

Countersigned,

E. S. Organ

Trustee

Date: June 3, 1857

Source Type: Obsolete Scrip

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Danforth, Wright & Co., New York & Philada.

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This obsolete scrip sheet is mentioned as existing in Wolka et al. but not provided a number or rarity rating. In Wolka, the sheet is numbered 1210-14 and given a rarity of R-5. The rarity scale ranges from R-1 to R-7, with R-5 indicating that eleven to twenty-five specimens of this sheet are known to exist.

The following is taken from A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana (1904, p. 136-137):

"OLIVER PERRY LUDLOW was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, November 18, 1814, and was the son of Stephen and Lena Ludlow, who were natives of the eastern states. After a common school education Mr. Ludlow took up the occupation of his father, that of farming, which vocation he followed at his old home and in this county, the latter becoming his abiding place in 1840. Early in life he married Miss Elizabeth C. Walker, of Shelbyville, Indiana. She was the daughter of the late John C. Walker and the sister of B. P., W. J. and J. C. Walker, Mrs. Holcomb, Mrs. Mary J. McCoy, Mrs. Frances Cummings, Mrs. Dr. Theel and Mrs. Maria L. Rose. Mrs. Ludlow passed away thirty-three years ago. Born to this union were two daughters, both deceased, and three sons, two of whom are living, J. W. Ludlow, of this city, and Oliver Porter Ludlow, of Pleasant township, both respected and valued members of this community. One son, Stephen Ludlow, is dead, as is also a brother of Mr. Ludlow, John Ludlow. Mr. Ludlow joined the Masonic lodge when a young man, but in late years has not affiliated with the order. In early days he was a staunch Whig, and upon the birth of the Republican party he became prominent in the councils of that party.

Once he was honored by being selected to preside at the Republican convention of LaPorte county, but he always refused to accept the offices that were tendered him. He never missed exercising his elective franchise.

He was a man of strong convictions, ever ready to sacrifice all that he had for the principles which he held dear. Through hard work, economy and good judgment he was successful in acquiring broad acres, a fine country home, and well filled granaries.

On November 18, 1903, he celebrated his eighty-ninth anniversary at his home just south of LaPorte, where a family dinner was given in his honor. It was the wish of those who gathered around the table to meet under like circumstances eleven years from that date and celebrate his hundredth anniversary, but on December 9 he passed away."

Ludlow was interred in Patton Cemetery in LaPorte.

The trustee countersigning these notes is Edmund Simpson Organ. Organ was born July 2, 1813, in Campbell County, Virginia, the son of John and Elizabeth (Johnson) Organ. He married Catherine Newton (Early) Organ in 1836 at LaPorte. It is believed that this union resulted in twelve children. On February 4, 1883, in LaPorte County, Indiana, Edmund passed away; like Ludlow, he was interred at Patton Cemetery in LaPorte. Organ served as treasurer of LaPorte County, Indiana, from 1852 to 1857 and county coroner from 1850 to 1854. E. D. Daniels mentions in his book A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana (1904, p. 215) that Edmund Simpson Organ operated a store and milling business at LaPorte.

Source Information:

Daniels, E. D. 1904. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company. 813 p.

Federal Brand Enterprises, Inc. 1963. Eighth Annual Fall Convention, Michigan State Numismatic Society Convention. Cleveland, Ohio: Federal Brand Enterprises, Inc. 48 p.

Federal Brand Enterprises, Inc. 1963. Fourth Annual Numismatic Convention, North-East Ohio Coin Club. Cleveland, Ohio: Federal Brand Enterprises, Inc. 76 p.

Wolka, Wendell. 2018. A History of Indiana Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip. Sun City Center, Florida: Wendell Wolka. 900 p. [see pp. 403, 408]

Wolka, Wendell A., Jack M. Vorhies, and Donald A. Schramm. 1978. Indiana Obsolete Notes and Scrip. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. 306 p. [see p. 131]

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Photo taene by me at Stoke-Con-Trent October 2016.

Date: May 16, 1877

Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Thomas Saunders

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.

An identification and date are written in ink on the reverse side of this carte de visite as follows:

W. T. Singleton

Lexington Mo

May 16th 1877.

William Thomas Singleton was an agent for the Wabash Railroad in North Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. At 6:45 pm on August 30, 1874, Singleton and several passengers of a carriage [omnibus] were held up by Jesse James, Frank James, and one of the Younger brothers across the Missouri River from Lexington. Hundreds of onlookers on the bluffs in Lexington witnessed Frank and Jesse James commit the robbery.

According to contemporary account, Younger pulled a watch and chain from Singleton's pocket. Mattie Hamlett, another victim of the robbery, recognized Younger and Frank James and they recognized Hamlett.

Hamlett demanded that Frank James return Singleton's watch and chain. James allegedly responded if Singleton was he any kin to her and she responded affirmatively. "[Frank] James promptly handed the watch to her, but kept the chain which was a very handsome and costly one. 'No,' she [Hamlett] exclaimed, 'give back the chain too; I won't have part of it, if I can't get all.' After some little demurring, he returned both watch and chain...."

William Thomas Singleton was born in Montgomery County, Missouri, on July 13, 1852, and died in Los Angeles County, California, on November 10, 1929. He married Evelyn Wineford in 1879.

The following biographical sketch of William T. Singleton appears in the History of Ray County, Missouri published in 1881.

WILLIAM T. SINGLETON.

William T. Singleton was born in Montgomery county, Missouri, in 1852. He is a son of John S. Singleton, of Rolla, Phelps county, Missouri. He is a native of Virginia. His mother's maiden name was Stewart. She is a native of Kentucky. His parents are still living. When about sixteen years of age, the subject of this sketch entered the employ of the Wabash Railroad Company, as telegraph operator at Wentzville, having learned telegraphy at High Hill, Missouri. He was operator at different points on this road till in 1874, when he was appointed agent at Lexington, Missouri. He remained at Lexington three years, and was transferred to De Witt, Carroll county, Missouri. He was also in De Witt three years, and in the fall of 1880, came to Richmond, Ray county, where he is at present engaged with the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company. He has been constantly in the employ of this company for more than thirteen years. This long period of uninterrupted service is ample testimony of his integrity, efficiency and gentlemanly deportment. Wm. T. Singleton was married June 4, 1879, to Miss Evaline W. Squires, an accomplished lady of Carroll county, Missouri. They have one child, Bessie E., born March 9, 1881. He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church South. He is also a Mason.

On the front of the carte de visite is printed the following information:

FROM

SAUNDERS'

NEW STUDIO,

LEXINGTON, MO.

of Old Stand.

The photograph was taken at the studio of Thomas Saunders in Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri. It is known that Saunders was operating a photography studio in Lexington in the 1870s and 1880s.

Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.

Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.

In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.

DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.

DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).

DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.

DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.

Sources:

Breihan, Carl W. 1992. Ride the Razor's Edge: The Younger Brothers Story. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company. 288 p. [see pp. 183-189]

Missouri Historical Company. 1881. History of Ray County, Mo., Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources. St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Historical Company. 818 p. [see p. 579]

The State Journal, Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri; September 4, 1874; Volume 2, Number 37, Page 6, Columns 3-4. Column titled "Missouri's Highwaymen."

The Weekly Caucasian, Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri; September 5, 1874; Volume 9, Number 19, Page 1, Columns 4-5. Column titled "Missouri's Gay Bandits. The Genuine James Boys and One of the Youngers."

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Exchange Bank of H. J. Perrin Exchange Bank of H. J. Perrin & Co.

MARSHALL

MICH.

THE MICHIGAN CITY AND SOUTH BEND PLANK ROAD CO.

Will Pay TWO DOLLARS to the bearer.

No. 2360, Michigan City, Ind. April 1862.

TWO

Wm Powell Secty.

J. Sibley Pres.

Date: April 1862

Source Type: Obsolete Scrip

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: American Bank Note Company

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This note is listed in Wolka et al. as 498-2 with a rarity of R-6 and in Wolka as 1575-02 with a rarity of R-5. The rarity scale ranges from R-1 to R-7, with R-5 indicating that between eleven and twenty-five specimens are known to exist, while and a rarity of R-6 indicates that six to ten specimens are known to exist.

The following is taken from Images of America: Marshall by Susan Collins and Jane Ammeson (2007 ,p. 111):

"The largest industrialist in Marshall’s history also had his own bank called the Exchange Bank of H. J. Perrin and Company. The bank was located on the northwest corner of Hamilton Street and Michigan Avenue. The safe is still in use in the shop there today. Horace J. Perrin acquired the water rights along the Kalamazoo River. He owned the old Ketchum mill on the river. He built a distillery, a flour mill, a foundry, and machine shops in the area that is still referred to as Perrinville. Just east of his industrial empire, he built a very large home, which burned in 1972. Perrin was undoubtedly the richest man in Marshall in the 19th century."

Horace J. Perrin was born in Penfield, Monroe County, New York, on June 16, 1819, the son of Hyde Perrin. He died on January 11, 1880, at Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan. Perrin is interred at Oakridge Cemetery in Marshall.

An act was approved on February 8, 1851, by the Indiana General Assembly to benefit the Union Plank Road Company and the Michigan City & South Bend Plank Road Company, both located in Michigan City. The act recognized both companies as (Indiana General Assembly 1851, p. 461):

"...bodies politic and corporate, by their respective names, each of them possessing all the powers of a corporation in perpetuity, and they are fully authorized to do any and all acts which may be necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of said companies…. said companies are authorized and empowered to enter into contracts and agreements with each other for their mutual accommodation whereby the gate keepers of either said roads may receive toll from, and issue tickets to persons desirous of traveling over parts of both roads…."

According to a 1909 biographical sketch of Daniel Ball, Ball formed an acquaintance with Chauncy B. Blair, a businessman and banker from Michigan City who had relocated to Chicago to establish the Merchants National Bank. Note that Blair’s brother, Lyman Blair, issued scrip from Michigan City. Prior to 1856, Chauncey B. Blair had purchased the right to issue a form of currency based upon a charter from the State of Indiana for the establishment of the Union Plank Road Company. The Union Plank Road Company was created to construct a plank road between Michigan City and Union City, Randolph County, Indiana, which are separated by a distance of 200 miles.

Bills for the Union Plank Road Company totaling an amount between $100,000 to $200,000 were soon in circulation. Observing Blair’s success, Ball decided to embark in a similar enterprise and acquired the stock of The Michigan City and South Bend Railroad Company, with a circulation based upon a charter very similar to Blairs’ Union Plank Road Company. It has been reported (Hollister 1909, p. 55) that “So largely was that form of currency [i.e., Michigan City and South Bend Railroad Company notes] used in this vicinity [Grand Rapid, Michigan] and in this part of Michigan, and so promptly was it redeemed, that it served to drive out many of the other forms of money then in vogue.” So widespread was the circulation of these notes that it was commonly referred to “Ball money” between 1857 and 1860.

The commencement of the Civil War, however, brought considerable trouble to issuers of unsecured notes, such as those notes issued by Ball, since the federal government was issuing a more secure form of money. Daniel Ball & Company began to sell assets to pay redemptions on their notes, but the quick collapse of asset values combined with the rapidly increasing circulation of a national currency made an impossibility of this task. Acceptance of a national currency combined with a rapid disuse of unsecured notes became so overwhelming to Ball that he placed all his personal property and the assets of Daniel Ball & Company in the hands of Judge Solomon Lewis Withey on October 4, 1861, to protect it from creditors. At this time, the total circulation of notes associated with the Michigan City and South Bend Plank Road Company amounted to $22,000.

It is believed that The Exchange Bank of Horace J. Perrin & Company took control of assets of The Michigan City and South Bend Railroad Company at some point between October 1861 and April 1862, and possibly other assets, if any existed, of Daniel Ball & Company. It is known for certain that all unsecured notes in circulation issued by Ball for the plank road had been retired and paid in full by 1863. Hence, Perrin likely issued his own unsecured notes in April 1862 to resurrect The Michigan City and South Bend Plank Road Company.

Little is known as to whether this plank road company actually established a road between the communities of Michigan City and South Bend - or even partial segments of a road. Research has yielded little information on this company.

Note that this obsolete scrip is often misidentified as "The Exchange Bank of A. J. Perrin & Co." rather than H. J. Perrin, most likely due to the use of a serif font.

Source Information:

Collins, Susan, and Jane Ammeson. 2007. Images of America: Marshall. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. 128 p.

The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; October 9, 1861; Volume 25, Number 115, Page 4, Column 2. Column titled “Suspension of Daniel Ball & Co.”

Hollister, Harvey J. 1909. Daniel Ball as a Banker. Publications of the Historical Society of Grand Rapids 1(4):51-59.

Indiana General Assembly. 1851. Local Laws of the State of Indiana, Passed at the Thirty-Fifth Session of the General Assembly. Indianapolis, Indiana: J. P. Chapman. 592 p.

Wolka, Wendell. 2018. A History of Indiana Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip. Sun City Center, Florida: Wendell Wolka. 900 p. [see pp. 539-540]

Wolka, Wendell A., Jack M. Vorhies, and Donald A. Schramm. 1978. Indiana Obsolete Notes and Scrip. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. 306 p. [see p. 171]

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The view is looking across Rowlee Pasture towards the Derwent Reservoir which is down in the valley in the far distance.

Crew / Passengers Rank - if applicable Position e.g. Pilot Status

Paul Wattling Rabone Flight Lieutenant Pilot OK

John Ritchie Flying Officer Passenger OK

The two crew were carrying out a night air test from Cranage near Middlewich in Cheshire. The radio receiver suffered a partial failure which prevented the two crew from communicating properly with their base, this was followed by the aircraft's Merlin engine suffering a major coolant leak and eventual seizure. At this point the two airmen abandoned the aircraft.

The two men came down not far from the crash site but in the darkness walked in different directions with one walking out to Alport and the other to the Derwent valley. Flying Officer Ritchie's first encounter with the farmer whose door he arrived at was recorded in the 96 Squadron Operations Record Book.

Suspicious farmer: “Where have you come from?”

Parachutist: “I’ve just left my aeroplane up there”

Farmer (still more suspicious): “Are you British?”

Parachutist (A Scot): “Oh! Yes!”

F/Lt Rabone was killed while serving with No.23 Squadron on the 24th July 1944 and was buried at Hotton War Cemetery near Liege in Belgium. While with No.96 Sqn he was serving with the Royal Air Force but before his death he transferred to the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Text by kind permission of Alan L Clark www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk

A yearly exercise to remember what I'll forget.

1.The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

www.amazon.com/Spanish-Civil-War-Introduction-Introductio...

ISBN-10: 0192803778

Timeline, people, parties, and general motivations. Good start on the subject before hopping into it.

2.Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

www.amazon.com/Homage-Catalonia-George-Orwell/dp/0156421178

ISBN-10: 0156421178

Spectacularly well written personal account. It doesn’t try to be what it’s not. Orwell remains brutality honest about his experience. Like Passco’s Guernica, it will leave the true believer or romantic wanting. On par with “All Quite on the Western Front” or “Men at War”, but directly applicable in today’s crisis.

3.Man's hope by AndreÌ Malraux

www.amazon.com/Mans-Modern-library-worlds-books/dp/B0007D...

Out of Print version.

Maybe it’s my translation or writing style doesn’t work for me, but I found this novel about the Spanish Civil War almost unreadable. It’s supposed to be the masterpiece of that time.

4.The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

www.amazon.com/End-Free-Market-Between-Corporations/dp/15...

ISBN-10: 1591843014

He does a good job of listing the issues with “State Capitalism” mostly using China, India, Venezuela, and Brasil as examples. The flaw of which is picking winners to support political power. Ultimately, this works early in the cycle..while the economy’s growing and there’s enough benefits to buy off opposition. BUT, as the system matures corruption/inefficiency shows, and you wake up one day to find the people in charge are not willing to do the things required to realign the economy.

Bottom Line: State Capitalist will always choose whatever path leaves them on top. Faced with the choice of growing the total pie and taking a smaller percentage, or remaining in charge of a smaller pie… they will always choose the smaller pie with control.

What he doesn’t answer is… how do high wage, regulation, and rule-of-law countries trade/interface with ones that don’t believe in the same ethics? He answers by saying the West should open it’s borders, but that’s not an answer…. Then again he’s a consultant that gets paid shipping jobs away.

5.What Am I Doing Here? [Paperback]By Bruce Chatwin

www.amazon.com/What-Am-I-Doing-Here/dp/0140115773/ref=sr_...

ISBN-10: 0140115773

Great travel writing, but I’m not sure he’s always completely honest in his descriptions.

6.Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary

ISBN-10: 1586488139

www.amazon.com/Destiny-Disrupted-History-Through-Islamic/...

A must read for every Westerner. Tamim does an outstanding job of describing world history through the eyes of a Muslim. It’s the eastern equivalent to “A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich”.

7.The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad

ISBN-10: 0465011225

www.amazon.com/Angel-Grozny-Orphans-Forgotten-War/dp/B002...

She also wrote “The bookseller of kabul” with the same first person adventurer point of view. She has compassion and that helps her story telling. It’s worth reading to have some understanding of what’s going on Russia’s southern border.

8.Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz

ISBN-10: 0307473538

www.amazon.com/Cairo-Modern-Naguib-Mahfouz/dp/0307473538/...

A fair description of conflict between secular and religious Cairo. A good story to read, but it’s also a novel with a political purpose.

9.It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

ISBN-10: 045121658X

www.amazon.com/Cant-Happen-Here-Sinclair-Lewis/dp/0451216...

It might remind you of Bush, Cheney, Lott, Greenspan, Summers, etc. I also might remind you of yourself.

10.Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

ISBN-10: 0375759255

www.amazon.com/Babbitt-Modern-Library-Classics-Sinclair/d...

The vulgarities of suburban life in middle management. Exceptional book.

11.The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

ISBN-10: 014023828X

www.amazon.com/Tortilla-Curtain-T-Coraghessan-Boyle/dp/01...

Boyle does a brilliant job of describing drivers of the desperate. In this case, the suburban liberals desperate to hold on to their comfortable lives and an illegal couple desperate for comfort. He issues allusions of invasive species to great effect. This should currently be required reading in American High Schools.

12.Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician - Hardcover (June 4, 2002) by Anthony Everitt

ISBN-10: 0375507469

www.amazon.com/Cicero-Times-Romes-Greatest-Politician/dp/...

13.Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt

ISBN-10: 0812970586

www.amazon.com/Augustus-Life-Romes-First-Emperor/dp/08129...

These are the last two of Everitt’s trilogy. Hadrian is the other. Well written history in all cases. All three of these individuals, especially Cicero, affected western thought long past the empire.

14.The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert

ISBN-10: 0688053394 (Mine is the Polio Society – out of print)

www.amazon.com/House-Medici-Its-Rise-Fall/dp/0688053394/r...

This is the best book on the Medici I’ve read. Went through it in preparation for a three week trip this year. It made Firenze much more interesting. Wish I could spend months with in Florence.

15.Museum of San Marco (Rapid Guides to Florentine Museums)

ISBN-10: 8809013417

www.amazon.com/Museum-Marco-Guides-Florentine-Museums/dp/...

16.Siena: Cathedral, Baptistery Authors Barbara Tavolari, Marilena Caciorgna

Publisher Sillabe (out of print)

ISBN: 2008ISBN8883474074, 9788883474071

books.google.com/books?id=Al1tNAAACAAJ&dq=97888834740...

15/16 – Took to reading the tour guides this year. Great for remembering the overload of images in your head. Makes trips that much more valuable/enjoyable.

17.Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500 (Oxford History of Art) [Paperback] by Evelyn Welch

ISBN-10: 019284279X

www.amazon.com/Art-Renaissance-Italy-1350-1500-History/dp...

Well described. It will give an in-depth look at Renaissance Italy. For a person with a real interest…beyond being able to repeat the trivia/names… this is the book. Not a light read, and I wonder if someone without the basic names/timeline of Europe during mid-age to 1500’s (not just Italy) down would get much out of it.

18.Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution [Paperback] by Simon Schama

ISBN-10: 0060539178

www.amazon.com/Rough-Crossings-British-American-Revolutio...

Disappointed. Simon’s one of the intellectuals of his era, but this story is flat. It’s a worthy subject, revolution era as blacks saw it, but his production is disappointing…

19.The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War [Hardcover] by Hermann Lons

ISBN-10: 1594160260

www.amazon.com/Rough-Crossings-British-American-Revolutio...

This made me feel very uncomfortable. It’s the story of local’s protecting themselves during the 30’s Years War. I think it’s the myth building that put me on edge. That war was about brutal survival, killing, starvation, diseases, and not poetry.

20.The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy [Hardcover] by Peter H. Wilson

www.amazon.com/Thirty-Years-War-Europes-Tragedy/dp/067403...

Slog and plod. The long version. 1040 pages. So long, you forget. From the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 through Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Catholics fight to remain in control of Europe, and it turns into the worst war in Europe’s history… depopulating war.

21.War's End: Profiles From Bosnia 1995-1996 [Hardcover] by Joe Sacco

ISBN-10: 1896597920

www.amazon.com/Wars-End-Profiles-Bosnia-1995-1996/dp/1896...

In the style of “Persepolis”.

22.Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading (2nd Edition) [Hardcover] by Guy Cohen

ISBN-10: 0131871358

www.amazon.com/Options-Made-Easy-Profitable-Trading/dp/01...

I would give it to a retail trader.

LYMAN BLAIR,

Michigan City, Ind.

JULY 15, 1862

Will pay the bearer Twenty-Five Cents in Current

Funds, when presented in sums of one or more dollars.

No. 1565 [in red ink] L. Blair

Date: July 15, 1862

Source Type: Obsolete Scrip

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Beach and Barnard

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This obsolete scrip is listed in Wolka et al. as 495-4 with a rarity of R-7 and in Wolka as 1560-04 with a rarity of R-7. The rarity scale ranges from R-1 to R-7, with R-7 indicating that only one to five specimens of a scrip are known to exist. This particular scrip appears as the example plate in Wolka's book.

The Lewis Publishing Company’s History of Porter County, Indiana, published in 1912, states that (pp. 56-57):

"Foremost among the promoters and stockholders of the plank road company were Chauncey and Lyman Blair of Michigan City, where most of the stock was held. In connection with the construction of the road, the company organized a private bank and used bank bills of their own issue in paying for material and labor used in building the road. At that time there were numerous private banks scattered over the country, the issues of which were generally known as 'wild-cat' money, because of the uncertainty of its redemption in specie. The plank road bank, however, maintained its circulation at par with gold, redeeming the notes at any time upon demand. It is related that one man, having several thousand dollars in plank road bills, became alarmed and made a trip to Michigan City and demanded the redemption of the notes. The demand was promptly met and he received gold, dollar for dollar. Finding that his paper money was good, he asked to have it returned to him instead of the coin, but at the time the bank was liquidating its business and was glad to redeem its notes, hence his request was not granted and he had to carry his gold home with him.

With a company so strong financially, it would naturally be supposed that the plank road would be promptly constructed, but such was not the case. Work was commenced soon after the right of way was secured, most of the road between Valparaiso and Chesterton was planked but between the latter place and Michigan City there were stretches where a plank was never laid, the company depending upon the compact sandy soil to furnish a solid road bed without going to the expense of covering the surface with planks. Toll was collected for a few years upon the road, when the company ceased to exist and the much talked of plank road fell into decay."

No notes are known to have been specifically printed for funding the Valparaiso-Michigan City plank road (i.e., no note has this plank road's designation printed on it). It is uncertain, however as to whether this note relates to the Valparaiso-Michigan City plank road project or some other project involving Blair.

The following biography of Lyman Blair appears in the History of Chicago, Volume 3 (1886, p. 756):

"LYMAN BLAIR. Deceased, was born at Cortland, N. Y., on November 19, 1815. After receiving a common school education, he started out in the world to shift for himself at the age of nineteen. He came by canal to Buffalo, and thence by steamer to Detroit. The trip across the State of Michigan to St. Joseph, and thence to Michigan City, was made partly by wagon and partly on foot. There he expected to find his brother, Chauncey, but he was disappointed. Unable to get employment in Michigan City, Mr. Blair came to Chicago, and was no more fortunate. He then proceeded to Milwaukee on foot, but finding no work, returned to Michigan City, where he secured a place in a hardware store, receiving his board as compensation. Subsequently he became a dry-goods clerk in the same town. In 1837, he took charge of a store his brother Chauncey had purchased, and not long after became interested with him in the business as partner, the firm being C. B. & L. Blair. The firm prospered, and in 1862, Chauncey removed to Chicago, and he was followed by Lyman a year later. He soon became a member of the Board of Trade, and in a few months realized a handsome profit from the sale and purchase of grain. About that time Mr. Blair became connected with the firm of Jones & Culbertson, then quite extensively engaged in the packing business. In 1865, Mr. Jones disposed of his interest in the business, and the firm of Culbertson, Blair & Co. was formed, and was continued for nearly a score of years, when the commission firm of Blair & Blair was established. Mr. Blair was a member of the Tolleston Shooting Club [later Gary, Indiana], and was preparing to make an expedition to the shooting grounds of the club, in September, 1883, when his gun accidentally exploded in his hands, and he was almost instantly killed. Mr. Blair left a widow and three children, -- Mrs. Cyrus Adams, Miss Mamie, and Lyman Blair, Jr. Deceased was a brother of Chauncey Bulkley Blair, president of the Merchant’s National Bank; of William Blair, and of Mrs. Crosby and Mrs. E. W. Densmore."

The following is taken from the History of LaPorte County, Indiana (1904, p. 173):

"Messrs. C. B. and Lyman Blair were engaged even up to and during the Civil war in the beef and pork business. Lyman bought all the live and slaughtered hogs he could procure at living prices, and packed them in the winter for the summer shipment.

In the fall of 1861 Mrs. Lyman Blair packed some fourteen hundred head of beef cattle and a much larger number of hogs. He killed at the rate of three hundred to five hundred hogs a day, a large portion of which was rendered into lard. He had an establishment which was perfectly and conveniently arranged for the dispatch of the business. The lard was rendered by steam in two large wooden vats holding ninety barrels each. Every portion of the dressed hog save the ham was put in. At that time Mr. Blair stated that a dollar’s worth of lard could be realized from an ordinary hog’s head. He had on hand about three thousand fine hogs and was buying all he could get either alive or dressed. In this business he was spending more money broad cast over the county than any other two or three men."

Lyman Blair would also become quite involved in the fishing industry of Lake Michigan. Reports indicate that Blair would pack nearly $40,000 of Lake Michigan fish for commercial sale in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Blair built the “first really fine house” in Michigan City, which was later converted into the Fair View Hotel. The house and its furnishings were considered overwhelming to many Michigan City residents for their grandeur. Blair had carpets of crimson velvet, crimson satin draperies, and windows covered by soft lace.

Source Information:

Andreas, A. T. 1886. History of Chicago. Volume III. Chicago, Illinois: The A. T. Andreas Company. 876 p.

Daniels, E. D. 1904. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of LaPorte County, Indiana. Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company. 813 p.

The Lewis Publishing Company. 1912. History of Porter County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People and its Principal Interests. Volume I. Chicago, Illinois: The Lewis Publishing Company. 357 p.

Wolka, Wendell. 2018. A History of Indiana Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip. Sun City Center, Florida: Wendell Wolka. 900 p. [see pp. 532-533]

Wolka, Wendell A., Jack M. Vorhies, and Donald A. Schramm. 1978. Indiana: Obsolete Notes and Scrip. Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications. 306 p. [see p. 169]

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Many applicable parallel best practices/considerations/reminders to UX design.

Crisman School Men's Basketball Team

Crisman, Indiana

Date: Circa 1920

Source Type: Photograph

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: A log school house measuring 18 feet by 24 feet stood on the site of the school seen here. This log structure was used for about nine years. The first term of school at Crisman was taught by Elder Bartlett, a Baptist minister.

Later teachers at this school, in order, included Cyrus Sales, Christina Fry, Emily Gerhart, and Chauncey Gaylord. Gaylord was a crippled man and the last to teach in the log school.

A wood framed building replaced the log school house at this site. A brick building was erected in 1897 to replace the wood framed building. In January 1909, the Crisman School began providing for high school education; prior to this time, the school district did not provide high school education and local students would have to travel and board elsewhere to achieve a high school education.

Around 1919, an addition was made to the brick building. Soon afterward, in 1922, the first gymnasium, a frame building, was built at a cost of approximately $12,000. The school's enrollment then expanded rapidly with the industrialization along the Lake Michigan shoreline, and a new high school physical plant was completed in the fall of 1929 at a cost of $90,000 to accommodate this growth.

Note the church that is visible to the upper right in this photograph. This is believed to be the Hope Lutheran Church that constructed in Crisman in 1897. The church was dedicated in 1898 and the church's pastors were supplied by nearby Lutheran congregations. This church would merge with the Ohio synod in 1900a and the pastors were then supplied from Chicago and Michigan City, Indiana.

The following news item about this church appeared in the November 13, 1897, issue of The Westchester Tribune:

CHESTERTON CHIPS

The Swedish Lutheran and German Lutheran congregations of Crisman, have joined together to build a church at Crisman, to cost about $600. Contractor Jos. Ameling was awarded the contract Monday, and began work on the building Wednesday. The building is to be ready for use Jan. 1.

Source:

Dorris, Joyce, Dina Vinzani, Dorothy Dudenski, K. Imogene Jones, and James Milligan. 1976. Weaving the Past into the Future: Bicentennial Handbook of Portage Township Schools. Portage, Indiana: Graphic Communications Center, Portage Township Schools. 24 p. [see pp. 5-6].

The Westchester Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; November 13, 1897; Volume 14, Number 31, Page 5, Column 2. Column titled "Chesterton Chips."

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Triumphal entry into Jerusalem

Early Christians used the palm branch to symbolize the victory of the faithful over enemies of the soul, as in the Palm Sunday festival celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. In Christian art, martyrs were usually shown holding a palm frond, representing the victory of spirit over flesh, and it was widely believed that a picture of a palm on a tomb meant that a martyr was buried there.[2]

Origen calls the palm (In Joan., XXXI) the symbol of victory in that war waged by the spirit against the flesh. In this sense it was especially applicable to martyrs, the victors par excellence over the spiritual foes of mankind; hence the frequent occurrence in the Acts of the martyrs of such expressions as "he received the palm of martyrdom." On 10 April 1688 it was decided by the Congregation of Rites that the palm when found depicted on catacomb tombs was to be regarded as a proof that a martyr had been interred there. Subsequently this opinion was acknowledged by Mabillon, Muratori, Benedict XIV and others to be untenable; further investigation showed that the palm was represented not only on tombs of the post-persecution era, but even on pagan tombs.

The general significance of the palm on early Christian monuments is slightly modified according to its association with other symbols (e.g., with the monogram of Christ, the Ichthus (Fish), or the Good Shepherd). On some later monuments the palm was represented merely as an ornament separating two scenes. Palms also represented heaven, evidenced by ancient art often depicting Jesus in heaven among palms.

The old school way, but the theory is still applicable.

LOGIE-BUCHAN, a parish, in the district of Ellon, county of Aberdeen, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing 713 inhabitants.

The word Logie, expressive of a low-lying spot, was given to this place on account of its applicability to the tract in which the church is situated; while the affix is descriptive of the position of the parish in that part of the county called Buchan.

Logie-Buchan Parish Church is located on the southern slope of the River Ythan valley, in gently rolling countryside with small fields, rough grazing and enclosures of trees. There is a narrow trackway and footbridge across the river a short distance to the north. The church stands in a sloping graveyard, bounded by a rubble wall. The large former manse is positioned to the south and the church itself closed recently and a new use had not been found when it was visited (2012).

A church here was granted to Aberdeen Cathedral by David II in 1361, while the current church was built in the late 18th century with later additions and alterations.

Description (exterior)

The church is a small, simple building with little architectural detailing. It is aligned roughly east-west and has harled, rubble walls and a slate roof. There are narrow strips of granite stone around the windows and doors. The church is rectangular on plan, with a small, gabled porch and a lean-to vestry at the west end.

The east elevation has a hipped or piended roof rather than a gable. There are two rectangular windows with simple timber tracery and small panes of leaded glass. There has clearly been alterations carried out at this end of the church, shown by two blocked openings, a doorway and window, in the centre of the east elevation.

The north elevation of the church has four equally-spaced rectangular windows, each with simple tracery and latticed glazing. The opposite south elevation has two larger rectangular windows, towards the centre, again with tracery and latticed glazing.

The west end of the church has a small, gabled porch with a rectangular doorway on the south side, which is the main entrance into the church. There is a rectangular window in the west gable of this porch and a tall chimney rises from the apex, serving a fireplace in the small lean-to vestry extension to the north of the porch. The church has a tall gable at the west end, topped by an ashlar-built bellcote, which has a stone ball finial.

Description (interior)

Some of the fittings remain in the church but are likely to be removed if and when a new use is found for the church, which is no longer in use.

People / Organisations:

Name RoleDates Notes

William RuxtonRecast the interior 1912

Robert MaxwellMade the church bell1728

Events:

Church built on site of older church (1787)

Porch and vestry added to west (1891)

Interior recast (1912)

Logie-Buchan is separated on the east from the German Ocean by the parish of Slains, and is intersected by the river Ythan.

The river abounds with various kinds of trout, also with salmon, eels, lounders, and mussels; and pearls are still occasionally found.

It has a ferry opposite the parish church, where its breadth at low water is about sixty yards; and two boats are kept, one for general passengers, and the other, a larger boat, for the conveyance of the parishioners to church from the northern side.

A tradition has long prevailed that the largest pearl in the crown of Scotland was obtained in the Ythan; and it appears that, about the middle of the last century, £100 were paid by a London jeweller to gentleman in Aberdeen, for pearls found in the river.

Most of the inhabitants of the district are employed in agricultural pursuits, a small brick-work recently established being the only exception.

The great north road from Aberdeen passes through the parish, and the mail and other public coaches travel to and fro daily. On another road, leading to the shipping-port of Newburgh, the tenantry have a considerable traffic in grain, lime, and coal, the last procured from England, and being the chief fuel.

The river Ythan is navigable for lighters often or twelve tons' burthen at high water. The marketable produce of the parish is sent to Aberdeen. Logie- Buchan is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Ellon, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Mr. Buchan.

The church was built in 1787, and contains 400 sittings.

Cemeteries - Presbyterian / Unitarian

Logie Buchan Parish Church, Logie-Buchan, Church of Scotland

The church of Logie-Buchan was dedicated to St Andrew.

St Andrew's Church was built in 1787 and has been much altered. It contains a 1728 bell.

Logie-Buchan (Aberdeen, Buchan). Also known as Logie Talargy, the church was granted by David II in 1361 to the common fund of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, and this was confirmed to the uses of the canons by Alexander, bishop of Aberdeen in 1362, both parsonage and vicarage fruits being annexed while the cure was to become a vicarage pensionary.

Although possession was obtained by the dean and chapter, this was subsequently lost, and the church had to be re-annexed in 1437, the previous arrangement being adhered to, with both parsonage and vicarage remaining annexed.

St Andrew's Kirk, 1787. Undistinguished externally, porch 1891, inside original ceiling with Adam-like centrepiece and two-light Gothic windows, part of 1912 recasting, William Buxton. Pulpit was originally in the centre of the N wall with a horseshoe gallery bearing the Buchan coat of arms (George Reid, Peterhead, carver). Monuments to Thomas (d. 1819) and Robert (d. 1825) Buchan.

Bell, 1728, Robert Maxwell. Church bought by Captain David Buchan to ensure access and survival.

Kirkyard: plain ashlar gatepiers and rubble walls; some table tombs.

This is the 1st day of a D.R.S. 'Growler' on the South Yorkshire R.H.T.T. diagrams, some interesting traction at last, but one we have seen recently further north on the York to York workings, passing through Bridlington. After a pretty dreadful weekend, due to the passing of storm 'Arwen', not 'Evenstar' this one, but 'The Grumpy' would be more applicable where high winds of around 100m.p.h. peaked in the far north and with all this came cold weather, temperatures as low as -10C in some northern rural areas, but more like -4 around here. The trouble started on Friday afternoon last when the storm hit the UK and the high winds brought about chaos on the roads and with electricity transmission lines brought down by falling trees; at one point during the weekend, 155,000 houses were disconnected from supplies and its taken until today, Thursday December 2nd, to reconnect the last ones. We were without power from 07:00 on Saturday, but only until 11:00, many more were far less fortunate, see-

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/storm-arwen-damage-photos-...

and

www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/tiny-yorkshire-vil...

It remained cold for 3 days so none of the snow moved until Monday afternoon when temperatures started to rise and over-night temperatures rose to around 9C and so, by Tuesday morning, 30th November, around these parts, the snow had almost all melted and meant this was the first time I could get out in the car, since last Friday; fortuitous as this happened to be the 1st day when a class 37 ran on the South Yorks RHTT diagrams. As Tuesday is the day the set reverses at Woodburn Junction, have travelled over to the East and Gainsborough Central, for a similar reversal there, it seemed clear the best place to watch some action, would be Woodburn Junction where the working comes to a halt on the Lincoln Line with a driver change of end and the then it sets off along the Lower Don Valley line to head through Rotherham and on to the north. The return section of the working, 3S13, was in the area away at Woodhouse on arrival and, at the same time, the hourly Meridian passenger service comes along, to perform its own reversal here, to get its coaching stock from one platform to another, at Sheffield Midland Station. These 1st 3 pictures, and in the accompanying video, show the East Midlands Railways, class 222, 'Meridian', this one 222005, heading for the reversal at signal W0124, still with a Woodburn designation, though now controlled from the Railway Operating Centre at York. The E.C.S. move, 5C42, brings the carriages up from platform 5 at Sheffield Midland to then run along here to the distant signal where the driver changes end and then runs wrong-line, back to the cross-over, this was moved further west towards Sheffield during this last years remodelling work, it then taking the correct, down, line back into Sheffield and to platform 8, for the onwards service to London St. Pancras.

Whilst coming to a halt at the signal ahead at this side of the old Darnall Flyover bridge, the R.H.T.T. comes along from the east and slows for a halt at W0215, with 'feather' atop for a crossing move from the down line onto the up line, as required which is usually used for moves onto the Stocksbridge Branch Line on the right. Today, with the regular class 66s, 66426 & 66431, out of action, a class 37 has been substituted for one of them and 66304 has taken the place of the other. It takes only a few minutes for the driver to change end on the 'Meridian' and as this is a passenger move, it will have priority over the RHTT, but this is not always the case, it rather depends on the timings ... D.R.S. 37402, ex-D974, 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' with 'Scotty Dog Emblem' and 'B.R. Large Intercity Logo' is heading the set back on the 3S13 working from Gainsborough Central with class 66, 66304, at the back and heading for reversal onto the Lower Don Valley line, ahead, Woodburn Junction.

Date: February 9, 1880

Source Type: Photograph, Carte de Visite

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Edwin L. Brand

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This carte de visite was included in a photograph album owned by Louise DeMotte Letherman.

Written in pencil in to album beneath this carte de visite is the following:

Louise DeMotte

Written in ink on the reverse of this carte de visite is the following:

2-9-1880.

Louise (DeMotte) Letherman was born August 21, 1859, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, the daughter of Mark L. DeMotte and Elizabeth (Christy) DeMotte. She married Lawrence Letherman on May 3, 1883, in Valparaiso. Louise died at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on September 24, 1905. Louise is buried in Valparaiso's Maplewood Cemetery.

The following death notice for Louise (DeMotte) Letherman appears in the September 27, 1905, issue of The Boston Daily Globe:

BODY TAKEN TO INDIANA.

Wife of Chief Postoffice Inspector Letherman Was Born There.

Chief of Postoffice Inspectors Lawrence Letherman has the sympathy of a host of friends in the death of his wife, Louise de Motte Letherman, who passed away Sunday.

Mrs. Letherman was a native of Indiana, the daughter of Congressman de Motte, and 46 years old. She was an estimable woman and of extreme domestic tastes.

She accompanied her husband a few years ago to Porto Rico, where he was assigned to establish the U. S. postal system. While there she suffered from the climate, and since here return to this country two years ago had been in declining health.

Besides her husband she leaves three children -- two girls, 17 and 8, and a boy of 13.

Brief services were held at the family residence, 59 Maple st., Malden, yesterday forenoon. There were many floral tributes. The remains, accompanied by the bereaved husband and Congressman de Motte, were taken on the 10:45 a. m. western express for Valparaiso, Ind. where the final obsequies will take place today.

On the reverse of the carte de visite is printed the following information:

Brand

210 & 212 WABASH AVENUE

Portraits.

Established 1858. Chicago.

The photograph was taken by Edwin L. Brand. Brand operated several photography studies in Chicago. The studio where this carte de visite photograph was taken, Wabash Avenue, existed from 1859 to 1900 when Brand passed away. The Wabash Avenue studio was known as the Temple of Art.

Edwin L. Brand was particularly known for his work in taking anatomical photographs of the human anatomy, including the dissected cadavers for use in anatomical research.

Brand is also known as taking a portrait photograph of Charles Guiteau prior to Guiteau's assassination of President James A. Garfield.

Mark Lindsey DeMotte was born in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, on December 28, 1832, the son of Daniel DeMotte and Mary (Brewer) DeMotte. He graduated from Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana, with an A.B. degree in 1853 and immediately began studying law at this institution, earning his law degree (LL.B.) in 1855. DeMotte was soon admitted to the Indiana bar and began his practice of law at Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana.

In December 1856, Elizabeth Christy wedded DeMotte in Valparaiso, a union that resulted in two children, Louise and Mary.

DeMotte would serve in the Civil War rising to the rank of captain under the command of General Robert H. Milroy. At the conclusion of the war, DeMotte moved to Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri, to resume his practice of law. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Congress in the 1872 and 1876 elections.

DeMotte returned to Valparaiso in 1877 to practice law and would organize the Northern Indiana Law School in 1879, which later became known as the Valparaiso University School of Law (which went defunct in 2020).

DeMotte would again be a Republican candidate for Congress, winning the election of 1880, but would lose as an incumbent in the 1882 election. He would then serve in the Indiana State Senate between 1886 and 1890. He was appointed the postmaster of Valparaiso serving from March 24, 1890, to March 20, 1894. He would also serve as dean of the Northern Indiana Law School from 1890 to 1908.

DeMotte passed away on September 23, 1908, in Valparaiso and was interred in Maplewood Cemetery in that community.

Source:

The Boston Daily Globe, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; September 27, 1905; Volume 68, Number 89, Page 10, Column 8. Column titled "Body Taken to Indiana."

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'The Egoist' was the very applicable name for this car built by the Norwegian entrepeneur Hans Clarin Mustad.

The beautifully equipped vehicle had room for only one person. The car was Fiat Topolino based.

B&w photo - found on www.autopuzzles.com - colorized.

G. M. Howell's Thresher

Albion, Wash.

Sept. 15, '09

Date: September 15, 1909

Source Type: Photograph

Printer, Publisher, Photographer: Flower and Son

Postmark: Not Applicable

Collection: Steven R. Shook

Remark: This photograph is titled and dated as written above.

George M. Howell homesteaded land approximately one mile west of Albion, Washington. Howell's farm consisted of 400 acres, which included the North Half of Section 8 (320 acres) and the North Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 8 (80 acres), both located in Township 15 North, Range 44 West.

At one point in time, Howell owned the hotel in Albion, Hotel Albion, which burnt to the ground on February 21, 1910, as well as a store retailing farming implements and supplies, also located in Albion.

Howell was granted a U.S. government land patent on the South Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 8 and the North Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 8, a total of 160 acres, on June 1, 1882. He received a second land patent on the North Half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 8 and the East Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, also consisting of 160 acres, on October 11, 1888. Given that it took at least five years to "prove up" a land claim under the Homestead Act of 1862, Howell was living in Section 8 as early as June 1877.

The Howell farm was located north of where present day [2014] Albion Road and Hoffman Road intersect.

George M. Howell and his household appear in the 1900 U.S. Federal Census for the Guy Precinct in Whitman County, Washington; Guy was the former name of the town of Albion. They are listed as Follows:

George Howell, age 56, born April 1844 in England, immigrated to U.S. in 1848, and occupation is listed as farmer.

Juliette E. Howell, wife of George, age 47, born March 1853 in New York.

Albert E. Howell, son of George, age 24, born August 1875 in Wisconsin, occupation is listed as farm laborer.

Julia A. Howell, daughter of George, age 21, born January 1879 in Washington.

Herbert C. Howell, son of George, age 19, born January 1881 in Washington, occupation is listed as school.

Myrtle E. Howell, son [daughter?] of George, age 14, born December 1885 in Washington, occupation is listed as school.

Rolin M. G.. Howell, son of George, age 8, born May 1892 in Washington.

Alma V. Howell, daughter of George, age 5, born July 1894 in Washington.

John A. Gleason, employee of George, age 26, born June 1873 in Michigan, occupation is listed as farm laborer.

George R. Hart, employee of George, age 31, born March 1869 in Wisconsin, occupation is listed as farm laborer.

George is buried in the Albion Cemetery, his tombstone indicating a date of birth of 1845 and a date of death of 1929. He shares his tombstone with his wife Juliette, who was born in 1852 and died in 1920. Alma V. Howell (1894-1927), daughter of George and Juliette, is also inscribed this tombstone and presumably is buried with her parents.

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