Butch McDevitt’s Statue Dream Ends In Washington Farewell
Washington recalls the "one day millionaire" John McDevitt who spent 3000 dollars to push Congress to accept a statue of himself. After being denied, he returns to Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia. He addresses a crowd, jokes about dying to gain fame, and jokes about taking the statue to Ireland. He quips about future politics as Keystone State governor or local constable candidate.
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John“Ruteh" McDevitt
Congress
Wilkes-Barre
McDevitt
Jawn
Jay
Butch
Seventh
Sylvester
Washington Police
John Jay
Lincoln
Gettysburg
Jawa
McDerit
Market Square
Hall of Fame
Charles Medevitt
Capitol
Ireland
Keystone
JAIL AND FINE FOR CASSIDY IN NOMINATION SALE
New York February 5 Joseph Cassidy former Democratic boss of Queens county was sentenced to not less than one year and not more than eighteen months in Sing Sing and fined $1000 for selling the judicial nomination to former Congressman William Willett. Willett received a similar sentence for buying the nomination. Cassidy’s lieutenant Lewis C. Walter Jr. was sentenced to three months in the penitentiary and fined $1000.
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New York
Joseph Cassidy
Queens County
Sing Sing
William Willett
Willett
Lewis C. Walter, Jr
Cassidy
Senate Seat Lost by One Vote in Direct Election Era
A bid by Glass of Alabama for the US Senate failed when the Senate rejected his appointment after the seventeenth constitutional amendment required election by the people. The vote followed a bitter debate over the amendment’s effect and the proper method to fill the seat. Senator Blair Lee of Maryland, recently seated on recommendation of the elections committee, spoke in support of Glass and voted in his favor later.
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Washington
Alabama
Sie Birminghaus News
United States Senate
Committee On
First
Glaas
O'Neal
Joseph F. Johnson
Senate
Blair Lee
Maryland
Glass
Funn
Rich widow ends her life in New York
New York February 5. Mrs Elizabeth Clarke a wealthy widow of Liandasn dis charged two chambers of a revolver into a brick fireplace to test it then killed herself with a bullet in the head. Desperation over illness is believed to have caused the act.
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New York
Elizabeth Clarke
The Best Cough Medicine Advertisement Impression
The copy promotes a cough medicine noted as one of the best remedies for colds and whooping cough. It claims it has been used since earlier times to ease symptoms and notes children have benefited. Sold by all dealers as an advertisement.
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