Fifty years since Dickens death and other events noted
Fifty years ago today the great novelist Charles Dickens died. Rt Rev Joseph F Lynch Catholic bishop of Dallas marks the twentieth anniversary of his ordination. In Chicago the Republican national convention moves to its main work after preliminaries. Britain opens the national museum of World War relics at Crystal Palace with King present for four years.
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Charles Dickens
Joseph F. Lynch
Dallas
Chicago
Britain
Crystal Palace
Racing and athletics meet across major venues
A calendar listing races at Belmont Park for the Westchester Racing Association and the Kentucky Association at Latoia, plus the Montreal Mont real Jockey Club meet, and U S Olympic trials at Camp Jackson South eastern Department, with golf for the Metropolitan amateur championship ongoing.
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Spopte
Westchester Racing Association
Belmont Park
Kentucky Association
Latoia
Montreal
Boxing schedule for championship tournaments listed
The article lists championship tournament opens in Rye New York and Washington District of Columbia. It names bouts including Ted Lewis versus Johnny Barham in London for 20 rounds Lew Tendler against Ritchie Mitchell in Milwaukee for 10 rounds and Kid Norfolk versus John Lester Johnson in Columbus for 12 rounds.
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Rye
N. Y
Washington, D. C
Ted Lewis
Johnny Barham
London
Lew Tendler
Ritchie Mitchell
Milwaukee
Kid Norfolk
John Lester Johnson
Columbus
Conventions Opening Today Across Several States
Conventions opening today include the Massachusetts Medical Society in Boston, the South Carolina Press Association in Rock Hill, the Virginia Sunday School Association in Harrisonburg, the Arkansas Pharmaceutical Association in Little Rock, and the Idaho G A R Department meeting in Covered Alene.
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Boston
Massachusetts Medical
Ciety
Rock Hill
Reindeer Skin Promises Arctic Cold Resistance
The skin is so impervious that a person wearing garments of the material plus a robe could endure the intensest Arctic winter night.
Hairlike Turkey Flower Echoes Hummingbird Image
In Turkey a wild bloom resembles a hummingbird in color and form with a green breast a yellow throat and a near black head and beak. The flower’s vivid plumage mirrors the bird’s distinctive appearance.
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Turkey
Empey Leads Film Drive For Ruston Orphanage
War hero and producer Guy Empey and his team travel to Ruston to film for a humanitarian project to raise half a million dollars for a permanent Ruston Orphanage home housing 360 children. Campaign director Nickerson and Judge Banks mobilize committees as June 12 marks the intensive week with films and benefits across the state.
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Guy Empey
Ruston
Empey
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Nickerson
Mr. Empey
W. G. Banks
Chainman Banks
Milam Street
Poll Perritt
New York Giants
Poll
Claiborne
Blenville
Oilers
Petroleum Post
Harvey
New Orleans
Saenger
Epstein
Suddeth
Natchitoches
Odd And Interesting World Facts From A Bygone Page
A compilation notes sheep eating 700 pounds of grass per year and cows at 6000 pounds, raw beef weighing 100 pounds roasting down to 68, Greenland social gatherings using cod liver oil, Baltic and Adriatic depths at 22 to 28 fathoms, Australia hosting the largest edible oysters, sugar once met with lung fears in England, and the first national convention nomination held by the anti-Masons.
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Japan
Greenland
Baltic
Adriatic
Australia
England
Inaj Palm Size Noted Amid Amazon Banks Growth
The article notes that the largest leaves in the world come from the Inaj palm native to the Amazon basin while mentioning the political party in Philadelphia in 1890.
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Onic
Philadelphia
Amazon
Plant diversity in India noted in historical survey
A historical passage notes India’s vast plant variety, suggesting the country has perhaps a greater range of plants than any other nation. The text emphasizes India’s rich flora as part of a larger botanical discussion.
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India
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