TWO AMERICAN POETS. A BRIEF SKETCH OF THEIR LIFE
A Queenstown Ireland feature profiles John James Piatt and Donn Pratt, tracing Piatt’s New Jersey and Ohio roots, Civil War service lineage, editorials with Prentice and Howells, and Pratt’s Cork consulship and published poetry. It covers Sarah Bryan Pratt and Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt, their marriage of poets, and critical reception.
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Queenstown
Ireland
New York
John James Piatt
Donn Pratt
France
St. Thomas
West Indies
John Piatt
Piatt
America
New Jersey
Continental Army
William Piatt
Society of the Cincinnati
Scotch Plains
N. J
Northwest Territory
St. Clair
Fort Washington
Cincinnati
Jacob Piatt
Donn Piatt
Abram
Benjamin M. Piatt
Piatts
James Piatt
John James
John Pratt
Dearborn
Charles Scott
Ohio State Journal
Kenyon College
W. D. Howells
Longfellow
John James Platt
Platt
Louisville Journal
George D. Prentice
Ohio
Lowell
Prentice
Kentucky
Sarah Wi. Bryan
Pratt
Cork
John James Pratt
Sarah Morgan Bryan
Lexington
Fayetts County
Morgan Bryan
Earlies
Dax Loone
North Carolina
Boone
Bryan
Kentucky Central
Lone Licks
Veranda Talk and a Clever Fakir at City Hall
A seaside hotel veranda reveals social types from dowagers to stage lovers and gossips. A sharp fakir then fleeces crowds with fake jewelry and watches, selling chains for a dollar and a nonfunctional watch for three, slipping away before law can reach him.
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Michigan Street
Ontario
West Side
Cleveland Leader
Hearing Beyond Air Theorized By Hooke 1664
Robert Hooke describes hearing through walls and over long distances using distended wires and new mechanisms. He suggests hearing through a wall a yard thick and transmitting sound instantly in multiple directions, comparing speed to light.
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Robert Hooke
Dangerous suicide methods in varied cultural contexts noted
An Alta California report discusses self harm methods by different nationalities, citing a San Francisco Italian resident who burned himself with a peanut roaster, and noting Chinese and French practices. It mentions opium use by the Chinese and a vinegar-assisted tincture method for faster effect.
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San Francisco
Alta California
John Bright Esteemed Among Greatest Orators Since Demosthenes
Goldwin Smith asserts that since Demosthenes there have been fewer than a dozen orators superior or equal to John Bright the Quaker statesman.
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Goldwin Smith
Demosthenes
John Bright
Peacemaker Torpedo Boat Proposed For Harbor Defense
A Yankee inventor, Professor J. T. L. Tuck, builds a 30 foot submarine torpedo boat named the Peacemaker in New York harbor. It can sail miles underwater or rest on the bottom for days while crew escape to the surface. It demonstrates anchoring torpedoes to hulls with electric detonation.
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Jules Verne
New York Harbor
J. T. L. Tuck
Westinghouse
Hudson River
New Ontario Parliament Buildings Planned in Toronto
The Ontario legislature offices will rise in Queen's Park Toronto in an open court design with a 406 foot frontage and 244 foot depth per wing. The central 65 by 85 foot legislative chamber sits between grand arches and a 29 foot vestibule leading to a 50 by 62 foot grand staircase. Four elevators and numerous vaults will serve the complex with fire safety and sanitary systems. Eight members of congress have died during the current administration.
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Ontario
Queen's Park
Toronto
Canada
Legislative Chamber
Progress of the Work on the New Steel Cruisers for the U S Navy
The Puritan, Boston and Chicago projects at John Roach’s Chester shipyard near Philadelphia face scrutiny after the Dolphin was rejected. Secretary Whitney directs testing and completion with an advisory board as Roach assigns to finish the three remaining steel cruisers. The great foundry and casting of the Chicago’s propeller are shown as workers build hulls, rivet plates, and install engines, while the Puritan heads to League Island and the Boston to Brooklyn for guns.
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United States Navy
Boston
Chicago
Chester
Delaware River
Philadelphia
John Roach
Dolphin
Roach
Atlanta
Whitney
Naval Advisory Board
League Island Navy Yard
Delaware
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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S. M. B. Piatt
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Independent
Tennyson
Asbury Park
Behring’s Strait
Evron
Legislature
Congress
Whitney’s Workshop
THE
Portland and Lonsville Couey
Plaster OF Paris
Cross Paints
Marshall & Welch
Manstfield’s
Omaha
Chicago, Milwaree & St Paul
Rock Island Freeport
Rockford
Elgin
Madison
Janesville
Beloit
Winona
LaCrosse
Greeley, Cole
Pullman
Chicago, Milwaukee& St. Paul B’y
KR. Miller
J .F. Tucker
H. Herfford
J. T. Clark
Laurles & Harnen
Cinches
SPURS
ANGY
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
R. E. Hart
Agnetic
Dr. Clark
U. S
Aso
Lim
M. A. McLaughlin & CO
Skinner Brook
Denver
Cols MN
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