Successful Sculptress Wins Annapolis Doors Competition
Miss Evelyn B. Longman of Chicago won the competition for the Annapolis Naval Academy bronze doors with the Victory model, chosen by five jurors from 33 entrants. Longman, famed for the St Louis World's Fair bronze Victory, earned a silver medal and has works at the Chicago Art Institute and Union League Club. Her Death sculpture will adorn the Story monument in Lowell Mass.
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Annapolis Naval Academy
St. Louis Fair
Robert M. Thompson
Academy
Evelyn B. Longman
Chicago
First woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers
Nora Stanton Blatch, granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, becomes the first woman admitted to ASCE, with no dissent reported. The piece profiles Miss Longman, a rising woman sculptor, and notes Blatch’s Cornell B S in civil engineering and current drafting work, plus an offer she is weighing.
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Nora Stanton Blatch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Society of Civil Engineers
Ing
Miss Blatch
Cornell University
China
Corps of Engineers
Cornell
San Francisco Inferno and Earthquake Shock Across Nation
A dramatic account depicts San Francisco’s fires and aftershocks as a city swamped by flames and tremors. It notes global sympathy, flood of aid, and expert evidence that the quake and Italian Vesuvian eruption are unrelated scientific events.
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Sierra Nevadas
Sacramento
Hemisphere
San Francisco
Pacific
America
California
Italy
Charles D. Walcott
Geological Survey
Walcott
Mr. Walcott
United States
Charleston
S. C
Greatest Natural Disasters of History
A list of historic disasters with death tolls and dates from Pompeii in 79 AD to the 1906 San Francisco quake. Includes Vesuvius eruption, Constantinople, Catania, Lisbon, Krakatoa, Mauna Loa, San Francisco, and Mont Pelee among others with varying fatalities.
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Pompeii
Herculaneum
Mount Vesuvius
A. D
Constantinople
Catania
Sicily
Syria
Cilicia
Palermo
Canton
China
Kucan
Persia
Lisbon
Aleppo
Calabria
Island of
Krakatoa
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Isle of Ischia
Charleston
S. C
Bandalsan
Island of Hondo
Japan
Venezuela
Guatemala
St. Pierre
Martinique
Mont Pelee
San Francisco
The Surgery of the Ancients
An article notes early medical practices from the Etruscans to Romans and Greeks. It cites bridge work, artificial limbs, plaster facial parts, and centuries of war injuries with examples such as the Capua tomb leg and Goetz von Berlichingen’s iron hand.
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British Medical
The
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Capua
Pliny
Goetz von
Cornerstone Laying by Roosevelt and Cannon in Capitol Annexes
President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon, both Masons, lead the cornerstone ceremony for the House and Senate office buildings. The project backs a major Capitol Hill expansion with 410 offices planned and an underground passage to the Capitol. Construction, begun a year ago, targets completion for the Sixtieth Congress amid classical design cues and Masonic ritual.
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House
Senate
Capitol
Roosevelt
Speaker Cannon
House of Representatives
Capitol Hill
Washington
Rome
Greece
Congress
Legislative Hall
Elliott Woods
House Building Commission
Federal Lodge
Masonic Order
Virginia
1900 Gravity Washer Offered for Free Trial and Pay Upon Use
A bold sales pitch promotes the 1900 Gravity Washer, claiming quick, gentler cleaning without rubbing or wear. Prospective customers are invited to a full month trial with free freight, with payment only if the machine saves time and effort. الجهات contact B. F. Bieber in Binghamton New York or Toronto Canada.
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Sali
B. F. Bieber
Edenry Si
Nghamton
N. Xu
Yonge St
Toronto
Canada
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Evelyn Longman
Taft
Stanton
John Paul Jones
Miss Longman
Winchester
Ohio
Edwin H. Longman
Olivet College
Lorado Taft
Chicago Art Institute
New York
Longman
Chicago Exposition
San Franciscan
Metropolis
Vesuvius
Mississippi
Christian
Brunswick
Ambrose Pare
Lorraine
Pare
Sebastian
Peter Lowe
Falcinelli
Capitol Plaza
Place de la Concorde
Paris
Louvre
President Roosevelt
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