(said to be the "parent of all child protective organizations in the world"); governor of New York Hospital, 1878-1912; chairman, New York State Commission on Capital Punishment (replaced hanging with the electric chair), 1886-88; trustee, New York Life Insurance Co.; chairman, New York ...
First lady's spokesperson insists the claim is false When a request was made to the first lady’s office for comment on Dunn’s push for an investigation, a spokesperson re-issued a statement first made a few days ago that said in part: “Any characterization that the first lady would no...
The United Staes of America has been the birthplace of another such stride forward. In 1901, Julia Davis Chandler wrote a recipe in the Magazine of the Boston Cooking School of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics. In her article she described a sandwich recipe with crab apple jam and pean...
But there is potentially another, deeper link between the cinema and the supernatural. “Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows,” Maxim Gorky famously recounted after visiting a Lumière film screening in July 1896. “If you only knew how strange it is to be there,” he wrote: It ...
1901 – Rayne’s Reef restaurant opened 1902 – Roads were paved when Orlando Harrison was Mayor. Also during his tenure, 1900-1908 and 1910-1914, the town built its municipally owned water and light system, and electric service 1904 – The Berlin Advance newspaper, run by Jesse and Alice...