A selection of cactus postcards from our collection. Information on the postcards is below the read more.
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"924:--Cholla Cactus on a California Desert." Published by Kashower Co, Los Angeles. Sent from Sierra Madre, California, to Kansas City, Missouri, in February 1937.
"F. F. 33 Night-blooming Cereus and Crotons, Florida." Photography by W. F. Gerecke, Pan American Photo Service, Miami. Sent from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Gardner, Massachusetts, by a granddaughter to her grandmother in January 1940.
"574 Yucca Palm or Spanish Dagger, California 1A-H455." By Western Publishing & Novelty Co. Sent from Pasadena, California, to Gardner, Massachusetts, in March 1933.
"909 Sentinels of the Desert, Giant Cactus (Sahuaro) 1A-H547." By Western Publishing and Novelty Co. Send from Los Angeles, California, to Burlington, Iowa, in July 1946.
"Riders on the Desert." Published by Bob Petley, Phoenix, Arizona. Sent from Phoenix to Bowling Green, Ohio, in February 1954.
"Desert Beauty PH-44-5." Published by H. S. Crocker Co., Inc. Photo by Jim Sexton. Sent from Bellevue, Washington, to Princeton, Massachusetts, in January 1963.
"H 1581 A Giant Cactus, Arizona." By Fred Harvey. Sent from Cactus, Arizona, to Gardner, Massachusetts, in December 1952.
"World's Largest Saguaro." Published by Bob Petley, Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Hubert Lowman. Sent from Phoenix to Dearborn, Michigan.
"Saguaros, Giant Cacti." by Mike Roberts and Petley Studios. Sent from Scottsdale, Arizona, to Princeton, Massachusetts, in September 1964.
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[From Batman: The Audio Adventures, Season 1 Episode 2 "The Skylight in the Nursery"]
Here is a version of Harvey Dent's backstory (specifically from Batman: the Audio Adventures aka probably my personal favorite iteration of the character). I figured that for anyone newish to Batman fandom, that this might be useful to see! Or well... Hear in this case. Though usually it isn't Penguin who puts him through this, but rather one of Gotham's many, many crime families are usually the ones to disfigure him. Regardless, I hope you enjoy! Personally I just REALLY like Harvey's voice actor here and could listen to him talk all day.
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Also reading through the transcript now and thinking about it... I wonder if the Penguin paid Mr. Pratkins extra to compliment him and say impressive things about him and his casino and lounge to the jury, and more importantly to his crush (Harvey)... Probably, let's be honest.
Video transcript under the cut
Announcer: And now it's Gotham City One's award-winning documentary…
Robin: Aw, yes!
Announcer: Series "Ghosts of Gotham" with your host Jack Ryder. Tonight's episode, "Scarred for Life: The Harvey Dent Story."
Jack Ryder: It's one of Gotham City's most tragic tales. A lion-hearted litigator becomes a fractured fiend. Once a beacon of hope for a brighter Gotham, former district attorney Harvey Dent is now one of the city's most erratic public enemies. As Two-Face, he's believed to run a vast criminal empire within Gotham City. But a canny combination of legal genius and vicious intimidation has thus far allowed him to evade arrest. Harvey Dent was born to a modest household in the Gotham Narrows. His father was a domineering--
Robin: Hey, let's fast-forward to the--
[fast-forward whirring]
Jack Ryder: But all that hope and promise would come to a violent end.
Robin: Yeah, to the that.
Jack Ryder: The date was February 2nd. The place was the old Gotham courthouse. Harvey Dent had shocked the city by finding a witness willing to testify against a prominent Gotham businessman and suspected crime kingpin, none other than Oswald Cobblepot.
[cackling]
Jack Ryder: Some call him the Penguin, though rarely to his face and never more than once. It would have been the biggest conviction of Harvey Dent's storied legal career. Instead, it was the last case he ever tried.
[crowd chatter, gavel thuds]
Harvey Dent: Can you please state your name for the record?
Jackson Pratkins: The name's Jackson Pratkins.
Harvey Dent: Jackson Pratkins, are you also known in the Gotham underworld as the contract killer called Jack Sprat?
Jackson Pratkins: Yeah, that's me. Jack Sprat, by baseball bat, by knife, or gasoline.
[crowd murmurs]
Jackson Pratkins: That was my gimmick. But that's not me no more. I done some bad things, but I want to make it right.
Harvey Dent: That's what we're here to do today, Mr. Pratkins. Now, when did you first accept payment for illegal activities from Oswald Cobblepot?
Jackson Pratkins: I'm sorry, Cobble-who?
Harvey Dent: Oswald Cobblepot. You may know him as the Penguin.
Jackson Pratkins: Oh, the casino man, impresario extraordinaire Oswald Cobblepot. I never met him.
Harvey Dent: You nev--[chuckles] Mr. Pratkins, I remind you you are under oath and in your sworn statement, you detailed numerous criminal transactions initiated by Oswald Cobblepot.
Jackson Pratkins: Oh, you misunderstood. Sure, I said Mr. Cobblepot oughta be in jail 'cause he robs me blind every payday at that socko casino of his. You know Stoveplate Sullivan plays there every Saturday night? Exclusive engagement.
[laughter]
Jackson Pratkins: Beat that, folks.
Harvey Dent: Mr. Pratkins, you are gonna be charged with perjury, and your plea deal will be void unless you tell this court the truth. Isn't it true that you…
Jackson Pratkins: [muttering]
Harvey Dent: Murdered Gotham City Councilman Hubert Wainwright on orders from Oswald Cobblepot?
Jackson Pratkins: [sighs]
Harvey Dent: And isn't it in fact true that Oswald Cobblepot himself was present at the scene of the crime as evidenced by this article of his personal property recovered by the police? This very distinctive custom-made umbrella. One more chance, Mr. Pratkins. Can you testify that this umbrella belongs to the Penguin?
Jackson Pratkins: Well, since you put it that way, hand me that, uh, um-brella, so I can get a better--yeah, thank you, counselor. Oh, yeah, it seems I do remember something about Penguin's special umbrellas. I remember there's a little secret button here on the handle, hard to see, so take a real close look, handsome.
Harvey Dent: What are you--
Jack Ryder: We pause for a moment to warn our viewers that what you are about to see is extremely disturbing. Parental guidance is strongly advised.
Jackson Pratkins: Have an acid spritzer, Dent!
Harvey Dent: Ahh!
Jackson Pratkins: Courtesy of the Penguin!
Woman: Oh, my heavens! The umbrella was booby-trapped.
Man: The district attorney's been--oh, God! Mr. Dent, your face!
Robin: Video pause.
Narrator: The Boy Wonder, wise beyond his years, takes a moment to reflect.
Robin: And just like that, his mind broke clean in two. Makes you wonder if we're all held together on the inside by what we're made of on the outside.
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I saw a few other family trees and decided to make my own, This one being for the Calvin-Curtis family!
There are more details and names under the cut (Squiggly lines are siblings, Erased lines mean a couple is no longer together, And a halo/wing means that person is deceased)
Starting from the top left, We have Artemis and Anita Calvin. As you can probably imagine, The Calvins were a family that always had a connection to the military, With both Artemis and Anita having served (It's actually how they met).
They had two children, Marlene Calvin and Aiden Calvin.
Marlene eventually decided to work at the Wall, Where she met Evan Guardsmith. The two eventually got married and had Matteus Guardsmith.
Aiden on the other hand joined the military. Sometime before that though, He met Janice Houston, Who was an elementary school teacher. The two eventually had Charles Calvin.
Speaking of Janice, She has a sister named Laura Houston. Her wife's name is Claire Reilly, And they adopted their child Erin Houston.
Onto the Curtis side of the family, We have Louis and Emma Curtis. Louis was a newspaper writer while Emma was a crime photographer. They only had one child, Harvey Curtis.
Harvey began working as a writer when he met Caly Hamilton. She was a member of the Toppat Clan, Which he figured out sometime after they started dating. He knew this was probably a bad idea, Continuing to date a criminal. But they loved each other, And eventually had Burt Curtis.
Caly's brother, Maxie Hamilton, Was never really interested in having a romantic relationship with anybody. He did want to raise a kid though, So he adopted Alice Hamilton.
After Adien and Caly's deaths, Janice and Harvey eventually met and hit it off. Sometime after they got married, They had Harrison Calvin-Curtis.
(While it's not really mentioned on the tree, Hubert Galeforce is basically Charles, Burt, and Harrison's godfather, Due to his connection to Aiden)
Sam and Max characters’ hygiene ranked from best to worst:
Sybil Pandemik: She is a career-woman and knows what she is doing. Sybil cares about her appearance and how she is perceived, she is the most likely to give a shit about her hygiene.
Myra Stump: She is a talk-show host on TV and has a large audience. She definitely cares a lot about her hygiene since she acts like a bossy mom.
Santa Claus or the elves: Smells like holiday cheer, one of the best scents.
Momma Bosco: Self-explanatory, she probably smells of 60’s perfume and definitely takes good care of her hygiene.
Agent Superball: He probably smells like a really good cologne and he takes himself extremely seriously.
Grandma Ruth: Ruth probably has that grandma perfume smell that is just extremely nostalgic. She definitely cares about her BO.
The Narrator: He is British and very sophisticated, he takes good care of “himself”.
Jurgen: He is very attention-seeking and cares how other people perceive him. He definitely collects the latest and most popular perfume.
Conroy Bumpus: Sure, he may be involved in animal cruelty, but he seems to care a lot about his appearance. He has a toupee on display with high-security soooooo…. he cares a lot.
The Director: She is a director known for being prestigious about acting and probably takes good care of her hygiene.
Darla "The Geek" Gugenheek: She definitely showers regularly.
Sam/Sameth: Sam definitely cares about his hygiene for the most part. He acts like a dad and probably smells like one and cares about how he is perceived.
Lee-Harvey: He is a henchman for Conroy Bumpus and looks well-kept.
Anyone in the toy mafia: These guys probably smell ok.
Satan: Weirdly I think Satan in this series probably smells alright. He always cares about whether his bald-spot is showing on camera during the interview in *The City That Dares Not Sleep*.
T.H.E.M.: They smell average.
Abraham Lincoln: Smells like stone? (Whatever that means)
The C.O.P.S.: The smell of machinery.
Roscoe Bosco: He probably smells average, maybe a little sweaty some days.
Sal: He is a cockroach but seems relatively well-kept.
Flint Paper: He probably showers, but cares more about cases rather than personal hygiene.
Lorne (the friend for life): He doesn’t shower as much as he should.
Mr. Featherly: He is a chicken, but he does seem to care about how he is seen and is very much an attention-seeker.
Sammun-Mak: He smells like dirt but like in a good way, like the nostalgic kind of way.
Trixie: Ehhh she smells well… like a giraffe with a layer of perfume overtop
Max/Maximus: We all know he is covered in so many germs, but Sam definitely tries to get him showered every once in a while.
Hubert Q. Tourist: He is a strange, strange fellow. I don’t know what it is about him, but he makes me uncomfortable and he probably doesn’t smell all that well.
Hugh Bliss: Bacteria
Bessie: She’s a cow…
General Skun-ka’pe or his minions: All I need to say is gorilla.
Bruno: He is a bigfoot, need anymore explaining?
Brady Culture: I don’t think I can explain why, but I think he just doesn’t smell good at all.
Anton Papierwaite: HE IS FRENCH! (Also his *secret* makes him smell worse probably)
Girl Stinky: She smells like really bad, but tries to haphazardly spray perfume to cover it up.
Charlie Ho-Tep: People don’t have the decency to wash their hands before playing with him.
Any sea creatures: I absolutely despise the smell of fish…
Any of the baby characters: Babies can smell really bad…
Jurgen’s Monster: He is basically Frankenstein’s Monster, so he probably doesn’t smell good.
The zombies: They are undead and *god* do the dead smell gross.
Eldritch horrors of any kind: They don’t smell very good.
Molemen or the Rats: These guys smell like shit and probably don’t care about showering. They live in the sewers.
Grandpa Stinky: It’s in the name, he smells absolutely rancid. He probably hasn’t showered in decades.
"TWO INDIAN YOUTHS JAILED FOR THEFT," Montreal Gazette. January 18, 1940. Page 23.
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Get 15 Months for Attacking and Robbing Fruit Peddler at Reserve
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Two Indian youths who attacked a fruit peddler and robbed him of 75 cents worth of bananas on the Caughnawaga Indian Reservation a week ago were each sentenced to 15 months in prison when they appeared before Judge Gustave Marín yesterday following previous pleas of guilty.
The two sentenced were Christopher White, 20, and John Bordeaux, 19, both residents of the reserve who were taken into custody by Chief John K. Jocks, special Federal police officer of the Caughnawaga municipality.
Fernard Trottier, the peddler, was enticed into a lane in the Indian village on the pretext that a woman wanted to buy fruit. Four boys, two of them juveniles, attacked him and knocked his fruit to the ground. After punching him they fled with their loot. Advised of the thefts and given descriptions of the attackers, Chief Jocks rounded them up at their homes a few minutes later. The boys claimed that they had at- tacked the peddler only "to scare him."
A. Williams, 31, charged with the theft of $800 worth of tires, and office supplies as well as with stealing a truck, pleaded guilty when arraigned yesterday before Judge F. T. Enright. He will be sentenced on January 23.
Detective-Sergeants Boyer, Pashby, Clarkin and Harvey arrested him on Wednesday morning when they raided premises at 765 Versailles street. The stolen merchandise was the property of Tire Distributors, 744 Mountain street.
Henri Lasalle, 40, alleged to have posed as a detective and to have obtained fraudulently from Mrs. Rose Toupin, 40, 6770 St. Hubert street, a sum of $178 to provide a job for her fiance, was committed to further hearing yesterday by Judge Amedee Monet in Enquete Court. Lasalle will face the court again on January 24.
To obtain a job for Paul Emile Champagne, 40, 6720 St. Hubert street, Mrs. Toupin testified that she had paid Lasalle the money. The accused had represented to her, she said, that she must donate $15 to the electoral fund; money for presents to the Hon. T. D. Bouchard, buchard, Minister of Roads: similar disbursements for Hon. Wilfrid Girouard.
Atorney-General: and pay the expenses of trips to Quebec and Ottawa to further Champagne's application.
"I wanted Paul to have a job so much before we were married, that I paid over the money," said the witness.
“Why haven’t you enlisted, Mr. Vane?”
He took a deep breath. Once more — but this time was the climax — once more he would try to reveal all his splendid thoughts; all those flaming thoughts which, if he could but express them, would abolish war forever — unless, indeed, the world was peopled by deaf lunatics. What he said, fixing her with his eye, was this:
“I haven’t enlisted because — I haven’t enlisted — that is — — You see, to put it in a nutshell, it is a question of might versus right — — Does right make might? Does might, I mean, mate mike? Does mike mate — —“ He paused, wiped his brow, then ended desperately: “Oh, if I could make the world realize what war is! But I can’t. Men laugh at what I say. Editors send back what I write. Nobody reads my pamphlets.”
“Still,” she said, “still —
“Still what?” said he.
“Who,” she said, frowning, “is to blame that war still exists?”
“We are all to blame,” he answered. “We are all to blame for consenting to be ruled by men so stupid that they could ever dream of the possibility of war.”
She lifted her champagne glass. She put her lips delicately to the cold, clear wine. Then she held the wine bubbles in her mouth in order to hear, before she swallowed them, the little, murmuring sound they made, like tiny waves on a pebbly beach far away.
“If we are all to blame,” she said, “we should all bear the burden.”
And she rose, the other women rose with her, the yellow kid flew to open the door, and the men were left alone with their tobacco and liqueurs and coffee.
Van stared straight before him solemnly. It was true. All were to blame. Then all should fight.
—
ex W. B. Trites, “The Slacker” in The Saturday Evening Post 188:24 (December 11, 1915) : 13-16, 49-50, 53-54, 57-58 (15)
U Minnesota copy/scan (via google books) : link
same (U Minnesota copy/scan, via hathitrust) : link
U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
In the end, Hubert Vane goes to war as a volunteer stretcher bearer; is wounded (shrapnel). Antonia de la Torre goes to meet and marry her hero.
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Illustrated by Harvey Dunn (1884-1952)
wikipedia : link
Trites’s story “The Slacker” is a kind of early draft of his later novel A Modern Girl (1929). That connection, and more, will be taken up in a writings by and about page for W. B. Trites, now under way.
Hello, my name is Elko, 25+ Female, and into Stardew Valley and Fire Emblem Three Houses. I'm seeking for someone between 30-50 Male, or identified as Male that's interested in doing roleplay with me. You may choose either a canon character or OC. Please kindly message me at this post or my blog.
https://www.tumblr.com/misselko
I am looking for someone that can help me to roleplay as:
1. Harvey (Stardew Valley)
2. Hubert von Vestra
3. Dimitri/Sylvain/Claude
I'd like to stay anonymous and no strings attached. Limited to Tumblr and Discord only. Love to play as a shy, timid innocent girl that's warm, kind, and gentle. MINORS DNI! I love to write NSFW FanFictions in AO3 as well and you can find me with pseud MissElko.
English isn't my native language but rest assured. I have great imagination and can write it pretty well. Looking forward to hearing from you!
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Hello, my name is Elko, 21+, Female, and into Stardew Valley and Fire Emblem Three Houses. I'm seeking for someone between 30-50 Male, or identified as Male that's interested in doing roleplay with me. You may choose either a canon character or OC. Please kindly message me at this post or my blog.
https://www.tumblr.com/misselko
I am looking for someone that can help me to roleplay as:
1. Harvey (Stardew Valley)
2. Hubert von Vestra
3. Dimitri/Sylvain/Claude
I'd like to stay anonymous and no strings attached. Limited to Tumblr and Discord only. Love to play as a shy, timid innocent girl that's warm, kind, and gentle. MINORS DNI! I write FanFictions in AO3 as well and you can find me with pseud MissElko.
English isn't my native language but rest assured. I have great imagination and can write it pretty well. Looking forward to hearing from you!