World’s Fair Construction Progress in St Louis
June 10 report notes rapid rise of the fair’s exhibit halls in St Louis with 75 foot tall sections and ongoing textiles and art building work. Carpenters and hoists create a busy, airborne view as plans for the Liberal Arts revision advance toward contractor bids. The art building will span 830 by 456 feet with permanent marble sections and two side pavilions.
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St. Louis
Jane S. Taylor
Department of Works
Star
Liberal Arts
Burns Cottage group plans World’s Fair replica castle
The Burns Cottage Association proposed at the World’s Fair to build a reproduction of Stirling Castle near the Burns Cottage. They seek a 68 by 250 foot space with an annex for relics and a display, and request a conference with officials to finalize site and plans.
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Stirling Castle
Robert Burns
Burns Cottage Association
Taylor
Joseph A. Graham
Grahato
Ms Cottage Association
Dior-of-Works
West Point Centenary Celebrations Begin at Academy
West Point New York June 10 centennial exercises for the United States Military Academy opened today and run to Thursday. The current cadet class of about fifty four is to be graduated at the close. A large reception for visiting graduates is organized by a committee of officers as notable officers like Generals Breckinridge Saunders Sheridan Mooney Gardiner Corbin Longstreet and others arrive.
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West Point
N. Y
United States Military Academy
Joseph. Breckinridge
John Saunders
M. V. Sheridan
John Mooney
John M. Carson
Asa Bird Gardiner
Henry €. Corbin
James Longstreet
S. M. B. Young
Chadwick
Naval War College
Bates
Department of the Hmissouri
Greeley
Lud
Shady resting place with wooden frame and cloth cover
The article describes a shady resting place built with a wooden floor and a fabric roof using white duck or striped awning cloth. It explains a hammock setup, frame construction with cross timbers, cloth gables, and fastening methods, noting the cloth fades and the floor keeps grass dampness away.
Facts for Farmers on Profitable Farm Planning and Irrigation
This excerpt urges cultivating broom corn until two feet high with possible cessation if moisture is sufficient. It advises abandoning overextended crops to focus on thorough cultivation. It notes irrigation yields large returns and suggests investing in irrigation equipment in arid regions for farmers aiming to front-line farming.
Brome Grace Beats Timothy in North Dakota Grass Trial
A North Dakota experiment compared brome grass and timothy yields for hay and soil value. Brome produced 1 625.3 pounds of dry matter per acre and superior protein content, with better humus potential due to a larger root system. Timothy yielded 1 422.8 pounds of dry matter and fiber comparable to its regional average.
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Brome Grace
Timothy
North Dakota
Great Men on Talking and Silence Across Thinkers
A compilation of quotes on speech and silence from thinkers like Carlisle Shakespeare Horace Montesquieu Plutarch Solomon Swift and others. The selections contrast eloquence with restraint and warn that excess talking leads to folly and poverty while measured speech reflects wisdom.
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Carlisle
Solomon
Swift
Grand Chinese banquets and vast lumber use noted
A report highlights long Chinese banquets of 12 hours and more, a 260 mile river island in Brazil termed the largest in the world, and a 126 course dinner for foreign officials in Shanghai. It notes China uses vast lumber for coffins, with four to ten inch thick coffins and enormous annual timber totals. It also mentions apples as a newly introduced yet thriving fruit in Japan and northern island districts, boosting cultivation profits and expanding production areas.
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China
Santa Island
Uraguaya River
Brazil
Shanghai
Japan
Frances plans 1.6 million loan for Tunis railways
The note reports Frances seeking a 1,600,000 pound loan to fund new railway construction in Tunis. It notes regional fauna in Australia and a Jaguar addition at the New York Zoological Park weighing 375 pounds and seven feet long, captured in Paraguay. It mentions a Mexican coke deposit at Las Prietas Sonora and a German chemist’s dwarf-plant method.
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Frances
Tunis
Australia
New York Zoological Park
Paraguay
Las Prietas
Sonora
Mexico
Men of science share sun rotation and nightingale note
Scientists state the sun completes a rotation in about 25 1 3 days. On a calm night a nightingale's song can be heard up to a mile away.
Allen's Foot-Ease and Cure-All Advertising Snippet
An advertising fragment promises Allen’s Foot-Ease for swollen feet and smaller shoe fit plus a free dress accessory sample. It includes testimonials and other products like Laxative Brome Quinine Tablets and Piso’s Cure for throat and lung ailments with dated quotes from 1900 and Chicago Daily News quips.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Interesting Little Bits From Across The World
Tobacco was grown last year at 25 places in Ireland. A 75 foot rise is a record for a Bristol channel title. Slindon in Sussex has seen no new houses for 25 years. Europe has 587 languages, but 90 percent speak the seven main ones. A transatlantic steamer brings about 200000 letters and 300 sacks of newspapers for London with 500 more sacks for other places.
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Ireland
Bristol Channel
Sussex
England
Slindon
Europe
London
Man Rejoices Over Dodd's Kidney Pills Cure
William Catterson of Lusks Springs Indiana reports twenty years of his wife suffering from neuralgia rheumatism and a broken down constitution improved after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He praises the pills and says they did her the most good.
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Lusks Springs
Ind
William Catterson
Catterson
Dadd
Mr. Catterson
Dodd
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