Restored Bell Tower Nears Completion at St Mark Venice
The Campanile of St Mark at Venice nears completion after the 1902 collapse. Restoration uses over a million bricks treated to remove salt, with new inner and outer shafts and iron ties to prevent future collapse. Four bells replaced, lions from the attic to be rebuilt, and a 2,000,000 franc cost covered by subscriptions and state grant.
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St. Mark's
Venice
San Marco
Campanile
Sansovino
Pius X
St. Mark
Church of St. Mark
London
St. Paul's
St. Mark's Day
Giuseppe del Cooly
Joggetia
Ben
Atairensae
Silvio Pellico
Sansovinn
Ig &T
Mark's
Orato
Rome
Jtmio Passe
Bedlesson
Bignor Ldoardo
Bind
The Welsh Eisteddfod Celebrates Welsh Culture and Ceremony
The National Eisteddfod of Wales showcases Gorsedd rites with Arch Druid Dyfed, nobility in attendance, and Welsh poetry. It details the Logan Stone, mead, Englynion, and the pageantry of the bards. The event culminates in awarding the year’s top alliterative poem with a celebratory procession.
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Wales
Kensington Gardens
Lady St. Davids
Countess Maitland
Dyfed
kKheathe
Ap Wosy Birtu
Eos Dur
Llanover
London
The Crucifixion Lesson at Pilate's Hall and Calvary Scene
A long devotional passage on the crucifixion recounts Jesus before Pilate, the journey to Calvary, the seven sayings on the cross, and the meaning of his death. It frames the event as highest proof of God's love and the model of self sacrifice, urging faith and redemption.
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Pilate
Jeniner
Jesus
Cyrene
Antonia
O* Herod's Palace
Calvary
Mary
Paradise
John
Christ
Ruskin
Kingdom of Heaven
God
Heaven
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Chicago Woman
Mrs Wrenna Annena of 068 W 21st St Chicago testifies she suffered falling and inflammation before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. She credits relief and recovery to the remedy and urges others to seek confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia
Inkham
Wrenaam Annena
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Pinkham
Oat Lynn
Mass
When I write a novel I lose sleep critic says
A novelist remarks that writing a novel causes sleepless nights while a critic counters that the writer's loss becomes readers' gain. The exchange highlights the tension between author effort and reader reward.
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Critle
Strange Names From Newark Playground Visit
A little colored girl with two plickanin nies visited a Newark city playground. When asked their names she and a companion answered Aida Overture Johnson and Luela Bextette Johnson. The caretaker noted their papa used to work for an opera man.
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Newark
Aida Overture Johnson
Luela Bextette Johnson
Newark News
Mission Band Invitation From Local Colored Church
A committee chair from a colored church declined a lengthy visit, saying he could not stay long, then a mammy figure responded with reluctance to join the mission band and joked she cannot even play a motor organ.
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Colored Church
Mission
Precautionary Doctor Quote on Appendix Surgery
A brief Life magazine style remark discusses whether removing the appendix is absolutely necessary. The quote suggests starting with simple operations is safer, while acknowledging that removal is not always required.
Health and Income Linked to Scientific Food Use
A Chicago clerk describes how health sustains income and shares her experience with Grape Nuts. After months of brain fatigue and poor nourishment, switching to Grape Nuts improved her vitality and enabled her to keep her job and earnings. The piece touts benefits and urges readers to try the product with the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Chicago
Wellville
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