World's Fair at St Louis praised as greatest expo
A New York writer lauds the St Louis World’s Fair as beyond expectations. He highlights the grand fan shaped plan, multiple vistas, Cascade Gardens, pike concessions, diverse dining, and overall beauty while noting comfortable summer weather and abundant attractions across the grounds.
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St. Louis
Samme Frommeh
Fintinne
Finsinnal Arsinach
United States
Addison Steele
Steele
Brooklyn Life
Plaza
Louisiana Purchase Monument
Grand Basin
Cascade Gardens
Liberal Arts
Fine Arts
Moderne Kunst
Das Deutsche Haus
Tyrolean Alps
Paris
Photograph Fad Among Wealthy Americans
August Belmont leads a famed taste for portraits among rich Americans with photographer James R. Keene close behind. A New York photographer credits Belmont with a large share of his work yielding thousands of negatives for Belmont in recent years. After Belmont's wife’s death he received an enormous order: a print from every negative featuring Mrs. Belmont, totaling nearly a thousand photographs.
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August Belmont
James R. Keene
New York
Mr. Belmont
Belmont
Mrs. Belmont
Why Birds Live Long
The article argues birds outlive mammals of similar size due to beaks not wearing or breaking like teeth. It notes carnivores and herbivores lose function as teeth fail, using horses and rodents as examples, while birds continually grow and replace beaks by swallowing grit to grind food, avoiding repair.
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Congress
Waiter Faces Loose Tip In Kansas City Hotel
A Kansas City hotel waiter, eager for a tip, boasted of a guest who tipped 50 cents for service. The guest later reveals the tip came from his brother who had eaten there previously, joking the waiter might have charged the whole family.
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Kansas City
Sam
Kansas City Journal
Philadelphian nun offers large gift for Winnebago church school
Mother Katherine Drexel founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament offers $500000 of her own fortune to fund a church and school for Winnebago Indians in Nebraska. The grant requires the Indians consent, a condition secured by Father Schell of Homer Nebraska.
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Katherine Drexel
Philadelphia
Order of the Blessed Sacrament
Winnebago, Neb
Father Schell
Homer
Neb
Brownlow Retells Printing Fight Provocation Tale
Representative Brownlow recalls a Tennessee campaign episode in which a feared challenger enters a country paper’s sanctum seeking the editor. Brownlow says he hid and later warned the assailant the editor was upstairs at his desk itching for a fight, then vanished and never learned the outcome.
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Brownlow
Tennessee
Etymology of Ancient Races and Place Names
Etymologists debate names for ancient peoples and places such as the Picts from pehta and Pic ts, Barbary from Greek barbarian, and Guy of Warwick's foes linked to Denagau. Celtic alt maen is traced to high rock forming coastal and mountain crags.
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England
Guy of Warwick
Denagau
Champion's Gates
Parker Receives Nomination for Presidency at Esopus
Ex judge Alton B. Parker Democrat nominee was formally notified of his nomination by Champ Clark at Esopus New York on August 10 1904. Parker accepted the nomination resigning as chief judge and pledged to serve without a second term while urging tariff reform and Philippine self government.
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Alton B. Parker
Esopus
N. Y
St. Louis
Champ Clark
Missouri
Judge Parker
Democratic Party
United States
Parker
Court of Appeals
Senate
Congress
House of Representatives
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