Caruso plans to train a singer for ten years
Enrico Caruso offers to back a youth with potential to become the world’s greatest singer. The winner must accept guardianship by a commission and vow not to marry or perform publicly for ten years, with Caruso's fortune ensuring fulfillment of desires if obligations are kept. Theodore Bauer announced the plan in Boston.
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Nightingale
Enrico Caruso
Caruso
Theodore Bauer
Boston Opera Company
Boston
Swiss Alps
Naples
Milan
Rockefeller’s Gift to All Mankind
A newspaper piece discusses John D. Rockefeller plan for a vast new foundation to spread education and progress worldwide. It outlines a senate bill charter, aims to advance knowledge, relieve suffering, and promote human development beyond borders. It notes Rockefeller’s large past gifts and how the foundation would operate across nations with a board including John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr.
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John D. Rockefeller
United States Senate
Rockefeller
United States
Mr. Rockefeller
General Education Board
Pocket Wireless Telegraph Exhibit in Berlin
A wireless pocket telegraph shown by Professor Cerebotani during a Berlin lecture. The device rests on a wooden base with alphabet letters arranged in a circle and a central indicator that responds to wireless currents to spell messages. It is about the size of a cardcase.
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Cerebotani
Munich
Germany
Berlin
General education board gift list notes large university gifts
The record lists multiple gifts and grants from the General Education Board including 53 000 000 to the University of Chicago 25 309 064 to Bush Medical College 6 000 000 to various churches missions and reform efforts plus gifts to Harvard Yale Barnard Union Theological Seminary Southern Education Fund and Cleveland city parks among others. It also mentions Baptist foreign missions and medical research institutes with miscellaneous contributions totaling over 60 million in some entries.
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General Education Board
University of Chicago
Bush Medical College
Baptist Foreign Missionary Pun
Avestegen
Harvard University
Baptist Educational Socioey
Svcassesscentsans Caesseses
Union Theological
MARY
Southern Education Fund
Institute For Medical Research
Barnard College
Yale University
Cleveland City
Rockefeller fortunes range from 200 million to 1 billion
Estimates of John D Rockefeller's wealth have varied from 200 million to 1 billion dollars. George Gates and Senator Hoar have cited higher figures while Rockefeller claims his fortune does not exceed 300 million and his peak income is under 20 million.
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Rockefeller
Gates
Mr. Rockefeller
Senator Hoar
United States Senate
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted and Local Real Estate Ad
One hundred dollar reward offer for incurable catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by Toledo druggists F. J. Cheney & Co and Westra Trvax among others. Internal remedy claimed to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Also Pleasant Home Add real estate ad offering fifty foot lots near the Park with terms.
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Hiall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Westra Trvax
O. Wapina
Kinnan & Mabvin
Tolesdale
O. Hall
Alagiste
Hall
Pilla
Pleasant Home
Will Lanning
Purification of Paris Through Health Commands
After floods Paris is described as purified with epidemic danger deemed over. French Premier Briand issued health commandments broadcast to all households and schools. The plan telegraphs to every school and uses dictation to ensure every child carries home the rules to parents.
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Paris
M. Briand
When Gas Was Really Dear in New York
A New Yorker recalls 19th century gas prices from old receipts. He notes 1827 costs of 1 dollar per hundred cubic feet and 1838 70 cents per hundred, plus meter and fixture rents, contrasting with current 80 cent bills. The anecdote, from the New York Globe, emphasizes shared hardship yet bemused perspective.
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New York
New York Globe
Kocher Awarded Nobel Prize for Goiter Discovery
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to Theodore Kocher of Berne for his work on goiter. He proved goiter removal possible without harming the attached gland and traced the disease’s causes, noting a prior belief that treatment worsened cretinism. Also mentions a Hungarian coin engraver who placed his name on the sovereign’s effigy, leading to a remelt and institutionalization.
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Kocher
Goiter
Stockholm
Theodore Kocher
Berne
Switzerland
Kocher Goiter
Valais
Berlin
Budapest
Kormozer
Ane
Berliner Morgenpost
Royal Arch Meeting Schedule Guidelines
Royal Arch announces regular meetings on the first and third Sundays each month at 2 pm in A. O. A. W. Hall. Visiting Sir Knights are welcome to attend.
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Ayie At
Muvee
Tenor
Foundation Board
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Starr J. Murphy
Frederick T. Gates
Rockefeller Committee On Philanthropy
Charles O. Heydt
A. Dupont
Gardner
Poultryman
Stockman
West
Lily
Chas. H. Lilly CO
Seatile
Portland
Ketchum, Hill & Go
Grocery Line
E. Wishkah St
H.F. Seymour Sheet Metal
Biow
Heating and Ventilating
Agency For Royal Hot Air Furnaces
East Hume ‘St
Aberdeen Livery & Transfer Co
C. E. Murray Prep
Carsten
Carstens Packing Co
Aberdeen
Washington
Spokane
Ballard
Inland Empire
Ballard Plannery Company, Inc
Kuhn Building
U.S. A
Grays Harbor
E. Wishkah
West Heron St
Aberdeer
Tel
Golden West Hotel
East Heron Street
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