Young King Manuel of Portugal Born From 1908 Assassination
King Manuel II of Portugal born November 15 1889 came to the throne after his father Carlos I and brother were killed in the 1908 Lisbon assassination. The royal carriage was ambushed as the royal party returned from the Tagus shore with three assassins shot dead and Manuel wounded. The crown prince died soon after in the naval arsenal. A revolutionary plot aimed to wipe out the Braganza line.
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Portugal
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Navy
Braganza
Tagus
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Lisbon
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Luiz Philip
House of Braganza
Braganza-Coburg
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Chamber of Deputies
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Vatican
You can Interest Him in Digestion Tablets Find Special Value
An old advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for stomach trouble and digestion. It argues fifty plus readers need digestive support and urges that dieting harms digestion, touting the tablet’s claims to digest 3000 grains of food per dose and endorsing the product with quotes from Dr Bennett.
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Bennett
Plots Against King Paris Spark Lisbon Uprising
Oct 4 A long series of plots against the throne culminates in a revolutionary outbreak in Lisbon. April 1908 saw mass street fighting after King Carlos’s assassination, with troops in the streets, machine guns near the palace, hundreds killed or wounded, and mass arrests.
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Portugal
Carlos
Royal
Amid Lisbon Rumors Of Quiet Revolution
London reports from Oct 5 that The Times prints no Lisbon despatches but cites the Maf in wireless cable and says revolution news may be true though the king’s prisoner rumor lacks backing. Correspon dents say Manuel’s private life fuels public distrust and republican signals grow in military circles.
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the Times
Portugal Faces Clerical Revolt and Vatican Denial
London dispatch reports King Manuel of Portugal confronting a clerical revolt amid uprisings since 1826. Arms smuggling and regimental dissent feared as Vatican denies a clerical plot while Lerroux’s presence stirs Republican aims and political tension in Portugal.
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Vatican
Portugal
Alejandro Lerroux
Barcelona
Spain
Aes Lerroux
Portuguese King Seeks Bride Across Europe
Last November King Manuel of Portugal started a tour of Europe seeking a royal bride. He began in England where eligible princesses avoided him in a painfully marked manner. Princess Alexandra of Fife Princess Louise of Battenberg and Princess Patricia of Connaught among those who made clear they did not want to be Queen of Portugal.
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Portugal
Europe
England
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Patricia
Connaught
Chauffeur blocked Malden car track and fined
Roy Staples of Cambridge was arraigned in Malden District Court for blocking a surface car track with his motor truck for four minutes. He was found guilty and fined.
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Roy Staples
Cambridge
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