Potter Palmer in Cowes Egypt House and Royal Flooring Tale
Mrs Potter Palmer, Chicago social censor, joined England's Cowes regatta circle and leased Egypt House Isle of Wight. Her niece Julia Dent Grant wed Russian Prince Cantacuzene, a famed match that prospered. The King once slipped on polished floors there and spoke of youth. Since then polished floors are tabooed at Egypt House.
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America
Gatta
Cowes
Potter Palmer
Egypt House
England
Isle of Wight
Consuelo
Duchess
Manchester
Edward
London
Egypt
Fitzhugh Lees Views and Gettysburg Remarks Recounted
An 1896 travel anecdote recalls Fitzhugh Lee and O. O. Howard discussing Civil War memories aboard an Indian School visit to Carlisle. Their conversation touches on reconstruction, industrial renewal of the South, Gettysburg interpretations, and chapel memories at West Point.
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Indian Department
Washington City
Carlisle
Indian School
Congress
Indian Service
Fitzhugh Lee
O. O. Howard
West Point
Howard
Fitz
Lee
Gettysburg
New Sheridan Statue at Somerset Ohio Honors Cavalry Leader
A new equestrian statue of General Philip Sheridan is dedicated in Somerset Ohio on November 2. The statue honors his later years, notes his Irish birth on a ship, and recalls his boyhood in Somerset. The piece cost ten thousand dollars and was unveiled with remarks by G A R leader Corporal Tanner and others.
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Ohio
Phil Sheridan
Somerset
State of
Sheridan
Ireland
Albany
N. Y
Phil
Winchester
West Point
Harrison
Sherman
Tom Corwin
Garfled
Hayes
McKinley
Mike
John
Ellen
Battle of
Corporal Tanner
Tweedale
Youngest Senator Elmer Burkett Defeats Bryan in 1904 Drive
The article recounts Elmer J Burkett of Nebraska becoming the youngest U S Senator after a hard fought convention and campaign against William Jennings Bryan. It notes a popular nomination push, party dynamics, and a Republican majority legislature that swiftly elected Burkett in six minutes.
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Senate
Elmer J Burkett
Nebraska
Burkett
William J. Bryan
Edgar C. Snyder
Omaha Bee
United States
Sena
Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Mr. Burkett
Mr. Bryan
Roosevelt
Commonwealth
House
Elmer J. Burkett
Desert Oasis Reborn Under Roosevelt Dam Hope
In tropical Arizona Phoenix and Salt River Valley rise from drought with irrigation works by the Reclamation Service. Roosevelt Dam, 275 feet high, will store 1,400,000 acre feet and double farmland, powering pumps for Indian reservations and reviving Pima and Papago lands. The project spans cement mills, ditches, roads, and a budding city of 1,000 ditches, signaling swift valley prosperity.
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Brass
Phoenix
Mesa
Salt River Valley
el Paso
Texas
Arizona
Salt River
Geronimo
San Francisco Mountains
Tonto Creek
Tonto Basin
Reclamation Service
Roosevelt Dam
Washington Monument
Phoe Ap
Vix
Tems
San Carlos
Salt River Canyon
LFA
Phoenix Rediviyus
Sunless Dungeons of Peter and Paul Prison Described
A former inmate of the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg recalls the grim, sunless cells and enforced silence. Prisoners communicate by wall knocks for letters, a practice punished by authorities, making the fortress a symbol of Russia sense of burial and doom.
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Peter and Paul
St. Petersburg
Russia
Noah the Wise One in Rainy Lesson
A Sunday school teacher asks who was the wisest man. A young girl answers Noah, saying he alone understood enough to go in out of the rain. The tale frames Noah as prudent and trusted in weather wisdom.
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Mary
Bet
Eliza
Noah
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