Dr Mudd plaque honors man once jailed for Lincoln case
Dr Mudd, a Maryland physician, aided John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's assassination era, was imprisoned at Dry Tortugas. A plaque at Fort Jefferson in Key West honors him as efforts by his descendant, Richard Mudd of Michigan, led to a federal monument approving his unjust conviction.
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John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Key West
Fla
U.S
Mudd
Saginaw
Mich
Richard Mudd
Johnson
Congress
Booth’s Escape Snafu Ties to Dr Mudd and Lincoln
The account notes Booth fell 112 feet to the stage while fleeing after shooting Lincoln, suffering a simple fibula fracture two inches above the left ankle. It suggests Dr Mudd’s involvement and irony. Booth’s path would have changed if not for the flag. It recalls Booth’s earlier Maryland meeting with Mudd and a December 23 encounter in Washington.
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Booth
Lincoln
Mudd and the Lincoln Conspirators Trial and pardon
The article recounts Dr. Samuel A. Mudd’s military trial begun May 10 in a Washington room and his eventual pardon on February 8, 1869, after a complex case surrounding his alleged complicity with John Wilkes Booth. It covers trials, epidemics on Dry Tortugas, Mudd’s imprisonment, and the sequence leading to his release and death in 1883.
Suit Filed to Declare City Ordinance Illegal
A group of 76 residents near Republic Steel and Jones & Laughlin plants in Cleveland filed in Common Pleas Court to strike down a city ordinance exempting their oxygen open hearth process from air pollution controls. Plaintiffs allege the smoke harms homes at 3100 E. 45th Street and 3341 Jennings Road S. W. One plaintiff, All Cross, complains about painting needs, while Mrs. Herman Meyer cites soot from yellow smoke. Miller also seeks revocation of permits already issued to Republic.
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Cleveland
Republic Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Common Pleas Court
Republic
E. 45Th Street
Jennings Road
S. W
All Cross
Herman Meyer
Miller
Peeved At School He Torches It
A 21 year old student at a Queens rabbinical seminary admitted setting five fires there. Pesach Pasternac, Cuban born and raised in Israel, told police he started the blazes out of anger with school authorities. He was charged with arson after returning to the United States on an invitation to the Forest Hills Rabbinical Seminary of America.
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New York
Queens Rabbinical Seminary
Pesach Pasternac
Isrrael
Pasternac
Forest Hills School
Rabbinical Seminary of America
Americana Mines Coal Road To The Moon Factog
One year's production of bituminous coal from Americana mines would lay a road to the moon eighteen feet wide and one foot thick. The striking comparison underscores vast coal output and industrial scale in a period article.
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Americana
Moon
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