Henderson the Speaker who quelled a riot with a crutch
War veteran and former speaker Colonel David Brettner Henderson once halted a House riot during the lead up to the Spanish American War. He delivered a clarion call for order from the speaker’s desk after colleagues wielded fists and a knife in a chaotic scene. His early years included a defining boyhood essay about a mouse and a lifelong habit of writing to his mother weekly.
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The World's Greatest Meteorites on Display in New York
The American Museum of Natural History gains a 20 ton Willamette meteorite donated by Mrs. William E. Dodge, purchased for 20600. It joins the famous Peary meteorite from Bushman Island, Greenland, as rare iron meteorites with a storied voyage from space to Earth.
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Tawney of Punxsutawney toils from blacksmith roots
Noted legislator James A Tawney of Minnesota, nicknamed the village blacksmith, rose from Pennsylvania blacksmith and machinist to chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Born 1855 in Mount Pleasant township Adams County, he moved to Minnesota in 1877 and later became a lawyer.
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