There Is Room at the Top for Lawyers Says Four New York Leaders
Special correspondence from New York presents interviews with Frederick R. Coudert Roger A Pryor Austin Abbott and James C Carter on the crowded state of the legal profession They generally agree there are too many lawyers especially in lower ranks but there is room at the top and potential for success with real ability education and hard work.
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Frederick Coudert
Roger A. Pryor
Austin Abbott
James C. Carter
New York
Frederick BR Couder
Frederick R. Coudert
New Yorker
Columbia College
Coudert Bros
Impiense Corporation
Coudert
Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Waite
Antwerp
Liverpool
Condert
A. Pryor
New York City
Petersburg
Hampden Sidney College
University of Virginia
Fr Pierce
Greece
Congress
Chicago
Sugar Trust
New York Supreme Court
Pryor
Lanswer
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott
Lyman Abbott
Boston
Bir
Abbott
Henry Ward Beecher
New York Daily Register
Iai
Uce
Janes C. Carter
Carter & Ledyard
Lancaster
Mass
Harvard
Law School
Carter
New York State
Tilden
Forrest's Raid Into Memphis
On August 21 1864 Gen Forrest and 300 private soldiers raided Memphis despite a foot wound. They seized staff officers and prisoners at Gayoso house and Irvin prison, then escaped after a brief fight with Union cavalry. The raid, lasting about an hour, distracted Union forces and fulfilled Forrests mission to tie up troops in Mississippi and West Tennessee.
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Forrest
Memphis
Gayoso House
Washburne
Hurlbus
Buckland
Irvin
A. J. Smith
Mississippi
West Tennessee
Sherman
Georgia
The Ten Toothpicks Crank of New York Clubs
A New York City club tale tells of a man famed as the greatest living crank among downtown circles. Each midnight he goes to the roof with ten wooden toothpicks, counting broken ones as he tests if he violated the commandments, then accepting or refusing penance. A waiter found a cache of broken toothpicks atop the club building, confirming the strange habit. The crank may quit only if the club orders it, a move still uncertain.
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Trinity Church
Wall Street
St. S
Broadway
Fulton Street
New York
Leclustre
New York Cor
Baltimore
Monkey Ends Life By Hanging Itself, Exchange Reports
A pet spider monkey, ill and unable to endure suffering, was euthanized by a kind man. The monkey, left alone in a room with a rope and lantern, appeared to climb to the beam and end its life intentionally. The finder, experienced with spider monkeys, said the animal understood its plight and chose death.
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Phuoly
German Boys and the Lack of Play Observed Abroad
An English traveler in Germany reports that German youth rarely engage in games or sports. He notes military discipline suppresses recreation, citing one rare ball game that ended in a fight, leaving German boys without healthy activity and aging prematurely. He cites observations from a German town with university and schools and reflects on the impact on youth.
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Germany
Montreal Star
Oatmeal vs Cornmeal in Diets Highlighted by Experts
An interview in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat argues oatmeal supports life with fat for vigor and strong bones, especially for children, while Indian corn requires four hours of cooking to reach digestibility. It warns that mush and corn products cooked briefly remain irritating and wasteful.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Fool Dog and the Critic’s View of Foolishness
A Chicago Herald piece defines a fool dog as a man with little sense, noting the creature’s useless mischief such as chasing tails and barking at horses. It argues fools rarely perceive their own folly, and that such fools are inevitable.
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Chicago Herald
Cannibals abandon old diet for quail on toast
Detroit Free Press notes the tribe of South Sea cannibals has finally embraced a new diet of quail on toast sugar cured hams and calf s liver describing it as a hard but commendable transition and deserving fair journalistic praise.
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Detroit Free Press
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G.weol
BR. C.west
Austeria
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Wiilt
Bo Johnson & Siegfried
Warren
Daq-Ty
Organ and Piano Co
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Hamlin
Org
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Mason & Hamlin
Scott
PatarasLe
Miz
Scott & Bowne
East India
Masais Paper
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Hoacca Ploak
Hoohestes
RowLann Sr
Ark, N. JL
Doron
Newark
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D. B. Wann
Johnson & Siegfried
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North America
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Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries
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Philadelphia
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Morris & Mullen
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Island
Warren, PA
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Te Lye
Sheffield
Peerless
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Washington, D. C
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