Memorial Day Honors Across Cities By Grand Army Veterans
Washington May 31 Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic honored their dead with Decoration Day observances across the nation. Arlington crowds and floral mounds marked the services. The program included posts from Wilson to Logan, with ceremonies at Oak Hill Rock Creek and Mount Olivet cemeteries. The floral ship on Admiral Porter's grave was reflowered.
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United States
Grand Army of the Republic
America
Arlington
Department of the Potomac
E. Faunce
Soldiers’ Home
Nathan Bickford
Wilson
Congressional Cemetery
B. T. Janney
J.D. V
Farragut
St. Elizabeth's
John A. Logan
Admiral Porter
Memorial Day Observance Crowds Chicago for 1900s Tribute
Memorial Day in Chicago saw unprecedented participation with widespread closures and transportation halting for flower-laden visits to soldiers graves. G A R posts decorated graves, children provided flowers, and the day culminated in the corner stone laying for Memorial Hall at the new Dearborn park library, followed by Chicago’s largest veterans parade.
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ChicaGo
Order
Memorial Hall
Dearborn Park
Grand Army
Braves of Sixteen Thousand Union Veterans Decorated
In St Louis on May 31 under clear skies a large G A R parade moved through main streets. Veterans and supporters were transported to cemeteries for memorial services and grave decorations with laurels immortelles and forget me nots. National cemetery at Jefferson Barracks hosted solemn services for 16 000 Union soldiers buried there.
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St. Louis
National Cemetery
Jefferson Barracks
Marines On Shore Parade With Italian Spanish Ships
Memorial Day in New York featured a parade without the national guard. Sailors from the White Squadron joined Italian and Spanish vessels Infanta Isabel and an Italian cruiser, with about 300 and 200 sailors respectively, plus around 600 from the White Squadron. Crowds lined streets as Governor Flower reviewed the procession at Worth monument.
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New York
National Guard
Memorial Day Observed Across Northwest Cities
May Day observances marked Memorial Day with Oakland cemetery hosting principal exercises in St. Paul while soldiers' graves across cemeteries were decorated. Reports describe widespread parades and ceremonies in cities and towns throughout the Northwest, with smaller communities joining in the decoration efforts.
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St. Paul
Twin Cities
Oakland
Memorial Day Observances Across Ports and Towns
Memorial Day ceremonies honor fallen soldiers with school participation and formalities. Reports detail sailors from the Dimitri Konski and consort Rynda aiding in Philadelphia events, plus overseas citations and various local incidents from May 31.
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Philadelphia
Dimitri Konski
Rynda
Francisburg
Forged Her Husband's Name in Elk River
Mrs Le Favor was arrested in Elk River Minnesota on a forgery charge for signing her husband's name to a 205 dollar certificate of deposit which she cashed at Princeton The incident follows other early summer notices including a state teachers examination decision to hold tests at the state university starting August 23 and Devils Lake council funding for representation at a Hill celebration in St Paul on June 7 A 12 year old girl Hattie Lee died when a schoolhouse window fell while she tried to enter the building in Cumberland Wisconsin
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le Favor
Princeton
Cumberland
Wis
Hattie Lee
Mourners By The Sea Poem Fragment From Christian Register
Three mourners sit by the sea recalling a lost ship. One woman reveals her ship never sank but lies in Arctic ice. A tiny shell drifts on the water as she dreams of the northern resting place.
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Yourship
Christian Register
The Spinet Invention and Its Musical Heritage
The spinet improved on the clavichord and stood unmatched in tonal expression until the piano. Venetian Spinetta is credited with its invention, using quill tips on uprights to strike strings, producing a harplike tone, with springs returning quills. The clavichord’s earlier history remains obscure, with a 1520 four octave instrument noted.
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Providence Journal
Similar Names Among British Peers Highlight Distinctions
A London Tit-Bits note surveys peers with nearly identical names such as Earl Amherst and Lord Amherst of Hackney and points out how minor spelling differences and ranks separate Lindsay from Lindsey and Midleton from Middleton. It also cites cases needing territorial prefixes like Stanley of Alderley versus Stimley of Preston, and Howard de Walden versus Howard of Glossop, plus changes where Willoughby de Broke became Earl of Ancaster.
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Hackney
Earl Amherst
Earl of Lindsay
Earl of Lindsey
Viscount Midleton
Lord Middleton
Lord Stanley
Alderley
Stimley
Preston
Howard de Walden
Howard
Glossop
Willoughby de Broke
Willoughby de Eresby
Marl
Ancaster
London
The Allure and Art of Book Titles
A Victorian essay from Blackwood's Magazine discusses how a book title should be pretty and suggestive, like a woman's face. It argues titles must seem simple and naive yet achieve this effect through refined craft, balancing curiosity with restraint to avoid vanity.
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Blackwood
Two Greatest Stamp Collectors and Other Vignettes
A collage of curious anecdotes notes M Philippe Ferrari and the czar as the two greatest stamp collectors valued at about 3 000 000 francs, while the czar began collecting as czarowitz. It also recalls beard value in Russia, a girl colonel in Holland, Peruvian guano pipes, sun sounds, Kioto scholars at a New England college, Henry of Navarre and the St Bartholemew massacre, and General McClellan nicknamed Little Mac.
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M. Philippe Ferrari
Duchesse de Galliera
Czar
Czarowitz
M. Ferrari
London
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