Pitney Named First New Jersey Justice of U S Supreme Court
Justice Mahlon Pitney of Morristown New Jersey is appointed by President Taft to the United States Supreme Court as associate justice, succeeding the late Justice Harlan. Pitney, a Princeton graduate and former chancellor, becomes the first native of New Jersey on the high bench.
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Hancellor Mahlon Pitney
New Jersey
Taft
United States Supreme Court
Idarian
William Paterson
Joseph P. Bradley
New York
Princeton
Henry C. Pitney
Sarah Louise Halsted
Mahlon Pitney
Morristown
Tie
Congress
State Senate
Pitney
Voorhees
Supreme Court
Guinmere
Senate
Ile
Charles Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Judge Hook
Oklahoma
Nagel
Pitney Cerca Taft
Edward D. White
White House
Messrs
Lurton
Hughes
van Devanter
Lamar
Crandell Heirship Battle Taints Hawley Estate Drama
Messy court notes reveal Mrs Adeoline Crandell wife of Frederick Crandell seeks share in Edwin Hawley estate now valued at 10 million as no will is found. Young Crandell reportedly loved Miss McManus and was discharged after defying his uncle. Crandells claim fortune will help educate five children though beneficiary list remains unsettled.
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Adegue Crandell
Frederick Crandell
Edwin Hawley
Crandell
Clawley
Hawley
Mer
Binley
Crandells
Finger prints used for identification in several nations
The article notes widespread use of fingerprinting since 1896 in Argentina for police and service IDs and bank documents. It cites Romania 1903 replacing signatures for illiterates, Philippine Savings Banks allowing marks, Bengal banks using prints for fifty years, and France storing fingerprints to curb fraud in the Foreign Legion enlistment and re-enlistment.
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Roumania
Philippine Islands
Bengal
France
Foreign Legion
Bust of Arctic Explorer Peary Heading to Museum
The American Museum of Natural History in New York will display a marble bust of Robert E. Peary by sculptor William Cooper. The piece shows Peary in a fur garment and honors his Arctic discoveries. A private donor funded the commission. Peary’s gear is already on display.
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American Museum of Natural History
New York
William Cooper
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Mr. Cooper
Audubon
Maraday
Franklin
Leidy
Cooper Studio
Peary
Monument to Maine Dead Cornerstone Laid in New York
Thirteen years after the Maine disaster and thirteen after the monument project began, the cornerstone was laid at Columbus Circle New York facing the Columbus monument. The monument will be 57 feet high with a 44 foot pylon and bronze group cast from recovered Maine guns. It is funded largely by a million men women and children subscribers.
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Maine
Havana Harbor
Columbus Circle
Central Park
New York
Columbus Monument
BE. H. C. Leutze
U. N
New York Navy Yard
Isaac Hull
New York Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America
New York Daily Papers
Columbia
Hins
Spain
Natural toothbrush from Santo Domingo natives
Santo Domingo natives avoid manufactured toothbrushes as a plant Gonamia domingensis is dried and powdered for use as a natural brush. Four inch stems are cut, dried, moistened, and frayed to resemble a toothbrush. The plant is also used on Jamaica island.
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Santo Domingo
Jamaica
Parachute Jump From Brooklyn Bridge Ends in River
Brooklyn steeplejack Law, after riding to the bridge in a car, leaped from the rail and landed in the East River forty eight seconds later. Police had refused a permit, yet he completed the stunt, gaining notoriety for dangerous high is climbing.
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Liberty
Dupbring
Boonkgion
East River
Law
New York
Eyes May Change Color Under Stress in London Ward
London surgeons discuss eye color changes under mental and physical shock. They explain pigment formation in iris may atrophy under distress, leaving blue at birth color in some cases, with potential links to earlier pigment development in infants.
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London
Nineteen year old wife of seventy five year old Pittsb. manufacturer
Mrs Edwin B. Alsop formerly Effie Pope Hill of Macon Ga aged nineteen marries Pittsburgh manufacturer age seventy five. He had a first wife Emma Hussey of Pittschurch who died four years ago leaving him a fortune. They wed recently in New York after meeting at a North Carolina resort he owns. The bridegroom has two Harvard student sons.
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Edwin B. Alsop
Pittsburgh
Effie Pope Hill
Macon
New York
Alsop
Emma Hussey
Pittschurch
Miss Hill
North Carolina
Harvard
Seed Cake Variations From Rich to Nursery Style
A Victorian recipe fragment describes several seed cake variants. It lists Spiced Seed Cake with butter, flour, sugar, mace, nutmeg, caraway and citron. Light and Sweet Raised Seed Cake with yeast and cream. and Nursery Seed Cake simple to bake, with butter sugar caraway and egg milk, baked from one hour to two hours.
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Charles PD. Sigsbee
Chief of Engineers
United States
Elavana Harbor
Cuba
Naval Court of Inquiry
Maine Monument
James Grant Wilson
Admiral Lfutze
Siaine
Brooklyn
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Modern Woodmen OF America
WM. M. Falkner
C. C. J. J. Robinson
HAYES
Busines Foreign & Domestic Exchange
Fraternal Brotherhood
P. Hall
L. C. Davidson, Treas
the Office Supply Co
City Messenger CO
E. Wishkah St
T. H. Hill
Public Accountant
East Wishkah
Jas. McNanard Brick
Stone
West Heron Street
H. L. Cook & CO
E. Heron Street
Cail
Wulvilnucou
Madison
East Wishkah St
G. and
F. Sts
F. Fredrickson
Summit ST
Mississippi River
HOTEL
Washington
Griffin & Morck
Cor. K
Heron St
Aberdeen, Washington
Harper
Kentucky
Fred Hewitt Humboldt
South F Street
Aberdeen
Wash
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