Magnetic warnings and global seismology expand quake study
Professor Marvin notes synchronized tremors detected in Baltimore Toronto and Victoria. Officials describe a worldwide network of about 1000 stations to map quake origins, velocities, and crust behavior, with Japan Britain and others contributing data as seismology grows.
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Baltimore
Toronto
Victoria
Washington
Weather Bureau
L. A. Bauer
Government
Magnetic Survey
Martinique
Mone Pelee
Pelee
Guatemala
Mont Pelee
International Seismological Association
Prof
Gerland
German Seismological Observatory
Strasburg
United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey
International Bureau of Earthquake Investigation
Japan
Italy
England
Scotland
Russia
Spain
South Africa
Egypt
Ceylon
Java
Mauritius
New Zealand
Syria
Trinidad
Mexico
Peru
Argentina
Germany
Mother Earth
Earth
Great Britain
John Elfreth Watkins, JR
Lord Fairfax of Virginia Arom? The Only American Born British Baron
New York Herald notes Lord Fairfax, likely to reside in England, intrigues London as the only American-born British baron who has no settled ancestral home yet remains distinctly American in nationality. The Fairfax name recalls Cromwell era loyalty, Marston Moor, Naseby, and a Virginia lineage connected to President Washington. The 12th Baron Fairfax, aged 33, received a royal invitation to the coronation and was warmly feted in London by peers and Court society.
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New York Herald
Lord Fairfax
England
London
Great Fairfax
Marston Moor
Naseby
Fairfax
Virginia
Deirs
Washington
Coronaton
Editor sought for chief magistrate role amid political questions
A Brooklyn Eagle report notes papers including The Buffalo News and The Richmond Dispatch nominate a sitting editor for U S chief magistrate. The editor who is already president runs, serves as vice president, and appears content in both offices despite ongoing scrutiny.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Buffalo News
Richmond News- Dispatch
United States
The Verdict on American Verse and World Literature
The piece surveys American literary criticism and chauvinism, arguing four causes for verse excess: chauvinism, insularity, false culture, and excessive self praise. It cites editorials and reviews from Philadelphia Ledger and Sewanee Review, noting the push toward world literature and truth in art, beyond national pride.
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Louis How
New England
West
Europe
Philadelphia Ledger
Sewanee Review
South
John B. Henneman
Russia
France
America
Voltaire
Rosseau
Balzac
Hugo
Chaucer
Shakspeare
Tolstoy
Gorky
Ibsen
Jokai
Sienkiewicz
Mater- Maek
Goethe
Poe
Stevenson
Manuscript Advice and Book News From Critic and Times
Elliott Flower argues editors guess wrong about what will be accepted, so writers must experiment while judging their work. New York Tribune notes summer book surge with sociology, psychology, history and travel titles alongside novels. Language notes debate whether nom de plume should replace pseudonym, with dictionaries and papers favoring pseudonym.
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Elliott Flower
New York Tribune
Stout
Garnett
Gosse
Notable Literary News From Across The Atlantic
The piece reviews Bowdoin College memorial window for Dr Theodore Herman Jewett and outlines careers of Hall Caine Kate Douglas Wiggin and Emerson Thoreau Maeterlinck and Hobson. It notes Daskam Morris and Richmond Hobson projects and hints at forthcoming magazine articles and novels by Clara Morris and others.
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Bowdoin College
Theodore Herman Jewett
Memorial Hall
Liverpool
Kate Douglas Wiggin
England
Hollis
Tolstoi
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Emerson
Thoreau
Atlantic
Maeterlinck
Ghent
Octave Mirbeau
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Santiago
United States Navy
Merrimac
Josephine Daskam
Clender
Pas
Stamford
Clara Morris
Cosmopolitan
Lamar
J . Early
G. A. Custer
James G. Blaine
Miss Morris
Hulda
A Quartet of Sonnets by Ben B Parker
A fragmentary poem set extolling ignorance as bliss and contrasting it with knowledge. It recalls Shakespeare and Arden, voices celestial and earthly, and follows a dreaming speaker amid reflections on joy, folly, and the dreamer Ariel as a revelatory, paradoxical figure.
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Pope
Ariel
Ereen
Virtue
Imperial Neptune
Ben
Parker
An Englishman in Petticoat Lane Discovered Secreting Handkerchief
New York Press reports an Englishman in Petticoat Lane caught attempting to hide a handkerchief up his sleeve as fashionables in London now do. The incident drew amused reactions from New Yorkers who noted the frayed pocket and referenced the trend.
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New York
London
Russian Pilgrims to Holy Places Across Empery
The Globe describes Russian peasants undertaking distant pilgrimages from aging homes to monasteries and holy sites. It notes their self reliance, clothing, and meals, with visits to Solovetsky, Lavra Petchersk, and Kiev. Pilgrims seek spiritual reward, confession, and relic veneration, often aided by local hospitality.
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London Globe
Russia
White Sea
Solovetsky
Odessa
Jaffa
St. Serge
Moscow
Petchersk
Kiev
Tolstoi
Holy Land
Orly
Jerusalem
Record Wheat Harvest Prospects Rise in Georgia
The Atlanta Journal notes a landmark wheat crop outlook with a record last year of 411,006,000 bushels in winter wheat. This year shows two million more acres planted and an exceptionally high crop condition by April first, indicating a strong harvest horizon.
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Atlanta Journal
Professional amusements redefine college life and unity
John Bascom argues in June Atlantic that college amusements have shifted to professional shows like circuses and theaters. He laments the loss of communal participation, fearing crowded urban life drives spectatorship, strains youth enthusiasm, and fragments free collective effort while urging sport to restore unity through disciplined, collegiate spirit.
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John Bascom
Colored Soldiers in Santiago Camp Revels in Music and Cheer
O G Villard notes that after trenches formed near Santiago the segregated troops seized on guitars, banjos, mouth organs and more. Officers struggled to quiet a camp filled with singing and playful activity as Third Alabama camp life mirrored the gaiety and bustle.
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O. G. Villard
Atlantic
Santiago
Alabama
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