Religious Thought and Political Ambitions of Wright and Landis
The piece outlines Luke E. Wright Tennessee born diplomat and military administrator with ties to Taft and McKinley era policy. It notes his Philippine governor general tenure and subsequent ambassadorship to Japan. It also surveys Thomas Hardy drama The Dynasts and Thomas Landis family political links, including Charles B. Landis Indiana congressman and his kin in federal service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uke E. Wright
Tennessee
Taft
Philippines
Luke E. Wright
War Department
Wright
Thomas B. Turley
Philippine Commission
McKinley
Washington
Fipinos
Japan
Archibald W. Wright
University of Mississippi
Hamilton College
General
Admiral Semmes
Spain
Thomas Hardy
Napoleon
William Bayard Bake
Hardy
Durnover
Leipzig
Europe
Chicago
Charles B. Landis
Indiana
Hoosier
Fairbanks
Landis
Charles
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Standard Oil Company
Porto Rico
Frederick Landis
Ife
Ite
Charles R. Landis
House of Representatives
Butler County
Wabash College
Congress
Capitol
Central American peace court and Carnegie gift spotlight
The piece recounts Andrew Carnegie's donation of 100,000 for a Central American peace temple and 750,000 toward a Washington building for the international bureau of American republics. It notes the Central American court of justice, its mandate to interpret treaties, and prominent roles by William S. Buchanan, Enrique Creel, and other pan American diplomats, framing Carnegie as a major promoter of regional peace and unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
William J. Buchanan
The
Central American Court of Justice
pan-American Unity and Progress
Carnegie
International Bureau of American Republics
Washington
Pan-American Railway
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Salvador
Honduras
Guatemala
High
United States
William S. Buchanan
Central America
Buchanan
Enrique Creel
Mexico
Chile
Buffalo
New World
Republic of 'Unama
Hague
Mr. Buchanan
Ohio
Chicago
John Ilays Hammond the Mining Tycoon of the Guggenheims
The article profiles John Ilays Hammond born 1855 in San Francisco, a top earning mining expert once paid about five dollars a minute by the Guggenheims. It notes his wealth, yacht Alcedo, and summers at Gloucester Mass. It traces his early gold mining interest, Yale Sheffield Scientific School graduation in 1876, study at Freberg Germany, and work with the US Geological Survey before rising to international prominence in mining circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alf
Guggenheims
John Slays Hammond
Barney Barnato
Richard Harding Davis
New York
Gloucester
Mass
Guggenheim
San Francisco
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Royal School of Mines
Freberg
Germany
United States Geological Survey
California
London
Hammond and Rhodes Lieutenants in Boer War Trials
The narrative recalls John Hays Hammond and Cecil Rhodes associates, including Hammond's capture by the Doers after the Jameson raid, his Pretoria death sentence and commutation after Richard Olney's intervention. Mrs Hammond recounts hardships endured with her child, while public pressure and a U.S. effort to ensure fair treatment influenced the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnatos
Cecil Rhodes
Natalie Harris
Mississippi
Hammond
Cape Town
Fretoria
Hays Hammond
County option issue dominates Indiana Prohibition debate
The piece analyzes Indiana politics with focus on county local option and the Prohibition party. It discusses tactics to mobilize Republican voters, pledge cards to back Prohibition candidates, and the broader history of prohibition from Maine law onward, urging support for Republican legislators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition Party
Swallow
Indiana
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Prohibition
Crawfordevile Journal
House
Senate
New England States
Maine
Vermont
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New York
Michigan
Iowa
Grand Lodge of Good Templars
Oswego
N. Y
Chicago
National Prohibition Reform Party
Washington
New Party
Columbus
James Black
York Pa
John Russell
Black
Grant
Neal Dow
Yeae
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Clinton Bower Fisk
Fisk University
Union
South Carolina
John Bidwell
California
Bryan
Congress
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C. B. Landis
Oma
N Hardy
Bishop Satterlee
Episcopal Church
Heaven
Guy A. Jamieson
Episcopalian
Tottenville, N. J
H. C. Morrison
Methodist
Birmingham
Ala
Jesus Christ
William E. Blederwolf
Philadelphia
Newell Dwight Hillis
Congregationalist
Brooklyn
Leon Addison Harvey
Unitarian
Rev. G. Campbell , Morgan, Evangelist
England
C. F. Thomas
Baltimore
Joseph Stoby
Hebrew
J. Lewis Parks
Congregationaliat
People’s University
Tom Paine
Stephen &. Wise
Andrew Carnegin and
William I. Buchanan
John Ilays Hammond
Jor Q
Bret Harte
Joseph
Teano
Fairies of the Deep
Mother Pike
Little Piker
Little Red Herring Hood
Octo-Puss In Boots
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