Rise from railroad section hand to Baylor president
An 8 P Brooks, once a Santa Fe railroad section hand earning 65 cents daily, is elected president of Baylor University at Waco Texas. His early years on the job, frugal savings, and self education led to college entry at Baylor, then Harvard post graduate work, and a prominent career as a lecturer and scholar. He impressed founder S C Burleson and will assume the presidency after the current term ends.
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8. P. Brooks
Baylor University
Waco
Tex
Santa Fe
Brooks
Laylor University
Supreme Court
Galveston
Mrenham
S. C. Burleson
Baylor
Texas
Republic
Southwest
Harvard
West
Flo
Worth Sixty Millions Dodge At Columbia Commencement
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, heir to a fortune exceeding 60 million, is a Columbia University student with frugal habits and quiet aims. He lives modestly on Madison Avenue, walks to campus to save fare, and plans to pursue serious business pursuits after 1903 while avoiding Wall Street.
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Marcellus Hartley Dodge
United States
Columbia University
New York
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Marcellus Dodge
Madison Avenue
Columbia
Tle
Young Dodge
Carnegie
Rare Picture of Grant From 1876 Portrait Emerges
A Washington photographer George Prince captured Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in August 1876 during his third year of the second term. The image, used for a government mint medal, shows Grant with a trimmed facial style later altered as skin irritation led him to shave. Mrs. Grant disliked the sideboards, prompting the general to grow his beard again.
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White House
Gen. A. 8. Grant
Washington
Brooklyn Eagle
Treasury Department
Prince
Gen. Grant
Grant
the Republic
Something New In Tools In Port Policy Mischief
A cricket club in Valparaiso Illinois shipped bats and stumps to England and faced 30 percent duty. The captain, skilled in customs matters, reclassified the goods as agricultural implements, which enter duty free. Officials accepted the explanation that the stump end and flat bat formed a hole for seed planting.
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Valparaiso
Ill
England
Custom House
Radical Combes leads France's most anticlerical cabinet
Premier Emile Combes forms the forty first French cabinet since 1871, touted as the most radical and anticlerical yet. The group includes Delcasse and Rouvier, with Combes directing education policy and plans to repeal the Falloux law.
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Combes
France
M. Emile Combes
M. Delcasse
Foreign Office
M. Rouvier
Ministry of Finance
M. Waldeck-Rousseau
Senate
Pere Combes
Luxembourg Palace
Albi
Indian Centenarian Dionicio Chico of Dieganos Feeds by Colton
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Dionicio Chico, a Dieganos elder living near Agua Mansa along the Santa Ana. Once a famed vaquero and warrior, he lost a thumb in a past fight and now resides in a mud and pole hut near Colton, aided by visits from locals and sustenance from Maria Cunha, a Portuguese woman.
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N. H. Chittenden
Los Angeles Herald
Agua Mansa
Colton
Santa Ana
Dionicio
California
Paso Trujilla
Maria Cunha
Nurse Toppan Killed 31, Poisons and Fires Spark Outcry
In Taunton Mass the nurse Miss Jane Toppan confesses to killing thirty one patients over ten years using morphine and atropine. She recounts poisoning Mrs Gibbs and others, admitting no remorse and detailing how fires and deaths followed her acts. The case parallels historic poisoners, sparking renewed scrutiny of medical murder. Also notes Carbon Wyoming’s decline as Union Pacific abandons mines and moves tracks, leaving a once bustling town as a deserted settlement.
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Lucretia Borgia
Jane Tappan
Taunton
Mass
Mary D. Gibbs
Cataumet
Dispy
Miss Toppan
Judge Bixby
Edon TH. Binuleter
Lingham
Myra Connors
Episcopal Theological School
Cambridge
The
Institution Hospital
Marine Biological Station
Wood's Hole
McNear
Watertown
Misa Toppan
Davises
Wyoming
Carnon
Wyo
Union Pacific Railroad
Doctor Frank Billings Named AMA President at Saratoga
Dr Frank Billings a Chicago physician educator has led medical circles for around two decades. A Chicago Medical College graduate and Northwestern medical department alumnus he held chairs at Chicago Medical and Rush Medical colleges and now serves as dean and head of the medical department at Rush. He also attends Presbyterian and Cook County hospitals and is noted for national literary contributions. Streets paved with glass echo the Rue de la Republique Lyons example and show water blocking, while Australia’s horse population grew from about 200 in 1800 to over 2 million today.
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Frank Billings
Ical
Northwestern University
Chicago Hospital
Vienna
Paris
Chicago
Chicago Medical College
Rush Medical College
Presbyterian
Cook County
Famaus Rue de la Republique
Lyons
Marked Playing Cards At New York Flat Reveal Dealer Tricks
A New York City flat used by Bat Masterson era gamblers housed marked cards with tiny specks on card margins. The springs were weak but the dealer could read margins to gain an edge, using a precise scheme where each card type carried a distinct speck pattern for advantage.
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New York
Bat ‘Masterson
Origin of His Title and Ramsay Will Benefit Orphans
The first assistant postmaster general Robert Wynne is described as Col though not a military man. A judge upholds his title after a 25 year Washington, DC residence. In Washington County Pa, Dr. George W. Ramsay’s will creates a trust for indigent orphans under 14, with the estate reverting to the county corporation for perpetual support.
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Robert J. Wynne
Wynne
Washington
Henent
George W. Ramsay
Washington, Pa
Corporation
Washington County
Col
United States
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S. P. Brooks
P. Brooks
America
M. Leon Bourgeois
M. Combes
President Loubet
MM Bourgeois
Sarrien
Valle
Trouillot
Delcasse
Gen. Andre
M. Reuvier
Senate House
Law of Associations
Philadelphia
Russia
Dionielo Chico
Era
Coast Range
Dionicio Chico
Capt. Chittenden
Jane Toppan
Massachusetts
American Mediea
Anata
Australia
American Medical Association
York City
Marvel 4
New
New Yorks
Eral Wynne
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