Consular Reform Aims to Put Service on Life Tenure
Washington dispatch outlines Lodge plan to reorganize U S consular posts into ten grades with life tenure and fixed salaries up to ten thousand dollars a year. It notes current pay, fees, and duties, from Paris to Liverpool, and compares foreign systems with American practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Senator Lodge
Uncle Sam
Congress
State Department
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
Paris
John K. Gowdy
Sam
London
William M. Osborn
Liverpool
James Boyle
Hamburg
Bremen
Dawson City
Klondike
Cairo
Calcutta
Constantinople
Rio de Janeiro
Shanghai
United States
Seoul
Corea
Tokio
Japan
Bangkok
Siam
Amoy
China
Tangier
Moeroces
Tahiti
Beechen Woods in May a May Day Paradise
Emma Carleton writes of Beechen Woods in New Albany in May describing lush green walls of vines and beech trees along a stone wall. The piece meanders through hedges and streams toward a beech grove, detailing birds, flowers, sorrel lore, and pastoral paths. It celebrates the tranquil, timeless charm of countryside May and the joy of nature’s renewal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iris
West
India
Silver Creek
St. Ferreol
Hester
Towhee
Creech
May
Elizabeth
Emma Carleton
New Albany
Couldn't Fool Him Twice
A Philadelphia Times tale shows Hans, a money minded man who loses a barn to fire insured for more than value. He confronts the insurer and later refuses a life policy offer, quipping that a new wife would only cost $5.00 and better than the old one. He warns against Yankee tricks and lies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Hans
Farmhouse fire sparks editor uproar over misquote
Kansas City Journal recounts how a reporter's odd phrasing about Uncle Billy disrobing caused a kitchen table debate. The next day Uncle Billy storms into the office insisting he undressed not disrobed, joking he could be a pope or a judge, while the newsroom hails the odd correction as local color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Journal
Billy
Kansas
Supreme Court
Presbyterians ready for New York assembly and jubilee
New York hosts the May 15 to 28 assembly with a committee report on revision of the creed. President Roosevelt will speak at the jubilee meeting marking one hundred years of Presbyterian Home Missions. The church reports strong finances, growing membership, and extensive mission work, including two major church buildings and large benevolence outlays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
New York
Presbyterian General Assembly
John Hall
Briggs
McGiffert
Lane
Union Seminary
General Assembly
8. P. Sprecher
Cleveland
Rome
Episcopal
Presbyterian Home Missions
Roosevelt
Home Board
Old School
New School
Presbyterians
Board of Foreign Missions
Presbyterian
Philadelphia
Home and Foreign Boards
Board of Publication
South
North
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Portland
Board of Home Missions
Presbyterian Church
Brick
Henry van Dyke
Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Assembly Preparations Seen At Fifth Avenue Church
The approaching General Assembly will meet at the Fifth Avenue Church New York with Rev Henry C Minton preaching the opening sermon. The event includes missionary meetings Carnegie Hall luncheons and a Roosevelt visit and is expected to be highly notable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Hull
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Chicago
UNION
Cumberland
The
United
Reformed
New School Presbyterian
Old Guard
North
South
New Schoole
Church
Church South
General Assembly
Assembly
Synod
America
Presbyterian
John Halls
John Hall
New York
Boston
Wall Street
Fifth-avenue Church
Henry C. Minton
Theological Seminary
San Anselmo
Cal
Carnegie Hall
American Bible
American Tract Societies
Princeton
New York University
Presbyterian Union
Roosevelt
Secrets Won At Dinners From Waiters To Wits
London Tit Bits recalls how casual remarks at meals altered fate and markets. From a butler overhearing Gladstone to a society beauty selling state secrets, small conversations twice changed nations. It notes 1945 corn law repeal rumors and a khedive share sale before Britain bought canal shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robert Peel
Times
Great Daily
Sidney Herbert
Norton
West End
India
Viceroyalty
Walter Scott
Frederick Greenwood
Pall Mall Gazette
Suez Canal
France
Greenwood
Downing Street
Was & At
Britain
Monument Sculptor Rudolph Schwarz Shaped War Memorial
Rudolph Schwarz, Vienna born sculptor resident for six years, supervised large groups for the soldiers and sailors monument. He chose to stay in America, won the competition for fountain groups and figures, and will begin the Pingenre monument in Detroit this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Schwarz
Schwarz
Bruno Schmitz
America
Schmitz
Berlin
Wabash College
Pingree
Detroit
Frederic Barbarossa
Daly Street
Noble
Cruse Street
Washington
Harlem
New York
Mr. Schwarz
Vienna
van Dyke
Also Mentioned on This Page
OUR Consular Service
Congressional Movement
Dastis
Avenue de Opera
Gowdy
St. Helen's Place
Bishopsgate
Moscow
Apia
Samoa
Europe
John Elfreth Watkins, JR
Beechen Woods
Vanderbilt
Rothschild
Count Henri DE Rothschild
William K. Vanderbilt, JR
Henri de Rothschild
Committee On
Jubilee Mission Meeting
Himeself
Brane Schmita
Hexy
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