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'Abdu'l-Bahá Lays the Wilmette Temple's Cornerstone

During His April–December 1912 tour of roughly forty North American cities, 'Abdu'l-Bahá laid the cornerstone of the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois — the Mother Temple of the West.

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Speaks in Cleveland

He gave an evening talk to about 200 people at the Hotel Euclid and privately discussed racial intermarriage with an African-American clergyman and a group of local women, a conversation that made headlines in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Visits Pittsburgh

Arriving by train from Cleveland, he was welcomed by local Bahá'ís and stayed at the Hotel Schenley, where he met with philosophers, physicians, and journalists.

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Returns Briefly to Washington

He returned to Washington, D.C. for a few days before heading back to New York. (Public sources document that this return visit occurred, but not a specific notable event distinct from his earlier April visit there.)

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Addresses the Lake Mohonk Peace Conference

He delivered a 20-minute address, "The Oneness of the Reality of Humankind," to roughly 300 delegates at the Eighteenth Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, proposing spiritual and social principles for peace rather than conventional diplomatic ones.

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Begins His Boston Talks

He began a multi-day stay in Boston giving public and private talks on racial and religious unity and economic justice; a widely quoted remark comparing Boston to "a rose garden" of different peoples ran in the Boston Traveler two days later.

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Addresses Clark University

Invited by the university's history department chair, he addressed an audience of more than 1,000 students and faculty at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, praising the university's service to humanity; the talk transcript was rediscovered in the university's archives in 2011.

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'Abdu'l-Bahá Stops in Fanwood

He made a brief stop at a private residence in Fanwood, New Jersey, before returning to New York. (Thinly documented in public sources beyond the fact and date of the stop.)