Washington in Color and Noise at Inauguration Parade
A vivid account of Washington as crowds in kaleidoscopic uniforms fill Pennsylvania Avenue for the inauguration. Bands, sailors, and marching clubs provide music while visitors from around the world soak in decorations and spectacle. Taft’s parade includes Governors, West Point cadets, and the naval fleet, with Beekman Winthrop named assistant secretary of the navy.
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Manila
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
New Orleans
Coney Island
Mne
Taft
Capitol
White House
Executive Mansion
Cleveland
Black Horse Troop
Court of Honor
J. Franklin Bell
United States Army
West Point
Marine Corps
Navy
Oath of Office Administered In Warsaw
Following a mayoral request all business paused at 1 PM in Warsaw Indiana while the oath of office was administered to the new president. Whistles from factories and the courthouse bell marked the ceremony.
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Warsaw
Ind
Rigden
Court House
Mrs Tafts Selects Secretary
Washington March 4 Miss Alice Blech an attache of the Bureau of American Republics has been chosen by Mrs Taft as her social secretary She succeeds Miss Isabelle Hagner the first woman to hold the position to the wife of a president
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Mrs. Taft
Washington
Alice Blech
Bureau of American Republics
Taft
Isabelle Hagner
Canton River Disaster Claims Over Thousand Lives
A flower boat on the Canton river caught fire after a kerosene lamp overturned, trapping passengers as iron chained boats lined the river. The Akima Maru arrived at Victoria harbor shortly after, while efforts to rescue were hampered. witnesses described the horror of the burning craft with countless fatalities.
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Canton
Victoria
B. C
Canton River
Hongkong
Philadelphia Dentist Marries Younger Bride Creating Tangled In-Laws
In Philadelphia on March 4, Miss Harriet Wismer aged eighteen married Dr. A. H. Henderson aged sixty three. The marriage makes Miss Wismer the stepmother of her sister is also the stepmother of her brother in law, while Henderson's son becomes her brother in law. The Rev Harry M Cook officiated at the bride’s home and the couple honeymooned in Washington. Henderson has long served as treasurer of the Sunday Breakfast association and engaged in local charity.
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Philadelphia
Harriet Wismer
A. H. Henderson
Dr. Henderson
Henderson
Harry M. Cook
Grace Baptist Temple
Washington
Sunday Breakfast Association
Woman suffocated as fire harms six in Brooklyn tenements
Fire in a feu story tenements at 311 313 and 2315 Seventh Avenue Brooklyn injures six people who are removed to hospital. One woman Rose Gardner dies from suffocation. Two children among the injured are listed among hospital patients. This report notes other brief items about public salaries and eggs.
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New York
Feu
Seventh Avenue
Brooklyn
Rose Gardner
Seney Jospital
Mi-O-Na Promises Quick Dyspepsia Cure
Advertises Mi-O-Na tablets as instant relief for indigestion and dyspepsia. Claims it strengthens stomach walls, increases gastric juice production, purifies blood, and builds flesh. price 50 cents at E. J. Jenkins with money back guarantee.
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E. J. Jenkins
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Taet
Sherman
Senate Chamber
Capital Sea
Bowery
Committee On Decorations
Senate
Joe Cannon
West
Mr. Taft
Marine Band
Beekman Winthrop
Texas
Cecil A. Lyon
Togo
Frank Landrum
Montell
Uvalde County
Knights of the Shears
Colonel Lyon
Chicago
W. E.taham
Bryan
Route 4
Mi-Ona
Hyomen
First National Bank
Bryan, Texas
Paarwill’s Cash Grocery
Just
Herrick
James
Ali
Manhattan Life
Boatwright
Sanders Bros
Hensarling Bros
Stevenson Machine & Repair Works
Thintain
North Main Set
New Place
Joe Kosh
Asure In
The
Southwestern Life Insurance CO
Dallas, Tex
Reed
Joe B. Reed
Good Friend Inn
Mammoth Papers Garden Seed
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