Navy Triumph Over Army In Reckless Franklin Field Showdown
At Franklin Field Philadelphia on December 1 the Navy defeated Army 7 to 0 in a hard fought game marked by rugged play and bold kicks. Navy and Army fans packed the stands with officials and diplomatic observers present, including Secretary Root and General Miles. The lone touchdown came when Land broke through the West Point line for a 40 yard run after a sequence of kicks and exchanges.
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Franklin Field
Navy
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Annapolis
West Point
Root
Miles
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Diplomatic Corps
Russian Imperial Navy
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Belknap
Middies
Land
Mak
Hortly
Annapolis Holds Off West Point 11 6 In Narrow Grid Battle
In a tense late sequence Annapolis recovered a fumbled ball after West Point’s scramble to the goal, preserving an 11 to 6 lead. Land scored a touchdown, Fowler kicked points from TD, while Clark and Long added field goals.
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Long
West Point
Annapolis
Land
Fowler
Clark
Yale Law School Eleven Falls to Ex-Stars on Marshall Field
On Marshall Field Yale Law School eleven was shut out 12 to 0 by an ex stars of Western University. The game used 15 minute halves and took place this afternoon in Chicago.
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Chicago
Yale Law School
Marshall Field
Western University
President Diaz Takes Oath of Office in Mexico City
Diaz, escorted by military guards, leaves his residence to take the oath for a four year term in the house of representatives. He affirms before the speaker and receives congratulations from the diplomatic corps led by General Powell Clayton. A grand balcony review follows with guards, press, banks, and industry delegations.
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Mexico City
Diaz
House of Representatives
Chamber of Deputies
National Palace
Powell Clayton
Street Car Held Up on Ogden Avenue
Five men attempted an armed robbery of an Ogden avenue electric car at Randolph and Canal streets. The crew repelled them in a furious battle injuring the conductor John Steinbeck and leaving the interior wrecked. Edward J. Wright suffered the loss of a satchel with over 300 in currency and checks from the passengers. Several women fainted and passengers were cut or bruised as police responded to the rat call.
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Chicago
Ogden Avenue
Randolph and
Canal Streets
Edward J. Wright
South Water Street
John Steinbeck
Paniec
Erie Canal Handicapped by Old Methods and Boats
Maj. Thomas W. Symons reports to the American Society of Civil Engineers that the Erie canal suffers from outdated towing by horses and mules, lack of modern business organization, and plans for obsolete boat types delaying new construction amid talk of a larger canal in the near future.
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New York
Thomas W. Symons
Corps of United States Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers
Lakes
Erie Canal
Croker Faces Large Income Tax in England
London dispatch says Richard Croker assessed on $100 000 income for English income tax at the Boer war high rate. He considered an appeal, fearing a $5 000 payment, then appeared before a Wantage committee in private before returning to London. He plans a Carlsbad treatment stay.
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London
Richard Croker
England
Croker
Ka -Uet
Wantage
Carlsbad
London Hooligan Riots Reach Fatal Turn
London reports a constable stabbed to death while dispersing hooligans in Whitechapel. The incident follows a surge in assaults linked to the earlier Jack the Ripper investigation. A separate attack in Limehouse left a woman shot, fueling East End panic.
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London
Whitechapel
Thompson
Jack the Ripper
Limehouse
East End
Americans Earned Turf Praise Amid Kruger News and Yachting Buzz
A London report highlights English praise for American jockeys with five of the top ten riders being American, noting merit over prejudice. It also covers the Manchester beer poison scare spreading to London, with 18 000 tenants treated and chemists analyzing arsenic in saccharine brews, alongside Canadian troops and royal reception details.
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Great Britain
Kruger
Royal Canadian Regiment
DeWet
Lord Roberts
Canada
South Africa
Pretoria
England
America
Sir Thomas Lipton
Prince of Wales
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George L. Wilson
Sporting Times
John CC. Orlitt
Maher
Manchester
County Council
Lynch Threat Looms Over Ashland Suspect
Chicago dispatch reports Gibson, charged with killing his two year old stepdaughter by a red hot poker, arrested in Ashland Kentucky and held by a mob intent on lynching him.
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Chicago
Ashland
Gibson
Hobson Is Taken To Hospital With Typhoid
Lieutenant Hobson of the Navy was removed from the Army and Navy club to Presbyterian Hospital in New York amid a suspected typhoid fever. He had fallen ill in Washington days earlier and arrived in the city Friday. A physician attended him overnight and he worsened before the transfer.
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New York
Hobson
Army and Navy Club
Presbyterian Hospital
Washington
Glucose Restriction Follows Porter Shortage agitation
A bad lot of porter supplied to customers triggers glucose use limits. A chemist hints the Maybrick case mystery could be solved if beer analysis had been done.
Pan-American beauty contest selects two American representatives
A Pan-American beauty contest in New York awarded Miss Maude Coleman Wood of Charlottesville Virginia as North America’s representative and Miss Marie Eliott as South America’s brunette representative for the official Pan-American exposition emblem in Buffalo. The judging panel of 16, chaired by Senator Depew, chose from thousands of photographs submitted to New York.
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New York
America
North
South America
Buffalo
Senator Depew
Maude Coleman Wood
Charlottesville
North America
Marie Eliott
Lopez on Philippine War and U S Policy
Sexto Lopez, former private secretary to Senor Agoncillo and Philippine commissioner to the United States, arrives in New York and meets with leaders. He says the war will continue until the United States adopts a definite policy toward an independent Philippine government, noting the people’s deplorable condition similar to Cubans before intervention.
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New York
Sexto Lopez
Senor Agoncillo
United States
Lopez
Boston
Philippines
Cigar Makers Walk Out In Second Strike
A second strike has occurred in a major cigar factory part of nine month labor action. The Wilson company plant saw five hundred workers quit over a $1 per thousand wage cut. Since the start, strikers have raised nearly $300,000 for the strike fund amid broader walkouts involving Kerbs Wertheim Schiffer and other firms.
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New York
Kerbs, Wertheim & Schiffer
Wilson Company
Empress of China Heads to Philippines with Record Beer Cargo
Vancouver December 1 The Empress of China sails Monday with a record beer cargo for the Philippines. Fifty thousand barrels are shipped to Manila and brought here in seven trains.
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Vancouver
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Empress of China
Philippines
Manila
Rumors of U S Turkish Relations Rupture Declared Groundless
Constantinople December 1 reports say rumors of a rupture between the United States and Turkey are unfounded. The Porte and the United States legation maintain excellent relations.
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Constantinople
United States
Turkey
Porte
Legation
Nineteenth Victim Dies in Thanksgiving Disaster
San Francisco newspapers report Charles H. Cummings, a schoolboy, died this morning from injuries suffered in the Thanksgiving disaster, bringing fatalities to 19.
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San Francisco
Charles H. Cummings
Appointed Arbitrators for The Hague Court
Stockholm December 1 Olive Crena a Swede and Gramm a Norwegian have been appointed members of the international court of arbitration at The Hague.
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Stockholm
Olive Crena
Gramm
International Court of Arbitration
the Hague
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