Snow statue contest and world notes from Quebec
A winter feature from Quebec highlights a snow statue competition on Dufferin terrace near Chateau Frontenac with a $50 gold purse and two $25 prizes. The piece also notes editorials on demographics in German cities, denatured alcohol cubes, early European city sizes, and a literature and music round-up.
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Quebec
Dufferin Terrace
Chatteau Frontenac
Canada
M. Paul Chevre
Paris
Champlain
M. Chevre
Chateau
Chateau Frontenac
Brazil Orders Massive Floating Dock for Dreadnoughts
The Brazilian government awarded a contract to an English shipbuilder for a floating dock to support two new dreadnoughts. Planned as among the largest of its kind, the dock will have a lifting capacity of 22 000 tons, cost $914 500, and be completed in eleven months.
Columbia University Receives 4.28 Million in Seven Months
Trustees report that in the seven months since the June meeting Columbia University has collected 4,281,562 from bequests and other sources. Elsewhere in Chile near Concepcion and Talcahuano a vast heap of soft coal lies in a 6000 square meter area with 0.6 million cubic meters of volume, 1.6 meters thick. The Library of Congress added 167,077 volumes this year bringing total volumes to 1,704,686 as the heat encyclopedia was supplied by the Chinese government.
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Columbia University
Concepion
Talcahuand
Chile
Conmrens
Makier
Chiese Goverment
Attar of Rose Perfume Production Noted in CityIndustry
Report notes over 4000 pounds of rose petals used in manufacturing perfume. The article mentions a public square area in Manhattan and cites a population of 206 009.
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Attar
Manhetta
Interurbans Spur City Folk Toward Poultry Farming
The Interurban lines boost rural living as city buyers chase acreages near the city and look to poultry as an easy money pursuit. Builders invest in plant for a thousand hens, while others misjudge Pullets as a laying breed. the piece argues for patient, educated farming and practical skill.
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Wallace Farmer
Cee
Ultra
Heust
Wintering Horses For All Seasons And Uses
Wallaces' Farmer advises proper winter care for work horses. Keep active teams with stable housing and manure management, then turn idle horses out to pasture with shelter. Provide hay or straw, some grain, and ensure exercise. avoid overfeeding and confinement, aiming for balanced nutrition and warm, open shelter.
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Wallaces
Learning by correspondence in tricky matches
A brief dialogue contrasts learning by correspondence with the person one writes to. The exchange hints at individual differences in suitability and outcome depending on the counterpart involved.
Money in That Self Made Man
A Husky graduate notes college pays off when the football committee tracks him down and invites him to join. The piece reflects on education linked to athletic opportunity and career prospects at the university.
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Husky
Comic Opera Ending of a Great War Scare
A retold Civil War anecdote recounts the 1861 exchange of Mason and Slidell for British release. The tale describes plans from Fort Warren to Provincetown, the comical tug voyage, and the reluctant surrender of Slidell amid seasickness and diplomacy gone comic.
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E. J. Edwards
United States
England
Mason
Slidell
Debater
State Department
Lincoln
Magon
Webster
Gustavus V. Fox
Navy
Seward
Secretary of the Navy
Birdell
Mr. Webster
Mason de Slidell
St Warren
Boston Harbor
Boston
Bowe
Lord Lyons
Provincetown
Maass
Fort Warren
Massachusetts Bay
Europe
Blidell
Sildell
Bidell
Louisiana
Great Britain
B. J. Edwarda
Names in Stock From the Cleveland Leader
A fragment from a Cleveland Leader piece describes a Kentucky mountain mother during a school census. The taker asks for the number of children, while the mother, holding a baby, shows frustration at the missing count. The text mocks census rigor and mentions a struggling family amid hardships and disease.
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Kentucky
Harry
Jim
Grand Old Men of 1909 and 1910 Octogenarian Roll Call
John Elfreth Watkins lists a vast parade of aging statesmen, generals, scientists, and artists nearing or entering their seventies and eighties. He notes Henry Watterson, Sir Hiram Maxim, Palmer Cox, Thomas Hardy, and many more as they approach the 1910 septuagenarian and octogenarian ranks, with extensive biographical sketches and future milestones.
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John Elfreth Watkins
Washington Star
Temple of Patriarchs
Henry Watterson
Hiram Maxim
Maine
Hatton Garden
London
Victoria
Sir Hiram
Palmer Cox
California
Frisco
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the
D'Urbervilles
Jude the Obscure
Austin Dobson
Nankin Piate
B. M. Young
Pennsylvania
Grancis Joseph I
Aystria
Europe
Mexico
Francis Joseph
William Howard Taft
Henry M. Teller
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Monetary Commission
Arthur
Colorado
Senate
Justin McCarthy
Parnell
Cork
Henry M. Fingler
Jawn
Benjamin F. Tracy
Navy
Benjamin Harrison
Henry Vignaud
Paris
John Quincy Adam Ward
New York
Welr Mitchell
Hugh Wynne
Senator Cullom
Illinois
Stephenson
Wisconsin
William Booth
Salvation Army
James B. Angel
University of Michigan
China
Tomaso Salvin
Weare
Count Tolstoi
Timothy Dwight
Yale
George F
Geneva
Eugiene
Frencen
Napoleon II
Teba
Napoleon Eugene Louis
Zululand
George II
Saxe-Meiningen
Ernest
Saxe-Allenburg
Daniel BK. Bicklons
D Ogden Milla
Francis Andrew March
Lafayette
Cyrun Thomas
Tie Donk
Age S—Laevi P. Morton
William Huggins
New Melodrama Fragments with Clockwork Show
A patchwork scene blends acts and characters from a melodrama set in a village smithy and canvas shop. Dialogues mix comic, theoretical musings on sight and hearing with a prosaic kicker about marriage and blame.
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Modest
Hamlet
Sincksmith Shop
Pretty Jane
Jionent
Jack
the Village Smith
Amiable Aked's Apt Answer on a Train Encounter
An anecdote from the New York Telegraph describes Dr. Aked engaging in a lighthearted clash with an agnostic aboard a railway car. A loquacious drummer, armed with Colonel Ingersoll lectures, dominates the scene as Aked and others react to the provocative dialogue.
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New York Telegraph
Aked
Colonel Ingersoll
de Aked
Moses
Ratrokes
Still He Growled. A Fragment From the Times
The passage depicts a man’s melancholy mutterings about hard times and fading good days. It preserves a dialect tone and hints at a broader sense of loss amid shifting weather and social strain.
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Borg
Instruction in a Country School Hint
A visiting speaker in Thi Hilta instructs children to write an account of what he does. Most students repeat a simple scene of the master writing on the blackboard and expressing affection for the school. One girl writes a longer tale including him watching, twisting his watch chain, and winking at the lady teacher.
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Ammon
Carlsruhe
Freiburg
Joseph P. Sanger
Cuba
Philippines
William A. Kobbe
Mindanao
Jolo
Mahan
Naval War College
Cromwell
Howell
Andrade
Mexico
Engineer Corps
John Lamb
Congress
Virginia
Carlotta
Belgium
Maximilian
Brussels
Pope Pius X
Hetty Green
Finance
Mark Twain
Clemens
Green
Great Britain
William Watson
John G. Carlisle
the Treasury
Vital Question From Loulaville Courier Journal
A fragment from the Loulaville Courier-Journal presents a dialogue about capital stock and funding. Promoters discuss the amount raised, the gapitel payment, and adequacy of funds for Wake wa to lunch, reflecting a humorous or satirical tone.
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Loulaville Courier-Journal
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Inter Mountain Globe
H. H. Gunderson
Pub
Walett, Crook County
Wyoming
Germany
Pegasus
William O'Brien
Jerusalem
Charles Gavan Duffy
Emerald Isle
House of Commons
Australia
Dublin
Marseilles
Lyons
Amsterdam
Berlin
Hamburg
Vienna
Naples
Rome
Milan
Venice
Palermo
Madrid
Garcelons
Lisbon
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Warsaw
Copenhagen
Constantinople
Congressional Library
Peenent
Mendelssohn
Meyerbeer
Jeptha
Schubert
Bach
Weimar
Michael Angelo
da Vinci
Verochia
Lope de Vega
Ravage
Shelley
Practical Farm Notes
The
Cleveland Leader
Manny
Richard Olney
Statesman
Cleveland
Pa A
Adlai Stevenson
William E. Chandler
United States Senate
James Wilton
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Goldwin Smith
P. J. Osterhaus
Simon Buckner
C. A
Henry Garssaway Davis
Robert Collyer
Taft
Robert Mietcer
Washington
Bernard Joly McQuaid
Rochester
Alfred Russel Wallace
Darwin
Theo Ledyard Cuyler
D. D
Princeton
Heres Toomer
Clara
American National Red Cross
Andersonville
Samuel Gib
Grant Claus
West Point
Wemyss
March
John E Bigetow
New York Evening Post
France
Johnson and Grant
Thankeglyinu
Turkey
Joseph Hooker
Royal Society
Thomas Bowman
Methodist Episcopal Church
de Pauw University
James C. Hepburn
Daniel J. Rucker
Rheridan
Waterloo
Camain
Bedgwick W. Hildwell
East Mitcheburg
N. Y
Vermont
Plattsburg
Jane
Pretty Jane Wallee
Honest Jack
Louieville Courker-Journal
Hola
Amiable Aked
Willie
Alanta
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