Existing Monuments to the Memory of Shakespeare
A survey of major Shakespeare statues across Britain and abroad. From Stratford’s early Stratford Church bust to the Westminster Abbey Chandos-inspired figure by Scheemakers, with notes on Kent’s design flaws and the 1740 Stratford monument. Also covers Garrick Club busts, Park Lane fountains, and later works in New York Chicago Paris Weimar and Weimar plus Hasselris models awaiting completion for the Hamlet tercentenary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Hoh—frinity Church
Stratford-on-Avon
Gerard Johnson
Janseh
Westminster Abbey
Chandos
Lord Burlington
William Kent
Tre
Walpole
Tosaiy
Kent
Péter Scheemakers
Dallaway
England
Nollekens
Lefsécter Square
Albert Grant
Webber
Garrick
William Faithorne
Boubillac
David Garrick
British Museum
Roubiliac
Carpentiers
London
Park Lane
Chaucer
Milton
Stratford-on- Avon
Ronald Gower
Paris
Prince
Stevens Page
Sarah Bernhardt
J. Q. A. Ward
Central Park
New York
Ieeft
Chicago
Samuel Johnson
Lincoln Park
Droeshout
Jansen
William Ordway Partridge
Boston
Haussmann
Avenue de
Messine
Paul Fournier
Herr Otto Lessing
Germany
Weimar
Shakespeare Society
Saxe-Weimar
Ward
William Shakespeare
Elsinore
Louis Hasselrlis
Rome
Love Letters warn against clandestine romance and fatigue
Margaret E. Sangster argues love letters reveal character and dignity, urging decorum and reverence in unmarried exchanges. She recalls famed letters from Hawthorne Carlyle and Napoleon, warns against secrecy, and explains how long separations can dull affection, risking heartbreak and marriage instability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. Sangster
Copsright
Joseph B. Bowles
Tle
Samuel Johnson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sophia Peabody
Thomas Carlyle
Jane Welsh
Napoleon
Josephine
Neat Shirtwaist Design With Box Plaits and Appliques
A practical blouse pattern suitable for many fabrics including cashmere and delaine. Features box-plaits along the front and outer arm, back fastening under a box-plait, and diamond appliques on center front and sleeve undersides. Supplies include three yards of 28 inch fabric and seven appliques.
Fashionable NY businesswoman shows plaid daywear and boots
A New York businesswoman favors bold plaid suits for dull days. She pairs a red and black box plaited skirt with a red waist and black silk stock, a black belt, and a black straw hat with red quills. A second woman sports a heavy leather sole boot with calf-length black and white check leggings and a tight belted tweed coat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jean
Fruits and Nuts Diet Studied at University of California
Experiments with a diet of fruits and nuts at the University of California show both provide energy and nuts offer building material. Daily cost ranged from 18 to 46 cents per person, competitive with a mixed diet. One student stayed healthy and could work full days and perform heavy labor eight days on the diet. The articles claim high nutritive value and thorough digestion, but long term wholesomeness was not explored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of California
Match Details of Costume Ties Style to Extremes This Season
The fashion of matcht of one's costume is being tied to the extreme limit this season. The hat must match more exactly than ever, and many women buy white straw braid and have it dyed to the desired tone. Milliners will have the straw dyed for their customers if desired. Crin and horsehair braids are easy to color, but some of the straws are very difficult, hence expensive.
Value of Carrots for Skin and Nails
A diet featuring young carrots is claimed to benefit the skin and its appendages hair and nails. The praise centers on anti-scorbutic salts oily matter and iron found in red colored vegetables.
Voodoo Mysteries and Atrocities Accepted in Society
The article discusses lingering voodoo beliefs in Africa and the Americas, describing superstitions as widespread among darker communities. It cites past events in Louisiana and references cases in Haiti and Cuba where bands of alleged practitioners committed brutal rites, including a white child sacrifice in Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Lousiana
Haiti
Cuba
Voddov
Voodoo Worship in Haiti Highlighted by Henry Whitehouse
An English traveler notes Haiti as ruled by veneer Roman Catholicism while West African voodoo animism and child sacrifice rites persist. Reports describe rituals led by priests and priestesses with drums, dances, and secrecy, with some observers labeling the practice cannibalistic and linked to evil spirits as authorities downplay or deny its existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayti
Haiti
Port_au Prince
Henry Whitehouse
Lasker Defeats Phillips in Exhibition Chess Match in Chicago
Dr Lasker world chess champion defeats Phillips the correspondence champion in a long exhibition game. He sacrifices a pawn, regains it, trades rooks and secures a win by precise king endgame play after 53 moves. Rival players defended stubbornly but could not mount offense as Lasker converts with king strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dr. Lasker
Chess and Checker Club
Phillips
Lasker
Emanuel
Landsberg
Berlin
Heidelberg
Bres-lau
D. Janowski
Paris
Sending Hiram to Congress Sparks Banter in Chicago Daily News
In a witty exchange Cyrus objects to Hiram serving in Congress. Zeke argues for sending him, but Cyrus worries he would return and pester with stale banquet jokes from Tosh, recited at various banquets. The dialogue satirizes political ambition and public reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeke
Hiram
Congress
Cyrus
Tosh
Chicago Daily News
Letters Reveal Lydia Pinkham Remedy Saving Life
Mrs Mary Dimmick of Washington recounts suffering from severe menstrual trouble and a near operation. She credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Mrs Pinkham's guidance with full recovery. The letters promote Pinkham's remedies and emphasize their life saving value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Dimmick
Washington
Lydia D. Pinihboam
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Mrs. Dick
Washington,dc
Lydia KB. Pinkham
Mrs
59Th
East Capitol Streets
Washington, D. C
Oregon Exposition notes at Lewis and Clark fair
The Sacramentoo Valley Development association will reproduce Sutter s Fort as the first California gold discovery at the Lewis and Clark exposition. A rose exhibit will bloom on opening day and for days after, highlighting Oregon climate and perfume. Lincoln s Springfield home will be shown as a state building landmark with relics on display. Daily excursions to Portland will be run during the four and a half month event, with about 1000 visitors expected daily on excursion trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutter
California
Sacramentoo Valley Development Association
Oregon
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Martyrer
Portland
Ataxia Cured by Williams Pink Pills, Albany Man Says
James H. Watkins of 72 Weasterlo street Albany recounts his illness with locomotor ataxia. He describes initial knee stiffness, unsteady walk, loss of leg control and weakness, then gradual improvement after six boxes of Williams Pink Pills and full recovery after seven to eight months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fesid Ai Watkinston
Williams
James H. Watkins
Weaterlo Street
Albany
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Augusto Passagno
Florence
Signor Salvini
Garrick Club
Paulet
Lincoln
Tmay
Beth
Nees
Old Dominion
Tover
Hitle
Daily Mail
Garland Stahl
Jake” Stahl
Stahl
Senators
Johnson
East
Robert B. Menoy
McRoy
League
Alfred de Oro
St. Louis
de Oro
Jerome’ Keough
Buffalo
Keough
Jake
Oregon Exposition
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