Statue of Liberty to be painted after decades of exposure
The Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor will receive a new coat of paint on both its interior and exterior. After eighteen years of salt wind exposure, the bronze plates are showing effects, requiring restoration efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedloe's Island
New York Harbor
Atlantic
Socorro
New Mexico
San Francisco
Chicago
Col
Peppy
Relief Board
United States Treasury
Ansel Bartlett
Treasury
Isis Bondsmen
Baltimore
National convention notes and global moves across 1900s events
The Ancient Order of Midvernians met in Saratoga New York. Navy wireless stations are set for the Pacific coast. The Philippine commission funds education for engineer surveyors. Laura Clark plans a August wedding to Charles Blythe in Salt Lake City. Edward VII will not visit Canada. A farmer near Culver Kane shot his daughter then himself. she survives. The sewer pipe trust will quit rather than face a Jamestown grand jury. Kansas City seeks legal action to equalize export wheat rates. Port Arthur report recommends death for Lieut. Gen. Stoessel. A pair, Mamie Wilson and Oscar Breneman, die and are found unconscious after poisoning. a note says they planned to die together. Mamie will recover. Elks parade in Denver draws 15 600 marchers. Central American peace talks in Marblehead near San Jose proceed toward a treaty. Cleveland street railway firms propose seven tickets for 25 cents with universal transfers. Virginia 2-cent-a-mile fare law deemed invalid under the fourteenth amendment. Navy plans a world class dry dock at Bremerton costing 1 250 000. A Boston hotel guest injured in a fall from a sixth floor window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Pacific
Atlantic
Philippine Commission
Laura Clark
Senator Clark
Wyoming
Charles Blythe
Salt Lake City
Edward VII
Canada
Empire
W. A. Martin
Culver
Kane
Rachel
Sewer Pipe Trade Association
The
Sewer Pipe Trust
Jamestown
N. Y
Kansas City Board of Trade
St. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Stoessel
Mamie Wilson
Oscar Breneman
van Wert
Ohio
Benevolent Order of Elks
Denver
Guatemala
Salvador
Honduras
Marblehead
San Jose
Old Line Street Railway Companies
Cleveland
Virginia
Holt
Corporation Court
Staunton
Washington
Bremerton Navy Yard
Puget Sound
Notable public and social notices across New England and beyond
A sprawling clippings bundle reports marriages in Portsmouth and Lake Sunapee, political and legal moves, fatal accidents, prize cases, and social shifts. Highlights include Mrs Leslie Carter’s marriage, Mrs John Hay’s illness, a Baltimore burglar’s suicide, Long Island crash deaths, the Thaw defense talks, and church disputes. Also noted are trade indictments, coastal rescues, provost prison skeletons, and various state news from Hartford to Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Carter
Portsmouth
N. H
William L. Payne
New York
John Hay
Lake Sunapee
Baltimore
Harvey L. Schaffer
Andrew Carnegie
Long Island
National Association of State Dairy and Pure Food Departments
State Capitol
Hartford
Conn
Leslie Dudley Carter
Carter-Payne
Norma Munro
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Supreme Court At
William Thaw
Ice
Washington
Harry Thaw
Michael Tusck
Pittsburg
J. G. Whelps Stokes
Socialist Party
Provost Prison
St. James’ Place
Philadelphia
Provost
Guten
Cowes Island
Gravesen Bar
Berom
Gutten Bassi Siver
June 1906 U.S. ports export totals and federal prosecutions
The June 1906 report shows exports from principal U.S. ports at 15,365,278 dollars versus 13,553,014 in June 1905, with fiscal year exports totaling 191,056,535 dollars against 152,530,673 in 1905. The Moody admin aims to dissolve Standard Oil and punish offending officials. Navy yard unions seek arbitration over output, and postal receipts in June 1906 decline in Washington by 21 percent and San Francisco by over 31 percent due to disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cipal
United States
Standard Oil Company
Moody
Washington Navy Yard
Navy
Newberry
Louize
Navy Yard
San Francisco
Global headlines echo fear and upheaval across 1900s frontiers
Reported mass fears drive Jews from Russian cities amid alleged massacres while Kingston Jamaica imposes quarantine on Panama due to smallpox. Notable social and political notes include Lady Curzon’s death in London and Dreyfus’s reinstatement, with other items on smallpox in Colon, a Russian general assassination, and a cotton tree discovery in India. The Socialist interparliamentary congress opens in London, expelling reporters to shield governments.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Panama
Curzon
India
L. A. Leiter
Chicago
London
Colon
Washington
Canal Commission
Magoon
Kozloff
Peterhof
Gen. Trepoff
Nicholas Longworth
Alfred Dreyfus
Chamber of Deputies
General Congress of Socialist Intermrnamentary Committees
Americans Seize Europe’s Treasures as English Hold Price
William E. Curtis from London notes Americans rapidly acquire rare European books while Englishmen balk at prices. Taf to visit the Philippines next spring for ceremonies of the native assembly. Annie Ide and Thurke Cochran engagement announced with a Washington wedding planned. Oil independents claim anti trust laws erode Standard Oil monopoly, leveling competition. Fred Robinson reports 224,MS members with large relief work and strong finances. A Greek traveler, Nicholas George, begins a 30,000 mile world walk for a $20,000 prize from Budapest. Rio warns against Brazilian diamond stocks as fraud risk. Panama Canal sanitation harms West Indian laborers, hospitals note pneumonia risk from good air and nutrition shortages, pay disparity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam E. Curtis
London
Europe
Taf
Philippines
Annie Ide
Ide
Thurke Cochran
Washington
Standard Oil Company
Fred C. Robinson
Grand Lodge of Ellis
Nicholas George
San Francisco
Australia
Budapest
International Tourist Club of
George
Cairo
Egypt
George E. Anderson
Rio de Janeiro
Col. Gorgas
Stevens
Spain
Cuba
Guatemala Fights Salvadoreans Amid War News
Guatemalans suffer about 2000 casualties as Salvadorean forces claim victory at Platanar on Saturday night. Both countries press toward a US aided peace conference amid talks of arbitration and disputes over insurgents and territory. Roosevelt works with Cabrera to ease tensions as battles extend into Honduras and Salvador.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platanar
Santa Fe
Honduras
Salvador
Guatemala
State Department
Washington
United States
Regalado
Cabrera
Roosevelt
Diaz
Mexico
Root’s South American Tour Aims For Unity and Understanding
Secretary of State Elihu Root undertakes a three month southward voyage visiting eight South American republics and traveling over 16 000 miles by water and rail. He will meet capitals of each country, attend the third international conference in Rio, and seeks to improve hemispheric relations despite a demanding itinerary aboard a navy cruiser with ample luxuries for his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Root
Elihu Root
United States
Rio Janeiro
Navy
Uncle Sam
Mr. Root
Hemisphere
James G. Blaine
Chicago business shows strength amid high grain prices
Chicago reports broad business expansion in manufacturing and construction with strong government crop prospects lifting trade. Although breadstuffs yield modest declines, agricultural prosperity fuels industry and finance, while overall grain shipments and lumber activity rise. failures in Chicago district total 18 this week, up from last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Express Companies Divide Up and Dividend Doubles
Pressure prompts United States Express Company led by Senator Platt to double dividends next period. Wells Fargo & Co follows with a 2 percent rate increase and a semi annual payment of 5 percent on July 16. Malcontents claim earnings exceed 30 percent with a $20 million surplus. Agricultural bulletin reports 28 bird species, including quail and nighthawk, feed on cotton worm. winter weevil predation rises as insects are sheltered by plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Express Company
Senator Platt
New York
Wells, Fargo & Co
Agricultural Department
Biological Survey
Chicago-Cattle Hogs Sheep Wheat Prices Across Markets
A blended report lists commodity prices by city including Chicago Cattle from 4.00 to 86.40, hogs from 4.00 to 6.02, sheep 400 to 5.75, and grain futures No 2 Wheat 78 to 1, corn 2 from Sle to Sle, oats standard Te, rye No 2 Gle to Gte, hay timely S1.00, butter creamery MWe, potatoes new The to Te, with additional figures for Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and clover seed.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Ste
St. Louis
Tattle
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Carnegie Donates to Cedarville College Library
Andrew Carnegie gives 11799 dollars for a Cedarville College library building. The Order of Railway Telegraphers seeks an injunction in Louisville to stop L and N Railroad from discharging members who join the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Cedarville
O.) College
Order of
Louisville, Ky
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
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Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Mif Higar
Bessemer
Around
American Association
National League
Ww. L
Ww. L. Phildelphia
Ashington
Boston
W L. W. L. Columbus
Louisville
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Paul
W. I. W. I. Des Moines
Sioux City
Omaha
Lincoln
National Convention of the Ancient Order of Midvernians
Saratoga, N. Y
Western
Ity
Conklin
Mich
Arkansas
Ira Livingstone
Forest Hill
the Baptist Young People’s Union
Wisconsin
Ashland
Tennent Shoe Company
South Dakota
Cochrane
St. Paul Road
Joseph Medill Patterson
National Catholic Educational Association
John II, Chapman of
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
Elks
Standard Oil
Joseph Timmes
Springfield
Luke Terris
Albuquerque
N. M
Wellington
Kan
J. S. Crambine
State Health Board
Southern Railway
Jackson Mine
Petersburg
Ind
American Smelting and Refining Company
Montana
Esther Mitchell
George Mitchell
Seattle
Mitchell
FP. E. Creffield
Holy Rollers
William F. Nichols
Episcopal Church
Crocker
Nod Hill
Diocese of
California
J. M. Alden
F. S. Nicholson
State Hospital For the Insane
Norfolk
Ned
Mickey
State of Washington
Melander
State Agricultural College
Arkansas City
Amsterdam
Holland
Galveston
Newport News
A. P. Toombs
Colorado Springs
Nebraska City
Ler
Worns
Waterloo
Sal Lake
Mia
Mueller
Wyroming
Missouri
Jefferson City
O'Laughlin Bros
Bellwood
Ill
Department of Commerce and Labor
Prin
Iron and Steel
Heli Hood
Tate
Bradstreet
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