Roosevelt Homecoming Parade Plans for Land and Sea
New York on June 17 reports massive preparations for Theodore Roosevelts return. The welcome includes a water parade on the Androscoggin and a land procession led by the Roosevelt Rough Riders, with Mayor Gaynor and Govs aboard. Delegations from many cities converge to view the former president as crowds pack Fifth Avenue to Fifty Ninth Street.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Androscoggin
Los Angeles
Billiken Club
Santa Fe
N. M
Little Rock
Arix
Omaha
Saki Lake City
Helena
Mont. St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
Atlanta
Knoxville
Columbia
S. C
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Boston
Fat
Roosevelt Reception Committee
Rough Riders
Gaynor
South Carolin
Ambrose Channel
Hudson River
Fifty-ninth Street
Gifford Pinchot
Roosevelt Rough Riders
Charles E. Hunter
Oklahoma City
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Battery Place
Fifth Avenue
Fiftyninth Street
Kaiser’s new wound alarms Potsdam fumbling wrist to knee
Potsdam June 17 Emperor Wil Yam, recently hindered by a right wrist abscess, now bears an abrasion on the inside of his right knee from horseback riding. He abandoned plans to witness maneuvers at Doeberitz canceled Han over engagement and will skip the Hamburg yacht race. Doctors say his general condition is satisfactory.
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Potsdam
Wil Yam
Doeberitz
Hanover
Hamburg
Coupon beggars face jail in New York
Children who gather in front of cigar stores to beg coupons will be arrested by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The society says it is illegal for children to solicit coupons and warns the practice fosters a begging habit and a bad influence.
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New York
Cigar i
Society For the Preventtion of Cruelty
Society
Armed Man Arrested in the White House Visit
Washington DC June 17 a muscular man over six feet tall with black hair and a heavy mustache visited the White House executive offices asking to see the president. Identified as the man who visited last year with two pistols he was found armed again with a loaded pistol. He gave the name James Stricklin from Cumberland MA and says he bailed Tram Arkeuses. He is held for sanity observation claiming persecution and asking the president to intervene.
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Washington, D. C
White House
James Stticklin
Cumberland
Stricklin
Tram
Governor Benson Abdicates Post In Oregon
Salem reports Governor Frank Benson of Oregon telegraphed from San Francisco to Jay Bowerman, senate president, to assume the duties of chief executive. Benson reportedly suffers from a malignant lupusan resembling cancer, causing alarm. Oregon lacks a lieutenant governor, so the president of the senate acts during protracted absence.
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Benson
Oregon
Senate
Salem
Ore
Frank Benson
San Francisco
Jay Bowerman
State Senate
Denson
Immigrant Inquiries Span 700000 Workers in 250 Communities
Washington reports nearly 700 000 industrial workers from 200 000 families in 250 communities have been investigated by immigration commission agents. More than twenty five industries including cotton goods iron and steel meat packing clothing glass and woolen goods are examined to assess immigration impact on industry labor and communities and immigrant progress in the United States.
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Washington
Immigration Commission
Commission
Congress
United States
Republicans Propose Missouri Redistricting Amendment
Jefferson City June 17 The Republican state committee agreed on a proposed constitutional amendment to be submitted at the November election to redistrict the state. It would give both the Republican and Democratic parties half of Missouri's 34 districts. Democrats now control 45 districts and will contest the amendment.
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Jefferson City
Republican State Committee
Haskell Loses Point In Guthrie Capital Fight
Guthrie Oklahoma June 17 Judge A H Huston overruled Governor Haskell's demurrer to County Attorney Hepburn's petition seeking an injunction to stop moving the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City The temporary injunction issued last Monday was continued until further order Lincoln Table a Present Hartford Connecticut June 17 Daniel Morgan former U S treasurer presented the desk Lincoln used to sign the Emancipation Proclamation to the Connecticut State Library
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Guthrie
Okla
A Hi, Huston
Haskell
Hepburn
Oklahoma City
Lincoln
Hartford
Conn
Daniel Morgan
United States
Connecticut State Library
Browne Cade Galata Bribery Trial Testimony Revealed
In Chicago on the Browne Lorimer case the trial featured a clash over admitting testimony from Representatives Beckemeyer Link and Myers. State's Attorney Wayman said Beckemeyer would testify he was paid $1,000 and that Link would testify Browne paid him after voting for Lorimer. Forrest argued the statements are not admissible absent a crime.
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Chicago
Lee O'Neil Browne
Wayman
W. S. Forrest
Gorge W. Myers
H. J. C. Beckemeyer
Michael S. Link
Forrest
Link
Beckemeyer
Browne
Lorimer
White
Lorimer Reserve
McSurely
Mr. Wayman
Praise for Dixie's Heroes at West Point graduation
Secretary of War Dickinson lauds hero worship among the 81 West Point graduates in New York on June 17. He praises Confederate generals like Lee, Jackson, and Forrest, contrasts Civil War strategy with modern needs, and urges refined military technique for national service.
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New York
Dickinson
West Point
Lee
Jackson Forrest
Slayer of Two Taken in Oregon Capture
Klamath Falls Oregon June 17 Ike Harold who shot and killed Herbert and Walter Newell sheep men near Lakeview last week has been captured.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
Ike Harold
Herbert
Walter Newell
Lakeview
Floods sweep Southeastern Europe and Armenia deaths rise
Reports from Vienna and Constantinople describe devastating floods across Southeastern Europe and parts of Asia Minor. More than 500 believed killed in Armenia, with thousands homeless as villages vanish and crops lost. Railways and roads crippled, relief efforts strained as rivers rise and towns flood.
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Vienna
Europe
Austria
Balkans
Armenia
Geneva
Switzerland
Bavaria
Lake Constance
Romanshorn
Rolitschach
Lindau
Friederichshafen
Orbe
Lake Neuchatel
Lake Geneva
Neuchatel
Zurich
Altdorf
Stanz
Asran
Constantinople
Turkey
Euphrates
Pasin Aras
Post office safe blown open in Bloomingdale raid
The Bloomingdale post office safe was blown open and about 300 dollars in currency and stamps stolen. The strong box in the post office building was destroyed with nitro glycerin, and part of the adjacent general store was wrecked. The robbers fled in a stolen livery-stable buggy and headed toward Chicago, with Central Station alerted to pursue. Bloomingdale lies 12 miles southeast of Elgin.
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Bloomingdale
Ill
Chicago
Central Station
Elgin
Bomb Wrecks Tenements on First Avenue
An explosion in a First Avenue tenement hall blew doors and windows from the building’s first floor. About 150 occupants panicked and fled to fire escapes as firemen rescued many. Officials suspect Black Hand threats to barber Frank Fassett triggered the blast.
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New York
Firat Avenue
Frank Fassett
Woman Drowns After Discovering Fiance Affair
In St. Louis on June 7 Ruth Smith a 25 year old divorcee followed her fiancé to a Mississippi riverbank trysting place and, seeing him with another woman, leaped into the water from the side of a boat. She died before help could reach her.
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St. Louis
Ruth Smith
Mississippi River
Governor and Attorney General Clash Over July Fight
In San Francisco on June 1, Governor Gillett instructs Attorney General Webb to block the Jeffries Johnson bout planned for July 4. Promoter Gleason and Rickard, aided by Mayor Daly, vow to proceed, saying they have violated no laws. Webb pledges to use all legal means to prevent the fight, while Gleason asserts compliance with lawyers and readiness to act on their advice. The case faces court review and possible relocation to Reno Ely Ney Salt Lake City as alternative sites.
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San Francisco
Gillett
Webb
J. J. Gleason
Ox Rickard
California
Richard
Gleason
Reno
Ely
Ney
Salt Lake City
Utah
Prospect
McCarthy
Ile
Chicago
Rickard
Jeffries-Johnnson
Dream moves a surrender in Kansas City
William Baker, a paroled prisoner from Courtney, Missouri, walked 20 miles in mud and rain to Kansas City to surrender himself to the board of pardons and parole believing a dream summoned him. The board recommended a full pardon after noting his unusual honesty. Baker started back home a free man. Seven weeks earlier he was convicted of vagrancy and fined $25 but could not pay.
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Kansas City
William Baker
Courtney
Board of Pardons and Parole
Baker
Czar's Men Hang Innocent in Pochep Murder Case
In Tschernigov on June 17 a judicial error surfaced from the murder of the Buikpovsky family last spring in Pochep. Three men were tried and condemned to death, but one innocent peasant named Glusker was executed by the Tachernlgay military court for the same crime.
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Tschernigov
Russia
Buikpovsky
Pochep
Glusker
Tachernlgay
Potato Stem Smoking Worse Than Opium Habit
A physician warns that dried potato stems are a potent poison when smoked. He describes a youth’s progression from dreamy euphoria to severe palpitations, dizziness, paralysis, mania, and homicidal tendencies, noting one case in a 16 year old who relapsed after treatment.
Judged by Company We Keep in a New York City Court
A semi intoxicated passerby aided by two burglars was arrested along with them. The two criminals pled guilty to attempted burglary while the drinker, unaware, was warned by the judge that any future trouble within 26 years could see him tried as an accomplice. He vowed to stay sober for 25 years.
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New York
Drugging Children A Call for Severe Punishment
The piece denounces druggists who sell cocaine to minors and condemns doctors who enable drug use, urging the harshest legal penalties for those who drug or aid in drugging children. It emphasizes the harm seen in depersonalized, addicted people and insists on accountability for all involved.
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Philadelphia Press
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