Rogers keeps promise to Fairhaven by funding school
Henry Rogers, a Standard Oil magnate born in Fairhaven, fulfilled a longtime pledge by building the Rogers school on the town’s main street. The structure, a symbol of his youth ambition, was funded to include furniture donated by locals who once mocked his plan.
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Fairhaven
Mass
Henry Rogers
Standard Oil
Chicago Chronicle
Rogers School
Rogers
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn
Mr. Rogers
Beresford’s China Thesis Warns Against Empire Breakup
Lord Beresford argues for preserving the Chinese empire to safeguard trade and stability. He condemns spheres of influence and misleading outside interventions, urging an open door policy and coordinated Anglo American action to reform Chinese defense and administration without new taxation. He praises Chinese merchants and calls for honest authority to guide reform.
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Charles Beresford
China
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Ife
Germany
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Russia
Manchuria
Ile
Great Britain
Robert Mart
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Sir Robert Hart
Eny
Tle
Weilai-Wei
England
Far East
America
Lord Teresford
United States
Lord ‘Beresford
Daniel Cleverton
Seven Years in Dubuque Dr. Seeman Promotes X Ray Cure
Advertorial testimony touts Dr. F A Seeman a graduate physician and pharmacist with the only Roentgen X Ray machine west of Chicago. It praises swift stone detection, cures for catarrh deafness piles and nervous debility, and lists letters from patients in Dubuque Guttenberg and surrounding towns.
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Chicago
Seeman
Seemann
Guttenberg
Iowa
Soldier of Fortune Ward Elevates Shanghai Defense
An American named Ward, formerly of Massachusetts, builds a multinational force in 1860 Shanghai. He captures Sungkiang, earns a fourth rank mandarin, aids Shanghai’s defense, adopts a Chinese name, marries a mandarin’s daughter, becomes admiral general, and dies from battle wounds near Tsekie. His successor is Maj. Charles G. Gordon Chinese Gordon.
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Trederick
Ward
Massachusetts
Shanghai
Sungkiang
Hwa
Tsekie
Ningpo
Charles G. Gordon
Gordon
Reformers Beheaded After Chinese Empress Dowager Seizure
The empress dowager purges reformers after the emperor's abdication two years ago. Six reformers lose their heads and about 300 others are marked for slaughter. The plan aimed to erase the late Tung Chi line and place the six year old heir of Prince Tuan on the throne.
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China
Tung- Chih
Pot
Kuang-Tsu
Tuan
New Idea In Bible Making From Coventry Publisher
A Coventry publisher proposes a revision of scripture by placing the New Testament before the Old. He argues the Old Testament has become an extinguisher that blocks the light, while the Christian Scriptures reveal God more fully and should be primary in fact and theory.
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Coventry
Eng
Nervous Diseases Treated at Lincoln Block Clinic
Epilepsy and nervous prostration are treated with electricity and non injurious methods. Diseases of women including bearing down pains and sterility addressed. Syphilis and skin diseases cured. No scar creating procedures. confidential consultation. Office hours 9 am to 1 pm 1:30 to 5:30 pm 7 to 8 pm. Sundays 10 am to 12 pm. Letters from distant patients welcomed in German Swedish or English with return stamp.
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Eighth and Locust Streets
Eighth Street
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