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...Swiss cheese, Brussels sprouts, French peas, Turkish cigarets and Old Dutch Cleanser? Surely these are more dangerous and insidious than mere crosses and ribbons. If I wear the order of the Golden Fleece, it never comes in actual contact with my body, being separated thereby by my Scotch Tweed Weskit and one, perhaps, neutralizes the evil of the other...
...Mann 5 LINDEN STREET Whole house--Potter Palmer LIONEL North Entry--E. D. Emigh 4 South Entry--C. F. Hartnett 11 LITTLE Floor 2--A. M. Nutter 11 Floor 3--M. Brody 38 Floor 4--C. Gillespie 23 Floor 5--H. R. Elsas 42 MASSACHUSETTS East Entry--H. H. Tweed 13 West Entry--T. L. Jarman 24 MATTHEWS South Entry. Floor 1--D. Boyden 35 Floors 2-3--J. D. Frank 42 Floors 4-5--R. W. Perry 31 North Entry Floor 1--R. K. Gumm 1 Floor 2-3--L. Whittemore 16 Floor 4--R. A. Clark 19 Floor...
Whenever in the last five years the Navy was up in Congress for debate and action, a big thick-shouldered man in a tweed suit, a red necktie and yellow shoes, could generally be found striding up and clown the Capitol's corridors, buttonholing Congressmen and Senators, passionately urging them to vote for the biggest kind of U. S. fleet, hoarsely warning them against the imperialism of Great Britain. His name was William B. Shearer. He was in his early 40's. His voice was the voice of a 16-in. gun booming arguments and demands for more ships. Well...
...York City Board of Elections, Grand Sachem of the Society of St. Tammany, celebrated his 100th birthday. It was a three-day festival, including a boat trip around Manhattan, dinners, speeches galore. A Democrat since he voted for Franklin Pierce in 1852, Mr. Voorhis fought William Marcy Tweed and the "Old Tammany," received his first office, Commissioner of Excise, in 1873 under the reform administration of Mayor Havemeyer. He was long the city's Police Commissioner. Continuously in public service since, his jobs have always been appointive...
Married. Michael Strange (real name Blanche Oelrichs), poetess, authoress, actress, divorced wife of Leonard Thomas (No. 1) of Actor John Barrymore (No. 2); and Harrison Tweed, Manhattan attorney; in London...