Roosevelt Sings Old Cradle Song in The Hague Welcome
Theodore Roosevelt arrived in The Hague amid massive crowds and noisy reception at the railway station. Police struggled as people surged toward his carriage while dignitaries including foreign minister Swinderen greeted him. He later met Queen Wilhelmina at Het Loo and planned visits to Delft and other royal sites.
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Paris
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Ethel
Amsterdam
Colonel Roosevelt
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Roosendaal
Het Loo
Wilhelmina
Prince Consort
Cannibals kill two missionaries on Savage Island
Seattle to Mukilteo dispatch reports 200 savages attacked missionaries Rev. Horatio Hopkins and Rev. Hector McPherson on Savage Island. The pair were bound and killed after nine converts escaped. natives captured locals, then ate the white men after hours on the beach.
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Wash
Horatio Hopkins
Hector Laurie McPherson
Presbyterian Church
Savage Island
Barkentine
Mary E. Winkelman
Mukilteo
Tonga Islands
South Seas
Hopkins
McPherson
Bryan mum on Leavitt threat in Lincoln marriage row
In Lincoln on April 29 William J. Bryan declined comment on William H. Leavitt s threat to stop Ruth Bryan Leavitt s marriage to Lt Reginald A Owen of the British Army set for Tuesday Mrs Leavitt arrives in Lincoln Sunday from Jacksonville Illinois and Lt Owen is due Sunday evening Meanwhile in Jacksonville Ruth Bryan Leavitt says she will not respond to or comment on her former husband s claim to regain their children
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Neb
William J. Bryan
William H. Leavitt
M. F. Dunlap
Sales of Girls in New York
New York April 29 The Rockefeller grand jury appointed to probe white slave traffic has not issued a report but District Attorney Whitman says he has obtained positive proof that girls can be bought for immoral purposes in the city. Four young girls purchased by district attorney agents are in his office care and three people accused of procuring are under arrest.
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Agents in child trafficking case expose underworld ties
Two women, graduates of Smith and Radcliffe, and a man linked to government service acted as agents. They posed as procurers for Seattle and Juneau disorderly houses, gaining trust in Seattle's Tenderloin to buy an 11 year old girl, thwarted only by the girl's broken leg. The girls were taken to the district attorney and held for testimony. one was about 15. Suspects include Harry Levinson and Belle Moore, with bail set at $10,000. others await arraignment. District Attorney Whitman notes hidden markets have cooled, with payments reportedly modest for the four girls.
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Wash
Juneau
Alaska
District Attorney's Office
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Belle Moore
West Forty-first Street
Alex Anderson
Levinson
Whitman
Missionary Girl Leaps Into River
Miss Philena De Long 36 once a missionary to China jumped from Harvard bridge but was rescued by Crawtender Patrick Buckley and William West. She was taken to Cambridge Relief Hospital unconscious where doctors found her mind unbalanced.
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China
Harvard Bridge
Crawtender
Patrick Buckley
William West
Cambridge Relief Hospital
Miss DeLong Ends Life Jump From Harvard Bridge
Miss DeLong formerly of 560 Columbus avenue, a dressmaker, disappeared after leaving her room and wandered to Harvard bridge. She leapt into the water and was rescued unconscious by Crawtender Buckley and West, then taken to Riverbank court where an ambulance arrived. She had trained at Gordon Training School and Newton Theological School and worked as a missionary before returning to the United States five years ago.
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Gordon Training School For
Newton Theological School
Clarendon Street
China
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Nova Scotia
Rail workers receive wage increase at three Boston lines
About 600 workers from Newton and Boston, Middlesex and Boston, and Lexington and Boston railways were summoned to Players' Hall and told their wages would rise by 10,000 dollars. The plan, aimed at goodwill, will affect more than 1000 employees with six months’ men earning 12 cents hourly, rising to 26 cents for ten-year veterans, while others receive proportional raises.
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Newton & Boston, Middlesex & Boston
Lexington & Boston Street Railways
Players' Hall
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Sylvester
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Columbus Day Bill Now Law in Massachusetts
Governor Draper signs Columbus Day as a legal holiday in Massachusetts to take effect this year. The measure passed the Senate without a dissent and designates October 12 as the Columbus Day observance marking Columbus's 1492 voyage.
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Massachusetts
Senate
America
Harvard Beats Yale in Triangular Freshmen Debate
In New Haven on April 29 Harvard defeated Yale in the annual Yale Harvard Princeton freshmen debate. Harvard argued for ship subsidies to aid the merchant marine with A A Berle Jr., age 14, appearing in short trousers as the youngest Harvard debater on record.
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Yale
Harvard
Princeton
United States
A. A. Berle, Jr
Berle
Gilman to be approved in seven mayoral appointments
After a lengthy Civil Service session with Mayor Fitzgerald the commission is expected to approve five of seven initial mayoral appointments. A city official indicated John B. Martin as penal commissioner William J. Welch as water commissioner John T. Scully as superintendent of supplies P. Robert Green as overseer of the poor and John E. Gilman as soldiers relief commissioner were approved. Gilman’s status awaits official release.
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Civil Service Commission
Fitzgerald
John B. Martin
William J. Welch
John T. Scully
P. Robert Green
John E. Gilman
Officials reject two appointments to city posts
The Civil Service Commission turned down Thomas F. Campbell for wire commissioner and John J. Madden for cemetery trustee. Campbell was a new appointee and Madden a reappointee, marking the first rejections under the new commission.
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Thomas F. Campbell
John J. Madden
Civil Service Commission
Warm Weather Coming Use the Trolley Air Line
The Boston and Worcester Trolley Air Line advertises service as warm weather approaches. Cars depart Park Square every 175 minutes. Subway cars connect with extra cars at Chestnut Hill.
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Boston & Worcester Trolley Air Line
Park Square
Chestnut Hill
Milk War Midnight Ban On Boston Milk Supply
The city faces a planned milk boycott with 240000 quarts daily withheld as of midnight. Contractors stockpiled 20000 cans while producers forecast a weeks’ delay before shortages bite, despite Governor Draper urging arbitration and officials warning of potential legal action.
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Draper
Boston
Post
Milk siege looms as New England farmers plan Boston stop
Leaders of the milk producers based in Boston announce a midnight start to a milk siege. W. A. Hunter says the move will affect Boston and smaller eastern cities, since farmer prices follow Boston price. They will supply other cities at the former summer price until Boston wins.
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Boston
New England
W. A. Hunter
Milk Producers’ Organization
Blind man flies in balloon from Pittsfield to Bennington
William J. Heinrichs, a sightless Boston church tenor, became the first blind man to make an airline balloon flight. Joined by Charles J. Glidden as pilot, the 32 mile trip from Pittsfield, Massachusetts ended in Bennington, Vermont after about two hours aloft with Heinrichs operating the valve at 200 feet.
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William J. Seinrichs
Boston
Charles J. Glidden
Massachusetts
Pittsfield
Mass
Glidden
Heinrichs
Balloon flight from Pittsfield records Braille passenger
The air voyage carried Frank P. Sibley of Boston and a blind passenger, Mr Heinrichs, from Pittsfield. The balloon traveled about 25 mph for two hours, reaching 4500 feet at its peak and a 36% foot drop in 15 minutes, with the blind traveler noting pleasure that erased time and space.
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Beneft
Frank P. Sibley
Boston
Pittsfield
Heinrichs
Massachusetts
Weston limps 51 miles despite swollen ankle on journey to New York
Edward Payson Weston, 74, rose at midnight and limped 51 miles despite a swollen ankle from a Wednesday accident. He aims to travel 54 miles tomorrow to reach City Hall, New York, by Monday and spend Sunday in Yonkers before marching down Broadway the next morning.
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Wappinger Falls
N. Y
Edward Payson Weston
New York
City Hall
Yonkers
Broadway
Weston Leaves Hudson After Midnight Delays
Mr Weston is woken at the St Charles hotel in Hudson by staff and a Post rep planning a trip. He endures irritation about a Syracuse banquet and eats a late midnight breakfast before hobbling out with a damaged ankle. The Maxwell car decorated with posters begins its 8500 mile tour. Dundas Kincaid, a Scottish chauffeur, once with the English army, drives toward the city limits.
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Maxwell
Weston
Thomas H. Hubbard
New York
Dundas Kincaid
Transvaal
America
Santa Fe Re Road
Halley’s Comet Visible Near Venus With Morning Haze
The Comet Halleyly touches the eastern horizon at 2 41 this morning and tomorrow at 21 37 standard time. It should be observable about 12 or 5 minutes later in a clear eastern sky near Venus, offering a brief view for observers.
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