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...hand in a powder experiment, got a false hand which he used dexterously at tennis and bag punching. For versatility's sake he wrote The Science of Poetry & the Philosophy of Language. Hudson Maxim's older brother was Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916), one-time apprentice coach builder. He tried to beat Edison to the invention of the incandescent electric light bulb, invented a machine gun which loaded and fired itself automatically by its own recoil. He also invented a smokeless powder, tried to invent an airplane, became a British subject, was knighted. "Dr. Shush'' (Hiram...
...vigilantes were formed to avenge King of William; and "when Casey's body swung from a rope, law was born." In the next few years the Call and Bulletin together fought many a sensational campaign, notably that of 1875 against financier William C. Ralston, pride of San Francisco, builder of the famed old Palace Hotel. The papers accused him of dishonesty, ruined him, supposedly drove him to suicide, were nearly mobbed by the inflamed populace...
Died. John Haydock Carroll, 73, railroad lawyer, general counsel for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Northern Pacific Railroads, assistant to the president of Baltimore & Ohio, personal legal adviser to the late Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill; after long illness; in Washington. For 32 years his parentage was unknown to him. His mother took him to Cincinnati at the age of five, then disappeared. He lived in a drygoods box with another urchin, sold newspapers, blacked boots. Placed in an orphanage, he escaped in 1865 and by selling "extras" telling of Lincoln's assassination accumulated $4.50, went to Toledo...
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...corporation would be to create second mortgages rather than to maintain their liquidity, which will be the function, for prime first mortgages. of the President's Home Loan Discount Bank system. Homes costing $15,000 or less would be favored. If the corporation gets started, a prospective builder of a $15,000 house would not have to have the $4,000 or more of cash usually required above his first mortgage to start building. He could get a second mortgage from the corporation for this amount, build a home without putting up any real money. In the building boom...