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Advance notice was given to the public of a total eclipse of the sun impending on the 24th of January next. Prof. Ernest W. Brown of Yale University, a gentleman who has spent many years of his life making exceedingly accurate tables of the moon's behavior so that phases of the moon can be predicted accurately years in advance, has been appointed by the American Astronomical Society as Chairman of a Committee to inform the public concerning the eclipse -a very necessary function because of the proclivity of the press to garble accounts of things scientific. The unusual...
...must to all men, Death came to James Berwick Forgan, in the 73rd year of his life and the 24th of his career as the outstanding figure of the Chicago banking fraternity. Stricken at his desk with heart disease, he was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where a transfusion of his son's blood (James B. Forgan, Jr.) rallied him momentarily but was ultimately unsuccessful in saving his life. He died sur rounded by his family, after singing favorite hymns with his pastor and saying : "I have put up the best fight I could." Forgan...
...Moses: "Mr. President, I wish to announce that what the Senate has just heard is a mere dress rehearsal. The real speech by the Senator from Mississippi, amplifying the text which he has used today, will be heard in Madison Square Garden on the 24th of June...
William R. Hearst acquired his 24th newspaper?or, counting his Sunday editions, his 39th. He bought the San Antonio Light, his second newspaper in Texas, his 15th newspaper to have membership in the Associated Press. The reported price was $600,000. There are now ten states in which he owns two or more newspapers. His web is spreading...
...former Ambassador to Italy, on a personal matter; 3) Dr. I. Fred Johnson, prominent member of the Lee Highway Association, with his associates; 4) James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with a petition for the release of 54 Negroes of the 24th Infantry in Leavenworth Penitentiary for the Houston Riot of 1917; 5) Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republican National Committeeman from Georgia. Even the President was reported to have found this a case of too much Johnson; he addressed one of the Johnsons on a subject which pertained to another...