Washington Social Worries Over Roosevelt Nice Young Men
Washington hosts fear the 1909 election may drain Roosevelt’s “nice young men” from diplomatic and official circles. Hostesses, clubs, and winter visitors warn that substitutes from farming states could shrink the capital’s ready social staff, ending the era of social dinners and the tennis cabinet. The piece anticipates Taft or Bryan changes, predicting the executive offices’ rear tennis court will become a spring crocus display or a children’s playground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Washington
Roosevelt
Bryan
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Bryant
Record Timber Cut Reached New Peak in 1907
Figures from the bureau of census and forest service show 1907 produced the largest timber total in U.S. history, with 28 850 mills reporting over 40 million feet of lumber. Despite higher mill counts, regional declines in the lake states and northwest tempered gains, while the south and yellow pine led the surge.
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Bureau of Census
Forest Service
United States
Lake States
Northwest
Diplomatic Row Recalled by Death in London
The death of Lionel Sackville Sackville-West in London recalls his 1880s recall as British minister to the United States. Born 1827, he served 1881 to 1888 under Cleveland, was dismissed after a letter favoring Cleveland’s re election was used against him. He blamed Fenian plots in America, but friends doubted the claim.
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London
Lionel Sackville Sackville-West
Baron Sackville
Lord Sackville
United States
Cleveland
America
Americans
Lord Sackvile
Hazing cases loom in Congress next winter
War department officers and civilian officials expect a sharp clash in Congress over cadet hazing cases. Six cadets suspended for a year were not found guilty of a specified offense, only hazing, prompting calls to dismiss them or restore the cadets. Political maneuvering centers on who had authority for the suspensions and whether the president should salvage the situation via restoration and removal of the six from punishment.
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AMY
War Department
Congress
Wright
Oliver
Gen
Washington
Loeb
Ananias Club
Academy
Sisters Rewarded for Daring Rescue in Creek
Julia Bolton aged 12 and Etta Bolton aged 14 of Mobile and Hat tiesburg are candidates for Carnegie hero medals after they saved Stella Breland from drowning in Purvis creek. Stella sank while swimming, and Julia grasped her foot to pull her to shore as Etta later saved mail carrier duties during a flood.
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Julia Bolton
Etta
Memphis
Tenn
Julia
Etta Bolton
H. H. Bolton
Hattiesburg
Mobile
Stella Breland
M. Extein
Purvis Creek
Bolton
Stella
Miss Breland
Alabama
Miss Bolton
Washington
Ala
Bolton's Creek
Oxford Graduate Seeks Work From Cincinnati Mayor
A well-dressed Oxford graduate and Boer War veteran told Mayor Markbreit he has 15 cents and seeks any work to pay room rent due Saturday. Lambart, claiming aristocratic ties and past wealth, said he once attended the duke of Manchester’s 1906 wedding and now needs employment after losing his fortune to dissipation. The mayor agreed to help locate a job.
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Cincinnati
Markbreit
Lambart
Charles EB. Kielcoursie-Lambart
Oxford
Earl of Cavan
Duke of Manchester
IS YOUNGEST OF FIREMEN IN INDIANA
John Hendricks six years old son of Capt William Hendricks of Columbus Indiana fire department is likely the state s youngest fireman He loves sleeping at the firehouse helping with horses and wagons and practicing sliding the pole One night he woke calls out I am the first man ready and rode the hook and ladder wagon to the blaze ahead of the department he is praised for zeal and readiness by his father and fellow firefighters
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Columbus
Ind
John Hendricks
William Hendricks
Fire Department
John
River boat uses wireless on Yukon steamer Sarah
The steamer Sarah arriving from St Michaels is likely the first stern wheel steamer with wireless. It communicates with Circle City and St Michaels, aiding navigation by reporting shoals and bars. Messages from Circle City to Fairbanks were hampered by receiver limits. The Yukon telegraph runs along the banks but not where most needed.
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Yukon River
Sarah
St. Michaels
Kaltag
Circle City
Rampart
Hagle City
Fairbanks
Love Free Exile as Escape from Siberia Achieved
Samuel Leff recounts a perilous breakout from a Siberian prison in 1906 aided by his wife Mary Rittinger. After torture and near starvation, the couple fled through forest and Minsk toward freedom, then reached Austria and finally New York aboard a ship with Russian spies aboard.
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New York
Siberian
Samuel Leff
East One Hundred and Third Street
Barastow
Siberia
Mary Rittinger
Mary
Minsk
Austria
Lost Sigma Chi pin rescued from Marion paper mills
Earl R Hunt of Indianapolis a 1905 DePauw graduate misplaced a Sigma Chi badge en route from Greencastle to Cloverdale in Putnam county. The opal set pin surfaced in Marion paper mill beaters, likely from baled old papers. A jeweler bought it, and a fraternity member identified the owner by name and chapter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Earl R. Hunt
Indianapolis
de Pauw University
Sigma Chi
Greencastle
Cloverdale
Putnam County
Marion Paper Mills
Many new towns discovered in Mexico by geographic commission
The seven year old geographic commission reports 7,679 towns previously unlisted and outside federal control. Many towns measure 5,000 to 15,000 residents and lie in remote Sierra Madre regions far from main travel routes.
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City of
Mexico
Geographical Commission
Sierra Madre
Trout Picked from Buffalo Park Flood Edges
A cloudburst above the canyon sent Buffalo creek over its banks at Buffalo, stranding trout on dry land. Many fish were later caught in low bushes along the river and consumed by local residents at the evening meal.
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Buffalo Park
Col
Buffalo Creek
Buffalo
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Walden Fawcett
Baroness Takahira
Japan
F. M. Wilmot
Carnegie Hero Fund
Pittsburg
Rudolph Foster
Bolton Sisters
Alaska
Harris
State Department
Russia
New York City
Fraternity
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
4Th & Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
Iowa
G, R, Miller
Gillespie Building
Musson
Office 395
Atlantis
C, G, Clark
Interne
State University of Iowa
Black
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic and Medical Physician
Opera House Block
Phone
T. B. Swan
C. L. Campbell
Ben DU. Wood
OA. U.S. Mullins
Opera House
D. Finley
D. O
Jeeaphine Cook
Finley
Drs. Finley
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy
Chestnut St
Atlantic, Iowa
Nels Brown
Morse
Butler
M. H. Butler
C. J. Litterst
Walnut Street
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