Smithsonian international book exchange drives global knowledge
Trude Sam highlights the Smithsonian exchange system a vast international literary clearinghouse handling about 200 000 book packages annually and delivering United States government documents to 60 000 addresses worldwide. The service, subsidized by government funds, evolved from Vattemare plans and now operates from London Leipzig and Budapest with thousands of correspondents to diffuse knowledge globally.
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Trude Sam
Isis
Smithsonian Exchange
Cyrus Adler
Smithsonian Institution
Exchange Service
Smithsonian
Congress
Smithsonian Exchanges
H. Alexandre Vattemary
Paris
Royal Library of
France
Louis XIV
American Philosophical Society
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Vattemare
Europe
United States
Washington Irving
Joel R. Poinsett
Gulian GC. Verp
Smithsonian Pub
Mississippi Valley
Squier
Davis
Joseph Henry
Washington
International Exchange Service
London
Leipsic
Budapest
Smithsonian Exchange Service
Ireland
South Africa
Great Britain
British America
Dories in School of Sharks Near Marthas Vineyard
Reports from No Man's Land shipping state a ravenous school of sharks infested waters near Marthas Vineyard. Crew from the Priscilla under Capt Fred De Wolt battled sharks that tried to overturn their dories. Three large sharks fought each other while fishermen rowed back to the schooner. One shark reportedly exceeded 15 feet in length.
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No Man's Land
Marthas Vineyard
Priscilla
Fred de Wolt
Boston Herald
Buildings in Large Cities 1907 total cost note
The total cost to erect buildings in U S principal cities in 1907 was 661,076,286 dollars, down 17,634,683 from 1906 but up from any prior year. Building activity rose with 184,054 building permits issued in 1907 versus 18,174 in 1906, led by New York with a 41,691,982 drop, 26.84 percent decline.
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United States
New York
Lost Bargain on Maine Coast Cottage Bid
A Maine coast cottage chase drives George and Lina as they seek a seaside home. Lina pushes for a two thousand dollar bid after a vivid description from Priscilla, while George hesitates, fearing affordability. Maria Gould then signals a competing bid, forcing a tension-filled clash of two couples over the dream coastal retreat.
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George
Lina
Emiline
Maine
Maria
Broad Sea
Priscilla
Maine Coast Agency
Platea
Jove
Darling
Maria Gould
Cabm
Mrs Omiline Stubbs Sale Trusts Bargain Notice
A fragmented text records a deal involving Mrs Omiline Stubbs and Mrs Dutch over a $2000 sale. The dialogue hints at power of intuition and a buy back option. The passage mentions a lucky woman and a gift or instruction passed to a recipient with unclear context.
Subdued Confession From Portland Manager and Wife
Marie Canst of Agonyst in Portland admits her wife Priscilla’s exact match to a shore property description, noting the arrangement and marriage driven by her wife’s will. The piece mentions large rubber supplies, with 63 percent of the world’s India rubber from South America expected to be furnished.
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Priscilla
India
South America
Exit the Nethersole Kiss and the false stage kiss claim
The article reports Miss Nethersole denying a real or typical kiss associated with her onstage persona. She argues the so called kiss is a press fabrication from a decade ago and asserts no such kiss exists. Her leading man corroborates by denying any onstage kiss with her.
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Naturalism
Miss Nethersole
Nethersole
Wyven
Jean Gaussin
Gossip of the Stage Sparks in New York and on Tour
Louis James tours New York to inspect Peer Gynt scenery while Monmouth Beach hosts company. Gustave von Seyffertitz and Maude Adams’ stage team head to Cambridge for study as Nannette Comstock treks from Massachusetts to rehearse Jet. The Shuberts push foreign comedy The Blue Mouse after White Hen and The Green Bird. Mrs Elinor Glyn eyeing La Sirga for Three Weeks. Flora Zabelle’s father preaches Sundays at Orchestra Hall. Florence Ziegfeld heads Chicago Musical College board. Margaret Slington’s sister wed to a country clergyman near Bloomington NJ. Frances Wilson Huard debuts in Century sketch When We Wore Tramps.
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Louis James
New York
Monmouth Beach
Gustave von Seyffertitz
Maude Adams
Blue Mouse
A. Norlin
Elinor Glyn
la Sirfa
Brussels
la Siria
Mirio di Venturini
Flora Zabelle
M. M. Mangasarian
Orchestra Hall
Anna Held
Florence Ziegfeld
Chicago Musical College
Margaret Slington
HiUe
Bloomington
Francis Wilson
Frances Wilson Huard
Charles Huard
The Melodrama Waning and Shifting Tastes
Fear is expressed by some manufacturers of thrillers as melodrama wanes. Writers like Blaney Davis Kremer and Parker profited from old plays while demand shifts to better class melodramas and musical comedy extravaganzas. The era of girl melodramas with song titles is fading, with experts predicting new styles may emerge.
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Charles D. Blaney
Owen Davis
Theodore Kremer
Lem B. Parker
Chicago
Bertha
Nellie
Charles EB. Blaney
Pauline
Broadway actor fumes after stage laugh prompts note
A prominent Broadway summer show actor, described as haughty, complained to the stage manager that a female performer laughed during a serious moment. She was ordered to apologize and wrote a note saying she was thinking of someone far away and never laughs at him on stage, waiting until she leaves.
Henry Millers Toast To Ibsen Uncorks Miller Humor
Henry Miller offers a witty tribute to Ibsen, likening him to a silent boy thought to be a seer or leader. The anecdote ends with a punchline on his apparent lack of thinking, underscoring Miller’s ironic take on the famed playwright.
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Henry Miller
Ibsen
Tbsen
Moses
Dime for Tip Incident At Chicago Rialto
Joe Howard with Mane Bat tison stars in The Flower of the Ranch in Chicago when a bum accosts him on the Rialto asking for food money. Howard retorts that he has ten cents, and the beggar admits the ten is his tip to the Walter.
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Joe” Howard
Mane
Battison
Chicago
Howard
Walter
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Uthsoniat Institution
iCopyright
Shortstory Pub. Co
Linal
Mercy
Broad Sea View
Portland
Omiline Stubbs
Dutch
Marie Canst
Agonyst
Tal
George Stubbs
Trances
Cossar
Wbote
Aviwwonulo
Olga
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