New York Plans Major Zoological Garden in Bronx Park
A proposed world class zoo for New York City advances with a plan assigning Osborn as chair and Hornady led design. The central glade with six large buildings sits beside an overhead bridge for spectators. Monkeys in expansive arboreal enclosures and elephants in large yards with a swimming tank are planned, aiming for a premier European scale in an urban setting.
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New York
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Hornaily
Hein & Gn Farge
Hornady
Charles N. Lowrie
Asia
Africa
New Yorks
Great Zoological Garden
Preales Zoo
Chambermaids With Mustaches in Cairo Hotels
In Cairo hotel life two local chambermaids appear as Oriental dignitaries but are revealed as Egyptian maids. A striking image shows a coal black man six feet four inches tall in a high cap and white gown answering calls, prompting surprise during first visits.
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Cairo
Egypt
New Yorks Monster Zoo Plans Bold Open Park Design
Plans for a vast animal park profess to freedom for buffaloes monkeys lions and elephants with wide open spaces extensive aviary and water features. The design includes a 168 acre site with a 830 foot cage interior and a 150 by 75 by 50 foot birds cage plus a landscape painted enclosure to mimic wild habitats and relaxed animal housing lines.
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Zoological Park
Steel Roadways A Success Promises Road Reform
The article discusses a pioneering plan to lay steel tracks along public roads to smooth wagon wheels and reduce wear. It cites experiments by engineers Abel Bliss and Mr Blinn, detailing rails of steel and a method to secure them with fishplates, claiming cost under 1800 for a mile and soil-packed support without ties. It also briefly notes a local human-interest item about two six year old girls, Miss Vite and Miss Ward, in Moran and Meridian competing in cotton-picking.
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Tor
Abel Bliss
New Lenox
Blinn
Ill
Texas
Gage May Leave Cabinet Amid Resignation Reports
Washington special says Secretary Gage offered to resign from the cabinet to avoid embarrassment, a move reportedly supported by confidants. President and Porter denied a formal written resignation, while analysts forecast an eventual resignation or forced step at the Treasury and a possible rift with the administration.
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Washington
McKinley
Gage
White House
Porter
Chicago
Gus P ambles Again Respite Delays Guilty Verdict
Gus Pambles, linked to Mrs Nobles in her husband’s murder case, gains another respite as legal maneuvers and parries prolong the hangman’s deadline. Mrs Nobles seeks to dodge the gallows while G ramblers remains quiet and a renewed stay extends the stay of execution into February 11 under Governor Atkinson’s decision.
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Gus Pambles
Gus
Atkinson
Mra. Nobles
Famine Costs India Millions Said by Ttmn Official
Calcutta reports the recent famine cost the treasury about £1 750 000. Of this £800 000 was direct famine outlay, £400 000 went to loans to agriculturists and tax suspensions, with charitable gifts making up the rest.
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Ttmn
Calcutta
Cyrus Must Hang. Georgia Pardons Board Refuses Clemency
Georgia’s new prison commission acting as a pardons board again declines to intervene in the case of Tom Cyrus, condemned for the murder of Annie Johnson. The commission’s report to the governor states no commutation is recommended after review. Cyrus was slated to hang December 23 but was respited to January 7 pending an appeal to the commission.
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Georgia
New Prison Commission
Board of Pardons
Tom Cyrus
Annie Johnson
Cyrus
Atkinson
Gompers Replies to Gage on Gold Standard Debate
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, writes to Secretary Gage defending the federation against the gold standard bill. He argues the resolutions oppose currency reform favoring banks, deny denunciatory intent, praise Gage’s integrity, and state that wage earners oppose retirement of greenbacks in favor of the gold standard.
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American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Gage
Gompers
Bank Monuopoly
America
American Education of Labor
Express agent Mabry vanishes with big cash shortages
P H Mabry, Southern Express agent at Brunswick Georgia, disappeared Wednesday with 5000 tied to Bruns wick Savings and Trust and 6000 tied to National Bank of Brunswick. He also took 4500 from Johnston Steamship office leaving route agent Lovett to audit the books. Mabry wrote a loving letter to his wife claiming he was broke and then absconded with 10000 more, hoping to avoid arrest and fearing suicide.
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Southern Express Company
Brunswick
Bronswick Savings and Trust Company
National Bank of Brunswick
Savannah Banking and Trust Company
Mabry
Johnston Steamship Line
Lovett
Rome
Washington indignant over Hilton trophy stories
Washington dispatch reports General Harries in charge of the District of Columbia militia condemning Georgia based stories about the Hilton trophy. He insists no possession or intent to retain the trophy exists and blames the delay on the express office during the Christmas rush.
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Harries
District of Columbia
Georgia
General Harries
Heyl
Adjutant General's
Atlanta
Express
Will Complete Road Tennessee Central to Nashville
Colonel Jere Baxter and associates led by N C Chapman of St Louis T C Doremans of New York and RB Morris of Nashville have paid 125000 on the Tennessee Central railroad. They have raised 1500000 for completion and placed a large order with the Carnegies for nails. The plan is to build the line from Knoxville to Nashville carried out by Baxter and partners.
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Tennenses Central
Bird
Knoxville
Nashville
Jere Baxter and Associates
St. Louis
T. C. Doremans
New York
RB. L. Morris
Tennessee Central Railroad
Carnegies
Baxter
Long Term for Mrs Nack Expected After Guilty Plea
New York dispatch reports Augusta Nack, accomplice of Martin Thorn, will plead guilty to murder manslaughter. District Attorney Youngs is said to consent to a twenty-one year sentence in Sing Sing, acceptable to Nack and her attorneys.
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New York Dispatch
Augusta Nack
Martin Thorn
Guldensweppe
Youngs
Sing Sing
Owsley Flour Company of Nashville makes special assignment
The Owsley Flour Company of Nashville Tennessee signed over all stock machinery fixtures accounts and flour held by agents in Atlanta and Charleston to special assignee Henry B Bowton after declaring liabilities around 12000 dollars in the Wednesday action.
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Owsley
Nashville
Owsley Flour Company
Tenn
Henry
Bowton
Atlanta
Charleston
Fame's Cost and the Vanity of Ambition
A poem warning that pursuit of wealth and high status brings only thraldom to greatness. It contrasts flattering courtiers, hollow honors, and the dizzying burden of power with humble virtue and measured desire, advising readers to beware the price of ambition.
Quips and Quirks from Old Newspapers Light Humors
A collage of brief jokes and wry lines from various papers, including quips about real vs. pretended truth, marriage plans, laughter at old friends, and comic exchanges on weddings, lamps, salaries, and college life, all framed as vintage one-liners.
The Passing of the Court Fool in England
Amelia Wat ford in At Nicholas traces the decline of the court jester from Charles I onward. John Mackle, Tom Killigrew, and Shadwell are cited as key figures, with the ban on court fools tied to Commonwealth politics and theatrical trends.
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England
Amelia Watford
Nicholas
Mackle John
Tom Killigrew
asJjestar
Charles IL
Fles
Charles
Air Philip Sidney
Shadwell
Soldiers to receive musical meters for drums and flutes
Every French army soldier capable of playing a musical instrument will be supplied one at state expense, except harps or pianos. The measure aims to equip troops with portable metronomes or meters to standardize cadence during marches and drills.
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