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Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (The "California-Orient Line") from San Francisco to Honolulu to Japan (Kobe, Yokahama) to China (Shanghai) to the Philippines (Manila) and return...
Admiral George Dewey fought the battle of Manila Bay on Apr. 30, 1898. On Jan. 16, 1917, he died at his home, No. 1601 K Street, Washington. He was buried in Arlington Cemetery, in a mausoleum surrounded by the tombs of comrades...
...retrenchment: replacement of paper drinking cups by old-fashioned glasses; no free pencils for newspaper correspondents; reduction of the number of towels placed daily in White House office lavatories from 175 to 88; orders that all lights be turned out promptly when not needed; repeated use of manila envelopes for documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser...
POLITICAL NOTES A Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in action at Manila during the Spanish War was awarded last week to Rice W. Means, sometime Lieutenant in the First Colorado Infantry. Rice W. Means is now a Republican U. S. Senator from Colorado, elected last fall...
...East, Eleanor Franklin Egan died last week in Manhattan. She began writing at 18 as a correspondent for 'Leslie's Weekly during the Russo-Japanese War. In Japan, she was married to Martin Egan who then represented the Associated Press. Later, they edited together the Manila Times. During the War, Mrs. Egan wrote many articles from the Mesopotamia front. She was one of four women on the American delegation at the Limitation of Armaments Conference. Of late, she has contributed a series of articles on the Orient to The Saturday Evening Post. She was an expert...