Pension system details and how to claim under general law
Washington reports from the interior secretary reveal nearly 998000 pensioners and 144 billion dollars spent on pensions since inception, with rules designed to aid deserving claimants. It explains general and special acts, application steps, required affidavits, medical exams, and the roles of widows, dependents, guardians, and the Pension Bureau in proving incapacity and entitlement.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Pension Office
United States
Pension Bureau
War Department
Commissioner of Pensions
Congress
Spain
Navy
Marine Corps
United
Washington, D. C
Bureau
Bureau of Pensions
J. D. Whelpley
Hunt for another planet in the solar system advances
The London News discusses early planetary discovery and the search for a hypothetical distant world beyond Neptune. It cites Forbes and the 19th century Neptune discovery by Adams and Leverrier, noting telescope limits and the power of mathematical prediction in revealing unseen planets.
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London News
Watts
Gallileo
Principal Lodge
George Forbes
Neptune
Forbes
Royal Society
Edinburgh
Adams
Wraenus
Herschel
Viazzi
Mars
Jupiter
Shelley
Earth
Cambridge
Leverrier
Paris
Uranus
Founder Henry Dunant a lifelong pauper aiding mankind
In Heiden Switzerland Henry Dunant the founder of the Red Cross lives in a poor cabin dependent on charity and delays any prize money. A Nobel prize commission has selected him and Frederick Passy to share the prize for promoting peace but he refuses to leave his village and will not travel to Stockholm. The story recounts his life from Solferino to the Geneva congress and his decades of selfless work.
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Indianapolis Journal
Heiden
Switzerland
Henry Dunant
Frederick Passy
Appenzell
France
M. Dunant
Leni
Dunant
Frau Leni
Zurich
Mark
China
Red Cross Society
Paul Prys
Nobel Fund For
Hei
Russia
Meyer
Stockholm
Mr. Dunant
Oscar
Geneva
The
Republic
Colladon
Montcenis
St. Gotthard
International League For the
Crimea
Europe
Florence Nightingale
Solferino
Austria
Sardinia
Italy
Mercy
Charity
United States
Napoleon
Dufour
Geneva Co-operative League
French National Society
Holland
Hague
Istance
Helden
New Union Station to Mirror Quai d Orsay in Paris Design
William H Baldwin Jr outlines plans for a vast New York Union Station modeled on Paris Quai d Orsay. The station will be twice as large, feature automatic ventilation, independent platforms with separate signals, and a hotel. Plans filed with the county clerk await railroad commissioner sanction and city franchise.
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New York Evening Post
Union Station
Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Island Railroad
Quai d'Orsay
Orleans
Paris
Great Orleans
Seine
New York Union Station
William H. Baldwin, Jr
Long Island RailIroad
New York
North River
New Jersey
Baldwin
Possiet
Albany
Board of Aldermen
North Jersey
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Orleans Extension
Ris
Jardin Des Plantes
Quai d Orsay
Port Royal
Twentythird-street
Quai @ Orsay
Pennsylvania Road
Austerlitz
Quai d’Orsay
Military balloons park near Washington sparks a dragon barn
Washington January 10 The army builds a modern balloon park at Fort Myer across the Potomac consolidating signal corps instruction from Fort Logan Presidio and San Antonio A vast dragon balloon will haunt the iron dragon barn whose doors open to reveal gas plants hydrogen compression and a fleet of pear shaped balloons The plan follows General Greelys push after witnessing the German dragon balloon and includes training for Philippine service and signal corps depots.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Fort Myer
Potomac
Signal Corps
Fort Logan
Cal
Presidio
San Francisco
San Antonio
Tex
Uncle Sam
Hydrogen
General Greely
Fort
Joseph Maxfield
United States Army
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UAW
Gov. Ment Alps
RED Cross
Work For Humanity
Augusta
Prussia
Goethe
Hans Zeimer
New Pennsylvania Station
Quay D'Orsay
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