Merediths Love of America and Praise from an Eminent Novelist
The eminent English novelist George Meredith died recently in England after a quiet life at Fitnt cottage Boxhill Surrey. An American visitor recalled his remark They have always liked me better in America and spoke of his wish to visit the United States despite his eighty years. He spoke of aging and posterity, and noted Edith Wharton Gertrude Atherton and Henry James as writers he admired and read yearly.
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George Meredith
Eng Hsh
England
Fitnt Cottage
Boxhill
Surrey
America
Meredith
Edith Wharton
Gertrude Atherton
Henry James
James
Mauretania Captain Praises Unseen Speed Capabilities
Captain Pritchard of the Mauretania reports sustained speeds of 23 knots and over across nine voyages. He recalls pushing her toward full power between Queenstown and Liverpool, noting the ship’s potential surpasses past records. The liner exited quarantine and docked in New York earlier than any prior trip.
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Mauretania
Pritchard
New York
Queenstown
Liverpool
Smokeless Plant Promises Clean Power From Refuse Coal
Experts from the geological survey report a smokeless plant in Pittsburg operating economically with coal once deemed refuse. They claim steam can be produced cheaply at 88 cents per ton and say many mercantile establishments have similar results, debunking the notion that smokeless plants cannot be commercial.
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Gay Plante
Geological Survey
Pittsburg
Wildfires and disasters sweep Great Lakes region and beyond
Reports recount a night of disaster from a derailed passenger train near Metz Michigan amid spreading forest fires destroying homes. Refugees fled burning forests or plowed fields as women and children perished. Widespread blazes threaten Cree communities at James and Madson bays. Fire and explosion deaths include Louise H Chamberlain in Albuquerque and a Fort Collins quarry blast.
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Detrott
Carey
Metz
Mich
Nowichd
Mets
Hieves
James and
Madson Bays
Louise H. Chamberlain
Albuquerque
N. M
Perry
Heath
Chicago
International Galt Company
High, Jelief and Eastern Railway
Ingleside
Fort Collins
Colo
Rock Island
Lumber Company
Rock” Island
Sash and Door Works
Brettler
Alberta
Grand Union
Merchants’ Bank
Summit
Joan Coleman
Grafton
N. C
Michigan
Mavinette County
Wis
Treat
Shirley
Lad
Unrest Abroad Touches Britain and Global Turmoil
Reports recount a writ against MP William James Thorne for inciting breach of peace amid unemployment protests in Britain. London sees a suffragette climax with a massive mob disrupts traffic and theaters while riots flare in Lisbon. Other notes cite Cantor crisis in Tabriz, casualties in Lisbon, the death of General Orloff, a Chinese typhoon toll in Changchow, and the Hindu community migration from British Columbia to British Honduras.
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Great Britain
William James Thorne
West Main
London
Westminster
St. Petersburg
Nevce Vremya
Tabriz
Persia
Lisbon
Portugal
Orloff
Changchow
China
British Columbia
British Honduras
Tobacco kit for Kermit Roosevelt to Africa voyage
Kermit Roosevelt as official photographer for his father’s African expedition prepared a gift of tobacco for locals. The kit included pipes, various tobaccos, plug chewing, cigars, and 6 000 cigarettes, filling sixteen cubic feet aboard the transatlantic liner as the largest individual tobacco shipment.
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Roesevelt
Africa
Kermit Roosevelt
Will Build a Magic House in Wilmington
A Wilmington contractor has begun an electric automatic apartment house described as the most unique in the city. The theaterlike design uses button presses to reconfigure spaces with rooms transforming from bedroom to sitting room to dinner area, enabling quick adaptation for occupants.
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Wilmington
Del
Fashion Hint In Footgear at Seashore Resorts
White buckskin pumps and oxfords are correct for morning and afternoon wear at seashore summer resorts in Country home.
Poets Plan Colony Near Fruntvale California
Henry Meade Bland a San Jose normal school teacher and Herbert Bashford have received from Joaquin Miller an acre each and expect to build cottages near the poet’s Frunttvale home. Muller plans a poets colony and a school of poetry.
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Henry Meade Bland
State Normal School of
San Jose
Cal
Herbert Bashford
Joaquin Miller
Frunttvale
Muller
Notable Deaths in Washington Newark Chicago and Baltimore
Colonel Dewitt C Sprague veteran and diplomat dies in Washington at seventy two Judge Howell Newark criminal court judge commits suicide in park Rev Moynihan Chicago oldest Roman Catholic priest centenarian born in Ireland May 3 1808 Major General Richard Coulter dies at Greensburg Pennsylvania Dr Daniel Colt Gilman former Johns Hopkins president dies suddenly in Baltimore
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Dewitt C. Sprague
United States
Germany
Italy
General Grant
Washington
Howell
Criminal Court of
Newark
N. J
J. C. Moynihan
Chicago
Ireland
Richard Coulter
Greensburg
Daniel Colt Gilman
Baltimore
Johns Hopkine Ee
Nerwish Rr
Actress Blanche Bates Plans Hotel-Free Summer Car Tour
Blanche Bates will travel from New York to California by motor car in a furnished vehicle dubbed a hotel on wheels. The car includes portable tents, electric cooking, lighting, a coffee maker, an electric toilet, and a radio wireless telephone with a 50 mile radius. She aims to camp wherever she chooses, spending no nights in hotels during her all electric, self-contained journey.
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Blanche Bates
New York
California
Miss Bates
Misa Bates
New
York
Bates
Santeee
Taft Rose Invented by Philadelphia Society Woman
A Philadelphia society woman invented the Taft rose a novelty for dress lovers. The taft rose uses wired taffeta petals in blended silk tones and measures about eight inches across. Mrs Taft approved naming the rose after her in a personal note, and the inventor has patented the design with nationwide rights and a patent date on the final petal.
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Philadelphia
Taft
United States
Prehistoric Sausage Discovered by Columbus Workers
Workmen digging in Columbus Indiana found a six foot deep soft material resembling sausage with lard. Believed to be ancient river bed remains from White River era. A dog tasted the substance and suffered no ill effects. the rest was sent to a chemist for analysis.
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Columbus
Ind
White River
Great Electric Power Station Planned Near Johannesburg
The world's largest electric power station is planned for a Johannesburg area suburb in South Africa. A high waterfall will drive turbines to supply current for nearly all mines in the district.
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Great
Johannesburg
South Africa
Astor patent aims to turn peat into gas fuel via disintegrator
Colonel Astor plans to patent a vibrator disintegrator that uses air and gas expansion to break down peat for uniform heating. A peat fuel producer gas plant, 150 horsepower, will test the device at Rhinecliff on the Hudson, N Y. The system may supply gas to an internal combustion engine with a slow speed exhaust-expansion approach.
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Coleone
Ater Reet
Jacob Astie
Patent Office
United States
Colonel Astor
Rhinecliff-on-the-Hudson
N. Y
Butterfly aeroplane debut prompts aviation promise
In a windowless cement shop near Medicine Lake Minnesota J Stewart, a railroad engineer, and farmer mechanic Brownell reveal a self rising butterfly aeroplane named for its wing arrangement. A recent test with Fred Parker reached 250 to 300 feet for about ten minutes, weighing under 200 pounds and propelled by a home built engine with 12 to 15 horsepower. They plan to enter heavier than air trials at Fort Myer in October under U S government auspices aiming for speed above 45 mph.
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Medicine Lake
Hennepin County
Minn
J. Stewart
Brownell
Wave
Wright‘ Brothers
Minneapolis
Stewart-Brownell
Fred Parker
Roy Knabenshue
Baldwin
Parker
Wright ‘Brothers
Stewart
Wrights
Brownell and Stewart
United States
Fort Myer
Miss Farrar Engagement Affected by Odd Consent Pact
A Boston dispatch reports a secret pact among four women including soprano Geraldine Farrar that they would not marry until all had become famous and had mutual consent from the others. The agreement, written years ago in Melrose, was cited as the reason Farrar’s engagement to Antonio Scottis followed only after the other three reportedly approved.
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Geraldine Farrar
Antonio Scottis
Boston Dispatch
Milan
Berlin
Paris
Maud Abrameen
Elena Kirmes
Hivira Severoni
Miss Farrar
Melrose
Mass
Peoria Man Elected Grand Master of Locomotive Firemen
W. C. Carter of Peoria Illinois has been elected grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers to succeed John J Hannaen. Carter has long served as secretary of the organization. The Canadian Pacific strike is declared off and machinists return to work on offered terms. The Iowa Central railway shop men’s strike, ongoing since April 28, has been settled.
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W. C. Carter
Peoria
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
John J.hannahen
Carter
Canadian Pacific
Iewa Central Railway
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