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...boat, but piled the family in a rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board, a setting-up of shaking down which demanded a high ceiling...
...century ago Jonas Chickering, then a mere lad, a blacksmith's son in New Hampshire, set to work in his own name as a maker of pianos. There were at his disposal very limited financial means and but a few simple tools, but there were also at his disposal pluck, resourcefulness, persistency, love of his work and inventive genius. With these he wrought a great and lasting American achievement. His was the brain from which sprang the conception, his was the hand that laid the foundation of the splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout...
Jonas Chickering, blacksmith's boy, who became father of the American pianoforte...
...fifty farmers are to sail from New York to take up land grants in Russia amounting to three thousand acres, which they are to develop according to the most approved modern methods in hope of educating the Russian peasant by furnishing a good working example. The group includes a blacksmith, a teacher, a physician, and a tailor, so that the party will make a perfectly self-sufficing village. The project is sponsored by the Society for Technical Aid to Russia. All the members are Russian...
...female role was played by Miss Frances Grayson, a niece of Rear Admiral Grayson, whose charm and clever acting contributed largely to the success of the performance. Miss Grayson is a new member of the company and made an unusually attractive Irish colleen. The happy-go-lucky and romantic blacksmith, interpreted by William Sullivan, makes love to her in most amusing fashion; while his assistant at the forge, as played by Mr. Shaw O'Nolan, quite interrupts the third act with his inimitable rendering of some clever Irish songs...