Nations Heroes Memorial Bridge Across Potomac
Government plans a monumental memorial bridge across the Potomac at Washington to honor American patriotism. Architect Burr designs a grand, stone arches structure with a sixty foot roadway, twelve foot sidewalks, statues, plaques, and bronze sculptures, with an initial appropriation of 200000 and potential future additions noting elegance and enduring engineering.
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Potomac River
Washington
Senate
House
Burr
Arch Rock to Be Blown Up in San Francisco Bay
Arch Rock in San Francisco Bay is slated for demolition after Shag rock No 1 and No 3. Contractors prepare charges and the government will issue final payment. locals recall the arch’s perilous past and pilots once rowed boats through the feature during low tides.
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Sausalito
Arch Rock
San Francisco
California
Frank Murphy
San Francisco Bay
Global War News and Local Crises Across 1900s
Reports span battles with Filipinos and Boer skirmishes in South Africa. Trade failures include Nance & Wartley insolvency. Bankruptcy filings notable for Charles Hewitt. British actions at Shan Hai Kwan forts and European railway politics noted. Galveston relief funds aided by Santiago council. Cripple Creek gold output rises. Varying world events from Paris to Lima underline turbulent era.
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Nance
Orange River Colony
Denersdorp and
Wepener
Waco knitting mill sought amid Texas notes
Towns from Waco to Texarkana report civic plans and incidents. Electric cars near Galveston poised to restart around the 25th. the Colorado River bridge at Columbus repeatedly damaged by water. a column of deaths and legal actions across multiple counties in a brisk news roundup.
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Colorado River
Columbus
Jane Walbridge
Jones
Waskom
Galveston
Robert M. Smith
John Cox
Smith
Hot Springs
Ark
Cox
Pecos River
Railroad Commission
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Nations Heroes
Arlington
Great Memorial Bridge
Wagner
Builer
Lydenburg
Splitkop
Tien Tsin
Perry Belmont
New York
Gelderland
Holland
Beatow
Amoy
Pekin Railway
City Council of
Santiago
Dublin
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Lieut. Andree
Greenland
Copenhagen
Denmark
Capetown
Agassizland
Cripple Creek
France
India
Lima
Peru
Comercio
Jas. P. Geary
Lake Charles
Geary
Jenkins
United States Circuit Court of Wisconsin
Lone Star Lines
Waco
New Boston
Texarkana
C. W. Brown
Obe Wilson
Lockport
Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio
el Paso
Andres Turey
Bud Anderson
Abner
Kaufman County
George C. Wilerton
Denison
Kentucky
Young Ellerton
I. N. Bailey
Paris
Austin
Gty
Special Reserve Fund
Virgie Scott
Godley
Johnson County
Jimmie Murray
G. D. Mahon
Marshall
Louis Flemming
Frank Emerson
Cotton Belt Railway
Tylor
Tipton
Cotton Belt Railway Company
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Royse City
Corsicana
Johnson
Milford Gin and Cotton Company
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Kendall
W. C. Witcher
Whce Mitchell
Witcher
Dallas
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