Memorial to Columbus to crown Union Station plaza
Washington column details a proposed memorial for Columbus at the new Union Station plaza. A monumental fountain with a Columbus statue on a caravel will overlook Delaware and Massachusetts avenues, featuring a forty foot shaft and a world globe backdrop.
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Columbus Nominal Commission
Root
Taft
Senator Wellware
State Department
Union Station
Christopher Columbus
Act of Congress
Burnham
Chicago
Union’ Station
Colonel Bromwell
Columbus
Delaware
Massachusetts Avenues
America
Delaware Avenue
National Capitol
Manchuria Currency in Chaos Across Regions
The acting British commercial attache reports Manchuria’s currency in chaos. In the south and near the South Manchurian Railway zone small silver money circulates at a 20 percent discount. silver dollars are scarce while Yokohama and Russo-Chinese bank notes trade at about 4 percent below value. The railway accepts only gold yen, while Chinese Hu Pu notes circulate with discounts. In northern Manchuria rubles and kopeck coins predominate as the sole accepted currency by the railway.
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Manchuria
Lekin
Newehwang
South Manchurian Railway Company
Pall Mall Gazette
Blue dishes drive fashion in urban households and plague link noted
A Broadway retailer reports a sudden craze for blue fruit dishes driven by French light theory and demand outpacing supply. Journal excerpts discuss fleas spreading plague from rats, and Dr Griffiths urging acceptance of shark as a cheap nutritious seafood alternative from Italy through Rome mail.
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Broadway
New York Times
Simond
Man
Plague Commission
Bombay
Frederick Griffith
Rome
Italy
Griffith
Concrete Viaducts Beautify Florida Keys Rail Link
The article praises reinforced concrete in railway construction, highlighting miles of saltwater viaducts joining the Florida mainland to Key West. It compares the arches to Roman works, noting nearly six miles of monolithic spans and contrasting the beauty with traditional wood and steel supports.
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Florida
Key West
Oldest newspaper claim surpasses 100 years in China
An 1910 London Globe remark notes the King Pan in Pekin is entering its thousandth year, dating from 908. It publishes three editions daily on different colored paper, yellow morning white afternoon and pink evening, contrasting with Western papers like the Globe.
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Globe
Pekin
London Globe
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United States
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Smithsonian Institution
Mann
Illinois
Elliot Woods
Davy Crockett
Congress
Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt
Davy
Andrew
Carl Schofield
Hibbard
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Edward P. Barry
George
Barry
Jim
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Macon
W. W. Duncan
Methodist Episcopal Church
Duncan
Texas
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Macon Herald
Lillian Braythwaite- Hill
Miss Hill
Shelbyville
Sands
William B. McKinley
Pennsylvania Avenue
Willard
Ebbitt
Senator Hopkins
Colored League
Aurora
George G. Fox Co
George F. Proctor & CO
J. H. Proctor & Sons
Chelsea River
Revera
Rough Mann & Ages
Scientific American
All Newsdf NN Co
New York
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
New England
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