Quebecs Great Fete Open Air Drama Promises Spectacle
An open air pageant next July on Plains of Abraham will feature 3000 performers from Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa in a tableau of Canada’s founding events. Frank Lascelles directs with royal and diplomatic spectators expected as Cartier, Montcalm, Wolfe, and historical scenes unfold with naval salutes and grand ceremonial pageantry.
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Montcalm
Quebec
Montreal
Ottawa
Frank Lascelles
Oxford
Karl Grey
Canada
Plains of Abraham
Mr. Lascelles
Chicago Record-Herald
St. Lawrence
United States
Lascelles
Champlain
Prince of Wales
Mr. Fairbanks
Cartier
France
Fontainebleau
Francis IL
Montmorency de Laval
Marquis de Tracy
Levis
Murray
Prize For Rat Catching In London
Prize offered by the Society For the Destruction of Vermin, 10 guineas and an em blazoned diploma, to rat catchers and inventors across London. Sir James Crichton-Browne presides as the society aims to exterminate rats mice and other nuisances. The group hopes to turn rat skins into profitable uses to encourage more catches.
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London
Society For the
James Crichton-Browne
Railway timetable study by Silesian schoolmaster
A schoolmaster in Silesia, Germany, is giving pupils instruction in reading railway time tables, described as a difficult study.
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Silesia
Germany
Vindication of Major Dreyfus Sparked by Zola’s Writings
The Dreyfus case ends with full exoneration after Emile Zola inflamed inquiry. Major Alfred Dreyfus, unjustly imprisoned since 1894, is restored to the army with honor. Esterhazy identified as the writer of the bordereau, and Zola’s advocacy helped overturn the conviction.
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Zola
Emile Zola
Alfred Dreyfus
Devil's Island
Alsace
Dreyfus
Pantheon
Paris
France
Maurel
Ecole Militaire
Ife
French Guiana
Picquart
Information Department
Count Esterhazy
Bordereau
Esterhazy
Piequart
Africa
Esterbasy Zola
Viequart
Henry
Court of Cassation
Rennes
Maitre Labori
Supreme Court of the Republic
Flour Buried In Wartime Trench Found In Manassas
While grading Main Street in Manassas Virginia workers uncovered a three foot deep subterranean trench containing several barrels of flour concealed during the Confederate retreat. Barrel staves and decayed flour were also exhumed.
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Main
Manassas
June Busy Month of Brides and Roses in Verse
The Baltimore American piece by Josh Wink celebrates June as a busy month of weddings, graduations, outdoor pleasures, and preparations for vacation. It contrasts bright, cheerful days with looming duties and travel plans, describing classic images of summer in a lyrical tone.
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Josh Wink
Baltimore American
Prominent Woman Sees Brains Count Over Wealth in Society
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, famed Newport and New York socialite, denounces current society as tasteless and declares a shift toward valuing intellect over money. She criticizes climbers, prefers country life, and predicts a future social revolution where birth and breeding matter more than riches.
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Mrs. Vish
Mrs. Fish
Newport
Europe
Every Day May Be a Sunday in Indiana Farm Tale
Martinton near Morocco Indiana hosts a family joke as Sunday and Day are two farmers. Sunday has five sons and Day five daughters. Three Sunday sons already married Day daughters, while the remaining two brothers court the rest. It looks like every Day will be Sunday someday.
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Martinton
Morocco
Ind
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