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4 months agoIn Memoriam: Notable people who died in 2025
Notable figures from music, sports, entertainment, and politics died in 2025, including jazz legend Jack DeJohnette and hockey icon Ken Dryden.
ON THIS DAY IN 1877, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, "The Woman's Centennial Chorus, whose singing was a special feature at the opening and closing ceremonies of the International Exhibition, has been permanently organized, under the title of the Thomas Choral Society. A series of concerts will be given in Philadelphia by the Society, with Mr. Thomas as leader, and in conjunction with his renowned orchestra."
The complimentary resolution adopted by the Common Council at the close of the year to Hon. Ripley Ropes has been engrossed by W. V. Peacon, of this city, and is now on exhibition in the Common Council Chamber. It will be exhibited later in the show windows of McNeuman's store, 413 Fulton street. The work stands in its frame four and a half feet by three feet. The frame is ebony and gold, engraved and gilded.
Even in England, where the recent developments of paleontological botany have opened up new lines of research among the plants of the coal measures, the zeal of the followers of Scott and F. W. Oliver has led to the commercial exploitation of a coal mine in Lancashire where fine specimens of Lyginodendron, the Cycadofilicales, and the fossil seeds of the earlier tree ferns are to be found in abundance.
'This is the Cobb-Speaker case,' said the decision by Commissioner Landis. 'These players have not been, nor are they now, found guilty of fixing a ball game. By no decent system of justice could such a finding be made. Therefore, they were not placed on the ineligible list. As they desire to rescind their withdrawal from baseball, the releases which the Detroit and Cleveland clubs granted at their requests, in the circumstances detailed above, are canceled
No one denies the right of Edward Channing, professor of history in Harvard University, to make the statement to his class that George Washington had an unsurpassed temper, and did not have large brain power or education; that Benjamin Franklin dressed freakishly to be a social lion; that Alexander Hamilton became second in command through intrigues involving Washington and Adams, and that Patrick Henry, Jeremy Belknap and Noah Webster speculated on inside tips received from Congressmen.
An Eskimo just in from a journey of nearly 400 miles appeared at Etah, a bleak native settlement far up on the west coast of Greenland, on May 7 of last year, bearing a letter. The message was written by Dr. Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn. It was dated March 17, 1908. It came from the Arctic Ocean and contained the news that Dr. Cook was on his way to the North Pole.