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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Powers is giving very low estimates on Window Cushions and Seats, making and hanging Window Shades, Draperies and Sash Curtains. Poles of any wood or brass. Open Grate Stoves, second-hand, at bargains. Furniture repaired and upholstered at short notice. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston...
...need not say, therefore, that on such a joyous occasion as this quincentenary jubilee beer must needs flow like water. And the long trucks, heavily laden, innumerable, which rolled by my window in Untere Neckarstrasse on their way to the Festhalle bore, witness to this truth. But on last Friday evening all the glad bibulation culminated in one grand "Bier Kommers," in which all the members of the university participated. It was held in the great Fest Halle and was attended by from four to five thousand persons. At eight and a half o'clock the bout began...
...thunderbolt has smitten them again and again; French gunpowder has done its best to hurl those massive battlements skyward and has failed, though the Great Tower at the corner was blown up. The tooth of time has gnawed unceasingly, yet not all ungently, upon the ruin. From that gaping window Elizabeth of England looked out many a time; that octagon tower and the dungeons beneath it could tell strange tales, if they chose; kings and princes have supped and made merry in those halls, and many a tender vow has been plighted in the moonlight on that great stone promenade...
...decapitation. Frantic vendors charge up and down the street, bawling out the name and nature of their wares: Photographs of Heidelberg, programmes of the procession, jubilee medals, whips, whistles, badges, sandwiches and pretzels. As nine o'clock approaches, the excitement becomes intense. Every available standing place is occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced...
Powers is giving very low estimates on Window Cushions and Seats, making and hanging Window Shades, Draperies and Sash Curtains. Poles of any wood or brass. Open Grate Stoves, second-hand, at bargains. Furniture repaired and upholstered at short notice. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston...