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There was a ball one night in Washington whither Booth came late. Bessie Hale had dressed especially for him. She was watching, wondering. Meantime she waltzed to dreamy strains with a nice-looking young officer who was also, as many knew, an abject slave to her divinity. This was a tall lad, handsome, courtly. He had begged her hand time and again, receiving her refusals with cheery fortitude. Her parents preferred him to "the player." He used to send her stunning bouquets from the White House conservatory. He was President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert...
Late in the week, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, famed Princeton economist, onetime fiscal consultant to the German Reichsbank and to the governments of South Africa, Chile, etc., returned to the U. S. after a two weeks' visit in Poland, whither he had gone at the invitation of the Polish Government and by the request of Dillon, Read & Co. of Manhattan, who have recently dealt largely in Polish government securities...
...mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...
Died. Dr. Adolf Passow, famed German ear specialist, immediately after having performed an operation for ear trouble upon former Kaiser Wilhelm; in a hospital at Utrecht, Holland, whither he had been rushed from Doorn, after suffering "a stroke...
...Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...