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Died. George Charles Hanson, 52. U. S. Consul General at Salonika; by his own hand (pistol); on board the President Polk en route...
...Washington James Knox Polk II, 33, great-great-grandnephew of the eleventh U. S. President, applied for a hack-driver's license...
...abdominal tissues to remove her diseased ovaries. Dr. McDowell asked $500, got $1,500 and an "elegant carriage" with a span of Kentucky-blooded horses and two slaves, largest fee on record up to 1822. There is no public record of who held the hands of James K. Polk when Dr. McDowell repaired a rupture and removed a stone from the future President's bladder...
...outing, had an opinion about the House's activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that it was time for the House...
Intending to surprise her German parents, whom she had not seen for eight years, Stenographer Sittell recently threw up her Manhattan job with the law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed where she had taken dictation from Count Rene when he worked in their office. Sailing for Paris, she got a job with Count René before proceeding to surprise her parents. Last week she arrived at Schoenberg, a tiny German customs depot on the Saar border and, as usual, said what she conscientiously thinks...