Newspaper clash erupts as Nolan meets Dupuy at Advance
McHenry negotiates discharge threats against Wheeler Brand while Dupuy plots leverage with new owner Michael Nolan. Nolan recognizes Dupuy from past labor troubles, recalling the streetcar strike and a contempt case against Jerry Dolan, setting up a renewed confrontation as ownership shifts at the Advance.
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Lupuy Hac
Gin Gaeily
Insurance Company
Advance Wou
Dupuy
Wheeler Brand
McHenry
Pew
McHeaury
James Jones
McHeenry
Ed Dupuy
Fuion
Mr. Nolan
Monte Carto
Nolan
Consolidated Traction Company
Bartelmy
Jerry Dolan
Dolan
Dupay
Jerry Dost
Eskimo Snow House Vaults Build a Dome Structure
The Eskimo vault forms a true dome with no outward thrust and no scaffolding. Snow bricks are laid in a spiral polygon, each row raising the surface until a wedge block closes the opening. An internal door is cut last and a tunnel and ice window complete the sealed winter home.
Mark Twain’s English Entrance in 1872 Comedy
Mark Twain opened his London lecture in 1872 with a staged mishap. He arrived late, joked about Mr Clemens missing his train, and turned boos into laughter by claiming Twain would fill the act in place of the absent Clemens. The crowd later warmed to his humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
England
St. George's Hall
London
Mr. Clemens
Liverpool
Mark
Wain
Clemens
Anglo-African Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Noted for Hiawatha Cantata
The Anglo-African composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, born 1875 to a West African father and English mother, trained at the Royal College of Music under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. His best known work is a three part cantata of Longfellow’s Hiawatha, performed by the National Chorus under Dr. Albert Ham in Toronto. He has written numerous piano pieces, choral ballads, and Endymion's Dream for solo, chorus and orchestra, with some works in the Toronto Symphony repertoire. He conducted briefly in America but faced color prejudice there. He also directed his own orchestra at Croydon in youth.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Africa
Royal College of Music
London
Charles Villiers Stanford
Longfellow
National Chorus
Albert Ham
Toronto
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Endymion
Coleridge-Taylor
Melba recounts touching Mount Morgan audience moment
Madame Melba recalls a small Australian town encounter where two young boys sat behind the orchestra after being admitted late. After the concert she asked for a guinea apiece, and the elder boy saluted, saying they owed her more, a reply she called one of her finest compliments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Melba
Mount Morgan
His Master's Vice at the Abercarn Pit
A man in Abercarn Monmouthshire keeps a dog that visits a public house daily just before his master finishes work at the colliery. The dog is given a clay pipe a box of matches and pemenee which it carries to the pit ear.
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Abercarn
Monmouthshire
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Frederick R. Toombs
Joseph Medill Patterson
Harriet Ford
Mctenry
Mr. Brand
Brand
O. K
Mr. Dupuy
United States
Wheeler
United States Bench
Mano
Man
Jim Jeffries
Mr. McHenry
Mike Nolan
A. G
Pence
Hibbert Jourhb
Charles W. Stanford
Canadian Pacific Railway
Eastern
Canada
Atlantic Coast
Pacific Coast
Travel East
VIA
Fort William
Port Arthur
Owen Sound
Winnipeg
Cc. E. McPherson
Gomera
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