Knights Templars Parade Draws Vast Louisville Crowd
About 300,000 spectators lined Louisville streets as thirty thousand Knights Templars in full uniform formed a four mile parade for the twenty eighth tri annual conclave. Illness and heat caused 11 prostrations, with one man, Irwin Barnard of Greenville Indiana, reported seriously.
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Knights Templars
Knight Irwin Barnard
Greenville
Ind
Fourth Street
Broadway
James Carnahan
Washington
Chicago
Pittsburg
San Francisco
Columbia Commandery No. 2
D. C
Knight
Schley
Washington Commandery
Knights
St Louis Exposition Plans Strong Fine Arts Display
St Louis will host its eighteenth annual exposition begin Sept 9 with a major loan art exhibit from local private collections. Art committee led by John S Carter invites owners, promising bronzes statuary and other works, plus enhanced etchings and prints. Music hall band to return under Charles P Seymour with fifty instrumentalists. Livingston panoramas of the Louisiana Purchase. forestry exhibit from Paris shown by Southern Railway. chorus to perform weekly.
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St. Louis
John 8. Carter
Messrs
Charles LeTure Clark
Harold M. Kauffman
Joseph G. Miller
Charles Parsons Pettus
Music Hall
Charles P. Seymour
Louisiana
Southern Railway
Monument to Jefferson by sculptor McDonald in St Louis
St Louis August 29 through William H. Thompson of the Boadmen's bank sculptor Wilson McDonald submits a design for a Jefferson monument. The nine foot bronze Jefferson stands with state papers in hand atop a granite pedestal. McDonald notes the portrait resembles an era around the Louisiana Purchase and laments most residents no longer know him.
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St. Louis
Wm. H. Thompson
Boadmen’s Bank
Wilson McDonald
Thomas Jefferson
McDonald
Jefferson
A Tre headed Directorate For St Louis Fair
The St Louis World’s Fair abandons a single director general in favor of a three person leadership. A director of exhibits, a commissioner general, and a director of works will carry duties, with the president as an alternate. The organization committee approved the plan unanimously, awaiting board consent.
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St. Louis
Ecommittes
Comjeny
Francis
Treaserer Thompson
Sprite x
Walbridge
Seon
Jiuttiz
Stevens
Unanky Mous
Books and Authors note Gibson biography and Dobson retirement
Admirers of William Hamilton Gibson will welcome a forthcoming biography. Austin Dobson retires after 56 years overseeing harbor and fisheries at the British board of trade to pursue literature. A remarkable book exists in Paris Imperial library cut from tissue paper. John Morley recalls Gladstone’s habit of orderly record keeping and a 76 year old Oxford Union speech note found at Hawarden.
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William Hamilton Gibson
Austin Dobson
Harbor and Fisheries Department
British Board of Trade
Civil Service
Balfour
Edwin Arnold
Imperial Library of
Paris
John Morley
Hawarden
Gladstone
Morley
Oxford Union
Facts About Norway and Its People in Historic Data
Norway annual cod catch stands at 65 million. It is the least densely settled European nation with three quarters uncultivable land. Death rate is among the world’s lowest, surpassing all except Sweden. Women outnumber men, excess about 7 000. England reduced Norwegian ice imports by 55 814 tons. Britain produces more ice domestically now. Fjords stay free of ice due to mountains and Gulf Stream warmed waters. Longevity high with census showing 1,900 people over 100 in a population of 2,000,000 and 16 over 104. Most Norwegians live on the coast or islands toward the North Sea. Lofoten islands host cod fisheries with denser settlement, interior sparsely inhabited, northern provinces largely nomadic Lapps.
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Norway
Sweder
England
Norw
Britain
Europe
North Sea
Lofoten
Arctic Circle
Word Derivation Scholar’s Anecdote and Moth in Mattress
A noted scholar who studied word origins stored furniture while traveling for linguistic research in Berlin. He received a warehouse notice confessing moth damage to a shipment and destruction to protect other clients. The scholar replied that his mattress may have had moths but also that it contained the letter e. Allen’s Foot-Ease ad copy promotes a foot powder for sore feet and ingrown nails with free samples.
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Continent
Eugene
Berlin
London
Deslor
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Record Smashed in Mammoth Digestion Discovery
The Louisville Courier Journal reports finding undigested food in the stomach of a Siberian mammoth believed dead for 60 000 years. The discovery breaks the record for chronic dyspepsia, highlighting remarkable subsistence evidence from ancient肉.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Piso Cure Promoted and Odd Holiday Quip
An old advertising snippet touts Piso s Cure for consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds by N W Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900 A grocer offers a peach tasters refuse a bite and quips about stealing The item also mentions Hoxsie s Croup Cure Noopium priced 60 cents and a cartoon caption about a crab with the line that s a soft snap from the Judge newspaper.
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N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N.J
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