Those Black Diamond Men by William Futchey Gibbons Review
The review lauds the book Those Black Diamond Men for its true character sketches of anthracite region life. It praises vivid portraits of English Irish Welsh Hungarian and Polish types, humor and pathos, and a humane view of labor issues including mining dangers and corporations.
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Bons
Mleming
J. Revell Company
Jacob Riis
Jacob Tis
Ralph Connor
Sky Pilot
Wsyekoff
China
William Futchey
Pianists and Pupil Recitals Highlight Conservatory Season
Boston pianist Carl Faelien will give a pianoforte recital at St Luke's Parish house under the Conservatory. The program features works by Schubert Beethoven Mendelssohn Schumann and Chopin. Maurice Knowles Alfred Wooler new songs receive notice. Mira Mary Cavanaugh and Rose Arigoni lead a Powell's recital.
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Carl Faelien
Boston
Conservatory
St. Luke's
Faelien
New Theatre
Balhiade
eChopin Valse
Mira Mary T. Cavanaugh
Rose Arigoni
Frank Brundage
Via Jones
Powell's Music Ware Rooms
Mel
Carl Vaelton
Pianoforte School of
Beranton Conservatory of Music
Bt. Luke's Parish Hall
Herarton
Death of Dr. Lewis S. Barnes Prompts Society Funeral Plan
A large Lackawanna County Medical Society meeting last evening honored Dr. Lewis S. Barnes. The group decided to attend his funeral in a body and meet at Scranton Private Hospital at 2:80 p.m. A committee drafted resolutions praising his medical ability and sterling character and offered condolences to his family.
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Lackawanna County Medical Society
Lewis
Lewis 8
City Faces Printing Deficit Amid Ordinance Fund Strain
The city has spent over $4,000 of a $5,000 annual printing budget with quarter of the year left. An emergency appropriation may be needed as a new printing ordinance shifts focus to this year's ordinances only. City Clerk Lavelle warns no more printing will occur once funds run out without extra money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jehovah
Gibbons
Lavelle
Select Council
Beresford Attacks Navy Flaws in House Of Commons
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford condemned the navy as rotten and costly, citing shortages in the engine room and reserves. He blamed outside agitation for fleet improvements and urged a separate business board to run admiralty affairs while criticizing treasury control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Commons
Lord Charles Beresford
Mediterranean
Lord Beresford
Great Britain
United States
France
Admiralty
Treasury
William Vernon-Harcourt
Transatlantic Passenger and Vessel Movements Report
Arrivals and sailings listed from June 2 detail ships arriving in New York and European ports. Vessels include Fuerst Hismarck Hamburg Southampton Cherbourg and Germanic New York with multiple arrivals and passes noted among Antwerp Genoa Naples Liverpool Queenstown and More.
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Luxcluvive
Associated Press
New York
Fuerst Hismarck
Hamburg
Southampton
Cherbourg
Vaderland
Antwerp
Noordij
Boulogne
Rotterdam
Vrave
Genoa
Naples
Campania
Liverpool
Patria
Havre
Germanic
Lamburg
Pretoria
Columbia
Isle of Wight
Potsdam
Friesland
Browead
Queenstown
President Roosevelt asked to attend Spanish American War encampment
Exclusive AP report from Washington says Senator Fairbanks of Indiana presented Colonel James B. Coryell and other veterans to President Roosevelt urging attendance at the third Hagens encampment of Spanish American War veterans in Indianapolis in September. The President said he would like to attend if arrangements can be made.
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Associated Press
Washington
Fairbanks
Indiana
Roosevelt
James B. Coryell
Philadelphia
Hagens
Inedianapolis
Police Shootout Kills Elk Park Officer in North Carolina
Roanoke reports a gunfight between James Biles, police in Elk Park, N C, and William Winters, a mountaineer. Biles dies and Winters is seriously wounded after both fired several shots following Winters' claim of a prior arrest and rough handling.
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Associated Press
Roanoke
Junne
The
Times
James Biles
Elk Park
N. C
William Winters
Bile
Winters
Maine ship disaster compensation bill introduced in Congress
Representative Mahon of Pennsylvania introduced a bill authorising the secretary of the navy to determine just compensation for Maine destruction sufferers. It appropriates 1,210,000 dollars for claims, with personal injury limits set at 5,000 and death at 3,000.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mahon
Pennsylvania
Secretary of the Navy
Maine
Belgenland Not Sighted Rumor Discredited
London agents for the American Line report no confirmation of a claim that the Belgenland left Queenstown for Philadelphia and turned back. Dispatches from Queenstown say no disabled steamship has been sighted aboard. A J Wright of International Navigation notes no corroborating cable news.
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London
American Line
Belgenland
Queenstown
Philadelphia
A. J. Wright
International Navigation Company
Bergenlund
Forest fires threaten Buckley area near Tacoma
Fire department rushes men and equipment to Buckley as forest fires rage between Buckley and Bemumelaw in King County. A mountain mill near Buckley burns while a large number of campers and loggers are feared dead. Buckley is reportedly doomed with about 40 women and children cut off by heat and smoke as twenty buildings and a large mill burn.
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Tacoma
Wash
Buckley
Bemumelaw
King County
Spanish Forts Near Gibraltar Expansion Planned
Exclusive: General Weyler in Madrid orders reorganizing civil and military administration near Gibraltar. He aims to inspect and strengthen defenses within twelve miles of the rock and erect new forts amid fears Britain may seize hinterlands. A Gibraltar dispatch confirms Weyler's visit to inspect fortifications.
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Madrid
Great Britain
Gibraltar
Big Game in Mexico From the Mexican Tlorald
A civil engineer reports on hunting at Jimulco Hacienda in Coahuila a vast property of over 2000 square kilometres with antelopes wild hogs wild dogs and wild burros. Hunters describe wary antelope sentinels and fatal dog tusk injuries while jaguar and mountain lion encounters threaten humans.
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Jimulco
Coahuila
Remaiin
Germa
Mexico
Aoman
Pink Pills Inspire Paralysis Patient’s Remarkable Recovery
Henry J. Hubbard of Wittens Ohio recounts his paralysis and decline then credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People after hearing of Sipher Cushions and Mrs Smith cures. He reports regaining movement and walking within weeks and praises the remedy as a cure for various nervous and blood-related ailments. The pills cost fifty cents a box, six for two dollars and fifty cents, available at druggists or from Dr Williams Medicine Co.
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Mr. Hubbard
Mrs. Smith
New York
Sistersville
W. Va
Timothy Cushion
Relef
Mr. Sipher
Dr. Williams
St. Vitus
Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Mountain Lions and Hunters Highlight Mexican Wildlife Tales
An oral account from a Sonora hunter recalls a spring where two men were killed by lions while camping. The piece notes a Michoacan mountain lion three metres long and describes a general in Mexico whose room is a gallery of firearms and hunting trophies valued over $20,000.
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Sonora
Ike
Michoacan
Mexico
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