Lincoln Memorial Statue Details by French at Washington
The Lincoln statue by Daniel Chester French sits on a pedestal about ten feet high sixteen feet wide and seventeen feet deep. The monument stands nineteen feet tall from the plinth top to the head. Ella Wheeler Wilcox penned the lines Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone.
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Lincoln Memorial
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Chester French
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
First Oratorio Cavalieri's Representation of Spirit and Body
The work titled Representation of Spirit and Body by Cavalieri, dating to around 1600, is regarded as the earliest oratorio. It marks an early landmark in the development of the form credited to Italian composers.
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Cavalieri
Master Madden Hosts Sixth Birthday Party
Master Frank Madden of Thornton Park celebrated his sixth birthday with a party hosted by his parents, gathering a group of playmates for a joyful afternoon last week.
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Frank Madden
Thornton Park
Growth of Adirondack Park Through State Acquisitions
The article traces Adirondack Park expansion from early state holds and tax sales to the 1885 forest preserve law. It notes the first $25 appropriation in 1890 and continued gains, with the park now covering about 7,500 square miles, roughly one seventh of New York.
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Adirondack Park
New York
Literary Digest
Letter Forms of 1866 Guide for Personal Correspondence
A 1866 writers’ guide outlines proper letter forms for domestic and social cases. It details how to address a daughter from a mother in town and how a gentleman to a daughter writes about suitor choices. It also covers a clerk to a merchant seeking more pocket money and a friend addressing an insult.
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Marxtine
Funeral services honor Congressman William P Connery Jr
Lynn mourns Congress member William P Connery Jr who died in Washington on June 15 after illness. More than 150000 attended his funeral as 10000 uniformed marchers escorted his body from St Marys Church to St Marys Cemetery Lynnfield in a tribute to the World War II veteran and House Labor Committee chairman. The service honored a public servant known for championing fair wages and working hours for laborers and his camaraderie with veterans of the 101st infantry.
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William P. Connery, Jr
Washington, D. C
Lynn
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Lynnfield
Congress
St. Mary’s Church
Lynn Common
101St Infantry
Bill” Connery
House Labor Committee
Congressman Connery
Winthrop
Bill
101St
Bill Connery
Desire Data About Early Paintings
Boston June 23 the Massachusetts Portrait Surveys seeks portraits held in the state painted before 1826. Owners not yet visited should send their name to Miss Sylvia Schlafer Boston Massachusetts so portraits can be included in the federal index to be published in autumn. Survey staff have visited homes galleries and repositories to calendar portraits by colonial and early Union artists. The index aims to list all portraits up to 1825 and prove valuable for studying colonial and early Union art.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Sylvia Schlafer
Huntington Avenue
Mass
Winterland Ice Spectacle Opens at Great Lakes Exposition
The presentation titled Winterland at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland features a $200,000 ice show with champion skaters. Produced under modern snow and ice devices, the production is directed by Isaac Van Grove and runs 101 days from May 29 to September 6.
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Cleveland
Isaac van Grove
New York
Washington's First Advisers Secure Four Key Roles
Advisers appointed by President Washington focused on foreign affairs, finance, army organization, and law to assist in shaping early U S policy. The four men were chosen for their expertise to guide the new government.
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Washington Geroge
Washington
Discovery of Cumberland Gap and Wilderness Road blaze
The article notes Daniel Boone found Cumberland Gap on a 1769 hunting trip and, with companions, opened a trail through for the Wilderness Road in 1775. It mentions a 160 year old tortoise gifted by Captain Cook to the paramount chief of the Friendly Islands and later displayed on the Queen of Tonga’s palace grounds.
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Cumberland Gap
Daniel Boone
Captain Cook
Tonga ‘Island
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Barnes Ave
Orient Heights
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B.S. Canner, Inc
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Elks
Bill Thornton
Jack Gallagher
Biggio
Gloucester
Maiden Lodge
Cong
W. P. Connery
A. E. Whittemore
Bartlett Rd
Winthrop Call Ocean
England
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