World of Art Drama Ends in Rome Wedding Plans
Frederick W. MacMonnies, famed sculptor, and Alice Jones, daughter of ex Senator John P. Jones, prepare to wed in Rome following the prior marriage of MacMonnies to his Paris prizewinning wife. The Giverny scene centers on the couple, their children, and a web of art world ties, with Low as family friend and the Paris and New York salons as backdrops.
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America
France
Frederick W. MacMonnies
Alice Jones
United States
John P. Jones
Nevada
William H. Low
Mr. MacMonnies
Miss Jones
Rome
Mr. Low
Mrs. MacMonnies
Paris
MacMonnies
Art Students’ League
Saint Gaudens
New York
Frederick MacMonnies
Brooklyn
Ateliers
Falguiere and
Mercier
Mary Fairchild
Latin Quarter
New England
New Hampshire
New Orleans
St. Louis
St. Louis Art Museum
Latin
Albert Wolff
Figaro
White City
Nathan Sacrtion
Giverny
Normandy
Theodore Robinson
MacMonnieses
Boston Public Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute
Spain
Bessie
Peggy
Boudy Inn
Michelangelo
Misa Jones
Bryp Mawr
Willan H.low
Mace Monnieses
Lows
Lloyd Osborn
Low
Henry Mottet
Church of the Holy Redeemer
Sixth Avenue
Twenty-second Street
Logan
Henri de Sincay
Belgium
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
West Fifty-sixth Street
Mrs. de Sincay
Youngstown
Gen
Philippines
de Lincay
York
Marie Louise Logan
John A
Mrs Jamieson On Clean Hands And Domestic Duty
The author Mrs Jamieson extols white hands as a desirable ornament and instructs that hands stay in constant motion through needlework housework and useful domestic duties to keep blood circulating and maintain beauty.
Rare Remedies in England and Hebrides Traditions
The text describes old English and Hebrides folk cures for snake bites. It mentions wrapping a live snake around a stiff limb, using perforated water-worn stones called snake stones dipped in tepid water for cattle bites, and using an adder’s head or eggshell worn around the leg as cramps relief.
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England
Hebrides Islands
Obscured View at London Solar Observatory Sparks Debate
A London observer notes the Solar Physics Laboratory in South Kensington is poorly placed for solar study. High nearby buildings and smoke obscure half the sky, blocking sunrises and sunsets and hindering observations of the daylight comet and other stars.
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London
South Kensington
State Department
Natural History Museum
Solar Physics Laboratory
Solar Physics Lab’s Faulty Housing Hurting Science
A critic blasts the Solar Physics lab for its inadequate housing in shanties and iron sheds at Kensington, arguing it hampers sunspot research on 11 year cycles and drought links. He cites delays, calls for a Fosterdown relocation, and warns Parliament neglects science at the polls.
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Solar Physics Laboratory
House of Commons
Solar Physics Observatory
Pioneer Observatory of
Solar Physics
India
Africa
Australia
Kensington
Caterham
England
Alfalfa Good Food For Humans Considered By Topeka Woman
Miss Ruth Ingham of Topeka, a Kansas Agricultural College graduate, presented experiments on alfalfa meal as human food at Shawnee County Alfalfa club. She reported alfalfa bread and cakes improved with flour blends and noted taste and color challenges but predicted alfalfa could lower costs and boost health once the taste is cultivated. She also highlighted alfalfa’s high nutritional value and non clogging properties compared with corn.
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Topeka
Kan
Ruth Ingham
Kansas Agricultural College
Department of
Ingham
Shawnee County
Alfalfa Club
Drome term dubbed new travel word by Bell
Professor Alexander Graham Bell proposes a simplified term for aircraft. He notes Canada uses droming to describe moving from point to point. Bell says aerodrome and aeroplane are misnomers and envisions machines called dromes as the proper name.
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New York
Alexander Graham Bell
Canada
Johns Hopkins University
London crowd offers to impersonate Joan of Arc in pageant
More than 250 women volunteer to impersonate Joan of Arc for an army pageant in London. The applicants boast skills in riding astride and galloping in chain mail as part of the 15th century reenactment.
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Jose Rose
London
Josn of Arc
Secretary Dickinson Apologizes to Cuban President in Havana
In Havana the U S secretary of war apologized to Cuban President Gomez for canceling a fishing trip due to urgent business. Dickinson, aboard the Mayflower, expressed regret and recalled his vow not to cheat a man of a fishing excursion, calling himself a mean man for causing Gomez to alter plans.
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Dickinson
Alegret
Washington, D. C
Porto Rico
Cuba
United States
Gomez
Cubs
Havana
Gomes
Michigan
Bridegroom Quips on Legal Fee at Espy Justice
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania a groom joked about wedding fees after being married by Squire Bogert. The squire stated the law permits 600 cents, another guest offered 50 cents, and the groom added a quarter making 76 cents in total.
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Bloomsburg
Squire Bogert
Pastor refuses to unite couple over unequal income claim
Rev. Wright Gibson of the McKees Rocks Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg, Pa., declares he will not unite the couple as planned. The bride’s income was a point of contention in the disputed marriage arrangement.
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Pittsburg
Wright, Gibson
McKees Rocks Presbyterian
Lenat
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Impressionist School of Painting
Herik
Cle
Kansas
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