Longtime White House doorkeeper Ciscle praised after brave arrest
The district commission retires Jim Ciscle from the White House pension list, honoring a decade as doorkeeper who once faced the dangerous Peter Eliott, a Swede with a revolver. In 1903 Eliott attacked, fought officers, and was captured after a fierce struggle. Ciscle sustained a cut while helping subdue him.
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Jim” Ciscle
White House
Ciscle
Peter Eliott
Roosevelt
Eliott
Parker
F Elliott
Perry
Cisele
Iott
Scarfs and Cold Weather Tales From Capitol and West
Connecticut senator Brandegee amasses rare scarfpins valued in the hundreds, some in Tiffany's collection, while doorkeeper Jennison holds a Brandegee gift. Seth Bullock, now a forest ranger, recalls a bitter winter when whisky froze in a hotel, used as paper weights.
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Frank TB. Brandegee
Connecticut
House of Congress
Tiffany
Brandegece
George Jennison
Brundegee
Jennison
Joewia XVI
France
Brandeyee
Seth Bullock
Seth
Gospel preacher Sam Wilkins to address town meeting on Main Street
Rep Adamson cites a surge of traveling evangelists and notes a notice about Sam Wilkins, once convicted four times of burglary, speaking at a Main Street gospel meeting with no collection. Also mentions an eight ball pool championship at Cooperstown with sixteen players. Walter Lewis claims victory.
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Adamson
Sam Wilkins
Main Street
Contina
Cooperstown
Walter Lewis
Historic Fort Norfolk and its Quiet Guarded Past
Visitors entering Norfolk harbor pass a grass grown fort on the Elizabeth River left bank. Once a gun defended site, Fort Norfolk changed hands across Civil War eras and now stores unloaded munitions with a small guarding staff and a dog named Major.
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Elizabeth River
Norfolk
Port Norfolk
Outer Harbor
Fort Monroe
Fort Wool
Light House Board
Navy Department
Asmuch
Sam
Love and loss on a Manila voyage and homecoming tragedy
Dr Godfrey Halkett, poor but hopeful, falls for Miss Barbara Hinton, wealthy and elusive. After a vow to marry and years of toil in Manila, she abandons him. Halkett sinks into despair, dies on a desert trek while a fellow explorer recalls their doomed romance and sings the old ballad at twilight.
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Godfrey Halkett
Miss Hinton
Halkett
File
Godfrey Hitker
Waring
Philippines
Barbara
Manila
Botanical Gardens
Markett
Ivan
Jateb
Rachel
Rocca
Resignation Tendered by Rev Thomas Spurgeon at London Church
Rev Thomas Spurgeon, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, has offered his resignation due to ill health. Deacons oppose and propose a long holiday. A church meeting in April will decide by poll. Discord stems from past preference for Rev M Pierson to succeed Charles H Spurgeon, who died in 1892. Pierson is currently in London.
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Thomas Spurgeon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
London
M. Pierson
Charles H. Spurgeon
Mr. Pierson
Noted English actor Miermann Vezin marks eighty years
English stage star Miermann Vezin celebrated last week his eighty eighth birthday. Born in Philadelphia in 1829, he first appeared on the English stage at York in 1850.
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Miermann Vezin
Mr. Vezin
Philadelphia
York
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United States
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Love
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