Art of Dancing and Ivory Trade Reflections Across Times
A Browning Leader-Record piece surveys contemporary dance critique by M Lefort and notes the decline of courtly dances while praising the Boston as American born. It discusses ivory use in billiard balls, elephant deaths, and a Darwin catalogue at Cambridge, plus a lampoon of parliamentary press reporting and shipboard naval training by White Star Line as a four year youth school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Lefort
Boston
Europe
America
Toston
White Star Line
Quaker Meditations and Witty Observations
A collection of quips on politics honesty and daily life. Snippets joke about the telegraph, luck, old age, and public figures. Characters Sillicus Cynicus Nell and Polly Pinktights spark a light dialogue about fame vices and the theatre world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sillicus
Nell
Bell
Polly Pinktights
Fanny Footlights
Washington summers praised amid river tales and female pilot
The piece notes Washington as a summer choice with favorable weather, trees and city charm. It highlights Mrs. Rose E. Watkins of La Salle County becoming the first woman licensed to pilot a steamer on Illinois rivers, praised for her navigation skill and calm, plus brief notices on local candidacy and river excursions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Rose E. Watkins
la Salle County
Watkins
Illinoia
Peck and
Mansfield
Illinois River
George
Illinois
Woma
Memorial to Bishop Satterlee Planned in Twilight Park Church
The late Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee inspired a proposed memorial at Twilight Park in the Catskills. The All Angels chapel, built with his help, may be enlarged into a stone church to honor the Washington bishop who shaped the local religious life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
House of Commons
Harper’s Weekly
Daniel O'Connell
Dan
Lord Lyttleton
Lord Monteagle
London
Drornesmee Er Rata al Campbell
Williams
Clacksmith
Office of Justice of” the Peace
Willams
Campbell
Tenaa
Willame
Trent
Camby
Ore
Satterlee
Mission of All Angels
Twilight Park
Bishop Satterlee
Ihs
Guarding the Declaration of Independence Declared Secret Since 1903
A 1903 state department committee warned the Declaration be kept dark and dry to preserve its ink and signatures. The document, long kept in a safe, has endured folding and handling, with only John Hancock remaining legible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. U
Department of State
John Hancock
John Hay
New Plan Helps Aliens to Get Work
The Information Division of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization reports a planned distribution to rehome jobless aliens from crowded centers to farms and areas with labor demand. About 500,000 cards have been mailed, with an estimated 4,000,000 more to go, yielding nearly 1,000 responses by June. Nationalities from twenty one countries are represented, with the majority finding farm work in states including Alabama Connecticut Delaware Georgia Tina Indiana Jows Kansas Kentucky Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sana
Uncle Sam
Division of Information
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Congress
Unmigration Service
New York City
Twonetyalx
Alabama
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Tina
Indiana
Jows
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
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Browning Leader - Record
Joseph Nickel
Browning
Missouri
Africa
Everybody's Magazine
Asca
Charles Darwin
Botany School
Cambridge
England
Francis Darwin
New York
Metropol
Mrs. Stiles
Mr. Stilee
Mr. Stiles
New York Press
Brown
Stella
Bella
Tommy
Tatter
Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Church
Gotham
Yonkers Statesman
Cornell
Dale
Wiseman
Philadelphia Press
Kansas City Directory
Seas ‘F.F.C
Een Ammeroon Lake
Tauas Oy
VELIE
Deere Plow Co
Ation
Washington
Potomac Flats
Ashington
Mra
Islingie
Workanop of
R. R. Williams
Texas
Dallas, Tex
Cumby, Tex
Andidate
Nee
Wales
Fas
APT. Rofes
Wateins
Oekahop
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Corm
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