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Friday Giveaway - Let's Get Eloquent - contest closed

This week's giveaway includes 11 volumes from the set "Modern Eloquence." Published in 1903, it contains hundreds of essays, speeches, ramblings, monologues, and various other forms of language wrestling. Each volume has a few full-page illustrations of some of the authors included. This is the "Edition De Luxe" with gilt top edge and deckled outer edge.

Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.


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Friday Giveaway - Let's Get Eloquent

This week's giveaway includes 11 volumes from the set "Modern Eloquence." Published in 1903, it contains hundreds of essays, speeches, ramblings, monologues, and various other forms of language wrestling. Each volume has a few full-page illustrations of some of the authors included. This is the "Edition De Luxe" with gilt top edge and deckled outer edge.

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below. You can also enter on Facebook , twitter or via email .

I'll gather up all the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM EST.

Good luck!


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Doris

Photograph.

The reverse side is dated January 15, 1938. Written in pencil is "Doris Jean Hoyt - Bainbridge NY."

Found in "The New American Cookbook" edited by Lily Haxworth Wallace. Published by Books, Inc., 1941.

Bainbridge is just down the highway from me, and I've already started searching around the internet for clues about Doris. I'm guessing she is 3-6 years old in the photo, so she was likely born around 1932-5 or so. I hope to find Doris or a member of her family so I can return the photo.

I will keep you updated - if you have any leads, let me know.

UPDATES

1. Looks like Doris was married in 1957 to Anthony H. Salerno. Doris' parents were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hoyt of Bainbridge.

2. It appears Doris was a little older in that photo, it's looking like she was born around 1926 or so.

3. Doris and Anthony now live in New Jersey (I'm fairly sure). I have a phone number, will give it a go.

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Not Forgotten - Part IV

Here are parts one , two and three of this ongoing series where I feature some of the items I find that aren't quite good enough for their own post.





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Puppies

One page from an old photo album. The photos are very small, about two inches by one inch.

If you look at the full-size version of the image above, the first photo (the boy posing the the dog), you can see a sign in the background. You can barely make out "In person..." "Pet... "Our Ga" - which I'm pretty sure is Pete the Pup or Petey from Our Gang .

Found in "The Scarlet Feather" by Houghton Townley. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1909.

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Homework

A handwritten essay on Abraham Lincoln, no date. Also found in the book was a clipping of a portrait of Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Lincoln fough as a volunteer captain in the Black Hawk Indian War, in 1832. His first government job was when he was appointed postmaster at New Salem, Illinois in 1833. (He was elected severa times to the Legislature, Congress, and served one tern as Representative), 

The Lincoln-Douglass debates occurred when both were running for the United States Senate. Stephen A. Douglass won the Senate fight, but later he lost to Lincoln in the race for the presidency.  Before he was elected President he was one of the best known lawyers in Illinois. They called him "Honest Abe" in Springfield, Illinois, because he was always fair in his dealings with others. There is every evidence that he was honest with himself, too, since he worked and saved to better himself, and overcame the handicaps of a poverty-stricken youth.

Found in "The Leading Facts of American History" by D.H. Montgomery. Published by the Chautauqua Press, 1891

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Jessica Marsh Murray, who entered on Facebook.

Giveaway: Pile O' Kid's Books - contest closed

Giving away these 21 children's books; some old, some new. Had these up for sale over on bookperdiem but they didn't sell - my loss is your gain.

Giveaway has ended, winner announced shortly.

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Giveaway: Pile O' Kid's Books

Giving away these 21 children's books; some old, some new. Had these up for sale over on bookperdiem but they didn't sell - my loss is your gain.

To enter, just leave a comment below. You can also enter on twitter , Facebook or via email .

I'll gather up entries tomorrow morning and announce a winner around 11:00 AM EST.

Good luck!

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Good Work And A Satisfactory Price - plus giveaway winner

Trade card advertising the repair and recovering of umbrellas and parasols.

Found in "Plato's Apology and Crito" edited by W.S. Tyler. Published by the American Book Company, 1897.

Thanks for all the kind words and good luck wishes regarding the new book - the winner of the Lowney's Cook Book was Grace, who entered right here on the site. I'll be sending you an email in a moment.

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