ON THIS DAY IN 1873 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Yesterday the Centennial Exposition plans for buildings were reported upon by the Committee. They selected ten of them, six of which prove to have been submitted by Philadelphia architects, one is from Wheeling, one from New York (Mr. Vaux, formerly of the Prospect Park landscape architects), one from Terre Haute and one from Washington. These plans will be returned to their authors for a second competition.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1905 , the Eagle reported, “PORTSMOUTH, N.H. ― The Russian and Japanese envoys met today at the general storehouse of the Portsmouth Navy Yard in the first of a series of meetings which will determine whether the war in the East shall continue or be brought to an early end on terms acceptable to both be

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