Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rear Admiral William Clinton Wise, U. S. N., retired, 81, at Honolulu, Hawaii, from a cause not reported. During the Civil War he commanded the flagship Malvern, which, with President Lincoln aboard, was the first Federal warship to reach Richmond after Lee's surrender...
...Albert Buck of East Libetty, Pa.; Charles Gage Brenneman of Ava, III.; Edgar Ray Broenniman, of New York; Geoffry Chamberlain, of Cambridge; Walton Dismukes, of Santa Ana, Cal.; Gerald Edward Donovan, of Auburndale; Arthur Bernard Gunnarson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Alfred Janney Johnson, of Columbus, O.; Murray Webb Latimer, of Clinton; S. C. Palmer, and George Herdman Rutherford, of Lancaster...
Busts of William M. Chase, Walter Shirlaw, Clinton Ogilvy, H. K. Brown, J. Q. A. Ward, Carroll Beckwith, George Inness, Frank Duveneck have already been placed in the Library rotunda. The Whistler bust will be by Frederick MacMonnies, who knew Whistler intimately in student days at the Academic Cormon, Paris. Joseph Pennell, Whistler authority, and W. Francklyn Paris, architect, comprise the memorial committee...
Hornets are swarming to the mausoleum of Tut-ank-Amen in the Valley of the Kings-evidently attracted by some ingredient used in treating the objects taken from the tomb. Two physicians advanced upon a patient in Clinton, Iowa, to determine his blood pressure. He opened fire with two revolvers, wounded one doctor, shot himself. He then died...
...Robinson of Huntington broke the world's interscholastic indoor high jump record with a jump of 5 feet 11 3-8 inches. The former record was held by John, DeWitt of the Clinton High School of New Jersey with a height of 5 feet 11 inches...