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ALLEN'S HUMMING BIRD.
E Humming birds with their varied beauties constitute the most remarkable
feature of the bird-life of America. They have absolutely no representatives
in any other part of the world, the Swifts being the nearest relatives they
have in other countries.
They abound most in mountainous countries, where the surface and productions
of the soil are most diversified within small areas. They frequent both open and
rare and inaccessible places, and are often found on the snowy peaks of Chimborazo
as high as 16,000 feet, and in the very lowest valleys in the primeval forests of Brazil, the vast palm-covered districts of the deltas of the Amazon and Orinocco, the
fertile flats and Savannahs of Demarra, the luxurious and beautiful region Xalapa,
(the realm of perpetual sunshine), and other parts of Mexico.
Hr.mming birds are found as small as a bumble bee and as large as a sparrow.
The smallest is from Jamaica, the largest from Patagonia. Allen's Hummer is
found on the Pacific coast, north to British Columbia, east to Southern Arizona.
There are many birds the flight of which is so rapid that their wings cannot
be counted, but here is a species with such nerve of wing that its wing strokes cannot be seen — a hazy semi-circle of indistinctness on each side of the bird is all that
is perceptible. Poised in the air, his body nearly perpendicular, he seems to hang
in front of the flowers which he probes so hurriedly, one after the other, with his
long, slender bill ! That long, tubular, fork-shaped tongue may be sucking up the
nectar from those rather small cylindrical blossoms, or it may be capturing tiny
insects housed away there. Much more like a large sphynx moth hovering and
humming over the flowers in dusky twilight, than like a bird appears this delicate,
fairy-like beauty. How the bright green of the body gleams and glistens in the
sunlight.
Each imperceptable stroke of those tiny wings conforms to the laws of
flight with an ease and gracefulness that seems spiritual. Who can fail to note that
fine adjustment of the organs of flight to aerial elasticity and gravitation, by which
that astonishing bit of nervous energy can rise and fall almost on the perpendicular,
dart from side to side, as if by magic, or, assuming the horizontal position, pass out
of sight like a shooting star.
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'HE Humming birds with their varied beauties constitute the most remarkable
feature of the bird-life of America. They have absolutely no representatives
in any other part of the world, the Swifts being the nearest relatives they
have in other countries.
They abound most in mountainous countries, where the .surface and productions
of the soil are most diversified within small areas. They frequent both open and
rare and inaccessible places, and are often found on the snowy peaks of Chimborazo
as high as 16,000 feet, and in the very lowest valleys in the primeval forests of Brazil, the vast palm-covered districts of the deltas of the Amazon and Orinocco, the
fertile flats and Savannahs of Demarra, the luxurious and beautiful region Xalapa,
(the realm of perpetual sunshine), and other parts of Mexico.
Humming birds are found as small as a bumble bee and as large as a sparrow.
The smallest is from Jamaica, the largest from Patagonia. Allen's Hummer is
found on the Pacific coast, north to British Columbia, east to Southern Arizona.
There are many birds the flight of which is so rapid that their wings cannot
be counted, but here is a species with such nerve of wing that its wing strokes cannot be seen —a hazy semi-circle of indistinctness on each side of the bird is al.1 that
is perceptible. Poised in the air, his body nearly perpendicular, he seems to hang
in front of the flowers which he probes so hurriedly, one after the other, with his
long, slender bill ! That long, tubular, fork-shaped tongue may be sucking up the
nectar from those rather small cylindrical blossoms, or it may be capturing tiny
insects housed away there. Much more like a large sphynx moth hovering and
humming over the flowers in dusky twilight, than like a bird appears this delicate,
fairy-like beauty. How the bright green of the body gleams and glistens in the
sunlight. Each imperceptable stroke of those tiny wings conforms to the laws of
flight with an ease and gracefulness that seems spiritual. Who can fail to note that
fine adjustment of the organs of flight to aerial elasticity and gravitation, by which
that astonishing bit of nervous energy can rise and fall almost on the perpendicular,
dart from side to side, as if by magic, or, assuming the horizontal position, pass out
of sight like a shooting star.
" What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly,
Each rapid movement gives a different dye ;
Like scales of burnished gold they dazxling show,
Now sinks to shade, now like a furnace glow."
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The Andrew Jackson Greene Collection consists of more than 160 diaries written by Greene who describes Watauga County's education system, including Appalachian State Teachers College, cultural and religious life, and agriculture from 1906 to 1942. <br /><br /><strong>Biographical Note.</strong> Andrew Jackson Greene (March 2, 1883-August 12, 1942) was a life-long resident of Watauga County, North Carolina and instructor in several Watauga schools including Appalachian State Teachers College (A.S.T.C). Greene worked as a farmer, public school teacher, and college professor. Greene was an enthusiastic diarist maintaining regular entries from 1906 to the day before his death. He also recorded A.S.T.C. faculty meetings from January 9, 1915 to May 3, 1940. He married Polly Warren, and they had three children, Ralph, Maxie, and Lester.
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Diary of Andrew Jackson Greene, Volume 10 [Febuary 1, 1913 - September 30, 1913]
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These entries range from February 1, 1913 through September 30, 1913. In this diary many local places and events are named such as Beaver Dam, Cove Creek Church, Mabel School and the fair at Mountain City. People named in the diary include J.C. Davis, Woodrow Eastridge, and B.B. Daugherty, and many more.
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Watauga County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Baptists--Clergy--North Carolina--Watauga County
Teachers--North Carolina--Watauga County
Greene, Andrew Jackson, 1883-1942
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B.B. Daugherty
Beaver Dam
Brother Wilson
buckwheat
cabbage
cherry picking
corn
Cove Creek Church
David Bourne
Fair at Mountain City
farm
Farmer's Union
hail storm
Harbin place
J.C. Davis
J.F. Eggers
J.F. Oliver
J.J.T. Reese
J.R. Garland
Latin class
lawsuit
Lemuel Wilson
Mabel School
maul handle
mill
P.C. Younce
R.A. Thomas
R.P. Robinson
road inspection
Road Meeting
schoolhouse
sermon
sewing machine
shelling corn
Silverstone
Singing
Sunday School
sweet potatoes
Three Forks Association
tobacco
W.M. Norris
Walnut Grove
Warren Brothers
Woodrow Eastridge
Woodrow Wilson
Zionville
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astonished delegation, that the pasto
of the church was listed as pawner
of the instrument. It later developed,
though, that the thing wasn't as
bad as It had first seemed, for the
thief had simply given the minister's
name instead of his own when he
negotiated the loan.
Headache of all p awnbrokers are
visitations from persons with har
luck stories all out of proportion to
the value of the articles they have t d
offer. Sometimes their acts are so
well staged that even men seasoned
by years of experience to casting
skeptical eye on all such maneuver
are "taken in" by them.
There was the woman, for Instance,
who came Into Mr. Finkelstein's
shop not so very long ago with a
little boy and some almost worthless
article she wanted to pawn. She
needed a certain sum of money - a
sum several times more than the
article was worth-In order to obtain Immediate medical attention for
the little bey, who was suffering
from epilepsy, she told Mr. Finkelstein.
Boy Throws Fit
Mr. Finkelstein t h o u g h t
smelled a mouse somewhere and
just on the point of refu sing 't he whitlh used
Joan when the llttle boy fell to the en*ance of
floor and began writhing In the most to chicken
realistic exhibition of pain you'd pearlng. N
ever have the misfortune to witness. here uses t
It was all so awe-Inspiring that the
Different
money the woman asked for, was ent reasons
Immediately counted out and the balls ffom "t
two left the store.
but the mo
Mr. Finkelstein discovered a few balls had c
days ater that the act was o 1e the eu-l.lrely ..too
woman and the little boy had staged The mej;al 1
time after time-and with consistent very annoy!
success. There was really nothing at from their
all wrong with he child.
with consld
Mrs. Sender Argentir, whose hus- suspecting -h
band owns and operates Uncle Sam's
Som
Loan shop, Asheville's only other The grad
pawn shop, has watched a long and three gold
Interesting cavalcade of loan-seekers number of cl
come and go tn the score of years she place In pa
has stood behind the counter of her decade or t v
Biltmore avenue store. And the thing and still oth
that has Impressed h er most over But. In s
that span of years Is the revolution pawn shop
which h as taken place in the senti- small city's
ment attaching to marriage vows.
museum. T1
"It used to be that we didn't hesl- may not be ~
tate to loan almost any sum of t - ·
rior c
money on a ·.1edding ring, for we
ops frbm
knew It would always be redeemp..-."·.Dellll concern
she recalled. "Now a woman rents room you wi
to think no more of pawning--and Ients ot blac
never reclaiming-such a ring than platf01'11111 a
she would of pawning and leavl~~ a and grandfa
cigarette tray or vacuum cleaner
from among
Sign or The- Times
· tlon ot over
Another sign of the times, pa .,... hunting boot
brokers wlll tell you, is the fact tha t
·- ~
women now visit pawn shops with
as llttle feeling of restraint as they
would visit a corner grocery. Fif· '
SOMEBODY PAWNED-AND FORGOT-HIM-Gathering dust on the third floor teen years ago the sight of a woman
would h ave
Leo Finkelstein's Pack square pawn shop is a big black bear on a roller skate platform entering such a placemuch gossip occasioned almost as
as
somebody back in the dim days of the p ast left at the shop as security for a small loan. the .sight of that same woman pushe bear, at which Mr. Finkelstein is casting a more or less how-did-you-ever-get-here look ing aside the swinging doors of a saloon and step'(Jing ln.
the picture above, is only one of a number of "freak" securities which have collected at Pawnbrokers accredit this Change
partly to the "new f reedOm" tor
pawn shop since it was established more than three decades ago.
women and partly to the fact that
pawn shops In recent years have
than It would be to store ther1. away come to be recognized as honest and
or leave them lying around their legitimate business concerns with a
homes as a bait for break-In artists," veJY definite service to perform f or
'Mr. Finkelstein explains.
the community.
The .r~~i~lar tr!Q_.QL o~E_-~~
One of the most regular customerc
Mr. Finkelstein has ever had, though,
was a certain colored minister of the
gospel. Each Monday morning this
embarrassed
pulpitter
are golfers, hunters and fishermen financially
who pawn their golf clubs, hunting would bring in his Bible, pawn it for
rifles and fishing tackle at the close a dollar, leave it in "hock" throughof each season with almost clock- out the week and redeem it on Saturday afternoon just in tlme to prelike regularity.
pare his sermon for the coming day.
And, without once looking at a His patronage continue for several
or consul tirrg a U:a·
Icalendar Mr. Fllkelstein would be months, and never once during that
Jll\[l\fiE SCHUL'l'Z
mometer,
time did the good fellow miss his
big black bear on the roller able to tell, with almost scientific weekly Monday and Saturday visits
platform seemed just a little accuracy, when warm weather ar- to the p awn shop.
c!
in its environment rives and makes its departure in
Another colored minister, through
LVan~,a-s•z;ea radio sets and assort- Asheville. The arrival is marked by
Instruments. But so, for a deluge of overcoats and winter no choice of his own, also slipped
into the picture once. A sewing ma, did the pair of barber's furs, which are usually left In "hock"
the
the grandfather clock until the first chilly !breezes of late chine was accepted at next shop one
afternoon. Early the
mornin[
b arely discernible among fall begin to whip around street a delegation of incensed "sisters" o1
n~~~~:~~~;~ confused agglomera.tion corners.
one of the city's negro church es de1->
fishing tackle, hunting
Some Wealthy Pawners
scended on the establishment and
and
watches.
Some of these coats and winter complained that the machine had
the dark brown eyes of Leo wraps are pawned by persoru with been stolen from the Ladies Aid
however, there was no more money jingling in their pockets ~ewing room of their church.
In the variegated spec- than there Is In Mr. Finkelstein's
Barrowed :!\arne Also
During almost a score of years cash register.
Mr. Finkelstein dug out the pawn
the pawnbroker a;ge business he
"They've decided It's cheaper and ticket which had been issued for the
learned to expect almost any
under the sun- and a few ~~~~~u2~~ ~:e ~~;::;r ~~~;~ l~!~n~~~ch.:;;d a~c~~~,;.~~o,~e~~d, t;~
besides that- t o be brought
Pack square shop as security
Joan. And his exp ectation s
been in va.tn. ·
third floor of the sliop his
establish ed more than a quara century ago are enough
and curious pieces of merto start a miniature mu· j
without once drawing on out_s.our~~or specimens. Mr Fin-
awnsh Ops H ere C Ould
.
Furnlsh Good Museum
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Leo Finkelstein Papers
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This collection contains materials relating to Leo Finkelstein, resident of Asheville, North Carolina, the Asheville Lions Club, and the Beth Ha-Tephila Cemetery in Asheville. It contains computer discs, notes, scrapbooks, book drafts, correspondence, photographs, programs, fliers, and other materials related Leo Finkelstein, his wife Sylvia, and the Lions Club, Elks Club, and Jewish Community in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Pawnshops Here Could Furnish Good Museum (Newspaper Article)
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1939-03-26
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English
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This Asheville Citizen-Times article featuring Leo Finkelstein reports on the life of a pawnbroker, including bizarre items (such as a stuffed bear), rich clients who pay interest just to keep their winter coats safe over the summer, con artists, and a minister who scraped by pawning his Bible every Monday and retrieving it every Saturday evening.
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Pawnbroking--North Carolina--Asheville
Pawnbrokers--North Carolina--Asheville
Finkelstein, Leo, 1905-1998
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Schulz, Jimmie
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Asheville
bear
Bible
coat
epilepsy
interest
minister
money
museum
pawnbroking
sewing machine
wealthy