Summer Social Travel Trends Dominate European Tours
New York reports Gov. Odell’s swift eight day Paris and London swing from May 24, reflecting a booming Atlantic passage market. Wealthy travelers chase April to July “de luxe” cabins and bridal suites while June and August peak, with Saratoga’s social season resurging after years of ambivalence toward gambling.
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York
Odell
London
New York
Cherbourg
Paris
Europe
Riviera
Newport
Parliament House
The Biondi Statue Dispute
The Italian sculptor Biondi created a bronze group depicting alcohol’s degeneracy. Exhibited first in Paris and Buffalo, the piece faces New York critics who call it vulgar and say it should not teach morals through art, despite its masterful execution and temperance message.
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Uch
New York
Boston
Cincinnati
Biondi
Metropolitan Museum
Blondi
Paris
Buffalo
Nation
France
Italy
United States
London
Rome
Nightlife and social shifts at Newport August resort scene
The piece notes Newport’s August resort status being challenged by large country homes and weekend parties. It highlights divorces complicating society events, a push by Bishop Burgess to bar remarriage in the Episcopalian church, and Newport’s role hosting the British embassy and naval presence amid changing social norms.
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Sumer
Riviera
Paris
London
Newport
Bishop Burgess
Long Island
Burgess
Legation
Therapia
Constantinople
Foreign Office
Reralo Decris
Commencement Season Spotlight and a Providence Library Gift
The piece notes New York as a center for commencement events at Yale Princeton Vassar West Point and Columbia. It highlights a Providence scene where John Nicholas Brown donated library keys to President Faunce, his father’s library fund totaling 650000 and a book collection.
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York
Yale
Princeton
New York
Vassar
West Point
Woman’s College
Uncle Sam
Columbia
Harvard
Providence
R. I
John Nicholas Brown
President Faunce
Young Brown
Brown
George Vanderbilt
LeRoy Dresser
Shipbuilding Trust
Diplomatic Banter On Appearance Between Lovers Cited
A brief quoted exchange from the Chicago American notes a playful remark about beauty. One partner asks not to be stared at, the other replies he compares all women to his partner and finds her more beautiful.
Russians Lose Gunboat Giliak at Port Arthur
Port Arthur reports describe the Russian gunboat Giliak torpedoed and destroyed outside the harbor on Saturday. The dispatches note ongoing fighting near Port Arthur and movements of Russian and Japanese forces on the Liaotung peninsula with signals of renewed engagements and troop advances from Dalny to the coast.
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Port Arthur
Tokio
Giliak
London
Daily Telegraph
Tientsin
Stakelberg
Wafangtien
Chefoo
Liesotung Peninsula
Dalny
Twingching
Sanchimpo
Talienwan
Pitsewo
Eliott Islands
Daily Mail
Mukden
Liaoyang
Nengalen
Nakwanling
Wafanetlen
Fengwangcheng
Standard
Stoesse
Nenchang
Paris
St. Petersburg
Mafin
Kuropatkin
Liaotung Peninsula
Newchwang
Tachicao
Kaiping
Fourteen Die After Peoria Distillery Fire Explosion
A Peoria fire at Corning's distillery on Saturday killed fourteen workers and destroyed a large, multi-building plant with 30,000 barrels of high proof spirits. Eight bodies were recovered, four identified. six people injured. Fire spread to cattle pens and stockyards before being controlled by 7 PM. prior incidents include a cooker explosion in October and a December warehouse fire.
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Peoria
Ill
Corning’s
George Gebhardt
Peter Lettemeyer
Thomas E. Montgomery
Samuel Parsons
Elmer Hagen
Ernest Brown
Milton Crowl
William Finley Jr
John Hobaker
Frank Knoll
Louis Sax
Alec Powell
John Ansbee
Joseph Zimmerman
Corning
Dodd & Keifer
Chicago
F. C. White & Co
Monarch
Riot at St Louis Burns Spanish Bull Fight Arena
Riot erupts at St Louis near the world’s fair grounds after the show is banned. About 2,500 protesters force admission, burn the arena to the ground costing $2,500 with no insurance. Four men arrested for property destruction. deputies scuffle with assailants. governors and humane groups protested the event.
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St. Louis
St. Louis County
Brave Engineer Phillips Dies in Cambridge Home
George F. Phillips, engineer of the collier Merrimac sunk at Santiago harbor, dies in Cambridgeport. He enlisted as a machinist in the Spanish American War and volunteered to sink the ship, kept engines running under shellfire, opened sea valves and helped flood the vessel before reaching the deck.
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Cambridge
Mass
George F. Phillips
Hobson
Santiago Harbor
Cambridgeport
Phillips
Navy
Baltimore Mayor McLane Ends His Life in Home Tragedy
Baltimore May 31. Mayor Robert M. McLane shot himself in his West Preston street home as his bride slept nearby in the adjoining room. No motive is given though criticsand city woes since last February's fire are cited as possible factors. Timanus sworn in June 1 as mayor to serve out McLane term.
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Baltimore
Robert M. McLane
West Preston Street
Timanus
McLane
Suitable Lodgings for Women at World Fair Time
The Wednesday club and Humanity club announce coordinated lodging support for women and girls visiting St. Louis for the world’s fair. Lodging houses will be provided or vetted and listed. church leaders will recruit parishioners to house guests. Participating groups include The Travelers’ Aid, Women’s Christian Association, Queen’s Daughters, King’s Daughters Rest Room, Salvation Army, and Evangelical Lutheran City Mission Society.
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St. Louis
Humanity Club
Travelers’ Aid
Women’s Christian Association
Washington Avenue
Queen’s Daughters
North Sixteenth Street
King’s Daughters
Salvation Army
Eighth and
Walnut Streets
The
Evangelical Lutheran City Mission Society
Market Street
Open lands at Devil's Lake reservation to be opened
The president signed a proclamation opening the ceded lands of the Devil's Lake Indian reservation in North Dakota by a registration and drawing system similar to Rosebud. About 88 000 acres will be opened for roughly 550 homestead entries with registration at Devil's Lake and Grand Forks from August 8 to 20 and a drawing at Devil's Lake starting August 24.
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Washington
Devil’s Lake Indian Reservation
North Dakota
Rosebud Reservation
South Dakota
Devil’s Lake
Grand Forks
Troops Ordered Out After Hang ing Rock Furnace Tension
Wartime unrest at Hanging Rock furnace in Ironton Ohio escalates as strikers march with winchesters threatening nonunion workers including Black replacements. Armed arrivals feared. Sheriff Paine asks Governor Herrick for troops amid a looming clash and alleged reign of terror.
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Hanging Rock, O
Ironton, O
Hanging Rock
Paine
Millionaire to donate 100 million feet of lumber to Bethany College
Lindsborg Kansas June 2 Col C A Smith a Minneapolis lumber dealer and college visitor announced he would give 100000000 feet of lumber to Bethany college during the commencement exercises.
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Lindsberg
Kan
Col
C. A. Smith
Minneapolis
Bethany College
Eddy Sentenced to Ninety Nine Years for Murder
Arthur A. Eddy of Los Angeles convicted of murdering Daniel Mitchell of Cincinnati in El Paso on April 1 receives a 99 year sentence.
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el Paso
Tex
Arthur A. Eddy
Los Angeles
Daniel Mitchell
Cincinnati
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