Widows of Governors in Indiana City Ties and Legacy
Indianapolis article details how Indiana governor families intermarry and parallel lines of descendants remain in the city. It notes widows of many governors, including Wallace, Morton, Hendricks, Williams, Gray, and Baker, live in or near Indianapolis, with connections across generations and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
David Wallace
Arthur St. Clair
Zerelda Wallace
Blacherne
Lew Wallace
Wallace
Lane
United States
Crawfordsville
Oliver P. Morton
Morton
Baker
Charlotte F. Chute
Evansville
Thomas A. Hendricks
Capitol Avenue
State House
Hendricks
Eliza Morgan
James D. Williams
Blue
Williams
Gray
Isaac P. Gray
Union City
Porter
Hovey
Chase
Wabash
Matthews
Claude Matthews
Clinton
Whitcomb
United States Senate
John W. Ray
John A. Holman
Dickey
Joseph A. Wright
John C. Wright
Wright
Ashbel P. Willard
James H. Willard
Bedford
Willard
Hammond
William Hendricks
Knox County
Pierre Gray
George
Edward
A. L. Mason
Mt. Vernon
Major Menzies
Noble
Noah Noble
James Noble
William Noble
Senate
Mount
Nicholas McCarty
Joseph E. McDonald
Hord
Thomas Browne
Winchester
Benjamin Harrison
Albert G. Porter
William H. Calkins
Col
C. C. Matson
Greencastle
Mount Is
Montgomery County
B. F. Shively
South Bend
A Day With the Pope During Summer Vacations
A personal attendant recounts the Holy Father’s daily routine in summer. He rises before 6, says mass at 7 in the private chapel, leaves the Vatican at 8, and travels by sedan chair to gardens. A prelate reads daily papers while two Noble Guard officers escort him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Father
Vatican
Apostolic Palace
Queen of Chats
A Career For The Boy: Guidance At The Parting Of Ways
Margaret E. Sangster discusses how parents face choosing a son’s career amid college choices and financial pressures. The piece urges patience and faith, advising to guide the boy without forcing decisions as he must chart his own path in business medicine law religion or arts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret E. Sangster
Collier’s Weekly
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Oxford
Berlin
Ministry of Religion
Army
Navy
West Point
Annapolis
Medias Res
Officers Killed By Own Men Across Wars Shrouded in Mystery
A historical survey recalls cases where officers died from wounds inflicted by comrades. It cites the Franco Prussian War near Woerth, Metz plots against Marshal Bazaine, an Italian Adona incident, Spanish Cuba battles after San Juan, and colonial conflicts showing how grudges or bias influence who fires the fatal shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Philipines
Woerth
Berlin
Marshal Bazaine
Metz
Adona
Naples
Madrid
Cuba
San Juan
Tommy Atkins
Ulundi
Devonport
Soudon
Thoughts of Ruskin on money, virtue, and practice
Ruskin warns money should not be life’s main aim and urges spending for purpose. He argues wealth serves form when used rightly, stresses patience in learning, and says true style comes from meaning what one says. He cautions against pretense, rival pride, and speaking before knowing in science art and literature.
A YEAR'S PROGRESS TOWARD DAWSON SETTLEMENT
Abridged account notes dramatic change from imagined impossibility to permanent Dawson habitation. A year after July 6 1899 a steam railway now traverses White Pass to Bennett and down the Yukon, with a five mile portage at Miles canyon and White Horse rapids, making the trip four to six days. In British Columbia and Washington, salmon cannery leadership shows shifting demographics including Chinese workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klondike
Dawson
Sahara
White Pass
Allegheny Mountains
Prairies
Bennett
Lake Bennett
Youkon River
Lewes
Miles Canon
White Horse
Appleton
Popular Science Monthly
The Elixir of Eternal Youth and the Pasteur Quest
In this letter from Paris dated January 1900 Eli Metschnikoff outlines Pasteur Institute research on aging. He explains old age as loss of noble tissue in organs, replaced by conjunctive tissue, and describes immune and cellular dynamics. He cautions that only the plan and method exist now, not a cure, while counting on new serums to restore harmony and delay senile atrophy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasteur Institute
Eli Metschnikoff
Paris
Navy to adopt wireless system for training officers and men
The navy department plans a school of instruction for wireless telegraphy with officers and enlisted men. Rear Admiral Bradford favors the Marconi system, which was successfully tested by the North Atlantic squadron in November, but congressional appropriation is required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
R. B. Bradford
Naval Bureau of Equipment
North Atlantic
Congress
New York Herald
Coal mining boom expands in Canada and Nova Scotia
Canadian coal mining grows quickly with rising areas worked and increased employment in Nova Scotia. The overall coal regions are still largely undeveloped, amid rapid industry development and prospecting activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Nova Scotia
Canadia
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Palazzina di Leone
Vatican Palace
Rome
Chicago
Pope
Ignate
Philadelphia Times
Ruskin
British Columbia
Washington
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