Widening of Fleet Street Destroys London Landmarks
Pearson's Weekly reports the Fleet Street widening project begun in 1853 aims to create a sixty foot wide thoroughfare for heavy traffic, transforming a historic route from the royal palace to the Tower of London. Many landmarks and homes of notable writers such as Izaak Walton and Goldsmith have been demolished in the process.
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Fleet Street
City of London
Royal Palace
Tower of London
City Corporation
Izaak Walton
Richardson Johnson
Lamb
Goldsmith
Dickens
Barrow
Gmail
Pearson's Weekly
Washington Monument Faces Accelerated Decay Threat
The Washington Monument in the national capital shows disintegration in its 190 feet of interior filling between marble outer facing and granite inner wall. Heat cold dryness and dampness cause crusting and oozing, shortening the stone shaft of 555 feet as described by John S. Mosby Jr in Popular Mechanics.
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Washington Monument
National Capital
John S. Mosby, Jr
Popular Mechanics
Quake Sparks Comical Wardrobe Shooting in Germany
During a recent southern Germany tremor at Altach in the Rhine valley a homeowner awoke to a swaying wardrobe and believed a thief hid inside. He and his son armed a revolver and fired, only to discover Sunday clothes pierced by bullets after the wardrobe was opened.
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Germany
Altach
Rhine Valley
Man Eating Shark Catches Jules Antoine at Sea
A Pensacola man Jules Antoine fell overboard and was swallowed by a twelve foot shark. A British steamer crew witnessed the incident, captured the shark, and cut it open to find Antoine inside. Heirs of Jules Antoine might have won a $2000 proof prize, had he lived to present evidence.
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Jules Antoine
Hermann Oeirichs
Antoine
Oeirichs
Pensacola Fla
Argonaut
Ninety Years a Servant Honored in Historic Records
London Chronicle notes long service records in England and Ireland. Isaac Ingall served the Websters of Rattleabbey for ninety years until his death in 1798 at age 120. Miss Sophie Groom served a Watford family for seventy years. Sarah Thompson of Belfast held eighty three years with one family until her death in 1895.
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Sophie Groom
Watford
England
Battle
Sussex
Isaac Ingall
Websters
Rattleabbey
Sarah Thompson
Belfast
London Chronicle
Wireless wonders reach 5000 mile ocean tie
Demonstrations of wireless telegraphy show practical use at sea. Twelve years after first tests between the Needles and the incoming steamship St Paul, Marconi proved the method works. The St Paul lay 66 miles off shore when connected, and wireless now flashes messages across oceans up to about 5,000 miles.
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St Paul
Marconi
St. Paul
Iceland Refuges Plan by British Steam Fishing Firms
British steam fishing companies plan to build fourteen small houses of refuge along the Icelandic coast between Ingolfskjorde and Portland on the south coast. Each shelter will include tugs, fuel and provisions to aid shipwrecked mariners, as reported by Shipping Illustrated.
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Iceland
Icelandic
Ingolfskjorde
Portland
John Bigelow Dies, Longtime Diplomat and Statesman
John Bigelow, called Americas grand old man, died in New York at ninety four. Born November 25 1817 in Malden New York he rose from law and journalism to public service and diplomacy. He advised Van Buren supported Tilden and served as consul in Paris and minister plenipotentiary to Napoleon III. He declined an assistant treasurer post in 1885 and later advised the New York canal survey and Brussels exposition duties. He authored Tildens life and remained a Democrat throughout his career. His wife Jane Tunis Poultney and daughter Miss Grace Bigelow survived him.
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America
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Abraham Lincoln
William E. Gladstone
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Watertown
Mass
Rhode Island
Asa Bigelow
Malden
Ulster County
N. X
Union
van Buren
William Cullen Bryant
Evening Post
Samuel J Tilden
Tilden
Bigelow
Frederick W. Seward
Cleveland
Panama
New York Chamber of Commerce
de Lesseps
New York State
Racine College
Union College
University of the City of New York
Mr. Tilden
Jane Tunis Poultney
Grace Bigelow
Three Wishes on a Fishing Trip
Edgar Eli and Eugene fish all day but fail to bite. Edgar wishes for candy and toys while Eli seeks money a horse and a playhouse. Eugene digs for worms and finds luck catching many fish with proper bait while his brothers wait.
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Edgar
Eli
Eugene
Longest word contest in a stormy library
Children sit in a drenched library as Ben and May boast word lengths. Catherine, Catherine and Tor challenge each other with longer terms, debating syllables and continents. Ben earns the prize for his playful victory.
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Tata
Tom
Ben
May
Catherine
Garing
Transcor
A World Famed Banyan Tree in Calcutta Gardens
A description of Calcutta’s renowned banyan tree in the botanical gardens. It spans two and a half acres, with about 1500 aerial roots and a massive mother trunk. The tree is carefully tended to, and planners hope it may cover fifteen acres within fifty years.
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Botanical Gardens
Calcutta
India
Ttate
Cotton Ball Game and Pass Ball for Girls
Describes two classroom games for girls and mixed groups. The Cotton Ball Game uses a light cotton ball kept airborne over a string with no hand contact. falling to the floor makes the falling side lose. Pass Ball for Girls features two equal columns of players passing a ball quickly with strict foul rules and repeated runs.
Conundrum Notes and Rural Economics Quips
A fragment of humorous riddles contrasts candy licking with fast movement and weighs in on a joke about a prisoner’s release. It pivots to a parable about safe banks and profitable shares, concluding with a farmer's earth banks and plowshares as the source of wealth.
Get All the Education Possible
The text urges maximum educational attainment for every child and questions the age to leave school. It notes the compulsory education law sets sixteen as the limit and argues it is regrettable for children to stop learning at that age.
Reforming trusts and monopolies through cash-backed capital
James J. Hill argues business leaders resist reform and calls for enforcing laws to end monopolies and trusts. He says trusts would vanish if capital stock were fully paid in cash or properly valued, with penalties on stockholders or capitalization cuts to reflect real value.
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James J. Hill
The Work That Pays and High Pews Anecdotes
A collection of quotes recounts Kelvin on wages for minds versus hands in Scotland and a William and Mary era bishop blaming court ladies wandering eyes on sermons leading to the introduction of high pews. The note adds that high pews aimed to curb distraction, though admirers raged.
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England
Quotable Bits From The Philadelphia Record
A collection of witty aphorisms on love truth and influence. The wise man praises food to win a man the flattery to win a woman and warns that truth attracts attention only when spoken carelessly.
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Philadelphia Record
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