Word: colonel
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...call attention to two small errata in TIME, July 19, "Prairie Pantaloon" [p. 20] a) The father of Will Rogers was also of Cherokee descent, with about the same per cent of Indian blood, as the mother of the "Ambassador." No connection with Jingo, living or dead, b) Colonel Mulhall, not Muhlbach. POLLY CHU-WA-LOOKY...
Last week Colonel Carmi Alderman Thompson, onetime member of the Ohio Gang, now personal researcher for the Big White President, continued his critical observations from aboard the Filipino- financed Bustamente (TIME, July 26, et seq.). Slowly the little steamer pushed through hundreds of emerald islets in a turquoise sea beneath azure heavens-on, on to Cuyo Island, veritable Eden in the Sulu Sea. Col. Thompson, pleased, ambled beneath outlandish cocoanut palms, low luscious mangoes. No phones, newspapers, railroads, trolleys or automobiles marred this hot perfection. Ah, to be a barefoot native! . . . But business pressed. Mr. Thompson reluctantly doffed his white...
...Colonel then desired to seek further information in the Visayan Islands; cabled to Washington for permission to use the U. S. destroyer Merritt lying idle in Manila Bay. The War Department answered, "Sorry, no funds...
Died. Joseph Murray, 82, one-time mentor of Colonel Roosevelt and an assistant immigration commissioner in 1902; at New York. Died. Robert Todd Lincoln, 83, oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and president of the Pullman Company...
...Died. Colonel Washington Augustus Roebling, 89, Civil War hero, who monumentalized the profession of his father by building the Brooklyn Bridge; at his home in Trenton...