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Burbank in July, 1904, and still more startling improvements were said to have been secured. I may perhaps be allowed to avail myself of this opportunity to point out a practical side of the study of elementary species. This always appears whenever wild plants are subjected to cultivation, either in order to reproduce them as pure strains, or to cross them with other already cultivated species.
The last Christmas John Hay was alive he sent me the manuscript of a Norse saga by William Morris, with the following note: Christmas Eve, 1904. DEAR THEODORE: In your quality of Viking this Norse saga should belong to you, and in your character of Enemy of Property this Ms. of William Morris will appeal to you. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and many happy years, I am yours affectionately,
Lacelles Scott, of England, nearly lost his life experimenting with it in 1904. A small fraction of a grain gives off vapor sufficient to kill a human being instantly." "Had you known about this stuff, Average?" asked Bertram. "No, I'd never beard of it. But from its action and from the lettered cabinet, I judged that " "This is all very well," broke in Mr.
1903-1904 The United States formally takes over the French rights and concludes a canal treaty with Panama, the canal to be completed in fourteen years. 1904 The Canal Commission appointed by the President and under supervision of the Secretary of War, William H. Taft, arrives on the Isthmus to pursue the building of the canal. John F. Wallace is engineer-in-chief.
Farmer kept press headquarters in the Old Capitol, St. Paul. She added new papers to the list which accepted suffrage matter till it had 500, about all of them, and much of the suffrage sentiment in the State can be traced to her years of work. The quarterly bulletin was edited by Mrs. Julia B. Nelson. In October, 1904, the convention met in Anoka and Dr. Shaw addressed large audiences.
In 1904 arose the first protest against the so-called atrocities perpetrated on the blacks, and the Congo became the center of an international dispute that nearly lost Belgium her only colonial possession.
But in Tokio this affair was entered on the credit side of the Anglo-Japanese ledger, offsetting the debt of gratitude for August 10, 1904, when the English fleet constituted the shifting scenery behind Togo's battleships.
But the events of the war between Japan and Russia, especially the naval battles of Port Arthur, August 10, 1904, and the Sea of Japan, May 27, 1905, riveted their attention on the fact that something more than seamanship and navigation and clean ships would be needed, if the British navy was to maintain its proud supremacy on the sea; for in these battles, overwhelming victories were won purely by superior skill in gunnery, strategy, and tactics.
But now since 1904 just hand me that thin book, please. Thank you the Kaiser has changed his tone. For instance, listen to this: "'God has called us to civilise the world. We are the missionaries of human progress. "And again this: "'The German people will be the block of granite on which our Lord will be able to elevate and achieve the civilisation of the world.
However, down to 1904 our immigrants have not shown any exaggerated tendency to crime. The special prison census of 1904 showed that 23.7 per cent of the male white prisoners were foreign born, while 23 per cent of the general male white population above the age of fifteen years were foreign born.
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