End of the Century Debate on When Decades Begin
Freeborn letter to The Tribune argues about when the new century and decades begin and critiques the idea of a zero year. It explains counting from Jesus Christ’s birth, clarifies years BC and AD, and defends conventional decade endings while noting encyclopedias’ inconsistencies.
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the Tribune
Germany
Wellesley College
Vermont
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Chambers
Old Guard Ball Promises Notable Metropolitan Opera Night
The Old Guard plans a grand ball and reception at the Metropolitan Opera House on Thursday January 24. Officers and staff issue engraved invitations featuring the American eagle with the flag, and two Old Guard bands totaling about two hundred musicians will provide music. Boxes are available at the Old Guard armory and Captain Wenman’s office.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Opera House
Forty-ninth-st
Broadway
James F. Wenman
Father and Son Die in Boiler Accident at Camden Plant
Ronard Clark aged sixty eight and his son William thirty eight, both black smiths from Camden New Jersey, were killed at a North Second Street machinist firm when William sought relief from chills by climbing a boiler. The father fell onto a cog wheel while rescuing him and was ground to pieces as steam escaped. William died from scalding as steam filled the boiler chamber. A fourteen year old witnessed the deaths.
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Philadelphia
Ronard Clark
William
Camden
N. J
North Second St
Clark
Print Cloth Market Keeps Prices Firm in Fall River
Brokers report the week’s print cloth sales under 75 000 pieces with no regulars disposed. Cotton goods show a strong tone though less active than last year. Buyers hedge with small lots to avoid price rises. mills hold ahead on wide goods and resist concessions. Prices listed fob are firm but market remains inactive.
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Fall River
Mass
Washington's Big Park Plans by Samuel Parsons Jr
The War Department approved plans by Samuel Parsons Jr and George F. Pentecost to create a four hundred fifty acre park between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. The design isolates the area from the city and preserves the vista, with embankments screening roads and trees protecting the railroad within the park.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Potomac Park
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Congress
Senate
Samuel Parsons, Jr
George F. Pentecost
Secretary of War
Nate Committee
District of Columbia
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Monument
Work of the People's Institute Aims to Aid Wage Earners
The People's Institute, three years old, offers history and economics instruction and a day forum for wage earners. Since 1898 it has held 225 ethical and political discussions with about 125 000 attendees, mostly workers, plus a Club A for study and socializing.
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East Side
People’s Institute
People's Institute Club A
Lee Declares Stars and Stripes Will Stay in Cuba
A St. Louis speech by General Fitzhugh Lee before the Merchants' Exchange drew astonishment and speculation about Cuba’s future. Lee praised past victories at Matanza s El Caney Morro and Havana and stated the flag will remain, a remark noted by attendees. The general, with his staff, arrived in town and was welcomed on the Exchange floor.
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Peter Cooper High School Planned for East 166th Street
A contract is let for a new Peter Cooper High School on East 166th Street Bronx. The building will house at least 3000 pupils with 71 classrooms and 12 laboratories. It features two gymnasiums, a large auditorium for 1800, a five story main block, and a Gothic exterior selected by C B J Snyder.
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Jackson
Edward J. Goodwin
Harlem
Peter Cooper
Jackson-ave
C. B. J. Snyder
Harmonie to Celebrate Century Birth With Big French Circle
The Cercle Francais de Harmonie grants full liberty to decorators and planners for a centennial celebration. Fanciuilli's Tist Regiment Band will perform with about two hundred musicians, and Max Schwab's orchestra has prepared new pieces for the event.
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Max Schwab
Husband Faces Abandonment Charge Over Alleged Baby Deception
Joseph Goodhart of 248 West Thirtieth Street testified in West Side Court that his wife Mrs. Goodhart tried to foist a strange child as their own. He said he received a note claiming the wife had given birth and he found her with the infant in bed after rushing home. He publicized borrowing $10 to hire a midwife before the wife refused to permit it.
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Joseph Goodhart
West Thirtieth St
Mayo
Lee Defends Cuba Policy At St Louis Exchang
General Lee in St Louis clarified remarks reported in a Chicago dispatch regarding Cuba. He said the flag will fly over Cuba until a stable government protects life and property and attracts capital. The United States promised Cubans self government, with Cubans bearing the fate of its permanence. Lee, escorted by W B Homer and a New England Society committee, visited Jefferson Barracks with the party’s women.
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New England Society
St. Louis
Lee
Jefferson Barracks
French Cooks Prepare For Annual Exhibit at Madison Square Garden
The city’s leading restaurant and hotel chefs work on holiday masterpieces for the yearly culinary exhibit at Madison Square Garden. The Société Culi naire Philanthropique hosts the masquerade ball and carnival on the afternoon and evening of February 6.
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Madison Uare Garden
Peter Cooper High School Nears Completion in The Bronx
The facade features a central rugged Norman tower nearly fifty feet square and about one hundred seventy feet high. Towers house slate exhaust shafts and a boiler chimney hidden artistically. Upper tower floors will serve as laboratories for faculty. Contract price is $469,383 to Louis Wechsler. work to begin soon and finish in early spring 1902.
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Peter Cooper
Bronx
Louis Wechsler
Cowperthwait & Sons Treats Employees to Christmas Gifts
The Cowperthwait & Sons firm at Chatham Square and at 121st Street and Third Avenue gave each employee a cash Christmas gift yesterday, continuing a multi year holiday tradition that left workers happy and grateful.
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Cowperthwait & Sons
Chatham Square
First-St
Third-ave
Preparations for the French Ball at Madison Square Garden
Preparations for a Cercle Francais event at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday January 8 as part of the French ball festivities. The article notes the ball and venue without broader context.
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Madison Square Garden
Cercle
Frangais
Wife accused of baby deception in court case
Goodhart accuses his wife of deceit after she claimed the baby was not hers. She says a stranger named Eighthave offered a baby for $2 and left. magistrate admonishes her and orders a welfare direction. She says she cannot pay bills and may not live with him again. Mayo to decide alimony tomorrow. The couple have been married two years and Goodhart earns a small salary as a pressman.
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Christ
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Goodhart
Outdoor Four
Mayo
Henken Deportation to Russia Reported
Deputy United States Marshal Bernhard escorted Solomon Henken charged with forgery to Brooklyn yesterday. Henken was set for deportation to Russia aboard the steamship Hekla, sailing from Forteen at 7 a m bound for Chagen with 45 000 rubles in question. He was arrested on arrival in the country.
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Solomon Henken
Russia
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Forteen
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