Honest Bill Presses On Against Tides For Oyster Bed Prize
In a bustling Ship News Office, boatman known as Honest Bill fears losing a $10,000 oyster bed option as a swift tide drives him downriver. Colleague the Battery Dolphin consoles him with stories and sharp quips while Bill recalls his candid motto to always act fair. A tense morning pulls the two toward a shared confession of risk, sacrifice, and the pull of fortune aboard the East River waterfront.
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Quis
Battery
Naterday
Stapleton
Gill
Liberty
Whitehall
Bedford Avenue
Ellis Island
Bill
Battery Dolphin
Jimmy
Robbin’s Reef
Timmins
Sayin
Bronso
East River
Bush's
Brooklyn
Bronzo
St. George
West Bank
Aquarium
Dolphin
Bil
Ship
Germany
Honest Bill
Pee
Eaeers
Animals Club
Jerome
Dolpia
Carly Joe’ Drake
Eddy
Bionza
Harvard baccalaureate sermon by Rev Dr Gordon at Appleton Chapel
The Rev Dr George A Gordon, pastor of Old South Congregational Boston, delivered Harvard's baccalaureate sermon in Appleton Chapel. He spoke of three great moments: experience memory and exigency, urging graduates to recall enduring ideals during life’s trials and temptations including love marriage and parenthood.
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Cambridge
Mass
George A. Gordon
Old South Congregational Church
Boston
Harvard
Appleton Chapa
Humorous Tale Reveals Doctor as Oarsman Fraud
In a salty sea yarn the narrator recalls a perilous rescue where a “Doctor” turns out to be a drowning man with a Red Cross badge. Bill's quick actions save him, but the twist ends in a farcical reveal: a Chinaman’s breeches, a coconut head, an absorbent cotton box, and a fake Red Cross badge aboard a sunken oil can.
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Bill
Red Cross
Charley
Murphy
Hearst
Delphin
Jimmy
Mrs Eddy Interview Describes Active Control of Pleasent View
Boston June 16 The Globe reports Edwin J Park interviewed Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science at her Concord New Hampshire home. The forty minute talk shows her mind keen and memory strong though hearing faltering She reads from Science and Health signs inscription without glasses and asserts she remains compos mentis. She discusses her trust to avoid material cares and mentions next friends and next enemies in receivership talks. Eddy recounts her Civil War era husband’s death and her son George W Glover’s flight, noting daily life with a horse keeper and her firm grip on Pleasant View arrangements.
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Boston
The
Globe
Edwin J. Park
Mary Paker G. Eddy
Christian Science Church
Concord
N. H
Wilmington
N. C
George W. Glover
Wireless progress of Poulsen system in transatlantic aims
A letter to The Tribune discusses the Poulsen wireless telegraphy method versus spark telegraphy, noting precise tuning within 0.5 percent and reliable day night operation between England and Denmark. It highlights reduced voltages, noiseless stations, multiplex sending, and licenses for a transatlantic Irish coast station as proof of growing commercial links between America and Europe.
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the Tribune
Poulsen
Cullercoats
North Shields
England
Esbjerg
Lyngby
Copenhagen
Ireland
America
Europe
New York
Gravestones Found on Hudson Street Prompts Email
Henrietta M. Oakley of Crystal Brook Echo New York writes to The Tribune about old gravestones found on Hudson Street. She identifies one stone as for her ancestor Rev Johann Christoph Kunze D D former pastor of the Old Swamp Church on Frankfort and William Streets. She notes his burial in Lutheran Cemetery on Carmine Street and cites the German inscription and Alden's Epitaphs.
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Tribune
Hudson Street
Johann Christoph Kunze
Old Swamp
Frankfort
William Streets
Trinity Church
Johann Christoph Kunre
New York
Jesus
New York Historical Society
Alden
Henrietta M. Oakley
Crystal Brook
Echo, N. Y
N Y Life to Elect New Head Today
Directors expect Darwin P. Kingsley to win the annual election for president of New York Life, with Orr likely to step down. No public date issued. a director received formal notice. Kingsley seen as best to challenge rivals in the Big Three.
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New York Life
Darwin P. Kingsley
Alexander F. Orr
Mr. Orr
Tribune
New York Life Administration
Mutual Life
Fire in tobacco cellar menaced Amsterdam Ave tenement
Firefighters battled a stubborn cellar blaze at 111 Amsterdam avenue causing smoke to fill a tenement and delaying engines due to a four alarm car barn fire on Madison Avenue. Dense smoke choked workers but a large cat overcome by smoke was rescued and revived at a drug store.
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Amsterdam Avenue
Madison Avenue
Smoire
Summer Courses at Columbia for Automobilists
Columbia University will offer in July and August a course for automobilists led by Professor Charles E. Luecke, featuring ten hours of lectures and five hours of lab work weekly. No exam or matriculation required, though the course may count toward a degree. Additional offerings include experimental engineering and hydraulic lab work under Professor Locke, concrete steel lectures by Professor Burr, and hydraulics lectures by Professor Mott of MIT.
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Columbia University
Charles £. Luecke
Locke
William H. Burr
William E. Mott
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Protest Against Confederate Monument Erected
A correspondent from Elmira New York protests the erection of a monument to the figurehead President of the defunct Confederacy. The letter denounces him as a promoter of slavery and a poltroon, urging removal of honor and calling the act a disgraceful spectacle.
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the Tribune
Milton Murdock
Elmira
N. Y
Choosing the Legislature For Direct Popular Vote Reform
A letter argues for constitutional amendment to elect Assemblymen and Senators by statewide vote, with recalls and removal of derelict legislators. It condemns star chamber sessions and caucuses, and warns the Assembly Rules Committee concentrates power, hindering popular welfare.
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Star Chamber
Assembly Ruies
Protest by a Greek against General Spyridovits
A Greek writer in Washington Indiana denounces General Spyridovits of the Panslavistic Society for promoting Macedonian and Armenian causes to serve Pan Slavic aims. He claims Bulgarians, Russians and others manipulate sympathy to force Turkish reforms, condemns Bulgarian brutality in Macedonia, and urges Greeks in New York to hear Greek perspectives alongside Russian arguments.
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America
Roosevelt
Panslavistic Society of
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Turkey
Spyridevits
Fiest
New York
Peace Congress
Ras Spyridevits
Macedonia
Spyridovits
Panslavistic Society
Armenia
Asia
England
Spryidovits
Turk
Ignatieff
Jane
Angell
ISIS
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Bulgaria
Donia
Thrace
Metrovitsa
Monastir
Near East
Far East
Japan
Europe
Greece
Brown University baccalaureate sermon on self reform and social duty
President W H P Faunce delivered the Brown University baccalaureate address urging graduates to reform themselves first, build strong homes, and lead in human justice. He warned against class hatred and called for leaders to ease social unrest through imagination and compassion. He emphasized individual duties before societal reform and the need to shape a humane social order.
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Providence
W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
Democratic America
Plac
Significance of Graduation Speech at Michigan Commencement
Ann Arbor June 16 The sixty third annual University of Michigan commencement opened with President James B Angell delivering The Significance of Graduation. He argued that a degree proves mastery of disciplined intellectual work, not mere rote learning, and that graduates should carry substantial knowledge of people as a key educational outcome.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
James B. Angell
University Hall
Angell
The Value of College Training Debate at Y M C A
A West Side YMCA debate on Is College Training Worth While pitted William George Jordan against Dr. Walter H. Hervey. Jordan mocked college sheepskins while Hervey cited statistics claiming three years at a technical school nearly doubles wages and quoted Harvard President Eliot. No decision was rendered.
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West Side
Young Men's Christian Association
William George Jordan
Walter H. Hervey
Eliot
Harvard
New England Commencements See Large Graduation Totals
More than two thousand graduates are expected from New England colleges in June with Harvard and Yale leading in degrees. Dartmouth, Brown, and women's colleges like Smith and Wellesley also contribute large numbers. In Rhode Island and Connecticut many institutions show strong results in medicine law and theology, including about 375 future lawyers and around 200 physicians with others entering clergy.
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New England
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Yale
Dartemouth
Brown
Smith
Wellesley
Radcliffe
Mount Yoke
England
Bowdoin, Bates
The
of Maine
Colby
Maine
Dartmouth
of New Hampshire State College
University of Vermont
Middlebury College
Norwich University
Vermont
Harvard University
Amherst
Tufts
Massachusetts Instituf Technology
Worcester Polytechnic
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Boston Unity
Boston College
Holy Cross
Clark University
Williams, Smith, Wellesley
Mount Holyoke
Radcliffe and
Simmons Colleges
M Brown University
Rhode Island State College
Rhode Island
Wesleyan Trinity
Connecticut
Sermon to Yale Undergraduates by Dr Bradford
Yale undergraduates attended chapel for the final college exercises as Dr Amory H Bradford of Montclair New Jersey urged them to resist wrong despite personal cost. He warned that being half right is all wrong and urged honesty, bravery, and living with virtue to stay pure.
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Amory H. Bradford
the Tribune
New Haven
Yale
H. Bradford
Montclair
N. J
City College Baccalaureate Sermon Urges Moral Action
In Calvary Episcopal Church the Rev Dr Van De Water delivered the baccalaureate sermon to City College graduates. He urged a strong, manly determination to do good and succeed, warned that graduates bear power to improve or injure the world, and stressed the duty to act rightly as educated individuals. He noted the state has a claim on educated citizens and warned against drifting toward questionable conduct.
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Calvary Episcopal Church
van de Water
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
City College
Educated Man and Republic Problems Highlight Rutgers Sermon
The Rev Newell Pwight Hillits of Plymouth Church Brooke lyn delivered the Rutgers baccalaureate sermon on The Educated Man and the Problems of the Republic. He warned democracy produces many throne holders based on facts and invention. He cited moral illiteracy in the Haywood case and contrasted a literate conscience with a scarlet bomb like heart.
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Tribune
New Brunswick
N. J
Newell Pwight Hillits
Plymouth Church
Brookelyn
Rutgers
Hillis
Republic
England
London
America
Haywood
Baccalaureate Sermons Delivered at Hobart College
Hobart College Geneva N Y held baccalaureate services with Bishop Williams of Marquette Mich delivering the sermon at Trinity Church. Earlier Rev Percy S Grant rector of the Church of the Ascension New York preached before the college religious societies at the morning service.
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Geneva
N. Y
Hobart College
Trinity Church
Williams
Marquette
Mich
Percys. Grant
Church of the Ascension of New York
Mackay Delivers Mount Holyoke Baccalaureate Address
The Rev. Dr. Done ld Sage Mackay of New York spoke at Mount Holyoke College Northampton June 16 on "The Man of Conviction." He urged conviction as a core leadership trait shaping life and national progress.
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Northampton
Mass
Doneld Sage Mackay
New York
Mount Holyoke College
President Preaches at Tufts Baccalaureate Sermon
President Frederick W. Hamilton delivered Tufts College’s baccalaureate sermon on June 16 in Medford Massachusetts. He urged that the strength of a free government rests on citizens’ sense of responsibility and asked graduates to pursue usefulness over selfishness in public life.
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Medford
Mass
Fréderick W. Hamilton
Tufts College
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