From track walker to great lawyer Martin W Littleton
The piece traces Martin W Littleton born in Roane County Tennessee and raised in Weatherford Texas who rose from trackwalker to a prominent New York lawyer. It covers his early ambition, education by self study, Dallas and Weatherford prosecutor work, 1904 St Louis convention nomination speech, and later career and public service views. It notes his marriage move to New York in 1896, rise at Brooklyn Heights Railway firm, and threat of Thaw trial leadership.
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New York
Texas
New Yok City
Martin W. Littleton
St. Louis
Alton B. Parker
Littleton
Martin
Boas
Bix
Weatherford
Roane County
Tennessee
New York City
Park County
Dallas
Metropolis
Litteton
Sheehan & Collins
Brooklyn Heights Railway Company
Alfue B. Parker
St. Loui
William F. Sheehan
Academy of Music
St. Louie
Mr. Littleton
Garden City
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Uert” Littleton
Harry K- Thaw
Supreme Jim
Ottere
Blackstone
Springstown
Parker County
United States
Weatherford County
Kings County
Miller
Old Academy of Music
Democrats of Nations
Baird G. al
Csee
Jerome
Elopement in High Life Shocks Capital Society
Mrs Alma Marie von Haake Cathcart, wife of a millionaire’s son, elopes with Ensign Earl W. Pritchard. The affair spans three years from Washington to Philadelphia and ends with Alma Marie’s marriage dissolving after she runs away with Pritchard. R Harry Cathcart Jr. plans divorce.
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Washington
Alma Marie Vou Haake Cathcart
Earl W. Pritchard
Hix
Mra Cathcart
R. Harry Cathcart, Jr
Alma Marie von Haake
Hammond Court
von Haake
Pritchard
Annapolis
Congressman Overstreet
Indiana
Indianapolis
Miss von Haake
Cathcart
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Burgh
Admiral Dewey and Wife Vacate Gift Mansion in Rhode Island Avenue
Admiral Dewey and Mrs. Dewey have moved from the Rhode Island avenue house given to the admiral by the American people after the Manila Bay victory. They have relocated to the Hazen home at Sixteenth and K streets, a larger residence better suited for entertainments, with plans for a series of dinners already announced.
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Deweys
Rhode Island
Sixteenth and
K Streets
Dewey
Hazen
Admiral Dewey
Rhode Island Avenue
Haxen
Press agents push White House shows by Roosevelt era stars
Report cites Philip Kearney Mindil securing White House use for Japanese wrestler Hitachiyama in the East Room and President Roosevelt entertaining ambassadors and Cabinet members. Tales of Maude Adams fencing with the President and other acts swirl, with Barnum & Bailey and Ringling plans floated for White House grounds and children’s amusements amid a flurry of counteroffers.
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Philip Kearney Mindil
Roosevelt
White House
Hitachiyama
Charles Frohman
Mindh
Grant
Wells Hawks
Maude Adams
Hawks
Loeb
Peter Pau
Hook the Pirate
Kermit
Quentin
Dan" Fishell
Mindil
Fishell
Barnum & Bailey
Brady
Ringling Bros
Theodore Ir
Adams Family Ties and a Wealthy Westerner in Washington
A descendant of John Quincy Adams, Charles F. Adams, and his brother Henry Adams live near Mrs. John Hay, challenging the idea that old New England families have faded. In the Capitol Whispering Gallery a marble floor block bears John Quincy Adams here, marking where he died after years in the House. Nearby a wealthy westerner flaunts a gold-rich rock used in building, a notable display to visitors in Washington society.
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Charles F. Adams
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts Avenue
Bishop Hurst
Henry Adams
John Hay
Adama
England
House of Representatives
Adames
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Harry K. Thaw
Fameassur
Attorney's Office
Spruce Canyo
Chm Palace
Colorado
E. L. Hewitt
William Travers Jerome
Marts
Admiral Dewey and Wife
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