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This photograph of the Palace of Westminster in 1897 is part of the Benjamin Stone collection in the Parliamentary Archives. On entering Parliament as MP for Birmingham East in 1895, John Benjamin Stone set himself to photograph every MP, the entire Palace of Westminster, its staff and important visitors. This part of his collection, known as the 'Houses of Parliament Set', comprised some 2,043 photographs of 1,030 subjects, and is the first major photographic record of the Palace.
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BEIDLER - On the 15th of September 1897, at the residence of his parents, in Chicago, Ill., of paralysis, William H. Beidler, aged about 46 years. He was taken with paralysis on the 1st of Feb., and had apparently been gaining. He spent several months at the Hot Springs in Arkansas, and came back improved in health. On Tuesday morning Sept. 14th, he failed to come down stairs at the usual time, on account of another stroke, which had seized him during the night. He gradually sank and died early the following morning. He was born in Chicago in 1851.
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Between 1897 and 1947 the American Art Annual and its successor volume Who's Who in American Art included brief obituaries of prominent American artists, sculptors, and architects. During this fifty-year period, the lives of more than twelve-hundred architects were summarized in anywhere from a few lines to several paragraphs.
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BLAUGH - On the 30th of Aug., 1897, in Johnstown, Cambria Co., Pa., sister Rachel Blauch, aged 65 years, 1 month and 13 days. She was buried on the 31st at the Blough Mennonite M.H. Funeral services by S.G. Shetler, Samuel Gindelsperger and Simon Layman. She was a member of the Mennonite church for a number of years. Her grandfather, Jacob Blauch, who as the first Mennonite minister and bishop in Somerset Co., died about forty-seven years ago. Her father, Jacob Blauch, who was a minister in the same church died about eighteen years ago.
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The ceremonies connected with the dedication and unveiling of the Continental Soldiers' Monument near Fishkill, on Thursday afternoon, October 14, 1897, were very interesting. The weather was perfect and made the exercises especially enjoyable. The services were to begin at half-past two, and by that hour a company of fifteen hundred or two thousand people had assembled on the grounds. The monument was covered with a large flag. Back of it, but within a few feet, had been erected a large platform containing chairs. On this platform were seated many of the members of Melzingah Chapter, DAR; representatives and delegates of the order from Poughkeepsie, Newburg [sic], Kingston, and other places, besides prominent men of this and adjoining counties.
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Aspirin was initially developed in 1897 as a relief for arthritis. Today, aspirin is relied upon by millions for the treatment of pain, fever and, under a doctor’s care, inflammation, and its role has expanded to include the prevention of heart attack and recurrent stroke. Since its cardiovascular disease fighting properties were first discovered, aspirin regimens have saved thousands of lives. During the past two decades, physicians have placed more than 25 million Americans on aspirin therapy for prevention of heart attack, a move that Dr. Roizen estimates could potentially prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks each year. Most recently, it has been estimated that if physicians advised all high-risk adults to start regular aspirin therapy, more than 80,000 lives could be saved each year.
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