Retirement Of General Arthur MacArthur Ends A Notable Career
Washington reports the retirement of General Arthur MacArthur from the active U S Army. MacArthur, born June 2, 1845 in Springfield Missouri, served since 1862 after joining the Twenty fourth Wisconsin, becoming youngest captain and later major general. He saw extensive combat in the Civil War, Indian campaigns, the Spanish War in the Philippines, and held commands in the Departments of the Lakes East California and the division of the Pacific. He served with distinction in Manila including the capture of Malate and the surrender of Manila in 1900.
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Romances of Progress Newton's rise from farmer's son to scientist
Albert Payson Terhune recounts Isaac Newton's path from Woolstrop to Cambridge, his early tinkering and sun dials, discovery of calculus and gravitation, and the 20 year loss of papers to a cataclysmic fire. The tale notes his struggles, return to work, Mint appointment, knighthood, and final reflections on wisdom.
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Samuel Johnson Crank and Dictionary Maker
In a mid eighteenth century rainstorm a gaunt giant of a man stands on a Lichfield street corner. Dr Samuel Johnson, eccentric yet pivotal, endures ridicule as he later forms a landmark dictionary and reshapes English. Boswell records his wit and flaws, a life of opulent excess and eventual loneliness ending in illness.
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Monument honors Jules Verne with reading boy scene
In Par le Amiens France a marble bust on a tall pedestal honors Jules Verne a lifelong councilor. The dedication drew notable Parisians including Jules Clarette and Henry Roujon. Speakers praised Verne for expanding geography and science awareness through fiction noting his visionary predictions such as submarines automobiles dirigibles and air travel.
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New Director of Census Names Dana Durand
Washington BH Dana Durand is appointed the new director of the United States census succeeding N. North Durand hails from Michigan born Romeo 187? educated at Oberlin and Cornell He has held public posts as New York state library legislative librarian Stanford professor Harvard instructor economics and census bureau roles including special examiner and deputy commissioner of corporations since 1907.
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Tumor Ended by Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Lindley Indiana resident May Fry credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with removing a four year tumor after doctors advised surgery. She praises the remedy for restoring health and urges others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Profitable Work and Odd Bits of Advice
Fragments of old ads and dialogue touch on work, beverages, household care, medicines, building, and barber shop chatter. The lines mention easy marks, Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product, Winslow's soothing syrup for teething, a barber shop quip, a Lewis' Single Binder cigar pitch, and a caution about offering odds to an elevator boy.
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