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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1900
Page
2
Directory style notices list attorneys physicians veterinarians and an agent alongside Rock Island and Peoria Railway schedules. Entries include names offices hours and contact details with train arrivals and departures for the RL&P line.
In a Pall Mall Gazette fragment the speaker retreats to study life by firelight. He surveys shelves crowded with volumes and pipes, noting treasured works above and lesser copies below. The mood blends reverence for literature with irony at material desires.
A Chicago Times-Herald excerpt describes Alaska’s driftwood coast between Yakstag and Kyak, logging origins from Asia and North America, logs up to 150 feet, petrified wood, and gold sands. It also recounts King Sebastian of Portugal’s disappearance in 1378, the legend of his return, and a playful exploration of the riddle of a sleeper.
An anthology of anecdotes spans Gluck’s Paris fame and Marie Antoinette’s ruby necklace moment, a Coney Island sea memory, a bishop’s prank on an archdeacon, a two place telephonic riddle, a Malta execution remark, a drawn battle joke, an optical defect gag, French nobility limits, and a Zulu death rock cleft near Durban.
Daniel Frohman, fresh from a voyage to Europe, vows to make a colossal effort to stage Oberammergau's Passion Play in the United States. The New York Tribune notes the immense obstacles including sacredness to villagers, the need for 600 players, and the high costs, with past failed attempts cited in Chicago and San Francisco.
A Manila-backed plan seeks papal mediation on friar land rights in the Philippines. The delegation led by Jose Changko and lawyer Felipe Calderon sails for Rome to present titles and deeds, aiming to influence US policy through the pope and eventual discussions with the U.S. president.
Washington announced plans for three new battleships to be the largest yet for the United States Navy. Displacement 1050 tons length 435 feet breadth 76 feet draft 24 feet speed 19 knots endurance about 10000 miles at ten knots. Main battery four 12 inch guns two turrets eight 8 inch in four turrets twelve inch six on each side. Secondary batteries include twelve 3 inch and various small rapid-fire guns.
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