Notable Women Journalists of Canada and America
The article profiles Kathleen Blake Watkins of the Toronto Mail and Miss Monroe of Chicago, highlighting their careers as leading female editors and contributors. It notes Watkins native Ireland born May 1863, two distinct departments at her paper, pen name Kal, and Monroe born December 22, 1860, with poetry volumes and World’s Columbian Exposition ode composition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bathieen Blake Watkins
Fobes Dournalint
Canada
Barriet Beene Monsea
Kathleen Blake Watkins
Toronto Mail
Kathleen Blake Watiens
Washkina
Coifes
Monroe Wary
Chirac
New York
Dearborn Seminary
Academy of the Visitation
Georgetown
Monroe
Kingbird Intruder Draws Forkful of Sparrows at Frog Pond
A kingbird appears at Frog Pond in Boston drawing a crowd of about a thousand people. Sparrows swarm from all directions to mob the intruder, filling the air with cries as the kingbird flees toward the Public Garden escorted by a squad of sparrows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frog Pond
Boston
Opm&con
Park Street Wall
Ben Hawk
Secret Ammunition Shipment Noted on Vessel Board
Fragmentary report indicates a shipment of ammunition was stowed on board a vessel. Officials noted it during a port inspection and indicated the presence of additional material awaiting transfer or concealment.
Ingersoll Draws Small Crowd in Chicago Lecture
Col R G Ingersoll, famed agnostic, lectured in Chicago to a small audience. The piece notes a decade ago crowds flocked to hear him, while now liberal Chicago grows weary of Ingersollism and questions his sincerity and the $0.50 to $1.00 admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Ingersoll
Chrissapohe
Chicago
Daughter of Jenny Lind Linked to Maude Family
The article profiles Mrs. Raymond Maude wife of a Maude family nephew and daughter of Jenny Lind, Mme. A Golascutsidt. It notes her father Otto Goldschmidt is a living orchestral conductor and composer. It highlights Mrs. Maude as musical with promising voices in her children and references her charming song setting Rhymes about a Little Woman. It describes Mrs. Mente as British in character with traces of Scandinavian origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Linc
Raxsmond Maude
Maude
Lord Dovercourt
Jenny Lind
Mme
A. Golascutsidt
Otto Goldachmidt
Well Keean
Raymond Maude
Foreigners Nowhere and Suitors in a Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange features a narrator at a feet of a beloved, a suitor boasting nine coronets and two castles with long rent rolls. An American beauty counters with a sharp retort about one suitor selling coal in winter and ice in summer, highlighting a playful clash of pretensions.
Obeyed the Doctors and the Housekeeper’s Quip
A tramping man pleads for a bath, claiming doctors allow bathing two hours after meals. The housekeeper mocks the delay noting the tramp has not had a proper meal in six months. The exchange captures a comic street vignette.
Rosebery Derby Victory and racing notes from England and America
The Derby and St Leger winner ADAS under Earl of Rosebery colors is praised as a premier racehorse while Sir Visto is noted as a slower youngster from Barcaldine. Rosebery’s ambition and public fate are discussed alongside Jockey Club forfeits and a Washoe death. The article shifts to theatre, tracing Pauline Hall and Miss MacDonald’s rise from understudy to star in New York and Philadelphia productions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adas
Earl of Rosebery
Hampton
Iiluminata
Sir Visto
Barcaldine
Ludus
Sporting Life
Karl
Matthew Dawson
Sip
Rosebery
Oxford
Tarry
Magland
Morehan
Miss Rothschild
Christie MacDonald Stars in The Chieftain at Abbeys Theater
Christie MacDonald who portrays Mrs Grigg in Francis Wilsons production The Chief tain at Abbeys Theater New York pleads she was born Pebps 7&8 in New York City area she hails from Pictou Nova Scotia her father English and mother Scottish though the family show musical talent they are not professional performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christie MacDonald
Baseball Notes From The Diamond Career Moves And Death
Pitcher Gumbert says he has not been fined since starting to play ball. Buck Ewing offered Capt Anson the pick of six Cincinnati players for Lange but the veteran declined. President Freedman would buy Patsy Tebow from Cleveland if Robison names a fair price. Hugh Jennings praised by many, Contishey’s St Paul club seen as top money winner in the Western league. Doyle German Butler and Eaton reportedly not with next year’s New York team. Milwaukee has cleared 15000 this season after a 10000 loss last year and has signed Kehoe Riley and Wall. Every Indiana resident received double salary last month. John M Ward suspects NY club reservation is spite work and will urge League action. Washington offered Jack Kosie to captain the Senators next season. Pat Perry English boxer dies aged 41 after career facing Goode among others. Death caused by dropsy after long illness.
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Gumbert
Buck Ewing
Capt
Anson
Cincinnati
Lange
Freedman
Patsy Teboau
Cleveland
Robison
Hugh Jennings
Contishey
St. Paul
Kehoe
Riley
Wall
Indianapatlia
John M. Ward
New York
Washington
New Yorks
Jack Kosle
Senators
A Norfolk Broads Cruise Through Ruined Abbeys
The narrator describes a journey by boat to Horning Hall and a farm scene, then glides toward a ruined abbey portico and finally a chapel barn once part of St Benet's. The voyage contrasts pastoral calm with the looming remains of medieval structures and echoes literary memories of Tess and Maggie.
Americans Seek New Markets for Paper Exports
The piece argues that American paper makers must develop fresh international markets as domestic demand cannot absorb all production. It notes strong paper quality and worker efficiency in Britain and other nations, urges expanding into newer regions, and highlights favorable costs and rising foreign demand for U.S. paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weteen
Aimerican
Itelgeul Laber
Johnny ponders vase mishap and parental reply
Johnny imagines knocking a vase and asks if he would escape punishment. His mother agrees he could not keep the vase after breaking it. He toys with the vase and considers what would happen if someone named Bat caught it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolkery
Johnny
Bat
Geodetic Survey Taps Longest Meridian Across Continents
A report on the U S Geodetic Survey mapping the distance from the Golden Gate at San Francisco to Chesapeake Bay along the forty ninth parallel. Led by Wall Tam Sinheck the project seeks precise Earth shape and submarine line measurements with completion expected in a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chalten Gate
San Francisco
Cal
Wall Tam Sinheck
Dines
Ernis
India
Twelee
Frenee
Pare Pojst
Scollarel
Mate Islands
United
Inherited Fortune Fades Amid Gin and Speculation
A young man inherits a modest sum and with extortion, gambling, and vice loses his fortune. A witness recalls a colorful, deceitful world including a claimed soiled reputation of a New Yorker who was accused in court of lowering a man’s worth to mere cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newser
Kentucky Wents to Know in Curious Prose
An odd, fragmented note purports to summarize widely known facts about Shakespeare, Dickens, and Napoleon. The text reads as a playful, nonstandard commentary mixing references to Bacon Herbert Spencer and literary figures without a coherent argument or clear event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Herbert Spencer
Charles Dickens
Nepoleon
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Harriet Stone Monroe
Cleve
R. G. Ingersoll
R. G. Ingersold
Ingersol
Vis
Ingersoll
Barcaidice
Ladas
Burt
Jockey Club
Gwaere Whoa
Yo Tamblen
Doe Toother
Theodore Winter
Washoe
Nev
Joe Flocker
Tle
A. Maihard
Mertin County
California
Monday
Mayflower
Dip. i Ipoos
Jin
Mie
Pauline Hall
Miss MacDonald
Louise Beaudet
Francis Wilson
Marie
Erminie
Lulu Glaser
Miss Glaser
Javette
Philadelphia
Miss Mac
Donald
Bob
Last Stunner
Shafra
the Spirins
Christie, MacDonald
New Yorkers
Pat Perry
Migheate Infirmary
Birmingham
Johnny Highland
Charley Norton
Alf Greenfield
Peter Breslin
Fil! Goode
Goode
PROM
Norfolk Broads
Anna Bowman Dodd
Joseph Pennell
Dodd
Mills
Ward
Breen
Horning Hall
Gtcl
Maggie Tulliver
Uletty
Tess
Hense
Waren
Snc
Apes Farm
Sas
Tower of London
New York Produce Exchange
St. Benet's
Geodetic Survey
Piva Atlantic Te Ied
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