Leaders of Society and the American Aristocracy
A profile of New York society's ruling circles through Mrs. William Astor and peers. It traces the rise of social power from Ward McAllister to Pearan Stevens, notes Astor's influence and feuds, and surveys potential successors among Vanderbilt, Belmont, and other leading families as the era nears its transference of social gatekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
America
Plata
Ward McAlister
Mia
Tati Stevens
Mere
William Aste
Astor
William Astor
Caroline Schermehorn
Pearan Stevens
Ashe
Hornan Lowell
Judge Reed
Boston
Deston
Mids Stevens
Paran Stevens
Vanderbilt
France
Stevens
Delmontco's
Ward McAllister
Minnie Stevens
London
Arthur Paget
Savannah
Ile
McAllister
Newport
Atd
Fish
Lehr
Maltimore
Mr. Lehr
Mra. Ovlrich
Hates
Freddie” Gebhardt
James J. van Alem
Elisha Dyer Jr
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Europe
Ogden Mille
Roosevelt Plans Panama Isthmus Visit and Global Trip
President Roosevelt, with Mrs. Roosevelt and Surgeon General Ixey, travels to inspect the Panama Canal project and related harbor and wireless communications. He plans to visit Porto Rico and Panama, with naval escorts and multiple armored ships, while Congress opens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Ixey
Navy
Sam
Panama
New Orleans
Hampton Roads
United States
Hawaii
San Francisco
Alampton
Europe
New York
Colon
Porto Rico
Congress
American Commission
Rio de Janeiro
Hampton Ronda
Louisiana
Tennesse
Tymenna
America
Charleston
Key West
Caribbean
Guantanamo
Kidd
Tle
Panania
Canal Commission
Herbert Squiers
Panay
Rout
Taft
Agricultural experts deny baby breeding drive probe
A report that the agriculture department plans a crusade to improve the American baby is denied. Prof W N Hays, assistant secretary, chairs a local eugenics committee within the American Breeders association. The group, independent of the government, will present findings at the January 20 18 Breeders meeting at Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Department
W. N. Hays
American Breeders’ Association
Breeders’ Association
Columbia
Hays
Agriculture Department
Committee On Eugenics
Alexander Graham Hell
Washington, D. C
Fingerprint system uncovers British murderer in U S prison
At Fort Leavenworth a British killer, serving a five year sentence for a military crime, resisted fingerprinting. The warden sent prints to police, and Scotland Yard soon linked the inmate to a brutal murder in Morta, reporting a life sentence and escape to America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
War Department
Fort Leavenworth
Scotland Yard
United States Penitentiary
Scotland
Yourd
Morta
America
Back stamping of mail debated by business leaders
Businessmen nationwide oppose the plan to end back stamping of letters in major cities including Los Angeles Kansas City Minneapolis St Paul Detroit and Washington citing delays and a check on post office efficiency. Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock notes back stamping may be discontinued nationwide to speed delivery by one to three hours, a saving seen as economically important.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Detroit
Washington
Hitchcock
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bam
Beny
Venice
Victor Iberbert
Mra. Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Coleman Prayton
Waldorf! Astora
Drayton
Cloty
Saiyl
Mra. Stevens
Harry Lehr
Harry Lehir
Twenty-eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Prince of Wales
England
AVOP
Department of Agriculture
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