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c1910 postcard view of Main Street in Churubusco, Indiana. The photographer was standing in Main Street north of the Whitley Street intersection and facing north-northwest. The farthest group of buildings were on the north corner at Washington Street. The 1905 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Churubusco shows a dry goods and clothing business in the two-story building. The building on the corner with the bell tower was the fire department “hose house.” Across Washington Street to the south was a carriage repository and a bank. In another postcard view of that building, the sign on the building advertised O. GANDY & CO. THE EXCHANGE BANK. . A 1910 state auditor’s report¹ identified the bank as The Exchange Bank of O. Gandy & Co. and indicated a Certificate of Authority had been issued in 1905. Oscar Gandy was the owner. The entrance for the repository appears to be on the street corner and the bank entrance on the south corner of the building.
The 1905 map set shows a meat market and a department store in the two brick buildings in the center of this view. In 1905, the white wood frame building contained (from north to south) the Churubusco Post Office, a bakery and a barbershop. The sign in this scene advertised the POST OFFICE at the north end of that building. South of that sign was an over-size pocket watch on a post. Such trade signs were generally used by jewelers to advertise their businesses. It is probable that the jeweler moved into the building, replacing either the bakery or the barbershop after the 1905 map set was produced. By the time the 1911 Sanborn™ map set was being prepared, this wood frame building had been replaced by a larger brick building. This new building extended all the way down to Whitley Street. The 1911 map set shows a confectionery, tobacco and dry cleaning business next to the post office in the new building and a jeweler between that business and the barbershop at the south end of the new building. The bakery was gone.
1. Auditor of the State of Indiana, Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=l_dJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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Common Hemp-nettle and Hedgenettle both belong to the plant family, Lamiaceae, and I always get them mixed up. I think I have the correct ID for the plant in my photo, but corrections are always much appreciated! Unfortunately, the water droplets on the flowers resulted in blur.
On 7 August 2015, four of us were extremely fortunate to have the chance to visit the home and highly varied topographic 62-acre property belonging to Frances and David Dover. We felt honoured and privileged to meet and spend time with Frances and David, and also their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair. A delightful family who welcomed us so warmly into their home and land.
This acreage of grassland, forest, rolling hills - and special gardens - is not far from Millarville, SW of Calgary. In fact, it's in an area that I often drive through when I only have time for, or only feel like doing, a short drive. Amazing what little gems exist out there.
This is not just a beautiful property, but is very special for various reasons. For one thing, read any history of Alberta and you will find the Dover family, including David's mother, Mary Dover. Second, among the trees and open "lawns", there are Peony flower beds, containing 100-150 heritage Peonies, each one different, that have now multiplied to more than 300 plants. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had already gone to seed. Another open area had a different kind of ground cover - Thyme, which smelled wonderful. If I remember correctly, this was the open space where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performed on one occasion!
There are two large ponds on the property and another smaller area of water that they hope to turn into a Japanese Garden. There is a total of seven wetland basins, including these. It was while walking around the Japanese Garden that a large brown 'shape' could just be seen through the dense trees - a handsome Moose buck. I will look properly at the four or so photos I just managed to get and may slip one of them into my photostream sometime, just for the record, definitely not for the photo quality : ) This was also where a Great Horned Owl was seen flying through the trees by some of us (not me, ha!).
There are grassy paths winding through the acreage, up and down hill, that take David seven hours to mow. They are not pristine, velvety paths, but instead, they seem to take nothing away from the wildness of the whole area. One of the animals that has passed through is the Cougar. In fact, several years ago, I saw a video taken on a nearby (or adjacent?) property, where a 'kill' and night-time camera had been set up and a total of six different Cougar individuals were seen!
Even the Dover's home is unique and beautiful. It is completely built of concrete (and glass) - floors, walls, ceilings, roof, deck, and so on. A Hummingbird feeder and regular bird feeders, set up on the patio, attract a variety of birds. We sat on the patio after our walk to eat our packed lunches - and to enjoy a delicious Orange Pound Cake that Frances had made for us, along with refreshing Iced Tea - thank you so much for this, Frances! While I was waiting for one of three tiny Calliope (?) Hummingbirds to come back, I was lucky enough to see a little Mountain Chickadee, along with many Pine Siskins. We could also hear a Red-tailed Hawk in the area. Saw a total of 22 bird species.
There is just so much I could write about this visit and family. Instead, or for now, I will add several links to more information on the Internet. This was a memorable day for us. Thank you so much, Frances and David, Carolyn and Clair, for being so kind and welcoming us into your home and gardens.
books.google.ca/books?id=Tr36Tq_gadcC&pg=PA290&lp...
www.westernwheel.com/article/20110727/WHE06/307279983/-1/...
David's mother, Mary Dover (her father was A. E. Cross), was "a dynamic and distinguished Calgarian, particularly known for her work with the military during World War II." As well as being an army officer, and an alderman, she was also a preservationist. See the following link.
www.albertachampions.org/champions-mary_dover.htm#.VcY1KP...
ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?XC=/searc...
glencoe.org/documents/10184/637479/The-History-of-Elbow-P... page 44-45
Die fidele Kommode
Siebenhundert Jahre deutscher Humor
Ein kurzweiliges und scherzhaftes Album deutscher Humordichtung mit vielen hundert lustigen Reim-Episteln und launigen Versstücken.
> Illustration (?) / Hans Wilhelm Kirchhoff "Schwank vom Advokaten und dem Teufel"
Fikentscher Verlag (Leipzig / Deutschland; 1930)
ex libris MTP
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The caretaker at the Ballarat Museum indicated this was Charles Manson's getaway truck. The Barker Ranch is 22 miles south-east of here.
I also found a rusted wristwatch a few feet behind me. I brought my find to the caretaker's attention. He said that someone likely dropped it there on purpose. I didn't quite understand this at the time, but I carefully returned it to where I found it. I later discovered this was the location in the opening scene in "Easy Rider" where Peter Fonda discards his own watch. Someone's way of paying homage to the movie, I guess.
"Battle of Rhode Island. 1778. 1878. First Centennial, Aug. 29, 1878. Providence to Bristol Ferry. First Light Infantry."
A ticket for the centennial commemoration of the Battle of Rhode Island, which took place on August 29, 1878. For more information, see the booklet describing The Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Rhode Island at Portsmouth, R.I., August 29, 1878 (Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1878).
I bought this ticket along with a calling card for G. E. Waite, Corporal, Company B, First Light Infantry Regiment, Providence, Rhode Island.
Carte de visite by Alexander Gardner of Washington, D.C. The gent standing is David B. Parker and his military service began like so many other young Northerners. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in his hometown company. It became part of the 72nd New York Infantry, shipped out to the South and joined the Army of the Potomac.
This is where the similarity to other soldiers ends. In June 1862, Pvt. Parker was detailed as a mail agent in his regiment's division, which was commanded by Maj. Gen. Joe Hooker. He was appointed to handle the mail not because he was a poor soldier, but because he was a energetic and possessed a gift for cutting through red tape and making things happen. Before long Parker ran the entire mail service for all of the Army of the Potomac.
Thanks to Parker, mail delivery went virtually interrupted no matter where the army was—Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, the front lines of Petersburg and Appomattox Court House. The work he did kept up the morale of the men as the letters and packages from home flowed into camp literally without interruption.
His career after the war was stellar, including many years of association with most of the Presidents of the U.S. and Bell Telephone.
He died in 1910. Two years letter, his memoir, "A Chautauqua Boy in '61 and Afterward," was published. In it, Parker tells his story and includes anecdotes of the top Union leaders with whom he was associated, including generals George G. Meade and U.S. Grant, and President Abraham Lincoln. For example, here’s one I have not heard about Gen. Meade: “General Meade went to the Adjutant General’s office, which was a Sibley tent, and opened the flap to stoop and enter, as a soldier, who was building a fire in the stove and taking up ashes, was coming out. The pan of ashes struck General Meade’s breast and covered him. he showed a very irascible temper and cursed the soldier roundly. All that I saw of General Meade afterwards, however, was a reserved courtly gentleman. He was not personally popular with his staff officers, but no one could criticize his conduct or his patriotism.”
Read more of Parker’s story: books.google.com/books?id=jBZCAAAAIAAJ&printsec=front...
Parker, standing, is pictured here with Capt. Charles E. Scoville of the 94th New York Infantry. Officially Parker was acting assistant quartermaster for the Army of the Potomac responsible for mail delivery.
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1911 postmarked postcard view of the Smith, Roper & Company mill at Hobart, Indiana. The 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Hobart identified the mill as “Smith Roper & Co. Hobart Roller Mills.” The map set shows a short water flume leading from the Lake George dam to the turbines in the three-story structure. The mill was located at the edge of Deep River west of the intersection of Main Street, Chicago Road and Front Street. (Chicago Road later became an extension of Main Street.) The building was destroyed by fire in 1953.
This view was looking south and includes two houses that the map set shows nearby on Chicago Road. The red structures in the background were probably the mill’s feed warehouse and corn crib that are also shown in the map set. Other houses and the German Lutheran Church were located a little farther south along Main Street, but can’t be seen behind the mill and trees in this view.
A national milling business publication¹ reported the following in 1911. “The old firm of Smith, Roper & Co., composed in recent years of Sela A. Smith, Mrs. Eliza Roper and Milton W. Brown, with milling interests in Hobart, Ind. and an extensive business in flour and feed in Gary, Ind., has been dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Smith has taken over the Hobart business and the other two members of the firm will take charge at Gary.”
1. Harley D. Mitchell, Editor, American Miller and Processor, Volume 39 (Chicago, IL: Mitchell Bros. & Co, 1911), page 152. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=fZdFAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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In 1881, a New York City newspaper published a lengthy article about Indianapolis. This was no ordinary newspaper and the article was accompanied by 15 engraved images, most depicting the city’s institutions and architecture. The newspaper was The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper, published from 1873 to 1889 with four editions daily. It was an innovative publication in many respects and was one of the first tabloid-size newspapers with pages approximately 14½ inches wide by 21 inches high. The owners made extensive use of graphics on a daily basis to illustrate each issue.
On Friday, November 4, 1881, the fourth edition for that day included an article about Indianapolis titled “The Capital of Indiana.” Page 29 was devoted entirely to 11 engraved images of Indianapolis. The engravings were based on “sketches by our special artist and photographs by F. M. Lacey.” Page 30 contained additional engraved images of Indianapolis and the text of the article, together occupying about two-thirds of that page.
Mr. Lacey was an Indianapolis photographer with a studio in the Vance Building. He was also treasurer of the Indiana Association of Photographers around the turn of the century.
The article describes the origins of the city and various aspects of its development, including the street pattern, two suburbs, the railroads, newspapers and commerce. Following is the eighth paragraph from the article and it sounds like an advertisement.
THE CAPITAL OF INDIANA.
A FEW INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING THE HISTORY AND ENTERPRISE OF INDIANAPOLIS.
“The Indianapolis Elevator Company is an incorporated company and proprietor of Elevator A, erected in 1872, with a capacity of 350,000 bushels and a transfer capacity of 200 cars per day. It is situated west of the city, between the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western and Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway yards, and is strictly a public elevator, not being connected with grain trade. Their interest is identical with that of their patrons. Elevator A’s receipts are considered first class security. Money can be obtained from any of the city banks at as low a rate of interest with Elevator A’s receipts as security as on Government bonds.”¹
This Western Elevator graphic was included on page 30, but the article referenced the “Indianapolis Elevator Company” and “Elevator A.” Very little information seems to be available regarding the Western Elevator at Indianapolis other than its location west of White River. However, the 1887 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Indianapolis, Volume One, does show the Elevator “A” on Sheet 35 as described in the article. In fact, the railroad adjacent to Elevator “A” on that map sheet is the I. D. & S. (Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield) Railway, the same railway that owned the boxcars depicted in this engraving with “ID & S painted on their sides.
The I. D. & S. was a new addition to the Indianapolis railroad lineup when this newspaper article was written, but financial problems from 1887 through 1902 led to a handful of ownership and name changes. The beginning of the I. D. & S. was described in a court case involving Center Township in Marion County.
“In September 1875, articles were filed with the [Indiana] Secretary of State, incorporating the bondholders under the name of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway Company, for the purpose of completing the railroad projected by the old Indiana & Illinois Central Railway Company. On the 4th day of November, 1875, this new company was consolidated with the Springfield, Decatur & Indianapolis Railway Company under the name of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway Company. This company at once proceeded to build the railroad, and complete it from Indianapolis to Springfield, Illinois, but not ready for use along its whole line, nor in Center Township, until 1880. The line of road, as projected by the old Indiana & Illinois Central Company, was to begin at the City of Indianapolis and extend thence as nearly west as should be found practicable and convenient by way of or within half a mile of the Towns of Danville, Rockville and Montezuma in the State of Indiana, and Decatur in the State of Illinois, in a direction leading to the City of Springfield, Illinois, and passing through the Counties of Marion, Hendricks, Putman, Park and Vermillion in the State of Indiana. The road, as built by the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway Company, is upon the same general line projected by the Indiana & Illinois Central Railway Company, but the towns of Danville, Rockville and Montezuma are left from five to ten miles to the south.”²
Then, with the new railroad recently completed, a monthly magazine in 1880 printed the following report from the Indianapolis Journal regarding the application of new technology to protect passengers on the I. D. & S. Railway.
“With the opening of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield [rail]road, it has been demonstrated that there is no need of annoying passengers on Western [rail]roads with cinders thrown from the smoke stack of an engine. The engines on this road are all equipped with a patent spark arrester and sub-treasury, so-called, and they now run from Indianapolis to Decatur without a spark or cinder coming back on to the train, and the engineers, some of whom laughed at the idea that a smoke stack could be constructed which would burn block coal and not throw cinders out nor choke up, are now boasting of the perfect success of the spark arrester used on the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield. — [Indianapolis Journal”³
The I. D. & S. R. R. designation on Sanborn™ Sheet 35 is running east and west about 700 feet south of Washington Street. There were no streets in the vicinity of the elevator. The Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway (I. B. & W.) rail yards and roundhouse occupied most of the area north of the I. D. & S. line up to Washington Street. That area is south of the Indianapolis Zoo today and roughly midway between White River on the east and Harding Street on the west. Sheet 35 shows the Indianapolis Elevator Co. Elevator “A” along the south side of the I. D. & S. track.
The main structure of this elevator, according to the 1887 Sanborn™ map, was four stories and 55 feet tall with the center section being the equivalent of six stories and 125 feet tall. It was a wooden structure with a capacity of 350,000 bushels. The footprint of the elevator on the map sheet shows the power plant on the east end of the building. Hence, the view in this graphic is looking north-northeast with Washington Street and White River a few hundred feet beyond the elevator, the river is also to the right (east) a few hundred feet, and Harding Street a few hundred feet to the left (west). Some of the main railroad tracks remain in this area but the elevator and many of the railroad sidings and other related facilities are now gone. If Georgia Street extended west across the river, it would probably pass through the site of this elevator.
1. “The Capital of Indiana,” The Daily Graphic: An Illustrated Evening Newspaper, Fourth Edition, Friday, November 4, 1881 (New York, NY: Graphic Co., 1881), page 30.
2. Robert Desty, editor, Western Reporter, Volume I. (Rochester, NY: The Lawyers’ Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1885), page 261. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=NQtLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
3. E. H. Talbott and H. R. Hobart, editors, The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine, Vol. I No. 3. (Chicago, IL: The Railway Age Publishing Co., 1880), page 180. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=o2M3AQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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1917
At Brady Lake Park, aka Brady Lake Electric Park, between Ravenna and Kent. The amusement park here featured a roller coaster and various other entertainments.
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Gladys M. Kelley & Albert N. Lee Photo Album 1915-1919
c1910 postcard view of Larwill, Indiana. The postcard has no caption, but shows the railroad in the foreground and the prominent LARWILL, IND. POST OFFICE sign. This view was probably looking north on Center Street, but, most of these buildings are now gone. In this scene horse-drawn buggies and wagons were present along with several pedestrians, some of whom were posing for the photographer.
According to a 1907 county history,¹ the town was laid out in 1854 along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago (P. F. W. & C.) Railroad. The original town name was Huntsville. However, when the post office moved from nearby Summit, it could not be renamed Huntsville Post Office because another Huntsville post office already existed in Indiana. Residents decided to change the town’s name to Larwill so that the town and post office could use the same name. There being no other Larwill post office in Indiana, the Post Office Department agreed to change the post office name as well.
A 1916 county atlas² includes a map of Larwill that appears to show the post office on the northeast corner at the Center Street railroad crossing. However, the hand-lettered label is unclear. A short distance north, the map shows a hotel on the northeast corner at North Street.
The 1916 atlas map shows the depot near the southwest corner of the Center Street crossing. This postcard scene shows a bandstand above the sidewalk near the left edge of this scene and near where the depot would have been.
Across North Street, beyond that bandstand, a sign advertised CITY DRUG STORE on one of the buildings. A smaller sign probably bears the name of the druggist, but is unclear. A 1905 druggist directory listed one druggist in Larwill, S. W. Byall. A 1908 directory listed John E. Berry and Edward L. Garrett, but only John Berry was listed in a 1912 directory. Farther up the street, another sign appears to include the word FUR or FURS.
Across the street, possibly near the Hammontree Street intersection, were signs advertising a FEED BARN and a LUNCH ROOM. At the North Street intersection, three men were standing beside a gas lamp. The sign on the side of the building on that corner is unreadable, but may have identified the name of the hotel that the 1916 map shows on that corner. The signs on the building north of the post office are unclear as well. The sign above the post office advertised the local Modern Woodmen of America chapter.
The P. F. W. & C. railroad extended across Indiana from Pittsburg and Ohio through Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Warsaw and eventually to Chicago. By the time a 1908 railway guide³ was being published, the railroad had become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. A schedule dated December 1907 showed six daily trains traveling westbound between Pittsburg and Chicago on this route. Five stopped in Fort Wayne, but none stopped in Larwill. That same schedule showed eight trains traveling eastbound with two of these stopping in Larwill. A separate schedule showed two trains from running in each direction between Crestline, Ohio and Chicago. They stopped at Larwill. A separate train ran daily between Fort Wayne and Chicago and it also stopped in Larwill. A note at the bottom of the schedules pointed out that this line was double-tracked all the way between Pittsburgh and Chicago. That was a big deal and showed how important this route was.
1. Samuel P. Kaler and Richard H. Maring, History of Whitley County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1907). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-hUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Standard Atlas of Whitley County, Indiana Including a Plat Book (Chicago, IL: George A. Ogle & Co., 1916). Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/9079/.
3. The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (New York: National Railway Publication Co., 1908), pages 478-479. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&printsec=front....
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1911 postmarked postcard view of Main Street in Greenfield, Indiana. The photographer was standing near the middle of the block between Mont and State streets. Mont Street was a narrow street midway between Pennsylvania and State streets, but no longer exists. The trolley car in this scene is at the State Street intersection.
The building at the left edge of this scene was home to a bank according to the 1900, 1906 and 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Greenfield. The address was 14 West Main Street and a 1902 central Indiana directory¹ listed The Citizens Bank at that address. A 1910 report from the Auditor of State says their Certificate of Authority to operate as a private bank was issued in 1905. The 1922 Hoffman city directory still listed the bank at this same address.
The building east of the bank housed two businesses. The first awning advertised W. S. P_GH DRUGS & CIGARS. The address was 12 West Main and the 1902 directory listed Thomas H. Selman as the druggist doing business at that address. A 1905 directory of druggists² also listed Mr. Selman as a druggist in Greenfield. A 1908 Indiana report³ listed Mr. Selman and Willard S. Pugh as druggists in Greenfield. Mr. Pugh wasn’t listed in the 1905 directory and Mr. Selman wasn’t listed in a 1912 directory where Mr. Pugh was one of only three druggists listed in Greenfield. The 1900 and 1906 Sanborn™ map sets show a drugs business at the 12 West Main Street address, but the 1914 map set shows a boots and shoes business.
The three Sanborn™ map sets show a hardware business in the east half of that building (10 West Main Street). Another (Johnson’s) state directory from 1902 listed Thomas & Sons as the proprietors of the hardware store at that address. The sign above that awning advertised OLIVER ____ ____ PLOWS. The Oliver Chilled Plow Works was located in South Bend. The 1922 city directory listed the Pickett Hardware Co. at this address.
The large pocket watch on the pole was a traditional trade symbol used by jewelers. This sign stood at 8 West Main Street and advertised SMITH BROS. Smith Bros. were listed in the central Indiana 1902 directory under JEWELERS & OPTICIANS with phone numbers but no location information; they were listed in the OPTICIAN category at 109 West Main Street. The Johnson’s state directory listed Smith Bros. at 114 West Main Street. The 1900 and 1906 Sanborn™ map sets show a jewelry business at 8 West Main Street and the 1914 map set shows a nonspecific store type.
The large building on the northwest corner at State Street (2, 4 and 6 West Main Street) is shown in all three map sets. Each shows a dry goods and clothing business at the street level, offices on the second floor and the Masonic Hall on the third floor. Across the street, on the northeast corner (2 East Main Street) all three map sets show a drug store. The awning on that corner appears to include advertising for CIGARS and SODA. Both 1902 state directories listed The Crescent Pharmacy (A. C. Pilkenton, proprietor) at this location. Abram C. Pilkenton’s widow was listed in the 1922 city directory. The sign above the awning on that corner advertised a DENTIST, but the name on the sign is unclear. This was Robert. I. Bell who was listed in both 1902 directories. In the Johnson’s directory he was listed at 344 Thayer Block and in the central Indiana directory he was listed at the corner of Main and East streets. The 1922 city listed Robert I. Bell’s practice at 2½ E. Main Street, which would have been upstairs from the drugstore at that corner.
A sign at the right edge of the postcard advertised FURNITURE. The 1906 and 1914 map sets show a furniture store on the southeast corner at East Street (1 and 3 South East Street) across from the courthouse square. The 1922 city directory listed the J. W. Cooper Department Store in the FURNITURE category at that location.
The 1906 map set shows a waiting room on the south side of Main Street (5 West Main Street). This was three doors west of State Street in a two-story brick building. The 1902 Johnson’s directory listed the Indianapolis & Eastern Railway Co. (formerly the Indianapolis & Greenfield Traction Co.) at this address. The company was bought by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. in 1907 and a new station was then built at 201-203 East Main Street.
All of these buildings except the one where the traction station was located remained in use as of 2013. City Hall is now located on the southwest corner at State Street.
1. Business and Professional Directory of Central Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Union Directory Co., 1902). Available online at openlibrary.org/books/OL22862780M/Business_and_profession....
2. The Era Druggists Directory, Eleventh Edition (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1905). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=bantAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Indiana Board of Pharmacy, Ninth Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1908). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=afjqAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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On 7 August 2015, four of us were extremely fortunate to have the chance to visit the home and highly varied topographic 62-acre property belonging to Frances and David Dover. We felt honoured and privileged to meet and spend time with Frances and David, and also their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair. A delightful family who welcomed us so warmly into their home and land.
This acreage of grassland, forest, rolling hills - and special gardens - is not far from Millarville, SW of Calgary. In fact, it's in an area that I often drive through when I only have time for, or only feel like doing, a short drive. Amazing what little gems exist out there.
This is not just a beautiful property, but is very special for various reasons. For one thing, read any history of Alberta and you will find the Dover family, including David's mother, Mary Dover. Second, among the trees and open "lawns", there are Peony flower beds, containing 100-150 heritage Peonies, each one different, that have now multiplied to more than 300 plants. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had already gone to seed. Another open area had a different kind of ground cover - Thyme, which smelled wonderful. If I remember correctly, this was the open space where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performed on one occasion!
There are two large ponds on the property and another smaller area of water that they hope to turn into a Japanese Garden. There is a total of seven wetland basins, including these. It was while walking around the Japanese Garden that a large brown 'shape' could just be seen through the dense trees - a handsome Moose buck. I will look properly at the four or so photos I just managed to get and may slip one of them into my photostream sometime, just for the record, definitely not for the photo quality : ) This was also where a Great Horned Owl was seen flying through the trees by some of us (not me, ha!).
There are grassy paths winding through the acreage, up and down hill, that take David seven hours to mow. They are not pristine, velvety paths, but instead, they seem to take nothing away from the wildness of the whole area. One of the animals that has passed through is the Cougar. In fact, several years ago, I saw a video taken on a nearby (or adjacent?) property, where a 'kill' and night-time camera had been set up and a total of six different Cougar individuals were seen!
Even the Dover's home is unique and beautiful. It is completely built of concrete (and glass) - floors, walls, ceilings, roof, deck, and so on. A Hummingbird feeder and regular bird feeders, set up on the patio, attract a variety of birds. We sat on the patio after our walk to eat our packed lunches - and to enjoy a delicious Orange Pound Cake that Frances had made for us, along with refreshing Iced Tea - thank you so much for this, Frances! While I was waiting for one of three tiny Calliope (?) Hummingbirds to come back, I was lucky enough to see a little Mountain Chickadee, along with many Pine Siskins. We could also hear a Red-tailed Hawk in the area. Saw a total of 22 bird species.
There is just so much I could write about this visit and family. Instead, or for now, I will add several links to more information on the Internet. This was a memorable day for us. Thank you so much, Frances and David, Carolyn and Clair, for being so kind and welcoming us into your home and gardens.
books.google.ca/books?id=Tr36Tq_gadcC&pg=PA290&lp...
www.westernwheel.com/article/20110727/WHE06/307279983/-1/...
David's mother, Mary Dover (her father was A. E. Cross), was "a dynamic and distinguished Calgarian, particularly known for her work with the military during World War II." As well as being an army officer, and an alderman, she was also a preservationist. See the following link.
www.albertachampions.org/champions-mary_dover.htm#.VcY1KP...
ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?XC=/searc...
glencoe.org/documents/10184/637479/The-History-of-Elbow-P... page 44-45
Mia madre Maria Lavinia Bovelli (1938 - 1992) quando aveva 19 anni. In quel periodo aveva appena terminato il primo anno di Fisica all'Università di Roma. Foto scattata nell'agosto del 1957 sul lungomare di Nizza, la Promenade des Anglais. it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passeggiata_degli_Inglesi
Mia madre si trova all'altezza del Centro Universitario Mediterraneo (n.65) dove la zia Paola, insegnante di francese, andava probabilmente per dei corsi di aggiornamento. Si vedono l'edificio moderno al n.63 e quello al n.57, dove ha soggiornato Vladimir Nabokov nell'inverno del 1960-61. books.google.it/books?id=IeTGSDuFU6YC&pg=PA110&dq... Sul fondo sembra il monte Leuze con le sue antenne.
www.google.it/maps/@43.6925975,7.2513796,3a,75y,61.67h,95...
Devo ringraziare lo zio Virgilio per aver trovato questa bellissima foto in bianco e nero. Sul retro è scritto Nizza 57. Scansionata e ritoccata con photoshop.
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My mother Maria Lavinia Bovelli (1938 - 1992) when she was 19 years old. At that time she had just finished the first year of Physics at the University of Rome. Photo taken in the august of 1957 in Nice (France), in the Promenade des Anglais. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenade_des_Anglais
My mother is at the height of the Mediterranean University Center (n.65) where Aunt Paola, a French teacher, went probably for refresher courses. You can see the modern building at n.63 and the one at n.57, where Vladimir Nabokov stayed in the winter of 1960-61. In the background it seems the mountain Leuze with its antennas.
I have to thank uncle Virgilio for having found this beautiful black and white picture. Scanned and retouched with photoshop.
c1910 postcard view of Larwill, Indiana. The postcard has no caption, but shows the railroad in the foreground and the prominent LARWILL, IND. POST OFFICE sign. This view was probably looking north on Center Street, but, most of these buildings are now gone. In this scene horse-drawn buggies and wagons were present along with several pedestrians, some of whom were posing for the photographer.
According to a 1907 county history,¹ the town was laid out in 1854 along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago (P. F. W. & C.) Railroad. The original town name was Huntsville. However, when the post office moved from nearby Summit, it could not be renamed Huntsville Post Office because another Huntsville post office already existed in Indiana. Residents decided to change the town’s name to Larwill so that the town and post office could use the same name. There being no other Larwill post office in Indiana, the Post Office Department agreed to change the post office name as well.
A 1916 county atlas² includes a map of Larwill that appears to show the post office on the northeast corner at the Center Street railroad crossing. However, the hand-lettered label is unclear. A short distance north, the map shows a hotel on the northeast corner at North Street.
The 1916 atlas map shows the depot near the southwest corner of the Center Street crossing. This postcard scene shows a bandstand above the sidewalk near the left edge of this scene and near where the depot would have been.
Across North Street, beyond that bandstand, a sign advertised CITY DRUG STORE on one of the buildings. A smaller sign probably bears the name of the druggist, but is unclear. A 1905 druggist directory listed one druggist in Larwill, S. W. Byall. A 1908 directory listed John E. Berry and Edward L. Garrett, but only John Berry was listed in a 1912 directory. Farther up the street, another sign appears to include the word FUR or FURS.
Across the street, possibly near the Hammontree Street intersection, were signs advertising a FEED BARN and a LUNCH ROOM. At the North Street intersection, three men were standing beside a gas lamp. The sign on the side of the building on that corner is unreadable, but may have identified the name of the hotel that the 1916 map shows on that corner. The signs on the building north of the post office are unclear as well. The sign above the post office advertised the local Modern Woodmen of America chapter.
The P. F. W. & C. railroad extended across Indiana from Pittsburg and Ohio through Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Warsaw and eventually to Chicago. By the time a 1908 railway guide³ was being published, the railroad had become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. A schedule dated December 1907 showed six daily trains traveling westbound between Pittsburg and Chicago on this route. Five stopped in Fort Wayne, but none stopped in Larwill. That same schedule showed eight trains traveling eastbound with two of these stopping in Larwill. A separate schedule showed two trains from running in each direction between Crestline, Ohio and Chicago. They stopped at Larwill. A separate train ran daily between Fort Wayne and Chicago and it also stopped in Larwill. A note at the bottom of the schedules pointed out that this line was double-tracked all the way between Pittsburgh and Chicago. That was a big deal and showed how important this route was.
1. Samuel P. Kaler and Richard H. Maring, History of Whitley County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1907). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-hUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Standard Atlas of Whitley County, Indiana Including a Plat Book (Chicago, IL: George A. Ogle & Co., 1916). Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/9079/.
3. The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (New York: National Railway Publication Co., 1908), pages 478-479. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&printsec=front....
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Org. Travel views of Europe. Library of Congress. Washington, EE.UU.
* (Título que figura a pie de foto. Algunas ediciones de postales y revistas de la época calificaron "las murallas" abulenses como "romanas", cuando se trata de una construcción "románica", un término que llevaba a confusión a ciertas editoriales extranjeras).
GENTE EN LA HISTORIA DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA
Una de las fotografías de Arnold Genthe está considerada entre las quince más importantes de la historia: waldina.com/2013/03/05/15-incredible-historical-photographs/
REFERENCIAS:
books.google.es/books?id=cj0miXaL9PcC&pg=PA67&lpg...
historyinphotos.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/arnold-genthe-eur...
www.flickr.com/photos/avilas/5065316301/in/photolist-zBN3...
ánchez Merino ilustró algunos libros de temas abulenses, entre ellos este, cuyo autor fue cronista oficial de Ávila. En él se incluyen leyendas, poemas, anécdotas y canciones de toda la provincia
ACESO AL TEXTO DIGITAL: books.google.es/books?id=YeuiloCym8AC&pg=PA55&lpg...
ACCESO AL LIBRO DIGITAL "LAS GRANDEZAS DE ÁVILA" DE JOSÉ MAYORAL FERNÁNDEZ:
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1911 dated postcard view of the “Pennsylvania Flyer” (or “Pennsylvania Special”) deadly train wreck near Fort Wayne, Indiana. The eastbound train was on the P. Ft. W. & C. (Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago) Railway line that was the western leg of the P. C. C. & St. L. (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railway main line between Chicago and New York. It was a very heavily traveled route with both freight and passenger trains. On the evening of August 13, 1911, as the train approached the St. Marys River crossing near Swinney Park, it was running late because of earlier locomotive problems.
The prior year, the railroad company had begun a three-year project to elevate the double rail lines through Fort Wayne in order to eliminate street crossings and thereby alleviate the vehicular traffic problems that were plaguing the city at rail crossings. This accident occurred in an area west of the river where work on that project was underway.
The following account of the accident was published in the August, 1911 edition of Railway Age Gazette.¹
Eighteen-Hour Train Derailed at Fort Wayne
The Pennsylvania Special, the 18-hour Chicago to New York train which left Chicago at 2:45 Sunday afternoon, August 13, was derailed just west of Fort Wayne, Ind., and four employees were killed and four trainmen, 17 dining and Pullman employees, three mail clerks and 29 passengers, were injured. The train was running late and was being pulled by two engines, and was derailed while running at high speed over a sharp curve at the west end of the track elevation work under way in Fort Wayne. Both engines and four cars left the rails. The engine of a freight train standing on an adjoining track was struck by the two passenger engines and all three were wrecked. The injuries were confined to trainmen and passengers in the forward coaches. The train was made up wholly of steel cars and to this fact may be attributed the escape of the passengers from fatal injuries.
The Chicago Record-Herald gives the following details. Charles P. Skillman who resides directly opposite the spot where the wreck occurred saw the whole thing as he sat on his veranda. “The passenger train,” said Mr. Skillman, “was coming at a terrific rate of speed. Just across the bridge which spans the St Mary's river it veered into a new switch placed there because of track elevation work. I think the train was going at too great a rate for the switch to stand, for as I watched it seemed to me that the rails of the switch slid from under the passenger directly over to the freight train standing on the north track…..” From Valparaiso to Winona Lake the engine which brought the train out of Chicago was working badly, so the engine which was to take the train from Fort Wayne to Crestline was sent to Winona Lake to meet the flyer….”
1. Railway Age Gazette, Volume 51 (New York, NY: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1911), pages 346-347. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=cLUlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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The following is the chatlog from our November 2014 Bookclub Discussion. Our reading for this discussion was Thomas Mann's 'Disorder and Early Sorrow'.
*Photo credit: Duncan Armundsen
Zoe Foodiboo: Okay well, we've only got an hour so let's get started
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): Darned, my lighter got wet
Zoe Foodiboo: To answer your earlier question, Hank, bookclub is OOC.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): ah ok
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): good to know
Zoe Foodiboo: I’ll start by giving a brief overview of the book and the author, then I’ll give you an idea of what we hope to discuss today.
Zoe Foodiboo: First, a summary of the book…
Zoe Foodiboo: 'Disorder and Early Sorrow' was written in 1925, with characters that were structured after members of the author's own family.
Zoe Foodiboo: I can send you a Mann bio afterward
Zoe Foodiboo: This short story examines the life of the Cornelius family through the eyes of Abel Cornelius, a professor at the local university, whose once respected position has become virtually irrelevant.
Zoe Foodiboo: In “Disorder and Early Sorrow,” Mann depicts the economic, cultural, and societal consequences of the German hyperinflation of the 1920’s.
Pauline Clary nods
Zoe Foodiboo: Now, about the author...
Zoe Foodiboo: Thomas Mann was born in Lubeck, Northern Germany, in 1875, to a merchant named Johann and his wife Julia.
Zoe Foodiboo: He was meant to take over his father's grain firm but, unfortunately, his father died when he was only 15 and the firm was liquidated.
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): oh…
Zoe Foodiboo: Thomas performed poorly in school but enjoyed studying on his own.
Zoe Foodiboo: After a brief stint as a clerk at an insurance company in Munich, Thomas published his first set of short stories, and continued prolifically thereafter.
Zoe Foodiboo: He won the Nobel prize in literature in 1929.
Pauline Clary: That's very recent!
Zoe Foodiboo: And I won't tell you much more because I suspect we'll talk a lot about his family today.
Zoe Foodiboo: So, what we'll discuss today…
Zoe Foodiboo: Let's begin by 1) sharing our thoughts on the reading, then move on to 2) considering if and how the effects of Germany's hyperinflation can be evidenced in our virtual reenactment here on our sim.
Zoe Foodiboo: Unfortunately, Webchen can't be with us today so you're stuck with me as moderator. :)
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): we'll manage somehow, surely
Pauline Clary: Awwww
Zoe Foodiboo: Not my strong suit, but I do love our discussions!
Camden Carlisle (camden777): This is my first discussion and I'm excited to be here
Zoe Foodiboo: So, general thoughts on the reading?
Zoe Foodiboo: We're glad you're here, Camden.
Stina Skov (stinaskov): It's my first too, I'm here to learn
Camden Carlisle (camden777): Danke, thank you
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): Greetings, Frl Carlisle
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): and Frl Skov
Zoe Foodiboo: Oh, gosh, I should let you introduce yourselves
Camden Carlisle (camden777): Danke
Zoe Foodiboo: Fraulein Carlisle is new to Berlin....
Pauline Clary: Welcome
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl) smiles
Camden Carlisle (camden777) nods, "recently arrived from London. Thank you"
Zoe Foodiboo: Fraulein Skov is Sasa's sister!
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): welcome
Zoe Foodiboo: and a journalist
Stina Skov (stinaskov): it is frau Skov actually
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): Oh, that's marvelous, welcome!
Zoe Foodiboo: Oh right, my apologies. Frau Skov.
Stina Skov (stinaskov): but Stina works as well
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): I am Fraeulein von Nassau, a teacher here in Berlin
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam) sips champagne
Zoe Foodiboo whispers: Hi Beckka
Stina Skov (stinaskov): Nice to meet you
Beckka Fredericks (lschicky.fredericks): hallo
Pauline Clary: Hi Beckka
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): Hello I'm Sasa and I'm not an alcoholic
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl) giggles
Pauline Clary giggles
Zoe Foodiboo: Had anyone read Mann before we read this novella?
AlasAndAlack looks surprised.
Beckka Fredericks (lschicky.fredericks): hahaha
Pauline Clary: No, never
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): I've read many men
AlasAndAlack: No, I can't say that I had read Mann before.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): yes
AlasAndAlack is not surprised.
Zoe Foodiboo: Well, backing up, has everyone done the reading?
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): I believe a very long time ago
Camden Carlisle (camden777): No, I have not
Zoe Foodiboo: It's okay if you haven't…
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): no
AlasAndAlack: Yes, I read the story.
Pauline Clary: Yes I have read it
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): Mhm, I did! I did, Zoe! I did! I did the reading! (quiets down again)
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): you can fake it otherwise
Zoe Foodiboo chuckles
Camden Carlisle (camden777): Is the story usually given prior to a meeting?
Zoe Foodiboo: That's wonderful, Eloise - you may have an extra cupcake!
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): Woo hoo!
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes, I let everyone know via group notices and FB.
Pauline Clary: You're good fakes things professionally Sasy ;-)
Zoe Foodiboo: and it's always in my picks.
Camden Carlisle (camden777): Thank you. I've been here only a few days and missed the notice *smiles*
Zoe Foodiboo: It's okay. I can recap the story a little.
Zoe Foodiboo: It's set in the 20s…
Pauline Clary: It's about a party
Zoe Foodiboo: and the entire novella focuses on a few hours spent with the Cornelius family
Zoe Foodiboo nods at Pauline, "Yep."
Zoe Foodiboo: It opens with them finishing up their meal
Pauline Clary nods
Zoe Foodiboo: They’re an upper middle class family but hyperinflation has clearly had an impact on their lifestyle.
Zoe Foodiboo: Their meal is simple
Zoe Foodiboo: Their furnishings in need of repair
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): I think it's no coincidence that it's a family--what I mean is--people of all ages, spanning different times, the old and the new. To me, much of the novella's strength comes from seeing what's changing--and still, what's not. :)
Zoe Foodiboo: Their clothes a little shabby
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes, there is a focus on gaps between generations
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): Who could afford new things then?
Pauline Clary: They're short of eggs
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes, there is the instance of the eggs
Zoe Foodiboo: There are 4 children all together, two teens and two toddlers
Zoe Foodiboo: The teens and one of the servants are sent to buy eggs
Zoe Foodiboo: Eggs are being rationed
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): oh dear
Zoe Foodiboo: So they go in the shop one by one, each pretending to be from a different family, to get their allotment of eggs
Zoe Foodiboo: was it 5? 6? to last the week, Pauline?
Pauline Clary: yes it was
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): for the whole family?
Zoe Foodiboo nods
Pauline Clary: yes
AlasAndAlack: As people interested in history (which I assume we all are, because we are here in 1929 Berlin), we are fascinated by the comments concerning the recent and rapid decline in the status quo- middle class to servant status in the case of the kitchen sisters “ladies Hinterhofer,” the cost of eggs going up by the day and the subterfuge to purchase enough of them.
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): eggs are nourishing
Zoe Foodiboo: and the family includes a set of grandparents, a set of parents, the four children and....3 servants?
Pauline Clary: I think so
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): oh goodness
Pauline Clary: Xaver
AlasAndAlack: Are the grandparents actually seen? They are mentioned. The ancients.
Pauline Clary: Old folk
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes Alas, in the novella the author - or the translator, maybe, since I read the English version - uses the term "villa proletariat" to describe them.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): it's the author
Zoe Foodiboo: No, the grandparents are mentioned but aren't included in the scene described
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): Villenproletarier in the original, checked
Pauline Clary: Teens are called 'big folk'
Zoe Foodiboo: ah
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): villa proletariat?
Pauline Clary: Toddlers 'Little Folk'
Zoe Foodiboo: Is this a term you're familiar with Augusta?
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): no, not really
Zoe Foodiboo: Both Abi and I mentioned we underlined it because it was the first time we had encountered it.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): if you google the term, there are oral history things online, where people describe their family background like that, so it's not just Mann's invention
Zoe Foodiboo: Oh really? Interesting.
Zoe Foodiboo: So the first part of the novel describes the effects of hyperinflation on this family.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): or things like this, on google books...http://books.google.rs/books?id=ussIRYACpl0C&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=villenproletarier&source=bl&ots=87gdzGxLQ4&sig=f5ZtcnmLEjE6d-6U7WUW0qFDg4M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aSR6VIz3AuL5ywP5pYDQAw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=villenproletarier&f=false
Zoe Foodiboo: The second part focuses on a party that the teens are hosting in the home.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): teens are such a nuisance... always have been
Zoe Foodiboo: And that's where the theme of generation gaps comes in....the father commenting on the dress and music and dance, etc. of the younger generation.
Zoe Foodiboo: lol, Abi
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): :D
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): (One of the things that do NOT change, I suppose. ;) I loved that part of the novella very much: what changes, what doesn't.)
Camden Carlisle (camden777): ah, but we were all teens once *winks*
AlasAndAlack: The party emphasizes the more timeless theme underneath the economic status - the struggle between the established and the upcoming generation. You can read the same kind of things written on the pyramids of Egypt.
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): yeah and not too long ago
AlasAndAlack: Yes, Eloise, that contrast is startling.
Zoe Foodiboo: Well, it was interesting after reading a bit about Mann's RL, to read this novel and imagine that this is how his children got to know him. Not directly, but through his writings.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): yes, i remember Klaus M, his son, writing something to that effect
Zoe Foodiboo: That is true, Alas. And I thought about our sim here....do we see that difference? Is it possible to reenact that?
Zoe Foodiboo: Frau Jo kind of reminds me of Abel.
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): Generational differences?
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): Another really nice thing about the story are the nuances: Even the professor, at one point says something like, "And if you really look at the new dances, they're not really that bad, I suppose"--something like that.
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes, Augusta. I'm wondering if we see generational differences here in our Berlin.
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): (I think we do: Frau Jo and Fraulein Mo immediately come to mind.) :)
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): I'm not so sure we do as much as we could
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): do we have any three-generation families here?
Zoe Foodiboo: I think the most we've had is two
AlasAndAlack: Yes, about dancing, Abel says their way of holding each other is quite different and strange, but later he remarks on how Max does it so well and it is a pleasure to watch him.
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): Mamma and Pappa do not live here in Berlin
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): (Oh, not that I know if, Abinoam, but what a great idea that is!)
Zoe Foodiboo: Leila never had children, and Rose's grandparents never made an appearance
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): and she had three babies
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): Rose father did
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): that's three generations
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): we don't seem to have many (or any) very old people, do we?
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): we used to
AlasAndAlack: I do sometimes make fun of my parents and remark how I behave differently, but that is mostly for comic effect so far.
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes, Alas, Max inspired - what did he call it? Paternal jealousy?
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): We hope for Bubbe to get back
Pauline Clary: Who is Bubbe?
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): a very unique old lady who lived here before
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): Leila's grandmother
Zoe Foodiboo: Bubbe is Leila's grandmother.
Zoe Foodiboo: Leila was Zeno's wife.
Zoe Foodiboo: All three are gone now.
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): *sighs*
Zoe Foodiboo: Though Zeno does still pay rent
Zoe Foodiboo: gosh, I miss Bubbe....but back to the book!
AlasAndAlack: Yes, Zoe, the father compares his boy unfavorably to several of the other boys, and when his favorite Ellie can only be calmed by Max coming to say good night, Abel feels toward Max “singular mixture of “thankfulness, embarrassment, and hatred.”
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): oh we're talking about Max in the book ....
Zoe Foodiboo: I think he commented that his son looked like a Russian peasant, didn't he?
Zoe Foodiboo: Bert
Zoe Foodiboo: Is Bert representative of Klaus, Abi?
Pauline Clary: Bert and Ingrid
Pauline Clary: the teens
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): (I loved that part, Alas--the combination seems so self-contradictory, but SO human.)
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): that's typical, I think -- the older generation rather resenting the young
Zoe Foodiboo: Thomas Mann had more than 4 children
Pauline Clary: I had the impression that old Cornelius liked Max over his son Bert
Pauline Clary: Because Max is an engineer
Zoe Foodiboo: I think he was disappointed in Bert to some degree...Bert is "modern" and unambitious in his eyes
Zoe Foodiboo: unambitious
Pauline Clary: And Bert works at the Eldorado
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): there's your klaus lol
Zoe Foodiboo: heh He's Hank!
Pauline Clary: Bert would hang out with us in the Eldo
AlasAndAlack: Lol. It is true that Bert's highest ambition was to be a waiter at a club that might have like our El Dorado.
Zoe Foodiboo: bareheaded, shaggy Bert
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): There is a passage, I don't have it at my fingertips, but it says something about how the professor knows he's doing what all father's might: in their drawing of comparisons, of the "competition," casting the best light on what he knows about the others (which might, in fact, be very little), while being most critical of his own son. It suggests, "If he only knew...."
AlasAndAlack: Interesting that Abel says he can't tell the difference between his "middle class" son and the servant from a distance.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): yes
Zoe Foodiboo nods
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): nods
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): (Oh, nice observation. :) )
Pauline Clary: Who was Abel again?
Zoe Foodiboo: What about that game they play on the tram? Ingrid and Bert, posing as shopclerk and saying outrageous things.
AlasAndAlack: ABel is the dad.
Zoe Foodiboo: Abel is the father
Zoe Foodiboo: We never learned the mother's name.
Pauline Clary: Ahok
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): well, given the hyperinflation, what is the difference between middle class and other classes?
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): i liked that. i used to do similar things with my younger cousin lol also those phone pranks…
Pauline Clary: Yes insulting the public at the tram
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): At first blush, the difference might be only memory. :)
Pauline Clary: that was my favorite part
Zoe Foodiboo: yes
AlasAndAlack: Oh, I laughed - not only the prank conversations on the tram but the prank phone calls! So soon after telephones were established!
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): yes!
Pauline Clary: They where Rp-ing!
Zoe Foodiboo: they were!
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): lol
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl) smiles
Zoe Foodiboo: But they were only just barely able to hold on to their telephones....many families had to give them up
Pauline Clary: They where middle class , but very poor
Pauline Clary: that's typical for that hyper inflation period
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): nods
Spitz (spitzenscratch) watches rain coming through roof onto sofa in corner of room
AlasAndAlack: Funny what they hung onto as proper, and what they were willing to, or had to, give up.
Zoe Foodiboo: Putting up appearances.....keeping the phone, fretting over what to serve their guests
Zoe Foodiboo: Hello cat
Spitz (spitzenscratch) meows
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): we had hyperinflation here in the 90s, i could relate to a lot what he describes there, how people make do with what they have and attempt to go on
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): I would imagine that it's all one can do in that situation
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): i still have billions of old yugoslav dinars somewhere lol
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): *hug*
AlasAndAlack: The servant, Xaver's coat is too small. They mend their clothes. Yet they must have beer, no matter that it is watered and expensive. And Abel takes a box of his "not best" cigarettes to give to the guests.
Pauline Clary nods
AlasAndAlack: Haha, Abi, you have billions "somewhere"? It is not important where they are?
AlasAndAlack: That strikes me as funny :)
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): it's probably old currency?
Zoe Foodiboo: Did Mann's story give you ideas for your own rp here? For your character or for the way you decorate your apartment?
Pauline Clary: Beer hasn't inproved since then, in fact it's worse
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): not that they are or were worth anything. you could barely buy a pack of cigarettes with all that money
AlasAndAlack: But they are important historical artifacts, no?
Pauline Clary: I want loads of eggs in my apt
Zoe Foodiboo: hahah, Pauline
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): then you should get a chicken
Zoe Foodiboo: Pauline read Mann and thought, "I'm going to load up on eggs for my rp!"
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): i don't think so. there are so many copies of those banknotes, they are not a rarity
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): maybe in a few hundred years..., lol
Beckka Fredericks (lschicky.fredericks): hehehe
Pauline Clary: But what about the toddlers. The last scene is kind of special
AlasAndAlack: For me, reading this story came at a good time for my rp. I have played a high-handed and entitled young woman. I don't know how to be frugal.
Camden Carlisle (camden777) thinks to herself that she needs to become an egg seller in rp if she wants to get rich in Berlin
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): haha
AlasAndAlack: The kind of things I will hang onto and what I will let go is something I need to ponder.
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): black market was flourishing, we don't have much of that, do we?
Zoe Foodiboo: The last scene, where Ellie is throwing a tantrum and can only be consoled by Max?
AlasAndAlack: The little ones, yes!
Pauline Clary: Little Ellie was in bad shape
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): in 1929 there's no more hyperinflation though
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): yes, that's true
Pauline Clary: No we have a new currency now
AlasAndAlack: Would you say in 1929, some of that desperation is still in our daily lives?
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): stabilized by the Dawes and Young Plans
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen) nods. I think things settled down by the mid-1920s, didn't they? So there was 4-5 years before the next economic calamity. Eloise, of course, is oblivious. LOL
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): :D
Pauline Clary: Ah yeah the stock markets
Zoe Foodiboo: Last ten minutes, any last thoughts
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): Sir Walter says the markets are up, up, up
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): unemployment was still. and once you're impoverished, it's difficult to get out of that vicious cycle
Sasa Steigerwald (sasasteigerwald): sir Walter says a lot of silly things
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): still high*
Pauline Clary: It was a bit of a hard read
Zoe Foodiboo: I haven't seen him in ages
Zoe Foodiboo: Was it, Pauline? Did you read it in English or German?
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): neither have I…
Pauline Clary: I needed a dictionary quite often
AlasAndAlack: Back to Ellie at the end, the struggle of the father to be gracious to Max, who outshone him in his little daughter's eyes for a brief moment.
Zoe Foodiboo: I read it in English and I found it a little difficult.
Pauline Clary: English
Zoe Foodiboo: There were several words I didn't know.
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): It was a "dense" read, so to speak, for me, but worth it. :)
Pauline Clary: Like the Jabberwocky poem *giggles*
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): oh my
Zoe Foodiboo: Well, this is our last meeting of the year.
AlasAndAlack: It took me a few re-reads of the first few paragraphs to get the hang of how the sentences were structured.
Zoe Foodiboo: We'll start again in January.
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): ((Rather like the first time I read Kafka and I thought the main character turned into a bug...))
Zoe Foodiboo: For January-April, we'll focus on just one book
Zoe Foodiboo: "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy"
Pauline Clary: We do the Weimar Germ book?
AlasAndAlack: (((Lol, Augusta))
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam): lol
Zoe Foodiboo: By Eric D. Weitz
Zoe Foodiboo: If you have trouble finding this book, please IM me later.
Pauline Clary: I have it
Eloise (eloiseschiltzen): I bought it, Zoe! I'm ready! I can't wait! Um, can I--bats her eyes--have another cupcake?
Zoe Foodiboo: I'll also provide further reading lists before each meeting for those people who cannot get a copy of the book.
Zoe Foodiboo: Yes, Eloise. :P
AlasAndAlack: Zoe, can I say my favorite line before we go? I think it works on many levels in this story:
Zoe Foodiboo: Please do!
Pauline Clary leans over
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl) smiles
Abinoam Nørgaard (abinoam) listens intently
AlasAndAlack: When Ellie falls asleep, Abel thinks "How good "that she breathes in oblivion with every breath she draws!”
AlasAndAlack: Despite all the thoughts he has about how life is changing and how terrible it is, the next generation will be oblivious of it.
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl) smiles
Augusta Carolina Maria v.Nassau (gardengirl): This is true.
Zoe Foodiboo nods
Pauline Clary: yes very true
1908 postmarked postcard view of the pavilion and Bluffside Beach at Pine Lake, Indiana. Pine Lake lies at the northwest edge of the City of La Porte. A century ago, the lake was about a mile from the city. This description of the pavilion and beach is from a 1904 county history.¹
“The Baptist Assembly grounds are situated on the northwest shore of Pine lake, in a commanding position overlooking Holmes and Fargher's islands. They contain about one hundred acres with many cottages, a pavilion where meetings are held, a beautiful grove, and a beach of sand at the foot of the bluff. These grounds are the resort of picnic and camping parties and clubs from both Michigan City and La Porte. Recently the Chicago & South Shore Railroad Company has built a pavilion at Bluff-side beach, near the assembly grounds, and here there are evening entertainments, afternoon parties, and Sunday afternoon and evening concerts by the LaPorte band which are attended by great crowds, and these gatherings are said to be remarkably orderly.”
The following description of Pine Lake was included in a 1908 state report.²
“Pine Lake is a magnificent sheet of seven hundred acres of water one mile north of the city of Laporte. It is directly on the street car line to Michigan City, which runs cars every thirty minutes during the summer season, the car making seven regular stops in passing the lake at seven regular stations or landings. There is an island of considerable size in the center of this lake, and all of the lake east of the island is rather shallow water, averaging around six to ten feet in depth. On the west side of the island the water is deep, the banks running off abruptly down to forty or fifty feet. This lake is well stocked with large-mouthed Black Bass, Blue Gills, Sunfish and Perch.… It is one of the finest lakes in Indiana. It has several good boat liveries. There are forty or fifty cottages for rent on this lake and a splendid hotel.
“The Laporte Chautauqua is annually held on the border of Pine Lake, a building seating eighteen hundred people being used for that purpose. Two other large pavilions are located on the northeast shore.
“The Baptist Assembly grounds are on the high bluff on the north shore, overlooking the lake, and adjoining that is the golf links of the Laporte County Club, which are admitted by Chicago players to be the best anywhere in the vicinity of Chicago.”
1. E. D. Daniels, A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of La Porte County, Indiana (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Co., 1904), page 336. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=xdQWAQAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Department of Fisheries and Game, Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1908), page 251. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=UIkmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=front....
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I was hoping to figure out the meaning behind the name of this little two-block-long street, but all I was able to find out is that the street had become Spa Place by 1919, having formerly been known as Kouwenhouven Place.
While digging in vain through old newspaper archives for that information, I was surprised to see Spa Place mentioned a couple of hundred times, given that there are only eight houses on the street (with Spa Place addresses). Many of the mentions were for everyday things — real estate transactions, rental listings, wedding announcements, etc. A number had to do with crimes committed on the street or by people who lived there. Some examples:
1) "Being intoxicated is no excuse for thievery," two young men learned when they were found guilty of petty larceny after showing up uninvited to a party at 108-05 Spa Place on New Year's morning of 1933, "joining in the hilarity," and then stealing a couple of coats and hats on the way out.
2) In 1928, John J. Reardon, a bus driver who lived at 107-something Spa Place, was charged with third-degree assault for punching a female passenger in the jaw after she slapped him during an argument over a disputed fare.
3) In 1937, at the age of 17, William Kotowski/Kotowsky/Kapowski (the Long Island Daily Press wasn't too consistent with its spellings) of 107-62 Spa Place was sent to a vocational institute after being charged with stealing some vacuum cleaners and "criminally receiving" a stolen car. Then, in 1941, he was convicted on a "morals charge" and sentenced to a reformatory for striking a girl who "resisted his advances."
4) "A speeding truck driver [Theodore Kotski of 108-04 Spa Place], who refused to back up 500 yards so he could be arrested by a Queens motorcycle cop who had trailed him over the Nassau County line, nevertheless wound up in court here yesterday [July 6, 1952] charged with hampering an officer in the discharge of his duty."
Around 1929-30, the Long Island Daily Press ran a feature called "The Inquiring Reporter" in which people on the street were asked a topical question. Between December 1929 and July 1930, The Inquiring Reporter published five answers from people who purportedly lived on Spa Place, but none of the five addresses given for those people actually exist, at least not today. Three of the five (108-08, 108-10, 108-24 [I think it says 108-24, anyway] ) are within the realm of possibility — the highest existing house number on the even side of the street is 108-04 — but the other two (111-32, 146-27) are way off. I don't know what to make of that. The addresses listed for the non-Spa Place respondents generally seem to be legitimate, although many of the road names no longer exist, making it hard to say for sure.
The largest contingent of Spa Place mentions in old newspapers, however, is found between 1930 and 1935 in the Junior Press section of the Long Island Daily Press, where local kids would submit jokes, stories, poems, drawings, and the like (some original, many obviously not) for publication. A few children on Spa Place were members of the Junior Press Club, including Jessie Kotowska of 107-62 Spa Place, presumably the sister of the aforementioned William Kotowski/Kotowsky/Kapowski (again, the Long Island Daily Press wasn't very consistent with its spellings), but the bulk of the Spa Place contributions to the Junior Press came from the Szczesny/Szczesna/Szczensy/Szezesny/Szszesny/Szszesna/Szizesny/Scezesny/Szzesna sisters of 108-09 Spa Place. Some favorites:
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Jones: "Sorry, old man, that my hen got loose and scratched up your garden."
Smith: "That's all right. My dog ate your hen."
Jones: "Fine! I just ran over your dog!"
Sent by Henrietta Szczesny, 108-09 Spa Place
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Program Manager—"If you're late again like this, you don't have to bother showing up."
Tardy Artist—"Well, you see, it was like this: I squeezed too much toothpaste onto my brush and I had a hard time getting it back into the tube."
Sent by Henrietta Szczesna, 108-09 Spa Place
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Two Irishmen stood in front of a drug store. In the window there was a display of rubber gloves.
"Now, I wonder what those things are for?" asked one of the Irishmen.
"Oh," replied the other Irishman, "You can put them on an' wash your hands without getting your hands wet."
Sent by Jane Szczesny, 108-09 Spa Place
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TONGUE TWISTERS
Sister Susie's silly sister said to Sissy Simpkins, "Say, Sister Susie's suitor Simpson soundly sips soup, sitting with Sister Susie."
Seven small saps swam to school in sixty-six short, silent seconds hoping to see Sarah Samson slapping Samuel Stanley, Sally's sporty schoolmate.
Sent by Jane Szczesna, 108-09 Spa Place
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GOOD OLD DOBBINS
O, Horse, you are a wonderful steed,
No buttons to push, no gas to feed;
You start yourself, no clutch to rip,
No spark to miss, no gears to strip;
No license buying every year,
With plates to screw on front and rear;
No gas bills climbing up each day,
Repairs don't steal your cash away;
No speed cops chugging in your rear,
Yelling summons in your ear;
Your inner tubes are all O. K.,
And, thank the Lord, they stay that way;
Your spark plugs never miss or fuss;
Your motor never makes us cuss;
Your frame is good for many a mile,
Your body never changes a style;
Your wants are few and easy met,
You've something on the auto yet.
Sent by Jane Szzesna, 108-09 Spa Place
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On a final note, while flipping through the pages of the Junior Press from August 23, 1930 and August 30, 1930, I saw two different but very similar (and slightly creepy-looking) drawings of a young girl holding a couple of milk bottles. (See images in comments section below.) Do these look familiar to anyone? Was this a character from some old milk ads?
This was one of the two large ponds on Frances and David Dover's property, visited two days ago, on 7 August 2015. There were so many Cedar Waxwings in this area. 21 other species of bird were seen during the few hours that we spent on this wonderful property.
On 7 August, four of us were extremely fortunate to have the chance to visit the home and highly varied topographic 62-acre property belonging to Frances and David Dover. We felt honoured and privileged to meet and spend time with Frances and David, and also their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair. A delightful family who welcomed us so warmly into their home and land.
This acreage of grassland, forest, rolling hills - and special gardens - is not far from Millarville, SW of Calgary. In fact, it's in an area that I often drive through when I only have time for, or only feel like doing, a short drive. Amazing what little gems exist out there.
This is not just a beautiful property, but is very special for various reasons. For one thing, read any history of Alberta and you will find the Dover family, including David's mother, Mary Dover. Second, among the trees and open "lawns", there are Peony flower beds, containing 100-150 heritage Peonies, each one different, that have now multiplied to more than 300 plants. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had gone to seed. Another open area had a different kind of ground cover - Thyme, which smelled wonderful. If I remember correctly, this was the open space where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performed on one occasion!
There are two large ponds on the property and another smaller area of water that they hope to turn into a Japanese Garden. There is a total of seven wetland basins, including these. It was while walking around the Japanese Garden that a large brown 'shape' could just be seen through the dense trees - a handsome Moose buck. I will look properly at the four or so photos I just managed to get and will slip one of them into my photostream sometime soon, just for the record, definitely not for the photo quality : ) This was also where a Great Horned Owl was seen flying through the trees by some of us (not me, ha!).
There are grassy paths winding through the acreage, up and down hill, that take David seven hours to mow. They are not pristine, velvety paths, but instead, they seem to take nothing away from the wildness of the whole area. One of the animals that have passed through is the Cougar. In fact, several years ago, I saw a video taken on a nearby (or adjacent?) property, where a 'kill' and night-time camera had been set up and a total of six different Cougar individuals were seen!
Even the Dover's home is unique and beautiful. It is completely built of concrete - floors, walls, ceilings, roof, deck, and so on. A Hummingbird feeder and regular bird feeders, set up on the patio, attract a variety of birds. We sat on the patio after our walk to eat our packed lunches - and to enjoy a delicious Orange Pound Cake that Frances had made for us, along with refreshing Iced Tea - thank you so much for this, Frances! Yesterday, while I was waiting for one of three tiny Calliope Hummingbirds to come back, I was lucky enough to see a little Mountain Chickadee, along with many Pine Siskins. We could also hear a Red-tailed Hawk in the area.
There is just so much I could write about this visit and family. Instead, or for now, I will add several links to more information on the Internet. This was a memorable day for us. Thank you so much, Frances and David, Carolyn and Clair, for being so kind and welcoming us into your home and gardens.
books.google.ca/books?id=Tr36Tq_gadcC&pg=PA290&lp...
www.westernwheel.com/article/20110727/WHE06/307279983/-1/...
David's mother, Mary Dover (her father was A. E. Cross), was "a dynamic and distinguished Calgarian, particularly known for her work with the military during World War II." As well as being an army officer, and an alderman, she was also a preservationist. See the following link.
www.albertachampions.org/champions-mary_dover.htm#.VcY1KP...
ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?XC=/searc...
glencoe.org/documents/10184/637479/The-History-of-Elbow-P... page 44-45
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On the way home, I couldn't resist stopping at the photogenic row of five old, red granaries. I had seen someone's photo, taken fairly recently, of the surrounding fields golden with Canola. I was, sadly, too late, but I took a photo anyway - of course!
July 2018, full resolution image from the Paper: "A special poetic of iron and stone: reflections about the design of the Montemartini Museum in Rome" by me and Pelin Arslan.
Full volume available here: Google Books
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Original shot taken with a Nikon D800e 36.3 Mp Digital SLR, Nikkor F1.8 lens, various post processing
1911 postmarked postcard view of Main Street in Greenfield, Indiana. The photographer was standing near the middle of the block between Mont and State streets. Mont Street was a narrow street midway between Pennsylvania and State streets, but no longer exists. The trolley car in this scene is at the State Street intersection.
The building at the left edge of this scene was home to a bank according to the 1900, 1906 and 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Greenfield. The address was 14 West Main Street and a 1902 central Indiana directory¹ listed The Citizens Bank at that address. A 1910 report from the Auditor of State says their Certificate of Authority to operate as a private bank was issued in 1905. The 1922 Hoffman city directory still listed the bank at this same address.
The building east of the bank housed two businesses. The first awning advertised W. S. P_GH DRUGS & CIGARS. The address was 12 West Main and the 1902 directory listed Thomas H. Selman as the druggist doing business at that address. A 1905 directory of druggists² also listed Mr. Selman as a druggist in Greenfield. A 1908 Indiana report³ listed Mr. Selman and Willard S. Pugh as druggists in Greenfield. Mr. Pugh wasn’t listed in the 1905 directory and Mr. Selman wasn’t listed in a 1912 directory where Mr. Pugh was one of only three druggists listed in Greenfield. The 1900 and 1906 Sanborn™ map sets show a drugs business at the 12 West Main Street address, but the 1914 map set shows a boots and shoes business.
The three Sanborn™ map sets show a hardware business in the east half of that building (10 West Main Street). Another (Johnson’s) state directory from 1902 listed Thomas & Sons as the proprietors of the hardware store at that address. The sign above that awning advertised OLIVER ____ ____ PLOWS. The Oliver Chilled Plow Works was located in South Bend. The 1922 city directory listed the Pickett Hardware Co. at this address.
The large pocket watch on the pole was a traditional trade symbol used by jewelers. This sign stood at 8 West Main Street and advertised SMITH BROS. Smith Bros. were listed in the central Indiana 1902 directory under JEWELERS & OPTICIANS with phone numbers but no location information; they were listed in the OPTICIAN category at 109 West Main Street. The Johnson’s state directory listed Smith Bros. at 114 West Main Street. The 1900 and 1906 Sanborn™ map sets show a jewelry business at 8 West Main Street and the 1914 map set shows a nonspecific store type.
The large building on the northwest corner at State Street (2, 4 and 6 West Main Street) is shown in all three map sets. Each shows a dry goods and clothing business at the street level, offices on the second floor and the Masonic Hall on the third floor. Across the street, on the northeast corner (2 East Main Street) all three map sets show a drug store. The awning on that corner appears to include advertising for CIGARS and SODA. Both 1902 state directories listed The Crescent Pharmacy (A. C. Pilkenton, proprietor) at this location. Abram C. Pilkenton’s widow was listed in the 1922 city directory. The sign above the awning on that corner advertised a DENTIST, but the name on the sign is unclear. This was Robert. I. Bell who was listed in both 1902 directories. In the Johnson’s directory he was listed at 344 Thayer Block and in the central Indiana directory he was listed at the corner of Main and East streets. The 1922 city listed Robert I. Bell’s practice at 2½ E. Main Street, which would have been upstairs from the drugstore at that corner.
A sign at the right edge of the postcard advertised FURNITURE. The 1906 and 1914 map sets show a furniture store on the southeast corner at East Street (1 and 3 South East Street) across from the courthouse square. The 1922 city directory listed the J. W. Cooper Department Store in the FURNITURE category at that location.
The 1906 map set shows a waiting room on the south side of Main Street (5 West Main Street). This was three doors west of State Street in a two-story brick building. The 1902 Johnson’s directory listed the Indianapolis & Eastern Railway Co. (formerly the Indianapolis & Greenfield Traction Co.) at this address. The company was bought by the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co. in 1907 and a new station was then built at 201-203 East Main Street.
All of these buildings except the one where the traction station was located remained in use as of 2013. City Hall is now located on the southwest corner at State Street.
1. Business and Professional Directory of Central Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Union Directory Co., 1902). Available online at openlibrary.org/books/OL22862780M/Business_and_profession....
2. The Era Druggists Directory, Eleventh Edition (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1905). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=bantAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Indiana Board of Pharmacy, Ninth Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1908). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=afjqAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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c1910 postcard view of the P. C. C. & St. L. (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis) Railway depot at Galveston, Indiana. This line ran from Chicago through Logansport, Kokomo and Indianapolis to Cincinnati. The signs on the depot said the distance to Chicago was 133.2 miles and it was 165.8 miles to Cincinnati. A railroad handcar sat beside the station along with a handcart and some loose wheels. Grain elevator buildings stood along the tracks opposite the depot.
The P. C. C. & St. Louis Railway timetables for December 1907¹ at Galveston show five trains on the route originating in Cincinnati or Richmond and traveling to Logansport or Chicago. Five trains also traveled this route in the opposite direction from either Logansport or Chicago. Two trains in each direction stopped at Galveston. The timetables also show three trains from Chicago traveling to Indianapolis and Louisville via Galveston and three in the opposite direction. Only one of those trains in each direction stopped at Galveston. The stops on the route to and from Louisville were for discharge or pickup of passengers only.
1. The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (New York: National Railway Publication Co., 1908), page 488. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&printsec=front....
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c1908 postcard view of Hamilton, Indiana. The postcard title refers to “Main Street,” but this must have been Fort Wayne Road, known as Wayne Street today. The photographer was standing at the intersection of Bellefontaine Road (identified as Defiance Road in the 1912 Steuben County atlas.¹). The shadows indicate it was late morning. The Hamilton map in the 1912 atlas shows the Wabash Railroad crossing from west to east at the south edge of town and then turning east-northeast and crossing Richland Township on the way to Ohio. However, the railroad isn’t clearly visible in this view and the map doesn’t show a depot. A small bridge in the distance (above the buggy) must have carried the road over Fish Creek.
The two buildings on the left in this scene are still standing on the southeast corner of the Wayne Street/Bellfontaine Road intersection, but the south half of the second building is gone. The GROCERIES sign advertised the business on that corner, but no other identification of the business name is visible. The word SODA was printed on the folded awning next door and was probably preceded by ICE CREAM. This may have been the location of a drugstore.
The potted tree stood in front of the next store to the south. The two signs above the awning are unclear, but the top sign appears to have a name painted on it. Beyond that tree, the Bell System sign on the utility pole advertised the location of a public telephone. These signs were common across Indiana before personal telephones became commonplace. The J. HARGER MEAT MARKET, CASH FOR HIDES sign appears to be standing in front of the two-story wood frame building. The wagon was parked in front of that building. A barber’s pole is visible farther down the street. It was standing beyond the fourth utility pole on that side of the street, but the shop itself was hidden by tree foliage.
Across the street, the woman with the bonnet was standing on the southwest corner at Church Street next to a small structure that might have been a public water well. The FISHING TACKLE HERE sign appears to be associated with a business on the southwest corner of that intersection. A sign advertising THE HAMILTON HARDWARE COMPANY stood at the curb in front of the building on the northwest corner of the intersection. The shape and format of the lettering on the sign hanging on the corner of that building strongly suggests it is advertising Garland brand stoves and ranges. Many hardware stores across Indiana displayed similar signs back then.
Farther north, another sign advertised RUDD & CO. DRUGGIST. The lower sign advertised ICE CREAM SODA, SOUVENIR POSTALS, FISHING TACKLE. (The souvenir postals were postcards.) A 1905 national druggists directory² included only two druggists at Hamilton. They were Rudd & Co. and Charles E Swift. A 1909 National Association of Retail Druggists publication reported, “… at Hamilton, Rudd & Co. sold out to Waldo Miller….” This photograph must have been taken prior to that sale.
Next door to the drugstore, the awning advertised HAMILTON BANK. A 1910 report³ said the bank received its state Certificate of Authority in 1905. O. H. Taylor was listed as president and cashier.
1. H. W. Morley, Atlas of Steuben County Indiana/i> (Angola, IN, 1912), page 25. Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/11595/.
2. The Era Druggists Directory, Eleventh Edition (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1905). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=bantAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Auditor of the State of Indiana, Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=l_dJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
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c1910 postcard view of Larwill, Indiana. The postcard has no caption, but shows the railroad in the foreground and the prominent LARWILL, IND. POST OFFICE sign. This view was probably looking north on Center Street, but, most of these buildings are now gone. In this scene horse-drawn buggies and wagons were present along with several pedestrians, some of whom were posing for the photographer.
According to a 1907 county history,¹ the town was laid out in 1854 along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago (P. F. W. & C.) Railroad. The original town name was Huntsville. However, when the post office moved from nearby Summit, it could not be renamed Huntsville Post Office because another Huntsville post office already existed in Indiana. Residents decided to change the town’s name to Larwill so that the town and post office could use the same name. There being no other Larwill post office in Indiana, the Post Office Department agreed to change the post office name as well.
A 1916 county atlas² includes a map of Larwill that appears to show the post office on the northeast corner at the Center Street railroad crossing. However, the hand-lettered label is unclear. A short distance north, the map shows a hotel on the northeast corner at North Street.
The 1916 atlas map shows the depot near the southwest corner of the Center Street crossing. This postcard scene shows a bandstand above the sidewalk near the left edge of this scene and near where the depot would have been.
Across North Street, beyond that bandstand, a sign advertised CITY DRUG STORE on one of the buildings. A smaller sign probably bears the name of the druggist, but is unclear. A 1905 druggist directory listed one druggist in Larwill, S. W. Byall. A 1908 directory listed John E. Berry and Edward L. Garrett, but only John Berry was listed in a 1912 directory. Farther up the street, another sign appears to include the word FUR or FURS.
Across the street, possibly near the Hammontree Street intersection, were signs advertising a FEED BARN and a LUNCH ROOM. At the North Street intersection, three men were standing beside a gas lamp. The sign on the side of the building on that corner is unreadable, but may have identified the name of the hotel that the 1916 map shows on that corner. The signs on the building north of the post office are unclear as well. The sign above the post office advertised the local Modern Woodmen of America chapter.
The P. F. W. & C. railroad extended across Indiana from Pittsburg and Ohio through Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Warsaw and eventually to Chicago. By the time a 1908 railway guide³ was being published, the railroad had become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. A schedule dated December 1907 showed six daily trains traveling westbound between Pittsburg and Chicago on this route. Five stopped in Fort Wayne, but none stopped in Larwill. That same schedule showed eight trains traveling eastbound with two of these stopping in Larwill. A separate schedule showed two trains from running in each direction between Crestline, Ohio and Chicago. They stopped at Larwill. A separate train ran daily between Fort Wayne and Chicago and it also stopped in Larwill. A note at the bottom of the schedules pointed out that this line was double-tracked all the way between Pittsburgh and Chicago. That was a big deal and showed how important this route was.
1. Samuel P. Kaler and Richard H. Maring, History of Whitley County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1907). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-hUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Standard Atlas of Whitley County, Indiana Including a Plat Book (Chicago, IL: George A. Ogle & Co., 1916). Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/9079/.
3. The Official Railway Guide: North American Freight Service Edition (New York: National Railway Publication Co., 1908), pages 478-479. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=kLgbTCc-AOcC&printsec=front....
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Excerpts from Eric Gill: A Lover’s Quest for Art and God by Fiona MacCarthy. Plates: 1989 US edition, E. P. Dutton (Source: WH Smith Archive). Text: 2011 UK edition, Faber & Faber.
“At the end of I903 Gill, the inveterate hater of garlic, was in Paris. He was there to paint the letters W. H. SMITH & SON on the fascia of Smith’s Paris bookshop. He was also commissioned to paint lettering in the English tea-room which formed part of the Smith’s complex, an outpost of old England in the rue de Rivoli. This was the first of a number of fascias hand-lettered by Gill for W. H. Smith at the instigation of St John Hornby, a director of Smith’s, a great Arts and Crafts patron and connoisseur of lettering. His own private press, the Ashendene, is one of the most famous of its period. His choice of Eric Gill to paint Smith’s signs was an inspired one; whilst other letterers might have treated them elaborately Gill’s approach was absolutely clear and workmanlike. Although Gill himself only continued the hand-lettering till I905 when, on grounds of cost, it was delegated to Smith’s own sign-writers (‘I do not mean’, wrote Hornby, ‘that we consider your charges in any way excessive ... ‘), Gill had established a style which was adhered to by W. H. Smith for many years to come. It was, as the design historians would later comment, one of the very first examples of corporate identity.”
Several typefaces are derived from Gill’s model, including Gill Facia (Monotype, 1996) and Dear Sir/Madam (RP Digital Foundry, 2011).
1911 postmarked postcard view of Lakeville, Indiana. This view was looking south on Michigan Street and shows a two-story wood frame building on the left with a POST OFFICE sign. The 1911 St. Joseph County atlas¹ shows the Lakeville Post Office on the northeast corner at the Second Street intersection. (That street is identified as East Washington Street today.) The sign painted on the display window to the right of the entrance advertises _____ MOORE HARDWARE [and] COAL. The postcard owner found that the Moore brothers opened a hardware store in Lakeville in 1894. A decade later, Alex Moore was identified as the coal and hardware business owner.
In this scene, a young girl sat on a crude bench in front of the store. The two signs leaning against the building on either side of the entrance advertised LOWE BROTHERS PAINT. The Lowe Brothers Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio and was later bought by the Sherwin-Williams Company. The partial sign pasted on the post in the foreground advertised SYRUP OF FIGS, a common laxative product.
The single-story wood frame building south of the hardware store advertised A. O. VANLIEW. DEALER IN DRUGS & HARDWARE. A 1910 Van Liew family history identified the druggist as Alpheus O. Van Liew. He was also listed in a 1905 directory of druggists.² A genealogy website says he died in August, 1906. If the man posing in front of that store was Mr. Van Liew, then the photograph was taken earlier in 1906 or perhaps 1905.
The sign on the small building beyond the Van Liew store advertised DR. HOW. A report³ issued in 1904 listed John T. How as a physician in Lakeville. He had received his license to practice in St. Joseph County in 1902 after graduating in 1897 from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Chicago.
None of the signs posted on the utility pole in front of the doctor’s office are clear enough to read. A sign on the small structure beyond Dr. How’s office appears to include the word FEED.
Typically, the store owner where the post office was located served as the community’s postmaster, but the list of postmasters for this period does not include anyone with the Moore name. The following were the Lakeville postmasters during this period:
1893 Douglas Rush
1897 Charles W. Moon
1908 Frank A. Barkley
Postmaster Moon owned a building across the street where he ran the C. W. Moon & Son general store, and operated the post office. His building was next to the building commonly known as the Rensberger General Store. The Moon building was destroyed by fire, but the Rensberger building is still in use today. Mr. Moon was postmaster from 1897 until December of 1902, when he filed for bankruptcy. The sheriff closed the Moon store and Deputy Sheriff Frank Barkley was placed in charge of the post office. The records don’t indicate if the deputy sheriff was the same Frank A. Barkley that became postmaster in 1908, nor do the records indicate when the post office was moved across the street to the location shown in this postcard scene. If the gentleman standing in the background in this scene is Mr. Van Liew, then the post office was moved across the street from the Moon building long before Mr. Barkley was appointed postmaster. It is possible the post office was moved out of the Moon building shortly after that building was closed by the sheriff at the end of 1902. Mr. Barkley may have been acting as postmaster from that time until his official appointment in 1908, or Mr. Moon may have resumed his duties as postmaster in the new location while the bankruptcy was being adjudicated and for the years following. We have not yet found information to explain the situation during this period. Mr. Moon was 62 at the time of the bankruptcy filing.
When this photograph was taken, Michigan Street made a sharp turn to the west at the south edge of town. The house at that corner in this scene is shown on the 1911 plat map. That property belonged to F. E. Van Liew.
1. Standard Atlas of St. Joseph County Indiana Including a Plat Book (Chicago, IL: George A. Ogle & Co., 1911) page 83. Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/7719/St.+Joseph+County+....
2. The Era Druggists Directory, Eleventh Edition (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1905). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=bantAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Indiana State Board of Medical Registration and Examination, The Sixth Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1904). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=yk1JCeJJsPAC&printsec=front....
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Guy Gilpatric - French Summer
Avon Books 180, 1948
Cover Artist: © Ann Cantor initials (R.G. - Robert Graves)
"A platinum blonde – a French bathing suit – and four amorous males."
Illustration copyright registered to Ann Cantor:
"A Happy New Year 1879 from H. A and S. S. Brickenstein."
The Rev. Hermann A. Brickenstein and his wife, Susan Shultz Brickenstein, were listed in the 1890 edition of the American College and Public School Directory, p. 96, as principal and vice-principal of the Linden Hall Seminary, a "Moravian school for young ladies," in Lititz, Pa. Linden Hall continues its educational mission today as "the oldest girls' school in the United States."
Five Mile Flume
Along Rochat Creek
Benewah County, Idaho
Production Date: 1910
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: AZO
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Written on the reverse of this postcard is "Saint Maries, Idaho" and "W. D. Starbird, 5 mile flume, 1007 Spalding."
The flume shown in this image was located along Rochat Creek on land owned by the Milwaukee Land Company. Rochet Creek is approximately 5.5 miles east of St. Maries, Idaho, and flows in a southerly direction draining into the St. Joe River. The flume was constructed in the fall of 1910 soon after the catastrophic Great Fire of 1910 (August 21-22) that burned over three million acres in eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana, and killed 87 people.
It is well established that W.D. Starbird provided engineering designs for log flumes throughout the Inland Empire; he was also an architect specializing in sawmills. Starbird appears numerous times in timber and lumber trade magazines of the early 1900s. For instance, a paper that he presented at the Fourth Session of the Pacific Logging Congress titled "The Availability of Log Flumes for Transporting Heavy Timber" appears in the November 1916 [pp. 76-78] issue of The Timberman.
The Timberman article quotes Starbird stating that "The first lumber flume ever constructed for the exclusive purpose of transporting logs and long timber, so far as I am informed, was that built for the Milwaukee Land Co. on Rochet Creek [sic], Idaho, some six years ago [i.e., circa 1910]. It proved a success beyond expectations and demonstrated the value of this means for making accessable [sic], timber that could not be taken out at a practical cost by any other method now in use. Since its construction, several other flumes have been built at various points in the Inland Empire and British Columbia." Later in the article Starbird is quoted as stating that he was responsible for the construction of the Milwaukee Land Company's Rochat Creek log flume. The article also includes photographs of this same flume and cross-sectional diagrams of its design.
The particular portion of the flume visible in this image was designed with a height of six feet (72 inches), measured from foot board along the right side of the flume to the top edge, and could transport logs up to six feet (72 inches) in diameter. Further down the flume the design increased in size to 100 inches in height with a capability of transporting logs up to eight feet (96 inches) in diameter. The smaller flume cost $8,000 to $10,000 per mile to construct, while the larger flume cost $10,000 to $12,000 per mile to construct, according to Starbird's paper. This translated into a log flume transport cost of 12.5 to 25 cents per thousand board feet, including maintenance costs, which was far lower than the cost per thousand board feet using rail, truck, or horse.
Another article published in the January 13, 1912, issue of American Lumberman states that the five mile long Rochat Creek flume cost $10,000 to build. The article reports that if a logging road was constructed as an alternative, then the cost would have been $80,000 to $90,000 per mile. The Milwaukee Land Company reported that it believed that all of the burned over timber would be saved.
On page 44 of the August 1912 issue of The Timberman, W.D. Starbird is quoted stating that the Rochet Creek flume included six feeder flumes and a telephone line and equipment.
W. D. Starbird's full name was Winfield Daniel Starbird. He was born in 1869 in Maine and died in 1949 in Oregon. Starbird is buried at Summerville Cemetery located in Summerville, Union County, Oregon.
The 1915 Spokane, Washington, city directory indicates that Starbird is a civil engineer operating out of 416 Realty Building with a home residence of Portland, Oregon. His wife, Jessie L. (Tuttle) Starbird, is also listed in the directory.
Note the dog visible at the far lower right of the image!
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This medieval seal is that of the French city of Pamiers.
"Pamiers is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France." (Wikipedia)
It depicts the legend of St. Antonin.
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This is St. Antonin's legend:
According to legend, the first evangelist arriving in Rouergue was St. Antonin. He was rapidly successful in his task and in spite of pleas of the inhabitants of Noble Val, he wanted to move on and carry the gospel on to Pamiers, his homeland.
(Prior to the time of the Crusades, the town was Frédélas.)
Antonin then went back to Frédélas in the hope of converting people to Christianity from whence he came.
The people were not as receptive and he was beheaded and dismembered.
Then comes the miracle, his remains were placed in a boat and two white eagles guided the boat which
"slid miraculously on the waters of the river and followed the Tarn and the Aveyron upstream. The boat stopped finally at the confluence of the Averyon and the Bonnett Rivers...
At that time, there was a rich and powerful count called Festus who ruled the 'Noble Val' of the Averyon valley. He recognised the hand of God in this wonderful voyage and laid the remains of the martyr in an impressive shrine where later an abbey was erected on the site."
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The Hanseatic Museum, Bergen, Norway,
1909 postmarked postcard view of Main Street in Churubusco, Indiana. The photographer was looking southeast from the Washington Street intersection. The farthest buildings in this scene were south of the Vandalia Railroad tracks.
The sign on the building at the left edge of this scene advertised O. GANDY & CO. THE EXCHANGE BANK. The 1905 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Churubusco shows a repository in the north half of that building and the bank in the south half. The 1911 map set identified the repository as a carriage repository. A 1910 state auditor’s report¹ identified the bank as The Exchange Bank of O. Gandy & Co. and indicated a Certificate of Authority had been issued in 1905. Oscar Gandy was the owner. The 1907 Whitley County history included the following paragraph about the founding of the bank.
“On September 11, 1893, Oscar Gandy established the "Exchange Bank" under the firm name of O. Gandy & Co.. with a capital of $10.000. The Exchnage [sic] Bank has always done a prosperous business and is considered one of our most substantial financial affairs and has increased its capital to $25,000. The present officers and employes are O. Gandy, president; E. E. Gandy, cashier; John A. Pressler, assistant cashier; Ursula Magers, bookkeeper; Minnie Anderson, stenographer; and George Gump, janitor.“²
The history also included an entry on page 305 stating the bank building was built in 1898.
Two brick buildings stood south of the bank building. Business names were printed on the awnings, but are not clear enough to read. The 1905 map set shows a meat market in the north building and department store in the south building. The 1911 map set shows the meat market and a clothing, dry goods and furniture business in the buildings.
Next door, the wood frame building housed (from north to south) the Churubusco Post Office, a bakery and a barbershop according to the 1905 map set. The 1911 map set shows a newer and longer brick building that housed (from north to south) a notions business, the post office, a confectionery and tobacco business, a jewelry business and a barbershop. The only visible sign on that building in this postcard scene was the US POST OFFICE sign.
Across the street, the most distant businesses were south of Whitley Street. Two of the signs appear to advertise a MEAT MARKET and A GROCERY. The 1905 and 1911 Sanborn™ map sets show a grocery in that block, but not in the different locations for each year. Neither shows a meat market. Another small sign in that block advertised a lunch room, but it’s difficult to tell which building the sign is on. The 1905 map set shows two restaurants in that block and the 1911 map set shows a single restaurant.
Farther north (closer to the photographer) were signs advertising CITY DRUG STORE, DENTIST and ICE CREAM SODA. The soda sign undoubtedly belonged with the drugstore sign. It is difficult to tell which signs belonged with which building. Although these signs may appear to be in front of one of the two two-story brick buildings, they were probably in front of the wood frame building across the alley to the north. Both map sets show a drugstore as the second business north of Whitley Street in a two-story wood frame building on the north side of the alley. This was directly across Main Street from the post office. The 1905 map set actually identifies the store as a drugs and stationery business.
The 1907 county history listed J. F. Criswell & Son and Miss Mary Eikenberry & Co. as owners of drug stores in town. However, a 1905 directory of retail druggists listed the names as Craig & Boggs and Eikenberry & Co. A 1908 directory listed A. B. Craig and Mary Eikenberry.
The only dentist listed for Churubusco in a 1914 directory was Frank B. Weaver, a 1900 graduate of Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago. The dental office would probably have been upstairs and the Sanborn™ map sets typically don’t identify those offices unless they are in separate buildings.
The awnings at the right edge of the postcard were on a group of small buildings near the southwest corner of Washington Street. A wood frame building stood on that corner and is outside this view. It housed a grocery and millinery shop. The awning at the right edge of this postcard may belong to the millinery shop. The other awnings were on a brick building south of the corner, and one awning appears to advertise M. KOCHER. Both Sanborn™ map sets show a boots and shoes business at that location. The 1907 county history reported that Mr. Kocher built a brick building in Churubusco in 1892 and ran his boots and shoes business in the building.
1. Auditor of the State of Indiana, Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=l_dJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Samuel P. Kaler and Richard H. Maring, History of Whitley County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1907), pages 307-308. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-hUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
This image was created by Thomas Keesling from a postcard courtesy of the Indiana Postal History Society.
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Pg83-84
5 x 9 in / 15 x 23 cms. double-page book spread. collage on paper.
Altered Book.
Life
Norwegian wood [ Tokio Blues ] / Haruki Murakami.
Fragment. Page # 382
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GREAT STORY & close-up photo of this monument under "Weeping Bottle/Tear Vial."
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My Albany Rural set. www.flickr.com/photos/becca3k/tags/albanyruralcemetery/
Scan of old photo.
c1910 postcard view of Spout Spring located three miles southwest of Shoals, Indiana. This view was looking southwest along Spout Springs Road (County Road 63). A horse-drawn buggy was stopped beside the water trough at the spring and another buggy was approaching from the south. Photographers frequently parked their buggies and automobiles in the scenes they were photographing and that may have been the case here.
The painted sign advertised the M. C. B. STORE, listing various types of merchandise AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. The name at the bottom of that sign was G. R. BOYLE. An 1891 newspaper announcement included the name Rev. G. R. Boyle. Another online reference identified George R. Boyle as a Shoals merchant. George R. Boyle was also a notary public and secretary of the Shoals Savings and Loan Association of Shoals.
Preston H. Miles wrote a lengthy account titled “A Trip Down the White.” That account was published in a 1913 Indiana Department of Fisheries and Game report. The trip was on the East Fork White River that runs past Shoals and passes about 1000 feet north of Spout Spring. The Miles group stopped near Spout Spring southwest of Shoals and the account included the following.
“A few hundred yards from where we camped is Spout Spring, back from the river bank, and on the main road out of Shoals. The road follows the shelf of a precipitous rock. At the spring is built a trough from which passing horses may drink. The spring arises near the innermost wall of the small cave formed by the overhanging rock. Its water is of a rare sweetness and purity and so cool is it that one must drink it carefully.”¹
1. Indiana Department of Fisheries and Game, Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, 1913), page 175. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=tIkmAQAAIAAJ&printsec=front....
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On my way back home I decided to take the N4 as a short-cut between Luxemburg and Liège. Right before nightfall I came across an oldtimer garage along this N4. I was really astonished what I discovered there...
This unknown Fargo truck was in fact a rebadged Dodge vehicle. It also could have been a De Soto truck, while the Chrysler Corporation used these different brand names for the same utility vehicles.
I can't find any more info about this van.
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Seen at garage Noiset & Fils.
Production: 1948-1950.
Number seen: 1.
Hollange/Fauvillers (B.), Malmaison, N4, Ardennes, May 8, 2016.
See: www.google.nl/maps/place/Noiset+Latour+Sprl/@49.8974545,5...
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"First Grand Package Party and Ball to be held by the Manhattan Social Club, Kepler's Hall, (Post-Office Building,) on Saturday evening, May 16th, 1891. Dancing from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Tickets, 10 cents. No. _____. No. _____ 1st prize: gold watch charm. 2nd prize: lamp. 3d prize: gold ring. 4th prize: gold cuff buttons. 5th prize: two boxes cigars. 6th prize: ¼ flour. 7th prize: water set. Retain this ticket, as it entitles the holder to a chance for one of the valuable prizes. Pluck Art Print."
This ticket is similar to other "Grand Package Party" tickets printed by Pluck Print. See First Grand Package Party of the Lancaster Coachmakers (Jan. 3, 1891) , First Grand Package Party of the Star Club (Feb. 7, 1891), First Grand Package Party and Ball to be Held by the Manhattan Social Club (May 16, 1891), First Grand Package Party of the Lancaster Grays Base Ball Club (Nov. 26, 1891), and Second Grand Package Party of the Lancaster Grays Base Ball Club (May 9, 1892.).
From what I've been able to determine, "package parties" were social and fundraising events during which wrapped packages were auctioned off. The idea, apparently, was to raise money and create amusement by wrapping items in such a way as to make them appear to be something different or more valuable than they actually were. Here's a description of a package party held in 1908, for instance:
"Package Party By Brooklyn Women," The Pharmaceutical Era, April 2, 1908, p. 436.
An enjoyable package party and social was given on Tuesday evening of last week at the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy....
The affair was purely informal and there were funny incidents from beginning to end. On account of his well-known ability as a jollier, Dr. W. C. Anderson was unanimously selected to act as auctioneer and most satisfactorily did he acquit himself. His flow of wit kept everybody in roars of laughter and secured high bids for what turned out to be the most trivial articles.
It was when the packages were opened that the real surprises came. One bundle for which the bidding was fiercest was found upon investigation to conceal thirteen lemons--and, of course, the joke was on the successful bidder. Another carefully wrapped parcel gave every evidence from its size and appearance of hiding an expensive silk umbrella. A pool of the younger men present was organized to bid for it and the price was run up to $1.65. As soon as they began to take off the wrappings, a series of low barks was heard and when all was undone, there was set free a full string of frankfurters.
There were other surprises equally amusing. When all was over there was not a person present who had not crowded enough laughter into the evening to last him for several weeks.
On 7 August 2015, four of us were extremely fortunate to have the chance to visit the home and highly varied topographic 62-acre property belonging to Frances and David Dover. We felt honoured and privileged to meet and spend time with Frances and David, and also their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair. A delightful family who welcomed us so warmly into their home and land.
This acreage of grassland, forest, rolling hills - and special gardens - is not far from Millarville, SW of Calgary. In fact, it's in an area that I often drive through when I only have time for, or only feel like doing, a short drive. Amazing what little gems exist out there.
This is not just a beautiful property, but is very special for various reasons. For one thing, read any history of Alberta and you will find the Dover family, including David's mother, Mary Dover. Second, among the trees and open "lawns", there are Peony flower beds, containing 100-150 heritage Peonies, each one different, that have now multiplied to more than 300 plants. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had already gone to seed. Another open area had a different kind of ground cover - Thyme, which smelled wonderful. If I remember correctly, this was the open space where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performed on one occasion!
There are two large ponds on the property and another smaller area of water that they hope to turn into a Japanese Garden. There is a total of seven wetland basins, including these. It was while walking around the Japanese Garden that a large brown 'shape' could just be seen through the dense trees - a handsome Moose buck. I will look properly at the four or so photos I just managed to get and may slip one of them into my photostream sometime, just for the record, definitely not for the photo quality : ) This was also where a Great Horned Owl was seen flying through the trees by some of us (not me, ha!).
There are grassy paths winding through the acreage, up and down hill, that take David seven hours to mow. They are not pristine, velvety paths, but instead, they seem to take nothing away from the wildness of the whole area. One of the animals that has passed through is the Cougar. In fact, several years ago, I saw a video taken on a nearby (or adjacent?) property, where a 'kill' and night-time camera had been set up and a total of six different Cougar individuals were seen!
Even the Dover's home is unique and beautiful. It is completely built of concrete (and glass) - floors, walls, ceilings, roof, deck, and so on. A Hummingbird feeder and regular bird feeders, set up on the patio, attract a variety of birds. We sat on the patio after our walk to eat our packed lunches - and to enjoy a delicious Orange Pound Cake that Frances had made for us, along with refreshing Iced Tea - thank you so much for this, Frances! While I was waiting for one of three tiny Calliope (?) Hummingbirds to come back, I was lucky enough to see a little Mountain Chickadee, along with many Pine Siskins. We could also hear a Red-tailed Hawk in the area. Saw a total of 22 bird species.
There is just so much I could write about this visit and family. Instead, or for now, I will add several links to more information on the Internet. This was a memorable day for us. Thank you so much, Frances and David, Carolyn and Clair, for being so kind and welcoming us into your home and gardens.
books.google.ca/books?id=Tr36Tq_gadcC&pg=PA290&lp...
www.westernwheel.com/article/20110727/WHE06/307279983/-1/...
David's mother, Mary Dover (her father was A. E. Cross), was "a dynamic and distinguished Calgarian, particularly known for her work with the military during World War II." As well as being an army officer, and an alderman, she was also a preservationist. See the following link.
www.albertachampions.org/champions-mary_dover.htm#.VcY1KP...
ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?XC=/searc...
glencoe.org/documents/10184/637479/The-History-of-Elbow-P... page 44-45
When you think of Woody Guthrie, the legendary folk singer from Oklahoma, it's easy to picture him as an itinerant Dust Bowl balladeer, roaming and rambling through the rural landscapes of "This Land Is Your Land". But that song also mentions "the New York island", and Woody, who spent most of the latter half of his life in the Big Apple, was just as much of a city dweller as he was anything else.
Foremost among his urban residences was 3520 Mermaid Avenue, a brick row house in Coney Island that stood on the site now occupied by the senior-citizen apartment tower pictured above. He lived here from 1943 to 1950, sharing a one-bedroom apartment with his second wife Marjorie and their children (including Arlo, born in 1947). Among his favorite Coney Island activities: building sand castles on the beach with the kids (his own and others) and going to Nathan's Famous for hot dogs and "hot patooties" (french fries).
Woody lived out his last relatively healthy years here on Mermaid Avenue. In the late 1940s, when he was in his mid-to-late 30s, his behavior started becoming "increasingly erratic, moody and violent"; these changes were early symptoms of what turned out to be Huntington's disease, the vicious neurodegenerative disorder that killed his mother. By 1954, he was in the hospital for good; he would remain in one institution or another for the next 13 years while the disease gradually ate away at his brain. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie finally died in 1967 at the age of 55 at Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens.
A prolific songwriter, Woody left behind a vast trove of unrecorded lyrics. Over the years, his daughter Nora has invited a number of artists to comb through the archive and write music for his orphaned songs. The first of these collaborations, with Billy Bragg and Wilco, resulted in 1998's beautiful and critically acclaimed album Mermaid Avenue, and generated enough material for two subsequent releases. You can listen to all three Mermaid Avenue records here: the original, Vol. II, and Vol. III.
Let's close with Woody's own tribute to his Coney Island street, a song he called "Mermaid's Avenue":
Mermaid Avenue that’s the street
Where the lox and bagels meet,
Where the sour meets the sweet;
Where the beer flows to the ocean
Where the wine runs to the sea;
Why they call it Mermaid Avenue
That’s more than I can see.
CHORUS:
But there’s never been a mermaid here
On Mermaid Avenue
No, I’ve never seen a mermaid here
On Mermaid Avenue
I’ve seen hags and wags and witches;
And I’ve seen a shark or two
My five years that I’ve lived along
Old Mermaid’s Avenue
Mermaid Avenue that’s the street
Where the saint and sinners meet;
Where the grey hair meets the wave curls
Where the cops don’t ever sleep;
Where they pay some cops to stop you
When you hit that Sea Gate* gate;
Where them bulls along that wire fence
Scare the mermaids all away
Mermaid Avenue that’s the street
Where the sun and storm clouds meet;
Where the ocean meets that rockwall
Where the boardwalk meets the beach;
Where the prettiest of the maidulas
Leave their legprints in that sand
Just beneath our lovesoaked boardwalk
With the bravest of our lads.
CHORUS
Mermaid Avenue that’s the street
Where all colors of goodfolks meet;
Where the smokefish meets the pretzel
Where the borscht sounds like the seas;
This is where hot Mexican Chili
Meets Chop Suey and meatballs sweet;
Mermaid Avenue she’s a nervous jerk
But, still, she’s hard to beat.
* Woody lived in Sea Gate for at least two short periods of time. In 1943, not long before his first stint in the Merchant Marine, he moved in with Marjorie and their infant daughter in "a tiny room above [Marjorie's] parents' apartment". And in 1948, he rented a room in the gated community during a brief separation from Marjorie.
UPDATE: When they left Mermaid Avenue in 1950, Woody and his family moved to the Beach Haven apartment complex, a development near Coney Island built and operated by Fred Christ Trump, Donald Trump's father. Woody wasn't a huge fan of his new landlord:
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project
Read more here.
c1908 postcard view of Hamilton, Indiana. The postcard title refers to “Main Street,” but this must have been Fort Wayne Road, known as Wayne Street today. The photographer was standing at the intersection of Bellefontaine Road (identified as Defiance Road in the 1912 Steuben County atlas.¹). The shadows indicate it was late morning. The Hamilton map in the 1912 atlas shows the Wabash Railroad crossing from west to east at the south edge of town and then turning east-northeast and crossing Richland Township on the way to Ohio. However, the railroad isn’t clearly visible in this view and the map doesn’t show a depot. A small bridge in the distance (above the buggy) must have carried the road over Fish Creek.
The two buildings on the left in this scene are still standing on the southeast corner of the Wayne Street/Bellfontaine Road intersection, but the south half of the second building is gone. The GROCERIES sign advertised the business on that corner, but no other identification of the business name is visible. The word SODA was printed on the folded awning next door and was probably preceded by ICE CREAM. This may have been the location of a drugstore.
The potted tree stood in front of the next store to the south. The two signs above the awning are unclear, but the top sign appears to have a name painted on it. Beyond that tree, the Bell System sign on the utility pole advertised the location of a public telephone. These signs were common across Indiana before personal telephones became commonplace. The J. HARGER MEAT MARKET, CASH FOR HIDES sign appears to be standing in front of the two-story wood frame building. The wagon was parked in front of that building. A barber’s pole is visible farther down the street. It was standing beyond the fourth utility pole on that side of the street, but the shop itself was hidden by tree foliage.
Across the street, the woman with the bonnet was standing on the southwest corner at Church Street next to a small structure that might have been a public water well. The FISHING TACKLE HERE sign appears to be associated with a business on the southwest corner of that intersection. A sign advertising THE HAMILTON HARDWARE COMPANY stood at the curb in front of the building on the northwest corner of the intersection. The shape and format of the lettering on the sign hanging on the corner of that building strongly suggests it is advertising Garland brand stoves and ranges. Many hardware stores across Indiana displayed similar signs back then.
Farther north, another sign advertised RUDD & CO. DRUGGIST. The lower sign advertised ICE CREAM SODA, SOUVENIR POSTALS, FISHING TACKLE. (The souvenir postals were postcards.) A 1905 national druggists directory² included only two druggists at Hamilton. They were Rudd & Co. and Charles E Swift. A 1909 National Association of Retail Druggists publication reported, “… at Hamilton, Rudd & Co. sold out to Waldo Miller….” This photograph must have been taken prior to that sale.
Next door to the drugstore, the awning advertised HAMILTON BANK. A 1910 report³ said the bank received its state Certificate of Authority in 1905. O. H. Taylor was listed as president and cashier.
1. H. W. Morley, Atlas of Steuben County Indiana/i> (Angola, IN, 1912), page 25. Available online at www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/11595/.
2. The Era Druggists Directory, Eleventh Edition (New York, NY: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1905). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=bantAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
3. Auditor of the State of Indiana, Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=l_dJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
From a private collection.
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Hellenistic period.
Grotta Caruso/Grotta delle Ninfe (Caruso Cave, Cave of the Nymphs).
An extramural cave shrine of Demeter and the Nymphs at Locri Epizephyrii, located immediately outside the city's eastern circuit walls. Use is documented from the Archaic period; in the Hellenistic period, the cave was built into a nymphaeum. The site seems to have been the locus for ritual bathing by unmarried young women of Locri, perhaps a katabasis or descent representing death and rebirth.
For more information, see here and ; location is marked in Fig. 2 here.
For Locri Epizephyrii/Λοκροὶ Επιζεφύριοι: Pleiades; PECS-Perseus; Attalus; Wikipedia.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria (en.wikipedia), Reggio Calabria, Italy.
The Falls on the Umatilla River, right near the tribal offices, was one of my favorite swimming holes. These two Huck Finns came sliding down together, and right into my camera.
If I ever knew their names, I'd forgotten them when I hung the image at Tamastslikt. the tribe's Cultural Center, in a photo show they called "Pictures of Our People". A comment left by a guest let me know that these happy youths--Bogene Ortiz and Jerry Spencer, did not live much longer.
They were cousins to my flickrfriend, Shekam, who wrote, "it's nice to see them innocent, smiling and having fun!" Sadly, their deaths came about through the influences of dark and difficult things. I'll say no more about that, knowing that if she cares to share more, she will.
The poetry of William Blake, his Songs of Innocence and Experience explores the path we all take--born innocent, sullied by the world though hard experience--and (hopefully) to ultimately arrive at a state of "inspired innocence" rooted in wisdom, "enlightened experience", where worldly knowledge guides us to make the judicious choices, based on a deeper understanding of Life's Lessons, our part in the Great Mystery, Conscious Awareness and Enlightenment.
Not everyone makes this journey. In your early years, the lack of a life jacket or bike helmet can be fatal; in your 20s, drugs, car wrecks, war and violence may bring you down. Get old enough, and you get to worry about heart disease and cancer. "You gotta play the hand that's dealt you, that's what the Old Man said"--Fallen Angel
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1909 postmarked postcard view of Main Street in Churubusco, Indiana. The photographer was looking southeast from the Washington Street intersection. The farthest buildings in this scene were south of the Vandalia Railroad tracks.
The sign on the building at the left edge of this scene advertised O. GANDY & CO. THE EXCHANGE BANK. The 1905 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Churubusco shows a repository in the north half of that building and the bank in the south half. The 1911 map set identified the repository as a carriage repository. A 1910 state auditor’s report¹ identified the bank as The Exchange Bank of O. Gandy & Co. and indicated a Certificate of Authority had been issued in 1905. Oscar Gandy was the owner. The 1907 Whitley County history included the following paragraph about the founding of the bank.
“On September 11, 1893, Oscar Gandy established the "Exchange Bank" under the firm name of O. Gandy & Co.. with a capital of $10.000. The Exchnage [sic] Bank has always done a prosperous business and is considered one of our most substantial financial affairs and has increased its capital to $25,000. The present officers and employes are O. Gandy, president; E. E. Gandy, cashier; John A. Pressler, assistant cashier; Ursula Magers, bookkeeper; Minnie Anderson, stenographer; and George Gump, janitor.“²
The history also included an entry on page 305 stating the bank building was built in 1898.
Two brick buildings stood south of the bank building. Business names were printed on the awnings, but are not clear enough to read. The 1905 map set shows a meat market in the north building and department store in the south building. The 1911 map set shows the meat market and a clothing, dry goods and furniture business in the buildings.
Next door, the wood frame building housed (from north to south) the Churubusco Post Office, a bakery and a barbershop according to the 1905 map set. The 1911 map set shows a newer and longer brick building that housed (from north to south) a notions business, the post office, a confectionery and tobacco business, a jewelry business and a barbershop. The only visible sign on that building in this postcard scene was the US POST OFFICE sign.
Across the street, the most distant businesses were south of Whitley Street. Two of the signs appear to advertise a MEAT MARKET and A GROCERY. The 1905 and 1911 Sanborn™ map sets show a grocery in that block, but not in the different locations for each year. Neither shows a meat market. Another small sign in that block advertised a lunch room, but it’s difficult to tell which building the sign is on. The 1905 map set shows two restaurants in that block and the 1911 map set shows a single restaurant.
Farther north (closer to the photographer) were signs advertising CITY DRUG STORE, DENTIST and ICE CREAM SODA. The soda sign undoubtedly belonged with the drugstore sign. It is difficult to tell which signs belonged with which building. Although these signs may appear to be in front of one of the two two-story brick buildings, they were probably in front of the wood frame building across the alley to the north. Both map sets show a drugstore as the second business north of Whitley Street in a two-story wood frame building on the north side of the alley. This was directly across Main Street from the post office. The 1905 map set actually identifies the store as a drugs and stationery business.
The 1907 county history listed J. F. Criswell & Son and Miss Mary Eikenberry & Co. as owners of drug stores in town. However, a 1905 directory of retail druggists listed the names as Craig & Boggs and Eikenberry & Co. A 1908 directory listed A. B. Craig and Mary Eikenberry.
The only dentist listed for Churubusco in a 1914 directory was Frank B. Weaver, a 1900 graduate of Northwestern University Dental School in Chicago. The dental office would probably have been upstairs and the Sanborn™ map sets typically don’t identify those offices unless they are in separate buildings.
The awnings at the right edge of the postcard were on a group of small buildings near the southwest corner of Washington Street. A wood frame building stood on that corner and is outside this view. It housed a grocery and millinery shop. The awning at the right edge of this postcard may belong to the millinery shop. The other awnings were on a brick building south of the corner, and one awning appears to advertise M. KOCHER. Both Sanborn™ map sets show a boots and shoes business at that location. The 1907 county history reported that Mr. Kocher built a brick building in Churubusco in 1892 and ran his boots and shoes business in the building.
1. Auditor of the State of Indiana, Annual Report (Indianapolis, IN: William B. Burford, 1910). Available online at books.google.com/books?id=l_dJAAAAMAAJ&printsec=front....
2. Samuel P. Kaler and Richard H. Maring, History of Whitley County, Indiana (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1907), pages 307-308. Available online at books.google.com/books?id=-hUVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=front....
This image was created by Thomas Keesling from a postcard courtesy of the Indiana Postal History Society.
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