Son of Admiral Evans serves on Louisiana at San Francisco
Lieut Franck Taylor Evans, son of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, serves with the fleet on the battleship Louisiana at San Francisco. A 1898 Annapolis graduate, he served on the Massachusetts during the Spanish American War, then on Nashville and Brutus, commanded Roosevelt’s yacht Sylph, and joined Louisiana at its fitting out in Newport News. He was promoted to lieutenant on July 1, 1904.
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Robley D. Evans
Naval Service
Louisiana
San Francisco
Franck Taylor Evans
Athletic Fleet
Evans
Navy
Switzerland
Naval Academy At
Academy
Massachusetts
Francis J. Higginson
Santiago
San Juan
Nashville
Asiatic
President Roosevelt
Newport News
Panama
Hampton Roads
Fiddler Bob Taylor of Tennessee A Storied Senator
Robert Love Taylor known as Fiddler Bob was a Tennessee figure who used humor and fiddle music to win hearts in politics. The article recounts his rise from local frontier campaigns to U S Senate, his birth in Happy Valley in 1850, legal career, editor role, and wrestling with political foes while earning the nickname from his mountaineer campaign style.
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Robert Love Taylor
Tennessee
Hiddler Bob
United States Senate
Republican Party
Senator Taylor
Bob
United States Congress
United States
Taylor
Happy Valley
Tenn
Pennington College
Cleveland
Bob Taylor
Revolving doors ban by Paris police prefect Lepine
Louis Lepine, Paris prefect of police, bans revolving doors in restaurants hotels and public buildings over 100 capacity. The edict faces critic sm as Lepine cites fire and panic risks. He commands 60 000 troops 12 000 police and 8 000 guards and has long served since 1877 rising to prefect in 1893. He led Paris through the Dreyfus upheaval.
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Louis Lepine
Police
Paris
Faris
Dreyfus
New Peru President Leguia Seen as American Ally
Senor Augusto B. Leguia, recently elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as Peru’s president, is hailed as a strong friend of the United States. A former New York Life Insurance executive and later managing director of British Sugar Estates, he built deep ties to American business and public life in Peru. Born February 19, 1863, in Lambayeque, Leguia has long influenced Peru’s finance and industry while advocating American methods for development.
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Augusto B. Leguia
Dr. Pardo
Peru
United States
South America
Agare Senor Leguia
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life
Senor Leguia
British Sugar Estates Limited
Senor Legula
Candamo
Jose Pardo
Pardo
Senor Luguia
Lambayeque
Kentucky Leads In Forest Conservation Survey
Kentucky will head a state and federal study of forest resources and water supplies in the Blue Grass region. A surveying party will travel south mountain counties by foot and horseback to record existing timber conditions and propose private and public actions to conserve and increase timber and water resources. Funding totals $5,500 for the season from the state board of agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service.
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Washington
Kentucky
South Mountain
Blue Grass
State Board of Agriculture
United States Forest Service
White House
Appalachian
Congressional
Ohio
Mississippi
Shower Betrothal Gifts at Gas City High
Marion Indiana four dozen Gas City public school women staged a humorous shower for Harry Dragoo high school principal soon to wed. The party presented neckties socks and housekeeping items then he greeted them with a reveal announcing Nothing to it. Miss Golda Verden Louise Houyeaux Naomi Simmerman and others attended.
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Marion
Ind
Gas City
Harry Dragoo
Benedict
Mr. Dragon
Golda Verden
Louise Houyeaux
Naomi Simmerman
Margaret Fredericks
Zoe Unthauk
Daisy Knowlton
Carrie Parker
Pearl McKinley
Mary Swope
Frances Tollman
Gertrude Hinshaw
Marie Shockey
Margaret Haywood
Alice Jay
Books as Deposit Boxes Delight Readers Hidden Finds
Public library staff recounts daily discoveries in returned books. Items include unstamped letters bank books photographs buttons and even a divorce decree. Spectacles often vanish, and a pair of scissors serves as an unusual bookmark while owners rarely claim lost items.
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Benjamin P. Smith
Wright Aeroplane Means of Control Two Wing Surfaces
A detailed report explains the Wright brothers aeroplane construction with two parallel crossed wing planes, flexible rear sections, and a twisting mechanism. It describes how cables and stanchions regulate incidence and achieve lateral balance, enabling controlled turning by creating differential lift.
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New York
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Watts
Fulton
Wright Brothers
France
United States Patent Office
Professional Cards for Chas A Grubb Special Work Opinions
Professional card listing Chas A Grubb with focus on probate and matate law, noting services related to wills, estates, and savings bank matters in Iowa. Includes professional affiliations and a brief description of legal specialties.
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Ee Weet
Iowa Trist and Savings Bank
Dentist G R Miller Practice in Musson Suite 2
Dr. G R Miller, dentist, operates from Suite 2 in the Gillespie Building in Musson. Office phone 394. Atlantic.
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Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlantic
Fragmentary notice from Iowa university address page
Fragmentary OCR shows a university contact line for a Black telephoned office at State University of Iowa. The readable portion suggests an internal hospital or department listing with an office number 263 but lacks full context. The damaged text prevents a clear event or action.
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Wormerly Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
No. 4 Opera House Block headline
Call answered from the Offices.
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Opera House Block
Mule Thief Detected by Stable Mule in Hartford County
A mule in the Hartford county almshouse stable kicked a thief’s hat into the rafters. Morning workmen found the hat and led to the arrest of John H. Smith of Lapidum. A stolen harness was recovered and Smith was convicted.
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Hartford County
John H. Smith
Lapidum
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Fiddler
Bob” Taylor
New York City
Underwood & Underwood
N. Y
New Metropolitan Life
Jake
Bethlehem
Wilmer Sands
Asker
Allentown
Sandt
Freemansburg
Apple
Spokane
Wash
Wright Aeroplane
Chas, A. Grubb
Atlantia
G, R, Miller
C. G, Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic
Iowa
T. B. Swan
RED Tan Tso
Grom Zeaisene
DRS
Finley & Finley
Kfuszen
Hell
Chestnut St
A. H. Wolf
6Th and Poplar Sts
Atlentic
Nels Brown
Owa
Butler
M. H. Butler
Boes
A. H. Goodspeed
D. L. Nutt
Walnut St
GC. J. Litferst
Walnut Street
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