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  • The Bird Charmer at Tuileries Gardens

    The Bird Charmer at Tuileries Gardens

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    Being a bird charmer is not a normal profession but, if you live in Paris, there is a much greater chance that you could actually make a living charming mankind’s feathered friends. The Tuileries Gardens near the Louvre was the perfect place for Henri Pol to ply this trade.

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Edith Romaine
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No farmer can work without seeds! When farmers and their families moved to Kansas in the 1870s, their struggle was a tough-row-to-hoe, until Hiram W. Buckbee started selling seeds from his Illinois farm. Uncountable acres of mid-American farmland were seeded with Buckbee’s flower and vegetable seeds. Postcards are part of the story.

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