Memorials to Columbus Across Seas and Continents
The article surveys major Columbus memorials in Europe and North America, highlighting the 70-foot statue by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney in Palos, Spain, and the Washington DC national monument designed by Burnham and Taft. It notes a future four-million-dollar lighthouse project in Santo Domingo as a Pan American tribute with backing from multiple nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Payne Whitney
Spain
United States
America
Philadelphia
Columbus
Ferdinand
Isabella
Castile
Leon
Aragon
World
Santa Maria
Hibla
Europe
Washington, D. C
Union Station
National Capital
Daviel H. Burnham
National Commission of Fine Arts
Lorado Taft
Chicago
Knights of Columbus
Two Americas
Santo Domingo
Hispaniola
Dominican Republic
Comn
Cuba
Pan-American Union
The Discovery of America Poem by Helene Mullins
A dramatic poem in harbor voice describes Columbus era voyage fears and dreams of riches as a speaker pleads for guidance from God Isabella and declares belief in a round earth and India as the promised land. Helene Mullins writes in the New York World edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Helene Mullins
New York
Trees Get Their Food Through Tubes in Bark
The New York College of Agriculture finds that trees transport food not by salts and sugars in water in the trunk but via numerous microscopic tubes running through the bark. A living substance fills these tubes and circulates up and down, delivering sugars from leaves downward and returning nourishment from roots upward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York College of Agricultur
Crepe Effects in Silk Using Twisted Threads
A method to produce crepe effects in silk involves alternating a right and left hand highly twisted thread in the warp while filling the fabric with a highly twisted tram.
Puckering Effect from Boiled and Dyed Twisted Threads
When the material is boiled off and dyed, the alternating twisted threads create a puckering in the fabric. The description notes how the treatment influences the texture and surface feel of the textile.
Indian Nomenclature of Sioux Traces to Adowessioux Origin
The term Sioux derives from the Chippewa word Nadowedsin meaning snake or adder and by metaphor signifying enemy. It notes that Nadowessioux is an anglicized contraction of this name used for a large group of tribes.
Vagrant Lovers Clash Over Duty at City Library
Hallie Marriott, a 35 year old library assistant, clashes with head librarian Miss Glison over a rule that bans men from sleeping in the library. A bronzed traveler, Dirk Forrest, awakens her interest as he reveals plans to marry and sail away in two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notre Dame
Miss Glitson
Hallie Marriott
Hallie
Old Square
Marriott
Miss Glison
Miss Marriott
Tam
Allie Marriott
Zanzibar
Convent of Notre Dame
Doctor Holt
Egypt
Dirk Forrest
Dirk
Forrest
Terms of Admiration Overused in Everyday Speech
A critique of overworked adjectives that dilute meaning such as marvelous wonderful exquisite and adorable. The author laments how common words are pampered and repeated in conversation, making main ideas dull and trivial.
Tiger in Venice party scene ends in chaos
At a Venice party hosted by Marchesa Casati guests were posed with a real tiger on a golden sphere. A keeper posed as a guest. a guest mistook the tiger for a rug and provoked a roar, causing mass panic before the tiger was recaptured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marchesa Casati
Lord Hasting
Venice
London Mail
First County Agent J L Stallings Pioneered Farm Work
J L Stallings of Smith County Texas, the first county farm demonstration agent in America, was appointed in 1906. His program is now carried on by more than 2 400 county agents in Farm and Fireside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Stallings
Smith County
Texas
America
Nor Measles Teacher Definition of heredity and liberty sayings
A clipped comedic piece defines heredity as if a grandfather has no children then the father and you likely won't either. It also quips on liberty as a husband allowing his wife to act freely and on a near-argument where nobody gets angry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
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Elmo Scott Watson
Olumbus
Seville
Barcelona
Palos
Atlantic
Palis
Phatas By
Dhoomod &Underwood
Chero
Ahetor
Phata
Harris Ewing
Italy
Mariner
Marco Polo
Mang
Cathay
Solomon
Elysingi
D. J. Walsh
Holt
Hanford
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Arkansas State Farm
K-R-O
K-R-O Co
Springfield
Cis
Ny Torlt
Bayer
Pist
Hackensack
W.N.U
Cincinnati
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