Successful Sculptress to Carve Doors at Annapolis Academy
Miss Evelyn B. Longman of Chicago Taft won a $15680 prize from the class of 68 memorial doors competition for Annapolis Naval Academy bronze entrance doors. Her bronze Victory sculpture at the St Louis World’s Fair and its Chicago Art Institute replica drew praise. Death sculpture for Lowell Story monument also earned commendation.
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Annapolis Naval Academy
St. Louis Fair
Robert M. Thompson
Academy
Evelyn B. Longman
Chicago
Lowell
Mass
First woman admitted to the American Society of Civil Engineers
Nora Stanton Blatch, granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, becomes the first woman accepted as an ASCE member amid strong praise for her work as a draughtsman in a major bridge firm. The article also profiles sculptor Miss Longman, lauded for a wartime and peacetime panel design, and notes her rise from Olivet College to the Chicago Art Institute under Lorado Taft.
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Nora Stanton Blatch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Society of Civil Engineers
Miss Longman
Winchester
Ohio
Edwin H. Longman
Olivet College
Lorado Taft
Chicago Art Institute
New York
Ing
Miss Blatch
Cornell University
China
Corps of Engineers
Cornell
San Franciscan Horror and No Link to Vesuvian Eruption
Report on the San Francisco disaster with widespread fires and quakes, heroic rescues, and national relief. Geological Director Walcott states no connection to Italy's Vesuvian eruption, explaining earthquakes arise from deep shell fractures or sediment weight from rivers like the Mississippi and Sacramento deposits.
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Italy
Charles D. Walcott
Geological Survey
Walcott
Mr. Walcott
Mississippi
California
Sacramento
Pacific
San Francisco
Greatest Natural Disasters Through History
A list of infamous events from Pompeii to San Francisco detailing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Notable deaths include Vesuvius 79 AD, Lisbon 1755, Krakatoa 1883, and San Francisco 1906, with thousands killed in each catastrophe.
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Pompeii
Herculaneum
Mount Vesuvius
A. D
Constantinople
Catania
Sicily
Syria
Cilicia
Palermo
Canton
China
Kuchan
Perala
Lisbon
Aleppo
Calabria
Island of
Krakatoa
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Isle of Ischia
Charleston
S. C
Island of Hondo
Japan
Venezuela
Guatemala
St. Pierre
Martinique
Mont Pelee
Lfe
San Francisco
The Surgery of the Ancients in Historical Medicine
The British Medical Journal notes ancient bridge work by the Etruscans and widespread prosthetic use. Plaster facial substitutes appear among Indians, and Greek and Roman veterans used artificial limbs. An artificial leg from Capua rests in the Royal College of Surgeons museum.
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
Capua
Pliny
Goetz von
Laying Cornerstone with Roosevelt and Cannon Two Mason Leaders
President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon, both Masons, led a cornerstone laying for the new House of Representatives office building. The ceremony echoed Washington’s, with a $10 million plan to connect Capitol Hill offices, modernize Congress, and create a unified legislative center with 410 offices and a matching Senate building.
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Roosevelt
Speaker Cannon
Senate
House
House of Representatives
Capitol Hill
Washington
Rome
Greece
Capitol
Congress
Legislative Hall
Elliott Woods
House Building Commission
Federal Lodge
Virginia
1900 Gravity Washer promises free trial and big savings
Advertisement touts the 1900 Gravity Washer as effortless to operate by gravity power. It claims powerful cleaning through water flow, fits up to fifteen to twenty garments, and offers a one month free trial with no cash deposit or contract.
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Maontl
B. F. Bieber
Eurynghamiop
Yonge St
Toronto
Canada
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Evelyn Longman
Taft
Stanton
John Paul Jones
Longman
Chicago Exposition
San Franciscan
Metropolis
Sierra Nevadas
Hemisphere
Pilgrima
Phoenix
America
Vesuvius
United States
Geological and
Geodetic Surveys
Christian
Brunswick
Ambrose Pare
Lorraine
Pare
Sebastian
Peter Lowe
Falelelli
Place de la Concorde
Paris
Louvre
President Roosevelt
Capitol Plaza
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