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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1911
Page
5
Dr D K Pearsons distributed his fortune of 6 million dollars to poorer colleges nationwide. The public record lists the colleges and institutions that received gifts though the full amount distributed is not shown.
Dr. D. K. Pearsons retires at ninety one from Hinsdale estate and a life of giving. He has given away about 6 million dollars to small colleges and institutions, calling them his children. He recalls early poverty, his move to Chicago, and his vow to education for poor youth. He plans simple living, constant medical oversight, and continuing oversight of projects he founded.
Workmen remove the first of five great Harvard elms in the college yard as Walter Burke notes more trees may fall this summer. Elm bark borer and prior pests have ravaged the aging giants, threatening many with loss and leaving doubt over preservation.
In Chicago News style, a gentry pair Wor Hid and Terry dodge poverty with quick wit and coffee hunger. Terry, a renowned coffee lover, schemes to obtain drink and food, even joking with a cafe proprietor about trust and kin.
The Washington Herald quotes a scene where Ferdy struck Cholly with sugar tongs at a club last night. The exchange notes both were under the influence of strong tea and ends with a call to employ reason as a physician's aid in misfortune.
Harper’s Weekly describes a large carbonate rock used as a day laborer calendar in a British coal mine. The Sunday stone records work days by black streaks from coal dust and white streaks from night deposits, with Sundays and holidays shown as wide white marks.
A parchment roll six yards long shows a genealogical pedigree from Adam to Henry VI. The artifact measures about nineteen feet, is kept at the Welsh National Library in Aberystwyth, and features illuminated miniatures, gold capitals, and red letters. The left side lists archbishops of Canterbury to John Stafford, while the right lists Welsh princes to Edward I Dundee.
The North Pole explorer Robert B. Peary notes a practice of trial marriage among Eskimos where couples separate and re-pair until a permanent match is found. Competition for a desired partner is settled by strength when two men seek the same woman.
A damaged excerpt presents a love letter in broken English from a Cape Colony boy to his dusky beloved. It expresses affection and eagerness for bettering their relation, ending with cautious anticipation of a reply and high regard.
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