Honored Hotel Engineer to Lead Columbia Engineering Course
J C G Jurgenson, seven and a half years at the St Regis hotel, resigns to chair engineering plant instruction at Columbia University New York. He will begin next fall after a Copenhagen visit, teaching plant operation in the boiler room and training students as practical, economical engineers.
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Columbia University
J. C G. Jurgenson
St. Regis
New York
Copenhagen
Jurgenson
Tappan
N. Y
Columbia
Mr. Jurgenson
Columbis
San Diego to Become National Racing Center
Stockman John C. Clark predicts San Diego will host the United States premier racing hub as Mexico grants concessions for a nearby track. A trolley line to the site, lax but controlled rules, and a resort development are planned with San Diego serving as the base. Construction aims for readiness by next fall and winter.
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San Diego
Cal
United States
John C. Clark
Mexico
Clark
Easter Myth Ties Moon Folklore to Hares and Roosevelts
An essay links Easter date to the moon and notes the hare as a nocturnal creature that hides eggs. It mentions Persians and the god Mithras in a broader mythic context and includes a dialogue about Roosevelts in a Catholic Standard and Times piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ariz
Ahbriman
Appeal for Ideal Wives At Chicago Church
Hundreds of bachelors and widowers asked for old fashioned wives in letters read aloud at Halstead Street Institutional church Chicago. Dr Vaughan preached on The Ideal Wife noting men sought a good cook who was not a college graduate nor a reformer or clubwoman.
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Dr. Vaughan
Halstead Street
Chicago
Neithe
Plan for a Canadian navy backed by airships
British Rear Admiral Ernest James Fleet urges a nucleus Canadian navy with cruisers on both coasts torpedo boats and airship scouts. He proposes two Pacific coast cruisers six destroyers six torpedo boats and dirigible airships housed at Rodd Hill Esquimalt for observation scouting and bombing to assist imperial naval power and patrol Bering Sea in peacetime.
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Ernest James Fleet
London
Canada
Ottawa
Pacific
Pacific Coast
Rodd Hill
Esquimalt
Atlantic
Bering Sea
Baby School for a Church at Calvary Methodist
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church at Seventh Ave and 129th St New York City opens a Sunday morning kindergarten for children over two, housed next to the church with sand tables blocks and playthings. Mothers of ten children used the offer and a candy manufacturer who bought two houses nearby donated them for church use.
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Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
Seventh Avenue
One
Twenty-ninth Street
New York City
Harlem
Attitben
West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street
Aero Club of America plans national balloon race
Interest grows for the Aero Club of America national championship balloon race to be held in Indianapolis on June 5. Officials announce medals and trophies for pilots and assistants, with Carl Fisher offering a longest-air duration trophy and Lahm trophy open to all contestants. Leo Stevens has five balloons ready, and the Springfield Glebe YWCA club will voyage in advance from ascension grounds.
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Aero Club
Aero Club of America
Indianapolis
A. Holland Forbes
New York
The
Carl Fisher
Leo Stevens
New York City
City of
Lee Stave
Whs A Gern Club
Springfield
And
Rat Vofage
Ascension Grounds
Dr Fair preaches white clothing for extended life in Boston
Dr John Fair of Boston leads the new life cult promising 1000 years of life. Followers are urged to wear white, ban black attire, live on vegetables, sleep eight hours, exercise eight hours, and keep a wide open window to admit air drafts. The healer claims previous incarnations and urges a daily routine focused on cheerfulness and avoidance of death.
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Dr. Fair
Boston
John Fair
Hfe
Wellman Plans New North Pole Flight By Airship
Walter Wellman, backed by American financiers, renews plans to reach the North Pole this summer with the airship America. The venture assembles at Danes Island in June and July and launches northward in August if weather permits. The crew will include Chief Engineer Vaniman and two others, with the ship rebuilt in Paris.
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North Pole
Walter Wellman
Mr. Wellman
Paris
Norway
Mr. Wellmen
Danes Island
Spritbergen
America
Spitzbergen
Chicago Record-Herald
Wellman
Vaniman
International Postal Conference Proposed for 1910
James L. Cowles announces support for an international postal conference at Berne in July 1910 with backing from Mortimer Atkinson Mahlon Winter and Heather Heaton. The aim is to discuss cheapening postal and telegraphic services and promote universal peace through improved communications. Heaton lauds the two cent U. S. England rate and urges action by European and world postmasters generals.
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James L. Cowles
Postal Progress League
New York City
Berne
Switzerland
United States
Europe
Mortimer Atkinson
The
Farm Journal
Mahlon A. Winter
Washington
Ecommerce
Henather Heaton
M. P
Cowles
Heaton
England
Empire
Flying to People Arctic
Boston lecture by H. Helm Clayton predicts perfected airship will populate Arctic regions. Former Blue Hill Observatory head argues early human migration moved to warmer lands but with flying machines clothing and food can be supplied quickly making the Arctic as settled as any region.
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Boston
H. Helm Clayton
Blue Hill Observatory
Boston Scientific Society
Arctic
Missionary Ridge Story of a Missionary Grave and Mill Site
The article recalls Missionary Ridge beside the Chickamauga creek, noting the Brainard mission built by Cyrus Kingsbury Ainsworth Blunt and John Vail for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It highlights the failed contractors, the mill race still visible, James Monroe’s 1819 visit, and the burial marker for Samuel Worcester D D, former secretary of the board, in the old mission cemetery.
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Missionary Ridge
Maine
Florida
Brainard
Cyrus Kingsbury
Ainsworth F. Blunt
John Vail
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Greffey
Chickamauga Creek
Philamon Bird
United States
James Monroe
Gaines
Old Mission Cemetery
Samuel Worcester
Tabernacle Church
Salem
Mass
Chattanooga Times
Taft to Sit as Judge in Cabinet Land Dispute
President Taft to arbitrate a clash between Fred Dennett and Gifford Pinchot over land withdrawals for forest service ranger stations. Dennett and Bal Mayer oppose, Pinchot insists law allows withdrawals. Taft and Attorney General Wickersham to review briefs to resolve the legal interpretation.
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Taft
Fred Dennett
The
Land Office
Gifford Pinchot
Forestry Service
Dennett
Forest Service
Bal- Mager
Pinchot
Theas
Cnt
Wickersham
New nose from rib graft for Denver boy
Eight year old Carl Treworgy of Denver received a new nose carved from rib cartilage after an auto accident damaged his nasal bone. Surgeon Dr. Lyman removed a two inch cartilage graft from the boy’s side and covered it with skin from the face, connecting tubes to the nostrils.
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Carl Treworgy
Denver
Lyman
Subterranean Lake Bursts In Indiana Submerging Highway
A hidden lake three miles southeast of Silver Lake Ind has broken containment flooding the road for about 100 yards to a depth of twenty feet. The newly formed pool is described as containing eyeless fish and appears to be a recent formation.
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New Lake
Silver Lake
Ind
New Born Lake
Prison Art Rivalry Burns Berks County Cells
Three inmates at Berks County Prison in Pennsylvania compete as artists. Each notices retouching needed in the warden’s office and rotunda, hoping to win the job to pass time. An art committee will select the winner.
Novel Food Craze Grips Parisians Restaurants
Parisians chase new dishes as roast camel meat sparked a trend three months ago Kangaroo chops followed and now eateries tout zebu hump as the fashionable meal The dining scene shows rapid shifts in exotic meat offerings reflecting changed tastes in the capital.
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Coming Racing Center
California
Rooseval
Signor
Ceetizan Unita
Oystra Bay
T A. Daly
People Arctic
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