Notable Women and Achievements Highlighted in Debating Society and Sports
Emily Treat of Hannibal Missouri becomes the first woman official court reporter for the University Debating Society in Oxford. Miss Alice Taylor of Edinburgh wins Scotland’s ladies chess title by defeating Dame Smith Cunning. Mrs Edward C Dodd of Laredo Texas profits about 60000 this season from 135 acres, while Taft’s wife ranks as an extensive world traveler having crossed the Pacific many times and visited Cuba Panama Japan and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Treat
Hannibal
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
University
Oxford
Alice Taylor
Edinburgh
Scotland
Smith Cunning- Dame
Edward C. Dodd
Laredo
Tex
Bermuda
Taft
Pacific
Japan
Manchuria
Siberia
China
Cuba
Panama
Europe
The Eve and Other Theatrical Engagements
Christine Blessing is engaged for On the Eve. Misa Kitty Cheatham created a Dig. bit in London. Dazie, famed American dancer, to appear in J. M. Barrie’s Pantaloon. Laura Nelson Hall engaged as leading lady for Comstock & Gest in Cleveland. Charlies Waldron, Tully Marshall and Leslie Bingham join the company. Four companies plan to present The Climax directed by Joseph Weber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christine Blessing
Misa Kitty Cheatham
London
Dazie
J. M. Barrie
Laura Nelson Hall
Comstock & Gest
Cleveland
Charlies Waldron
Tully Marshall
Leslie Bingham
Edward Locke
Joseph Weber
Science Siftings on Atmosphere and Stars
The article notes Earth’s atmosphere becomes too thin for life a few miles up. It cites astronomers who say familiar constellations have shifted since ancient times. It mentions the star Sixty-one Cygni as a suspected binary system with its two stars orbiting a common center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cygni
Prairie
Portraits and literary notes from the period
John Sargent receives a commission to paint Mrs. Whitelaw Reid in a three quarter length portrait. Mark Twain reportedly writes a comic opera from his Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Edwin Abbey paints in London for ten years before a hanging in the academy and a career as a newspaper illustrator. The six great Victorian poets span 1809 to Swinburne's death this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John S. Sargent
Whitelaw Reid
Mark Twain
Edwin Abbey
London
Academy
Tennyton
Swinburne
Law Points on Testamentary Capacity and Inheritance Tax
Case law notes conclude a person lacking testamentary capacity cannot be forced to revoke a will by an attempted testamentary act. It also holds collateral inheritance tax does not apply when property is conveyed in possession and enjoyment during the owner's lifetime in exchange for future support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldsticker
N. Y
N. E
Lamb
Iowa
N. W
L. BR. A
Tales of Cities and Civic Orbits
The fragment surveys cities including Hamburg once fortressed by Charlemagne against Norse raids and Philadelphia opening under a women led anti cruelty society. It notes New York’s growing population and a health department estimate, all within a thread of urban lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Seciety
New York City
New York Herald
United States
Health Department
MAAS
Beaten Man Connected to Wartime Rail System Payroll
Fragmentary report hints at a man in Beaten connected to a broader war gauge steam railway payroll. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A M’s
American Invasion of Canada Shifts to Pullman and Rail
Scott Saskatchewan August 18. Observers describe the Canadian Northwest as a booming doorway for American settlement with railroads expanding four miles daily and new ports on Hudson Bay and the Pacific. The piece highlights American farmers as ideal pioneers and notes rapid homestead growth, rising towns, and growing prosperity in Saskatchewan amid vast prairie lands.
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Scott
Saskatchewan
Indiana
Canada
New England
Quebec
Montreal
United States
Dominion
British Isles
Pacific
Orient
Hudson Bay
Liverpool
Atlantic
Canadian Northwest
England
Hardihood
trans-Mississippi
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Western States
Mississippi Valley
Winnipeg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Science
Tales of
Automobile
George B. Lock
Wood
Ment
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