Posted on 09/01/2017 4:57:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
A seminary, eh? I don't know if Cump would be a good fit there. He has resisted his wife's efforts to make a Roman Catholic of him their entire marriage. He would be better off in a military school.
Also, there’s a wagon train from Arkansas just pulled into Utah, heading for California, maybe some trouble brewing.
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Read the book “The Mountain Meadows Massacre” by Juanita Brooks. It’s very well researched and well written. I once lived in Southern Utah, and visited the site a few times. It’s an eerily foreboding place, knowing what happened there. A little stream flows gurgling past, overgrown with water cress, and a hill nearby from which the Mormons fired down upon the encircled wagons of the encampment for several days until they hatched a plan of trickery. Most of the people in Cedar City and the Virgin River valley have lived there for generations, and you won’t get any information from them. A hundred years or so later a monument was finally erected on the site of the mass burial, but NOT by the people of Cedar City or the Hurricane/Virgin River Valley.
Also, there are a few works by and about John Doyle Lee which are well worth a read. Strange how when I lived there nearly everyone in the little town of Virgin was named Lee.
Possibly related to Robert Lee the sportscaster?
Look out! There's Arthur Lee, Bobby Lee
And General Lighthorse Harry Lee
Willy Lee, Jesse Lee
Franklin:
And Richard H.!
Lee:
That's me!"
September 4. Aquaria at a premium. Ever since I read Gosse’s book* three summers ago, I’ve been predicting that they would become fashionable and trying to find a workman who would undertake to construct them. The obstacle has been the want of proper cement. Now they are announced on sale at several places and are destined to be the fashionable plaything of next season. I got a small tank yesterday and have stocked it with George Anthon’s surplus that had been lying in jars since his return from Newport (soaking in putrescent sea water) and with a few fish from his aquarium. Results tonight are better than could have been hoped.
* Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), English naturalist, had published a book called The Aquarium (1854)
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
I would really like to post the Harper's Weekly on a regular basis. Archived copies from 1858 on are availiable for free in pdf. I saved the first year and found that the font is so small I can barely read it. I printed out a page at 175% of the original size and it is a little better, but how much better? I will post a sample page of text below. It looks like there are about 16 pages per week. Would it be worthwhile to print them all?
LMAO.
To be honest, it is difficult to read the sample you provided. I tried zooming in with my browser but it only got blurrier. It can be read however but not nearly as easy as the Harper’s Monthly you have up top of this thread. Maybe if the background was able to be made white, the print would contrast better.
Follow up from above. I found that if I magnify the screen to 170% it is more easily readable. I guess the original magazine was meant to be read with a magnifying glass.
Good idea. I will try to print in black & white only. I’m afraid it will come out as black and gray, however.
I can’t read it. It is just too small and also blurry.
I’m trying to come up with a plan B. Involves chopping up the stories and relaying them, like I did with NY Times WWII posts.
Did you tell your friend he is EIGHT YEARS late?
If I make it larger, it gets all fuzzy. “Readable,” but then, I used to be a typist for the Corps of Engineers, so I can read, like, anything.
Why bother? Some people are just hopeless.
I need to make it readable for people without your unique skill set. I have a couple months to figure it out, so suggestions will be accepted for consideration through year-end.
I am not tech-y, myself, but I will bring it up with some of my more electronical family members.
or more like . . .
Some of both. Pat is very much like Mr. Data, but Frank is a mass of malfunctions.
Thanks for the test Homer. My tired old eyes can’t decipher about half of the text. Sorry.
That seems to be the consensus. On to Plan B.
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