Treasures of Marciana Library Move to San Zovino Palace
A historic Venetian library of about 300000 volumes 100000 pamphlets and 11000 manuscripts is slated to move from the Doges Palace to the San Zovino Palace. The collection includes Bessarione autographs Tasso Galileo and Petrarch items with ancient Greek MSS and a 14th century Divia Commedia.
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Marciana
Sansovino Palace
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Italy
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Petrarch
Cardinal Bessarione
Hamed
Tasso
Galileo
Sarpi
Goldoni
Cicero
Nicola Janson
Pall Mall Gazette
Red Brotherhood Aims To Curb Smoking By Youth Pledge
The Red Brotherhood charity forms a boy led league to vow not to smoke before sixteen. Named Real Example and Determined, it operates simply with no fees or fundraisers. Boys join by visiting or writing to St Hugh's Warden in Penzance and promising not to smoke until sixteen.
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Red Brotherhood
Red Brothers
St. Hugh’s Penzance
London Express
Yankee in Ravala Bridge Plan Sparks Franco-Russian Ties
An American firm wins a St. Petersburg street railway franchise to build a massive Neva River bridge at an estimated cost of 150 million rubles. The project has Witte’s sanction and is seen as boosting US Russian economic ties potentially at France’s expense.
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Neva
M. Witte
Russia
United States
France
The Bank of England and its quiet, windowless walls
A historical note describes the Bank of England as a robust institution with capital around 72 million dollars and a 16 million dollar surplus while the governor earns 10000 dollars annually. Directors receive 2500 dollars each, with a 24 member board. The vast one story building is windowless, illuminated from above and inner courts, watched at night by Foot Guards stationed at Threadneedle Street.
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Bank of England
Foot Guards
Threadneedle Street
First Locomotive Pioneer Benson Dies in Almshouse
Wood Benson, the first American to pull a locomotive throttle, died recently at Blackwell's Island Almshouse at age 89. Once a Harlem River railroad builder, he earned up to 25 a day, then lost fortunes in Wall Street during the 1873 panic. Marcus N. Roselle arranged burial in a Brooklyn cemetery after notification.
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Blackwell's Island
New York
Marcus N. Roselle
Arlington Hotel
Washington
Brooklyn
Benson
Wood Benson
Ihe
Daniel Drew
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Harlem River
Wall Street
Fifth Avenue
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The
New York Herald
Corroborative Heart Test Shocks Insurance Applicant
A physician notes a heart issue in an insurance applicant while the applicant jokes that his daughter discovered it long ago, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago Tribune
Hidden Plot Clues in Publisher's Review Cues
A Philadelphia Record note reveals how publishers guide reviews by listing page ranges for plot twists descriptions and character scenes. The National Review excerpt visualizes a nameless tomb and decaying graves in a distant cemetery with crude huts and prayer rites marking the end of a life.
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Philadelphia Record
Native Cemetery at Malacca Describes Vast Malay Graveyard
The Makam in Malacca is a vast native cemetery where Panang Malays seek their final resting place. It spans acres with dense growths, scattered nesan headstones, and trees with broad soft leaves nicknamed spoons by locals. Occasionally the grave of a...
Rockefeller Advice for Success to Chicago Students
John D. Rockefeller addressed University of Chicago students, praising hard work and frugality. He noted his gifts totaling more than nine million dollars and spoke on the values and strategies believed to lead to lasting achievement.
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John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
University of Chicago address urges duty over fame
A University of Chicago speaker praised students for their bright prospects and urged gratitude to families. The talk emphasized serving the world through daily work, seeking one’s best fit in life, and warned that true success comes from industry, perseverance, and hard work rather than mere distinction.
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University of Chicago
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Rain Ahead Dictates Indoor Play
In the Philadelphia Press a parent urges staying indoors due to weather. A child promises not to request outdoor play in exchange for a toy, with the boy asking for a bow and arrow.
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Tommy
Philadelphia Press
Millions of Cigarettes Produced in New York Factory
A New York factory turns out about 30 million cigarettes weekly on average year round, reflecting high-volume wartime era tobacco production and industrial scale.
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New York
Queen Alexandra A Model of Charity and Kindness
The article extols Queen Alexandra for nearly forty years in England proving generous charitable work and patient judgment. It notes her subscriptions to philanthropy totaling two hundred fifty million dollars and her care for hospitals the poor and oppressed. A Ledger Monthly story recalls her sending a loving phonograph message to Queen Christian's dying lady in waiting in Copenhagen.
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Queen Alexandra
England
Princess of Wales
the Ledger Monthly
King Christian
Queen
Denmark
Alex
Alexandra
Copenhagen
Good Habits And The Life Blood Of Existence
A Rev. A T Palmer essay extols daily disciplines as essential for a regulated life. It argues punctuality accuracy steadiness and promptness prevent loss and harm, noting habits cling through life and beyond and shape our state in the afterlife.
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Lfe
A. T. Palmer
A Winter Pilgrimage anecdote on Rhine views
Haggard recalls a childhood voyage on the Rhine where his father insisted he study the scenery, after a tearful bid to read Robinson Crusoe below. The tale highlights parental insistence and travel memories from the new volume.
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H. Rider Haggard
Rhine
A Hero Indeed
A dialogue from the Philadelphia Bulletin shows a suitor pledging heroism to win consent. The woman demands a heroic suitor before marriage and the man plans to seek approval from her father.
Bad Manners Dialogue Cited in Glasgow Times
A Glasgow Times excerpt presents a tart exchange about manners at table. Auntie chides Bobbie for placing a knife in the mouth while Bobbie scolds Auntie for staring at guests during meals.
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Bobbie
Glasgow
Actress Ethel Drew Barrymore Champions Recreation In Hansom Cab Fun
Ethel Drew Barrymore writes on recreation praising happiness and pleasure. She loves riding in hansom cabs in London and New York and compares cab danger with piano playing as her preferred amusements. She imagines future mechanized art and asserts recreation as a fine art.
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Ethel Drew Barrymore
London
New York
Thirty-fourth Street
Forty-second Street
Dhemes
Population Balance Shows White Native Lead in U S
Census figures reveal 56 million native whites versus 10 million foreign-born, with over 41 million natives of native parentage. Since 1890 native whites rose 23 percent while foreign whites grew 12 percent, suggesting the population will grow more homogeneous over time.
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United States
Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field Born in 1835
Chicago magnate Marshall Field born in 1835 on a Massachusetts farm began life in a Pittsfield dry goods store at age 17 then moved to Chicago four years later. He donated heavily to colleges and founded the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago with a gift of one million dollars.
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Marshall Field
Massachusetts
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Pittsfield
Field Columbian Museum
Boarding Houses Drive to Drink, McNutt Warns
George L. McNutt, a New York minister turned workingman living among the poor, asserts boarding house fare drives many men to drink and even jokes that frying a beefsteak should be a penitentiary offense.
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George L. McNutt
New York
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