What a Library Is A Plea for Literary Culture
Galesburg Illinois celebrated its new public library with a speech by Chicago attorney George R. Peck. He argued for libraries as engines of imagination and culture, praising Shakespeare and world literature while urging readers to welcome imaginative works and dreams into daily life. The address wove praise for literature with reflections on knowledge, humanity, and the role of books in shaping minds.
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George R. Peck
Chicago
Peck
Shakespeare
Coleridge
Steele
Lady Hastings
Memorial Shaft Planned at Gosnold's Island Landmark
The 300th anniversary of Bartholomew Gosnold's 1602 landing sparks plans for a 60 foot memorial shaft on Gosnold's island in Cuttyhunk Pond Massachusetts. The monument, funded around 3000 dollars, will feature a hollow yet solid design with windows and an interior chamber holding a corner stone.
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Gosnold
Gabriel Archer
James Rosier
Walter Raleigh
Elizabeth Islands
England
Randall
Massachusetts
Buzzard’s Bay
Vineyard Sound
Massachusetts Historical Society
Wright and his enduring mark on labor statistics
Carroll D. Wright, U S labor commissioner and Roosevelt adviser on the anthracite strike, is praised as a premier statistician known for presenting bare facts. He rose from New Hampshire schoolmaster to law, authored many works, and is linked with the Library of Congress ranking. The excerpt notes a famous misquoted proverb about figures.
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Carroll D. Wright
Roosevelt
New Hampshire
United States
The Father of Pictorial Art Thomas Nast Emerges Again
Thomas Nast, veteran cartoonist and consul general to Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose to fame through his Garibaldi era sketches and Civil War cartoons. His anti Tweed work helped expose corruption, popularized icons like the tiger and GOP elephant, and established Nast Weekly.
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Ecuador
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New York City
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Sicily
Calabria
Illustrated Press
New York
London
Paris
Garibaldi
United States
Harper's Weekly
Coon
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Union
Lincoln
William M. ‘Tweed
Tweed
Tom Nast
Death by Garrote in Porto Rico Atrocity Trial and Execution
Four men were garroted at Ponce for the murder of Antonio Delgado de Pino and the assault and robbery at Guayo September 30 1898. The executions occurred at night in the prison courtyard with priests present. Delgado’s death came by hanging as the gang tied victims, tortured, beat, and plundered the household before dawn October 1.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Antonio Delgado de Pino
Guayo
Adjuntas
Bernabe, Acevedo
Jose Torres
Ramon Troche Cadena
Josef Sorres
Delgado
Maj Ogden Grave Marked At Fort Riley Center Of US
The grave of Maj Edmund Ogden U.S. Army at Fort Riley Kansas marks the geographic center of the United States on elevated public land. A shaft 28 feet high with a seven foot base bears an inscription honoring Ogden and noting the monument erected by Joseph O Sawyer.
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United States
Fort Riley
Kon
Edmund Ogden
U.S. A
Joseph C. Sawyer
E. 0. Sawyer
Pico Heights
Los Angeles
Maj. Ogden
J. O. Sawyer Lere
Mr. Sawyer
Santa Fe
N.M
Ogden
Maj
Ali
Sawyer
Frontier Army Service
Los Angeles Herald
JT. C. Sawyer
United States and Mexico Refer to Hague Court
The international court of arbitration is notified of a U S Mexico agreement to submit a dispute over damages for church property in California to the Hague court. If ratified this convention will inaugurate the court’s first case.
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Nue
Hague Court
International Court of Arbitration
United States
Mexico
California
Government Employes Strike Threat Urges Unified Action
An elderly Washington cleric warns that a nationwide wage dispute by executive department workers could halt government operations. He argues a coordinated strike by all 28,000 federal staff would force Congress and the president to respond, detailing potential upheaval and the complex civil service implications. He cites high meat prices, pay scales, and gender dynamics as factors shaping the issue and predicts the scenario would prove catastrophic if attempted.
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Washington
Washington Star
Congress
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Act
Chaoa
Civil Service
Verda
Perth
Frogs Threaten Overland Telegraph Lines in Australia
In Nature Notes, the common green frog is blamed for interrupting telegraph lines to central Australia. Frogs climb poles to reach cool insulators, touch the live dropper, and die as electricity conducts to earth. The phenomenon is linked to a cyclone disturbance halting usual cables from England.
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Central Australia
England
Nature
Skeleton Santa Thirty Years Observation At cemetery
A New Hampshire graveyard opening and extensive body transfers allow the sexton to cite skeletal decay estimates. He notes that after forty years adults largely reduce to skull and thigh bone, and he has not confirmed when the entire skeleton disappears.
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Santa
St Feeter
N. H
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