Jamestown Exposition Opens Under Naval Salutes
President Roosevelt opens the Jamestown Exposition at Hampton Roads with salutes from nearly 100 ships. The event marks the 300th anniversary of Jamestown and highlights nearby historic sites Yorktown and Appomattox with ceremonies, exhibits, and a large 1900s coastal venue.
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Hampton Roads
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Yorktown
Appomattox
United States
Monitor
Merrimac
Pageant of battleships marked by a 300 year voyage
The article recalls the evolution from early ironclads to modern dreadnought displays as President Roosevelt reviews a vast fleet at the opening of a three hundredth anniversary celebration. It notes vessels from many nations, state pavilions, and a projected naval pageant with hundreds of ships and a replica battle between the Monitor and Merrimac.
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Bryce on Public Ownership at Chicago Club Dinner
British ambassador James Bryce spoke at a Chicago Commercial Club dinner outlining three classes of city functions. He described one class as vital and indispensable to urban life, and discussed how modern cities should handle these roles.
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England
Bryce
Chicago Commercial Ciub
James Bryce
Forester Pinchot on Floods
Gifford Pinchot chief of the forest service cites the upper Ohio valley flood as caused mainly by deforestation in the Allegheny watershed. He advocates replanting forests and science based forest culture to prevent such floods and reduce damage and loss of life.
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Gifford Pinchot
Forest Service
Washington
Upper
Ohio Valley
Allegheny Mountains
Earthquake Fears Rise Amid Seismic Comparisons
Seismologist Prof Belar of the Laibach observatory warns after comparing first quarter earth shocks with 1906. He says if average disturbances in the earths equilibrium are to be held, the expected earthquakes must be awaited with anxiety.
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Belar
Laibach Observatory
Frisco Rises Again After Cataclysm Anniversary
San Francisco marks the first anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire with a banquet at the Fairmount Hotel attended by governors and mayors. The correspondent notes vast reconstruction, public utilities restored, and immense property loss totaling about a thousand millions as the city rebuilds.
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San Francisco
Fairmount Hotel
Poisoner Plagues Chicago Family With Repeated Fatal Attacks
A mysterious assailant poisoned the Mette family across three weeks in Chicago. Frank Mette, his wife, daughter, and three sons fell ill after eating fruit cake and oatmeal laced with arsenic. Mary Sladek, the daughter-in-law, faced similar illness and police found poison in the flour bin. The deaths and attempts drew a frantic, ongoing investigation.
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Chicago
Mette
Frank Mette
Mary Sladek
Joseph
Rudolph
Charles
Ash Fuel Secret Revealed by Altoona Cobbler
John Filmore of Altoona Pennsylvania announced a method to obtain heat from ashes. Chemists quickly tested the claim and reported success in solving the formula.
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John Filmore
Altoona
Ellmore
San Francisco Rebuilding Surges After Fire
The city recovers from catastrophe as 250000 flee and 146 fireproof buildings rise within five blocks of Kearny and Market. Between 1906 and 1907 permits for 541 fireproof structures issued, with more than 100 million dollars spent on reconstruction amid material shortages and railway blockades.
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Telegraph
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Texas Supreme Court Case on Christian Science Damages
A Fort Worth and Denver City Railway damages case concerned a Christian Science plaintiff who alleged suffering from expulsion. The Texas Supreme Court reversed a trial verdict, ruling the defendant could introduce testimony on the plaintiff’s beliefs as it related to alleged mental and physical suffering. The decision hints at new cross examination lines in similar cases.
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Fort Worth and
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Supreme Court
Hastings Fire Devastates Main Business District
Fire swept Hastings Ontario destroying the principal business section with estimated losses of 80000 dollars. Elijah Smith a defaulting cashier of the Bank of Malta Elelenn Montana was arrested in Seattle. First Lieutenant Louis I Buck artillery corps was dropped from the army rolls for desertion. The American National Red Cross sent 35000 dollars to the Russian Red Cross via the State Department for famine relief.
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Elijah Smith
Bank of Malta
Elelenn
Mont
Seattle
Louis I. Buck
Artillery Corps
American National Red Cross
State Department
Russian Red Cross
Six Widows Hold Aggregate Fortunes Over 250 Million
Six American widows collectively boast more than a quarter billion in wealth. Hetty Green’s fortune is estimated up to eighty million, Russell Sage about eighty four million, Weightman Walker around sixty million, Marshall Field fifteen million, and Field Jr five million with potential fifty million for the sons. Some fortunes came from husbands while Field’s wealth centers on his estate and bequests.
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United States
William Henry Smith
Japan
Hetty Green
Russell Sage
Anna Weightman Walker
Marshall Field
Marshall Field, Jr
Edward Green
Texas
Sylvia
Sage
Walker
William Weightman
Philadelphia
Chicago
Bank Roll of Pool Rooms Exposed In New York Raid
District Attorney Jerome unveils a ledger from a Fulton Street pool room showing a bank roll of 5000 and later 10000 with eight years of profits averaging 250000 per year. The records reveal how winnings were split among operators and a state senator is named as a recipient of a 16 percent cut. Jerome promises more names but will not publish them yet.
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New York
Fulton Street
Education conference in Pinehurst re elects Ogden president
The South education conference met three days at Pinehurst North Carolina and re elected Robert Ogden of New York as president. Dabney of Cincinnati plans a commercial college tied to his university with bank and brokerage work for students. Minnesota legislature defeats a bill to depoliticize school boards and require ballot selection of county superintendents. Rockefeller funds distribute 625000 to five colleges Yale Princeton Bowdoin Colorado College and Millsaps. Harvard presidents apologize for egg throwing at Brown of Harvard. Indiana passes a bill to let state board of education approve teachers training in normal schools. W H Maxwell argues teachers must be athletic and sturdy to manage classes.
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Robert Ogden
New York
Dabney
Cincinnati University
Minnesota
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Rockefeller Fund
Yale
Princeton
Bowdoin College
Maine
Colorado College
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Colo
Millsaps College
Jackson
Miss
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Majestic Theater
Boston
Brown
Harvard
School Journal
Indiana
State Board of Education
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