Notable Figures in Arts and Science Triumphs
The article notes Professor Albert A. Michelson winning the Nobel prize with a $40,000 award for interferometer work on light. It also highlights Alexander Agassiz’s Africa expedition plans and his role at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, plus poet and operatic performer Dippel stepping in for Bone at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Albert A. Michelson
University of Chicago
Michelson
Rhoosevelt
Straine
Greenmaeay
San Francisco
Uniited States Naval Academy
College de France
Heoie Polytechnique
Troy
United States Navy
Iss
Case Schoo
Cleveland
Clark University
Bones
Metropolitan Opera Tllouse
New York
Toneese
Dsurtant
Conried
Andysens Dippel
Bone
Dipped
Alexander Agassiz
Africa
Professor Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Agassiz
Alexander
University Museum
Caribbean Sea
Pacific
Switzerland
America
Teaching a Calf to Drink Satire in a Calf Raising Tale
A comic Cleveland Plain Dealer column satirizes the tough, comical battle of training a calf to drink. The narrator endures milk splatters, kicks, and chaotic misfires as he wrestles with the stubborn animal, culminating in a drained, frustrated exit and vow to abandon the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fliis
Dle
Aike
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Oratory at Washington Senate Sees Longest Speeches
The season of speech making at Washington has begun anew with the senate as the main stage for the longest orations. These lengthy speeches fill page after page of the Congressional Record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Maine Senator Hale and the case against long speeches
An old time orator from Maine, Senator Eugene Hale, is praised as concise. He argues long speeches have less effect, contrasting with a quack anecdote about increased receipts after offering free treatment.
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Eugene Hale
Maine
Woman Follows Husband’s River Rush for Insurance
A London Mail snippet shows a wife throwing herself into a river and a horror struck husband racing to the bank. The boy asks why the husband rushed. The answer cites insurance money as the motive. A separate note lists tempering temperatures for steel used in knives and saws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Mail
Greater January sale ends with quick price drops
Readable lines show a retail promotion pushing a January event with dates near the end and discounted prices 4.89 3.98 4.98 implying limited time offers.
Remembrance Note for Bro Charles Johnson of Hall Lodge 768
A memorial from Hall of Hortonville Lodge No. 768 1.0. F. mourns Bro. Charles Johnson who died January 19, 1908. It drapes the charter for 30 days and sends copies to his mother and local papers, while expressing sympathy to family and members. Also includes theatre ads for Englishs Opera House Indianapolis February 3–7.
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Hortonville
Charles Johnson
Our
Sheridan News
Hamilton County
Our Lodge
Mary
Marie Cahill
America
Comedienne
Daly’s Theatre
New York City
Opera House
Indianapolis
Daniel V. Arthur
Miss Cahill
Edwin Milton Boyle
Silvio Hein
Nancy Brown
Molly Moonshine
Benjamin Hapgood Burt
Daly's
Augustin Daly
New
The Price of Peace and Relief
The terrible itching and smarting from skin diseases are eased almost instantly by applying Chamberlain's Salve. Price 25 cents. For sale by C. E. Elliott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
John Lowe
Cooper
Maine
Elliott's
C. E. Elliott
Money to loan on good mortgage security at 5 per cent
Union Loan and Trust Company of Sheridan Indiana advertises loans secured by mortgages at five percent interest.
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Union Loan and Trust Company
Sheridan
Ind
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Newalist Chambers
Professor Michelsen
Dippel
Grand Opera
Lugene Hale
Robert Bacon
Obert W
Chlamberr
Roberg W. Chas
Mengers
Paris
Benjamin Constant
Cardigan
Ras
R Bers
Gotterdammerung
Inc. T
Richter
Ebibn
State Department
Harvard
Charles River
Bacon
Robert Reid
Massachusetts Trane Society
Hacon
Reid
J.P. Morgan
ELAON
U Smalls
Hope Musfin
Men's Union
Children’s Union
Soc
Boys Union
Stanley's Bay
BGS
Sheridan, Indiana
Geo
W. Swarm
W. L. McCain
Chas. C. Haskett
Indiana
York
Phoebe Davis
Anna Moore
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