Young swimmers conquer Niagara rapids to Lewiston
In a remarkable feat near Niagara Falls two men, Carlisle D. Graham of Baltimore and William Gower Jr., swam four miles from Flat Rock on the American side to Lewiston in six minutes, wearing life belts and inflatable neck rings. Glover led briefly but both finished with Graham opting for the hotel rest and Glover recounting the journey.
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Ira Falls
Noyuty
Carlisle D. Graham
William
Graham
Devil's Hole
Glover
Owasden
Lewiston
Tower Rapids
White Glover
Hennessy Defies Legislature in Wardman Case
Albany July 18 The legislature debated procedure over New York Press allegations of lobby and improper influence in the Hooker affair. Editor Ervin Wardman and associates may face a retrial under a new subpoena form centered on reports of actions to compel restraint on Wardman. The session was interrupted by a challenge to jurisdiction. Meanwhile a strike by newspaper helpers led to workers joining the protest.
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New York
Albany
N. Y
New York Press
Hooker
Ervin Wardman
Reakte
iMature
Managinx
John “. Messy
the Press
Rookey & Subpena
Railroad Accident Bulletin Reveals 1903 Quarter Losses
Interstate Commerce Commission reports for January February March 1903 show 232 killed and 3 712 injured in train crashes and 2 449 248 dollars damage to cars engines and track There were 38 passenger and 204 employee deaths and 1 651 passengers and 2 062 employees injured in train accidents with 3108 collisions and derailments 177 affecting passenger trains.
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Washington
Interstate — Commerce Commission
United States
WOMEN OF ROYALTY NOW LIVING IN RETIREMENT NEAR TURIN
A portrait of Queen Alexandra by Edward Hughes is praised as perhaps the finest ever painted. Princess Clotilde of Savoy, widow of Prince Napoleon, lives near Turin amid desolation. her son Victor dreams of an imperial French future. The famed Wiel princess in Berlin buys used horses for her stables. Queen Christina of Spain holds US bonds worth about 4 million dollars in English banks. Empress Eugenie, visiting Paris, stays near the Tuileries and recalls her triumph, while she enjoys the garden where her son played.
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Clotilde
Savoy
Napoleon
Bonaparte
Re Urement
Turin
Prince Victor
France
Edward Hughes
Queen Alexandra
Wiel
Eireles
Berlin
Holland
Christina
Spain
Archduke Albert
Austria
United States
Mission drives span worlds from Philadelphia to New York
Philadelphia Sabbath school children aim to raise 15000 dollars to aid Italian outreach in the city. The British and Foreign Bible Society reports over one million Chinese scriptures sold last year, excluding 35000 tree-plant copies to Chinese students, a record for the empire. Gospel wagons cars tents and bicycles aid preaching to Jews. In Paris two pastors toured to preached to country crowds from an automobile, distributing leaflets. The Jewish Budget funds salaried clergy and houses of worship, while New York remains the world’s largest mission field with a third of its people outside Protestant or Roman Catholic influence and a large foreign-descent population reading many foreign papers. Congregational services occur in fourteen languages.
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Philadelphia
China
British and Foreign Bible Society
Paris
France
New York
Chicago
Congregationalism
French actress proposes London theater with biannual seasons
Mme Rejane plans to base a French theater in London where she and other French actors will perform two seasons yearly. Puccini has enlisted Giacosa and Illica to draft a Queen Marie Antoinette opera libretto to be completed in September with Puccini composing the music. Ireland’s History of the New York Stage copy sold for $46,664 in New York, covering 1750 to 1870. John A Conquest, Ida Conquest’s father and a $500,000 laborer, works packing fish in Boston at $2 daily, saying work brings health.
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Mme. Rejane
London
Sig
Puccini
Sig. Giacosa
Ilisa
Mare Antoinette
Augustin Daly
Ireland
New York
John A. Conquest
Ida Conquest
Boston
Literary Figures Mentioned In Various Contexts Of Arts
Tbsen remarks on three aversions including children lovers and music. Rider Haggard's 7000 mile tour seeking colonies in the United States. Orlando Dalton Banbury N H owns a 266 year old volume The Mirror Which Flatters Not by Sieur de la Serre. A E Houseman, Latin professor at University College London, writes highly praised verses and declines payment. Edward J Wheeler retires as Literary Digest editor, Dr Isaac K Punk takes charge with William S Woods as assistant.
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Tbsen
Rider Haggard
Orlando Dalton
Banbury
N. H
Sieur de la Serre
A. E. Houseman
University College, London
Edward J. Wheeler
Literary Digest
Isaac K. Punk
William 8. Woods
Beautiful eyes and shandsomes face praised in ad copy
An old advertisement extols bright eyes as a woman's heart window and promotes Holluister's Rocky Mountain Tea with bright eyes tablets priced at 35 cents each.
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Rocky Mountain
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Medocise
Wyo
Phermopolis
Dee Richards
Alexander
James W. Mexamder
Rauitable Lifeurance Society
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Hyde
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Messenum
Reyvo- Hutlonney
Aysal
Hennessy
Het
York
Lucy Stovall
Tilton
Kodol
H. A. Dykeman, Draggtet
Dstrict
John C. Bell
Harry T. Kingston
Willam Tern
Collingswood
Land Title
Bell
Lex
Kingston
Born
Ossining
N.Y
James Breen
Charles Jackson
Sing Sing
Breen
Capt. W. Keyes
New York City
Jackson
Charles W. Roxbury
Bronx
Fostoria
George Chambers
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Chambers
Charity Organization Society
Harlem
Beggars’ Trust
Lo Jdo
Little Italy
Equitable
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Thomas F. Ryan
James H. Hyde
Ryan Holdings
Equitable Society
Ryan
Country Board
Yonkers States
Royalty
the Lord’s Kingdom
Sorosis
Sorosis Oxfords For
Oxfords
Broad Street
West Sixth Street
S. Day
Elyria
Hygienic Ice CO
Bothi Phones
H. A. Dykeman
Rich
USA Shoes
Julia Marlowe
Elyria Block Shoe Store
Tuscons
Mrs. M. Houghtlen
Miss ER
Broad St
Over Fishers Jewelery Store
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