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Died. Joseph Murray, 82, one-time mentor of Colonel Roosevelt and an assistant immigration commissioner in 1902; at New York. Died. Robert Todd Lincoln, 83, oldest and only living son of President Lincoln; at his home in Manchester, Vt. He (TIME, Dec. 7, POLITICAL NOTES) witnessed the assassinations of three Presidents (his father, Garfield, McKinley). He served as Secretary of War, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and president of the Pullman Company...
...Wills in Centreville, Alameda County, Calif. Sleep- simple food-outdoor exercise-her father had used the phrases before. He used them on his patients, and pretty soon he was able to move to Berkeley and send Helen east to school at Hopkins Hall (near Bennington, Vt.). She was still very small when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came back, she had grown out of all recognition. A friend of the family's, William...
...Princeton University, Geologist B. F. Howell announced that a tiny fossil fishplate (scale) which he had picked the previous summer out of Cambrian strata in Franklin County, Vt., had been identified as belonging to a primitive fish, the earliest known creature to possess a notochord (rudimentary spine), which swam in the days of trilobites and brachiopods as the then (over 50 million years ago) highest form of animal life. Fellow scientists named the scale in honor of its discoverer "Howell's dawn fish," marking the dawn of vertebrate life...
Sirs: TIME, March 22, page 5, middle column, near bottom you have Galuchia Coolidge. Only one correct way to spell. It is Galusha. Family started in Shaftesbury, Vt. Elijah Galusha was in furniture business here lor 50 years and his son Henry Galusha was in firm Squires, Sherry & Galusha for 50 years...
Died. John Calvin Coolidge, 81, father of the President of the United States, after several months' illness, at Plymouth, Vt...