America’s Grand Old Woman Lara Barton at Ninety
Lara Barton aged ninety, famed as a relentless worker, is described at her Glen Echo home as a masterful, energetic reformer. Born 1821 in Oxford Massachusetts, she founded Bordentown’s free school, first female federal clerk in the post office under President Buchanan, and long-cherished public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lara Barton
America
Clarissa Harlowe Barton
Osler
Glen Echo
New Jersey
Bordentown
Miss Barton
Oxford
Mass
Stephen Barton
Anthony Wayne
Dods Child Pianist Testifies in Libel Case
Adele Dods, fourteen, learned piano by correspondence from the United States School of Music. Before Justice Brady she played two pieces for a New York supreme court jury as evidence in Collier’s Weekly $50,000 libel suit. Critics called the performance inartistic, while the room applauded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Dods
United States School of Music
Adele Dods
Justice Brady
New York Supreme Court
Miss Dods
Collier's Weekly
Smith
Mozart
James W. Osborne
Collier's
Correspondence School of Music
J. K. Bickford
Brooklyn Seaman Lived With Broken Neck Forty-Eight Years
Edmund Malone of Brooklyn recalls a neck fracture suffered as a teen seaman after a storm. He says his spine fused and he has endured paralysis and stiffness, yet functioned and worked daily until recently, crediting lack of medical aid aboard for his survival.
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Brooklyn
Edmund Malone
Malone
Ireland
New York
Pleads for the Rich. Trinity College President Denounces Attacks
President Flovel S. Luther of Trinity College Hartford condemns unrestrained attacks on successful businessmen. He notes many are honest, upright, Christian and charitable men despite public scorn for their business methods. He argues they are not sinners, but victims of imperfect standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flovel S. Luther
Trinity College
Hartford
Conn
Confederate Veterans in Congress Span Both Houses
The article notes a higher Confederate veteran presence in Congress than Union veterans, listing six Confederate senators and eight representatives. It highlights stories of Captains John Lamb and Charles M. Stedman, Brigadier General George Gordon, and Representative Richardson, who survived capture, execution threats, and a jailbreak aided by Forrest’s cavalry. It also covers other Confederate figures in the House and Senate and recounts Gordon’s wartime service and captivity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FTV
Congress of the United States
House
Senate
Congress
Bacon
Georgia
Johnston and
Bankhead
Alabama
Martin
Virginia
Thornton
Louisiana
Tillman
South Carolina
House of Representatives
George W. Gordon
Tennessee
Charles M. Stedman
North Carolina
John Lamb
William Richardson
Talbott
Maryland
Rucker
Colorado
Taylor
Estopinal
Richardson
Athens
Ala
Twenty-sixth
Shiloh
Indiana
Nashville
Murfreesboro
Representative Richardson
Forrest
George Washington Gordon
Little Rock
Ark
Gordon
Fort Warren
Massachusetts
Bethel
Northern Virginia
Lee
Appomattox
Stedman
Forty
Spottsylvania Court House
Petersburg
Grant
James River
Atterson W. Rucker
Missouri
Price
Lexington
Shelby
Marmaduke
Missouri River
Springfield
Congressman Rucker
St. Louis
John H. Bankhead
Senator Bankhead
Lincoln in disguise visits Pickett baby after Richmond falls
The widow of General Pickett recalls a story Henry Mann wrote in the July Columbian about Abraham Lincoln visiting Mrs. Pickett and their infant son, Major George E. Pickett, after Richmond’s evacuation. Lincoln joked the boy was a bad child and left his card and a fifty dollar note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Pickett
Gettysburg
General Pickett
Pickett
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Mann
Richmond
George
George F. Pickett
Dumb Man Speaks After Skull Operation in New Haven
Harry Wiltze of New Haven Connecticut who was injured as a teen when run over by a wagon spoke after an operation at St Raphael's hospital. A skull fragment touching the brain was removed by Dr Morris D Slattery. Wiltze called hello doc and doctors expect complete recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Wiltze
New Haven
Conn
Middletown
N. Y
St. Raphael’s Hospital
Morris D. Slattery
Senator Luke Lea Blood Transfusion Heroism Revealed
Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee recounts being conscious throughout a 90 minute blood transfusion aiding his wife during a life saving operation. He describes pain but focuses on his wife, notes the severed artery could not be repaired yet another artery would keep his hand strong. Doctors say pulses matched at 130 after four quarts of Lea’s blood moved to Mrs Lea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Lea
Mrs. Lea
Senator Lea
Americans Cut Imports Significantly Amid War-Time Beliefs
A government report shows Americans trimmed their imported champagne bills by 7 million dollars and wore fewer diamonds by that amount over the last eleven months versus the previous year. Despite this, U S imports rose by over 445 million dollars in the same period, with diamonds down from 37.25 million to 30.5 million and silk laces and dressed furs also dropping.
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Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Canada Adds Fifty Reindeer For Mail Transport
The Canadian government buys fifty reindeer from Dr. Grenfell of Labrador. The herd will travel by boat to Quebec in September, then by train to Edmonton or Athabaska landing. Scows will carry the herd down the Athabaska to Fort Smith, the destination. The Labrador herd has grown from 300 to about 1,200. The Fort Smith test aims to ease winter travel in the Canadian north, replacing dog teams with fewer hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government of
Canada
Grenfell
Labrador
Quebec
Edmonton
Athabaska Landing
Athabaska
Fort Smith
Attendance expected at twenty fifth Christian Endeavor convention
Reports to the United Society of Christian Endeavor indicate unusually large attendance for the twenty fifth international convention to be held in Atlantic City July 6 to 12. Speakers include Taft Clark Fairbanks Booth Chapman and others with a goal of 10,000 new societies and 1,000,000 new members in two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Society of Christian Endeavor
International Christian Endeavor
Atlantic City
Taft
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Charles W. Fairbanks
Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
Charles M. Sheldon
Kansas
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
J. Wilbur Chapman
Russell H. Conwell
Philadelphia Baptist Temple
F. J. Horsefield
British Christian Endeavor Union
G. Fukuda
Japan
H. L Marshall
Burma
R.S. Gray
New Zealand
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Fred B. Smith
International Young Men's Christian Association
Mary Wood- Allen Chapman
Christian Endeavor
Christiaan Endeavor Institute
Francis L. Clark
United States
Canada
After the Convention Baltimore Bids 1912 Democrats Meet
Baltimore raises funds to lure the 1912 Democratic national convention with a $100000 guarantee fund oversubscribed. Corporate and individual donors including the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Pennsylvania railroad, United Railway and Electric, and Captain Isaac Emerson contributed up to $5000 each.
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Baltimore
Robert Crain
Finance Committee
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
United Railway and Electric Company
Isaac Emerson
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J. E. Purdy
Clara Barton
Lincoln
Stanton
Cedar Mountain
Second Bull Run
Fort Wagner
Spottsylvania
Antiequa
Fredericksburg
the Wilderness
Barton
Confederate Veterans
Senator Johnston
American Press Association
Representative Lamb
Representative Rucker
Senator Bacon
Abraham Lincoln and
Pickett Baby
Sen
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