Roosevelt Urges Higher Horsemanship Standards for Army Officers
President Roosevelt pressed measures to make infantry captains mounted officers and to establish remount depots. He notes European armies train constantly with cross country rides and rigorous inspections, urging the elevation of horsemanship among field officers and better mounts for the U S Army.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Walt
Senate
House
Mgr
Europe
China
Philippines
Riding Institute
Bell
Countess of Yarmouth Faces Ills of Courtship and Trial
The Countess of Yarmouth seeks an English annulment from the Earl of Yarmouth amid public scrutiny of her brother Barry Thaw’s murder trial in New York. Her husband’s alleged infidelity, cold reception by his family, and the couple’s distant life in Europe compound her suffering as she remains in England.
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Countess of Yarmouth
Earl of Yarmouth
America
Barry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Monte Carlo
Murde
Pittsburg
England
United States
Alice Cornelia Thaw
Thaw
Larry
Hertford
Caldwell and Druce case ends as exhumation disproves claim
George Woollamby Druce’s bid for the Duke of Portland title collapses after the tomb of Thomas Charles Druce is opened, showing his remains. Witness Robert Caldwell, once a key affirme, is charged with perjury for claiming lead filled the coffin and as the duke’s ally he aided the fake death. Caldwell, dubbed the great American affidavit maker, faces legal peril.
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George Woollamby Druce
Duke of Portland
Thomas Charles Druce
Cruce
George Hollamby Druce
Thomas Ohbaria Dreace
Druce
Robert ©. Caldwell
Duke
New York
Staten Island
Caldwell
A. T. Stewart
Mr. Stewart
New Yorks New Tunnel To Brooklyn
The Battery tunnel opens as the first interborough tube under the East River linking Manhattan and Brooklyn. Trains run every two minutes with about 30 000 passengers hourly in eight-car trains. Ventilation and automatic safeguards ensure rapid, safe operation beneath the river.
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Battery
Brooklyn
New York City
New York
Manhattan
City of Churches
East River
Bronx
Queens
Richmond
Belmont
Long Island City
Interborough
Thirty-third Street
Battery Tunnel
Manhattan Island
Long Island
New Jersey
Brooklyn Subway
Borough Hall
Flatbush Avenue
Long Island Railroad
Bowling Green
Hypnotic Anesthesia Confounds London Dental Case
A London dental hospital case shows a young woman becoming insensible to five teeth extraction by self hypnotism. Although ethyl chloride was prepared, the patient’s belief in anesthesia produced the effect, revealing the power of mind over sensation. Also notes a Cossack superstition about heavenly cleanliness at death.
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London
Wommn
Russia Shoesses Geese and Hen Footwear Noted
In a playful note from Chicago News a reader wonders about animal shoeing practices in Russia. The exchange includes Mr Hardapple and Mrs Hardapple and ends with a humorous question about hens.
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Mr. Hardapple
Mandy
Russia
Dr Hill as a Diplomat and the Reporter
A New York World profile of Dr David Jayne Hill the future American ambassador to Berlin recounts his courtesy and indecipherable but cordial refusals. He answered a late night interview with Latin Greek and French phrases leaving the reporter puzzled yet informed.
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Germany
David Jayne Hill
Charlemagne Tower
Berlin
Washington
New York
Gaul
Dr. Hill
Airship for the Army Beginnings of a Dirigible Scout Balloon
The army ordnance board allocates 25 000 to the signal corps for bids on a two man dirigible balloon for scouting with three hours flight, reconnaissance, photography and map work. General Allen seeks international expertise while experts develop plans to counter enemy balloons and improve high angle firing.
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Oliver
Army Ordnance Board
Signal Corps
Washington
New York Times
War Department
Langley
Potomac
Allen
United States
Army
Ordnance Board
Tlon
Seronautics
Ible
Mercnauuts
Improvised Jim Crow Car On Oklahoma Statehood Train
A Rock Island southbound train from Enid Oklahoma carried about twenty passengers when a brakeman named Cowan ordered black passengers to move to the front of the car. He drew a chalk line to create a Jim Crow division and the negroes complied, offering no resistance as they remained seated.
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Klahoma
Enid
Okla
Cowan
Fim
Fort Worth
Tex
Guthrie
Kansas City Star
First Steam Plow Sold In Saline County Kansas
The first steam plow in Saline County is sold to Will Johnson who lives near Salina. The twelve disk plow can cut twelve furrows and, at two and a half miles per hour, plows thirty acres in ten hours. It ran from a 100 acre field starting Wednesday afternoon and finished the next Friday evening with two crews and continuous operation.
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Saline County
Kan
Will Johnson
Salina
Kansas City Journal
Mr. Johnsen
Thousands Suffer Kidney Trouble Warns of Hidden Disease
An ad warns that kidney disease is common yet rarely recognized by patients and doctors. It touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a remedy for back and side pain, urinary issues, and overactive urges, claiming fast relief and offering free sample bottle and book by mail from Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
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Kuwmers Swamp-Koot
Swamp-Root
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
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Borough Hall Station
Manship
Jeffersonian
Ohio Farmer
Pittsburg Stockman
Enquirer
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Cambridge, O
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