Elinpses Of Was McKinley And Ida Saxton Love Story
Ida Saxton, later Mrs William McKinley, grew up in Stark County and worked at her father's bank before marrying Major McKinley in 1871. The piece recounts her early courtship with Charles Leiter, family opposition, and her lasting devotion despite years of illness and invalidism. It highlights her affection for children, charitable work, and close life with McKinley, including moments with friends and a famous singer at the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McKinley
White House
New York World
McKinley
Lim
Ida Saxton
Stark County Bank
Jol. J. Lang
Cleveland ‘Mining
Lang
Miss Saxton
Leiter
Major McKinley
Inley
Saxton
North Market Street
Katie
Ida
McKinleys
Yale Man Sets Foot for Fiji Islands in Pettifogging Pilgrimage
Allan Updegraff former Yale editor and ex janitor of Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall travels on foot from Newark to San Francisco with Joseph Barrat aiming for Fiji. They start with $29 each and plan to work for food while panhandling and hitching passages via box cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Updegraff
Sinclair
Fiji Isles
Allan Updegraff
Yale
Upton Sinclair
Helicon Hall
Fiji Islands
New York Times
Chicago
Yale Monthly
Associated Charities
Sinclair's Colony
Joseph Barrat
New York
San Francisco
San Franccisco
Newark
N. J
Morristown
Verve
Fiji
Todegraff Nes
Europe In Three Days Route Aims At Transatlantic Fast Service
A House of Commons select committee approved the Collooney Ballina and Belmullet railway and piers bill. The scheme, about £5,000,000, plans three fast turbine steamers costing £90,000 each to link Blacksod bay with Halifax. The goal is a three and a half day voyage, shortening transit to Canada and via Canadian Pacific to China Japan and Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Select Committee
House of Commons
Collooney
Ballina
Belmullet
London Telegraph
Blacksod Bay
Halifax
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
China
Japan
Australia
Quebec’s Plains of Abraham to be national park
Plans to create a national park on the historic plains of Abraham in Quebec for Quebec’s 300th anniversary face opposition from a rifle factory owner who refuses relocation and wants more spotlight. The commemoration leaders advocate removal of the plant to allow the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains of Abraham
Quebec
Voice of June in May and Nature’s Quiet Tale
Minna Irving describes a lyrical scene from a garden and river edge in New York Press. The poem celebrates June as a minstrel voice heard in a tranquil landscape with roses, dew, and birds as symbols of summer’s beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hand of Man
June
Uly
Minna Irving
New York Press
Gates quits Wall Street bet on gambling life
John W Gates, famed gambler and partner in Charles G Gates & Co, plans travel and rest for a year or two as the firm dissolves around June 1. The multimillionaire known for bold stakes and a lifetime of high risk, born May 18 1855, rose from a farm to lead a national brokerage and pursue the great game of finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robbertus Love
John W. Gates
Wall Street
Charles G. Gates & Co
United States
Charlie
Gates
Mr. Gates
Ife
Gibert
Missouri
John
Gilbert
Alexander Jester
Jester
Paris
John Gates
Napoleon
Saratoga
Oklahoma
Hill
Gilbert Gates
Canfield
Faro
Turner Junction
Ill
Johnny Gates
Johnny
Middle West
Isaac L. Elwood
Chicago
San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Drummer Gates
Elwood
St. Louis
Eads Bridge
Illinois
American Steel and Wire Company
Steel Trust
James J. Hill
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
John “Wire
Louisville
Nashville
McKinley
Gateses
Europe
Joe Leiter
New York
Leiter
Fifth Avenue
Gates the Barbed Wire Builder and Wall Street Shaper
A historical portrait traces John W. Gates from timber trader to barbed wire innovator and finance mover. He built a fence empire, battled patent suits, and helped spur the American steel consolidation, influencing Wall Street and high-stakes gambling before turning to golf and billiards.
Cattlemen Learn Alfalfa In Tobacco Stirs Uvalde
A New York Sun Uvalde correspondent reports that a government tobacco audit found a Texas brand to be 63 percent alfalfa with arsenic and opium. Cowboys abandon cigarettes, seek substitutes, and some plan home tobacco cultivation for purity.
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Harvey W. Wiley
Texas
New York Sun
Southwest
Jim Belford
Major Mose Harris
San Antonio
United States
Internal Revenue
Uvalde District
Major Harris
Mr. Belford
Bill
Jennings
Belford
Jim
Tim Hall
Hall
Uvalde
Recollections of Tilton on John Brown’s Body
A summary of Theodore Tilton’s memoir recounts his role in transporting John Brown’s body after the 1859 execution. He details the covert trip from Philadelphia to New York, the private handling by John Hopper, and the punctual burial arrangements in Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
Theodore Tilton
Beecher Tien
Joan Brown
Philadelphia
Miler Melkim
American Antislavery Society
New York
The
Battery
East River
Brooklyn
John Hopper
Amboy
Bowery
Oliver Johnson
Hopper
Tilton
Poles
Euphrates
Tropics
Greenland
Siberia
Arctic Circle
Milton
Fden
SPECIES OF NEW TROUT HYBRID BEING TESTED AT CORRY HATCHERY
A Harrisburg correspondent reports Pennsylvania fish experts claim a successful hybrid between brown trout and brook trout. Officials hope the hybrid tolerates warmer waters, stays close in size to brook trout, and can reproduce. If realized, the hybrid could benefit fishing statewide.
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Corry
Harrisburg
Philadelphia Presa
Meehan
Pennsylvania
Nature Fake Bears Tale From New York Sun
A Gun Club member recalls a bear fake described with a shaggy coat and clawed paws. The tale claims a monster bear hunter tracked to its lair, but the author notes the creature was merely a taxidermy fake bought with gold from the taxidermist, a yarn from Sapphira's husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sapphira
New York Sun
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Charles Leiter
Holt
Mrs. McKinley
Yale Wan
the Voice of
Finance
Dellora Baker
Charles G. Gates
Great West
Prairies
Plains
United States Steel Corporation
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