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Sires And Sons

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
March
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Senator Pettus of Alabama is wearing a pair of eyeglasses he purchased in 1865.

 

Prince Hugo Hohenlohe is working in a New York bank as a volunteer in order to pick up American business methods.

 

Abraham Lincoln, the oldest male survivor of the Lincolns from whom descended the president, is living at Lacy Springs, Va.

 

Joseph Battell, a millionaire landowner of Middlebury, Vt., has offered to rebuild the business portion of that town, which was recently destroyed by fire.

 

Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, about to close thirty years of service in the United States senate, is one of five members of the upper house not a native of this country.

 

Francis B. Loomis, the new assistant secretary of state, has held the office of consul, consul general and two ministries, a record of service without precedent in the state department.

 

Israel Smith, Jr., leader of the famous Thirty-third Massachusetts regiment band, now a resident of New Bedford, Mass., has in his possession a drum that was used in the battle of Bunker Hill.

 

Goichi Abe, a coal dealer of Tokyo, has deposited £120 in a local bank with instructions that it is to remain there at compound interest for 250 years.  Whichever of his posterity is then alive will become possessed of a big fortune.

 

Pedro Alvarado, the Mexican silver millionaire, was a peon miner, working for 50 cents a day, when he found the rich ledge which has given him a fortune of $50,000,000.  It is believed that the Palmillo mine, which he owns, will double his fortune in a few years.

 

Billiard experts in congress yield the palm to Senator Mallory of Florida, whose work with the cue is of the highest order.  Only Congressman Cochran of Missouri and Congressman Lanham of Texas are supposed to be in his class, and both concede the Florida man's superior skill.