Notable Figures and Oddities Across Africa and America
A collage of eccentric details and claims features John Wanamaker's life insured for 1 503 000 dollars, Sir Patrick Grant at 88, Robert Louis Stevenson linked to a Samoa club, President Harrison and a billiard room in the White House. It mentions a German anatomist’s theory, an inventor solving aerial steering, and Vanderbilt ordering a long steerer from Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wanamaker
Patrick Grant
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
Harrison
Carl Voxht
M. Turpin
W. K. Vanderbilt
Laird & Co
Liverpool
Alva
WW. D. Walton
Petersburg
Spottsylvania Court House
Dr. Thay
Piermont
The
Hudson
William Thaw
Pittsburg
Geronimo
Mobile
Washington
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
Emerson, Carlyle and
Lowell
John Ruskin
Turf Topics and Racing Bits From Concrete Notes
Tarabien plans to winter in Nashville while sultan era earnings total about 15000 and Simmons 22000 to date. Hawthorne bans Mara for life over foul riding and the New York reporting row rages as control faces critics. Five two year olds set fast marks this year led by Silicon 2 90 and Jay Hawker 220 percent. Wanda 2 1914 and others near 2 20. Belmont contemplates suing Coney Island club over Futurity stakes with Morello owners misregistered. Lady Violet placed second. Midnight Chimes dies after bursting a blood vessel at Mystic Park. driver Geers unhurt. Rail mail clerks press for safer cars after deadly crashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawthorne
Mara
A. G. Blakely
Board of Control
New York
Wilton
Jay Hawker
Jay Bird
Leon Wilkes
Guy Wilkes
Princess Royal
Chimes
Wanda
Armour
Electioneer
August Belmont
Coney Island Jockey Club
Morello
Lady Violet
World's Fair Notes Exhibit Details and Arts News
Sacramento plans a postal service exhibit tracing 1849 to today. Chicago Norwegians order Lief Erickson painting for display. Queen consents to a bust sent to Chicago. Osborne palace hosts the queen's boudoir. The main station at the fair will cost 225000 dollars and hold 25000 visitors. Brahms and Joachim declined invitations to visit Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Ita
Chicago
Lief Erickson
America
Louisé
Osborne
Brahms
Modern German School of
Joachim
Interesting global vignettes and Oklahoma notes
The column surveys royal oddities and feats, notes on Victoria and Pedro, then shifts to Oklahoma’s rising population and land expansion. It cites census growth from 62 000 to 134 000, racial composition, and frontier migration. It also critiqued Westminster Abbey’s burial customs and age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Okahoma
Indian Territory
Cherokee Outlet
Abraham Seay
Nevada
Wyoming
World’s fair to host long distance telephone argument
A marvel for foreign visitors at the World's fair will be watching New York and Chicago dispute each other by telephone over nearly a thousand miles. The spectacle offers a grand chance to scold at long range, unseen before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
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E. A. Jagkman, M. D
Wadsworth, Ney
R. H
Richardson, M. D
Wadsworth
Farwell
Justice of the Peace
Wadsworth, Nevada
David Washeim
Notary
Artorn
First National Bank
Reno, Nevada
David W. Rolison
D.D
College of Dentistry
University of California
Greenlaw, DD
Pawning Building
Virginia Street
Riverside Dairy
E. H. Procter
Boston
Tl. Fowler
Acgnr
Yo Tarabien
Nashville
Sultan
Simmons
Midnight Chimes
C. J. Hamlin
Myetic Park
Ea Geers
United States
Express Imessengers
Victoria
Prince Pedro
Dom Pedro
Brazil
China
Coar
Russia
Republic of
France
Prince Vigtur of
Hohenlohe
Wolseley
Westminster Abbey
Westminster
Browning
Tennyson
William Donaldson
STAGE
Stillwater, Churchill Co
John Lee
Main Street
Pike & Wightman, Proprietors
Winchester
Wadsworth Hotel
J. F. George
Public Library
Inne State
R, Herz
Leno, Nevada
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