Andrew Hamilton Attacks New York Life Officials in Albany Speech
Andrew Hamilton confronted the insurance investigation committee in Albany railing at New York Life trustees as curs and traitors. He claimed payments to him over a decade were proper with the auditing committee approving the Paris account, and urged removal of officials tied to McCall and Beers scandals.
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Andrew Hamilton
Insurance Investigation Committee
Albany
N. Y
Paris
John C. McCall
New York Life
Beers
McCall
President McCall
New York
Auditing and Finance Committee
Ife
Milton
Wreck on Denver Rio Grande claims numerous lives
A head on collision of Utah California Express No 8 and Colorado New Mexico Express No 16 on the Denver and Rio Grande line four miles east of Florence Colorado caused a fire engulfing passengers. Officials list twenty two injured none seriously hurt. Dead include engineers William Hollis and Walter Coslett fireman H D Sudduth deputy sheriff Edward E Baird and many others from Pueblo Denver Salida Lebo and Kansas. The disaster rivals the Eden tragedy of 1904 in horror.
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Eden
Florence
Col
Denver
Leadville
Grand Junction
William Hollis
Pueblo
Walter Coslett
H.D. Sudduth
Edward E. Baird
Archibald Whitney
Canon City
Baird
William Burnside
Kansas
A. N. Barklow
Salida
Grace Barklow
Enas McParland
Express Messenger
Taylor Hewitt
Lebo
Kas
Lillian Hewitt
Pearl Hewitt
Katherine Hewitt
Cowley
Fred. Jones
Fred Limecooley
Ed. Cowley
Winona
Hewitt
Significance of Money Signs and Currency Symbols
A discussion on currency symbols outlines the Latin origin of L for pounds from librae and D for denarius, the Ib for avoirdupois pounds, and the dollar sign. The $ sign is likely a stylized 8 reflecting eight reales from the Spanish dollar used before US currency.
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Washington Star
No Fever Reported in Panama Canal Zone February
Col William Gorgas, chief sanitary officer, reports February findings to Governor Magoon. No quarantinable diseases occurred in the canal zone that month. Bubonic plague, yellow fever, and smallpox were present on the South American Pacific coast and at Barranquilla Colmbia. One yellow fever case reported at Bocas del Toro where Dr Purnell was sent. Among twenty three thousand canal employees the sick rate was twenty per thousand and deaths numbered seven whites and twenty nine blacks with one American death.
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Wiliam Gorgas
Canal Zone
Magoon
South American
Pacific
Barranquilla
Colombia
Bocas del Toro
Purnell
Countess seeks absolute divorce in Seine tribunal
Countess Boni de Castellane appeared with her lawyer Edmund Kelly before Judge Ditte, president of the civil tribunal of the Seine, to amend her separation suit to obtain an absolute divorce. The application had requested a separate domicile and custody of the children during the proceedings.
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Boni de Castellane
Edmund Kelly
Ditte
Civil Tribunal of the
Seine
Not Return to Russia For Feliz Gaidsis
Feliz Gaidsis a Russian national arrested in New York on a Russian embezzlement charge was released by immigration officials who refused his repatriation claiming he is a political prisoner. St Petersburg police then re arrested him and took the matter to U S courts for resolution.
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Feliz Gaidsis
St. Petersburg
New York
United States
Russia
No Mixing of Blue and Grey at Augusta Veterans Meeting
A Augusta Georgia veterans meeting tabled a motion to send delegates to a memorial for General Wheeler in Atlanta. The vote reflected a stance against mixing the blue and the grey in the reconciliation gesture.
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Augusta
General Wheeler
Atlanta
Barbarity of Russian Surgeons Told by a Soldier
A Russian soldier recounts wartime cruelty where sanitaries marked wounded for care with red paint and hopeless cases with black. He recalls bribery, a surgeon killed by shrapnel, and later discovering he had looted the officer and found over 300 rubles among the pockets.
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East
Education reform and the future of girls schooling
Collier's Weekly argues modern education shifts from forceful instruction to stimulation and emotion. It notes great problems remain in girls' education, which has long mirrored boys’ curricula and calls for new approaches that maximize girls' potential without exhausting them.
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Collier's Weekly
Baden-Powell denounces youth smoking in letter
General Baden-Powell writes to a Bolton schoolboy condemning tobacco use among growing youths. He argues smoking before about age 20 harms development and leads to rotten character, claiming sensible people avoid it and that smokers imitate swagger rather than true manliness.
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Baden-Powell
Baden- Powell
Bolton
Eng
Survival of the Fittest in Galway Election Tale
In Ireland a historical quip notes candidates facing Irish brains and oak. At a Galway levee during a pending Galway election for George IV, a Galway gentleman jokes that the probable winner is “the survivor, sir,” reflecting satire on political contests.
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Ireland
George IV
Galway
Publin
Blackwood's
True Disciples of Tolstoi in Gloucestershire Colony
A small Tolstoyan community named Whiteway sits on sixteen acres near Stroud Gloucestershire living by hard hand labor, with guests welcomed to cultivate plots tax free and without title. Neighbors call them Queer People and report peaceful, skilled residents, including retired sailors and educated families, who hold concerts and explore local Roman and medieval sites nearby.
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Cotswold Hills
Gloucestershire
Count Tolstoi
England
Squire
Parson
Whiteway
Gloucester
Cirencester
Stroud
Aylmer Maude
Tolstol
Acre
Scotland
Miserden
Bishop of Salisbury Uses Prac tical Ruse at Reception
At a Salisbury reception the English bishop solved a crowded room by ordering "everybody over 400 years old" to the tearoom. About twenty men and fewer than ten women complied.
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Salisbury
Papal Swiss Guard Celebrates 400 Years of Service
The papal Swiss guard marks 400 years since its 1506 foundation by Pope Julius II. Notably, the commandant’s wife, Baron Meyer von Schaussee, hails from the Lante Rovere clan, tied to Julius II.
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Papal Swiss Guard
Julius II
Baron Meyer von Schaussee
Lante Rovere
Jaitus II
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Urs
Hamilton
Life Trustees
Life Officials
Rio Grande Road
Gorgas
Countess Castellane
Tolstoi
Old Tower
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