Paris Palais Royal to be Restored for 1900 Exposition
The Paris 1900 exposition will outshine 1889 with grand plans for rebuilding the Palais Royal to its 100 year old glory. The electrical palace will dominate the grounds with a 200 foot water château and power for exhibits. American Mrs. C Ledyard Stevens organizes a five-member women’s commission to secure space for an American women’s exhibit.
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Paris
Palais Royal
France
Orleans
Sporting Paris
Theatre Francais
Richelieu
Palais Cardinal
Cardinal Wolsey
Henry VIII
Wolsey
Hampton Court
Thames
Eutrope
Mirame
Pierre Corneille
Palaise
Cardinal Mazarin
St. Germain
Louis XIV
Henrietta
England
Charles I
Louis
Philippe d’Orleans Duc de
Bonaparte
Club of the Rights of Man
City Exchange
Napoleon III
Prince Jerome
M. Eugene Howard
Machinery Hall
C. Ledyard Stevens
Stevens
New York
Donald McLean
Russell Sage
William Tod/Helmuth
Edward Lauterbach
Alexander H. Stevens
Lori
United States
Octavius A. White
South Carolina
South
John Winthrop
Massachusetts
Peter Stuyvesant
E. P. Steer
Luzon Clipper Braved Ghostly Spaniards From Hawaii to New York
The Luzon 339 ton American clipper from Kahului Maui completed a 148 day voyage to New York amid fear of Spanish privateers. Captain Park and crew endured calms and storms in a war era chase across the Atlantic with reports of ghostly cruisers and distant cannon fire marking their perilous route.
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Luzon
Kahului
Hawaiian Islands
New York
Globe
J. G. Park
Storm
United States
Spain
Maui
China
Hawaii
Captain Park
South Atlantic
Platte
Thalia
Nor’-Nor
Douglas
Park
Jack
Rubber neck lesson in New York court tale
Magistrate Pool, unaware of modern slang, presided as three youths explained the term rubber neck in court. The gag turned into laughter. the judge ordered bonds of 50 dollars each for six months and warned against further neck rubbing. The piece also notes soldiers from the Seventy first and urban double lives in New York City.
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Pool
West Side
Short Ocean Cut Prompts Panama Tehuantepec Nicaragua Canals
Analysis of proposed routes for a future interoceanic canal system describes three main projects Panama Tehuantepec and Nicaragua. Details cover summit levels 110 feet deep water lakes San Juan and Managua, two large dams Ochoa and Tola, canal length about 1695 miles, costs estimated near 130 million dollars, and historical notes on prior canal schemes and investor interest.
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Oregon
Cape Horn
San Francisco
Key West
West Indian
Congress
Panama Canal
Tehauntepec
Nicaragua Canal
Arctic Ocean
Nicaragua
Great Lakes
Managua
Panama
Tehuantepec
Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
Caribbean Sea
Pacific Ocean
San Juan
Lake Nicaragua
Central American Plain
Atlantic
Ochoa
Tola
Chicago
Washington
Walker Commission
Republic
Atl
Paris
Ferdinand de Lesseps
James B. Eads
Sea J
Turquoise pave work shapes heart sockets and charms
Turquoise p ave work outlines heart shaped sockets and small charms including pins. A dainty beaded border features in refined silver tableware, enhancing decorative pieces with subtle color and texture.
Best He Could and His Cents Story from the Journal
A clipped New York Journal quip portrays a frugal barter scene with mock bravado. The speaker critiques a tale as weak and alleges the seller offers only two cents worth of story.
Indian Chief Refuses Speculator’s Treated Land Offer
The bishop recalls a tale from The Temple Magazine about an Indian tribe faced with a speculator offering to swap their reservation for a worthless tract. A council convened as a Yankee urged speedy acceptance, claiming 55 years of wisdom. An old chief retorted that the winds have grayed his hair but not erased his brains, ending the conference.
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Bishop Whipple
Temple Magazine
Weeds as Food and the Burdock's Use Across Lands
A Mechan's Monthly note discusses turning weeds into edible plants, focusing on burdock Lappa major. It cites schoolboys collecting burdock bars, compares it to rhubarb, and notes burdock in China and Japan where stalks and leaves are eaten, while deep soil aids root development. The piece highlights culinary uses and cultivation.
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China
Japan
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Electrical Palace
Louis XIII
Anne of Austria
OUR
Santiago
Uncle Sam
Alfais
America
Dallas
Bangor
Far West
Bowery
Brooklyn Bridge
Joseph Russell
Central America
Charley Noble
Jackie
West Indies
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