Roosevelt Opens Arizona Dam as Largest Artificial Lake
Former President Theodore Roosevelt presses a button to start machinery at the Roosevelt storage dam in Roowveelt Arizona. The opening creates a huge artificial lake to irrigate about 25 000 acres, with ceremonies led by Salt River valley officials and reactions from crowds and riders.
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Great Reservoir
Arizona
Roowvevelt
Ariz
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Salt River
Roosevel
Phoenix
Mr. Roosevelt
Orme
Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association
Archie
Miss Ethel
Governor Sloan
Africa
Annele Sam
Nat
Panama Canal
Notable Deaths and Disasters From Across the World
Obituaries list former Governor William B. Bloxham of Tallahassee and David H. Moffat of New York. Mine blast in Mineral Kaw kills five. cholera and plague deaths rise in India. Ireland hosts large immigrant population in the U.S. Various incidents include Tolstoy works confiscation, warship moves, and a missing heiress case.
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Mineral
Kaw
Prague
Port Au Spain
Trinidad
India
United States
Crow's Neet
British Columbia
Rio Janeiro
Edith Melber
Auburn
Suffrage Campaign Opens in Topeka With Pankhurst Speech
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst opened Kansas campaign for woman suffrage at the First Baptist church in Topeka on March 20. She projected English women gaining the vote within a year and described militant experiences in London. She urged Beasay women to campaign vigorously and urged moderation.
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Topeka
Sylvia Pankhurst
Kansas
First Baptist Church
Miss Pankhurst
London
Beasay
Rageful Father Kills Son Then Shoots Self in Steubenville
In Steubenville Ohio on March 20 Joseph Helm aged 45 killed his son Joseph Jr in a grocery store after a rage, then fired the building and killed himself. Firemen extinguished the blaze. the couple had separated two years ago and were recently reunited.
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Steubenville
Joseph Helm
Joseph, Jr
Helmker
Heim
Wilson campaign opens with tax plank in Savannah
Colonel George Harvey declares Woodrow Wilson the Democratic choice for 1912 with a keynote stressing income and inheritance taxes while tariff issues loom in the background. The March 18 dispatch from Savannah, Ga notes Harvey’s remarks as the first campaign note for Wilson.
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Savannah
Woodrow Wilson
George Harvey
New York
Harvey
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William B. Bloxham
Tallahassee, Fla
David H. Moffat
Colorado
Belmont
Greenland
Tolstoy
Moscow
Countess Tolstoy
Philadelphia
Isaac Amada Cornelison
Washington, Il
Princeton College
South
John D. Rockefeller
Central Park
Lakes
New York City
Dorothy Arnold
Lincoln
Washington
Springfield
Columbus Heights
Minneapolis
W. J. Jackson
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Road
General Managers’ Association
Association of Western Railroads
Hollister
Cincinnati
James Buck
Lafayette
Ind
Joh M Nash
Buck
Department of Agriculture
Duluth
Northwestern
Chicago
Milwaukee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Duluth Board of Trade
Herbert de Cou
Archaelogical Institute of America
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Electric Lamp Trust
Department of Justice
Landis
Edward S.S. Nicholas
Elsie Ferrier
Hammond
Fort Leavenworth
National Sporting Club of London
Tom Dovey
Cooper
Fanny C. Wright
Brewster Hotel
Scott Wallace
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Arkend Pot
Charleston
Nebraska Telephone CO
T.H. Beeson
California
Redwood
Newberry’s Hardware Co
ST. Agnes Academy
Alliance, Nebr
Oliver and
L. C. Smith
Hotel Alliance
Burlington Station
Dierks Lumber &Coal Co
D. Waters
Mgr
Ohio
Wilson
Alliance
Drake & Barb
Sweetwater Ave
Nebraska
LL. Acheson
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