Endowed Student Kemp Pursues PhD at Columbia University
Columbia University veteran student William Cullen Bryant Kemp, aged about sixty, continues study for a PhD despite a $2,500 annual endowment that keeps him in residence. Kemp has been a student for decades, aided by a relative’s trust that pays him as long as he remains enrolled.
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New York Times
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Governess in Countess Von Beruiia’s House
In April I become governess to the Countess von Beruiia’s orphan grandchildren after a bet and a plea of poverty. By May I fall in love with Hans the coachman, a hidden German noble, then discover he is the countess’s own son. by May 22 I decide to leave, yet Hans reveals his true identity and my happiness returns as I clasp him.
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America
Hans
Jie
Pence
Ans
Laura
Fraulein
Holland
Mary D Pritchard
Guilds for farming uplift unite University and ten patrons
The University of Chicago joins ten farmer-patrons to create an agricultural guild. Students will work on member farms under expert guidance, earning stipends and tuition credits. The program aims to raise product quality and train farm managers, with start planned for April and capacity for 100 students.
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Chicago Post
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Guild
Chicago
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Chicago Edison Company
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National Dump Car Company
H. J. Miller
Chicago and Eastern Ilinois Railroad
J. S. Dering
Dering Coal Company
Benjamin Johnson
School of Guild
William Fill
Wisconsin
Illinois
Uil
Lake Forest
Lake Bluff
Barrington
California Children Petition Redwoods Park in Humboldt County
About 1,400 Humboldt County students from Eureka schools petition Washington for a redwood national park. Forest service notes the plea stresses preserving groves as private timber dries up. action would require private donation or congressional approval to purchase land if needed.
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Washington
Forest Service
California
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Eureka
Humboldt County
Cal
Hureka
United States
Isumboldt County
Congress
San Francisco
Radium Baths Proposed by Australian Minister
The Australian minister of agriculture plans a radium bathing institution at Joachimsthal to use radium water for therapy. Proposals from Carlsbad and an English syndicate have been offered, but the minister intends to retain government control of the undertaking.
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Joachimsthal
Carlsbad
Stamps For Darkest Africa Used By Missionaries
Canceled stamps are used in missionary work. Mrs. De Witt of Newfane Vermont sent 2000 two cent stamps to a New Jersey minister. The stamps were shipped to Africa to be used as rewards for learning Bible verses.
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Africa
de Witt
Newfane
Christian Endeavor
New Jersey
Dog Entered in Prize Name Wins First and $10
Frank Colon of Collinsville Connecticut sent his dog to a New York show as a joke in John Tabels name. The dog won first prize and Tabel received a $10 check as notification of the victory.
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Collinsville
Conn
New York
John Tabel
Tabel
John Bigelow Tours McAdoo Tunnels Beneath Hudson
Ninety one year old John Bigelow, famed statesman and author, made the first official Manhattan to New Jersey ride through the McAdoo tunnels. He dictated a statement praising the Hudson river and calling the crossing a new, proud pleasure for a New Yorker and American.
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Manhattan
New Jersey
McAdoo
Hudson River
New York
Ministers fight fashionable weddings in Pittsburg crusade
In Pittsburg ministers led by Rev Dr J H Mellvaine of Calvary Episcopal denounced modern church weddings as driven by florists and undertakers. He condemned the loss of sacred decorum and the music, saying clergymen are sidelined as mere accessories. Most associations backed his views.
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J. H. Mellvaine
Calvary Episcopal Church
Alice Thaw
Earl of Yarmouth
McIlvaine
Air cracker toy aims for safe Fourth of July fun
Hobanks Oklahoma telegraph operator Martin Armstrong patents an air cracker explosive toy. A rubber cup topped by a spring ring and handle holds a paper between cup and a tight foil. Striking the device against a surface pushes air to burst the paper without flames.
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Martin Armstrong
Hobanks
Oklo
The Pearl Seized by a Pawnshop and a Wedding Gift
A Paris pawnshop tale follows a country youth and his lover who pawns a large, unusually colored pearl said to have belonged to the English crown. The pawn broker uncovers the gem’s guarded past, while a government reward finances the couple’s wedding, ending with their quiet happiness and a mystery unresolved.
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