The Untold History of American Vice Presidents
By Elmo Scott Watson the piece recounts how vice presidents filled the presidency after the death of a president, from Hendricks in 1885 to Tyler and beyond. It notes constitutional gaps before succession laws, key precedents set by Tyler, and notable vacancies and deaths shaping the office.
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Thomas Andrews Hendricks
United States
Indianapolis
Ind
Hendricks
Washington
Grover Cleveland
Indiana
Congress
United States Senate
General Hancock
Horatio Seymour
Samuel J. Tilden
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Navy
Interior
Agriculture
Commerce
Labor
Adam
George
Wash
Inexpensive Laundry Bag Pattern Offer
A 15 by 20 inch stamped muslin laundry bag pattern No. 1003 is offered for 15 cents. Includes embroidery design and wire clothes hanger to sew in. hanger and crochet cotton not included. Mail with stamped return envelope to Home Craft Co. Dept A, Nineteenth and St Louis Ave, St. Louis Mo.
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Home Craft Co. Dept
St. Louis Ave
St. Louis
Farmer Makes Home of Tomb Fears Only Rats
In 1880 Linus Smith built a mausoleum near Medina Ohio for his family. Only the father mother and brother were placed there before a theft and return of a body led to moving them to a cemetery. Now Charles Ritter uses the empty vault as a dwelling with a stove and chimney and fears rats more than ghosts.
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Linus Smith
Medina
Ohio
Smith
Charles Ritter
Ritter
Capper
How to Spoil a Child Warns Against Coddling Sickness
Katherine Brownell Oettinger warns in Hygeia that coddling convalescents harms a child’s personality. Bribery threats or pampering foster dependence, while building trust with doctors during illness lightens future burdens and promotes sturdier character.
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Katherine Brownell Oettinger
Not Guilty of Murder in French Assize Court
Charles Simmoneau an accountant was found not guilty of murder but guilty of illegal arms possession after killing his wife upon learning of her infidelity. He had hired a detective to track her movements and shot her, she died three months later. He expressed deep regret and grief over not being allowed to visit her bedside. He was fined $10.
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William Henry Harrison
van Buren
Harrison
John Tyler
Virginia
Congress
Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin A. Pierce
William R. King
King
United States
Cuba
Washington
William L. Sharkey
Havana
Sharkey
Alabama
White House
Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
Henry Wilson
New Hampshire
Jeremiah Jones Colbaith
Wilson
Grant
Garret A. Hobart
William McKinley
Hobart
McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
James Schoolcraft Sherman
William Howard Taft
Sherman
Republican National Committee
New York City
Ailles
Nicholas Murray Butler
Sident
Columbia, University
Shen
Assize Court
Lille
Charles Simmoneau
Simmoneau
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Elmo Scott Watson
Ington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Aaron Burr
Jefferson
Burr
George Clinton
Clinton
James Madison
Madison
Elbridge Gerry
Daniel D. Tompkins
Monroe
Tompkins
John Quincy Adams
Adams
John C. Calhoun
South Carolina
Andrew Jackson
Calhoun
Jackson
Martin van Buren
Richard M. Johnson
Kentucky
Tecumseh
the Thames
Senate
Richard M
Johnson
Francis Granger
William Smith
Granger
Secon
Cobbler
Natick, Mass
Bihan
Clark
Jets
Weenie Wemeens
Farmer
Mandediess
Mann
Seara
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Chicago
Philadelphia
Memphis
Dallas
Kansas City
Seattle
Pontoffee
Reveneen
Stephens School OF Prospecting, Inc
Fairview
New Mining Company
Great Homestake Gold Mine
New Corporation
Roy Harrop
Council Bluffs
Laws
Gillette
Denver
Colo
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