General Rucker Defies Mortality Tables At 96
The article notes Brig. Gen. D. H. Rucker of Washington living to age 96 and insurance firms honoring his lifelong policy despite age. It cites mortality tables showing only a few reach 95, with life expectancy shrinking as age rises, and concludes insurers may pay claims when policyholders live past expected lifespans.
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D. H. Rucker
Washington
Philip Mr. Sheridan
Ife
Jolly
National Bank of Life
The Taft dining table through years of service
A round mahogany table owned by Mrs. Taft sits at the heart of the Taft household. Gifted by Helen Herron’s family, it hosted the bridal breakfast and has traveled with the Tafts from Cincinnati to the Philippines and Washington. Now stored in an attic awaiting revival, it remains the family’s ceremonial dining table.
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Earth
Taft
William Howard Taft
Helen Herron
Judge Herron
Cincinnal
Switzerland
Janssen Observatory
Mont Blanc
Red Rose On Soldier’s Heart at Baron de Pury-Herve Rites
A simple funeral in Washington for Baron Alexander de Pury-Herve, once an aide to Bismarck and a German noble, who died after a storeroom strain at the government printing office. His life included exile from a royal marriage, journalism, and several marriages, ending with a single red rose placed on the coffin per a hidden personal pledge.
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Alexander de Pury-Herve
Bismarck
Germany
America
New York
York Staats Zeitung
Winona
Minn
The
Herald
Washington
Government Printing Office
Commission Begins Data Collection on National Resources
The Roosevelt administration pushes a national resource inventory with the Presidential commission reporting by January 1909. Executive departments provide data on forests lands and minerals while state commissions and national groups assist. By fall the panel aims to start inventory studies and convene a joint Washington meeting with state governors to enhance cooperation.
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Roosevelt
Janury
White House
Washington
Caan
Rli Alann
Lost Sea Battle Revealed Skyrocket Versus Sharp 1779
Historian Maclay reports a rediscovered Edinburgh archive letter detailing a 1779 sea duel between the Yankee privateer Skyrocket and the Scotch vessel Sharp. Skyrocket, a brig with 16 guns and over 120 men, faced Sharp armed with 11 carriage guns, revealing a long overlooked episode in American naval history.
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Maclay
New York
Edward Stanton Maclay
United States Navy
Edinburgh
Scotland
Skyrocket
Sharp
Archibalt Boge
Glasgow
Burke
Boge
Emmons
Carronades Change Naval Combat In 18th Century Action
Capt Bogg reports on carronades, a large bore short range gun with great smashing power, in the Sharp versus Skyrocket engagement near Ireland in March 1779. Skyrocket, an American privateer, captures Betsy earlier. Sharp loses chase but shows the new ordnance’s deadly effect and quick firing by carronades.
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Bogg
Carron
France
Bogs
Sharp
Jamaica
Tulker
Kinsdale
Boss
Stranger
Gapt. Bogg
Betsy
McArthur
Clyde
Oporto
Greenock
Bees Delay the Mail on Route in Logansport
Rural carrier William Slagle was attacked by a swarm while on route No 34. He was severely stung and his horse bolted, scattering U S mail for two miles. After pursuing, Slagle recovered the letters and resumed duties, but he is in a bad condition.
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Logansport
Ind
William Slagle
Slagle
United States
Town Where Nobody Dies in Carver Mass Health Miracle
Carver Massachusetts, a town of about 2400, boasts an astonishing health record with no deaths in the past six months. Two years ago deaths were six under age fifty. now undertakers have dwindled as two physicians shift to farming, signaling a remarkable health shift and population changes.
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Carver
Mass
Massachusetts
Kaiser’s Son Chops Wood At Summer Residence
Prince Estel Friedrich, second son of the emperor, works hard at Ingenheim castle near Charlottenburg to cure obesity. He gardens cuts hedges fells trees and builds sheds while the princess accompanies him on long horse rides and picnics. He insists such labor is a splendid cure and continues daily despite heat.
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Berlin
Eilel Friedrich
Ingenheim Castle
Charlottenburg
Havel
la Riding School
Miller Office Contact Details at Gillespie Building
G R Miller provides a mailing suite in the Gillespie Building and lists Musson Phone as offices 398 at Avanta coordinates.
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Gillespie Building
Musson
Offics
Avanta
Res
Dr C G Clark Homeopathic Physician Surgeon
Dr C G Clark a homeopathic physician and surgeon lists former training as an interne at the State University of Iowa and provides contact details in Atlanta with house and office numbers Buck 481 and Black 263.
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Interne
State University of Iowa
Buck
Black
Atlantia
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Gen. Rucker
Mrs. William ‘Ah. Taft
Commission
Indiana
Cardinal Gibbons
Walon Faweere
Baltimore, Md
Kaiser’s
Prince Estel
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
4Th
Chestnut
Atlantic, Iowa
G. R. Miller
Bentist
C. G. Clark
R. A. Gamble
Opera House
the Ofice
Atlantic
Lowa
T, B,swan
C. L. Campbell
Ben WA. Wood
Chestnut Sts
U. S. Mullins
Hap
Fama
Aman
DRS. Finley & Finley
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy
Bell
Cheatnut St
Nels Brown
Iowa
Butler
M. H. Butler
Mutson
J. Litterst
Walnut Street
Rome
Fsil
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