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...York Tribune. The same year she helped organize the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross. Her philanthropic apprenticeship had been served in assisting her father with his famed Mills Hotels for poor folk and his nursing school at Bellevue Hospital, New York. Active Elisabeth Reid bore her husband a son and a daughter in short order, went with him when he was appointed Minister to France in 1889. She had her first taste of diplomacy and liked it. She founded the American Art Students' Club-now Reid Hall-made a place for herself in the capital...
Policeman. Meantime, Referee Seabury's inquiry into the lower courts, oldest of his three current inquisitions, suddenly bore more fruit after a hiatus of several weeks. Policeman Richard B. Ganly, onetime vice squad member, was sentenced to from four to eight years in Sing Sing for testifying falsely against a woman in a specious prostitution case. Policeman Ganly is the second vice squad man to .be sentenced from testimony dug up by the Seabury investigation. His counsel pleaded that he be sent to a Federal penitentiary rather than to the State's prison. Two months ago Policeman Ganly...
Thirty hours after the disaster, men with asbestos suits got close enough to the bore to make preparations for a nitroglycerine blast. M. M. Kinley and his brother Harry, famed wild well tamers, came from Oklahoma to begin that hazardous undertaking which is calculated to blow out the fuel supply long enough to extinguish the towering pillar of fire...
...exactly resembled all the other forks at table, was of solid silver, engraved with an ornate crest supported between a lion and a unicorn rampant. It bore the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense...
...Association, placed a laurel wreath made of laurel from the plain of Marathon, Greece. To him was awarded in addition to the usual diamond studded medal, another medal, inscribed with the word "Nενκηκaμεν," the famed dying cry of Pheidippides, who bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years. He is frail, short, has brown hair and a pert expression which long ago gave journalists a peg to hang...