Explosive Blast Damages New York City's Park Avenue Shaft
A massive explosion at a Park Avenue shaft of the Rapid Transit tunnel in New York caused deaths and injuries among hotel and hospital workers and visitors. The blast damaged Murray Hill hotel, Manhattan Eye and Ear, Grand Union, and Grand Central, with debris and shattered windows filling blocks. Police, fire and ambulances rushed to aid hundreds of victims as preliminary tolls listed several dead and many injured.
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New York
Park Avenue
Rapid Transit Tunnel
Murray Hill Hotel
Manhattan Eye and
Adams
Cyrus
Carr
James
Hino
Lawrence
Ansonia
Conn
Robertson
J. Roderick
Nelson
B. C
Thompson
Ralph
Olice
Tubbs
Thomas
Ira A. Shaler
Miss Best
Newport
R. I
Murray Hill
Jefferson Stanton
Bridgeport
J. Roderick Robertson
Canada
British Columbia Gold Fields Company, Limited
Madison Avenue
East 41St Street
Rapid Transit
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
Avenue
Grand Hotel
Grand Central
Grand Central Station
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Turner
Sant. Shepard
Shepard
New Haven
G. H. Wilson
Senate Debate Over Army Officers Criticizing Philippines
In Washington a heated Senate session focused on whether army officers may publicly critique statements about the Philippines. The discussion touched on Gen Wheaton, Prof Schurman, and press dispatches from Manila, with legality and the risk of silencing criticism debated by Senators Lodge Money Platt and others.
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United States Army
Senate
Gen. Wheaton
Prof
Churman
Rawlins
Utah
Lodge
Manila
War Department
Wheaton Hi
Carmack
Tenn
Hoar
Mass
General Wheaton
Nelson
Department of Commerce
John W. Hayes
Nights of Labor
Jones
Ark
Yairoan cuBiace
C. Thun
Department of Labor
Department of Commerc
Teller
Sily
Schurman
Edward Atkinson
Philippines
United States
Phi Ippine
Congress
Dubois
Spooner
Ges Wheaton
Tillman
S. C
Senate Oship
N. Wheaton
Mr. Tillman
Mr. Spooner
Money
Mr. Hale
Hale
Washington
Platt
Conn
Mr. Money
Mr. Platt
Mr. Foraker
Cullom
Idaho
Boston
Wis
Mississippi
Con- Steckborn
James B. McCreary
Kentucky
Hanna
Ohio
Joseph Benson Foraker
Darien
Scott
W. Va
West Point
Philippine
Navy Reports on Vermont Use Discontinuance Adopted
Washington Jan 27 Mr Foss chairman of the committee on naval affairs reported back favorably the resolution calling upon the secretary of the navy for all reports papers and documents on the discontinuance of the receiving ship Vermont and it was adopted. District of Columbia day followed with district business. A bill for compulsory attendance of witnesses before land office registers and receivers was passed. A bill to teach articulate speech to the deaf and dumb was defeated and at 4 45 pm the House adjourned until Wednesday.
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Washington
Foss
Committee On Naval Affairs
Fitzgerald
N. Y
Secretary of the Navy
Vermont
District of Columbia
Worth its Weight in Gold Cream Balm Endorsed by Sufferers
A testimonial from Albert Lea Minnesota dated March 21 1991 touts Ely s Cream Balm as a remedy for catarrh and severe head cold. The letter notes a trial size priced at 10 cents and full size at 50 cents available from Ely Bros. at 56 Warren Street New York.
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Ely
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Albert Lea
Minn
K. Lansdale
BeGins His Ministry at Westminster Church Tylerstret
Rev Harry B Foster, acting pastor since last November, was ordained and installed as pastor of Westminster United Presbyterian Tylerstret. The Jostun Presbytery of the United Presbyterian church presided with Rev W J Martin D D of Fall River. Foster, Illinois born and Nebraska raised, recently graduated from Allegheny Theological Seminary and has served three months on the field.
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Harry B.foster
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Harry B. Foster
Westminster United Presbyterian Church
Tylerstret
Jostun Presbytery
United Presbyterian Church
W. J. Martin
D. D
Fall River
Hunt
R. D. A. Mic Phie
The
Chuch
Jraver
Illinois
Nebraska
Allegheny
Millionsof Abandoned Treasury Assets Revealed in Civil War Era
Treasury records reveal vast abandoned assets from the Civil War era. A division of abandoned lands and property holds about 15 million dollars in assets from the South, including 12 million from cotton seized from plantations and towns. Owners, often loyal to the Union, rarely know where their property went. The government holds these funds in trust, with little chance of restitution for owners who cannot prove ownership.
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Treasury
South
William B. Chandler
Union
McCulloch
Endowment Gift Opens Dutch Reformed Theological School
An elderly layman at the 1841 New York General Synod presented 8900 in cash and 18840 in securities for educational use, the first endowment for theological education in the Dutch Reformed church. The act, though out of order, was praised as timely and fitting. A Framingham inventor also claims a method to bend wood like rattan, with plans for a Tennessee factory to commercialize the technique.
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General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church
New York
Elias van Benechooten
Synod
Framingham
Tennessee
The Mouse Tache a la Kaiser Flirtatious Eye Noted
A peculiar flirtatious cast of the eye accompanies the Mous tache a la Kaiser in common mention, reflecting a distinctive style noted by observers.
Thinking and Teaching Beyond Nervous Action at a Normal School
A visitor toured a state normal school and its psychology room filled with nervous system diagrams and brain models. The article argues true education requires thinking, not rote nerve training, urging teachers to foster thought over mere repetition and habit.
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America
State Normal School
Lorum
The Big Man Helps Lost Child At Christmas Store
A tall unnamed man in a Boston store helps a crying girl who has lost her mother. He lifts her to his shoulder so she can see above the crowd, and soon the mother calls out to claim her. Phillips Brooks is noted for the act through a Ladies' Home Journal anecdote.
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Boston
Phillips Brooks
Franklin B. Wiley
Ladies’ Home Journal
Ancient Ships and a 100-Year-Old Whitby Vessel
The piece notes a Columbus era ship still trading Spain to America and asks how much original timber remains aboard. It recalls the Lively wreck at Bacton described by the Whitby Gazette in 1888 as built in 1786 with likely only one original plank after rebuilds, and mentions the 1750 Liberty wreck from Whitby used in coal and Baltic trade, admired by a Cronstadt admiral in 1850 for its age and build.
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Spain
America
Anita
Lively
Bacton
Cromer
England
Whitby Gazette
Spence
Whitby
Liberty
Cronstadt
Busy call again prank echoes through Philadelphia phones
J W Bailey editor in chief of the Philadelphia Record was one of the first to encounter a peculiar telephones gadget in the city. A phonograph attachment repeats the phrase busy call again busy call again prompting Bailey to ask who Lizzie is. He sent for the Press to identify the caller before leaving for dinner.
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Bailey
J. W. Bailey
The
Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia
Townsend
Mr. Bailey
Lizzie
New York Times
Laughs, high stakes and a czar’s guard of fools
A satirical tale recalls Baron Enidoff losing a £12,000 post after a royal mishap at Compiègne. Milbanke, a Scottish administrator, once mocked emperor and spurned a bold eastern policy, ending in a cold, fatal lesson: kings demand restraint in the presence of royalty. The Kaiser’s cautionary moral: never rib a king.
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Baron Enidoff
Compiegne
Enidoff
Gough Milbanke
Abou Din
China
Kaiser
Potsdam
Milbanke
Roosevelt family dinner reminiscence error hinted tale
A political friend recalls a Roosevelt dinner moment where a young child asks why a past event was not shared with them. The tot later tells an outlandish tale, and Mr Roosevelt replies that it happened before his marriage, dropping the matter with a steady correction.
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Roosevelt
Mamema
Wireless telegraphy foretold by Jesuit and Addison
A historical note recalls Strada 1617 Prolusiones Academicze story of two friends linked by two needles and loadstone, moving in unison across great distances. Addison in The Spectator 1711 hinted at revival of the invention, showing foresight about rapid distant communication.
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Strada
Rome
Addison
Spectator
Thomas Hardy Early Novel Drafts Unearthed Tale
Edmund Gosse recalls Thomas Hardy's first unpublished manuscript The Poor Man and the Lady revealing youthful revolutionary ideas. Meredith advised a gentler public debut. Hardy sought permission to publish as Desperate Remedies after the change.
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Thomas Hardy
Edmund Gosse
Meredith
Hardy
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Lauwrence
J. A. Alexander
Cambridge
Hing
Mr. Foster
A. K. MacLennan
T. M. Huston
Whitinsville
Marconi
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