Dutch Botany Professor Attacks Darwin at St Louis Congress
Hugo De Vries of the University of Amsterdam electrified 350 attendees by denouncing natural selection as a force of nature and proposing a revised view of evolution. Charles Whitman and David Starr Jordan joined in the heated debate as opponents challenged his new theory.
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Holland
Congress of Arts and Science
Hugo de Vries
University of Amsterdam
St. Louis
Charles O. Whitman
University of Chicago
David Starr Jordan
de Vries
Darwin
Hollander
Prof. de Vries
Silent Wedding of Deaf-Mute Attendants in Harrisburg
Miss Emma Blanche Warden of Harrisburg Pa and James Ladd of Bingham Center Potter County married at the bride’s home. Clergyman Rev P C Smielau of Williamsport led an Episcopalian ceremony with sign language. Attendants were classmates from Mount Airy Seminary.
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Emma Blanche Warden
Harrisburg
James Ladd
Bingham Center
Potter County
G. W. Warden
P. C. Smielau
Williamsport
Mount Airy Seminary
Cure Your Kidneys Promotion Claim
A 19th century advertisement urges curing kidney and bladder ailments with Dean's Kidney Pills. Capt S D Hunter of Engine No 14 Pittsburg testifies the pills fixed a three year kidney trouble and backache, and he would buy them first if troubled again. For sale by all dealers at 50 cents from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Capt. S. D. Hunter
Pittsburg
Wylie Ave
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Blanchard
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
B. A. Buancuaro
Broad St
Philadelphia
Birch St
Is Freedom Making American Women More Womanly
A column argues that freedom and education strengthen women, not looseness or arrogance. It contrasts American liberties with European attitudes, cites a Heavenly Foot Society joke, and asserts that more knowledge yields kinder, more womanly behavior while condemning restricted minds.
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Celestial Kingdom
Heavenly Foot Society
Mammoth Cave
America
Hosea Bigelow
Sailors Transform Through Trades Union Influence
The trades union lifted sailors from neglect and drift to respectability and self reliance. It promoted temperance order and citizenship, with many sailors becoming thrifty upstanding citizens. The union’s impact extends to skilled work, as many former sailors join fields like structural ironwork, improving merchant marine character and workforce quality.
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Jack
Trades Union
Seamen’s Union
Reforming the Sodom Sons Through Marriage
A quotation describes young women believing marriage reforms husbands as noble sacrifice. Praise turns to shame as the event ends in whispers and a broken heart, with a physician labeling it a case of tragic heartbreak.
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Sodom
Naive Compliment Leads to Organist Swap in Dayton
A visiting Reginald De Koven sat beside a church organist in Dayton and played Mendelssohn and Chopin to an enthralled congregation. The organist's heavy hand intervened, insisting the crowd would leave on his cue.
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Reginald de Koven
New York
Dayton
de Koven
Mendelssohn
Going to Stay Young
A Brooklyn woman recently returned from Europe tells her husband of a customs episode aboard a liner. When asked her age she claimed 30, insisting she would remain 20 until she looks older and that the government inspectors cannot change how she appears.
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Brooklyn
Europe
Bay
Brooklyn Eagle
United States
Molecule size likened to Earth by Watts
Dr. W Marshal Watts compares a water drop enlarged to Earth size to a heap of 9 556 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 tennis balls. He says using sporting terms to explain science could greatly boost public understanding of nature wonders.
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W. Marshal Watts
Boston ‘Transcript
New Flemish Word Defined For Motor Car
The Detroit Free Press notes a newly coined Flemish term Snellpaardeloos zeendeerspoorwegpetrolinjuig meaning motor car. The etymology blends rapid, forceless, railless sea deer path and petroleum driven.
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Snellpaardeloos Zeendeerspoorwegpetrolinjuig
Paardeloos
Zeendeerspoorweg
Detroit Free Press
Maps and the railway map engraving tradition in the west
The article celebrates railway publicity maps produced by large lines like the Northwestern, noting the detailed maps of Black Hills Colorado Yosemite Alaska Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan. It highlights the public library storage and the maps from world wall maps to detailed sectional maps and seasonal resort images.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Hills
South Dakota
Colorado
California
Yellowstone Park
Yosemite
Alaska
Great Northwest
Upper
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Chicago & North- Western Railway
Sumer
Worrying the Landlord in a Small Flat
In Clarinda and Cincinnati a couple disputes a pet ban as Florinda explains they had to give away their dog Fido while Frederick memorializes the pet by recording its bark on a phonograph.
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Clarinda
Florinda
Fido
Frederick
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Guess What Ails Nehoe Ailment Debate
A quip about diagnosing a mystery illness from a judge, a New York hotel onerous daily rate for a suite, a testimonial for Piso's Cure for Consumption dated February 17, 1900, and a remark that conscience talk fails against headache.
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N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
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