Successful Sculptress to Carve Annapolis Bronze Doors
Miss Evelyn B. Longman of Chicago won a $15 000 prize in a competition for the Annapolis Naval Academy bronze entrance doors to be hung as a class of '68 memorial. Her model titled Victory, previously exhibited at the St Louis World's Fair, earned high praise from five jurors.
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Annapolis Naval Academy
St. Louis Fair
Robert M. Thompson
Academy
Evelyn B. Longman
Chicago
First Woman Admitted to American Society of Civil Engineers
Nora Stanton Blatch, granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, becomes the first woman elected to ASCE membership amid strong acclaim. The article profiles demand for Miss Longman and details her sculptural prize and career path from Olivet College to Chicago Art Institute to New York, with praise from Daniel C. French.
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Nora Stanton Blatch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Society of Civil Engineers
Miss Longman
Wincester
Ohio
Edwin H. Longman
Olivet College
Lorado Taft
Chicago Art Institute
Wes
New York
San Francisco Inferno and Earthquake No Link to Vesuvian Eruption
A San Francisco catastrophe unfolds with fires and tremors in a sweeping urban disaster. Geological Director Walcott confirms no direct connection between the quake and the Vesuvian eruption, citing separate geological causes and sediment weight resting on the earth's shell.
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Metropolis
Italy
Charlies D. Walcott
Geological Survey
Mr. Walcott
Mississippi
California
Sacramento
Pacific
Saprancisco
United States
Walcott
Geological and
Geodetic Surveys
Charleston
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The Surgery of the Ancients
An article in the British Medical Journal notes ancient dental bridge work by the Etruscans and shows plaster ears noses and lips among Indians. It cites long‑used artificial limbs from Capua, Pliny on Roman warriors, Goetz von Berlichingen’s iron hand of 1504, and early medieval prosthetics.
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
Capua
Pliny
Goetz von
Cornerstone Laying at Capitol for New House and Senate Offices
President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon led a Masonry ceremony for the Capitol Hill expansion. The two buildings, connected by an underground passage, will house 410 offices and aim to complete before the Sixtieth Congress. The project cost about 10 million dollars and mirrors classical design with two equal annexes forming a unified Capitol complex.
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Roosevelt
Speaker Cannon
Senate
House
House of Representatives
Capitol Hill
Washington
Rome
Greece
Capitol
Congress
Legislative Hall
Place de la Concorde
Paris
Louvre
Elliott Woods
House Building Commission
Federal Lodge
Masonic Order
Virginia
Gravity Washing Machine promises free trial and savings
An 1900 gravity powered washer ad offers a month long, no cost trial with free freight. It claims gravity action reduces effort, prevents wear, and can wash large loads quickly. After trial, customers pay weekly with no deposit, and keep the machine if convinced it saves time and labor.
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Bieber
Henry Or
Wize
Toronta
Caneda
Greatest Natural Disasters of History
List of historic disasters with death tolls and dates from Pompeii to San Francisco. Includes Vesuvius eruption 79 AD with 20000+, Constantinople 557 quake, Krakatoa 1883 36380, Lisbon 1755 26000, St Pierre 1902 40000, and 1906 San Francisco quake and fire.
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Pompeii
Herculaneum
Mount Vesuvius
A. D
Eathquake
Constantinople
Catania
Sicily
Syria
Cilicia
Hee
Canton
China
Kuchan
North
Persia
Lisbon
Aleppo
Calabria
Island of
Krakatoa
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Isle of Ischia
Charleston
8. C
Bandalsan
Island of Hondo
Japan
Venezuela
Guatemala
St. Pierre
Martinique
Mont Pelee
San Francisco
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Taft
Stanton
John Paul Jones
Ing
Miss Blatch
Cornell University
Longman
Chicago Exposition
San Franciscan
Sierra Nevadas
Hemisphere
America
Vesuvius
Corps of Engineers
Cornell
Christian
Brunswick
Ambrose Pare
Lorraine
Pare
Sebastian
Peter Lowe
Falcinelli
President Roosevelt
Capitol Plaza
Rom
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