Whistler Sketches Discovered at West Point Enrich Library
A fifty six year old scrapbook at West Point yielded five original Whistler drawings. The works include four pen studies titled On Guard in Camp and a wash drawing of a cadet by a tree. Whistler, then a sixteen year old cadet in 1851, sent these to instructor Absalom Baird who preserved them in a scrap book.
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New York
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
United States Military Academy
West Point
Academy
Whistler
Military Academy
Absalom Baird
Baird
General Baird
William Baird
Charles W. Larned
Larned
Department of Drawing
Camp Life
McNelil
Ola Scrap Book Unearthed Reveals Academy Drawings
A long hidden scrap book found in an attic showcases drawings from a cadet era. The pages feature artwork of academy life created by a notable figure later deemed a cad. Presented to Lieutenant Absalom Baird, the collection hints at a conflicted personality.
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Ola
Absalom Baird
Pictures By Whistler Hidden Fi at Whiest Point
Son of the man who received Whistler drawings discovers them by accident and presents them to West Point. The works now hang at the academy walls depicting camp life in a humorous light.
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Whistler
Whiest Point
West Point
Great Sleutmarcusvi Sails to Success in San Francisco Fight
A Chronicle item notes Sleutmarcusvi achieving success in a public struggle in San Francisco. The report mentions Ruef as a weakling amid city politics and purging talk.
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Sleutmarcus vi
San Francisco
Ruef
Langdon Praises Civic Clean-Up Strategy in San Francisco
In New York Langdon, San Francisco district attorney, outlines how graft cases were prosecuted and how public opinion, funds, and cooperation with unions helped replace officials. He describes Abe Ruef, Schmitz, and Taylor, and vows to keep San Francisco politically honest to prevent a relapse.
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New York
Hotel Astor
William H. Langdon
San Francisco
Eugene Schmitz
Schmitz
Mr. Langdon
Langdon
Abesque
Abe Ruef
Mike Coffey
Dennis Kearney
Andrew Wilson
Coffey
Wilson
Board of Supervisors
Gallagher
Edward Robeson Taylor
Taylor
Spreckels
James Phelan
Carrie Nation
Citizens’ Alliance
Lke
Pauper to get a fortune
James Nolan an inmate of a Dublin poor house will receive Christmas twenty thousand dollars from the estate of Patrick White the Brooklyn recluse who died a year and a half ago Also to gain like sums are Patrick Nolan in Ireland Anne Cleary in Australia and Catherine Gorman in Detroit Neill White and Johanna White cannot be found White had shipping ties in Baltimore before moving to Brooklyn where he died
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New York
James Nolan
Dublin
Ireland
Patrick White
Brooklyn
Patrick Nolan
Anne Cleary
Australia
Catherine Gorman
Detroit
Mich
Charles Neill
Sarah White
Johanna White
Dairymen to get on train tours with lectures
A. W. Bruner, inspector from the state laboratory of hygiene, will accompany a Monon rail tour by the State Dairy men’s association next week. Purdue University will join with several speakers. Stops include New Albany to Bloomington Monday and Cloverdale to Chalmers Tuesday, with nights in Hammond and Michigan City, then more towns Wednesday and home Friday to Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
A. W. Bruner
State Laboratory of Hygiene
State Dairymen’s Association
Purdue University
New Albany
Borden
Pekin
Salem
Campellsburg
Orleans
Mitchell
Bedford
Bloommington
Cloverdale
Greencastle
Roachdale
Ladoga
Crawfordsville
Brookston
Chalmers
Hammond
Dyer
St. John
Cedar’Lake
Lowell
Shelby
Rose ‘Lawn
Parr
Rensselaer Cand
Michigan Cit
Otis
Memorial for Hoosier Soldiers at Andersonville
Andersonville Monument commission with Governor Hanly contracted the Montello Granite company to erect a Montello granite monument on the site of the Andersonville prison for Hoosier soldiers who died there. Dedication is planned for Decoration Day May 30 1908 if possible. The contract price is 7000 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Andersonville Monument
Hanly
Montello Granite Company
Montello
Wis
Andersonville
Monument design by W. H. Fox to be built in Indianapolis
Seventeen feet seven inches high and fifteen feet six inches by thirteen feet four inches at the base. designed largely by W. H. Fox director of the John Herron Art Institute Indianapolis. The contract price includes the cost of erection. The Montello company will begin work on the monument immediately.
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W. H. Fox
John Herron Art Institute
Indianapolis
Montello Company
Mrs Bryan Heads for Holy Land Winter Tour
Mrs. Wm. J. Bryan and her daughter sail today on the Friederich der Grosse for Europe and the Holy Land. Mr Bryan joined them in Pittsburgh and then left for his Nebraska home after a brief visit.
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New York
Wm. J. Bryan
Europe
Holy Land
Thomas Nelson Page and the presidents title tradition
The Virginian writer Thomas Nelson Page habitually addresses the president as his excellency. The phrase appears infrequently in White House communications, used mainly by foreigners or Southerners clinging to old notions when visiting Mr. Roosevelt.
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Thomas Nelson Page
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
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Lacrosse
Sar Pierre
Medaryville
Francisville
Monon
Monticello
Delphi
Radnor
Rossville
Frankfort
Kirklin
Sheridan
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Carmel
Andersonville Monument Commission
Mrs. Bryan
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