Carnegie gift praised by presidents as boon to higher education
Article reports reactions to Andrew Carnegie's 10 6 million bequest to fund annuities for aging college professors. Presidents Harper, Schurman, Pritchett, Faunce, Seelye, MacCracken, Eliot and others laud the endowment as a pivotal pensions plan, boosting faculty dignity and retention across American colleges and universities.
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Reading Agnetes
United
Spc
Carada
Andrew Cartmore
Ibgmr
New York Tribune
Jarod Gould Schurman
Eooreeti University
America
Eenegie
Wweil
Carnegie
W. R. Harper
Chicago University
Henry S. Pritchett
Massechesetts Institute of Technology
W. H. P. Faunce
Brown
L. Clark Seelye
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
New York University
Rainates
Teemcetter
Eugene Stevenson
New Jersey
Gemere! Alumni Association
Carnegore
Chanseer Titevenson
Samuel Plants
Lawrence University
Appleton
Wis
Carnegié
Arning
Colleéges
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
William Peterson
MeGth University
Montreal
McGill
Lord Strathcona
Wiliam MacDonald
John Henry Molson
Agricultural College
St. Ann's
Funston's Narrow Escape From an Cuban Agent
General Fitz-Hugh Lee recounted a near assassination scare while he was consul at Havana. He described a gaunt Cuban army man posing as danger, who proved to be General Funston, later famed for capturing Aguinaldo, who he helped smuggle to the United States after a disguise and a bath.
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Fitz-Hugh Lee
Connecticut General Assembly
Hartford
Havana
Frederick Sunston
Kansas
Chicago Tribune
Maine
Lee
General Lee
United States
General Funston
Aguinaldo
Bounties Set for Sharks in Adriatic Fisheries
Fishermen in the Adriatic Sea will receive bounties from $2 to $200 for each shark captured, with payout based on the variety and size of the fish. The incentive aims to boost shark catches under the new program.
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Adriatic Sea
Indiana's War on Cigarettes as Told by Poets
A satirical dialogue from Author on Parade and the Hoosier poet laments cigarette bans and the shift to corncob pipes and cigars. The passage criticizes prohibition of cigarettes, notes bonfires of corn husk wrappers, and imagines writers adapting their craft and smoke rituals amid sweeping anti smoking measures.
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Indiana
Jose
Sala
Case of a Young Woman with Ten Personalities
British psychical researchers report a girl once under Dr. Albert Wilson developed ten distinct personalities within twenty months after a 1895 illness. From April 1895 to December 1896 the patient showed varied states from acute mania and fear to blindness and imbecility, then recovered and educated her strongest personality by twenty-two.
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London
2?Sychical’ Research” Society
Albert Wilson
Tom
Mary
Haggard Describes Dreadful Immigrant Ride Across America
Novelist Rider Haggard, sent by the British government to study immigrant colonies in the United States, arrived in Toronto from San Francisco. He called the cross continent journey dreadful, with extreme climate changes, washouts, wrecks, and a near bridge collapse in Arizona, plus a freight train mashup near Buffalo.
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Rider Haggard
United States
Toronto
San Francisco
New York Times
Continent
Haggard
South Africa
Africa
Arizona
Buffalo
Rhubarb Enterprise Planned by Clark Standiford
Clark Standiford a former Marysville grocer plans a large scale rhubarb venture at a ranch near Chino Mills in Butte county. Five tons of roots have been shipped to him to form the basis of the project, reports from Marysville.
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Clark Standiford
Marysville
Cal
Chino’ Mills
Butte County
Sacramento Bee
English Shopkeepers
English shopkeepers face the rising cost of imports as global trade pressures grow. Local markets show a shift toward smaller outlets and increased emphasis on value and service.
Airship dreams fed by Knabenshue in Toledo for expo
Roy Knabenshue refines an airship in Toledo Ohio aiming to wow the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The craft will have an 8000 cubic foot envelope a 60 pound engine 10 foot propeller and lighter triangular frame to outperform the California Arrow. Plans include Brussels prize Flight and a Santos-Dumont race to follow the exhibit.
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Portland
Roy - A.knabershue
Toledo
Ohio
Knabenshue
Baldwin
St. Louis
St. Louis Exposition
California
Knabenshuetas
Knehbenshue
Roy Knabenshue
New York
Proper Age For Marriage in Modern Times
The piece discusses shifting views on suitable marriage ages, noting the decline of old maid stigma, rising independence of women, and longer consideration of life before wedlock. It cites social change driven by women entering the workforce and the longer mental and physical development deemed necessary before marriage.
How Woman Was Freed From Troubles Through Pink Pills
A historical account extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for headaches arising from anemia. It cites Miss Stella Blocker of Leander Louisiana who recovered after three boxes, stating prior years of weakness fever and organ involvement but full restoration after using the pills. The ad notes cures for neuralgia sciatica nervous prostration partial paralysis and rheumatism and claims the pills renew the blood.
Buckten Family Hit by Erysipelas and Fever in Chicago
A. E. Buckten and H. Buckten are reported ill with erysipelas and fever at their Chicago home. Miss Buckten was recalled from a country house north of town as concern grew that the illness followed an accident near a creek last week.
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Trinity
M. FE. Church
Anderson D. Parrett
R. J. Parrett
Church ‘Triumphant
Anderson D.parrett
Joseph Jr
Mary Parrett
Fayette County
Ohio
Methodist’ Episcopal Church
Indiana
Father Parrett
Whitley County
Susan Perking
Thele
J. A. Parrett
Samuel L. Parrett
John H
Edward T. Webster
Zebulon Burch
Samuel Smith
E. S. Fleece
Fort Wayne
Wolf Lake
Elkhart
Thomas Bowman
Brother Parrett
Aiery
Jesus
Parrett
F. T. Simpson
D. D
Heininger
J. DeLong
South Whitley
H. B. Butler
Odf
Sas
Somerville
A. E. Buckten
Buckien
Chicago
Buckten
Creeck
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