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On page 15 of Votes for Women - Friday 15 March 1912
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On page 6 is a report which begins

The atmosphere on Thursday evening at the London Opera House (two days after the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence) was electric with that undaunted spirit which in this Union never dissipates in emotion, but is translated into action. The blow that had fallen on the Union through the arrest of its leaders had made its friends rally in full force, and the huge house was packed from floor to ceiling with an audience of men and women entirely sympathetic and absolutely unwavering in confidence and loyalty, who stood up in a body to applaud and cheer the speakers. Outside, the seething of the crowd and the trampling of the mounted police ; inside, perfect quiet, except for the cheering and applause.

From the front page we learn that Votes for Women was edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, appeared weekly and cost 1d (or 1½d by post).

A fine 1909 poster in suffragette colours -

Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_Women_(newspaper)

It was an exciting time for the paper. On page 1:

Meantime, the other leader roams the earth, the ocean, or the air. Without being in the least like a Boojum, Miss Christabel Pankhurst has silently vanished away, and none knows whither, least of all the eminent detectives of Scotland Yard. Fond of hunting as the British people are, it is a peculiar thing that their sympathy is almost always with the fugitive, and we doubt if Sherlock Holmes himself would have a chance for their favour against a successful Vanishing Lady. So day by day, as the police went searching the British Isles, enquiring with simple guile at the residence of every noted Suffragist in the kingdom, the interest grew with laughter.

Wikipedia:
Boojum - A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark; a particularly dangerous kind of snark
The narrative follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only crew member to find the Snark quietly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that the Snark was a Boojum after all.

(OR a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3 OR a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ireland)

Page 4 has a huge heading - Christabel Pulls the Strings but Mrs Pethick Lawrence also gets a mention

... their honorary treasurer—the finest honorary treasurer that ever raised money in freedom's cause—calls to them from Holloway Gaol to carry on their work of filling the war chest right up to the Albert Hall meeting. The enemy, unimaginative, like all enemies of progress, thinks that in locking up Mrs., Pethick Lawrence they have also locked up the magic spell with which she conjures fairy gold from the pockets of all who hear her speak. Did ever enemy show less knowledge of the Union's honorary treasurer, less knowledge of the potency of spells? If " Christabel pulls the strings" of the forces that control the great militant movement among women,
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence Pulls the Purse Strings !
She will be pulling them from behind her prison bars on March 28.

The paper seems to take great delight from the authorities' inability to find Christabel Pankhurst. Page 4:

THE QUEST.
Of gallant Amundsen and Scott
In cold Australis' crystal grot,
We know a little, read a lot.;
But who, alas! can tell
The answer to that sterner quest
Of all-absorbing interest?
O North and South, 0 East and West.,
Where, where is Christabel?

Has any traced her woman's wit
To some forlorn, deserted pit
Wherefrom the lamps of night are lit,
The caves of sleeping Coal?
Or has her sense of sacrifice
Allured her to the realms of ice,
The great glass house, where men nor mice
Can fright her from the "Poll "

As well as Mr & Mrs Pethick Lawrence, Mrs Mabel Tuke and Mrs Pankhurst were arrested. Hence the portraits of these four, plus the fugitive Christabel Pankhurst, appearing in the supplement and available to supporters to purchase.

Here's a picture from the Daily Mirror on March 15th of the four alleged conspirators in the dock at Bow Street Police Court.

John Spooner beachcomber australia Thank you both for all of the above, fantastic!

Wonderful to see this being built. I think this is the waka at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.

Thanks Clive - I think you are right and it seems to be the same. I posted these on an Aotearoa Facebook site and got some great feedback which enables us to update the catalogue.

State Library of New South Wales 🙏 Kia ora =]

Tahere Tikitiki - The Making of a Maori Canoe (1974) (B&W) - youtu.be/BGlJvzScog8?si=NVZ_SLxXhlDHPWan

It has seen better days

maps.app.goo.gl/aEPqw8kDwQrKAjHF8

YI-7948 Is likely a 1925 Morris Oxford 'Bullnose' Tourer, like this via Cliff Jones Photographs

And WI-1047 is perhaps a 1929 Ford Model A Tudor Sedan -
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1929_Ford_Model_A_Fordor_...


Ed. Could be a 'Fordor' ...

11 February 1930 was a Tuesday ...

Mr Poole has scribbled on the smoke. See megazoom - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000594312

Closed 1966

O Mac Map updated.

beachcomber australia Very good.

Suck Diesel Probably merged with one of the bigger entities?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Probably too small to survive
There were five creameries in the count in 1956, Millvale being one of the smallest with 3 cream separators, Dungarvan Co-Op was the biggest with 7 separators.
Kilmeadon had only 4, but has survived

www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1956-07-26/18/

I'm not sure this is the Amtrak Tour. There are uniformed military people here.

I've done this: lens hood with wide angle lens.

The 1976 annual report suggests this might be one of 150 NASA Space Shuttle solid rocket motor cases. I don't know which plant this photo shows.

The crane boom has markings that show maximum height. This is cool.

The other two systems are being identified and will be tagged soon.

No Longer Standing! 2015 Street View.
maps.app.goo.gl/PBNBVPnCEpKbPEtw9

2025 Street View
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A card-edge connector, mercury relays, and socketed integrated circuits. Looks very 1970s. No microprocessors. Mostle 16-pin DIPs. Any 555 timer chips? I can't read the chips.

This is ex-Cascade Timber Company #107 sold to the Southern California Railway Museum in 1972. Currently under overhaul at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo, California.

Bumper sticker parody: Girls like Turboliners, too! Employee name tags are not readable.

Going by the power car number, I believe this to be RTL #158. Railfans tell us RTLs were fitted with a contact shoe to acquire power from the 600-volt third rail. The idea was to shut down the turbines when operating underground approaching New York, Grand Central Station so the tunnels wouldn't fill up with soot. The contact shoe was only used at the New York end. Looks like this shoe burned. Your corrections are welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your comments that tell me if I've tagged this incorrectly. I believe it to be a Cincinatti Milacron mill but I can't find others that look like this one. If you know what this is, please add tags — if you dare.

Those look like authentic, 100% asbestos gloves, don't they?

Above is car number 2. A Flickr user caught Rohr #1000 (car number 1?) still in use during 2015: .

Possibly Florida Department of Transportation tour.

Not Winder, Georgia. Might be a WMATA or BART yard. Doesn't look familiar. Not BART Colma.

Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.

Congrats on Xplore!!

Spektakulär!

Congrats on Explore! ⭐ April 3, 2026

Congrats on Explore 😄

This is excellent Well earned explore feature!

Thanks swanq, we'll update this catalog record.

I learned Basic, computer language on a computer that looked just like that. I'm likely the age of those boys pictured there, I remember rocking a hair cut like the one on our right, great memory.

Transportation-related attempt at humor:

Obvious: this is some kind of monocab or monorail that hangs from a truss-style guideway. There's no record of one at Toulouse. There are three decommissioned monorails in France. None are near Toulouse or look like this. Aerospatiale (Airbus) internal system for employees?

Still Standing as of 2021! Most Recent Street View.
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Still Standing as of 2023! Most Recent Street View.
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Still Standing as of 2024! Most Recent Street View.
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One source says the division building modular homes, named Modular Components Corporation, started in 1960. In 1964, the division began supplying 140 homes for a development in Borrego Springs and 60 more for Eagle Mountain Mine near Desert Center, California. The December 1961 issue of Rohr Magazine said:

"...wall panels of polystyrene foam plastic, the interior surfaced with a variety of hardboard finishes, and the exterior finished with
asbestos cement. The frame is of steel, and the entire house can be erected in two or three days, ready for occupancy."

You can see what looks like rectangular panels on the right-facing sides of this place. There's another photo showing an open house with prospects viewing a similar home.

The Rohr part of the airport is shown in another photo. I looked this up on a map to confirm the location. Corrections are very welcomed.

See also:

See photos from the Bain collection uploaded to Flickr earlier

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_II_of_Portugal
"Dom Manuel II[b] (Manuel Maria Filipe Carlos Amélio Luís Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Francisco de Assis Eugénio de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha e Bragança; 15 November 1889 – 2 July 1932), sometimes known as the Unfortunate (o Desaventurado) or the Patriot (o Patriota), was the last king of Portugal, reigning from 1908 until 1910."

Not in a Midget! For shure in a MGBGT!!! Both cars are 2 size cars!!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes
"Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American politician, academic, and jurist who served as the 11th chief justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 36th governor of New York (1907–1910), an associate justice of the Supreme Court (1910–1916), and 44th U.S. secretary of state (1921–1925). He was the Republican nominee in the 1916 presidential election, narrowly losing to incumbent president Woodrow Wilson."