Great 1912 Benefactions Exceed Prior Year By Large Margin
The year 1912 marked extensive philanthropy largely for education and hospitals with total gifts around 382 million dollars including 302 million from major donors and 26 million in smaller gifts. Andrew Carnegie led giving with over 10 million in various foundations and gifts. J P Morgan donated art treasures valued at about 50 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with other substantial gifts. John D Rockefeller’s 1912 gifts were comparatively smaller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ognegate
England
Germany
New York
United States
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Tnsted Suuae
Carnegie Technical Schools
Yale Forest School
New York City
University of Denver
University of Vermont
The
Western College
Ohio
Albion College
Pacific University
Wells College
Shirt
J. P. Morgan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sui
Morgan
Trinity College
Peabody College
General Convention
Protestant Episcopal Church
University of Gottingen
Gallormen
Belly Telephone Company
John DD. Rockefeller
Insulting Writer in London Job Tale and Briton Snub
An American writer recounts a London literary secretary job interview where a pompous butler and a stern English owner clash over British manners. The interview ends with the owner boasting of hiring a lord’s former aide while the writer retorts with defiance, highlighting cross Atlantic faux pas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bull
Leroy
Blur
Francis Liwger
Dwyer
Hart of
Levon
London
Lterary
Job Bull
England
Chicago News
Cooking a Pill Opium Smoking Described in Detail
The piece explains opium users “cooking a pill” in pipes with a dipper, outlining the process from preparing the pill to inhaling the smoke. It notes that one pipe yields only brief effects and that repeated preparation is needed for further smoking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Dreyfus of the American bar vindicated after fraud proofs
Benjamin Oppenheim of New York is exonerated posthumously as evidence of witnesses paid by the Metropolitan Street Railway is revealed. A trunk with vouchers showed perjury by railway reps and led to his disbarment being overturned, reopening Nugent case and restoring Oppenheim's reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Association
Tili
Benjamin Oppenheim
New York
Diagrave
Gildersleeve
Oppenheim
Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York
Andrew Nugent
Harriet Nugent
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Ian McDonnell
Mamie Langstaff
Wilber McBride
Metropolitan Company
Hamilton Odell
A& Trunk
Llow
Trina
Nugent
Philadelphia
Jerome
Henry A. Robinson
Legal Department of
Metropolitans
Suprem
the Dreyfus
Miss Nugent
Electric Policemen for Philadelphia’s Force
Philadelphia plans a shock ing squad with a belt device by Jeremiah Creedon to subdue unruly prisoners. A wire runs from the belt to the officer’s hand delivering electricity to the prisoner, promising reduced need for clubs and quicker compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pew
Jeremiah Creedon
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Creedon
New York
Church Club Backs Whipping Post in Honolulu
Honolulu churchmen push for whipping as punishment for crimes against minor girls and trafficking in women. The St Andrew’s Cathedral Church Club unanimously adopted resolutions calling for a whipping post and plan to lobby the next legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Club
Honolulu
St. Andrew's Cathedral
Episcopal
G. H. Ipb
Honollu
Five Babies Born to Mrs Lassens Family in Abbeville
Five male babies were born to Mrs Audrey Lassen in Abbeville Louisiana. Two died at birth while three survived weighing from twenty two ounces to just over five pounds. The birth occurred at intervals of five minutes to over an hour. Mrs Lassen, 28, and her carpenter husband, about 32, have three other children, two of them twins, all boys. Mrs Lassen weighs about 200 pounds. her husband about 140.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audrey Lassen
Abbeville
Parisians Riot After Scottish Rugby Victory
A riot erupted at Parc des Princes in Paris when a Scottish rugby team defeated France 21 to 3. Fans assaulted referee J. W. Baxter as players, police, and mounted officers helped restore order. Spectators later marched through Paris shouting insults and protested outside a sporting newspaper office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Parc Des Princes
Paris
J. W. Baxter
Scouts Lectures in Sign Language and Desert Signs
Chief Beout Ernest Thompson Seton lectured at the North Dakota School For the Deaf using Indian sign language linked to deaf teaching. He compared English and American scouting, described desert signs in Pasadena, and warned scouts about thin ice with safety tips for winter treks and self-rescue techniques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beout
Ernest Thompson Seton
North Dakota School For the Deaf
Devila Lake
Blattner
Alcor
Mizar
England
Moffat
Ishey
Signe
Lou Wencott Beck
Pasadena
Cal
American Sahara
Mr. Beck
Scout Movement
Boy Scouts of
Queer Origins of Words and a Child's War Dream
The text riffs on word origins from Oh dear to verdict and dandelion, tracing roots from French Latin and medieval forms. It then shifts to Tom's Plan a poem of childhood fantasies about growing up, riding plains and rails, and choosing home and family duties over travel and war, ending with contentment at home.
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Wert's Pharmacy
Broadway
NE Broadway Theatre
Long Branch, N. J
Winifred St.claire CO
Life Motion Pictures
Brunkhorst Bros
Cook’s Bee Hive
Cook’s
N. E. Cor
Cookman Ave
Main St
Asbury Park, N. J
From
Missouri
Ated Gas Coo
Jersey
Hotel Directory
Piges
Pleasure Bay
Shrewsbury
New England
DE Usles
Allaire
Army
Navy
Pierpont Morgan
Hell
Robert Carson
Captain John Martin
John D. Rockefeller
Richard T. Crane
Mrs
Alan
George
Baker
Henky PF Dimock
Caroll Nerustaedler
John D. Rofeller
Eee Oy Int Hire
H. Harriman
Walvary Morris
Francises
Edward Jackson Sears
Roebuck &Jo
Mary Packer Cummin
LP. Morton
Edwin Bancroft
Foote
Be Farson
Marshall
Perry
William Hall Penfold
Cornelia Btorrs
Sebastian de Lawrence
Henry Iden
Sedoes
Miss Flora
Isham
Gen 'T. Coleman du Pont
Morris Loeb
Mothey
Towitt
Henny Deere
Marting’s
Dorling
Oe Iid
Pery
Algy
Chicago
Lucy
Nelly
New Orleans
Glear Dreyfus
A. A. Miller
Iron Mountain System
St. Louis
Fife
Jack McKallip
Philadelphia Press
Tom
Rother
Ruther
Long Branch
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