Goethals Family Story From Brooklyn Boy to Canal Builder
January 31 profile traces George Goethals from Brooklyn childhood and Swiss ancestry to West Point cadet and engineer. It notes his Civil War era roots, early schooling on state and powers streets, and ascent through Spanish War service to engineer corps, culminating in leadership roles and a New Bedford marriage with two sons, one in West Point.
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Wen
George Washington
Brooklyn
Napoleon
Austerlitz
John Goethals
Amsterdam
Nel Goethals
Iing
Cruby
Flanders
Ting
Old Public School
State and
Powers Streets
D Avenue
Bolt
Ani
New York
Fourth Street
Oethals
Manhattan
Henry
Nathan P
West Point
Liv
Military Academy
Hoe
Orie
Beers
Henry ‘Waltman
George Goethals
Engi
St Goethals
Rod
New Bedford
Mass
Canal Zone
Spring Hill Pantry Item Noted In Odd Statement
A fragment mentions Spring Hill and a pantry with unclear phrasing about Chile and work, suggesting a local note or typo in an archival snippet. The readable words imply a mundane, unresolved reference to a pantry item or activity tied to the location.
Lady Craven Solves Coal Shortage With 100 Mile Truck
London report says Lady Craven once Miss Bradley Martin used a twenty ton motor truck to fetch coal from Craven collieries a hundred miles away. The vehicle brought fuel to heat her London mansion during a coal strike. The Major Domo had ordered economical use yet she acted to secure supply for the home.
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Lady Craven
London
Bradley Martin
New York
Craven
Palm Beach Dancing Craze Draws Crowds and Events
Palm Beach amid a dancing craze with turkey trot tango and maxixe at the Royal Poinciana Breakers porch and Beach Club ballroom. Hydro airplane ferry service across Lake Worth debuts with Curtiss type aircraft. William Thaw and S Macgordon fly from Stuart. Everitt Phillips and wife among early aboard. Lake Worth fills with power yachts and houseboats as the week ends.
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Palm Beach
Fia
Lake Worth
Iun
Everglades
William Thaw
Pittsburg
Macgordon
Stuart
Fla
Everitt Phillips
New York
Chattanooga Millionaire General Wheeler Dies After Stroke
General Xenophon Wheeler a prominent Chattanooga attorney and capitalist died after a paralytic stroke. He served on the boards of several large enterprises, valued estate at about 1.5 million, and was 79. Born February 19, 1835 in Hamer Ohio, he studied at Oberlin and Yale class of 1860.
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Associated Press
Chattanooga
Tenn
Xenophon Wheeler
County Adopts Single Primary in Mobile County
The Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee approved a single primary to coincide with state officer elections on April 6. Candidates may qualify by March 20 at 6 pm for sheriff, county commissioner districts, and state legislature seats. Payments for election officers set at $5 per day per box where votes exceed 150. The committee meets February 10 to review subcommittee reports and names new officers, with several reseated and replacement appointed.
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Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee
State Committee
George J. Sullivan
R. T. Ervin
James Thompson
John T. Brows
D. B. Dobbs
R. J. Williamson
Assessments
W. W. Anfield
Michael Desmond
William Ardoyne
George Fisher
Crichton
DeGrange
G J-Sullivan
P. B. Laurendine
John T. Brown
Miss Edwards Convicted of Killing George Reihl
Augusta Edwards aged 26 was found guilty of murdering George W. Reihl 35 in New Orleans last July. The jury recommended no capital punishment after five hours of deliberation. sentence to be deferred. Riehl left a wife and two children.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Augusta Edwards
George W. Riehl
Riehl
When a Man Has a Hopeful Disposition
The line remarks on how optimism in a man prompts fewer adjustments to his forecasts. It notes that hopeful disposition often leads to ignoring or discounting his own predictions.
Longworth Receives Share of Grandma Lee’s Estate in Will
Cambridge mass January 31 the will of Mrs Caroline H Lee of Chestnut Hill leaves one sixth of the estate to her granddaughter Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Longworth is among ten grandchildren to receive a special bequest of 1000 dollars. Longworth’s mother was the first wife of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and daughter of Mrs Lee.
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Alice Longworth
Grandma
Cambridge
Mass
Caroline H. Lee
Chestnut Hill
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Longworth
Pape’s Diapep sin touted as universal stomach regulator
The ad claims Pape’s Diapep sin relieves dyspepsia indigestion gas heartburn and sourness in minutes. It asserts a fifty cent bottle is worth a hundred dollars in relief and urges keeping it at home for sick upset stomachs day or night.
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Pape
Anglo American Lines Enter Ocean Steamer Rate War
London January 31 Anglo American Steamship lines join the steerage rate war following the dissolution of the transatlantic pool. White Star and Cunard cut east bound steerage rates by 4 dollars and westbound by 2.50 to meet Hamburg American line schedules. Hamburg American directors declare a 10 percent dividend for 1913. The 1918 earnings reached 15 million dollars versus 13.125 million the prior year.
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Anglo-American Lines
London
Anglo- American Steamship Lines
Transatlantic
White Star
Cunard
Hamburg-American Line
Berlin
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Fish Theft Punished in Recorder Court
Zebbie Irwin, a Black man, was arraigned in the recorder's court and sentenced to fifteen days in jail for stealing fish from W. H. Henderson. Judge Edington condemned the defendant for repeated arrests, noting the fish were valued at about 90 cents.
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Zebbie Irwin
W. H. Henderson
Recorder’s Court
Edington
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Chile
Miss Edwards
George Reihl
AverCo
Dugg and
Taylor
N. E
Deuphin
Gerardy Lung Balsam
Phil P. Cresap Co.,Ltd
Lal
Harry
Harry’s Shoe
Government Street
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