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    "title": "Flyers and Sheet Music",
    "description": "This file contains sheet music, flyers, and programs of various events, concerts, and lectures relating to Polar expeditions and travel.",
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    "ocrText": "yond the Canadian borders and decided to take the trip\nexhibited, taking the large audience through an imagin-\nup the Yukon to satisfy herself of the much talked\nary trip of thousands of miles of marvelous scenery,\nbeauty of the stream and its environments.\ncrowded with exciting experiences.\nWith a friend she made the trip, but instead of re-\nWhen the trip ended there was not one who did not\nturning immediately, she waited for the last steamer of\nwish they had it all to go over again, SO hearthy had\nthe season. The tremendous possibilities of the country\nbeen the enjoyment of the novel trip through this para-\nappealed to her aud in a month or two she became tho-\ndise of the North. Among the pictures shown was that\nroughty charmed with the country to which so-much SO-\nof a fac-simile of a nugget bracelet presented to the\ncalled misinformation has been accorded.-During her\nDuchess of Cornwall and York, now the Princess of\nfirst stay in the Klondike Mrs. Hitchcock and her com-\nWales, from the miners of Mrs. Hitchcock's camp in\npanion had a series of experience such a few women are\nAtlin. Mrs. Hitchcock wore a similar necklace, which\npermitted. Among other adventures they climbed the\nshe exhibited to the audience after the lecture, together\nSkagway pass. It was before the railroad days there.\nwith valuable specimens of gold and coppers and curious\nMrs. Hitchcock was introduced to the large audience\nformation from the treasure chests of mother earth.\nat Carvel Hall last night by Dr. Thomas Fell, president\nDuring her stay here Mrs. Hitchcock has been en-\nof St. John's College, and received a hearty welcome\ntertained by Mrs. Brownson, at the superintendent's re-\nfrom the distinguished gathering which was composed\nsidence, Naval Academy, She was invited to deliver\nlargely of the naval contingent, heads of the departments\nher lecture for the benefit of the Emergency Hospital,\nat the Naval Academy, and representative citizens. At\nMrs. Browson being one of the Board of Managers of\nonce the audience was impressed with Mrs. Hitchcock\nthat institution. The lecture was SO enthusiastically re-\npresence. She commanded attention and held it from\nceived that it is hoped Mrs. Hitchcock, who has a\nstart to finish. She created a favorable impression and\nrich store of tales of the miners and their ways and lives,\nthe audience was hers to command. She related inci-\nmay come again and give an Annapolis audience the rare\ndents, depicted scenes and told a story of life in the\npleasure of a lecture combined with enthusiasm and des-\nNorthland as entertaining and realistic as her experieuce\ncriptive power, of which she is capable in a very marked\nof the life she had spent there had been.\ndegree.\nMrs. Hitchcock proved herself to be an ideal enter-\ntainer. Her descriptive powers are wonderful and she\nhas a happy style of narrative, diverting the thoughts\nof her auditors, whose rapt attention was broken by fre-\nquent applause and hearty laughter. Her subject was\n\" The New Land of Gold,\" and was beautifully\nillustrated with pictures as inspiring as the lecturer's\nstory, which was graphically portrayed. Among\nthe pictures were nuggets of gold from Atlin,\nwhere Mrs. Hitchcock camp was located, and where she\ninvestigated the mysteries of \"Mother Earth's Treasure\nChests.\" There were one hundred stereopticon views"
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