Vienna male beauty show ends with two Apollos chosen
Correspondent reports in Vienna that only two of 103 men appeared as Apollos in the fitness contest. Judges and jury, including Prof Frisch and sculptor Benk, praised disciplined training. Winners Raimund Walter and Hans Tronner claim athletic sport as key to beauty.
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Vienna
Indianapolis Journal
Apollos
Brush
Maier
Privy Councilor
von Benndorf
Frisch
University
Society of Paintfs
Messrs
Napoleon Til
Bismarck
Garibaldi
Victor Emanuel
Cavour
Zola
Talleyrand
Munkacsy
Gambetta
Fashion Journal
Europe
United States
Mr. Morgan
Metternich
Adam
Benk
Turnvereinsing
Oueen Ss
Academy
Anthony
Bes
Cabby
American Electricity Trust
Lueger
Diane de Poitiers
Ninon de L’endios
Venus de Milo
Raimund Walter
Hans Tronner
Walter
Ioanescue
Timogenis
Goldrath
Berlin
Mendel's law of heredity proved by Harvard lab mice
Harvard University researchers study guinea pigs mice and rabbits to illustrate Mendel's law of heredity. The cages reveal albino and mosaic guinea pigs angoras and four toed strains, with pedigrees and photos recorded for each animal. The waltzing mouse from Japan shows how inherited traits appear in offspring, informing breeding and disease inheritance research.
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Indianapolis Journal
Cambridge
Harvard University
George Mendel
Mendel
Harvard
Harvard Zoological Laboratory
United States Army
Navy
College of Heraldry
Japan
Wilkes Booth Relics at National Medical Museum
The National Medical Museum safeguards Booth relics including a cervical spinal section, the surrounding spinal cord, and a lock of hair from the assassin. Veterans and surgeons placed these items after Booth’s death, yet public display was avoided for 38 years until a Post reporter viewed them, noting labels and descriptions and comparing the wound to Lincoln’s.
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Washington Post
United States
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Booth
John Wilkes
Oklahoma
Blockheads
Galoots
Booths
Boston Corbett
Army and Navy Medical Museum
Corbett
Guiteau
Charles Guiteau
Post
North America
General Gordon’s Charms From Antietam to Reunion
Richmond Times-Dispatch notes Gen John B Gordon’s fading health as he nears end of career revealed at New Orleans Confederate reunion. The piece recalls Gordon’s five wounds at Antietam and his leadership holding the forward line with no backup, amid wartime peril and later reflections in Scribner’s Magazine.
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Blank
Washington
New Mexico
Richmond
General Gordon Ends of Civil War Heroic Siege
The narrative recounts General Gordon facing repeated Federal assaults with unloaded cannons, his decisive counterfire, and five wounds from battle. Despite dire injuries and unconsciousness, he inspires his command, survives to recover seven months later, and earns a reputation for a “charmed life” amid a relentless assault by Union forces.
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Gordon
Merits of the Smaller College
Leslie's Monthly argues smaller colleges produce more true and useful men. Large schools offer equipment, prestige, and many educators but lack the intimate moral development and personal influence found in smaller institutions. Best schools are those that build character.
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Leslie's Monthly
Life Is a Privilege Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A reflective poem extols youth as a privileged life full of radiance and dreams. It contrasts youthful vigor with later sorrow, finding meaning in striving, usefulness, sympathy, and the enduring reach toward God. The piece closes with Ella Wheeler Wilcox's attribution.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Parrot Swears At Mrs Wyatt During Suit Fitting
A humorous exchange recounts Mrs Wyatt asking when the parrot learned to swear as it sat in the room while her husband tried on his last summer's suit, and Mrs Nowsit noting the bird's loud outburst.
Tea substitutes in colonial America from wild herbs
Philadelphia readers learn how natives and colonists used forest herbs to brew tea during shortages. The piece lists four_leaved loosestrife, New Jersey tea, arbor vitae, tea berries called checkerberry, snowberry, Labrador tea, and sweet fern as historic or potential substitutes, noting their growth, flavor, and tannin content.
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Philadelphia
New Jersey
Maine
Pennsylvania
New
Allegheny
Thoreau
Maine Woods
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Pearson’s Piano House
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Rok Atkins
Barry
Agin
Ogot
Canon
Ariey
Ervey Lee
Miike Owes Pew Ie Lee
Union Painless Dentists
Conner Market and Circla
Monument
Ww. H. Messenger
East
Washington Street
George
Neverse
C. W. Kriel
Aisanans Pines
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