Rockaway Wins Morrell Cup in Fast Polo Final
The final Morrell trophy polo match at Bala on the Philadelphia Country Club oval ended in a narrow Rockaway victory over the favored Philadelphia Country Club four. Montgomery and Kennedy starred for Rockaway as the teams produced one of spring’s fastest games with rocketing goals and dramatic riding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Bala
Rockaway
New York
Philadelphia Country Club
Country Club
Montgomery
Kennedy
Wheeling
Fosie
Een
McFadden Country Club
Conover
Ra W. Kendrick
Devon Polo Club
E. Strawbridge
Creetay Ubub
Sagan Aa
Country
Old Rockaway
Cronje's Keeper in Paris Matin Travelogue at Sea
A Paris Matin correspondent describes a St Helena journey with vivid social scenes aboard a red tunic officers table. The narrator illustrates cultural clashes and humorous exchanges as foreigners test English dishes and manners while a dramatic storm plays a spectral part in the chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
St. Helena
France
Cape
England
St. Helens
Napoleon
Bargain Counter Tales Highlight Store Wars and Devoted Shoppers
A dry goods merchant extols bargain counters as a remedy for hard stock and a draw for shoppers. Women clash over cheap goods, floor-walkers redirect sales, and a vivid green ribbon sale ends with rivals halving a lace yoke and leaving with pockets lighter but pride intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venus
Homes Made Ice Could Become Common Domestic Luxury
A Kansas City Star chemist predicts that if courts fail to curb ice trusts, science will enable households to produce their own ice within two years. He notes several compact machines on the market, aims for a small daily capacity, and envisions power from a lamp socket for city use, with private ice plants already feasible for small businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Star
New Orleans
Switzer lands Army Strength and Training System
The piece notes Switzerland spends about $500,000 annually on its army, can field 100,000 trained soldiers within two days and keep 100,000 as reserves, plus a 270,000 strong militia. It describes compulsory service from ages 22 to 32 with 55 days in the first year and 16 each subsequent year, and that weapons and uniforms are kept at home under government supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Monaco
San Marino
Switzerland
New York Herald
Great Salt Plain Opened by Santa Fe Railroad
The Great Salt Plain in Oklahoma, one of the Wests largest salt beds, is being opened by the Santa Fe Railroad. Located in Wadd county, it spans about ten miles by fifteen and lies 1320 feet above sea level with salt deposits one to four inches deep. Government tests show 08 percent porosity and Hutchinson-like qualities. The vast uncovered plain resembles a sunlit lake, dust drifting in the wind.
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Great Salt Plain
Salt Plains
Santa Fe
Oklahoma
Wadd County
Hutchinson
Ope
Nabo Tsebeni Queen of Swaziland Dominant Ruler
The New York Press profiles Nabo Tsebeni, Queen of Swaziland, detailing her rise as regent for her son Bunu, her elimination of rivals, and her control over state affairs. It notes her age, image, and reported habits, including heavy rum drinking, while contrasting Swazi royal customs with Western tastes.
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South Africa
New York Press
Nabo ‘'Tsebeni
Swaziland
Swazi
South African Republic
Nabo 'Tseben
Nabo
King Bunu
China
Umbandine
Swazis
Mataffini
Nabo ‘Tsebeni
Mapungulala
Tikuba
Umgwana
Bunu
Servia
Milan
Nabo "Tsebeni
Pmbandine Bret
Food and Character in a Savage Diet View
European physiologists discuss how diet shapes behavior and appearance. A beef only regimen could turn a mild person into energetic and unruly, while milk and eggs promote soft white skin. For mental vigor, large quantities of bass are proposed, with noted caveats and unclear phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson's Weekly
When Gypsies Wed and Travel in Colorful Wagons
A Buffalo Express report describes Seneca Street gypsy wagon makers selling bright ornate caravans priced from 300 to 1000 dollars. Gypsy couples view wagons as homes for most of the year, with interiors in vivid colors and gold trim. The article notes wedding wagons bought for dowries, the emphasis on decoration over dwellings, and the roving lifestyle’s practical details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca Street
Buffalo Express
Gypey
Ain
Chilren
An Unfortunate Bet Involving A Nashville Funeral
A New York traveler and a Memphis Scimitar reporter debated the racial mix in Nashville. Each staked 100 dollars and counted whites versus blacks as passersby. A passing negro funeral procession shifted the odds, wiping out the Nashville man’s gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
New York
Memphis Scimitar
Machine Made Musicians According to Saint-Saens
The French composer Saint-Saens, quoted by the New York Herald, says phonographs can aid musicians. He recounts a Las Palmas visit where a friend’s phonograph revealed two errors in his piano performance, one tempo and one rhythm, prompting corrections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Saint-Saens
New York Herald
Las Palmas
Paris
M. Selot
Curious Exchange Reveals Old Time Prison Tale
A clipped historical exchange shows a curious old lady questioning a convict about his fate. The convict answers that he was "grave to it" and notes there was no Black Maria, as usual, in a weekly scene.
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Gaulter
Greyfield wins Sheepshead Bay handicap at flooded track
At Sheepshead Bay on a fast day crowds packed the stands for the Surf stakes and the Sheepshead Bay handicap. Greyfield, sent off at 8 to 1, surged from last to first to beat Bendoran by half a length in 1.40 4-5 with Imp third, Jean Beraud close behind. Watercolor won the Surf stakes ahead of Outlander and Smile. Trillion routed the field in the steeplechase, Mara injured.
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New York
Sheepshead Bay
Watercolor
Outlander
Smile
Jean Beraud
Imp
Bendoran
Teddy
Trillion
Qchiltree
Plato
Mara
Patriedeid
Sllander
Spencer
Prince of Melrose
Atmore
Ganymede
Contend
Humboldt
Greyfeld
Dangman
Shaw
Taber
Ime
Raffaello
Charentius
May Hempstead
John Bright
Fire Arm
Brazil
Ochiltree
Veitch
Heider
Bachelor
Tentore
Charile O
Ronkonkoma
Maher
Goa
Winkfield
Tulane
Einer
Sensational
Exporting Cigarettes to Hong Kong Arrives in Seattle
Two carloads of cigarettes arrived for shipment to Hong Kong, the first large consignment to reach Seattle for the Orient since last winter. From Eastern factories of the cigarette trust, the 32,000,000 cigarettes weigh about 40 tons and could stretch roughly 155 miles end to end.
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Northern Pacific
Hong Kong
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle
Orient
Cigarette Trust
Henry 8. Stebbins
Erie Dispatch
South Bend
Record of Fires in Theatres From 1777 to 1888
Curiosity shows theatre fire destruction totals: 523 amusements burned 1777 1882. 87 burned twice 8 three times 4 four times. From 1751 1885 732 theatres destroyed. total disasters since century start 536. Between 1876 and 1888 sixteen hundred lives lost in four fires.
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Vienna
New York Herald
Steering With Roentgen Rays by Swede and Londonist
A Swede Axel Orling and J. T. Armstrong of London report success guiding a torpedo with Roentgen rays. The device stays under control while visible from four to twenty miles, guided from a balloon, and can be steered back or exploded at will. The system appears handy for naval uses.
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Axel Orling
J. T. Armstrong
London
The Times Advertises Parted Historic Work Sale
A notice invites readers to mail their name and address with ten cents for THE TIMES heading and notes two cent stamps accepted as cash. Inquiries about Part One, sixteen parts total, with publisher price 25 cents per part and subscriber price 10 cents per part with THE SUNDAY TIMES heading. Back numbers available similarly.
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TIMES
Sunday Times
the Times
Philadelphia
of the Times
Marriages Listed in Local Notices
A long list of marriage licenses appears under marriages and deaths, naming couples such as Luke Gannon and Margaret Sloan, Harry Eschbach and Anna Marx, Franklin Miller and Emma Franks, John Week and Katie Pitero, plus many others, reflecting a period record of nuptials in the community.
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Luke Gannon
Margaret C. Sloan
Harry T. Eschbach
Anna Marx
Franklin W. Miller
Emma Franks
John Week
Katie Pitero
John Bochniak
Catharine Mazweik
John Barclay
Katie McDonald
John Wilson
Sarah McCaffrey
Henry J. Diamond
Mary A. Gildea
John McKeown
Kate O'Donnel
Edwin Goldberg
Julia Fox
Emory P. Hastings
Anna Pierce
Joseph B. Arrison
Mary E. McIntyre
Lewis J. Francis
E. May Wagner
Alexander Kahn
Sarah Blumenthal
James Ward
Bridget Gallagher
William Mellon, Jr
Josephine S. Bodine
Chas.g. Morgenroth, Jr
Lizzie M. Hembill
Emil C. Schneider
Rose L. Sautter
Harry Weidenbach
Laura M. Laudenstein
Charles F. Wheeler
Lilie J. Sobm
Albert C. Gaw
Anna T
James
Maxheimer
Hanna J. Lane
William J. Thomsin
Margaret Hefferman
Eugene F.cretanfimiller
Margaret C. Frisby
Willard F. Patton
Edith Adams
David Harke
Carolina Helweg
Charles Dowling
Catharine Brennan
Leo B. Duffy
Nellie N. Burns
Jacob Seltzer
Lina Freedman
Hastings and Wilson Couple Wed in West Philadelphia
On Tuesday June 19 1900 at 4229 Otter Street Rev A F Williamson joined William Owen Hastings and Hannah J Wilson both of West Philadelphia in marriage. Harvey B Wall and Louise Bertsch were married at Fiftieth Baptist Church Philadelphia on June 2 officiated by Rev Charles Thomas.
Avery and Others Obituaries in Germantown Notice
On the twenty first, at Germantown, Rev William H Avery funeral at St James the Less, Falla of Schuylkill on Monday at 11 30. Numerous notices of June 1900 obituaries follow with funeral details for Baker Bartzer Birchall Butz Campbell Croyden Diehl Dill Duffey Duvall Egan Enslin Fisher Friel Gallagher Grammer and others with dates, addresses, and cemetery plans.
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Avery
Wm. H. McCabe
John
Baker
David
McGovern
Bartzer
Mary A. McGuire
James
Birchall
Marie E. Middleton
Allen
Butz
Charles
Nachor
Miriam
Campbell
J. Clifford
O'Brien
William
Croyden
Hara
Peter RB
Dill
Elizabeth
O'Hev
Mary
Dustley
Wilson W. Duvall
Egan
Ann
Enslin
Louis R
Merion Avenue
Holy Cross Cemetery
Mary A
Jacob Bartzer
John J. McGarry
South Thirty-second Street
St. James
Marie Elizabeth
Margaret Birchall
Hilton Street
Mount Peace Cemetery
Charles 8
Alfred L
Anna I. Butz
North Sixteenth Street
A. J
Esther A. Campbell
Elmwood Avenue
Sharon Hill
Newtown Baptist Burying Ground
George Croyden
Richard
Rose Mullen
Beck Street
Christian
Diehl
Joseph Diehl
Zachary T. Dutebl
Fairhill Street
Huntingdon Street
R. R
Hillside Cemetery
Caroline
Joseph Dill
Ruefer
North Ninth Street
St. Peter's Church
Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery
Duffey
Wilson W
Aspen Street
St. Francis’ Church
Louis BR. Enslin
North Twenty-first Street
Mount Vernon
Fisher
Fannie
Edward Fisher
Frank Milles
Mount Moriah
Friel
Hugh Edward
Eva Friel
Gallagher
Francis
Thomas
Mary Gallagher
Science
Wilder Street
Dickinson
New Cathedral
Grammer
Ambrose
Mary Grammer
West
Oxford Street
New Cathedral Cemetery
Gira
Higo
United States
Fernwood Cemetery
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Even
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McCue
Annie Thompson
Wt Michaels
Ethel Pace
Prima N
Princess Ottillie
Educate
Bramble Bush
Connie
Lillian Hoffman
Lady Padden
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His Royal Highness
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