European Scenes Paris Past And Present Review
Henry Haynie and Clara Crawford Perkins produce two histories and a travel sketch set in Paris Madrid and Spain. The Paris book traces the city from Caesar to modern times with lectures and abundant engravings while noting unfinished monuments. The Spain volume profiles Seville Cordova Madrid Segovia Toledo Barcelona and Saragossa with cultural observations and critique.
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Paris
Henry Haynie
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Clara Crawford Perkins
Octave
Knight & Miller
France
C. H. Moore
Viollet-le-Duc
Notable Literary Items in 19th Century English Press
A Second Folio Shakespeare sold in London for 1750 dollars with two leaves missing. Longmans issues a limited illustrated Stevenson Fables. Max Beerbohm finishes Zuleika Dobson to be published next spring. Wesley Journal abridged edition tops English autumn reading. S. R. Crockett plans Adventurer in Spain stories. Boyd Winchester on American literary teaching urges higher aims than textbooks. Reviews note Lever and Grattan connections. Aldrich Sea Turn in third edition. Scribner letters reveal Lorna Doone author’s modest, private life.
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Lorna Doone
L. D. Fuller
Leader Scott remembered in Dorset Chronicle recollections
Mr Hardy sends recollections of Leader Scott through the Dorset Chronicle describing Miss Lucy Barnes of Dorchester later Mrs Baxter of Florence. He paints her as a shy, attractive young woman with brown hair and a piquant nose, a graceful figure and gentle demeanor that inspired the Lucy figure in his novels. He notes her marriage and later move to Florence and references to her published books.
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Lucy Barnes
Dorchester
S. T. Baxter
Florence
Scott
William Barnes
Lucy
London
Youngest English authoress and Punch satire noted
The piece highlights Miss Gwendolen Forwood as a gifted under fifteen author of a children’s book, and humorously surveys Mr Punch’s mock interview with a twenty first century journalist about newspapers and criticism. It also mentions biblical scholarship by Cheyne, a Fourth Folio Shakespeare sale at £425, and a Pickwick first edition at £65.
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Chaucer
Milton
Goldsmith
Scott
Byron
Shelley
Babes
Wordsworth
Keats
Shakespeare
Gwendolen Forwood
Forwood Brothers
Mbel
Cheyne
Droeshout
London
Pickwick
Seymour and
Phiz
French Steamer Medoc Grounded After Collision at Toulon
The Medoc of Messageries Maritimes grounded on rocks at Mourillon arsenal after a collision with the French cruiser Latouche Treville on leaving Toulon port. Stormy seas hinder tug attempts to refloat. The vessel carried mail, 223 passengers bound for the East Indies, and several sailors assigned to China station warships.
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Toulon
Medoc
Messageries Maritimes
Latouche Treville
Mourillon Arsenal
East Indies
China
Plan to stop ice on elevated rail by dual 25 volt heaters
Electrical engineer Elias FE Ries proposes heating sections of the third rail to melt ice on elevated roads. By linking up the rails at 2000 foot intervals a separate low voltage heating circuit would run independently of the car current. Estimated cost under 10000 dollars for ten miles with initial 400 horsepower to start heating.
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Elias FE. Ries
Ries
Interstate Commerce Hearing On Import Rail Rates In NYC
The Interstate Commerce Commission will hold a hearing in New York City tomorrow morning to investigate railroad rates on import traffic. Testimony is expected from traffic managers and other officials responsible for imports carried by rail from New York and other North Atlantic ports to interior destinations.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
New York City
New York
North Atlantic
Wisconsin Goes to Navy Yard for Repairs and Overhaul
The battleship Wisconsin has sailed from San Francisco to Bremerton Navy Yard for repairs and overhaul. After completion, she will proceed to the Asiatic station. The cruiser New York sails for Santa Barbara today and expects to return in about three weeks.
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San Francisco
Wisconsin
Bremerton Navy Yard
New York
Santa Barbara
Islanders Favor Rogers Route Ferry Plan
A Stapleton and New Brighton mass meeting at German Club Rooms urged city authorities to accept Rogers proposed ferry plan. Rogers called for an entirely new fleet running from Tompkinsville with a three cent fare, contrasting the Staten Island Rapid Transit option of two boats, three daily round trips from Clifton, and no transfer rate. The current franchise expires in 1904.
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Stapleton
New Brighton
Staten Island Rapid Transit
Clifton
Rogers
Tompkinsville
Brooklyn Man Slain in Norfolk and Western Shops
Brooklyn resident Matthew Dodd killed Lee Palmer of Brooklyn, New York, in Bluefield West Virginia inside the N and W shops after a scuffle sparked by Dodd criticizing Palmer for letting an assistant do certain work. Dodd struck Palmer with a revolver butt and shot him through the heart. Palmer planned to marry in New York on Christmas Day.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Matthew Dodd
Lee Palmer
Brooklyn
N. Y
Norfolk and Western
Dodd
Palmer
New York
Alleged Girl Impostor Arrested in Yonkers Case
Yonkers police arrested twenty year old Minerva Thorpe at the Woman's Institute after she claimed she and a friend lost money in a purse. She is charged as an impostor, previously arrested by Yonkers Detective Wagner on a magistrate’s warrant. Thorpe, described as attractive with short hair, claimed residence at 141 Webster Ave. and awaits examination. The suspect is alleged to have posed as a boy at New England resorts last year, swindling several victims.
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Yonkers
Woman's Institute
Florence Parsons
Parsons
Brady
Wagner
New England
Reclaiming Indiana Marsh Ditch Project Planned
Preliminary steps begin in Laporte Starke Porter Lake and Jasper counties to build an artificial waterway across the Kankakee marshes to Illinois. A fourteen mile trench costs 120000 with 80 feet width and 16 feet depth. The plan aims for a sixty mile extension to the state line at a total cost near 1000000 funded by assessments on benefiting ranch owners.
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Crown Point
Ind
Indiana
Laporte
Starke
Porter, Lake and
Jasper
Kankakee
Illinois State Line
Eastern Railway Company of New Mexico Chartered
President E P Ripley and associates organize the Eastern Railway Company of New Mexico with a fifty year charter. The 26 mile line will run from near Rio Puerta on the Santa Fe Pacific in Valencia County through Valencia and Guadaloupe counties to a connection with the Pecos Valley and Northeastern Railway near Texico. Headquarters will be in Los Angeles with seven directors. The plan shortens Chicago to Los Angeles travel by twelve hours once completed.
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Los Angeles
E. P. Ripley
Eastern Railway Company of
New Mexico
Rio Puerto
Santa Fe Pacific
Valencia County
N. M
Valencia
Guadaloupe
Santa Fe
Chicago
San Francisco
Poly Freshmen Kidnapped for Milk Diet by Sophomores at Poly Institute
Brookyn Polytechnic Institute freshmen were abducted by sophomores yesterday afternoon and forced to eat a milk diet at the Arena on West Thirty first street. Twenty sophomores chained them to chairs with a rope, while the group sang school songs and caused minor damage. Police were called to stop fighting after the incident.
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Polytechnic Institute
Brooklyn
Arena
West Thirty-first-st
Broadway
Sophmores
Mushenheim
Don Carlos Proposes Renouncing Throne for Son Don Jaime
Madrid reports that Don Carlos plans to renounce his claim to the throne in favor of his son Don Jaime, as announced by the Heraldo.
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Don Carlos
Madrid
Heraldo
Carlos
Don Jaime
Divorce by Rabbinical Ghet Noted in East London Yiddish Ads
The London Standard notes a novel yet common practice in East London’s Yiddish press where divorced wives seek a rabbinical het through explicit public ads. Advertisements name both parties, request a divorce payment, and reference cross-border validity in Russia, with ghet and shtille hupa ceremonies discussed as routine options.
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London Standard
London
East End
Aldgate
Russia
Court of Appeals clears calendar with hopes for July disposition
Albany dispatch reports the Court of Appeals handed down several decisions and adjourned to January 6. No ruling was issued in the Devery suit for reinstatement as New York City chief of police. Since February 14, the court has disposed of 806 appeals and will start the November 1, 1902 calendar on January 1, 1903, aiming to complete all cases by July 1.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
William S. Devery
New York
Columbia Tutor Miss Louise Dunn Dies Suddenly
Miss Louise Brisbin Dunn, a botany tutor at Columbia, collapsed and died yesterday morning from heart disease. A Barnard alumna, she earned a BA in 1897 and an MA from Columbia in 1899.
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Louise Brisbin Dunn
Columbia
Dunn
Barnard
Columbia University
University
Hosea M Knowlton Obituary in Massachusetts
Hosea M Knowlton, Attorney General of Massachusetts, died at his summer home in Marion on December 13 after apoplexy the previous week. Born in Durham Missouri in May 187, he graduated from Tufts College in 1887 and studied at Harvard Law School. He practiced with E L Barney, then formed Knowlton and Perry, served in the state House and Senate, was district attorney from 1885, and held the attorney general post until last year. He led Universalist Sunday School work and was a longtime church worker.
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Marion
Mass
Hosea M. Knowlton
Massachusetts
Durham
Tufts College
Harvard Law School
E. L. Barney
Knowlton & Perry
House Ofsentatives
State Senate i
ISS
Universalist Sunday School
Alfred Bouvier Dies In San Francisco Theater Field
Alfred Bouvier longtime Baldwin Theatre manager in San Francisco died today after a career with Al Hayman and later involvement in plans for a new theatre. His health had forced him to retire from active management.
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San Francisco
Alfred Bouvier
al” Hayman
Baldwin Theatre
Bouvier
Obituary notes from multiple cities dated December 18
Obituary notices report Alber E. Swift of Buffalo dying at 53 after a Turkish bath heart disease. Charles P. Griffin, Toledo political figure and ex Speaker, died in his office. Franklin S. Whitney, Toledo State AFL organizer, died of typhoid pneumonia at age eighty. Henry Godwin, grandson of General Abra Godwin, died at his Orange New Jersey home at 77.
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Buffalo
Alber E. Swift
Johnstown
Toledo
Charles P. Griffin
Ohio
Ohio Tower House
Tacoma
Wash
Franklin S Whitney
American Federation of Labor
French nobleman Fournier to visit America for auto show
Cable dispatch reports Henry Fournier, the French noble, will travel to the United States to attend the Madison Garden Automobile Show. He plans to explore manufacturing a car type he uses in record trials and may establish a factory in America. The Automobile Club of France notes Fournier as holder of a 30 second kilometer record, though a 1 mile time was rejected by the governing board.
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Haynie
Falguiére
Paris
Palais Royal Theatre
Europe
City
Henry Fournier
America
Madison Garden
Auerobile Club
France
Fourier
Auxieres
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Ben Jonson
R. L. Stevenson
The
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Max Beerbohm
Zuleika Dobson
John Wesley
S. R. Crockett
the Tribune
Boyd Winchester
Lever
Charles O'Malley
William Grattan
Connaught Rangers
Grattan
Henry Grattan
Statesman
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Hardy
Z Zambol
Navy Yard
MR. Churchill
Brooklyn Eagle
Hamilton W. Marie
Owen Wister
the Nation
Macmillan Company
Publishers
C. C. Shayne
41St St
Bet. B'way
Indiana Marsh
Waterway
POLY
Brooklyn Institute
the Life and Letters
Friedrich Max Muller
Express
Max Muller
Longmans, Green & Co
Fifth Ave
Denslow
W. W. Denslow
St. Nicholas
By &W. Dillingham Company, Publishers
C. C. Shaynf
West 42d
St. Bet
Henry Godwin Post
Abra Godwin
Park
Orange
N. J
Fournier
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