Lincoln's Legal Skill and Early Springfield Debates
In chapter twenty two Abe Lincoln defends seven clients in a bold lawsuit against Lionel Davis, prevailing for the full claim. The narrative covers Lincoln's cross examination, his fair but sharp summing up, and Davis's downfall amid a Chicago panic. Lincoln earns lasting local fame as a skilled, principled advocate.
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Abe Lincoln
Henry Brimstead
Lionel Davis
Davis
Tazewell County
Lincoln
Samson
Kelso
North
Newberry Seated as U S Senator by Senate Vote
Truman H. Newberry is seated as United States senator from Michigan after a 46 to 41 senate vote on a Republican sponsored resolution. Nine Republicans and thirty-two Democrats voted against, with three paired and three not voting. The resolution states Newberry is duly elected and entitled to hold his seat. The piece condemns the expenditure in the primary as excessive and detrimental to public policy and the dignity of the senate.
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Truman H. Newberry
United States
Michigan
Senate
Senator Newberry
Cultivate Habit of Thrift Now and Always
A call to adopt thrift as a daily routine with systemization and definite schedules. Save regularly, plan actions to avoid waste, and begin immediately, framing thrift as essential to success happiness and progress, with a citation from Thrift Magazine and a quote attributed to Disraeli.
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Disraeli
Thrift .Magazine
To Be Exact So You Called on the Famous Novelist
A fragment from a Birmingham Age-Herald piece recalls a humorous exchange about locating a celebrated writer. Mrs Gawker notes the novelist was not in a brown study but the room appeared blue, a sly quip on mood and setting.
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Mra
Finiae
Birmingham
McCumber Chosen as Senate Finance Committee Chairman
Senator Porter James McCumber of Wahpeton North Dakota has been selected by the committee on committees to chair the Senate finance committee succeeding the late Boles Penrose. He gives twenty one words of autobiography noting his Republican status and long service since 1899. He describes himself as a protectionist and conservative who seeks progress and stability in national affairs.
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Samson
Springfield
Mr. Nimble
Chicago
God
Sarah
Lincoln
Joshua Speed
Presbyterian Church
Logan
Baker
Douglas
Calhoun
Lamborn
Thomas
Webster
Burke
Byron
Shakespeare
Burns
Irving
Walter Scott
Dickens
Speed
McCumber
North Dakota
Committee On Committees
Senate
Boles Penrose
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Congressional
Porter James McCumber
Wahpeton
United States Senate
Pepper Becomes U S Senator Succeeding Penrose
Philadelphia lawyer George Wharton Pepper has been appointed U S senator by Governor Sproul to fill the unexpired Penrose term ending in 1927. Pepper, 55, a noted constitutional lawyer, will be a candidate to serve the remaining term.
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George Wharton Pepper
Philadelphia
United States
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Boies Penrose
Penrose
Pepper
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Charlotte R. Fisher
Carnegie Institute
Pennsylvania Council For National Defense
League For the Preservation of American Independence
League of Nations
Poincare Becomes France Premier After Briand Resigns
Raymond Poincare succeeds Briand as premier and foreign minister of France and forms a new cabinet. He advocates strict Versailles Treaty enforcement, potential German occupation for indemnity, allied control in Bern, a French Polish alliance, and recognition of the Moscow Soviet only with full Russia debt payment. He states his goal is to fulfill Versailles engagements and then retire.
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Raymond Poincare
France
Briand
M. Poincare
Germany
Berlin
Allied Control Commission
Bern
Poland
Russia
Versailles
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Sman
Joe Ze
Irving Bacheller
Harry
Honey Creek
Bim
EH Fredenberg
Lkely
Abe
Mr. Davis
Uke
Nehemiah
Nim
Dixon
Wittt
Harry Needles
Samson Traylor
Lmits
Steve Nuckles
Wisconsin
Eliphalet Biggs
Biggs
Mary Todd
Thompson’ Campbell
Joe
Steve” Douglas
Achilles
West
Havana
Prairie
Er. D. Baker
Newberry
Poincare
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