Successful sculptress Miss Longman wins 15000 prize
Evelyn B. Longman of Chicago won a 15000 prize to design bronze doors for the Annapolis Naval Academy. Thirty three designs competed. jurors favored Longman’s figure Victory from the St. Louis World's Fair, with her other works including Death for the Story monument in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Evelyn Longman
Chicago
Annapolis Naval Academy
St. Louis Fair
Robert M. Thompson
Academy
Evelyn B. Longman
Lowell
Mags
First woman admitted to the American Society of Civil Engineers
Nora Stanton Blatch, granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, becomes the first woman admitted as a member of the ASCE. The article notes no dissent and praises her achievement as unprecedented in the country’s artistic and engineering history, with praise from Daniel C. French and details of her background at Cornell and work as a draughtsman.
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Nora Stanton Blatch
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Society of Civil Engineers
Ing
Miss Blatch
Cornell University
China
Corps of Engineers
Cornell
Meyingens
San Francisco Destruction by Earthquake and Fire
A dramatic report describes San Francisco’s near total devastation from an earthquake and fires. It notes the rapid collapse and widespread damage, recalls heroism, and reports international aid while disputing a link to Italy’s Vesuvian eruption per Charles D. Walcott.
Ancient surgery and prosthetics through the ages
An article notes bridge work among the Etruscans and plaster prosthetics in Indian practice. It cites the oldest artificial leg in the Royal College of Surgeons Museum capua tomb, Roman and medieval cases, and Goetz von Berlichingen’s iron hand of 1504 as early mechanized limbs.
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Laying Cornerstone of Capitol Office Buildings
President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon presided over a Masonry ceremony marking the cornerstone lay of the new House and Senate office buildings on Capitol Hill. The project aims to centralize Congress, with 410 offices, connecting tunnels, and a total outlay near ten million dollars for completion by the Sixtieth Congress.
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House of Representatives
Capitol Hill
Washington
Rome
Greece
Capitol
Congress
Legislative Hall
House
Senate
Ame
Elliott Woods
House Building Commission
Federal Lodge
Speaker Cannon
Masonic Order
Virginia
Greatest Natural Disasters of History
A timeline of historic disasters lists Pompeii and Herculaneum as lost to Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and cites deadly earthquakes and eruptions across cities such as Constantinople Catania Sicily Canton China Lisbon and Krakatoa with death tolls from thousands to tens of thousands. Notable events include the 1906 San Francisco quake and fire and the Mont Pelee eruption in Martinique.
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Sacramento
Hemisphere
San Francisco
Pacific
America
California
Pompeii
Herculaneum
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Catania
Sicily
Syria
Cilicia
Palermo
Canton
China
Kuchan
Persia
Lisbon
Aleppo
Calabria
Island of
Krakatoa
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Isle of Ischia
Charleston
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Bandalsan
Island of Hondo
Japan
Venezuela
Guatemala
St. Pierre
Martinique
Mont Pelee
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Italy
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Geological Survey
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Mississippi
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Lorne
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San Arti
Place de la Concorde
Paris
Louvre
Dan
Capone
President Roosevelt
Capitol Plaza
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