Mary Howard at Mount Holyoke Returns and Love Grows
Mary declines a school post and visits her mother's grave where she meets Mr Stuart who asks about William Bender. She resumes studies at Mount Holyoke, earns top honors, and matures in town life with Ella Ida Jenny and Mary facing social intrigue and a riding accident that brings Billy Bender and Henry Lincoln into focus.
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Mary
Ella
Bridget
Mother
Franky
Allie
William Bender
Rice Corner
Mr. Stuart
Mount Holyoke
Boston
Mr. Bender
George Moreland
England
Ida
Jenny
Ida Selden
Windermere
George
Father
New Orleans
Chicopee
Martha
Jenny Lincoln
Henry
Henry Lincoln
Rose
Miss King
Philadelphia
Mr. Selden
Billy Bender
Bill
Billy
Miss Howard
Lizzie Upton
Mrs. Campbell
Lizzie
Misa Campbell
Lieaie
Making Girls Happy on Farms in Minnesota School Talk
Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, preceptress at the Minnesota University School of Agriculture, spoke in Boston about training farmers wives. She described coeducation, home arts, and practical farming topics from stock breeds to dairy chemistry and textile studies, aiming to modernize farm homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Global Week in Review from Four Quarters World
Highlights include oil discovery near Baker City Oregon while 50 000 steel workers strike. Bank failure in Buffalo and Perry monument dedication in Yokohama. Plague deaths in India rise. Philippine troop movements and trials in Manila. King Edward friendship noted. rail and ship transport updates. fires, floods and riots across multiple regions.
Lusitania Wrecked Off Cape Ballard With 300 Aboard
The Orient Steam Navigation Lusitania from Liverpool to Montreal ran aground in fog off Renews near Cape Ballard. Passengers mostly emigrants panicked as boats were launched. women and children were aided ashore while crew attempted rescue. Heavy seas and rain prevented quick salvage and the ship was feared total wreck with belongings salvaged where possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John's
N. F
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Lusitania
Liverpool
Montreal
Cape Ballard
Cape Race
Renews
Riot at Rochester Leaves Dozen Police Wounded
In Rochester New York on June 28 about 1000 striking laborers clashed with police injuring 11 officers and 20 rioters. Rioters attacked 50 Rochester Gas and Electric workers digging a trench at Mill and Commercial streets prompting police to disperse the crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.P. Morgan
Harvard University
General Ludlow
Philippines
Buford
Harold M. Pitt
Manila
California
Speaker Henderson
Europe
King Edward
America
India
Sista Phonan
San Francisco
West
Rochester
N. Y
Rochester Gas & Electric Company
City Hall Park
Second Cloudburst Hits Bluefields West Virginia
Another destructive storm swept the flood plain of Bluefields on June 28 causing extensive property damage and sweeping away repairs from the previous flood. No fatalities are reported but the damage to homes and infrastructure is extensive as workers struggle to rebuild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefields
W. Va
Revenue stamps may be refunded for unused proprietary articles
Washington on June 28 reports that Commissioner Yerkes allows a refund of the value of proprietary stamps properly affixed and canceled on proprietary articles not removed from the factory for sale or use before July 1, 1901. Applications must be filed with the collector who sold the stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes
California Hotel Fire Claims One Life in Bakersfield
The Central hotel in Kern County near Bakersfield burned after an explosion of a lamp in a room. One man is known dead with others missing as flames swept through the building. Insurance coverage lists ten thousand dollars with three thousand paid.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Central
Kern
Here
Oregon Industries Lead Growth Across State Happenings
Government officials plan visits to Oregon semi arid regions in August while the Pan American exhibit highlights Oregon as top state. Baker City and Huntington ship 35 carloads of cattle to Montana. Gray's Peak plans a new stamp mill in Sumpter district and Mammoth Bald Mountain mines set a 2 foot tunnel. Oregon City council gains $40 monthly via light rate cut by Portland General Electric. Trout and salmon are prepared for display at the state exhibit with a 50 pound Upper Columbia catch. Whitney to get a water system. Baker City seeks a weather bureau. Willamette steamboat traffic ends for summer. Potatoes near last 1900 carload from Hurlburt. Oregon King Gold Mining forms with $1 million capital. Prairie City to gain a stage-line station. Rogue valley yields uncertain wheat. Sherman county expects a large crop. many Robin sonville mines bonded.
Market price list and notes on crops and goods
A dense price table lists wheat, flour, oats, barley, hay, butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, mutton, beef, veal, pork, wood, potatoes, and mohair with varied regional bids. It also mentions the American Bible Society preparing Filipino scripture editions and a Wyoming arrest of a fortune teller with money in a belt. Announcement notes Count von Waldersee may visit America, signaling potential China tensions easing.
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Walla Walla
Graham
Oregon
Young America
Wood — Valley
Crowded Tien Tsin Welcomes Returning Officers and Diplomats
Tien Tsin on July 2 sees a surge of officers and foreign troops en route home. Prince Chuan and a 40 member suite will stay three days at the University of Tien Tsin before departing for Germany to apologize for Baron von Ketteler's murder. Local merchants debate loot and indemnity, noting most relief items were rice and coal used for military needs.
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Tien Tsin
University of
Prince Chuan
Germany
Baron von Ketteler
Denby
Foree
United States
J. Denby
Chartered Bank
Tunnel Cave-In Traps Train Near Union Station
The roof of the Union Railroad tunnel in Baltimore caved in shortly before 2 A.M. A defect in the arch is suspected. Passengers and crew on an express train escaped serious harm as the rear car was hit by debris but the train halted safely at Union station. A yard engine pulled the lightly occupied coaches back to safety.
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Baltimore
Union Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Station
Soldier Transport Held After Bubonic Plague Case
The United States transport Kintuck arrived in Port Townsend with 200 soldiers, held in the stream awaiting Surgeon General Wyman's decision on quarantine at Diamond Point. A bubonic plague case occurred at Nagasaki, the patient died after being ashore. The ship was fumigated and spent 10 days in Nagasaki quarantine before sailing. after arrival, authorities consulted Washington and the vessel remains anchored with a yellow flag.
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Port Townsend
Wash
United States
Nagasaki
Wyman
Diamond Point
M. H. Foster
Washington
Heat Wave Grips New England With Fatalities Rising
Boston reports near record heat with 100 to 106 degree readings and Nashua hitting 116. Factories suspend work as the heat exhausts residents. Patrol wagons and ambulances shuttle heat victims. four deaths attributed to the heat outside Boston.
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Boston
New England
Nashua
N. H
Col D R Paige Dies in New York City
Col. David R. Paige died at his apartments in New York from a complication of diseases after long invalidism. He was a prominent business figure in the city for years and served in the Fortieth district in the Forty-eighth Congress. Major McKinley defeated him in the election for the Forty-ninth Congress.
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New York
David R. Paige
Col. Paige
Tie
McKinley
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Mary J. Holmes
Mrs. Mason
Baker City
City National Bank
Buffalo, N. Y
Perry
Yokohama
South Carolina
General Shafter
Presidio
D. C
Ottawa
Ont
Thyra
Thirty-eighth Volunteer
Portland
Corea
Adelbert
Hay
Cleveland
Ohio
Corbin, Sternberg
McKibben
San Franccisco
George K. Nash
China
Valdes
Eagle City
Alaska
Wabash
Indiana
St. Louis
South Africa
Ingalls
Columbus
Vancouver Barracks
Hawaii
Hay Han
Cailles
Portland, Or
Florence Nightingale
London
News OF the
Portance
Commonwealth
Union
Huntington
Montana
Gray's Peak
Geer
Louisiana
Legisature
Mammoth
Bald Mountain
Portland General Electric Light Company
Oregon City Council
van Dusen
Upper
Clackamas
Buffalo
Dalles
Upper Columbia
Whitney
Willamette River
Corvallis
Hurlburt
Oregon King Gold Mining Co
Sumpter
Prairie City
Stage Line
Rogue River Valley
Sherman County
Robinsonville
The
American Bible Society
Wyoming
Cotunt von Waldersee
Col
D. R. Paige
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