Monumental 580 Foot Indian Memorial Planned for Staten Island
Plans call for a bronze column on Staten Island topped by a colossal Indian figure to stand 580 feet high with the base a library and museum. Thought to be completed in about three years, it aims to honor North American Indians and dedicate the monument to U S schoolchildren.
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United States
Staten Island
New York
Atlantic
Maine
Mexico
United States of America
Carl E. Tefft
George W. Melville
Rodman Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Tefft
Wanamaker
Mel Ville
Andrew Carnegie
H.C. Puimpus
Natural History Museum
Rhodes
Ontario Orders 1.5 Million Pounds Aluminium Wire
Ontario purchases 1,500,000 pounds of half inch aluminium wire for a Niagara Falls power line. The $400,000 order was awarded to a Pittsburgh firm.
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Ontario
Canada
Niagara Falls
Pittsburg
Harriman Gift Creates Sixty Mile New York Park Stretch
The Harriman gift and Mrs. Harriman’s $1.6 million offer would add 10 000 acres of mountains and forests along the Hudson. If accepted a continuous park would stretch from Fort Lee ferry to Newburg covering about sixty miles, with additional acreage near Arden to extend protection.
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State of
New York
EO. Harriman
Harriman
New York City
Arden
The
Hudson
Palisades
Nyack
Newburg
Palisades Interstate Park
Orange
Rockland Counties
Tuxedo
Electric Light Hatches Chicks Faster Than Mother Hen
At Madison Square Gardens a poultry show demonstrated eggs hatched by electric light inside a glass globe. The controlled temperature sped hatchings by about a day, drawing New Yorkers and farmers to watch as chicks emerged, peeped, and grew feathers within the transparent globe.
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Madison Square Gardens
New York
Groadway
Guard Appoints Special Bodyguard for Poor Man's Mayor
Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis, elected as friend of the poor, names George Coffin as special bodyguard and detective to be near him and report on cases needing mayoral action. Shank faces pressure from job seekers and threats he deems more than political.
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Lew Shank
Indianapolis
George Coffin
Coffin
Shank
Jealousy of Modern Times
A humorous exchange between aeroplane and automobile contrasts flight and ground travel. The aeroplane boasts height while the automobile claims practical advantage of remaining stationary where it stops. The verse, attributed to Laurana W. Sheldon in the New York Times, wittily contrasts tech progress with everyday transport.
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Laurana W. Sheldon
New York Times
The Good Roads Movement Benefits Local Trade and Population
The piece argues that building better roads will raise population and boost business for local tradesmen. It contends farmers gain outlet for crops, settlers increase, and town merchants profit from higher trade volumes and greater spending.
Westward barber’s tale on speed in New York shops
A visiting barber from the west mocks New York for slow service. He describes a bustling town shop where eleven workers simultaneously attend a customer, contrasting it with his own region’s efficiency and modern layout. The anecdote appears in the New York Sun.
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New York
New York Sun
Old Coffee House Tobacco Jar Mechanism
London Notes and Queries cites the 1829 Tubingen Morgenblatt describing a device in a London coffee house shaped like a tobacco jar on a table. A penny inserted into a slot released a lever and dispensed tobacco, but a halfpenny failed and the would be cheat could not recover the money.
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Tubingen
Mansfield and Norton Debate Manorial Rights
The judge Lord Mansfield listened to Sir Fletcher Norton’s argument on manorial rights. Norton declares he has two manors to illustrate the point, and Mansfield replies with a curt, knowing response.
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Lord Mansfield
Fletcher Norton
Norton
Night Key Joke In Washington Star Cable
Cartoonish exchange features Mr. Meekton asking for a night key and joking that his wife Senrietta keeps it locked in a safety deposit box to prevent loss. A light, humorous note from the Washington Star.
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Mr. Meekton
Senrietta
Washington Star
After Their Quarrel Dialogue Moment
Dialogue excerpt shows Mabel urging Lena greeting while Helen denies any acknowledgment. The exchange underscores social friction and attention to appearances as characters discuss passing by Lena and reacting to her presence.
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Mabel
Lena
Helen
Puck
Fragments on desire and social behavior in casual maxims
The passage offers pithy maxims on wanting what one cannot have, timing, authority, weather, finance, knowledge, appetite, youth, and vanity. It frames social relations as games of perception, approval, and strategic restraint, with cautions about pride and reciprocity.
Theories Tested in the Sentient Atmosphere Vibration
A reflective piece on argument as a method for evaluating theories. It suggests debate serves to reveal how ideas resonate with the perceiver rather than to win over an opponent. The prose emphasizes inquiry over confrontation and the interior experience of judgment.
When Wrights Are Not Mistaken We’ll Fly South
A playful verse imagines birds planning winter travel to warmer climates. It humorously urges inventors to refine engines so humans can join the birds in distant, sunny lands, leaving behind rain and cold. The speaker longs for a glorious day of effortless, rapid flight and says mankind could be a bird in winter.
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Equator
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New York Harbor
Colossus
Great State Park
Q. T. Simpson
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Boston
Mr. Simpson
Grand Theatre
Olga Nethersole
Sappho
Ccod Fcass
Aberdeen
Wishkah ValLey
Herald Office
E. Wishkah Street
E. Wishkah
Townsend
S. W. Johnston Transfer Co
Black
Franklin New Castle
Ketchum Hill & Co
Herald Printery
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