Education in the twentieth century and cultural ideals
President Eliot argues that the horizon of human intellect widens with science and humanism interlaced. He outlines four culture elements character language store of knowledge and imagination, stressing childhood science learning, multilingual literacy, selective knowledge, and new constructive imagination from industrial and technological advances.
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John Addington Symonds
Italy
Zola
Paris
Havre
Niagara
The Richest Princess of Europe in Paris
The crown princess of Denmark in Paris is famed for immense wealth. She inherited about 60,000,000 marks from her mother and has since grown her fortune through wise investment. She is noted as Europe’s tallest royal woman, over six feet, and mother of eight children. Her sons include Prince Christian and Prince Henry, the latter married to Princess Maud of Wales in 1896.
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Denmark
Paris
Europe
Sweden
Roosevelt
Ing
Dagmar
Prince Christian
Alexandria
Mecklenburg Schwerin
Prince Henry
Benedict
Maud of Wales
Edward VII
Crown Princess
Bald
Zimmerman Entering Ohio Goveror Race as Democratic Hope
Ohio born lawyer John D. Zimmerman, 48, a leading Democrat, announces his candidacy for Ohio governor. A 1879 Wittenberg graduate, he began law practice in Springfield and has long been a Democrat, losing a 1898 congressional race in a GOP district and now seen as a likely nominee by acclamation.
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John D. Zimmerman
Ohio
Sugar Bath Hards Soft Woods for Use as Hard Timber
A Liverpool chemist reports a method to harden soft woods by saturating timber with a boiling sugar solution. The process also claims to improve the strength of even naturally hard woods.
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Liverpool
Elephants as nurses in Siam captivate young minds
In Siam women entrust their infants to elephant carers whose gentle care never fails. Babies play around massive feet as elephants protectively watch over them. A New York schoolboy asks what strenuous means and learns from his father that a strenuous man is one who does half a day’s work then spends the rest of the day bragging about it.
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Siam
New York
Sickles and Gordon Brouhaha Reignites Gettysburg Clash
The piece recalls Gen Daniel Sickles and Gen John B Gordon in renewed Civil War debate over Gettysburg. It notes Sickles praise for Gen Meade at the grave and sketches his long postwar controversy and brief 1890s political ties, with a later Quaker City classroom joke about a five penny versus five cent piece.
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Daniel B. Sickles
New York
John B. Gordon
Gettysburg
Louisville Courier-Journal
Gen. Sickles
Sickles
Meade
Charles A. Dana
Gen. Meade
Tus
Quaker City
Philadelphia
Donald
Cuban diplomat Gonzalo de Quesada a key figure in San Francisco society
The New York Sun notes Cuban minister Gonzalo de Quesada as the hemisphere’s most important envoy in Washington with a career linked to Cuba’s rebellion. He faced social tension as Spain’s friends and Cuba libre supporters clashed, eventually withdrawing from functions to maintain peace.
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Senor
Don Antonio Lazo Arriaga
Guatemala
New York Sun
Don Gonzalo de Quesida
Cuba
Friends of
Spain
Cuba Libre
Don Cameron
Pennsylvania
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senora Dupuy de Lome
Hale
Senor Quesada
Rose by Gallantry. Elliott to command the Marine Corps
Col George F Elliott, likely successor to Maj Gen Charles Heywood as commandant, is a meritorious Marine officer. His long career includes service in Cuba, the Philippines, and at Norfolk and Washington barracks, with notable acts at Guan tanamo and Nogaleta and a 1900 Mare Island hospital recovery. He will assume brigadier general and commandant duties on Heywood’s retirement.
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George F. Elliott
Charles Heywood
Marine Corps
Philippines
Alabama
Elliott
New York
Marine Barracks
Washington
Portsmouth
N. H
Brooklyn
N. Y
U. 8
Guantanamo
Cuba
Col. Huntington
Cuzco
Caut. Eliott
Nogaleta
Otis
United States
Col
Naval Hospital
Mare Island
California
Norfolk Station
Marines
Gen
Heywood
Dr. Wiley Warns Against Summer Diets and Soda Water
The chemist urges caution with summer foods and drinks. He condemns soda water and iced tea as dangerous, promotes bread and wheat over meat, and advises drinking water at 60 to 65 degrees to avoid stomach strain. He notes meat digests well in heat and warns vegetables offer limited nourishment.
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Dr. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Grant kin sought vice presidency in Republican ticket
Ulysses S Grant of California, son in law of ex senator Chaffee, emerged as a possible vice presidential candidate. A Harvard and Columbia Law graduate, he is a leading Pacific coast attorney with interests in commerce and mining. He previously ran for the U S Senate in California in 1899 and was defeated.
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Grant
California
United States
San Diego
Chaffee
Colorado
Harvard
Columbia Law School
United States Senate
Egifornia
Atorneys
Pacific Coast
Wiccougha Cause Disaster in Plymouth Man
During a prolonged attack of Wic coughs in Plymouth, Thomas McDonald suffered a violent paroxysm that fractured two ribs, causing serious injury.
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Wiccoughs
Thomas McDonald
Plymouth
Bourke Cockran Eyes British Seat in Parliament
The article notes Bourke Cockran, a famed New York lawyer and longtime Democrat, may become a British subject and join the Irish party to take a seat in Parliament. It recalls his Irish birth, emigration to the United States at 17, and his 1884–era prominence. In recent travels he visited the Orient.
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New York
May Beecome
Parliamen
Bourke Cockran
Irish Party
Ireland
United States
Democratic Party
Cochran
McKinley
Orient
W. Bourke Cockran
Beecome
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National Educational Association
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Charles W. Eliot
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Sena
Mesde
Congress
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Jong
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Hill
Daniel E. Sickles
Gonzalo DE Quesada
South America
Diplomatis Corps
Gonzalo DE Quebada
Prince of Good Fellows
Rose
Col. Elliott
U. S. Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Whitey
Department Agriculture
H. W. Wiley
United States Department of Agriculture
Ulysses S. Grant
Ream
Robert Lincoln
Gen. Grant
Ulysses
Repulican
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