Adopting a New Military System Prompts Army Command Review
Special to the Indianapolis Journal outlines the shift from commanding general to a general staff system. It traces the office history from Washington through Grant and Miles, detailing wartime and peacetime command changes and the transition toward a modern staff structure.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Republic
Knox
War Department
John Doughty
Josiah Harmer
Wayne
James Wilkingon
France
Alexander Hamilton
Congress
Wilkinson
England
Dearborn
Brown
Alex. Macomb
Florida
Scott
Mexico
McClellan
McCletlan
Halleck
Grant Wace
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Schofield
Army
Echefield
Miles
Sierwen
St. Clair
Hamilton
Macomb
Secret compartments in desks captivate buyers
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a market for desks with hidden drawers attracting mainly women. Dealers boast mysterious secret nooks behind solid oak surfaces, promising romance and imagination. The piece hints those compartments tempt both concealment and intrigue in utilitarian furniture.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Sir Liang's School Days at Phillips Academy Andover
Kansas City figures recall Pi Yuk Liang later Sir Liang Chen Tung as a schoolboy at Phillips Academy Andover in 18%. Classmate Arthur Coates describes a well mannered, sport loving youth who shared rooms with Lin Lieu. The boys embraced American life, playing baseball and walking moonlit with friends, and Pi Yuk dreamed of marrying an American girl.
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Kansas City
Sir Liang Chen Tung
China
United States
Phillips Academy, Andover
Pi Yuk Liang
Andover
Pi Yuk
Arthur Coates
W. A. Nettleton
H. W. Wolcott
Leavenworth
Phillips Academy
Mr. Coates
Phillips
Lin Lieu
McCurdy
America
Ball Park
Washington
Women Run Boarding Houses Face Challenge From New Hotel
Everyone sees a difficult future for traditional boarding houses if the New York Woman's Hotel grows as promised. The lone woman remains a key client for landladies, supplying rooms on the second and fourth floors as work separates families. With women only hotels drawing crowds, boarding houses may lose custom unless adapted, potentially becoming nurseries for children in a changing urban housing scene.
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Everybody's Magazine
New York Woman's Hotel
Immortal Voices and the Mystery of Life
A poetic prose passage by Hildegard Hawthorne in June Atlantic invokes living forests deserts seas and mountains. It speaks of Earth voices sun moon and shadow and a mystic calm found in storms and springs, blending longing, memory, and beauty.
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Hildegard
Hawthorne
Atlantic
Vicious Vocal Methods Call for Regulated Voice Training
A Brooklyn Eagle critique argues for a Board of Examiners and Licensers for voice teachers amid widespread charlatanry. It cites 50 000 New York singing students, unsafe rapid study, and harmful teaching methods that ruin vocal health and end careers.
Saving Youthful Voices and Child Voice Change
The article cites M. Lavignac on how to protect young singers during voice change. For boys, halt vocal exercises immediately at first signs of hoarseness and focus on piano study, theory, dictation, and other subjects. For girls, start monitoring at age thirteen, pause singing lessons, limit strenuous vocal activity, and continue solfeggio at low volumes while safeguarding the larynx and avoiding colds.
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Brooklyn Eagle
United States
Italy
Lake Como
America
New York
Metropolis
Malibran
Grisi
Sontag
Piccolomini
Alboni
Titiens
Patti
Marco
Giuglin
Tamberlik
Wachtel
Lablache
Faure
Melba
Sembrich
Nordica
Barnum
Tone
Brahms
Tschaikowsky
Schubert
Gounod
Schumann
Saint-Saens
Grieg
Massenet
Lilli Lehmann
Tyros
Lampert
Garcia Method
Marchesi
Bouhy
Shriglia
Lehmann
Marcel
Smith-Jones
Ary
Albert Lavignac
Paris Conservatory
M. Lavignac
Roosevelt backs Santa Monica boy on long trousers
Fourteen year old Niles Folsom of Santa Monica meets President Theodore Roosevelt in a hotel parlor. Roosevelt asks if he would like to wear long trousers and promises support with the mother’s consent. The boy recalls the admiring encounter and notes the President’s courteous farewell.
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Chicago Tribune
United States
Niles Folsom
Santa Monica
Cal
M. Folsom
Grover Cleveland
St. Vincent's Academy
Academy of the Holy Name
Matilda
Roosevelt
Cuba
Folsom
Niles
Los Angeles
President Roosevelt
Secret Service
Sister Matilda
Jimming
Laura Keene's Tragic Dream Tells Of Booth Lincoln Night
Stuart Robson recalled Laura Keene describing a prophetic dream of a great man’s death and her connection to it. The tale links her superstition with a blood red ink accident and foreshadowing the Ford's Theater tragedy where John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln.
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Chicago
Robson
Laura Keene
Don Rafael
Miss Keene
Ford's
Washington
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
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