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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1893
Page
2
Correspondents invited to sign with real names. April 27 1895 notes discuss Bismarck returning to public life as a Prussian Diet candidate. Athens Ohio soldiers monument speech by Harrisons. Warsaw native Jones Verse set to release seventy fourth novel. Merise recalls Marie Stuart history. A grand fleet visits New York to celebrate discovery and peace, amid Liberty Bell parade in Philadelphia drawing crowds and festive closures.
The Hampton Roads fleet leads the largest American harbor display yet seen. President Cleveland will review the armada aboard the Dolphin as the ceremony marks the discovery of a new world and the opening of the Chicago Exposition. The parade emphasizes peaceful mission and rapid U S naval growth. Uncle Sam steadies foundations as Washington builds the Congressional Library and post office for enduring national use.
Washington dispatch details the Duke of Veragua and retinue visiting President Cleveland at the White House. The party arrived by two open carriages at 3 pm, wore ornate uniforms, and met in the Blue Room. They toured the Navy and State departments before returning to Arlington.
The article notes Chief constructor Wilson's plan for an experimental tank to measure water resistance on ships using meels. It mentions Britain’s two tanks at Portsmouth and Torquay, with costs around 85000 dollars, and suggests the US hesitancy due to naval spending. It also covers the World’s Columbian Exposition opening next Monday, predicting chaos in grounds and exhibits but favorable spring weather drawing crowds later. Herario J. Staacve, the longtime consul at Gibraltar, is cited as the oldest continuous service member dating from May 154s.
The passage describes yard carvings of mythic races as designs by anthropologists and notes the library building will be larger than the State War and Navy building. A domed structure will rise high above the Capitol, visible across the city, with Cupid and floral motifs to crown the exterior.
Gen J B Weaver unveiled a plan for an Independent School of Pass Science in Des Moines to train citizens for liberty and public influence. The school would feature seven professorships covering land utilities inventions finance transportation constitutional law suffrage applied Christianity and public debates with Weaver serving as unpaid director until a successor is chosen.
An old time drug advertisement touts Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. It promotes sample bottles at John Y MacRaes drugstore and lists large sizes at 50 cents and 1.00, urging families to try Kemp s throat and lung remedy with free samples and prices.
The Belgic brought the Corean World’s Fair commissioner Won and Minister Yi to Chicago with two aides and ten musicians. They wore tall hats at meals and the minister wore exotic skins and a cap beneath a veil like headgear. Won expects Corea to exhibit well and learn from American inventions in arts and sciences. The ten musicians toured in steerage and kept to themselves until Chicago.
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