Wednesday, October 31, 2012

October 31 in history


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OCT 30      INDEX      NOV 01    
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Halloween


Events


475:  Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor

683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.

802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Conspirators place Nikephoros, the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne.

1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

1587 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

1776:  In his first speech before British Parliament since the leaders of the American Revolution came together to sign of the Declaration of Independence that summer, King George III acknowledges that all was not going well for Britain in the war with the United States.

1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.

1861 – American Civil War: Citing failing health, General Winfield Scott, commander of the Union forces, retired from service. The hero of the Mexican War recognized early in the Civil War that his health and advancing years were a liability in the daunting task of directing the Federal war effort.

1863 – The Maori Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.

1864:  Anxious to have support of the Republican-dominated Nevada Territory for President Abraham Lincoln's reelection, the U.S. Congress quickly admits Nevada as the 36th state in the Union.

1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.

1903 – Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, Indiana, killed 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

1913 – The Lincoln Highway, the first paved coast-to-coast automobile highway across United States, is dedicated.

1913 – The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.

1917 – World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history". In the early morning, Allied forces under General Edmund Allenby launched an attack on Turkish positions at Beersheba, in Palestine, beginning the Third Battle of Gaza.

1918 – World War I: Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

1922:  Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy

1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.

1924 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).

1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures.

Garrick Theater, site of Harry
Houdini's last performance before
he died in Detroit on Halloween
Night in 1926, was known as the
Whitney Opera House when
this picture was taken in 1904.
1926:  On Halloween, magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix, which was damaged twelve days earlier when he was punched in the stomach unexpectedly.

1938 – Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.

1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.

1941 – After 14 years of work, the Mount Rushmore Monument in South Dakota is completed.

1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.

1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception by a USN or USMC aircraft.

1944 – Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen-SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

1956 – Two days after Israeli sent forces into Egypt initiating the Suez Crisis, British and French military forces join them in the canal zone to try to retake the canal. Originally, forces from the three countries were set to strike at once, intent on foiling Egypt's plans to nationalize the canal, but the British and French troops were delayed. The entry of Britain and France into the struggle nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and seriously damaged their relationships with the United States.

1961:  Five years after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalinism and the "personality cult" of Soviet rulers at the 20th Party Congress, Joseph Stalin's embalmed body was removed from Lenin's tomb in Moscow's Red Square.

1963 – An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed.

1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam"

1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: In a televised address to the nation five days before the presidential election, President Lyndon Johnson announced that on the basis of developments in the Paris peace negotiations, he had ordered the complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1. Accordingly, the U.S. Air Force called a halt to the air raids on North Vietnam known as Operation Rolling Thunder.

1969 – the Disappearance of Patricia Spencer and Pamela Hobley occurs.

1973 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland aboard a hijacked helicopter that lands in the exercise yard.

1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi by two of her own Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed.
1994 – American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana, killing 68.

1998 – Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

1999 – Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.

1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 217 people on board.

2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.

2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff in Taipei killing 83 people.

2002 – A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.

2011 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.

2014 – Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashes in the Mojave Desert during a test flight,



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Vigil of All Saints


Contemporary Western

Alphonsus Rodriguez
Blessed Theodore Romzha (Ruthenian Catholic Church)
Quentin
Wolfgang of Regensburg


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Martin Luther (Anglican Communion)
Paul Shinji Sasaki and Philip Lindel Tsen (Episcopal Church)


Eastern Orthodox

October 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Apostles Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus
      of the Seventy Disciples (1st century)
Epimachus of Pelusium in Egypt
Hieromartyr John Kochurov (1917)


Coptic Orthodox










In the news, Wednesday, October 31, 2012


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TUE 30      INDEX      THU 01
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from KXLY.com:

Sandy's impact: State by state
By the CNN Wire Staff

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from KHQ.com:

SLIDESHOW: Superstorm Sandy Devastates The East Coast

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Region hit by Sandy struggles to resume daily life
Adam Geller      Associated Press

‘Unthinkable’
Hardest part yet to come after Sandy pounds East
Joseph Tanfani, David Zucchino and Scott Gold

Superstorm becalms presidential campaign
Romney ignores questions on FEMA
Mark Z. Barabak      Los Angeles Times

Climate change, storm examined
Whether global warming is influence is inconclusive
Seth Borenstein      Associated Press

Obama goes to FEMA before visit to storm-racked NJ
Ken Thomas      Associated Press

Guard evacuating people, taking in food to NJ city
Associated Press

A slowed, darkened NYC begins to stir to life
Jennifer Peltz, Ralph D. Russo      Associated Press

In darkened NYC, safety on the list of concerns
Jennifer Peltz, Ralph D. Russo Associated Press

East begins to stir after 2 days of hunkering down
Associated Press

NYC utility prepped for big storm, got bigger one
Dave Carpenter, Jeff Donn, Jonathan Fahey      Associated Press

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Downtown’s past draws preservation conference
Mike Prager      The Spokesman-Review

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US outlines vision for new Syrian opposition body
Bradley Klapper      Associated Press

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In brief: From Wire Reports:

Keystone pipeline report outlines impact

Lincoln, Neb. – Nebraska environmental regulators have released a preliminary 600-page report on the oil pipeline a Canadian company wants to build across the state.

The report released Tuesday doesn’t include a recommendation about whether TransCanada should be allowed to build the Keystone XL pipeline to ship crude oil to Gulf Coast refineries. But the state report said TransCanada’s new route avoids the environmental sensitive Sandhills region and addresses a number of concerns Nebraskans raised.

Pipeline opponent Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska said she’s disappointed the state won’t require disclosure of exactly what chemicals will be carried in the pipeline. A public hearing will be held Dec. 4.


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Scotland Yard looks to relocate
Famous police force needs to save money
Henry Chu      Los Angeles Times

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Disney will produce new ‘Star Wars’ films
Company buys Lucasfilm Ltd., will extend series
Ryan Nakashima      Associated Press

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Early shots best for flu
Jennifer Pignolet      The Spokesman-Review

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opinion:

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food:

Hot competition
Area chili cook-offs lead to
Cindy Hval      Correspondent

Transform beef into burgers at home
Cook’s Illustrated shares science behind Juicy Pub-Style Burgers

Dive into warm, welcoming coffee cake
Wendell Brock      The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Time to update a French classic
A quicker variation of classic pot au feu
Sara Moulton      Associated Press

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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Charles Seaton collection, part 1


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c-1:
Patricia was the youngest of four: Margaret was first, then Clair, then Eleanor

c-2:
Mary Bertossa

c-3:
(some spellings incorrect)

c-4:
Clair with Sam


c-5:
Clair as child

c-6:

Clair, Charlie, Easter

c-7:
Clair, Wes Rinker

c-8:
Clair

c-9:

Frank Seaton family

c-10:

Frank Seaton family

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c-13:


c-14:

Bessie Seaton


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c-16:



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c-18:

Mary Fischer

c-19:


October 30 in history


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OCT 29      INDEX      OCT 31
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637 – Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge.

758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates.

1137 – Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.

1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.

1340 – Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Marinid invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.

1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned

1501 – Ballet of Chestnuts: A banquet held by Cesare Borgia in the Papal Palace where fifty prostitutes or courtesans are in attendance for the entertainment of the guests.

1534 – English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope.

1657 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios during the Anglo-Spanish War.

1772 – The Resolution, under Captain James Cook, arrives in Capetown, MA.

1775 – Naval committee established by Congress

1806 – Believing he is facing a much larger force, Prussian Lieutenant General Friedrich von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrendered the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers commanded by General Lassalle.

1817 – The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.

1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

1862 – Union General Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, commander of the Department of the South, dies in Beaufort, South Carolina.

1863 – Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

1864 – Second Schleswig War ends. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.

1864 – The town of Helena, Montana, is founded by four gold miners who struck it rich at the appropriately named "Last Chance Gulch."

1873 – In New York City, P. T. Barnum's circus, the "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts.

1888 – Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd.

1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.

1918 – Aboard the British battleship Agamemnon, anchored in the port of Mudros on the Aegean island of Lemnos, representatives of Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire sign an armistice treaty marking the end of Ottoman participation in the First World War.

1920 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.

1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.

1938 – Orson Welles causes a nationwide mass panic among some listeners who believed that an actual Martian invasion was underway. when he broadcast his radio play of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.

1941 – World War II: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, determined to keep the United States out of the war while helping those allies already mired in it, approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease loans to the Allied nations. The terms: no interest and repayment did not have to start until five years after the war was over.

1941 – One thousand five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

1941 – One thousand five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.

1944 – Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.

Rationing Board, New Orleans, LA, 1943
approximately 500 Gravier Street
from whatwasthere.com
1945 – The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing, effective at midnight.

1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), is founded.

1950 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.

1953 – Cold War: President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves National Security Council Paper No. 162/2 (NSC 162/2). The top secret document made clear that America's nuclear arsenal must be maintained and expanded to meet the communist threat, and also the connection between military spending and a sound American economy.

1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

1961 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.

1961 – Because of "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker instead.

1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton causes a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.

1965 – Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, U.S. Marines repel an intense attack by successive waves of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas.

1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes severe floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

1972 – A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago kills 45 and injures 332.

1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.

1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

1974 – As a member of the California Angels, Major League Baseball player Nolan Ryan throws the fastest recorded pitch, at 100.9 miles per hour (162.4 kilometers per hour).

1975 – Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state after General Francisco Franco, the dictator of Spain since 1936, concedes that he is too ill too govern.

1980 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.

1991:  The so-called "perfect storm" hits the North Atlantic producing remarkably large waves along the New England and Canadian coasts.

1993 – The Troubles: The Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary, carry out a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greysteel, Northern Ireland. Eight civilians are murdered and thirteen wounded.

1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) to remain a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

2013 – 45 people die after a bus fuel tank catches fire in the Indian city of Mahbubnagar.

2014 – Sweden is the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western



Contemporary Western



Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox



Coptic Orthodox









In the news, Tuesday, October 30, 2012


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from The Spokesman-Review

Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

Hurricane Sandy swamps East Coast
Massive storm surge sends seawater into New York

Dramatic end for Bounty
Hurricane sinks famous ship; captain missing and one critical

Wife of tall ship captain awaits word on his fate

Storm scrambles campaign
Candidates cancel events, curtail fundraising

Hurricane Sandy halts stock trading
NYSE will be closed again today by storm

Sandy leaves death, damp and darkness in wake

Superstorm now ashore, its work is far from done

AP PHOTOS: Images of the East Coast superstorm

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In Brief: From Wire Reports:

High court won’t review ‘personhood’

OKLAHOMA CITY – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that said a proposal to grant “personhood” to human embryos would be an improper ban on abortion.

The proposed constitutional amendment, which was never considered by voters, would have given human embryos the rights and privileges of citizens in Oklahoma and was called “clearly unconstitutional” by the state Supreme Court in an April ruling.

The measure was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of several Oklahoma doctors and residents before it could be placed on the ballot.

A personhood bill passed in the state Senate during this year’s legislative session but was not heard by the House.


Proposed marine reserve gets boost

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An international push to create a giant marine sanctuary in Antarctica has gotten a big boost after the United States and New Zealand resolved their dispute over fishing.

The two countries on Monday submitted a joint proposal for a Ross Sea reserve to the international organization that regulates fishing in Antarctica. They’d earlier submitted competing proposals that stood little chance of success.

Both countries have touted an Alaska-sized sanctuary but previously couldn’t agree on fishing rules and boundaries.

The 24 nations and the European Union are currently meeting in Australia and will likely decide on the proposal later this week.

Day-Lewis donating his father’s papers

Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is donating papers belonging to his father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, to Oxford University.

The archive, which fills 54 boxes, includes early drafts of the poet’s work, as well as letters from actor John Gielgud and famous literary figures such as W.H. Auden, Robert Graves and Philip Larkin.

Cecil Day-Lewis, who studied classics and became poetry professor at Oxford, was appointed the U.K. poet laureate in 1968. He died in 1972.

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U.S. seeks Algeria’s support
Clinton looks for aid in possible Mali move
Associated Press

Jets bombard Syria
Last day of failed truce saw most strikes since conflict began last year, activists say

Mona Charen: Libya details corner Obama

Screening for cancer has a cost
Overtreatment can be result

Exercises in health
WSU’s nutrition and exercise physiology program guides real people on exercise and diet through rigorous classes

Ask Dr. K: Arthroscopy makes surgery quicker, easier

Examining aspirin treatments at the first sign of a heart attack

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from University of Michigan News Service

Common food preservative may slow, even stop tumor growth

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Charles Fleury Taschereau papers, part 1



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t-1:  I was not able to make a single scan of this item due to its size, and not able to splice the two scans perfectly due to crumpling.  I hope in the future to replace this with a scan from a larger scanner.

December 29, 1888 Deed in Pembina County, Dakota Territory


t-2:  Some of the following letters are written, which I am not able to decipher.  If someone can provide a translation, sent to rfsamt@gmail.com, it would be greatly appreciated.

Letter written in French.

t-3:  The following concerning my great grandfather appears to be dated 1974.





t-4:  This to my grandfather in Spokane is dated 8 January 1899:








t-5:  A letter to my grandfather in Pembina, Dakota Territory, in 1880.








t-6:  I don't know for sure why the following undated item found its way into the packet of papers, but is is interesting. Two of my uncles served with the Marines in Nicaragua in 1932: this may be from then.



t-7:  Letter of introduction for my grandfather, dated in 1879:



t-8:  Insurance policy renewal dated 17 August 1877:



t-9:  My grandfather's first wife, who died in 1894, was the daughter of William and Catherine Pettet. William died while on a trip to London.  It would be interesting to know more about the following item from 1907.



t-10:  Two B. C. "Mineral Act, 1891" records of claim:





































t-11:   Letter to my grandfather, dated 1901








t-12 (renumbered):  This quitclaim deed to my grandfather, Charles Fleury Taschereau, concerning property in Pembina county, Dakota Territory, was signed by mark by my great grandmother, Maria Jane (Beamish) (Ross) Taschereau.  It was later filed in Spokane, Washington, with the signiture of my grand aunt, Catherine M. (Ross) Poston.