Bed M. and M. Closing Exercises at Grand Opera House
The Mining and Mechanical Institute presents a June 4 program at the Grand Opera House. St Ann's band performs selections and several students deliver orations on topics from Nicaraguan canal to Abraham Lincoln. Founders Day address by Rear Admiral George Melvisie. Diplomas and prizes awarded. closing remarks by George D. McCreary.
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Mining and Mechanical Institute
Grand Opera House
St. Ann's
Thomas Brown
Michael Kennedy
Nicaragua Canal
James Boyle
William McKinley
St. Ann’s
Cletus Hayes
George Geoppert
William Ding
St. Ann’s Band
Frank Ward
Howard Boblin
Thomas Lawson
Abraham Lincoln
Neil Boyle
Valediete Thomas Fear
George Melvisie
United States Navy
Washington, D. C
C. M. Crawford
F. Vanlon
Iron
George D. McCreary
Philadelphia
The Horses In Training For Hartford Futurity
The Hartford Futurity tennis? No. A list of horses and notes on breeding training and ownership. Coney 2.02 in spring training. Redinda 2 0714 bred to Bingen. Jay Bird offspring. Eifie Powers 2.081g heats in standard time. Patsy IK 20714 now owned by Joly Maguire New York. Orrin Hickok rides Clipper 2:06 gelding kept off turf. Dolly Bidwell 2:00ta winner of 810,000 purse at Providence starts 15.2 and weighs 1,000 pounds. Beausant 17000 green pacer to race again with 2:07 trial as a three year old.
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Coney
Redinda
Bingen
Hartford
America
Fruits and Flowers Garden Tips for Year Round Harvest
Advice on pruning limbs close to the body for smooth cuts and doubling the cut. Select trees with strong roots and many roots, as roots feed the tree. Emphasizes intensive small fruit culture, planting one stunt area at a time with top culture. Aim to supply early vegetables and a winter surplus, and plant apples with queued varieties for constant succession from midsummer through winter.
The Empire of Business and the Carnegie Plan
A discussion of Andrew Carnegie’s The Empire of Business outlines the sliding wage scale idea tied to net product prices, arguing it could curb labor capital disputes. It critiques the book’s bias and notes Carnegie’s wealth creation through manufacturing and resources.
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Andrew Carnegie
Lhre
America
Seaboard
Pittsburg
Chicago
Ron Stone
He Mills
Carnegie
Steel Trust
Label and Union Shops Mull 25 Cent Dues for Blue Label Fight
The label committee of the cigar makers unions in New York votes to assess each member 25 cents monthly for three months to fund extending agitation for the blue label and oppose manufacturers employing nonunion workers.
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Cigar Makers’ Unions of
New York
Will Carry on Talmage’s Work as Son Leads Parish
Rev Dr Frank De Witt Talmage, son of the famed preacher, succeeds his father at Jef Rev, DR FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, of John Park Presbyterian Church Chicago. Born in Philadelphia, 35, NYU graduate, Union Theological Seminary trained. A clergyman and lecturer, he has found success in major U.S. cities.
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T. de Witt Talmage
Frank de Witt Talmage
Talmage
The
Jef
Jerson Park Presbyterian Church
Chicago
Philadelphia
New York University
Frank Talmage
Union Theological Seminary
United States
Jimmie Garfield Named Civil Service Prospective Commissioner
Roosevelt offers Jimmie Garfield the civil service commissioner post to replace Rodenberg. Garfield, son of a former president, has Ohio state senate start, two terms, and a Cleveland law practice. He lives at Lawnfield Mentor near the life president, with access to the late president’s books and papers.
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Jimmie Garfield
Roosevelt
Rodenberg
State Senate of
Ohio
Jacob A. Beidler
Cleveland
John Newell
Ke Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad
White House
The King of Spain Alfonso XII Assumes Crown at Sixteen
The crown passes to Alfonso XII on May 17 as a sixteen year old king. He inherits a land shaped by regency turbulence but currently enjoys quiet times. His mother’s influence is noted as guiding his early reign. He has outdoor sports experience shaping his readiness for rule.
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Paderewski
Spain
Alfonso Iiit
Alfonso
Alfonso XII
Lord Pauncefote Plans Summer Abroad
Osler the Baltimore specialist advised the British ambassador Lord Pauncefote to spend the summer at Aix les Bains. No departure date has been set for Europe.
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Lord Pauncefote
Ty. Osler
Baltimore
Aix-les- Bains
Europe
Why Noses Point East and the Right-Hand Tilt
A satirical meditation from Saturday Evening Test notes that about 99 of 100 noses appear to tilt to the right when seen in public. The piece jokes that habitual right-handed use of a handkerchief may push nasal orientation eastward from infancy, while left handed individuals seem to tilt left, though data remain inconclusive.
Flower and Tree Care Advice from August to September
FLOWER AND TREE discusses pruning young trees, spacing large trees forty-five feet apart to prevent excess shade, and care tips for plants like althens roses watercress asparagus and sweet william. It notes rose of Sharon flowering in late summer and that sweet william should be purchased as plants, not grown from spring seed.
Peculiar Flack Sea Currents Defy Ocean Norms
The Bleck sea shows a surface current from the Black sea to the Mediterranean and a heavier salt bottom current from the Mediterranean into the Black sea. The bottom water, saturated with sulphuretted hydrogen, is devoid of life below about 100 fathoms and emits a rotten eye like odor when brought to the surface.
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Bleck Sea
Black Sea
Mediterranean
English diner objects to bean soup label in New England
An Englishman in a New England town orders a first course and is served a deli cacy he does not recognize. He asks the waiter what it is and learns it is bean soup. He responds that he does not care what it has been and demands the current identity.
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New England
Philadelphia
A Bostonese Definition
A playful joke about “the flippy isles of Greece” and pork surrounded by beans, quoted in the Chicago Record-Herald. The gag reframes a regional term as a culinary caricature and linguistic quip.
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Ulavge
Isles
Greece
Little Waldo
Waldo
Chicago Record-Herald
Talent and Its Value Across Life and Work
A concise reflection on talent as innate aptitude that grows stronger with use. The piece argues everyone possesses some talent worth cultivating and stressing that practice enhances its value over time. It frames talent as a power entrusted for a specific use, echoing a biblical sense of purpose.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Man who drowns sorrow in flowing bowl warned
A Philadelphia Record line notes that drinking to drown sorrow reveals its amphibious nature as a warning about indulgence. Separately an Italian report states Italy has fifty factories of chemical fertilizers.
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Philadelphia Record
Italy
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