Mrs. Donald McLean Attends Paul Jones Burial
Mrs Donald McLean president of the Daughters of the American Revolution was guest of honor at Admiral Paul Jones burial in Annapolis. Her long campaign to honor Jones included pushing for burial at Annapolis and later Arlington, reflecting her family’s Revolutionary Era ties.
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Patriotic Daughters of the American Revolution
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Donald McLean
Congress
McLean
Prospect Hall
Frederick
Foy Whittier
Barbara Fritchie
Continental Congress
New York
Paul Jones
Annapolis
Naval School
Arlington
Admiral Paul Jones
Lynn
Beattie
Lexington
James Lackland
Burgess
Maryland
Woman's College
Daughters of the Revolution
Senator Morgan Remembers His Own Speech in Anecdote
The piece recalls Senator Morgan of Alabama joking over a Congressional Record at home. It weaves through family lines back to Revolutionary era figures, including Gen. Nelson and Judge Maulsby, and ends with the reader discovering the narrator’s own speech had been read as a senator’s reply.
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Senator Morgan
Alabama
Congressional Record
Ritchie
McLean
Society
John Ritchie
Congress
Court of Appeals of
Maryland
cLean
William P. Maulsby
Emily Nelson
Roger Nelson
Siuteen
Cowpens
Nelson
Knox Advised to Quit Smoking by Doctor
A senator was urged by his physician to give up smoking recently and placed in the same smokeless class as Senator Spooner after forty years of tobacco use. The doctor found him receptive the following morning.
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Senator Knox
Senator Spooner
Capitol
Knox
Stanford University Buildings Destroyed by Pacific Earthquake
The Pacific coast quake devastates Stanford University near Palo Alto with over 30 million dollars spent on buildings alone lost. The Spanish mission style architecture featured arches, memorial arch by St Gaudens, and the Stanford Memorial Church with its Mount Sermon mosaic front. Plans for rebuilding are under consideration as the campus confronts crisis, while Mrs. Stanford’s endowment aided resilience.
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Stanford University
Palo Alto
Memorial Arch
St. Gaudens
America
Stanford Memorial Church
Europe
Stanford
Pacific Coast
State University At
Berkeley
California
Fire Versus Dynamite Saves San Francisco
Three Navy men under Admiral McCalla used a ton and a half of gun cotton to blast a wide block on the east side of Van Ness avenue saving the city from a firestorm. Capt. MacBride led the squad and Chief Gunner Adamson and a third gunnner set the charges. The operation halted the blaze and preserved the core of San Francisco at a cost of more than a million dollars.
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San Francisco
U. S. Navy
McCalla
Mare Island
MacBride
Adamson
van Ness Avenue
Golden Gate
Greenwich
Golden Gate Avenue
Claus Spreckels
California Street
Fort Madison
Stanford's dream prompts a university for equal chances
The passage recalls Mrs. Stanford urging her husband Senator Stanford to fund a university that would give indigent young men an equal education. They then devoted their energies to planning the Leland Stanford Junior University, aiming to provide an equal chance for all students.
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Senator Stanford
Elephants Going Up Prices Rise for Young and Old
An importer notes a five foot elephant costs 1400 this spring up from 1200 two years ago as wild elephants grow scarcer with settlement. Smaller elephants are imported since cheaper to transport and train. young elephants gain value as they mature.
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Honolulu
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Jordan
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Smithsonian Institute
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Champ Clark
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