Roosevelt Family Votes In Oyster Bay First Ballots
Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit cast their first ballots at a firehouse polling place in Oyster Bay. Accompanying them were Noah Seaman Bill Bailey and James Amos. Roosevelt recalled voting thirty years earlier in East Norwich with his late butler Davis.
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N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Fire Company
Kermit Roosevelt
Noah Seaman
Colonel Roosevelt
Bill] Bailey
James Amos
Kermit
East Norwich
Davis
Butler
Peary Leaves Portland for Washington to assume DOJ post
Captain Robert E Peary departed Portland by train for Washington where he will report for duty as an engineer expert in the department of justice. His family has already reached Washington.
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Portland
Robert E. Peary
Washington
Department of Justice
Boston
Federal Express
Explorer
Threatened trolley strike averted in Philadelphia
Arbitration reached a compromise agreement to avoid a strike by the United Motormen and Conductors of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company after the earlier year's walkout.
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Philadelphia
United Motormen
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Lydia E Pinkham Private Text Book on Women Diseases
This treatise explains diseases peculiar to women in plain language with home treatment instructions. It promises guidance and reassurance, suggesting Lydia E Pinkham's Private Text Book as a reference for any needed guidance.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Cook Did Not Reach the Pole in Polar Quest
A Copenhagen cable despatch published in the Chicago Daily News reports Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen presenting statements from Eskimo companions Itukusuk and Apilak that support Peary’s accusation that Frederick A Cook traveled in a circle and never reached the Pole The statements were said to be collected by missionaries in Greenland during Cook’s claimed polar ascent.
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Frederick A. Cook
Chicago Daily News Today
Copenhagen
Denmark
Knud Rassmussen
Cook
Itukusuk
Apilak
Robert E. Peary
Eskimos dispute Cook polar claim with two companions
Rasmussen relays Eskimo testimony from 1909 describing travels with Dr. Cook from Annatook to Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Land. They accuse Cook of deceit over rewards, maps, and the pole, noting a long journey with bears, musk ox, and a harsh winter. The Eskimos say Cook lied about routes and paid them poorly.
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Axel Heiberg Land
Apilak
Dr. Cook
Hell’s Gate
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Eithier
Cape Sparbo
Cape Sedden
Annatook
Troop Call A Forgery In Gary Ind Affair
Sheriff Thomas Grant denied sending a call for state troops to Governor Marshall after a forged message appeared at the Governor's Indianapolis office. The anonymous plea, signed Sheriff at Gary, stirred localized election tension as Grant sought re election against Gary Police Chief J B Martin.
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Ind
Marshall
Thomas Grant
Grant
Indianapolis
J. B. Martin
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