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Died. Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, one-time Nicaraguan Minister to the U. S.; at Washington, D. C., of uremic poisoning. His son, Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, sped toward Washington from Nicaragua for nine days by horse, motorboat, steamboat, railway and automobile, but arrived one hour too late...
...could be added to the year as a series of holidays, each feast to be named after a great man-the first after Jesus Christ, the second after Columbus, the third after George Stephenson (part inventor of the locomotive), the fourth after Robert Fulton (perfecter of a paddle-wheel steamboat), the fifth after Henry Ford...
...London Foreign Minister Chamberlain let slip a reminiscence or two concerning the famed steamboat sail on Lago Maggiore which was taken during the Locarno Conference by the chief plenipotentiaries (TIME, Oct. 19, INTERNATIONAL...
...enamel lapel buttons, vest trinkets and watch charms of many a party of Elks, Masons, Moose, Knights of this and that, Loyal Sons of the other thing, as they craned their necks and arched their chests making holiday excursions up and down the Hudson River. Last week a municipal steamboat set out from Manhattan for West Point and again the sun twinkled on a galaxy of insignia, more chaste this time than usual, dangling at the midriffs of several score of distinguished looking gentlemen...
...little town of Ptombiers a monument is to be erected in memory of Robert Fulton. It was there in 1802 that he experimented on the Augronne River with a miniature steamboat, tried without success to interest Josephine and the Great Buonaparte in his invention...