Way cool old treasure...
Aug. 27th, 2009 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feng_shui_houseI knew the box I had to remove from the top shelf contained black wax Victrola cylinders (23 out of a possible 24, but one of them had a broken end. Since it had already been glued once, I saw no harm in using rubber cement to glue it again to keep the title- imprinted on the top end- intact). I'm sure there are a couple more boxes around the house, too, and what was a working Victrola last I saw it, years ago -mom kinda greatly devalued it by spray-painting the morning glory horn in moss green...oi... But! I never knew that the partitions between the rows of cylinders were newspaper from way back! I took the cylinders out to wipe the dust off them with a soft cloth & realized it was newspaper. I hadn't thought the box was as old as the cylinders, but the newspaper I carefully glanced at a page of was from Trenton, in 1909. Maybe they did it at the Edison factory & the box & newspapers are all original? Cool... I put the box up on the top shelf in my bedroom to keep me from temptation.
I only read two articles- one was about a terrier named Little Joe, who saved his 10 year old master from being run over by a train by grabbing his trouser leg, and losing his own life in the process. He had a funeral with a carpenter made casket and real flowers.
Another was about a man who hated to waste his straw hat by not using it by a certain date, so he got a note from the mayor permitting him to wear it as long as he liked. Which was a good thing because he made such a scandal by wearing his boater that 2 policemen were going to arrest him, until he showed them the paper! Apparently US society was far more conformist than I thought! To be arrested for wearing a straw hat out of season??
Ok. Am going back to work. Have to get shelf down, remove some stuff that had been hiding behind the door- have already removed 3 quilting frames... get Kilz and paint & get started.
Must GET To PARADISE before I die.
I only read two articles- one was about a terrier named Little Joe, who saved his 10 year old master from being run over by a train by grabbing his trouser leg, and losing his own life in the process. He had a funeral with a carpenter made casket and real flowers.
Another was about a man who hated to waste his straw hat by not using it by a certain date, so he got a note from the mayor permitting him to wear it as long as he liked. Which was a good thing because he made such a scandal by wearing his boater that 2 policemen were going to arrest him, until he showed them the paper! Apparently US society was far more conformist than I thought! To be arrested for wearing a straw hat out of season??
Ok. Am going back to work. Have to get shelf down, remove some stuff that had been hiding behind the door- have already removed 3 quilting frames... get Kilz and paint & get started.
Must GET To PARADISE before I die.
