Decoration Day Observances Across Nation Honor Dead
Washington marks Decoration Day with closures and parades honoring Civil War and Spanish American War dead. National Guard units, Navy personnel, and veterans march to Arlington and other cemeteries as speeches and tributes unfold, including readings on Arlington and navy history. A Staten Island funeral for Joseph Decker of the Seventy-first NY Regiment highlights the day’s local observances.
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Washington
W National Capital
Arlington National Cemetery
Soldiers’ Home
Congressional
National Guard
Naval Battalion
Blue Jackets
Dolphin
Arlington
President McKinley
Army
Navy
Lee Mansion
Webster Davis
Interior
New
Joseph Wyant
Toledo
O. Lincoln
D. C. Haywood
Spain
Assemblyman March
Staten Island
Joseph Decker
Seventy-first New York Regiment
San Juan Hill
Seventy-first
Bethel Cemetery
Tottenville
Decoration Day Observed Among Manila Graves and Ceremonies
Memorial Day services were held at Battery Knoll Manila with grave decorations for nearly 300 soldiers buried in five rows amid rice fields. Clergy from British and American groups spoke as monitors and artillery fired in salute. General Otis and the U S Philippine Commission attended with local and foreign residents taking part.
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Manila
Battery Knoll
Scott
Pace Cemetery
McKinnon
McQuide
Stevenecon
Idaho Regiment
Peter McQueen
Boston
Cavite
Iloilo
Otis
Barker
United States Philippine Commission
Maine Remembered Ceremony At Havana Grave Sites
Decoration Day in Havana featured Mrs Estee G Rathbone leading a women’s committee to adorn the Maine wreck with laurel and wreaths. Mrs Lucien Young joined the Maine Association in decorating Colon Cemetery graves. Camp Columbia and Quemados Cemetery ceremonies proceeded with troops reviewed by General Ludlow and a fort salute, though Maine victims ceremony did not take place.
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Havana
Estee G. Rathbone
Admiral Cromwell
Maine
Lucien Young
Navy
Colon Cemetery
Patterson
Maine Association
Quemados
Camp Columbia
Lee
Ludlow
Memorial Day Observed in Santiago Cuba Half-Mast Flags
Memorial Day was marked in Santiago de Cuba with flags at half mast and public offices closed. Graves of American soldiers were decorated and a national salute fired by the Santa Blanca battery. Major Saunders led ceremonies at the Virginius Massacre victims’ graves from 1873.
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Santiago DE Cuba
Cuba
Santa Blanca
Saunders
Virginius
Firemen’s muster draws nearly ten thousand crowd in River Point
River Point Rhode Island May 30 nearly 10 000 people attended the firemen muster parade featured seventeen fire companies. First prize of 125 dollars awarded to the Wire King of Pawtuxet with the Hageart of Pawtucket second and the Rough and Ready of Olneyville third.
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Riverpoint
BR. I
Pawtuxet
Hageart
Pawtucket
Olneyville
Henry Watterson Addresses Reunion in Louisville
Henry Watterson speaks at Louisville observance commemorating Civil War dead. He says both Union and Confederacy foes are joined in American manhood and brotherhood, urging no renunciation of past loyalties and noting the war’s end made a nation.
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Henry Watterson
Louisville
Union
Confederacy
Republic
New North
New South
el Caney
Decoration Day Celebrations Across Greater New York
Holiday crowds filled ferries and trains as Decoration Day parades and ceremonies rolled through New York City Brooklyn and Jersey City. Major General Miles Governor Roosevelt reviewed parades while Grant's Tomb and Riverside Park hosted grand rituals and salutes from the Texas battleship. Monuments were unveiled in Jersey City and New Brunswick with speeches by McAdoo and local officials.
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New York
Manhattan Island
Long Island
Jersey City
New York City
Miles
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Fifty-seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Washington Arch
National Guardsmen
Roe
C. D. Sigshbee
John B. Hyde
Madison Square
Park Plaza
Manhattan
Riverside Park
Grant
Texas
Hudson
G. A. R. Men Refuse Confederate Floral Wreath
In Columbus Ohio on Memorial Day the G A R committee ignored a five foot Confederate wreath sent by Louisville veterans for the Union circle at Columbus Cemetery. Colonel Knauss had directed placement but the committee did not respond. Soldiers and Sailors group denounced the action and moved the wreath to Greenlawn Cemetery, placing it on soldiers graves.
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Columbus
Louisville
Knauss
Camp Chase
G. A. KR
Walter Webber
William J
Poland
Thomas Hils
Soldiers’ and Sailors
High Street
Greenlawn Cemetery
Epoch in U S History Marked by Cuban War Soliders
Mayor Merrill in Arew Epoch address lauds the Second Regiment for its Cuban war role. He argues wars persist while big nations oppress small, defends imperialism if it frees the oppressed, and asserts U S must protect life and property in Manila and set up good government.
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Northampton
Merrill
United States
Sampson
Schley
Cervera
Dewey
Manila
Gettysburg Memorial Day Observance in National Cemetery
Memorial Day ceremonies at the National Cemetery in Gettysburg Pennsylvania featured decorations by school children and Civil War veterans. Pennsylvania volunteers who served in the Spanish American War led the parade as G A R escorts, with many civic groups participating and an unusually large crowd attending.
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Gettysburg
Penn
National Cemetery
Pennsylvania
Spain
Memorial Day Observances Unite North and South in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia and Camden area ceremonies honor Civil War soldiers and Spanish American War dead. G A R members decorate graves at National Cemetery Germantown Mt Moriah with national colors. Local services celebrate bonds formed by war and remember Pennsylvania volunteers.
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Philadelphia
Pann
G. A. Re
Spain
National Cemetery
Germantown
Mt. Moriah
Pennsylvania
Peake
Camden
New Jersey
Graves Decorated for Union Soldiers at Chickamauga
In Chattanooga Tennessee on May 30 the graves of 13 000 Union soldiers and all volunteers who died at Chickamauga last summer were decorated today.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chickamauga
New England Leaves Charlestown For Europe With Record Passenger List
The Dominion line steamship New England, Captain James McAuley, sails from Hoosac Tunnel dock at 3:30 p.m. bound for Queenstown and Liverpool. She carries 200 saloon, 210 second cabin, and 725 steerage passengers, the largest eastbound tally this year, including Edwin H. Abbot and many Boston area residents.
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Dominion Line Steamship
New England
James McAuley
Hoosac Tunnel
Charlestown
Queenstown
Liverpool
Europe
Edwin H. Abbot
Abbot
Edwin Abbot
Constance Abbot
Ew. Abbott
Abbott
Wea Abbott
Ate
F. J. Atteaux
Air
N. J. Bartlett
A Hi, Batcheller
William Sturgis Bigelow
M. A. Bixby
Robert S. Bradley
Bradley
Robert S. Bradley, Jr
Henry C. Brags
Bragg
Brown
Joseph A. Brown
Belle Gilman Brown
William Avery Carey
James Chatham
Co. Clark
A. B. Clough
of. Coombs
Cornish
J. M. Corse
Murray Corse
Sarah A. Derr
W. H. Fay
Jay
Bessie E
Miss Jones
Charles C. Judd
Judd
Kane
J. W. Kidston
L. J. Killian
Jean McTander
C.H Langs
Airs. Gane
Jooesis
Mirei Kh Bothrop
Lothrop
Toth
Dudley Porter
Mary G. Porter
TL. Pyne
Nellie M. Rand
William 4. Ripley
Ripkey
G. Kh. Sabine
Sabine
Fred H. Seavey
Seddon
BR. A. Southworth
Southworth
Constance Southworth
Frank W Sprag
Disastered Alpha re towed after harbor mishap
Captain James Russell and the Watchman towed the dismasted Alpharetta to its moorings at Charlestown’s Bunker Hill Yacht Club. The vessel’s mast snapped near the deck and the bowsprit went overboard as it faced a southwest wind near Buoy 9 in the Upper Middle harbor.
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James Russell
Warbor
Watchman
Bunker Jil
Charlestown
Alpharetta
Alphauretia
Tabs and tablets promise cure for nervous decline
An advertisement from HALSID DRUG CO in Cleveland promotes Palmo tablets claiming to renew starved cells and cleanse drains to combat nervous debility atrophy and related symptoms. It lists alleged conditions such as insomnia indigestion and memory loss and offers an iron clad guarantee at $5 with multiple pharmacy contacts.
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Halsid Drug CO
Cleveland
Geis Oy Bof
Bradguly
Mashington St
Klein's Pharmacy
Gov
Boyleton and Tremont
C. Goodwin ¢ CO
Hanover B
Dr Pierce Sues Temperance Campaigners Over False Formulas
The World’s Dispensary Medical Association led by Dr. Pierce sues temperance pamphleteers for publishing formulas of his medicines claiming alcohol and narcotics. He offers 1000 for each bottle showing alcohol or narcotics after analysis. He criticizes false health guides and vows to expose unprincipled liars harming his business.
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Buffalo Evening Times
Dr. Pierce
Dr. Fierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
United States
Pierce
Plague Threatens Dewey Homecoming in Hong Kong
May 30 Hong Kong report says plague cases and deaths nearly double in the week. Quarantine tightened on Red Sea ports and the Kong. Admiral Dewey in Hong Kong shows health improvement but delays remain uncertain. Olympia may be passed as immune if no cases aboard. He seeks recuperation and plans a voyage with a Piraeus stop then Athens visit.
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Hong Kong
Dewey
Red Sea
Mediterranean
Olympia
Admiral Dewey
Ife
Mediterranean Sea
Ashland Dedicate Soldiers Monument in Concord Granite
A Ashland New Hampshire soldiers monument dedicated by the Grand Army with Woman's Relief Corps and town aid. Colonel Daniel Hall of Dover spoke as orator. Miss Neille Rowe unveiled the statue and read a poem. The thirty foot high Concord granite monument lists all Ashland soldiers from the War of the Rebellion.
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Ashland
N. H
Grand Army
Woman's Relief Corps
Daniel Hall
Dover
James Brogan
Charles Db. Rows
Charles Thompson
Eugene 5
Mitchell
Thomas Y. Chens
J. C. HB. Derion
Neille FE. Rowe
Concord
Memorial Mass Held by Foresters at Neponset
Foresters Avenue St. Patera Court Noo Tk MT met at Dorchester Hall at 8 am yesterday and walked to St. Ann's Church Neponset where a memorial Mass for deceased members was said. About 110 members attended along with a large delegation from St. Josephine's Court. Father Murphy preached an eloquent address. Afterward the group returned to Dorchester Hall for refreshments and speeches by prominent order members.
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St. Patera
Dorchester Hall
St. Ann's Church
Neponset
St. Josephine’s Court
Father Murphy
St. Ann's
Field’s Corner
Order
President’s health improves through daily drives
The President has benefited from a week of daily drives and a daily one hour walk. Outdoor exercise under a warm sun and bracing air has added a bronze tint to his cheeks and improved his health visibly. He enjoys driving his new vehicle and plans afternoon spins with his team of blacks through the suburbs.
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Washington
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