Roosevelt Visits San Antonio in Warm Welcome
President Roosevelt drew 75 000 to 100 000 people in San Antonio as he revisited the city where the Rough Riders were raised. He praised Texas education, honored Civil War heroes, and recalled joining the regiment under General Young with a promise to fight. A banquet at the Menger and a sendoff to Fort Worth closed the visit.
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San Antonio
Roosevelt
United States
Teddy
White House
Alamo Plaza
Alamo
Kirkpatrick
Texas
Grant
Lee
Joseph Wheeler
Army of the United States
Young
San Juan
Sumner
Texans
Houston
Bowie
Crockett
Travis
San Jacinto
Santiago
Menger Hotel
Fort Worth
Rough Riders and Roosevelt Enjoy Informal San Antonio Reunion
In San Antonio on April 8 the Rough Riders and President Theodore Roosevelt shared a relaxed afternoon. Secret Service guards were eased as Roosevelt greeted comrades Charley, John and Jim and consoled a distressed, destitute ex-soldier. A trumpeter signaled mess call for roast beef, potatoes, corn, beans, coffee, preserves and apples. The riders expressed gratitude to San Antonio citizens and to Roosevelt as president, praising peace and old glory.
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Rough Riders
San Antonio
Secret Service
Charley
John
Jim
Theodore Roosevelt
Club Room Robbery at Houston Club Sees $3400 Missing
In Houston on April 8 the Sixty-Six club room above 406 Main Street operated by W H Perkins & Co reported a $3400 shortage. The big safe was touched between 6 and 7 PM. About $2500 in currency and $900 in silver vanished, police and others search for the missing funds.
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Houston
Main Street
W. H. Perkins & Co
Young man found near Frisco Floral Park fears burial alive
In Sherman Texas on April 8 a young man about twenty claimed from Fannin County was found near Frisco Floral Park in an apparently unconscious state. He recovered and said he could hear but could not see or move and feared being buried alive.
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Sherman
Tex
Fannin County
Frisco Floral Park
School bill up sent to engrossment in Austin
House debates a Senate public school efficiency bill and sends it to engrossment. Senate works on Kennedy tax bill and portions of it are considered. El Paso reports Mexican Central embezzlement at four stations totaling $25,000, with $12,000 lost at Chihuahua station.
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House
Austin
Senate
el Paso
Parral
Chihuahua
Jiminez
Santa Rosalia
Indemnity Demand Derails Early Peace Talks
Report from St Petersburg dated April 8 says Japan’s insistence on an indemnity rather than willingness to end the war stalled a recent push to open peace negotiations. A new attempt to unite Russia and Japan is reportedly in progress, led by French and British financial interests.
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Japan
St. Petersburg
Russia
British steamer Tara reports Russian fleet sighting near Malacca
Despatch from Singapore says Tara passed forty seven Russian vessels off Fathom bank in the Straits of Malacca at noon Friday. Separate note claims twenty seven warships seen south of Penang, suspected to be Togo's fleet.
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London
Singapore
Tara
Straits of Malacca
Togo
Daily Express
Penang
the Express
Twice Married for Legal Safety in Georgia and South Carolina
Augusta April 8 Woodbury Kane and Sallie N. Elliot of Newport R. I. and Aiken D. C. were remarried by a county justice to satisfy differing divorce laws. The second ceremony, licensed in Richmond county Georgia, aimed to recognize the divorce in Georgia where it is not in South Carolina. No motive was given by Mr Kane, but the move seems seen as legal compliance.
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Washburn - Crosby
Augusta
Woodbury Kane
Sallie N. Elliot
Newport
R. L
Aiken
D. C
Richmond County
Georgia
South Carolina
Major Local Happenings Reported Across Texas
Yoakum shipments total seven teen carloads of eggs this year. Gunsha Pass operations halted by rain snow and cold. Valley View in Cooper County plans a 50000 flouring mill. Art Bedstead plant in Chicago burned with 100000 loss. Albany runaway injures Mr Joe Gregg tearing muscle from an arm. During the president's Austin visit a county treasurer was robbed of 600 dollars.
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Yoakum
Tex
Gunsha Pass
Valley View
Cooper County
Texas
Chicago
Albany
Joe Gregg
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Batavia
M. H. James
City Drug Store
MO. A. Moore Jr
Bryan
Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
Parker Building
A. L. Zinanti
Lone Star State
Thut
Thermopylae
Grand Opera House
Wm. H
E. B. Josselyn
Bridgeport, Conn
First National Bank of San Angelo
Longview
Kid McCoy
Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien
Hot Springs
Marble Falls
Albert Hooper
Henry Ashford
Williams
China Station
Beaumont and
Giver
James & Nunn
Stevenson Machine
J. C. Chaney & Son
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