Peary's Arctic Quest: Route, Plans, and Prior Record
The article recounts Peary's Arctic ambitions and methods, arguing sledges and Eskimo dogs as best for travel, rejecting airships and harnessing the Whale sound Eskimo for crew. It outlines Peary’s career from early Greenland reconnaissance to the 1906 pole reach at Cape Morris, and his strategic approach from Grant Land toward a northwest path to the pole aboard the Roosevelt with 200 dogs and 30 Eskimo companions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central
Polar Sea
Arctic
Cape Sheridan
Crocker Land
Greenland
Pole
Whale Sound
Commodore Penry
North Pole
Globe
America
Calumbus
Polar
Labrador
Roosevelt
Utah
Peary
Rudolph Francke
Dr. Cook
Arctic Explorers Race to the Pole Amid Uncertain Skies
The article traces Peary and Cook as they pursue polar conquest with dog teams and skill, noting Peary’s plans, prior near-misses, and the line of routes through Baffin Bay, Smith Sound, and Grinnell Land. It recalls earlier advances toward the eighty degree parallel and the hope of naval leadership finally reaching the pole.
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Peary
Dr. Cook
Grant Land
Baffin’s Bay
Polar Sea
Cook
Leary
Smith's Sound
Kennedy’s Channel
Robeson
Elsmere Land
Grinnell Land
Cape Sheridan
Cape Hecla
Scientific World
Peary Recites Plan for New North Pole Drive
In the stormy voyage Peary vows to push farther north than ever, detailing routes via Sydney and Grant Land, winter quarters on the north side of Grant Land, and a 1909 return if conditions permit. He emphasizes patriotic aims and the need for energy and discipline amid ice floes and dwindling supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Moss
Cook
Eighty
Peary
Sydney
Straits of Belle Isle
David Straits
Butta’s Bay
Smith Sound
White Sound
Grant Land
Cape Columbia
Kind
Point Moss
North Hall
Pole
His Mistake at Sale of Noah Webster Bust
A vender, just expelled from a large office, weeps over torn clothing and wrecked wares. A friendly cop offers to arrest the culprit, but the victim admits fault for attempting to sell a bust of Noah Webster to a group of simplified spellers.
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Noah Webster
American Grace Lines and Classical Beauty
The quote praises how beauty in fruit and women mirrors intellect in a nation. It compares the Venus of Phidias to American demoi s elles and matrons, noting that grace is preserved longer and more gracefully than in other peoples ancient or modern.
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Phidias
The Wickedest People and the Crown Jewels
A Beecher quote critiques selfish genius while noting the British Crown of 1808. The crown is described as containing four large pear pearls, 273 small pearls, 147 table diamonds, 1,278 rose diamonds, 1,303 brilliant diamonds, five rubies, 11 emeralds and 17 sapphires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Schiller on Beauty and Happiness in Aesthetic Theory
In his esthetical and philosophical essays Schiller argues that beauty alone confers happiness on all and under its influence people forget their imit tions. He claims happiness is the end and aim of being and that without beauty even happiness in its flowering cannot exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schiller
Accustomed to It Says Rivetts Attends Evening Tea
Rivetts tells Chapley he joined a five o'clock tea with his wife yesterday. Chapley reacts with astonishment, while Rivetts adds he owns a boiler shop and did not mind the social event. The Catholic Standard and Times presents the lighthearted exchange as a domestic aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rivetts
Chumley
Catholic Standard and Times
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Cresson Springs
New York
MacCormick Bay
Frorth
Ellsmere Land
Cape York
Fort Conger
Dorothy
Robert E. Peary
AE Roosevelt
Tearr
Cape Morris Jesup
Roosevelt Sf Etah
Explorer
Civilization
Henry Ward Beecher
the Tribune
THE
Burlington
Bot Fein
Hayes Am
Omaha
Ata
Counail Bioffs Eaee
Pacific Jonction
Glenwood
Balfour
Sane
Malverne
Hastings
Emerson
Red Oak
Chicasgo
Pacific Junction
Malvarn
Hastinga
Chiaro
Arives
Chicago
Pacifico Junction
Malvern
Creston
Red Oaks
Galfonr
Sone
Pacific
Anation
Council Bluffa
Council Bluffe
Pac
Denver
Kansas City
Qonneil Binffe
Pao
Junction
Bartlett
Wees
Omaha West Bound
Plattamonth
Plattemonth
Bob
Praeifie Jonetjian
ALA
Great Western Cereal Company
Boston
New Haven
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Albany
ST. Louis
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