The Queen and the American on a Transatlantic Voyage
In 1909 Queen Anna Victoria of Herzegovina travels with Baron Cosaca and meets American Robert Trainor aboard a liner. Their bond forms as Trainor's business world collides with royal secrecy and budding romance. The trio disembarks in New York and secures lodgings at the Rex while navigating debt and distant loyalties.
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Myria
Bosnian
Herzegovina
Anna Victoria
Baron Cosaca
Grabovica
Myrza
Austria
Trieste
America
Mna
Victoria
Mostar
Cosaca
Heinrich
Strait of Gibraltar
Azores
Balkans
Apna Vittoria
Heraegovinians
Robert Trainor
Montenero
Trainor
Wan
Ana
Laumann & Sons
Chicago
New York
Kingdom of
Fraulein Victoria
Sttle
Montenegro
American
Baron
Rex
Bimbi
Glance at Current Topics Flags Day and Venice Campanile
The piece notes Flag Day June 14 celebrations in schools with songs and speeches following 48 states after Arizona and New Mexico join. It recounts Betsy Ross’s flag making role and the 1777 and 1818 star and stripe changes. It also mentions Venice’s Campanile reconstruction after the 1902 collapse and the loggetta restoration as a major puzzle.
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United States
Arizona
New Mexico
George Washington
Betsy Ross
Philadelphia
Continental Congress
Union
Vermont
Kentucky
St. Mark's
Venice
Campanile di San Marco
Sansovino
Woman diplomat breaks gender barriers in diplomacy
Dr Clotilde Luisi becomes first woman admitted to Uruguay's diplomatic service serving as attache in Brussels to educational matters. President Taft appoints Miss Julia Lathrop as chief of the federal children's bureau, with ties to Hull House and Vassar. National Chamber of Commerce outlines referendum based governance. Harry A Wheeler of Chicago presides.
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Truguay
Clotilde Luisi
Brussels
Legation
Luisi
University of
Montevideo
Taft
Julia
Lathrop
Chicago
Federal Children's Bureau
Department of Commerce and Labor
Jane Addams
Hull House Fame
Illinois Board of Charity
Vassar College
National Chamber of Commerce
United States
Harry A. Wheeler
Safer Sea Travel Assured After Titanic Disaster
In the wake of the Titanic disaster new safety measures are adopted for transatlantic travel between the United States and Europe. Ocean liners now carry additional life saving gear after public demand and inquiries in Washington and London. An illustration shows the Mauretania with liferafts and crew placing a lifeboat on deck.
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United States
Europe
Washington
The
Mauretania
Cornell Professor Unlocks Pulsating Mass Mystery
Professor Alexis Carrell of Cornell University advances the science of a pulsating mass and the mystery of life. His work challenges long held beliefs as debates widen over the implications for biology and philosophy in American science circles.
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Alexis Carrell
Cornell University
Apinion
Princeton's Gothic dormitory to rise at Princeton University
Ground was broken this spring for a new Gothic dormitory at Princeton University costing about 150000 dollars. It will house seventy students with six entrances and a southern arch atop a tower, ready for term reopening in 1913.
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Princeton
Princeton Juniversity
Old Time Letter Writing Recalled As Epistles Decline
A nostalgic look at the past custom of long letters once written with care. The piece notes grandparents as avid letter writers, compares bygone epistles to diaries and sermons, and laments the shift to quick calls and brief notes while lovers keep the tradition alive.
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Grandma
Grandpa
Leverbody
St. Louis Republic
Shaft to Indian Bravery by the Fool Indian Band
A Mobridge Minnesota account recalls the 1862 rescue of captive whites by a Sioux group led by Chief No Heart. After years of hardship they returned captives to relatives, honors followed with medals and a South Dakota granite shaft erected June 15, 1909 bearing Shetek Captives Rescued Here November 1802 by the Fool Indian Band.
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Missouri
Chief No Heart
Phiy
Congress
South Dakota
Mobridge Cor
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Waiting for the Great Day Comes
Poem from the Chicago Record Herald urges patience as social progress will bring justice and improvement. It envisions love triumphing over hate, speech aiding the mute, and riches yielding to virtue. The verse promises eventual wisdom and goodness for all if people endure and wait.
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Chicago Record-Herald
European Railways Report Switzerland Ranks Eighth
Switzerland places eighth among European members of the international railroad convention by railway length. The 1914 statistics show Germany in second place with 97.08 percent of the sales figures mentioned.
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Switzerland
Germany
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Channing Pollock
Chansing Pollock
American Press Association
Department of Agriculture
S. A. Knapp
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North Atlantic
South Atlantic
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South Central
House
Senate
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