Sinking of Victoria and other newspaper items
A MARBLE HILL MISSOURI note describes the Victoria sinking caused by the Camperdown ram and recalls naval power in peace. It surveys juror conduct, a fatal train strike, and muses on Peary, Edwin Booth, and czar lawsuits. It recounts a Mexican duel, Stanford’s butterfly necktie, Meissonier’s portrait, German guards marching practice, and a critique of public school singing reform.
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North River
Stanford
Meissonier
World's Congresses Open In Chicago At Memorial Art Palace
Leading citizens from around the world converge for the World Congresses in Chicago during the Exposition. The Art Institute built World Congress Art Palace hosts thirty three halls and large audience rooms for hundreds of meetings weekly with prominent figures from education religion science business and the arts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles (. Bouney
Henney
WM. Black
Exposition Grounds
Jackson Park
Memorial Art Palace
The
Art Institute of Chicago
Lake Front V Park
Adams Street
Michigan Avenue
State Lotelinois
City of
Columbian Commissioners
Art Institute
Exposition Directory
Congress Auxiliary
Con
Coe Ee Temperance
Commerce and Finance
Education
Ten Aeance Socie America
Order of A Ce
Oe Ic Tem
Charles A. Everett
Sons of Temperance
Father Mathew League
Thomas Barry
Philadelphia
Horstman
Cleveland
Cardinal Gibbons
Walter Damrosch
Theodore Thomas
Henry French
Arthur Sullivan
Reginald de Koven
World's Congress Auxiliary
Humane Societies
Caroline Earle White
John ——_—_ Morris
Baltimore
Martin van Buren Davis
Eaton
American Humane Association
Nererlasker
Albert Gallaudet
Booth
Salvation Army
van Norden
New York
Frederick Mialey
Philadelphia Board of Trade
Boards of Trade
John Wanamaker
Bank of England
Cannon
International Monetary Conference
Anthony Joseph Drexel
Richard A. Curdy
Samuel R Shipley
the Provident Life and ‘Trust Company
Pennsylvania
William D. Howells
Wiliam Black
Paul Bourget
Thomas Nelson Lage
Fischer
Yale
Weir Mitchell
McCosh
Princeton
Thomas Dunn English
Department of Education
Thos. 4
Moulton
Cambridge
England
Keane
Catholic University
Young
Presbyterian Seminary
McAllister
Drexel Institute
Africa
Frederick Douglass
United States
I. K. Bruce
War artist Frederick Villiers sketches perilous battles
A tale recalls Frederick Villiers, famed war artist, and his early appetite for danger. He joined Archibald Forbes and others on campaigns during a Serb Turkish War era, risking shells to capture scenes. Villiers’ fearless pursuit of dramatic battle moments defined his early career while courting peril for art.
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Frederick Villiers
London
Ken Villiers
Villiers
Thomas
Alexinatz
Tchernaieff
Osman Cannon
Saichur
Dochtour
Dochtouroff
Wonderful Engine at World’s Fair Captivates Engineers
The Transportation Building showcases a massive locomotive, the C F Winby patent pour cylinder high pressure express, with seven foot six inch driving wheels and 180 pound pressure. It weighs 134400 pounds with a 28 square foot grate and 2050 square foot heating furnace, drawing keen interest from engineers and railway officers. Also announced are Harvard Perkins Hall bequests and various gifts to educational and medical institutions.
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C.F. Winby
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marble Hill Press
Arble Hill
Missouri
Axothes
Pernars
Peary
Oseness
Edwin Booth
Arizona
Rock
Germany
Rangoon
Burmah
Doals
Man's Brotherhood
Tennyson’s Dream OF the
Lasker
Walbrodt
Steinitz
W. Penn Shipley
Dr. Simonson
A. B. Hodges
Blackburne
Eng- Baron winscHland
Mason
Astronomy
Schiaparelli
Lick Observatory
Snyder
Newman
Parker
George W. Childs
Wright
Thomas I. Ely
Perhay
Henry George
Senate
John
Foster
Thomas J
Ryan
Corrigan
Riordan
Mer. Satelli
Lyman
Gage
Baron Hirsch
de Witt Seligman
Krauskopf
Mendes
University of New Zealand
B. Avang
Charles Lamb
India
H. Brouku
Unds
Harvard
Katherine Age Perkins
Boston
Harvard College
Perkins Hall
Daniel Perkins
Richard Perkins
William Foster Perkins
Boston Society of the New Jerusalem
Women's Educational Union
Bostonian Society
Boston Homeopathic Hospital
Perkins Institution For the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Women's Educational and Industrial Union
Tayer Phim
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