Bruno the Saint Bernard Hero of Capri Villa Rescue
Mrs C V Jamison recounts Bruno a noble Saint Bernard guarding stairs at Capri Villa Quisisana his calm trustful gaze saved two frightened women and inspired a move to Hotel Tiberio. Later he scales a cliff to rescue Rosalie the child of a widow earning a medal for bravery and a legend of canine devotion.
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Bruno
Padronas
Rosalie
Prince
St. Bernard
Tiberio
Rowalle
Hotel Tiberio
Villa Tiberio
Hocalle
Rosaire
Indian hunter defeats grizzly in Hetch Hetchy clash
Mustang, a Piute guide from Walker Lake, fought a savage grizzly in a rocky Hetch Hetchy canyon. After a brutal knife duel and a ruined rifle, Mustang killed the bear by deep thrusts while his companion took shelter in a tree, leaving Mustang near death but alive to tell the tale.
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Hetch-Hetchy Valley
California
Mustang
Hetch-Hetchy
Walker Lake
Sahara
Brain
Bla
Nia Vitale
A Glimpse of Saturn on Mt Hamilton Day Trip
Irene Brown recounts an October afternoon ascent of Mt Hamilton and a midnight return to San Jose after a visit to Lick Observatory. Isabel, her father, and other observers view Saturn through the 36 inch telescope, learn about its rings and moons, and reflect on the long journey home to the fairy city of San Jose.
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St. Nicholas Irene Brown
Mt. Hamilton
Lick Observatory
San Jose
Great Lick
California
Mount Hamilton
Isabel
Santa Clara Valley
Pacific
Saturn
Earth
The Prince Hero of a Cliff Rescue
The narrator recalls Bruno lifting a woman to safety at a cliff, half unconscious but uninjured except for bruises. Rosalie calls him her Prince after the daring rescue, and the narrator reflects on Bruno as the only prince and greatest hero known personally, feeling moved as they part.
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Rosalie
Prince
Bruno
Indians with wide open eyes agree on discovery
A party returned to find Mustang alive and a huge grizzly dead further in the canyon bed, red-stained rocks bearing marks of knife gashes, as reported by the San Francisco Examiner.
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Mustang
Canon Bed
San Francisco Examiner
The India Rubber Tree Yarn Told On A Breakwater
A fragmentary verse dialogue on a sea dock features a pea-jacket boy and a sailor storyteller. The tale weaves mock regal talk with a king of a remote African realm, its captains, soldiers, and the threat of empire fading, all sketched in dialect and incomplete phrases.
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Alr
Why Go to College Why College Is Worth the Time and Effort
A collection of remarks from over twenty college presidents and professors argues that college education broadens mind and character, sharpens thinking, and expands opportunities. It emphasizes developing powers, discipline, leadership, and a lifelong ability to deal with diverse knowledge and people.
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Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Francis L. Patton
Princeton University
Jacob Gould Schurman
Cornell University
Austin Scott
Rutgers College
Nathaniel Butler
Colby College
James M. Taylor
Vassar College
M. W. Stryker
Hamilton College
Seth Low
Columbia University
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford
Timothy Dwight
Yale University
Andrew D. White
United States
Germany
Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
Henry Wade Rogers
Northwestern University
Andrew S. Draper
University of Tinola
James B. Angell
University of Michigan
W. H. Payne
University of Nashville
William H. Harper
University of Chicago
Charliee W. Dabney
University of Tennessee
Charles Kendall Adama
University of Wisconsin
Tis
Cleorge C. Chase
Rates College
William T. Harris
Commieeioener of Education
Ympeetam
Velvet Rail System Improves Trolley Service and Efficiency
A new velvet rail system promises smoother trolley operation and reduced engine use. Welding joints and overhead lines are tested to ensure reliability while costing more in initial construction. Tests aim to prove faster, steadier rides with less heat and wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Jersey Traction Company
Newark
Bayonne
Caty-Ninth Street Closstown
New York Sun
Mengall & Net
Eric Eval
Eleetticky
Potete
Outgrown Ticket Sparks Rail Rights Case on Santa Fe
A rail rights dispute arose on a Santa Fe eastbound run from San Francisco when a conductor refused a child’s half fare ticket used by a man claiming to be grown. The youngster, aged about two, argued his Kansas City origin and eleven year purchase, prompting questions of credit for time waited and the legitimacy of unlimited fare status. The case centers on ticket validity, age, and company policy amid a comic yet legal confrontation aboard the train.
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San Francisco
Ucketa
Kansas City
San Prancisco
Santa Fe
Pete
Odd Railroad Journey Receipts Endurance Highlighted
The St Louis Republic notes the futility of charging interest on unused tickets. The piece casts the claim as absurd and predicts Mr De Courcy will keep his receipts as odd souvenirs of an unusual railroad journey.
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de Courcy
St. Louis Republic
Famous Violinists Remembered by Dr Mason
In his fourth instalment of Memories of a Musical Life Dr Mason recalls meeting Joachim in Leipzig 1849 and hearing his Mendelssohn concerto. He discusses Vieuxtemps Ole Bull Sivori and other masters seen in Boston Weimar and New York noting distinct styles and development paths.
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William Mason
Raft
Rubinstein
von Bulow
Paderewski
Theodore Thomas
Joachim
Leipsic
Mendelssohn
Weimar
Altenburg
Vieuxtemps
Ole Bull
Sivori
Boston
Qle Bull
New York
Lesson of the Maize Kitchen at Paris
J S Craefort argues in the October Forum that despite Europe’s wheat, maize demand can grow through consular outreach and depots offering corn flours and foods at fair profits. He praises the Corn Kitchen at the Exhibition, supervised by Charles Richards Dodge, as a model but notes its limits in supplying all maize products to Europe.
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Charles Richards Dodge
United States
Rom
Giita
Fee
Europe
America
J. S. Craefort
Revival of miniature painting discussed in October Century
Pauline King writes of a revival in the art of miniature painting and the people responsible for it. The fragment notes the trend toward white miniatures and the balance between artistic quality and fashion, cautioning that technique and proportion matter more than mere curiosity.
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Pauline King
Whee King
Cooper
Pepre
Veren
Earth Age Theory Proposed by Chicago Professor
Oliver C. Farrington, curator at Field Museum and University of Chicago professor, returns from Indiana caves with carbonate samples to estimate Earth's age. He cites stalactite growth ratios from Wyandotte Cave and plans lectures at the university. He notes dangers of cave exploration and hints at Indians using the pillar of the Constitution within the cave.
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Oliver C. Farrington
Field Columbian Museum
University of Chicago
Indiana
Farrington
Wyandotte
St. Louis
Chicago
University
Marengo
Shiloh
Cohn
Chicagoan
Bern
G. H. Darwin
Lord Kelvin
J. Joly
Efthin
Hirag
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Afrikee
White and
Mae
Sss A
Dr. Mason
Joachim, Wieniawski
Wilhelm, Remenyi
Paris
American Miniatures
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