University President Plans New Hyde Park Sunday School
President Harper and colleagues outline a revolutionary Sunday school model at Hyde Park Baptist and the University of Chicago. Opening day is June 1 with three department divisions and diplomas after quarterly convocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper
University of Chicago
Hyde Park Baptist Church
J. H. Vincent
Methodist Church
E. D. Burton
Frank W. Shepardson
J. A. Russell
J. L. Jackson
T. W. Goodspeed
Zella A. Dixon
Mary McAdams
A. H. Parker
Odd Toy Earns Minister $50,000 in England
A minister in England amassed fifty thousand dollars by inventing a dancing toy powered by a winding string. The item’s oddity and success drew attention to a range of curiosities and incidents collected from various places.
Gold quartz discovery at Asmara shocks European markets
Rome Tribuna reports large gold quartz finds at Asmara in Erythraea held by Italy. Other items note French statue makers funding a Jehan de Meung monument, the death of duchess of Cleveland, and logistical notes on Paris Madrid telephony and Hungarian street access rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asmara
Erythraea
Italy
Rome
Jehan de Meung
Lady Foley
Queen Victoria
Lord Roseberry
Duchess of Cleveland
Howard
Duke of Norfolk
Hamburg
Paris
Madrid
Bayonne
San Sebastian
Biarritz
Champs Elysees
M. Faure
Mme. Faure
Reuss Greiz
Prussia
William
Reuss
Hungary
Transylvania
Notable Resignations and Passings Across Nations
Dr. Benjamin Eddy Cotting resigns after 55 years as curator of the Lowell Institute Boston at age 85. Mexico loses poet Guillermo Prieto who died in Mexico City and helped sign independence in 1824. Norway grants Nansen's companions 4000 kroner and 3000 kroner yearly for Capt. Svendrup’s Fram expedition. Emperor Francis Joseph plans to visit St. Petersburg with a three to four day stay. Baron Alfred Rothschild earns the title Financial Scorcher in Vienna. Conan Doyle finally sells his first story after 11 rejections, earning 125 dollars. Sir Walter Besant’s novel, rejected, was burned after years in obscurity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Eddy Cotting
Lowell Institute
Boston
Mexico
Guillermo Prieto
City of
Norway
Storting
Nansen
Svendrup
Fram
Francis Joseph of
Austria
St. Petersburg
Alfred Rothschild
Vienna
Conan Doyle
Walter Besant
Two Snake Invasions Spark Union County Scuffle
In Rahway New Jersey the Lafarge Spoke and Wheel works faced a sudden moccasin invasion. Workers attacked the reptiles with hammers as 13 snakes lay dead and many escaped. At Milton Mil ion nearby a club meeting on liquor by law was disrupted when four big moccasins were released and the vote defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Cuba
Union County
Rahway
Lafarge
Rahway River
Young Men’s Social Club
Milton
Frank Pierson
African horses for America to race in Virginia breeding venture
South African millionaire Joseph Storey Curtis plans to bring 18 to 20 horses to the United States this year. Through William Easton he bought the Henry Harrison farm, 500 acres in Fauquier County, Virginia, to establish a large breeding operation. Curtis will ship his stock here and racehorses will be trained at local tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
Joseph Storey Curtis
Curtis
South Africa
Jockey Club
William Easton
New York City
Henry Harrison
Fauquier County
Iris
Stevens Brothers Rescued After Balloon Drift Off Sandy Hook
Aeronauts Lee and Frank Stevens of New York were picked up ten miles off Holland below Sandy Hook after abandoning their willow car balloon at about 400 feet. They were seen dropping into the sea from the drifting craft by Sandy Hook pilot William Furrie. The brothers say experiments in sailing the balloon drove them out to sea and they cut loose to save themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Frank Stevens
West Twenty-fifth Street
New York City
Long Branch
N. J
Mary Jane
Conroy
Holland
Sandy Hook
William Furrie
Stevens Brothers
Window gift for Wells College by class of 85
Mrs. Cleveland selects a dawn themed window designed by John and Bancel La Farge for Wells College. The panel depicts a young girl advancing in white with green tint under dark blue morning skies. Marguerite panels form the college flower motif.
Eggs in Europe in 1896. Britain tops imports
In 1896 Great Britain imported 1 539 387 000 eggs. Russia and northern Italy emerge as the leading European egg producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Slavs Travel to Bad Lands Told of Treatment Marks
A party of 21 Slavs with families passed through Aberdeen on the way to the Bad Lands. Several members claim harsh punishment for alleged nihilism, including Michael Lodovitch claiming kinship to Ivan Lodovitch, Tesah Stolstock jailed in Siberia, and Ivan Molosky a Pole held in Moscow dungeons for six years. Molosky says no trial occurred and he was freed only to leave Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
S. D
Michael Lodovitch
Ivan Lodovitch
Siberia
Tesah Stolstock
Stolstock
Belgium
America
Ivan Molosky
Moscow
Molosky
Michael Connor
Russia
Holland
Crescent Ship Yards
Elizabeth
N. J
John P. Holland
Nixon
Lewis Nixon
United States
St Louis Man Seeks to Convert Ingersoll to Christ
Joseph Bloomfield Jackson of St. Louis says a Holy Spirit prompted mission to convert Robert G Ingersoll. He plans an invocation to be delivered before October and believes God already moves Ingersoll. Jackson, 33, is a Mercantile Club member with a paying business he would abandon for this duty. He lives at the Terminal hotel with a wife visiting relatives in Pittsburgh. He hails from Newark and claims descent from a Presbyterian minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Joseph Bloomfield Jackson
Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll
Jackson
Saul
Tarsus
Mr. Jackson
God
Mr. Ingersoll
Mercantile Club
Terminal Hotel
Pittsburgh
J. M. Guthrie
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church of
Property sales listings from Warren County Pennsylvania notices
Several parcels in Warren County Pennsylvania are offered for sale under legal actions. Read descriptions include parcels in Corydon and Sugar Grove townships with details on boundaries, improvements, and previous owners such as D S Dockstader Julia Boyer Edward Wetmore John Winchester Frank Gebhart I R Raymond and Dora Raymond. Proceeds go to creditors including Helping Hand Building and Loan Association and Horace Mix.
Alligator Attacks Hearse Procession in Florida Creek
A 15 foot alligator attacked a funeral procession crossing Hampton creek near Twin Lakes Florida. The hearse horses panicked, the buggy overturned, Mrs Henry Jackson and two girls fell into the water but reached shore unharmed. A neighbor shot the alligator after six shots, ending the threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Creek
Twin Lakes
Jacksonville
Fla
Hampton Creek
Henry Thomas
Saul Jackson
Woman Beats Man Then Hands Him to Police
Mrs. Rosa Meyer of New York surprised a man hiding under her bed after returning home from a visit. She locked the door thrashed him with a stick, punched him, chased him two blocks, and turned him over to a police officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Meyer
First Avenue
New York
Romance in His Life: Son of English Family Returns Riches Wife
T. W. Beakbane of Lower Lake California, a prosperous fruit grower, has been identified as the missing heir of a wealthy English family after 23 years. He left home after family trouble, built wealth in the United States, and now travels with his wife and four children toward Europe for the diamond jubilee and to visit Jersey in the English Channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. Beakbane
Lower Lake
Cal
Walter H. Cline
Canadian Pacific
Beakbane
United States
Lake County
Europe
Jersey
English Channel
Paris Sanitary Register Aims to Complete By 1900
Paris is compiling a city wide sanitary record of each building. Since March 1894 thirty five thousand houses have been described and the register is expected to be completed by 1900. It notes drains cesspools wells plumbing and records deaths from contagious disease and analyses of water dust and air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Vienna Sets Height Limits for Buildings
Vienna enforces a 82 foot maximum for building height and 65.6 feet cap for the top floor above street level. Sloped sites require measurement from the highest point. Dwellings may not exceed five stories including cellar and attic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Large Warren County land sale parcels in Pittsfield township
A sequence of property deeds in Warren County Pennsylvania describes multiple parcels in Pittsfield and surrounding townships. The notices detail boundaries, adjoining owners, road and creek lines, and improvements including houses and barns, with properties sold under court actions led by heirs and lenders.
Land parcel description and sale in Warren County
Legal notice describes a land tract in Elk township Warren County Pennsylvania, part of warrant five thousand five hundred fifty one, detailing bearings lines and boundaries. The property includes a two story dwelling with ell, barns, orchard and water well and is sold as the property of F Burgeson at suit of William P Holman for the estate of William P Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cones of
Elk
County of
Warren
Pennsylvania
Charles Johnson
William 8. Holman
Johnson
F. Burgeson
William P. Holman
E. W. Thompson
William P. Thompson
Described Pittsfield Land Parcel Near Helping Hand Sale
A deeded tract in Pittsfield Township Warren County Pennsylvania totaling 116 acres including a two story frame dwelling with ell frame barn and about sixty acres improved. The parcel, part of Holland Land Company acreage, was conveyed from Martin A Tuttle and wife by deed dated November 15 1892 and later sold as ED Lopez property at Helping Hand Building and Loan sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corydon
Warren
Nnsylivania
Bradford Road
D. S. Dockstader
Dockstader
Julia Boyer
Docks
Helping Hand Building and Loan Association
Glade Township
County of
State of
Pennsylvania
Edward, Wetmore
Cornplanter Refining Company
Recorder’s Office
Warren County
Edward D. Wetmore
Parker Street
Edward S. Mack
Samuel Brasington
Albert H. Brasington
John S. Winchester
Alpheus Winchester
John 8
S.'I. Allen
W. H. Copeland
Frank Gebhart
I. H. Fockwood
Mary &. Spaulding
Pittsfield
John Miller
Miller
John
Wich
John G. Anderson
Swan Swanson
Augusta Johnson
Gust Swanson
John Swanson
Chas. Frank
Wilkinson Road
Alba M. Kent
Andrew Malmberg
Fannie A. Hazzard
Irvington
P. Falconer
Hazel Street
Newbold
Ann Kelly
Brokenstraw Creek
Irvine
William H. Clark
Michael Kelly
Pleasant Township
Warren and
Brookville
John Lauffenberger
Lauffenberger
Orris Hall
Orris Hall Estate
Warren and Brookville
MecKain
Alexander B. McKain
Priscilla Taylor
Recorder’s
John L. McWilliams
James Taylor
Warren Savings Bank
Corydon Township
Wells
W. 1. Morrison
W. Wells
Said Wells
L. H. DD. Carter
C. N. Grannis
Kilen Ki
Carter
Jennie C. McConnell
L. H. Carter
Eldred Township
E. W. Thompson
Reno Oil Company
Edward Winne
Katharine M. Gerow
Katherine M. Gerow
N. K. Heath
August Andersen
August Johinson
GC. E. Carlson
Nettie Erickson
Sugar Grove
S. Babcock
Q. D. Mattison
F. L. Patchen
Alexander Anderson
A. B. Hazeltine
H. Pilling
Hazeltine
W. G. Mattison
Samuel Gray
J. O. Mattison
O. D. Mattison
T. T. Mattison
John G. Jones
Jones
William Wilson
Elvira Garfield
S. L. Patchen
Thomas T. Mattison
Wilbur Walling
Said Mattison
C. L. Mattison
Theodore J. Wetterlein
Charles A. Swanson
Sugar Grove Township
J.O. Mattison
W. H. Shortt
Holland Land Company
Elias Bondinot
Martin A. Tuttle
ED. Lopez
Saite of Helping Hand Building and Loan Association
Eldred
David White
T. C. Joy
Hannah J. Cooper
Emerson
Clarke Lord and Company
J. J. Roup
Enterprise Road
Joy
Clarke
Lord
Dundedale
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NEW Sunday School
Warren Mall
Warren, PA
England
Sarah Flower Adams
Cambridge
Eng
China
Thenilworth
F. M. Grover
Kaw
Cromwell
Victoria
Kansas City
Maud Parks
Lock Raven, Md
Cabstoria
LA Iden
Atlantic
Dr. Pierce
R. D. Hill
Zanto
Louisa Co
Sheriff's Sales
Court of Common Pleas
Borough of
New York State Line
D. Wentworth
William Weld
Jamestown Road
I. R. Raymond
Dora Raymond
Horace Mix
Levant Ricker
Eugene E. Thurber
Caroline Bond
Delia Urlingame
Emmet Hibner
Ene
Garland
Thomas O’ Reilly
Enterprise
O’reilly
Moses Watt
Said Watt
Garland Run
Thomas O’reilly
O’ Reilly
Martha D. Sutton
National Savings and Loan Association
K. P. Lamb
C. E. Allen
Township
Clara Hannon
Harriet Maxon
Hill
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
C. Baker Et al
William Baker
Fir
Leonard Nyberg
Henry Keppel
D. M. Howard
Sheriff's Office
Farmington
C. B. Mix
William Mahan
Busti
Raid State Road
Charles Pond
George Hill
Producer
Consumer
Kopf & Henry
Grocers
Water Street
C. Smith & Son
Baker & Bowman Co
Utz & Dunn
Levis & Pifer’s
Ladies’ Fine Shoes
Goker & Son
Elisabeth
Golden Horse Shoe
No. 309
Second St
the Mail Office
Acme
Acme Cycle Co
Elkhart
Ind
Corea
Seoul
Law Department
Henry Somerset
Duxhurst
Squire Frank G. Kaufman
Friedensburg
L. M. Hazeltine
Warren Brasington
Willis Cowan
F. K. Russell
Frank A. Logswell
Warthen Brasington
James Lo
B. F. Mead
H. M. Boeschlin
N. Dietch
Omas Haskins
F. A. Cogswell
Pisa
W. H. Drouen
U. S
Dearborn St
Chicago
California
San Francisco
Buffalo
N. Y
Sheffield
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Yullman
Sunbury
Lancaster
Baltimore
Washington
Pullman
Erie
Williamsport
Washington Alours
Kane
Sengor
Renovo
Rideway
Ridgway
J.B. Hutchinson
J. R. Wood
Gen’l
Avent
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
New York Central & Hudson Rivers, R. Co
Kix
Sun
South
North
Wim
Syracuse
Rochester
Niagara Falls
Ceeree
Dunkirk
Fredonia
Lily Dale
Cassadaga
Erecta Ioaey
Wu Falconer
Weve
Ar. Falconer Junc
Frewsburg
Ackle
Russel
Grand Valley
Irvineton
Youngsville
Titusville
City
Pittsburg
Falconer
D. C
Tali
Kinzua
Bradford
Salamanca
Olean
Olean Express
Pittsburg Express
Tietoute
Tionesta
Oil City
Buffalo Express
Oil City Express
W.S. Leffard
RK. Bell
J. A. Fallows
Agint
Mooney-Brisbane
Main
Clinton Streets
Tionesta Valley Railroad
Sheffield Junction
Lamona
Shef. Junction
Shefield
Shef, Junction
Shef
Jerry Crary
Supt
Cincinnati
East
West
Jamestown
N.Y
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