Roosevelt Returns to Oyster Bay Amid Grand New York Welcome
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived in New York to a nationwide crowd cheering on Broadway and Fifth Avenue. The streets of Manhattan, from the Battery to City Hall Park, filled with enthusiastic residents and workers delaying their commutes to salute the former president. Roosevelt acknowledged the reception with his trademark smile and brisk waves as the procession moved through the city.
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Roosevelt Welcomed as Kaiserin Victoria Reaches Ambrose Channel
Thousands gather at the Battery and Hudson river piers to watch the Roosevelt party depart for Quarantine. Bluecoats secure the welcome areas as the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sails up Ambrose Channel amid flags, bunting, and cheering crowds.
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Roosevelt Welcome Parade Dazzles New York Harbor to Battery
The New York welcome for Theodore Roosevelt featured the Androscoggin leading a flotilla past Fort Hamilton and Quarantine, with the North Carolina firing twenty one guns at the Battery. Roosevelt, Mrs Roosevelt, and officials greeted crowds along the Hudson and Broadway, ending in a luncheon with Henry A. Alexander's family before Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay return. In Minnesota, Charles Warner of Great Bend ND killed himself after a failed attempt to murder W J King who had married his ex wife.
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Rickard Opens Bid War Over Johnson Jeffries Fight
Tex Rickard favors Goldfield Nev for the Johnson Jeffries bout after a $120000 offer arrives from Goldfield. Reno and Ely protest and a meeting in Reno is planned to decide the venue at a joint conference. The decision hinges on the highest bid with a Sunday rally expected.
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Chicago Heat Toll Tops Daily Record
Chicago reports two direct heat deaths, five indirect deaths, and nearly twenty prostrations as temperatures reach 91 degrees for over an hour. Suffering is widespread, with tenement districts hardest hit in the city’s hottest day since last August.
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First Woman Telegraph Operator Helen Mills Dies at 78
Mrs. Helen M. Mills, reputedly the first woman regularly employed as a telegraph operator, died in Rock Island at age seventy eight. She began in the telegraph business in Greenville, Pennsylvania, in the 1840s.
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Hill Warns Locomotive Firemen on Wages and Costs
James J. Hill, chairman of Great Northern, spoke at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen convention in St Paul. He compared U S and foreign earnings, warned about rising costs and adverse legislation, and urged savings to weather a potential downturn.
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