How To Be A Fine Singer By A Vocal Teacher
The article stresses that teaching quality largely shapes a singer’s future. It urges immediate study with a skilled teacher, explains three months needed for noticeable progress, and outlines key traits for operatic and concert careers. It warns against overpractice and emphasizes voice quality, presence, physique, and discipline.
Vienna Academy to Create Phonographic Archives Department
The Vienna Academy of Science plans to add a phonographic archives department to a public library. It will have three sections for European language phonograms, contemporary musical performances, and speeches by notable figures. Experiments seek durable recording material beyond Nubcanite. If successful, other nations may imitate the initiative.
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Vienna
London Standard
Ttag
Vienna Academy of Science
Department of Phonographic Archives
Academy
Seabees Rally in Philadelphia Press Snippet
An old Philadelphia Press fragment mocks McJigger and a Seabees figure, arguing he will never succeed in life. The brief item notes attempts at making ends meet with sharp, period- style humor.
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Philadelphia Press
McJigger
Seabees
A Niche in the Temple of Fame Honoring America's Founders and Heroes
A piece extols a temple of fame honoring moral, patriotic figures who shaped the nation. It lists presidents, pioneers, soldiers, statesmen, scientists, artists, and abolitionists from Washington to Lincoln, Webster to Whittier, Audubon to Stowe, praising their virtue and nation-building deeds.
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Temple of Fame
Ufe
George Washington
Martha Washington
Valley Forge
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
United States
John Jay
Alexander Hamilton
John Paul Jones
Betsy Ross
James Madison
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Patrick Henry
Philip Schuyler
William King
Maine
Marcus Whitman
Northwest Territory
James Kent
Benjamin West
Winfield Scott
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Wendell Phillips
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Boone
John Ericson
Ralph Waldorf Emerson
Margaret Fuller Ossell
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
William Lloyd Garrison
Phoebe Cary
Otarie Mitchell
Samuel Houston
Commonwealth of Texas
David Crockett
Alamo
Texans
Thermopylae
America
John B. Gough
Himerit
Peterer
William Wirt
Helen Hunt Jackson
Eli Whitney
Samuel B. Morse
Washington Irving
Ashington Allaton
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allen Poe
Whysses
Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Joan James Audubon
John Maynard
Niagara
Ives
Harriet Teerher Stowe
Magazines for Soldiers in Philippine Stations
The article describes how isolated troops in the Philippines crave magazines and light reading to combat homesickness and monotony. It notes that illustrated magazines like Harper’s Weekly are especially popular, with soldiers sharing, clipping pictures, and decorating bunkhouses. It provides forwarding details: send to United States Depot Quartermaster, 170 Summer Street, Boston, or Regimental Library, Twenty sixth A S V, Manila, P I, with prepaid charges and clear labeling for the unit.
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Philippines
Dagupan
New England
Harper's Weekly
Panay
Jerry
United States Depot
Summer Street
Boston
J. B. Sawyer
Rice
A. S
V. Manila
V. Manila, P
Philippine Islands
Major Sawyer
Manila
Quartermaster’s Office
United States
The Beauty-Seeker And The Face Of Character
The article argues beauty in Armtory women rests on expression and temperament more than features. It links vitality, earnestness, and emotional balance to a magnetic look while warning excessive brain work distorts the face.
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Armtory
Ada
The Best Games of Pool and Thirst Quenching Facts
A long discussion on pool play emphasizes skill over luck and warns against sharks who lure players into baited bets. It defines terms like spot a ball pocketing scratch and calling the ball while linking pool care to water intake, alcohol, and tobacco use and the need to avoid temptations that worsen thirst.
Alcohol and tobacco promote it hints to soldiers
An article discusses sanitation and disease prevention in troops, arguing thirst drives drinking and poisons like typhoid and dysentery. It states water is the key remedy and notes thirst exists beyond mere craving, requiring measures to conserve bodily water and manage losses through clothing and drink.
The Rural Band and a Town Funeral Parade
Lewiston Journal recalls rural bands beating Sousa in endurance and humor. A band drums on a hill, recovers a rolling bass drum, and keeps tempo as a funeral cortege marches through a cemetery gate, ending with a tossed quip about the meek inheriting the earth.
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Lewiston Journal
Sousa
Lewieton
Washington Post
Val
Swan
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