World’s Fair Campers and Deep Gulf Dangers
Pleasant temperance camp at the Chicago World’s Fair offers cheap lodging, meals, and exhibits including a gold tailor’s square and the silk flag from Boston. A dramatic account describes a rope descent into a 800 foot deep gulf under the Icononzo bridge in Colombia, where a climber narrowly escaped with rope rescue. Also covered are school girls’ national tables at a fair with Japanese pageantry and a hair styling rite performed without pins.
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Chicago
Boston
Washington
Cincinnati
Icononzo
Sumapaz River
United States
Colombia
Gulf
Jean
Joan
Philadelphia Press
New South Wales Exhibit Shines at the Fair
The New South Wales display in the Mines and Mining building dazzles visitors with a silver shaft and monumental arches of coal. It features tin and copper ores, marble stones, galena columns, and impressive nuggets valued at 6000 and 5020 dollars. Since 1851 NSW mines have produced about 450 million dollars, with deep mining just starting.
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New South Wales
Botany Bay
Comanche the Civil War horse on display at State Building
The famous Comanche once ridden by Captain Keogh and the last survivor of the Little Bighorn massacre is now stuffed and loaned by the national government for display at the Kansas state building during the World's Fair. Also noted is a Chicago merchants’ replica of the Ionic Temple of Athena with a court for the Merchants’ Building and mosaic floor.
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Little Big Horn
Custer
Kansas State Building
Keogh
Chicago
Athene
Acropolis
Athens
Phidias
Adam and Eve
Novelities in silver and ivory decor and jewelry
Three gold safety bars with chains for children's blouses. A beetle three inches long has a diamond body emerald eyes and gold claws. Salvers of polished wood set in silver preferred for pitchers to salvers wholly silver. Candle squares of perforated gilt and enamel among the fasci nating novelties. A serpent with a curved head has tail smoothed to open envelopes. New silver bracelets charming in design and workmanship. One variety uses woven wire and tassels.
Wyoming to get new U S Senator this week
A Cheyenne dispatch to The Republican says Senator Beckwith will resign to the governor on Monday and A L New, a leading candidate last winter, will be appointed to the vacancy.
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Wyoming
Denver
Cheyenne
Beckwith
A. L. New
Thetare
Giant Ferris Wheel at the White City Stuns Visitors
The World’s fair massive Ferris wheel claims the largest movable machine ever built with a 32 inch thick axle 45 feet long. The wheel spans 250 feet in diameter and weighs about 1 200 tons supported by 36 cars seating 40 each. A 1 000 horsepower reversible engine powers its two full revolutions per ride.
Ferris Wheel Delights and Night Illumination at Chicago Expo
The Ferris wheel promises a smooth eight minute ride with a Westinghouse airbrake for safety. From the top riders enjoy a birdseye view of White City, Chicago, and the surrounding countryside as Jackson park glows with lights and electric fountains dazzle guests. A powerful summit searchlight beams a sunlike trail visible for miles. Also reported, Chinese attackers kill Swedish missionaries in Sing Pu, mutilating their bodies and leaving them naked for dogs.
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Westinghouse
White City
Chicago
Jackson Park
Sumit
Manufactures
Vancouver
Sing Pu
Wikothy and
Johanson
Theatrical Season Casts and Plans Proposed
Theatre figures including Mathilde Cottrelly, Marie Hubert Frohman, William Broderick, Albert Chevalier, Nat C. Goodwin, Augustin Neuville, Mary Anderson Navarro, Lotta, Amy Busby, William Barry, Mrs. James A. Herne and others are announced for next season. Performers will join or lead companies, stage plans unfold, and new productions and retirements are hinted across American stages.
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Mathilde Cottrelly
Russell
Marie Hubert Frohman
William Broderick
Francis Wilson
Ravennes
Albert Chevalier
Nat C. Goodwin
Nathaniel Hartwig
Robert Mantell
Marie Wainwright
Augustin Neuville
Power of Woman
Mary Anderson-Navarro
Irving
Boston Times
Lotta
Park Theater
Amy Busby
William HL. Crane
Miss Busby
William Barry
William Gill
James A. Herne
Margaret Fleming
Starvation Trick Haunts Chicago Crowd At Palmer House
A reported street con in Chicago involves a man fainting as a fake scene of chronic starvation. Onlookers donate dimes, while a confederate feigns medical aid and the pair escape grinning. The Inter Ocean notes the ducks in the lagoon and the Japs in pajamas appear happier amid the sultry days.
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Palmer House
Chicago
Restful Lagoon Rides Draw World’s Fair Visitors
The article extols the lagoon scene at the World’s Fair where electric launches glide past the Manufactures Building. It notes that rideable chairs on the lagoon offer rest and unusual views, with gondola and electric launch options providing a unique vantage.
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