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Thornton Cooke, president of Kansas City's Columbia National Bank, awoke on a Pullman in Manhattan's Grand Central Station to find that a switch engine had gone somewhere with the train valet and with his only suit. Banker Cooke ordered an invalid's chair, swaddled himself in Pullman Co. blankets, had himself scooted through the depot to the Hotel Biltmore...
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...Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's birthplace. He refused a Pullman ticket, made the hot trip in a day coach. At Staunton he collapsed, died of pneumonia which his starved body could not resist. His death made much newspaper copy. Reporters interviewed hoboes passing through their communities. Hobo "kings" bragged that they would carry on his work, that hoboes were hopping...
Diplomatic custom requires that one must go away before one can be received back with due ceremony. Therefore Minister Olaya, unattended, went to the Union Station, handed his bag to a redcap, boarded an ordinary Pullman to New York where he went into seclusion. A few days later the U. S. rode him back to Washington in a special train. At the Union Station top-hatted officials from the State Department lined up to greet him. Military and naval units snapped to salute. The Marine Band groped its way through the Colombian national anthem (El Himno National). Guns fired...
Reburied. Abraham Lincoln II, son of the late President Robert Todd Lincoln of Pullman Co. Abraham Lincoln II died in London, aged 16, in 1890 while his father was Minister to Great Britain. He was buried in the national Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill., beside his famed grandfather, his grandmother and his Uncles William ("Willie") and Thomas ("Tad"). He was reburied in Arlington National Cemetery beside his father...