Broadway the Great White Way and Its Enduring Allure
A European visitor hails Broadway New York as the greatest street in the world, noting its 24 hour life from Battery Park to Harlem and its role as business hub and cultural artery. The piece traces Broadway’s reach, from wholesale districts to Times Square, hotel row, and up to Columbia University, with historic names and the promise of the Hudson Memorial Bridge at the northern end.
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Inmeriva
London
Strand
Piccadilly
Paris
Bois du Boulogne
Champs Elysees
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Broadway
New York
Europe
New York Evening Post
Old Street
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Madison Square
Columbus Con
Manhattan
Harlem
Hudson
Albany
Steel Corporation
Rubber Trust
Great Financel
City Hall Park
Union Square
Fourteenth Street
Herald Square
Thirty-fourth Street
Rialto
Times Square
Astor Farm
Hotel Astor
Cathedral of St. John
Columbia University
College of the City of
Battery Park
Hudson Memorial Bridge
Liberty Street
Fulton Street
Oklahoma Honey Mine Legend At Sapulpa Beehive Found?
Sapulpa oil men M L Kelley and John Chaney report a bee sting tale leading to a honey rich rock cliff near Sapulpa. Indians said caves yielded gallons daily, with bees dripping honey from hacked post oak trees. Oil men and locals speculate bees multiplied after an old beekeeper’s death years ago.
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Jerry McKay
Sapulpa
Democrat
M. L. Kelley
John Chaney
Shelley
Mr. Chaney
Watahee
Tulsa Democrat
Buried Money Reappears In Bank Deposit
A Pioneer Trust customer deposited seven thousand dollars in cash that looked mouldy and mildewed, claiming the bills were buried last October during a financial slump and were dug up yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer Trust Company
Kansas City Star
The Victim and Madge-Miss Avoirdupois Take Horseback Ride
Madge-Miss Avoirdupois is seen taking horseback riding. She dismounts from the horse after a brief ride at Lippincott's, according to witnesses.
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Madge
Women's Column and Suffrage Debate Across Nations
The piece contrasts two views of women’s roles from the Mulligatawney vignette to broader suffrage opinions. It criticizes militant tactics, praises sober civic education, and mentions leaders and groups on both pro and anti suffrage sides including the League for Civic Education of Women and figures like Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Gle
England
Salvation Army
Sister of Charity
Greater
New York
Albany
Teachers’ Association
Parkhurst
League For the Civic Education of Women
Lyman Abbott
Berkley Lyceum
Richard Watson Gilder
Gilbert Jones
Carnegie
Grover Cleveland
Fragmentary Vogue quotation on women's suffrage rhetoric
A fragment quotes Vogue arguing women must gain the franchise as a defense against male tyranny and institutions, urging hasty national change. It questions the peril to women driving action and notes the peril is unnamed.
The Invisible Angel of Endurance in a Factory Room
A Woman’s National Daily feature recalls a disabled seamstress in a dim workshop. Despite a wooden limb and iron bands she smiles and endures, teaching readers to value health and blessings and to avoid petty complaints.
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Woman's National Daily
Hidden Histories and Unlearned Skills Across Homes
A narrator laments widespread ignorance in homes from historic houses to sewing machines and gas ranges. He recalls a couple’s divorce case highlighting financial neglect and patriarchal control, and notes the universal truth that labor within the home is real work, deserving recognition.
Prominent PEI Public Works Official James H Cummiskey
James H. Cummiskey born November 27 1849 in Fort Augustus Prince Edward Island. Educated at public schools and Prince of Wales college he taught then entered business. Elected to the Legislature in 1891 his Liberal win toppled the Conservative government. He served as speaker from 1897 for seven years and later became commissioner of public works in 1900 acting premier in recent years.
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James H. Cummiskey
Prince Edward Island
Fort Augustus
E. I
Prince of Wales College
Mr. Cummiskey
Legislative Assembly
Cummiskey
Everett C Bumpus Panama Commission Member
Everett C Bumpus a member of the international Panama claims commission was born in Plympton Massachusetts November 28 1844. After service in the war he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He served on the bench from 1872 to 1882 and for twenty years advised on commissions settling water gas electric and land franchises. He spent much of the past two years abroad on the international Panama lands commission.
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Everett? C. Bumpus
International Panama Claims Commission
Plympton
Mass
Braintree
Massachusetts
International
Panama Lands Commission
Ernest W Brown Forges Lunar Tables For World Navigation
Ernest W Brown a mathematics professor born in Hull England November 29 186? will head the mathematics department at Yale after leaving Haverford College. He won a Royal Astronomical Society gold medal in 1907 for advancing astronomical work and will oversee lunar tablet production for nautical almanacs used in international navigation, a project expected to take about ten years.
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Ernest W. Brown
Haverford College
Hull
England
Iscu
Cambridge University
America
ISM
Royal Astronomical Society of London
Brown
Yale
Jefferson De Angelis Early Career and Rise to Fame
Jefferson De Angelis born in San Francisco on November 30 1850 to performances family. He toured with sister Sarah from childhood then worked in Australia India and South Africa before joining McCaull Opera company. He later led his own troupe and starred in many comic operas signaling lasting fame.
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Jefferson DE Angelis
San Francisco
Sarah
Australia
India
South Africa
McCaull Opera Company
New York Casino
Geology Professor William Morris Fontaine A UVA Veteran
William Morris Fontaine a longtime geology and natural history professor at the University of Virginia was born in Louisa County Virginia on December 1 1835. He studied at Hanover Academy and UVA graduating with high honors in 1859. He served as a lieutenant of artillery during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.
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William Morris Fontaine
University of Virginia
Louisa County
Hanover Academy
Husbands and wives pay for home labor says Harper s Bazar
The text suggests a practical method to value a wife's home labor by estimating the cost of replacing her work with paid labor. It frames this idea as a modern extension of St. Paul’s exhortation to husbands to love their wives and provide fairly for their household duties.
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St. Paul
Harper’s Bazar
Mind of Woman Faculty Critiqued by German Scientist
Prof. Carl Vogt's study of female minds in Geneva is cited, noting women students at lectures register early and note take poorly. The piece argues women excel in memory but falter in practical lab work, with many awkward hands and frequent questions from assistants.
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Thomas
Chicago University
Carl Vogt
University of Geneva
Burt
Noted geologist Dr Fontaine dies former UVA professor
After the Civil War he studied in Germany for two years then taught chemistry and geology at the University of West Virginia before joining the University of Virginia faculty in Charlottesville. He authored numerous books and papers on geology and mineralogy and was regarded as a high authority.
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Confederate States
America
University of West Virginia
University of Virginia At
Charlottesville
Fontaine
John H. Converse A Baldwin Locomotive Leader Dies
John H. Converse a Baldwin Locomotive Works partner and Philadelphia industrial figure born December 2 1840 in Burlington Vermont died after a career that began as a newspaper man and progressed through the North Western railroad and Pennsylvania system before joining Baldwin in 1870. He was active in benevolent causes and Presbyterian affairs serving as vice moderator of the 1900 General Assembly and promoting a world wide evangelistic campaign within the church.
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John Herman Converse
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Burlington
University of Vermont
Chicago
North-Western Railroad
Pennsylvania System
Altoona
Converse
General Presbyterian Assembly
Presbyterian Church
Cleveland Abbe Meteorologist Pioneer of U S Weather Service
Cleveland Abbe a distinguished meteorologist born in New York City December 3 1888 pursued studies at the College of the City of New York University of Michigan and Harvard. He served with the United States coast survey and Imperial Central Astronomical Observatory at Paulkova before directing the Cincinnati Observatory where he created daily weather maps and helped found the U S weather service now part of the weather bureau.
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Cleveland Abbe
New York City
College of the City of New York
University of Michigan
Harvard University
United States Coast Survey
Russia
Imperial Central Astronomical Observatory
Paulkova
St. Petersburg
America
Joseph Leiter Life and Wheat Corner Collapse
Joseph Leiter, Chicago born capitalist and mine owner, son of Leoxi Z. Leiter, Harvard graduate, led a 1897 wheat corner on the Chicago Board of Trade. His public rise ended as the deal collapsed early in 1898, depleting millions of his fortune. He was related to Lady Curzon and the Countess of Suffolk.
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Joseph Letter
Chicago
USGS
Leoxi Z. Leiter
Umm
Leiter
Harvard University
Chiccago Board of Trade
Lady Curzon
India
Countess of Suffolk
Indian Grape Pickers Attract California Valley Vintners
Indian workers from mountain reservations near San Diego travel by wagon horse and foot to the Cajon Valley vineyards for grape harvesting and raisin making season. They arrive in colorful, patched wagons, enjoy feasting and games between long days of labor, renew old ties, and stay in simple Indian hoteli ers along the road before setting camp to begin the harvest.
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San Diego
I Cajyou
Los Angeles Times
Calve urges women to marry over a musical career
In Toronto Emma Calve preaches a stark choice for aspiring singers. She warns young women that a life on the stage is not peaceful or natural, urging marriage and motherhood over pursuing fame unless financial or home support is secure. The renowned diva adds artists must sacrifice pleasures to protect their voice.
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Mme
Emma Calve
Toronto
Ontario
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York
New Yorker
Oklahoma
Mulligatawney
Col
T. W. Higginson
Women's Journal
Opcom
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