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After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March, 1897, as a " Speed Week.
Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.
During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.
The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.
His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ) was one of strict neutrality.
Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.
The credit for detecting its value belongs to Gaston Paris, although his edition ( 1897 ) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh volume of their Scriptores ( 1885 ).
In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.
Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.
Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.
The plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to add the electron to the atomic model.
Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.
The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
The rule was subsequently ended in 1897.
The Achaemenid collection was enhanced with the addition of the Oxus Treasure in 1897, by acquisition from the German scholar Ernst Herzfeld, and then by the work of Sir Aurel Stein.
Waldemar Haffkine, a doctor who worked in Bombay, India, was the first to invent and test a plague vaccine against bubonic plague in 1897.
Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.
The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.
The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).
In 1897, Coolidge was admitted to the bar, becoming a country lawyer

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In 1897 he was appointed arbitrator between the claimants for the Principality of Lippe.
On 18 June 1897 Rear-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was appointed State Secretary of the Navy, where he remained for nineteen years.
Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.
In 1897 Columbia University appointed Franz Boas ( 1858 – 1942 ) as a physical anthropologist for his expertise in measuring schoolchildren and collecting of Inuit skeletons.
Sho < u > gh </ u > í Effendí Rabbání ( March 1, 1897 – November 4, 1957 ), better known as Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and appointed head of the Bahá ' í Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957.
Urged by Roosevelt's close friend, Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, President William McKinley appointed Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897.
In 1897 Lord Aberdeen was appointed Governor-General of Canada and the Aberdeens moved out.
In May 1897 he was appointed as a brigadier general.
In order to suppress the epidemic and prevent its spread, it was decided to take drastic action, accordingly a Special Plague Committee, with jurisdiction over Pune city, its suburbs and Pune cantonment was appointed under the Chairmanship of W. C. Rand, I. C. S., Assistant Collector of Pune by way of a government order dated 8 March 1897.
In 1880 Hayes appointed Longstreet as his ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and later he served from 1897 to 1904, under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, as U. S. Commissioner of Railroads, succeeding Wade Hampton III.
The government appointed Sir Alfred Milner to the posts of High Commissioner and Governor-General of the Cape in August 1897 to pursue the issue more decisively.
The college appointed Mr T Harold Hughes ( 1897 – 1949 ) as the Architect for the site.
In 1897, President William McKinley appointed George B. Jackson, an African American former buffalo soldier as customs collector at Presidio, a position that he held until his death in 1900.
In May 1897 Barton was appointed for the second time to the Legislative Council on Reid's recommendations to take charge of the federation bill in the Upper House.
Sir Alfred Milner was appointed high commissioner of South Africa and governor of Cape Colony in 1897, succeeding Sir Hercules Robinson, who was made a peer under the title of Baron Rosmead in August 1896.
In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired.
The Copyright Office became a separate department of the Library of Congress in 1897, and Thorvald Solberg was appointed the first Register of Copyrights.
The Whip position was first created in the House of Representatives in 1897 by Speaker Thomas Reed ( R-ME ), who appointed James A. Tawney ( R-MN ) as the first whip.
In 1897 he was appointed the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and served until his death in office in 1903, aged 82.
In May 1897, President Cleveland appointed Alexander as the arbiter of the commission tasked with fixing and demarcating the boundary between the Republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, with a view towards the possible construction of an interoceanic canal to be dug across Central America ( see Nicaragua Canal ).
In 1895 the federal government appointed him to inspect US consular offices throughout Europe and in 1896 he was appointed Ambassador to Germany, a post he held until 1897, when the Cleveland administration and its appointees were replaced.
Clayton was appointed as ambassador to Mexico in 1897 by President McKinley and served in that position until 1905.
Rodd was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath ( CB ) in 1897, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ( KCMG ) in 1899, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( GCVO ) in 1905, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) in 1915, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ( GCB ) in the 1920 New Year Honours.
From 1893 to 1897, Hampton served as United States Railroad Commissioner, appointed by President Grover Cleveland.

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