Mark Twain Dies at Redding Home and Legacy Revealed
Obituary recalls Samuel Langhorne Clemens born 1835 Missouri who died of angina pectoris at his Redding, Connecticut home. It notes his river pilot years, printing start, and rise to worldwide fame with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, plus family losses and his final letters.
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Clara
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Florida
Twains
Higgins
Clemens
Mark Twain
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
New York City
The
Mississippi
Walter Scott
Sir Walter
Nevada
California
San Frantisco
Sandwich Islands
Europe
East
New England
Olivia L Langdon
Elmira
C. L. Webster & Co
General Grant
Mark
Tuck Finn
Mr. Clemens
Terry H. Rogers
Mr. Rogers
Paddinhead Wilson
Yale
University of Missouri
University of Oxford
William Dean Towells
Jake Bret Harte
Great West
Jean
Redding
Conn
Wier
Osso Gabrilowitsch
King Arthur
Puddinhead Wilson
Joan of Arc
General Bell Quits Stat as Army Chief of Staff
Major General Franklin Bell ends his tour as Chief of Staff of the Army and takes leave. Major General Leonard Wood will succeed but remain in Argentina until June. Taft visits Millbury. Calhoun welcomed in Peer. Indiana tests ship brake at Lewes Delaware. Balfour advocates free wheat imports. Census plan to enumerate homeless proposed. Leblon dies in San Sebastian. Roosevelt lauded in Hungarian Parliament. Baldwin estate case in Los Angeles. Wiley backs nine month cold storage limit. 29000+ immigrants reached New York. 21000 aboard ships that week.
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Washington, D. C
Franklin Bell
Staf
Leonard Wood
Bell
Buenos Ayres
Millbury
Mass
Taft
W. J. Calhoun
China
Perch
Indiana
Lewes
Del
Balfour
Falekid
Hubert Leblon
San Sebastian
Roosevelt
Baldwin
Los Angeles
Wiley
Agricultural Department
New York
Wolter Guilty of Murder in First Degree
New York City eighteen year old Albert Wolter was found guilty of first degree murder after two hours of jury deliberation for killing Ruth Wheeler age fifteen. The partly burned body was found in a fireplace and prosecutors urged a decisive verdict citing the crime’s brutality and the need to protect young women.
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New York City
Albert W. Wolter
Wolter
Ruth Wheeler
Tate Blair
Mr. Moss
Walter
Fred Dhrens
Lord Kitchener Visits West Point Without Demonstration
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener visited the Military Academy at West Point at his own request. No demonstration accompanied the visit and the event proceeded quietly.
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Lord Kitchener
West Point
Field Marshal
Military Academy
Pat Crowe Held Up and Robbed in Mansfield
Pat Crowe once the Eddie Cudahy kidnapper and later an evangelist was robbed in Mansfield Ohio. He filed a complaint against John Burns a paroled Ohio Reformatory prisoner who was held in five thousand dollar bond.
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Pat Crowe
Eddie Cudahy
Mansfield
Ohio
Crowe
John Burns
Notable Cubans Cabinet Shows Racial Change
President Gomez of Cuba appoints several new ministers including a Negro, signaling shifts in colonial governance. In unrelated notes, Rita visits New York, marriages occur in New York and Jersey City, a will contest tops New York news, and engagements surface in Italy and Washington.
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Gomez
Cuba
Food prices fall and bread grows heavier across city
New York reports broad declines in wheat corn cotton and metals with flour down 25 cents a barrel since January and bread weights up to two pounds two ounces for a penny. Potatoes drop 49 to 50 percent since last November while butter stays below last year’s highs. Meat prices hold, cattle at $19.25 per 100 pounds in Chicago, pork slightly lower, and mutton unchanged.
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New York City
Jacob Bock
East Houston Street
Boss Bakers’ Association
Chicago
Manne Eanchan
Jme
Nguy
Dmidlovs Verve
Henbeeck
Department of Washington
Pittsburg Informer Pleads for Transfer to Another Prison
Captain Johnny Klein a ringleader of the Pittsburg Drafting Councilmen asks lawyers to move him from Riverside Penitentiary. He claims a third of about 1300 fellow convicts have pledged to kill him because he is a squealer, and they beat him when possible. A dozen convicts are in Riverside dungeons for attacks on him.
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Pittsburg
Johnny" Klein
Riverside
Kleim
Meld of Sports Across Nations and Venues
The report covers multiple sports notes: Columbia Interclass crew racing set for May 17 on the studs. Canadian turf authorities shortening meetings. jockey James Winkfield to ride for an Austrian count at 8000 dollars yearly. New York included in the Grand Circuit with a Brighton Beach trotting meet planned in August. It also notes James Daniels of NYAC swimming 100 yards in 445 seconds at the Illinois Athletic Club pool. British pugilist Johnny Summer beating HW Mehegan and winning Australia’s weight crown. Tommy Burns decision over BN Langs in Australia. the National Horse Show’s 26th annual exhibition to be staged at Madison Square Garden November 14–19. Paul A. Sorg coaching party driving 524 miles from Lakewood to Atlantic City in six hours and fifty-four minutes.
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Columbia
James Winkfield
New York
Brighton Beach
Charles M. Daniels
New York Athletic Club
Record Run Breaks 185 Year Old Boston to Concord March
A Middlesex County military march from Boston to Concord, set 185 years ago by British troops, was broken by eight men from Company F Fifth regiment. They covered twenty six miles from Boston to Lowell in five hours and forty eight minutes. No attempt was made to steal the run from the Red Coats.
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Boston
Lowell
Mass
Middlesex County
Hoston
Concord
Fifth Regiment
Noted Figures and Political Highlights Across Regions
Former Senator Allds travels South to recuperate while Taft defines Republicanism at a Washington dinner. Nathan Guilford climbs from freight clerk to president by 1869, and W. J. Bryan speaks in Ponce Puerto Rico. Justice Morsehausey backs amending the code to ban secret divorces. Harvard’s William Jinges named honorary associate of the Academy. Chamberlain issues a manifesto on England losing in global trade. George Foster prepares to retire as first lieutenant of Canada’s opposition. Custis Walton, missing since November 13, 1409, is found in Mobile, Alabama.
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Allds
Taft
Washington, D. C
Nathan Guilford
Frefght
W. J. Bryan
Ponce
P. R
Supreme Court
Morsehausey
William Jinges
Harvard
Academy of Moral and Political Science
Joseph Chamberlain
England
George Foster
Toronto North
House of Common
New York
Custis Walton
Mobile
Ain
Peace Palace Opens as International Union of American Republics Dedicate
Washington dedicates a new Peace Palace near the White House as the International Union of American Republics hallmarks unity. President Taft, Andrew Carnegie, Secretary Knox, Senator Root, and Latin American ambassadors attend to pledge peace among twenty one republics.
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Washington, D
Mareble Palace
International Union of American Republics
White House
Universal Peace
Taft
Andrew Carnegie
State Knox
Senator Root
Senor de la Barra
Carnegie
Canada
Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt
Mr. Carnegie
Mr. Carnesie
Potomac Park
Hall of the Republic
United States of America
International Union
Aso
Blaine
Root
United States
John Barrett
Bureau
Ove Jong
Union
Louisiana Supreme Court rules on color not negro in race law
The Louisiana Supreme Court rules that laws using the term negro do not apply to mixed blood individuals such as mulattoes octotoons or quadroons. The court holds color refers to both pure and mixed blood in its scope but not all color bearing people are legally negro.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Octave
Josephine Treadway
Eight Hour Law Validated by New York Court
Albany reports the Northrup eight hour law for railroad workers moving trains is constitutional. The Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division, upholding a Supreme Court ruling that fined the railroad company $100 plus costs for allowing a telegraph operator to work beyond eight hours.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Appellate Division
Second Department
Supreme Court
Massachusetts House Directly Elect U S Senators Amendment
The Massachusetts House voted 199 to 98 to substitute for an adverse report a resolution by Representative Riley of Malden demanding Congress call a constitutional convention to amend the Federal Constitution so senators be elected by direct popular vote.
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Massachusetts House
Hoston
Mass
House
Committee On Federal Relations
Representative Riley
Malden
Congress
United States
Doctor Nodyne Killed Crossing Tracks Near Syracuse
Dr. E W Nodyne meat and milk inspector of Fulton was killed when his automobile was struck by a trolley car on the Lake Shore tracks near Syracuse New York His top was up as he crossed the tracks and the impact drove his body from the front seat to the rear instantly in an appalling accident.
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Syracuse
E.W. Nodyne
Fulton
Lake Shore
Four Children Born in Barth Rite at Stanton
Four children were born to Mrs. Willtim Rite of Stanton in a Barth rite. one died soon after birth. The remaining three are healthy, two boys and a girl, with the oldest child aged five years.
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Barth
Willtim Rite
Stanton, Wa
Thuty
Roosevelt Honored by Paris Guests at Hotel de Ville
Theodore Roosevelt attended a Paris city event at the Hotel de Ville where he was greeted by cheers and he bowed to the audience after a performance of Samson et Delilah.
Political shifts shape campaign centers and canal defense plans
The piece notes a move to split national campaign headquarters between New York and Chicago with McKinley dividing time. it discusses canal defense with 4000 to 5000 troops for Panama, and comments on retirements of Aldrich Hale Cannon and the impact on the party. It also covers humanitarian immigration reform proposals and anticipated Alaska and land claim legislation changes.
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Panama Canal
Maine Grangers Reject Government Seeds in Lisbon
Maine granges in Lisbon vote unanimously against accepting free seed packages from Congress, criticizing seed quality and government expenditure. They also urge creation of a system of post and postal savings banks.
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Maine
Lisbon
John P. Lynsey
Be a Giants New Ball Phiver and Managerial Shuffle
A garbled sports notes column mentions Becker as a new Giant with aggressive play. Al Cridwell is praised for speed around short field. Cobb reports from Detroit about malaria not present, but ginger. Third baseman Tom Sheehan linked to managing a San Francisco club. President Taylor of the Bostons seeks first place. An alliterative piece hints at a Reds food line and magazine chatter about experts.
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Becker
al Cridwell
Ry Cobb
Detroits
Kling
Cubs
Meh
Tom Sheehan
Brooklyn
California
San Francsco
Taylor
Bostons
Hewkes
Wf Erwin
Danbat
Hrooklyn
Lange Po
Griffith
Cincinnati Reds
Lake Charles Fire Destroys Courthouse and 20 Blocks
A catastrophic blaze in Lake Charles Louisiana swept over more than twenty blocks from the old opera house on Rival Street destroying the courthouse the City Hall Calcasiana parish courthouse and a Catholic convent among hundreds of buildings Two thousand residents were left homeless with property losses estimated at three million dollars The fire burned out by nightfall after rapid spread aided by wind and dynamited gaps to block flare ups
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New Orleans
Lake Charles
Rival Street
Pujo
Beaumont
Orange
Tex
Jennings
Southern Pacific
Calcasian Parish
ClairWatel
Mystery death of Mrs King found in Wallkill River
In Middletown New York a woman's hat and pocketbook were found on the Wallkill River bank. The body recovered is identified as Mrs Annie King of 310 West 25th Street New York City. She was the wife of Joseph King a Vanburenville Orange County farmer. The couple's middle daughter Anabel accompanied her to New York for work. Authorities believe she ended her life during a difficult period.
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Middletown
N. Y
Wall- Kill
Annie King
West Twenty-fifth Street
New York City
Albany liquor violations hit $281000 in costs and penalties
State Excise Commissioner Clement says from October 1 1999 to April 1 last the department collected about $281000 in costs and penalties from board actions and collection proceedings, over $36000 more than the year’s expenses. He adds that enforcement grows and dealers realize illicit profit is not worth the risk.
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Albany
Clement
Fire Claims Dozens in Cincinnati Hotel Thoma Blaze
A deadly fire at the Hotel Thoma in Cincinnati crushed hopes of many. Two identified victims include Walter G. Cameron, a lawyer, and Harry Lawrence, a furnishing renter, with several other deaths believed among the dozen missing in the Walnut and Sixth streets blaze.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Theie
Walter G. Cameron
Harry Lawrence
Walnut and
Siath Streets
Dean
Six Die in a Fire at Nebraska Cottage
In Ponca Nebraska Mrs Jerry Miner found five children burned to death when their cottage three miles north of town caught fire. Miner saved his two year old baby by throwing it out a window. The father was burned severely and not expected to survive. In Baltimore John Henry Miller, a capitalist behind the first electric tunnel and the Susquehanna power plant plan, died of angina pectoris.
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Ponca, Neb
Jerry Miner
John Henry Miller
Conowingo
Baltimore
Armored Cruiser Sails to Assume Asiatic Flagship Role
The armored cruiser New York departed Hampton Roads heading to Chinese waters to replace the Charleston as flagship of the Asiatic squadron, signaling a shift in naval leadership in the region.
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New York
Hampton Roads
Charleston
Roosevelt Speaks in Paris on Citizen Duties
Theodore Roosevelt addressed the University of Paris outlining the duties of a citizen in a republic. He urged engagement, responsibility, and public service as key pillars of democratic life.
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Roosevelt
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
University of Paris
Republic
Patterson declares bid for a third term as governor
Governor Malcolm Patterson announces his candidacy for a third term from Nashville in a long statement. He defends his record and urges opponents to face him in any primary, insisting the public knows his aims and that delaying a pardon would be cowardice.
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Patterson
Nashville
Malcolm Patterson
Cooper
Daughter of Millionaire Seeks Reno Divorce Without Alimony
Mrs. Coyne wife of Judge Edward P. Coyne of New York City sues for divorce in Reno. She asserts desertion occurred in New York City in December 1498. She asks no alimony. The couple married in New York City on June 8, 1908.
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Reno
Reno, Néve
Mary
Gatens Coyne
Edward P. Coyne
New York City
J. F. Gatens
Athhapta
Back From Canada Lands Settlers Return in Large Numbers
Settlers cross into Montana and claim Government lands near Sweetgrass in a wave that began in winter and grew daily. Many had relinquished US citizenship for Canadian lands while others returned after attempting to prove up or buy land, with some from Europe. Collector Blair notes the migration is reversing as Canada’s border boom wanes.
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Sweetgrass
Mon
Montana
United States
John C. Blair
Canada
Europe
Blair
America
Hughes Named to Supreme Court by Taft
President Taft sent to the Senate the nomination of New York Governor Hughes to be Associate Justice, replacing the late Justice Brewer. He will not start duties until the next term opens October 10, allowing him to complete his governorship. Born April 11, 1862, Hughes will join the court at age forty eight after studying law at Brown University and teaching in Delhi, New York.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Senate
Hughes
New York
Supreme Court
Brewer
Charlies Vans Hughes
State of
Brown University
Brown
Delhi
Vessel Burns Its Fittings on voyage to New Bedford
A Portuguese packet steamer Pescedor carrying 115 immigrants from Cape Verde Island arrived safely in New Bedford after its coal ran out. Fittings on board and parts of bunks and lower decks were used as fuel for three days, keeping engines running until an anchorage near the Hen and Chickens Light vessel was found. A pilot was then picked up to finish the voyage.
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New Bedford
Mass
Cape de Verde Island
Pescador
Railroad Fares Rise as Boston and Maine Seeks Higher Wages
Boston and Maine president Tuttle announced immediate passenger fare increases to cover higher employer wages. The exact rise is not yet fixed and may take effect in June, with suburban rates left unchanged. The move mirrors similar increases by the New Haven Railroad on the Boston to New York route.
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Boston
Maine
Mass
Tuttle
Boston and Maine Railroad
Jynes
New Haven Railroad
New York City
Murderer Captured After Slaying Farmer Near Cardinal Ont
Arthur Molmes, charged with killing Nathan Bolton a Canadian farmer, was captured near Iroquois Ogdensburg after Bolton had sold his Cardinal farm and helped dress hogs. Molmes was found hiding under railroad ties weak from hunger and exposure following the slaying.
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Ogdensburg
WN Y
Arthur Molmes
Nathan Bolton
Carding
Ont
Iroquois
Bolton
Cardinal
Holmes
Army Officer Hatfield Dies by Self Inflicted Wound
Lieutenant William B Hatfield of the Thirtieth Infantry at the Presidio San Francisco shot himself in his quarters with a revolver. No motive is known. Lieut Hatfield had just returned with his regiment from the Far East several months ago.
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San Francisco
Cal
William B Hatfield
Thirtieth Infantry
U.S. A
Presidio
Matfield
Ms Regiment
FAI Hopmes
Miss Stephens Death by Her Own Action
Miss Marion Stephens a Christing Scientist practitioner and follower of Mrs Augusta E Stetson committed suicide at her sister Mrs Eva Weeks home 624 Week street New York City by Inbal Hus Baseball Wills Boy Failing to catch a foul tip Machae Ceele seven years old was struck over the heart by a baseball and died on the way to a hospital in Boston Mass The Ind had just moved bn to catchers position in a scral game.
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Miss Stephens
Marion Stephens
Augusta E Stetson
Eva Weeks
Weekstreet
New York City
Inbal Hus
Machae Ceele
Boston
Mass
Ind
Siberia
William Stanley
Dover
North Patergon
Paterson
Wells
Sarah
Siberian
Stanley
Charges Against the Milke Trust Revealed in Albany Report
Attorney General OMiMey presents to the New York Legislature in Albany a report urging state control of essential goods. The document asserts that charges against the Milke Trust are true.
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Milke Trust
Omimey
Ube
Albany
N.Y
Miss Reid Drowned at Naples Beach Italy
The body of Stella Reid of New York City was found on a Naples, Italy beach. Autopsy results are uncertain whether death was suicide or murder.
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Miss Reid
Fstella Reid
New York
Fireworks question prompts school poll in New Jersey
New Jersey Statenews reports Bloomfield Berkeley Public School asked 202 pupils if they would forgo fireworks on July 4 in favor of redirecting funds to other uses. 164 answered yes and 48 no. among eighth graders ages 14 to 16, 20 girls and 13 boys favored, one boy opposed.
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Berkeley
Bloomfield
Hungarian School Exhibit at Montclair Display
Fifty mounted drawings and watercolors from the Royal Hungarian College of Art in Budapest are shown in the Montclair manual training department. Also on view are works by Montclair High School mechanical drawing classes as part of a sister exhibit being prepared for shipment to Budapest.
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Popiily
Royal Hungarian College of Art
Budapest
Hungary
Montclair
Montclair High School
Ex Mayor Wolfe Dies in Church After Prayer
Former Dover mayor F W Wolfe died of heart disease in the First Presbyterian Church after a prayer. The church prepared to begin the closing hymn as his granddaughter Elizabet h Gillen played the piano. Born at Peapack seventy four years ago he served as a lieutenant in the Twenty seventh New Jersey Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He leaves a daughter, Mrs Whitfeld B Gillen.
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F. W. Wolfe
Dover
First Presbyterian Church
Mr. Wolfe
Elizabeth Gillen
Peapack
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
Whitfeld B. Gillen
Beehive Pull by Child Sets Mullica Hill Alarms
Elizabeth White, a young daughter of Joseph White, pulled a beehive at Mullica Hill. Twenty six bees stung her severely and she was placed under two doctors care.
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Elizabeth White
Joseph White
Teo
Mullica Hill
Local items from New Jersey and beyond
A Philadelphia dairy firm built a Woodstown creamery. Ernest S. Devoe named postmaster at Allenwood. Captain Torbert Shivers of Angle Sea caught a large sturgeon this season. Jack Brewer, once noted wing shot, freed on bail after conviction for threatening two men at Elwood. A lamp explosion at Barnesboro caused 250 chick losses. Government pamphlets on meat use distributed at Lower Altoway Creek post office. Special election planned for Paulsboro in June to bond $7000 for street work. Prisoner care cost for March set at ten and a quarter cents per man per day. Spain questions Maine wreck with mixed commission proposal. Austrian battleship Prinyl, 11000 tons, launched at Triotte.
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Philadelphia
Woodstown
Ernest S. Devoe
Allenwood
Monmouth County
Torbert Shivers
Anglesea
Jack Brewer
Wing
Mays Landtig
Elwood
Charles Swab
Barnesboro
Lower Altoway
Creek Post
Paulsboro
Wart
Salon County Board of Freeholders
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Sani
General Bell
General Wood
Jlere
Rita
Alexander
Marjorie G. Gould
Anthony J. Drexel, Jr
Andrew Mack
Kathryn Humphrey
Jersey City
Carolina A Brundage
Porta Maurizio
Italy
Genoa
Salvation Army
Eya Booth
Sarah IL Higgiins
Pred Ferguson
Willian Culbertson
Greenup
Richard Townsend
Mathilde T
Peter Godlet Gerry
Certoinly Parr
New York World
Maren
Apul
Afar
Thad Tan
Regu- Movement Soen
Dun
Peace Palace
Bureau of Republics
Washington
Imoy
Amity
LAW Wolds
West
McKinley
Loudenslager
Aldrich
Hale
Cannon
Home Committee On Immigration
Sulzer-O'Connor
House Committee On Territories
Association of Land Claims
W. B. Hafield
New Jersey
Statenews
Russell Black
Trenton
Delaware River
Youngs Russell
Packers
State Supreme Court
Swayze
National Packing Company
Hudson County
Pierre P. Garven
Anna J. Murray
Plainfield
Purgatorian Society
Murray
James
Willie
Joseph Borman
John Riley
Delaware
Gloucester
Borman
Riley
Spain
el Pais
Madrid
Havana
Austria
Triotte Austria-Itungary
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