What Answer to the Harvard Yale Rowing Race Question
A set of 20 trivia questions covering history science geography and biography. The list asks about Harvard and Yale rowing winners, colonial Spanish colonization, a surgeon who became secretary of war, beach sand formation, ocean depths, the Astor Place riot, eel group habitats, an American novelist’s England residency, the quote about Bunker Hill, stock redemption, American realism founder, leading 1926 baseball pitcher, the Flying Dutchman, the first revolver patent, Panama Canal opening, Renaissance sculptors and architects, Laurentian glacier sands, generals’ battles, and Lake Ontario formation.
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Astor Place
England
Answers to quiz items from a historical list
A compact set of numbered quiz entries lists names, works, places, and facts. Items mention Captain Robert Gray 1792, actors or figures like Harrison Taylor Harding, musical pieces by Antonin Dvorak, Keats Endymion, the Nile, the human heart weight, the five day week, and other assorted trivia noted in an old exam style.
Nonshrinkable musk ox wool and meat described
The Pathfinder Magazine travel editor highlights the musko ox or ovibos as an Arctic relic. It resembles both cow and sheep, eats moss and herbs, provides good meat and leather, and uniquely its wool does not shrink, a trait praised over other wools. The musk ox’s strong odor is noted but meat stays clean with careful butcher work.
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Arctic
Pathfinder Magazine
Duck Causes Brief Traffic Standstill on Busy Bourne Road
A duck halted traffic on a main Bourne road as it laid an egg. A police officer stopped cars until the bird resumed its crossing. Once the egg was laid the procession of vehicles moved on and the egg was saved.
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Bourne
England
Milk Without Cream Cow Yields No Cream Despite Normal Milk
A Sydney Bulletin correspondent reports a cow with a perfectly adjusted separator that produced lots of milk and fat calves, yet provided milk without any cream. The milk could be run through a separator with no cream forming, and the cow would not yield cream by milking.
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Sydney Bulletin
Short History of Labor Day
Labor Day emerged from the New York City Central Labor Union in May 1882 with a plan to observe the first Monday in September as a festa day. The celebration grew into a national holiday as the American Federation of Labor endorsed it in 1884 and legislatures across states enacted laws recognizing the day.
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New York City Central Labor Union
American Federation of Labor
Congress
District of Columbia
Territories
Carpenters Building Joins Washington Union Base
The Labor union tradition expands with the Carpenters building in Washington a $300000 eight story edifice. An auditorium seats 550 for union and other uses while six floors serve offices. Financed by Local 132 the project aims to cover debts through rents near the AFL and rival unions. Richard Burdett notes the move reflects Washington as a national hub and growing local needs.
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Washington
Carpenters
Carpenters’ Organization
American Federation of Labor
Machinists
Labor Bank
A. FP. of L
Sala Richard
Burdett
First Union of Machinists Formed in 1888
The International Association of Machinists traces origins to 19 Atlanta machinists who formed United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers of America on May 5 1888. A May 1889 Atlanta convention of 22 delegates from 34 locals in 14 states elected officers and renamed the group. By 1891 its name became International Association of Machinists as it extended into Canada.
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Union of Machinists
International Association of Machinists
Atlanta
United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers of America
National Asociation of Machinists
Canada
Engineers' Union Formed in 1896 in St Louis
The first steam engineers union formed December 7 1896 in St Louis at an AFL convention with four engineers from other trades. They founded the National Steam Engineers' Union at a meeting proposing a separate engineers' union. The group later became the International Union of Steam Engineers in 1905 and the International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers in 1915.
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Union of Steam Engineers
St. Louis
American Federation of Labor
National Steam Engineers’ Union
International Union of Steam Engineers
International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers
Must Prove Value of Union Workers
John P. Frey argues that the union movement should cooperate with employers to win their confidence and show that unionism benefits both sides. He urges expanding friendly relations with fair-minded employers and demonstrating better conditions at unionized workplaces versus nonunion shops.
High Tribute Paid Leaders of Labor
Sir Henry Thornton president of Canadian National Railways extols fair dealing with workers and unions. The American born executive recounts diverse leadership roles, from the Great Eastern railway to wartime transport in France, and heads Canada’s vast public railway system.
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Henry Thornton
Canadian National Railways
Sir Henry Thornton
United States
England
Great Eastern Railway
France
Canada
Stewardess Mary Waite Accused in Murder on Steamship
Mrs Mary B Waite stewardess on the American Trader is charged with murder for allegedly pouring carbolic acid into the mouth of her sweetheart Lewis Fisher the ship's engineer. She was arrested as the vessel reached England and sent back to the United States for trial.
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Mary B. Waite
Lewis Fisher
England
United States
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Panama Canal
Nius
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Taylor
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the Nile
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John Sherman
America
Pitcairn
Batte
Lexington
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Garfield
McKinley
Stravinski
Hudson Bay
Ovibos
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Carpenters’ Building
Engineers’ Union
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John P. Frey
Canadian Railway Head
Sea Scouts
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Elsinore
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Diego
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MISS
Chicago
Myrtle Christine Walsted
Atlantic City
Phyllis von Alwyn Matson
Sierra
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Australia
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Southern California
Hawaiian
Hawkins
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