Foreign Diplomatic Children Gather in Washington Colony
Washington hosts a diverse children’s colony of diplomats from nations worldwide. The article notes offspring of Cuban, Brazilian, Paraguayan, Mexican, Costa Rican, Haitian, Chilean, Chinese, and other envoys, detailing their ages, languages, schooling, dress, and family ties, with emphasis on Miss Liang and other notable youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Our Republic
Uncle Sam
China
Celestial Empire
Chentung Liang-Cheng
Moonlit Gulf Stream Swim Confronts a Fearful Shark
A commercial traveler recounts swimming the moonlit Gulf Stream amid phosphorescent waters and a looming three foot longer-than-him shark. He aids a companion as the great fish presses in, then drives it away with splashes and powerful strokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starling
New York
United States
Gulf
Great Culebra Cut Biggest Dig in World History
Engineering News calls the Panama Canal Culebra cut the largest earth furrow attempted by man surpassing earlier works like the Nochistongo cut in Mexico. Nochistongo, begun 1640 and completed 1759, remained the deepest and widest ancient excavation yet. The Culebra project, with 186 million to 111 million cubic yards of cut, dwarfs many rivals though built with machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Culebra Divide
Engineering News
Panama Cut
Culebra
North Sea Canal
Manchester Canal
Suez Canal
Cuellera Divide
Valley of
Mexico
City
Nochistongo Cut
Wallace
Panama Divide
Nochistongo
Egypt
What Governs Price of Dogs
Prices for dogs reflect buyer sentiment more than animal value with show dogs commanding top sums. In Birmingham a sale of pointers and setters totaled 3025 dollars, Coronation sold for 325, Ightfield Bang for 185, while American buyers would pay far more. Bull terrier Woodcote Wonder hit 5000 in New Haven. Rodney Stone and a St Bernard also drew high prices, contrasting with inflated kennel-show sums and cheaper beach-dog fancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
England
Coronation
Ightfield Bang
Woodcote Wonder
New Haven
San Francisco
Richard Croker, Jr
Rodney Stone
Frank Gould
St. Bernard
Resources of the South Offers Cheap Land for Homes
A historical essay urges rapid rural settlement to avert future scarcity. William Smytne argues population growth necessitates organized land development and mass home construction, praising scientific farming and private public cooperation to unlock South and national resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Republic
A Lapland Birthday Present
A Lapland custom gifts a reindeer to a newborn Lapp, and as the animal and its descendants grow, the herd becomes the child’s property. The practice is said to be more valuable than any silver gifts from relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Anon
Nervous Swimmers Regain Nerves After Late Dip
In a brief exchange, bystanders recount fear and relief after a spill or swim incident. They confess lingering nerves and a cautious return to the water, noting they sat for about an hour to regain composure before swimming again.
Highest Salaried Woman Miss Kate Holliday Claghorn Appointed Registrar
Miss Kate Holliday Claghorn of Brooklyn is named registrar of the tenement house department in New York City and is the highest paid woman in New York State civil service at $2000 annually. Georges Hale, a department veteran, was the sole other passer, with an average just below hers. Missour is described as a pretty, modest, unassuming young woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Holliday Claghorn
Brooklyn
Civil Service
New York State
Georges Hale
Missour
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Senor Quesada
Republic of Cuba
Havana
Cuba
Frau Matilda Bussche
Baron Bussche
Argentine Republic
Miss Bussche
Senor Baez
Paraguay
Brazil
Yung Kwai
Legation
Springfield
Mass
Miss Liang
Liang
Senor
Don Joaquin Walker-Martinez
Chile
South
Central America
West Indies
Haiti
Bourke
Leger
Children OF
Jamaica
Republic of Bolivia
Elena Calderon
Senor Calvo
Costa Rica
West Pointer
Calvo
West Point
Elizabeth Rosen
Josephine Durand
Roosevelt
Chekib Bey
Matilda Bussche
Resources OF the South
William FE Smytne
Malthus
the Empire of the South
Mason and Dixon
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
New England
Pacific Coast
Union
Far West
William E. Smythe
Lapland
Ortha
Peento
Cleveland
Rockefellers
Carne
Pepeande
Angle Manufacturing CO
Murray ST
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