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...flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y. was probably the earliest scientific "house organ...
Skiiers will be encouraged by word from Mount Mansfield, Vermont, that good trail skiing is to be found on the upper parts of the mountain, while the carriage road may be run to the foot. Heavy snow in the latter part of November provided the earliest skiing in New England...
...reproduction of President Eliot's voice, taken from the speech in praise of Asa Grey, is remarkable because it was made in the very earliest days of Movie-tone, and is not as clear as it might...
...DeForest, distinguished inventor, luckily took a record of President Eliot's speech given in praise of Dr. Asa Grey when a bust of the latter was unveiled in N.Y.U.'s Hall of Fame. This is one of the earliest talkie pictures ever made...
...exotic reputation, champagne was one of the earliest wines to be successfully produced in the U. S. Nicholas Longworth Sr., great grandfather of the late Speaker of the House, produced it in Ohio as early as 1825, and by 1855 had 1,200 acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...