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Hundreds of Terrorists? At 10:15 p.m., as the Lincolns sat watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth made his way unnoticed into the presidential box, fired a bullet into the back of the President's head, and escaped across the stage to his...
For 181 days in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the city's only two dailies have been closed by a strike of the American Newspaper Guild. When Guild members on the morning Record (circ. 29,177) and evening Times-Leader-News (circ. 59,594) walked out during bargaining on a new...
¶ William White, 57, who was ousted as president of the New York Central by Financier Robert R. Young, in the hottest railroad battle of the year, was elected president of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp. (793 miles of track stretching from Wilkes-Barre to Montreal), to succeed Joseph H...
Situations & Personalities. Where national issues have no meaningful local application, most of the races in the 50 battleground districts are turning on local personalities or intraparty feuds or on both. Example: in Pennsylvania's Eleventh District (Wilkes-Barre), Republican strife is undercutting Representative Edward J. Bonin. The trouble began...
Sight & Decision. Caitlin's motehr was once captured by Indians, and he himself was born near the frontier-at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1796. But Catlin's early ambitions lay eastward; he taught himself the rudiments of portraiture and offered his painting services in Philadelphia. At 26 Catlin...