War and business notes amid Vanderbilt era rumors
Alfred Vanderbilt's engagement to Lisie French looms as mourning ends. Col. Starvey, new receiver's agent, oversees a firm with holdings and ships worth millions. Harpers' publishing missteps cited. London manuscript tale rejected by Americans, then picked up by Harpers with losses. Local notices reference Electric Bitters for disease relief and a night school ad for trades.
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Messrs. Surges & Bros
Zere
Feat Wood
Gen
Wallace
Prince of
India
Hani
London
New York
Harpers
Col. Starvey
Joseph Pulitzer
William C. Whittex
Theatrical Returns and Splendid Gowns in More Than Queen
News notes Ignace Paderewski arrives in New York with wife and secretary as Josephine in More Than Queen captivates audiences with lavish costumes and settings. Critics discuss Leslie Carter in Zaza and the era's grand stage fashion, while the Broadway season eyes Paladinski’s American debut and a wave of lavish operatic spectacle across major cities.
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Sgrope
Sir Henry Irving
Enen ‘Lerry
Josef
de Vachmann
Vaderewaki
Ignace J. Paderewski
New York
Boston
Mexico
Plano
Oceanie
Paderewski
Leslie Carter
Clement Scott
Ald
Neatach
Jack Tar
Fadorewski
New York City
Julia Arthur
America
Emile Bergerat
Coruelin
London
Vienna
Madrid
Stockholm
Josephine
Napoleon
Malmaison Garden
Tuileries
Notre Dame
Saint Cloud
Arthur
Louis David
Restoring an Old Channel: Chicago Sees Great Canal Completion
The opening of the drainage canal at Chicago marks a historic engineering feat and restores a historic waterway to the Great Lakes system. The piece traces earlier efforts from the Illinoi s and Michigan canal to the Ogden Wentworth ditch, pumping stations, and des Plaines adjustments, noting how floods, sewage and evolving transport shaped decisions. It explains the final plan to deepening and embanking Des Plaines and the canal to divert city sewage away from Lake Michigan, while assessing potential lake level impacts.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Ilinois
Lake
Mississippi
Gulf
St. Lawrence
Chicago River
Gulf of Mexico
Portage River
Des Plaines
Joliet
Maj. Long
le Petit Lac
Mud Lake
Michigan
Illinois and Michigan
Ogden-Wentworth
Illinois River
Tew Canal
Ernest Wollet
Kraenzlein, Pennsylvanian Hero of 1900 Track Scene
Alvin C Kraenzlein of Milwaukee lauded as America's premier all around athlete. He would dominate hurdles sprints and jumps and aims to lead a Penn team to Europe for Paris games, facing Irish rivals Newburn and OConnor and possibly breaking the 24 feet 4% inch running jump record.
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Alvin C. Kraenzlein
America
diMeult
Wall
Turner
Milwaukee
Alvin
Kreengjeln
University of Pennsylvania
Europe
Paris
Kraenzlein
London
Oxford
Cambridge
Trarvard
Yale
England
J. M. Newburn
P. O'Connor
Stalete
Murphy
Gove Pennsy
Amateur Athletic Union
Ihe
Newburn
Kraenziin
Aimi
A.A. WU
Badgers
Richards
Kroenzlein
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Maybury
Rush
Crum
East
Seaboard
Mike Murphy
Mur
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Herald
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Tives
Marlo Pastors
Mick
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Terrimer Stoddard
D'Urbervilles
Mrs. Fiske
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Richard Mansfield
Critle
Ben Hur
Ben Mur
Vanity Fair
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Yeas
Ruth
Ife
Chicago Daily News
Misa Burgins
Chicago Times
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Desplaines Valley
Desplaines River
Desplaines
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Pennay Ang Retur
Tor Kraenzlin
Geason
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James Sullivan
Wefers
Kilpatrick
Conneff
Sullivan
Krnenzlein Eias
AAL UL
A. A. Uv
Westlake
James E. Sullivan
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