Great St John the Divine to Be Consecrated Easter Week
The New York cathedral plans a grand Easter consecration with dignitaries including Levi P. Morton and J. Pierpont Morgan attending. The completion includes two chapels, the choir, and a vast dome, with foundations reinforced at $355,000 to endure fire and time.
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St. John the Divine
Pines
SBS
New York
America
Atmone
Levi P. Merton
Fortune
United States
Waverner
St. Saviour's
August Belmont
St. Columba’s
Ars. M. A. King
George F. Nelson
Wiliam M. Grosvenor
J. Lewis Parks
George Maccullough Miller
Henry Lewis Morris
Robert Livingston Gerry
St. John’s Day
St. Patrick’s
Seville
Liverpool
Levi P. Morton
Christ
John
St. James
St. Peter
Ezekiel
Elijah
Moses
Michael Angelo
St. John the Baptist
Ephesus
Canterbury
St.John's
England
Women in 1800 Yemen and Malta linked Florence medical study
An eighteenth century Malta noble supports a lady pupil at Florence who studies medicine with nun supervision to avoid male classes. The report notes a rare early instance of a woman entering Florence’s medical school and the Knights of Malta arranging lodging and instruction.
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Yemen
Paris
Florence
Malta
Knights of Malta
Majeur Hospital
Order of the Knights of Malta
Florence School of Medicine
Women's Hospital
Mannoni
Santa Maria Nuova
Fixing the Carat And the International Standards
The carat weight for diamonds varies by country with no universal legal value. Dutch and French carats differ, English and Arabian scales vary, and a single international carat remains proposed. The 200 mg standard gained limited adoption in France by 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internationll Bureau of Weights and Measures
France
Scientife American
Meeting His Wife At The Union Station
A Cleveland Leader item recalls a morning at the Union Station ticket office as a man asks about New York trains and an assistant ticket agent explains arrivals while a man jokes that his wife will be angry if he misses her morning train.
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New York
Union Station
Schroeder
Mr. Schroeder
Cleveland
Gould Resigns Missouri Pacific Presidency After Long Family War
George J. Gould submitted his resignation as president of the Missouri Pacific at the annual stockholders meeting in St. Louis. The fight for control of Gould properties since J. Gould's 1892 death has drawn in Wall Street giants, with rival interests pushing to oust Gould and secure coast-to-coast railroad influence.
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Gould
Old Jay Gould
Wall Street
George J. Gould
George Gould
Atlantic
Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Denver
Denver & Rio Grande
Salt Lake City
Atlantic Seaboard
Pittsburg
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wabash- Pittsburg
Maryland
Wabash-Pittsburg
Wheeling and Lake Erie
International
Great Northern
Texas
Harriman
Western Pacific
Southern Pacific
Missouri-Pacific
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Harriman Road
American Telegraph & Telephone Co
Western Union
Pearson Farquhar
Wabash
Jay Gould
New York
Missouri Pacific Railroad
St. Louis
Manhattan
Interborough
Western Union Telegraph Co
Gould Railroad
Baltimore
West Virginia
Pitsburg
Smoky City
Mr. Gould
E. H. Harriman
Edmund Hawley
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Pennsylvania
Goulds
Joseph W. Ramsay Jr
Ramsay
Town Sold by Auction at Heiligendamm In Baltic Resort
Berlin reports the sale of Heiligendamm the Baltic resort town auctioned after bankruptcy of owner John Marlitt who bought it in 1909 for 325000 plus 250000 in improvements. Bids rose from 220000 to 375000 but failed to meet the reserve triggering another auction.
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Berlin
Doberan
Heiligendamm
John Marlitt
Marlitt
Herr Vobes
Herr Kahlden
Labeck Bank
Herr Gluhenstein
Hamburg
Couple on Farm Honeymoon Starts at State College
St Paul Minn report notes Mr and Mrs Albert Schauland of Holyoke Minnesota began their honeymoon by visiting the state agricultural college to learn farming methods and crops during their trip to the campus and farm community.
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M Irs. Schauland
Holyoke, Minn
St. Paul, Minn
cMrr
Albert Schauland
State Agricultural College
Hogs Grow Leaner as Years Pass Says Report
Washington reports hogs have slimmed over the decades with weights dropping from about 275 pounds in the 1870s to roughly 219 pounds in 1900s. The Agriculture Department offers no theory for the lighter porkers.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Windsor Milk Distribution For the Poor Continues
Every morning at the church rooms in Windsor 80 quarts of royal Frogmore milk are distributed to the town’s poor by order of the king. Families with many children receive a quart, others with smaller families a pint.
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London
Church Rooms
Windsor
Frogmore
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Morton
St. Peter’s
Rome
St. Colomba
British Isles
Durham
York
St. George
Andrew
Scotland
St. Patrick
Ireland
David
Wales
Geo. Gould
United States Agricultural Authorities
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