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...Dawes spent his 59th birthday working on a speech. He then gathered his family together; and the entire group were transported from Evanston, Ill., to Lincoln...
...Republic met once more, for the 58th reunion and National encampment in Boston. Some business was attended to: Dr.Louis Arensberg, of Uniontown, Pa., was elected to succeed Gaylord M. Saltzgaber, of Van Wert, Ohio, as National Commander; Grand Rapids, Mich., was chosen as the site of the 59th encampment next year; the legislative committee was instructed to present a 'bill to Congress giving all Civil War veterans $72 a month, the disabled $100, and the totally disabled $155. But the main feature of the encampment for these men, now averaging 82 years of age, was the opportunity of marching...
Millicent Willson married William Randolph Hearst on April 28, 1903. On March 4th? six days later ? Mr. Hearst officially became a Congressman. He held office from the Eleventh District of New York in the 58th and 59th Congresses. In 1907, Mr. Hearst's office-holding career came to an end. Since then Millicent Willson Hearst has been known as the wife of a financially successful journalist, and as the original of many photographs in Hearst papers representing a handsome woman attending civic functions and giving baskets of food to the poor. Now there is a possibility that...
...gloves. He formed the chorus in the normal process of training a church choir of boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper...
...67th Congress which just closed. According to the tabulation of its activities, it received, during its two-year period, 14,475 bills. This number was cut down to 1,763, which were reported out by committees; finally 931 laws were passed-the highest number by any Congress since the 59th. Of these, 655 were public or general laws and 276 so-called private laws-that is, laws granting pensions, or reimbursing individuals and corporations for losses inflicted by the Government. The number of private laws would have been much greater, but for 22 omnibus pension bills which embodied...