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Notables and First Cases and Tolstoy Anecdotes
A Bal linger recounts his first case in Kankakee a bigamy trial that ended with a two year sentence and a hopeful client writing later. Tolstoy reportedly refused visitors yet stood on his doorstep while a tourist praised his book Dead Souls. News on Marie Louise Logan and Henri de Lincay wedding plans in Brussels and John Barrett pushing Pan American conference preparations in Rio de Janeiro ahead of 1913 Panama Canal opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballinger
B A Ballinger
Gifford Pinchot
Kankakee
Bigamist
Count Tolstoy
Tolstoy
Gogol
Marie Louise Logan
Henri de Lincay
Brussels
Belgium
John A. Logan
Miss Logan
Newport
de Lincay
Washington
John Barrett
Bureau of American Republics
Rio de Janeiro
von Merer
Squadron of the
Panama Canal