Buenos Aires Botanical Garden Roots in City Parks History
The Buenos Aires Botanical Garden, opened September 1898, grew from land granted to M. Thays in 1892. It spans about 20 acres with 14 sections, showcasing global flora from Europe to the Americas and featuring Garden Louis XIV, English and Roman styles amid scenic paths and banks along Las Heras.
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Parks
M. Thays
Pharmacy
National College
School of Botany
de Candolle
Las Heras
Chile
Americas
Europe
Asia
Africa
Argentine Republic
Buenos Aires Botanical Garden Highlights and a Dramatic Last Shore
A tour of Buenos Aires botanical displays describes sections on eucalyptus varieties, saltbush, and medicinal plants, with notable trees like ombu and araucaria. The piece ends with a suspenseful last-ashore scene aboard a steamer as longshoremen lift the gangplank to meet a late passenger.
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Sahara
Australia
Department of Agriculture
Buenos Aires
Misiones
Tierra del Fuego
M. Thaye
Prohibition Party Celebrates Fortieth Anniversary Parade
Chicago marked the Prohibition party's fortieth anniversary with a large parade led by Frederick Dent Grant as grand marshal. The event featured bands, many temperance groups, churches, and a living map float showing wet and dry areas. A banquet at the Hotel La Salle preceded evening meetings with party leaders and candidates in attendance.
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Chicago
Prohibition Party
Frederick Dent Grant
Department of the Lakes
Salvation Army
G. A. R. Posts
Reformed Episcopal Churches
Crusaders
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Aantisaloon League
Law and Order League
Young People’s C' Temperance Union
Prohibition National Committee
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Catholic Temperance Associations
Ledging House Temperance Club
Bernard H. Moore
United States
Seaborn Wright
Rome
Samuel Dickie
Albion
Mich
Charles R. Jones
Cyclone Devastates Pinar del Rio Province Cuba
Washington reports more than ten lives lost and property exceeding 2 million dollars destroyed as a cyclone hits the western Pinar del Rio area. Over 2,000 people lack shelter, with hundreds of houses tobacco barns and coastal vessels ruined. American officials note Cuban aid suffices.
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Washington
Pinar del Rio
Cuba
Havana
Dearing
Maybray to face trial in federal court
Maybray, charged with promoting fake races and swindling in Council Bluffs, arrived from Des Moines under guard to stand trial in federal court. Nearly 100 victims, known and unknown with few exceptions, will testify before the federal grand jury in Omaha next Monday about the gang alleged to be led by Maybray.
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Council Bluffs
Maybray
Des Moines
Federal Grand Jury
Omaha
Miners Escape Fire At Lackawanna Coal Mine
About 400 miners narrowly escaped a deadly blaze at the Bilsworth No 2 coal mine near Pittsburg Pennsylvania. They fled through an unused exit to surface after the tipple burned, with losses estimated at thirty thousand dollars.
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Pittsburg
Lead & Darrow
Bilsworth No. 2
Lackawanna Steel Company
Bilsworth
Optimistic President Corey Sees Steel Outlook Bright
William S. Corey of United States Steel Corp gives an exceedingly optimistic view of iron and steel trade conditions and railroad expansion in an exclusive interview with The Manufacturers Record.
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William E. Corey
Baltimore
William S. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Noted Trap Shooter Hart Dies at 64 in Cleveland
Charles W. Hart a renowned trap shooter died at his Cleveland home at age 64. Hart was well known across trap shooting circles nationwide and four years ago held the amateur United States title.
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Cleveland
Charles W. Hart
Hart
United States
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Republic
Spain
Italy
Norway
Germany
Supeirintendent
THE
Garlen
Lee
T&a
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Cuban
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