Military Parade Impresses With Grand Display
A grand and majestic military parade captivated spectators with vibrant uniforms, precise drill teams, and ceremonial showcases highlighting national pride and military heritage.
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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
3
A grand and majestic military parade captivated spectators with vibrant uniforms, precise drill teams, and ceremonial showcases highlighting national pride and military heritage.
A vast multitude witnessed varied features on display closing with the inaugural ball at the Pension Building. Crowds gathered to view exhibits and celebrate the event, confirming broad public interest.
Washington observed McKinley taking the oath for a second term before about 40 000 spectators as a parade and decorations overwhelmed the capital. The day opened with rain, later clearing, while Roosevelt and Farragut’s era imagery framed the celebration with a regal White House ceremony and a spectacular court of honor.
The vast crowds packed the avenues and rotunda as the president and vice president took oath amid rain. A grand procession down to the White House showcased regulars, cadets, Rough Riders, and veterans, followed by a lavish inaugural ball in the pension office auditorium featuring elaborate decorations and electrical effects.
John J. Scannell refuses to allow The Abbot champion trotter to enter Lawson’s four cornered race plan. Lawson offered Boralma with Crescens Charley Herr and The Abbot at 10000 per corner, but Scannell blocks the arrangement. The Abbot will trott any horse for any sum on any track of the grand circuit on July 25 for the best inducement.
John Popoviteh, one of four Montenegrins condemned for the murder and attempted robbery of Paymaster Hosier at Mount Pleasant, Pa., hanged himself in his Greensburg jail cell. He used the bunk chain and was dead when the jailer found him.
Major Hughes reports Mondigar, a key insurgent commander near Iloilo, has surrendered with 50 men, signaling a notable setback for rebel forces in the region.
The speaker reflects on economic recovery and reduced taxation, urges sound finance, and champions expansion of foreign markets. He defends wartime lessons, calls for peace via arbitration, and outlines steps in Cuba and the Philippines, stressing liberty, order, and constitutional law.
The speech extols representative legislatures as the backbone of free government and urges sober, confident action by the U S Senate at the start of the twentieth century. It emphasizes great privilege and responsibility, the nation’s rising power, and the duty of Congress to lead with honor.
The article lists harbor costs to date: Mobile 4,218,630 dollars Charleston 4,487,500 dollars Savannah 6,387,000 dollars Galveston 8,478,000 dollars Boston over 4,000,000 dollars New York 10,000,000 dollars. It notes a 3,500,000 dollar request in the Fifty sixth Congress to improve the southwest pass of the Mississippi River for foreign trade at New Orleans.
The article notes the first Philippine automobile is an electric vehicle imported for the signal corps. It also mentions a German ink made from logwood and chromate with a 1 to 1000 ratio. It observes spring and summer dress will feature neater, more understated haberdashery and apparel trends.
A Friday blaze at the Leary dye works in Rochester New York destroyed a five story brick building on Platt and Mill streets. Two unidentified bodies were found burned beyond recognition and ten others injured. Frank Udell was fatally injured after leaping from a fourth floor window. The Seneca Camera Co occupied the upper floor with 25 workers. Fire started on the third floor from chemical explosions. 24 escaped via fire escapes. Losses totaled 8 000 on the building and 40 000 for the camera company with no insurance.
R G Dun Weekly Review reports increased jobbing in groceries hardware and iron in the east with strong retail sales except for dry goods notably clothing. Steel industry shows no major immediate effects from a large merger yet, with full Pittsburg steel contracts for two months and expected price rises before May. Bessemer pig iron at 15 25 and grey forge at 19. Coke production surges and Connellsville prices rise. Transactions up from a year ago boots and shoes shipments fall slightly. Southern yarn mills curtail production and Fall River debates wage cuts. De Breit crop conditions favorable.
Henry Warn a German farmer six miles south of Denison Iowa killed his son William and cremated the body in the house then fired the place burning the cattle sheds corn cribs barn and all buildings He locked himself in the burning barn where his headless charred remains were found Friday afternoon Neighbors saw the fire but Warn shot at them and continued the destruction No motive is known and the body of the son has not been found
Lincoln Neb March 2 The state penitentiary three miles from Lincoln was nearly leveled by a fire in the early hours. Loss exceeds 200000 with no riot among inmates as militia guards contained the scene One convict George Pflenger was killed in the blaze.
In Claysville to the east, Constable John Neely shot and killed one burglar and captured a second after a desperate fight. The pair had entered several homes and were cornered in a store.
The British steamer Indiana, sighted off Worthing in a sinking condition, failed to yield any signs of life after a sent life boat searched the vessel. The German steamer Washington, en route to Dover, was driven ashore at Norfolk during a gale but narrowly escaped the rocks. Both ships had collided. the Indiana was beached near Worthing by a tug after her crew was landed at New Haven.
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