Happenings of the Past Week Highlights and Appointments
Secretary Bryan and Am y Jusacrand of France signed general arbitration treaties with the Wrench republic. Franklin K. Lane receives title of Long Chief from Blackfeet Indians. John Skelton Williams named assistant secretary of the treasury. War secretary Garrison inoculated amid smallpox cases. Speaker Champ Clark to practice before the Supreme Court. President Wilson urges peace in Latin American republics without aggression. Bryan invited to lead a Bible class. election gains noted. Major storm deaths and property losses across several states. Jurors find Hawthorne Morton and Freeman guilty of mail fraud. Canfield loses 11000 cash. Busch robbed in Carlin. Lawrence native six shoots self after fire losses. Supreme Court divorce action involving Rear Admiral Dahlgren family. Kansas City clerical raid prompts self-help trial. New York Yacht Club declines Lipton challenge. Washington capital punishment bill advances. Minnesota dry victories in local elections. Cavalieri to wed Muratore in Detroit. Yale president Hadley at California ranch. Princeton to inherit 2 million from Thompson estate. Bryan and wife lease Calumet Place in Washington. Goodnow named adviser to Chinese constitution reform. Bernhardt suffers ankle injuries in car crash. National child labor conference opens in Jacksonville. Taft linked to Johns Hopkins presidency. Kosovo atrocities reported by Servian troops. Grand Duchess Tatiana ill in St. Petersburg. Oxford defeats Cambridge in boat race. Glenatoon sinks. crew feared dead. Two army aviators fatally collide at Rheims. Nogales border clash reshapes control of town.
Flowers Through History A Chronicle Of Myth And Money
Eloquent essay traces how flowers like the primrose tulip violet iris narcissus hyacinth and lily inspired legends and symbolized power love and finance. It recalls Primrose Day linked to Lord Beaconsfield myths of tulip mania and the iris as fleur de lis while noting forget me nots legends and epic plant tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Beaconsfield
England
Parallaos
Corief
Wall Streat
Europe
Holland
France
Haarlem
Ewain
Napoleon
Ion
Midas
Atys
Diana
Apollo
Jupiter
Juno
Narcissus
India
Ceres
Pluto
Hyacinth
Hyacinthus
Dame
Zephyr
Inxodus
Moses
Aphrodite
Garcius IV
Navarre
Order of the Knights of St. Mary of the Lily
Ferdinand of Aragon
Dundee
Florence
Garden of Eden
Paradise
Earth
Ali
Danube
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington
Bryan
Amy Jusacrand
Bryan Eine
Franklin K. Lane
the ‘Interior
Montana
K John Skelton Williams
Richmond, Wa
the Treasury
Sistant
Robert O. Bakey
Garrison
War Department
Champ Clark
Supreme Court
Wilson
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
New York
Julian Hawthorne
William J. Morton
Albert Freeman
Josiah Quincy
Ge Mayer
Freeman
Morton
Hawthorné
G. W. Canfield
Jeshill
Ind
Frankton
Depit
Anderson, Ind
Canfield
Charles M. Busch
Adol
Phus Busch
San Francisco
Carlin
Nev
Lawrence
Mich
Farhir Wrhich
Laisvite
Blue Mountains
Virginia
Jowalry
Hyman
Piro
Bowery
Bijur
Washington, D. C
Eric B. Dahlgren
Dahlgren
J. M. Duniivy
Theodore Hanson
Methodist Church
Kansas City
Kan
New York Yacht Club
Sir Thomas Lipton
Itate
Senate
Ernest Lister
Minnesota
Stewartville
Kansas Senate
Topeka
Lina Cavalieri
Detroit
Lucien Muratore
Paris Grand Opera
United States
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale
H. M. Pratt
Mrs. Hadley
Mr. Pratt
Ojai Valley
Los Angeles
Ferris
Thompson
Paris
Princeton University
Salvation Army
Mercy Hospital
Chicago
Secretary of State
Dirs. Bryan
Calumet Place
Mra
John A. Logan
Frank Johnson Goodnow
Sarah Bernhardt
Pico Heights
Cal
Jacksonville
Fla
Sherman C. Kingsley
William Howard Taft
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Board of Treatees
Licuma
Kossovo
Prisrend
Tatiana Nicolaievna
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Oxford
Cambridge
Thames
Glenatoon
Argentina
Hamburg
North Sea
Hellgo‘land Island
Army Aviation Corps
Rheims
Nogales
Sonora
Wordsworth
Australia
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