Hill tried to lure Parker to run for New York governor in 1902
In August 1902 David B Hill hosted Parker and other Democratic leaders at Wolfer t's Roost in Albany. Hill urged Parker to accept a governor nomination, arguing it would boost a future presidential bid in 1904. Parker declined citing his bench seat, while Hill pressed and later backed Bird S Coler. Parker later acknowledged the presidential outcome as involuntary.
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David B. Hih
New York
Odell
David B. Hill
New York State
Albany
Hill
Senator Hill
Alton B. Parker
Court of Appeals
Mr. Hill
Judge Parker
Parker
Governor Hill
United States
Democratic Party
Bird S. Coler
Coler
Democracy
E. J. Edwards
Chief Justice Waite Receives Aid At An Absent-Cent Farewell
In autumn 1883 at the Baltimore & Ohio station in Washington, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite faced the dilemma of traveling to New York with no money. A stranger and the narrator offered to pay, but a railroad clerk intervened, buying Waite a ticket and a sleeping car charge with a $5 bill. Waite expressed deep gratitude, and the clerk noted the honor of aiding a Supreme Court justice.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Washington
New York
United States
Morrison R. Waite
Grant
Salmon P. Chase
Rall
Waite
Supreme Court
Justicea Walte
Supreme Court of the Republic
E. J. Edwardea
Horace Greeley and His Quirks in Nineteenth Century Life
A portrait of Horace Greeley highlighting his disdain for hypocrisy in hotel choices and his habit of dozing with eyes closed in public spaces. The piece recalls his shifts between the Delavan and Stanwix hotels in Albany, and an anecdote about Grisi and Mario’s U S debut review in the New York Tribune despite his apparent somnolence at the opera.
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Horace Greeley
Greeley
Albany
N. Y
Seward, Weed and Greeley
Delavan House
Stanwix
Horace
Delavan
Mr. Greeley
Mario
Italiana Opera
United States
New York
Academy of Music
New York Tribune
Grisi
Tribune
Grisai
the Tribune
F. J. Edwards
Wells on Liberty and statues in New York
A magazine editor recalls HG Wells praising the Statue of Liberty in New York. Wells notes Americans honor the dead with grand statues, while critics warned of tyrannical trusts and bosses.
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Authors’ Club
New York
Hg, Wells
Mr. Wells
Blood Germs on Moving Pictures at Museum Lecture
Dr Frederic S Lee outlined how sleeping sickness germs thrive in blood and showed simian fever experiments. the Pasteur Institute images were used to illustrate his Columbia University Jesup lectures on modern medicine. He defended animal experimentation amid antivivisectionist critique and noted public distrust in medicine and doctors.
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New York
American Museum of Natural History
Frederic 8. Lee
Columbia
Pasteur Institute
Doctor Lee
Jesup
Columbia University
Plant fruit on highways in Wyandotte County
Wyandotte County Kansas plans to plant fruit and nut trees along all highways within a few years. A parks commissioner office will be created to oversee cultivation, and the harvested fruit will be given to farmers.
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Kansas City
Wyandotte County
Kansas
Heifer Tramples Through Boarding House in Sudden Stampede
A red heifer bursts into a boarding house run by Mrs. Lena Frenzie in St. Louis. Lizzie Stewart hides under the kitchen sink as the animal dashes through hallways, a court, dining room, and back yard, causing chaos before collapsing on scrap pile.
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St. Louis
Lena Frenzie
Lizzie Stewart
Lizzie
Four-Legged Chicken Holds Yard Court in Cincinnati
Thomas Tanner of 1249 West Sixth Street owns a live four legged chicken with extra limbs protruding from the front and rear right side. He says the animal dominates nearby fowl and will give any dog a run for its money in any battle.
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Cincinnati
Thomas Tanner
West Sixth Street
London plots vast road network and garden suburbs
London traffic experts back 100 miles of new roads radiating from and around the city with garden suburb development. Labor backs immediate work for thousands. real estate voices fear central London decline as outlying areas grow, while factories exit and an empty belt forms.
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London
Board of Trade
Herbert Jekyll
Labor Party
Labor M. P
West End
Belgravia
Fire destroys Killiam block in New Haven
A fire in downtown New Haven gutted the Killiam block, a $200,000 loft building. Four business tenants’ stocks were destroyed and three adjoining tenement houses were burned. A bulldog helped raise the alarm as a powerful blast, likely gas or oil, drove flames through the five floor structure.
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New Haven
Conn
Killiam
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