Hungarian child violin prodigy steals the show at Paris Five O'Clock
Seven year old Kan Arpad from Hungary wowed audiences at the Paris Figaro five o’clock with Mendelssohn Romance and Paganini Le Mouvement Perpetuo. Accompanied by Rodolphe Berger, the boy is billed for a Europe and America tour and is hailed as a future world sensation.
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America
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Kun Arpad
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Paginini
Chicago
Choate's New Secretary Prominent Harvard Student Appointed
William Woodward of New York has been named private secretary to Joseph H. Choate in London. A Harvard law student, he is noted for high marks in studies and athletics, planning graduation in June. He rose quickly in class esteem and sports, earning respect as an all round man. He also held leadership roles in clubs and societies. The announcement follows the retirement of William Bayard Cutting Jr who will marry Sybil Cuffe, daughter of the Earl of Desart.
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Alice Roosevelt
Sue
dfMcult
McKinley
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Alice Lee
New York
Choate
William Woodward
Joseph H. Choate
London
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Woodward
Law
William Bayard Cutting, Jr
Sybil Cuffe
Earl of
Desart
England
Army Yellow Fever Experiments Seek Cause
In November Surgeon Reed secured $5,000 from Governor General Wood to fund experiments by U S Army men. They secluded themselves in a station for months and exposed themselves to yellow fever to uncover contagion causes. Many contracted the disease, and there was at least one fatality. The outcome of these investigations remains unclear.
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Reed
States Army
Wood
Whe
Pwoord
Another Bellamy Colony Launch Planned in New Hampshire
A new Bellamy colony will be established in the hills of New Hampshire. Promoters promise improvements over the original system. No ministers will be allowed within the colony and members seeking clergy must go outside. Lawyers are barred, deemed dishonest by the promoters. Everyone must work for a uniform wage, with expulsions for laziness or moral unfitness.
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New Hampshire
Novel Elevated Railway and New World’s Fair Mayor Rise
A description outlines a novel elevated or surface railway with center slotted cars and triple wheel sets for speed and safety on curves, plus an optional engine for full trains. It notes rail posts, turntables for crossing tracks, and central seating. Also covered is Rollo Wells, newly elected mayor of St. Louis, a Democrat aligned with the world’s fair plans, heading a large steel foundry and signaling political influence tied to the fair’s southern backers.
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Rollo Wells
St. Louis
David R. Frames
Wells
Francis
Savage Soon to Be Chief Governor of Nebraska
Lieut Gov Savage is slated to be inaugurated as governor of Nebraska within the month as Dietrich plans to vacate early to become a US senator. Born in 1842 Connersville Indiana he supported his family from age ten and built a path from farmer to lawyer to politician. He served as South Omaha mayor, laid out Sargent, prospered with railroad growth, and earned Civil War distinction as a scout for Grant and Sherman.
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Nebraska
Dietrich
United States
Chester County
Connersville
Ind
Young Savage
Plan to unify nation’s great railways under one firm
The piece argues against belief in a full merger of major railways into a single company, noting regal obstacles that make such amalgamation unlikely. It cites the Southern Railway, Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton, Cincinnati Southern, and Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville as already closely allied, possibly moving toward closer ties.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Cincinnati Southern
Chicago
Indianapolis
Lounisville
Judge Wattner Invents Hydraulic Disappearing Safe
Judge Wattner of Wapekonda unveils a hydraulic disappearing safe using a 10 foot well platform. The device lowers to the bottom by night and rises by morning for business use, with a clockwork return. He has applied for a patent and notes robbers could not tunnel to the safe.
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Wapekonda
Waltner
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