Ovation for Taft as Michigan crowds hail coming president
In Grand Rapids a large crowd cheers Secretary Taft as the next president at a Lincoln Club banquet. Ambassadors, lawmakers, and officials attend multiple receptions and speeches, with Taft receiving the strongest ovation and steady handshakes from thousands.
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Grand Raunds
Mich
Lincoln Club
Michigan
Klingman Furniture Exposition
Jusserand
France
Roy M. Watkins
Young Men's Republican Club
Charles Helden
United States
William Alden Smith
Ambassador Jusserand
George Edmund Foss
Taft
Curtis Guild, Jr
Massachusetts
John Barrett
Bureau of American Republics
Washington
Ambassador Jusserend
Governor Guild
Edmund Foss
Grand Rapids
Morton House
State League of Republican Clubs
Taft Club
Majestic Theater
Philo C. Fuller
Tincoln Club
Explosion at Santa Rosa Mining Camp Suspected
Reports from Santa Rosa mining camp eighteen miles south of Douglas Sonora say two dynamite blasts wrecked the commissary and boarding house but caused no serious injuries to Americans. A foreman’s house was found with a half burned fuse and explosive under it. Mexican anarchists are suspected and the government investigates. The Santa Rosa mine is owned by Calumet and Arizona.
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Douglas
Ariz
Santa Rosa
Here
Sonora
Ryan
Cananea
Calumet and
Arizona
Chicago man commits suicide at county hospital
William Andrews, believed from Sioux City Iowa, died by cutting his jugular with scissors at the county hospital after arrival for treatment of a claimed pneumonia. Doctors doubted pneumonia and speculated he was shamming before he leaped, grabbed shears, and slashed his throat. He is thought to have a brother in England.
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Chicago
William Andrews
Sioux City
Andrews
England
Threatened Flood Endangers Minnesota Town
Winona Minnesota City six miles north faces rising flood as melting snow swells a valley stream. A dam upstream threatens to fail at any moment and cause major damage. Main street already a foot under water as merchants and residents move goods to higher ground.
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Winona
Minn
Minnesota City
Here
Mob frees suspect after horsewhipping in Ellsworth
George Washington, a Black man accused of brutal assault on his wife, was seized from Ellsworth jail by about 100 masked men. He was whipped, then shot in the shoulder as he left town, receiving care in Wilson where doctors say he will recover.
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Salina
Kan
George Washington
Ellsworth
Wilson
Fatal neck break ends Ivanhoe wrestler's life
Gustaf Lovestrand, 60, of near Ivanhoe Minnesota, is not expected to live after a broken neck left his body paralyzed. He was hurt during an Indian wrestling match with an 18 year old opponent, who throws the loser backward over the head.
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Ivanhoe
Minn
Gustaf Lovestrand
Portuguese Cabinet Declares Dictatorial Decrees Stand
Lisbon February 13 The cabinet council will not rescind the dictatorial decrees issued during the final days of King Carlos reign except those deemed offensive to public dignity. The decision astonishes observers and preserves the decrees in force.
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Lisbon
Carlos
Terrorists Loot Post Van In Poland Attack
A band of terrorists attacked a post van near Janoff in Lublin government, killing the driver and five soldiers, wounding two, and abducting 2,500. The incident occurred on February 13 in Warsaw reporting.
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Warsaw
Janoff
Lublin
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