Funeral of Grover Cleveland Held in Princeton Estate
A solemn memorial at Grover Cleveland's Princeton home and cemetery featured brief Presbyterian rites conducted by Rev. Henry Van Dyke and others. Notables including Mayor McClellan and Archibald Russell attended, with Roosevelt sending a wreath. The service honored Cleveland beside his daughter Ruth with a later burial at the family plot.
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N. J
Grover Cleveland
United States
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Cleveland's Character Praised In Grover Review
Le Temps lauds Grover Cleveland as a great American figure. The piece credits his success to character over talent, noting his firm will without bluster and his focus on country over party. It highlights his integrity, though it questions foreign policy compared to economic insight.
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le Temps
Grover Cleveland
America
Cleveland
City honors ex President Cleveland with memorial pause
Rio de Janeiro suspends municipal council chamber of deputies and senate sessions in memory of ex President Cleveland. Government buildings fly flags at half mast as the nation flags a day of mourning.
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Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Clevland
Turmoil in Tehran as troops raid homes and imprison reformers
June reports from Teheran describe ongoing depredations by troops with house raids, executions, and hundreds imprisoned. The shah uses tactics to pause the revolution while soldiers retain control, forcing hundreds of refugees into foreign legations and threatening dissolution of parliament if revolutionaries are elected.
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Teheran
Kansas City Doctor Elected President of Omeopathy Institute
Kansas City resident Dr. W. D. Foster was chosen president of the American Institute of Homeopathy in a June meeting. The election crowns Foster’s leadership role among U S practitioners and highlights the institute’s ongoing professional activity.
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W. D. Foster
American Institute of Omeopathy
Sherman Much Improved
Cleveland June 26 Congress man condition was mixed improved Friday after reports earlier this week.
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Navy official faults unions over Brazil warship contracts
Rear Admiral Nevills accuses trades unions of causing the loss of a $50,000,000 Brazil warship contract. He claims U S steel iron timber are best, but unions’ strict rules curb labor and raise warship costs by about 40 percent versus Germany and England.
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Nevills
America
Brazil
United States
Germany
England
Federal drive against white slave trade raids resorts
In Chicago on June 26 authorities launched a federal crackdown against white slave trafficking. Twenty marshals and three assistant U S attorneys raided four resorts and freed nineteen girls amid reports of a regular trade in importing girls for immoral purposes. The government vows to continue the effort.
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Chicago
Amarillo Liquor Sale Halted as Drought Measures Take Hold
Amarillo Texas, June 26. All saloons have closed as authorities enforce the drought era liquor restrictions. Liquor dealers plan to challenge the law but disclose no strategy. Five thousand dollars worth of liquor was sold Thursday to customers stocking up against the drought.
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Amarillo
Tex
Meadows denied bail in Conners murder case
Houston June 26 C B Meadows charged with the murder of Alice Conners alias Eastup alias Meadows was refused bail at his preliminary hearing. The grand jury has taken up the matter and Meadows has made no statement as attorneys agreed to present the case to the grand jury as soon as possible.
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C. B. Meadows
Alice Conners
Eastup
Meadows
Agreing
Farmer J G Good Assassinated in Limestone County
Waco reports that on June 26 Sheriff Tilley received a bloodhounds request after J G Good a prominent Ben Hur Limestone county farmer was shot dead in his sleep Thursday night. The killer remains unknown. He leaves a widow and an adopted daughter.
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Waco
Tilley
J. G. Good
Ben Hur
Limestone County
Girl Kidnapped 13 Years Ago Returns to Fort Worth
Irene Beaumont aged seventeen, kidnapped from Fort Worth thirteen years ago, arrives in Fort Worth from Goshen Indiana amid luxury. Her father, a wealthy West Texas cattleman, has not been located.
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Fort Worth
Irene Beaumont
Goshen
Ind
West Texas
Mrs Laura Hunter Ends Fifteen Day Fast Under Sanity Threats
Chicago report says Mrs Laura Hunter known as the “devil fast er” broke her fast on Friday amid threats of insanity trial. She had fasted fifteen days insisting fasting would drive out the devil and has now eaten for the first time.
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Chicago
Laura Hunter
Duel Instructed By Fearful Partners In A Wretched Affair
In a Kansas City Newsbook piece the two duelists insist the pistol may be fired only by accident or stray shot while their friends urge restraint. They lament the engagement as they prepare with seconds present and weapons drawn. The tone records fear and reluctance in a doomed confrontation.
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Kansas City Newsbook
Selwyn's Curious Taste In Viewing Dead Friends
George Selwyn pursued a macabre interest in seeing corpses including friends. Lord Holland, ill at Holland House, invited him to visit if alive or dead, saying he would be delighted to see Selwyn either way.
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George Selwyn
Lord Holland
Holland House
George
Temperamental Exchange Sparks Public Quarrel
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt captures a heated exchange between two men as one accuses the other of being unreasonably temperamental and inconceivable, the confrontation escalating the scene with vivid verbal jabs.
Not in season tastes drive quick shopping
A Kansas City Journal item notes a woman shows no single favorite power of choice, liking anything that is out of season, reflecting in her shopping behavior as described in the excerpt.
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Kansas City Journal
No two persons share closer cordiality than a centering
A fragment notes the idea that two people exhibit deep confidence and warmth when they are engrossed with a third party, a sentiment attributed to Jean Paul Richter. The line suggests social dynamics of focus and mutual respect in conversation.
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Jean Paul Richter
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