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Congrats on Explore! ⭐ January 15, 2024

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A 1912 letter by G. W. Peters to Mr. W. de C. Ravenel requesting the forwarding of "my picture 'Battle of Caloocan'" which is presumably the picture to be found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Battle_before_Caloocan,_... books.google.com/books?id=FmASAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14&lp... shows that it was included in The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909 The same book says (on page 5), "The act also provided that the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum should exhibit such articles and material of an historical nature as would impart a knowledge of our national history, especially that of Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands, and that part of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution designated Mr. Ravenel, Administrative Assistant, U. S. National Museum, as representative of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum to the Government Board, which was created by Congress and charged with the preparation of the exhibit." So perhaps Peters had loaned the picture and wanted it back. The Battle of Caloocan was in the Philippines near the start of the Spanish-American War. As noticed on the Wikipedia page, the picture was published in a 1899 book, "Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, Vol. II"

Judge in Cleveland. "ARMLESS MAN ELECTED JUDGE; WRITES WITH HIS PEN IN TEETH" in The Day book., November 11, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 9 Weird story. He was railroader and lost both arms in two accidents. Then he studied law.

"THE ARMLESS JUDGE Ten years ago David Moylan was a railroad switchman workin in a Cleveland yard. A switch engine running in the dark without a headlight ran him down and cut off both his arms. That would have settled the fate of most men. And it did settled Moylan's fate--but not in the usual way. He firmly declined to pass the rest of his life in a state of semi-dependence on his relatives, or hold a tin cup for charitable nickels. Since he was disabled physically, Moylan decided to earn a living with his brains. They were good brains, although it had never occurred to him before to make much use of them. He had a pretty fluent tongue too. So the switchman made up his mind to be a lawyer. As soon as he got out of the hospital, Moylan bought a copy of Blackstone. He read it by turning the leaves with his tongue. He learned to write with his teeth. In three years he passed the state law examinations for admission to the bar, ranking among the first ten in a class of 205. That was seven years ago. Attorney Moylan has made a fair living ever since. But now he is Judge Moylan. On November 2d he was elected to the Cleveland municipal bench. And his professional brethren say that he'll make a mighty good judge." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95060914/1915-11-19/ed-...

Posting at the same time--I was so interested in the story I had to transcribe it!

This photo was used in an article on Judge Moylan in the June, 1916 Popular Science Monthly books.google.com/books?id=didRAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA816&...