Plans for Peace Fete Include Queen Victoria Statue
New York hosted an American subexecutive meeting outlining plans for a centennial peace celebration among English speaking nations. A Queen Victoria statue will rise in Washington and a Lincoln statue will be presented to Britain, with a New York historical costume ball to mark 100 years of peace. The effort, led by John A. Stewart and notable figures like Joseph Choate and Nicholas Butler, aims to raise funds across major cities including Chicago and Boston, with British and Canadian committees co operating.
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New York City
Queen Victoria
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John A. Stewart
Joseph AH. Choate
Alton B. Walker
Nicholas Murray Butler
Charles J. Titles
William Curtis Demorest
BE RL. Gould
George Willam Burleigh
William B. Howland
William Church Osborn
Perris
Ni. Nf. Warner
Andrew B. Humphrey
George T. Wilson
Lincoln
Culcage
America
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Detroit
Buffalo
London
New York
Ottawa
England
Moore Still On Payroll After Weather Bureau Loss
Moore remains on United States payroll drawing 84 dollars a month since 1890, despite losing the cabinet post and chief of the weather bureau. Pension records show his army service in the signal corps and a pension grant for illness. Other brief items note a Boston woman disinheriting relatives for pets, a saloon keeper drowning weighted by silver, and a New York charity official praising love marriages.
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Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
Uncle Sam
Moore
United States
Pension Office
Weather Authority
Army Service
Signal Corps
Weather Service
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Albany
Between Girls and Dress Codes in The Street Gossip
A fragment quotes social chatter on modesty and fashion with remarks about a Miss Knobby’s gown provoking attention. The piece then notes a humorous misalignment in weights labeled as stones, followed by a remark about defective school books and a missing road map in one.
Famous ships to be targets for modern dreadnoughts
The 20 year old battleships Indiana and Massachusetts, cost over 3 million each, now at Philadelphia navy yard, will be used as targets for new dreadnoughts before being sold for scrap. Once obsolete, they reflect rapid naval design changes since 1893, with modern ships much faster and armed far more powerfully.
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Indiana
Massachusetts
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Washington
Santiago
Cervera
Henry C. Taylor
Guantayuamo
Cramps
Navy Department
League Island
Grant
Chesapeake Bay
Missouri
Alabama
Kentucky
Mississippi
Wisconsin
Kearsarge
Iowa
Ohio
Brooklyn
Columbia
Minneapolis
Worden
Paradoxical Veracity and Stone Colors
A compact reflective line pairing James and John on truth and pain, tied to a Princeton Tiger title and a Cervantes allusion. The passage poses a paradox on honesty, memory, and symbolism, culminating in the question of whether to mark the day with a white or a black stone.
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James
John
Princeton Tiger
Cervantes
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Long Branch Building Directory
Burns Plumbers
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Broadway
Long Branch
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Poole CO
Poole Masons and. Builders
Cédar Avenue
West Long Branch
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WM. Carr
Alex P. Paul
Telephone
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Franklin Aves
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Jersey
Packard Car
First Avenues
Atlantic Hotel
Abraham
Weather Chief
Oho River
State Charities Aid Association of
London Standard
Detroit Free Press
MR. Henry Peck
Watts
Beecham
Bona
Stern's Bakery
7Th Ave
Bohemia
Vienna
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Cook’s Bee Hive
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Main St
Asbury Park, N. J
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