California coast Decoration Day flowers honor sailors
A California led movement by Mrs. Armitage St Forbes inspires Decoration Day ceremonies placing wreaths and flowers on sailors graves and casting blossoms on the sea. Children sing as veterans and local groups organize processions along the coast from San Francisco to San Diego with communities on the eastern seaboard joining in memory of the fallen.
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California
Armitage St. Forbes
Los Angeles
Pap
Forbes
Washington
Afay
Sevral-Of
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Santa Barbara
Santa Monica
Long Beach
Colorado Beach
San Diego
Baltimore
Bastoo
Portlandl
Grand Army of the Republic
Women's Relief Corps
Daughters of the Revolution
Bere Woman's Belief Corps
Rest in Peace Floral Offering at Ocean Ceremony
A maritime ceremony featured a tiny sailor in a white suit leading eight boys carrying a twelve foot floral Rest in Peace design. Cadet ships from training boats sent the bouquet to float on the water while about three hundred schoolchildren on the pier sang a song written for the occasion.
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Firocession
Voys
How Captain Craft Held the Tower in Petersburg Heroic Signal
A historic account recalls Captain David L. Craft of the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry guarding a signal tower at Petersburg. A shell shattered his arm but he continued flag signaling until victory, earning a brevet captaincy for unmatched bravery. Relatives and soldiers remember his sacrifice in Memorial Day rites and Civil War remembrance rituals.
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Petersburg
Meutenant
Signal Corps
Craft
David T. Crate
Ines
Army Register
Edward B. Clark
Chicago Record
Cowle
U. S.8
George Cowle
Farragut
Indiana
Rahway
Scotland
Navy
Philippines
Brooklyn
St Pierre de Martinique and the Pelee Disaster
The article describes St Pierre, its layout, landmarks, and social life before the Mont Pelée eruption. It notes Morne Rouge villas and the harborless town with cathedrals, hotels, and French colonial influence. It recalls the 1902 disaster when lava ash and floods overwhelmed the town, killing many and trapping ships in the harbor.
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St. Merre
Morne Rouge
Free Java
Mont
Peled Hes
Thale
St. Pierre Wego
Pelee Phood
Mont Pelev
Na Gren
St Pierre
Beason
Tlls
Giro Gud Laya
Miscellaneous humorous snippets and quotes page
A collage of misprinted lines and jokes from various papers including Baltimore News New York Journal Chicago Post Washington Star Harper's Bazaar Puck and Leslie's Weekly. Fragments reference poetry memory jokes and cartoon captions with bent spellings and shuffled phrases.
Floral ceremonies send blossoms to sea across coasts
The article describes traditions where flowers are cast into the water at ebb tide to drift out to sea. Similar ceremonies occurred in Santa Barbara and other California towns, with Mothers and children in white participating from Boston Navy Yard, Baltimore training ships, and coastal sites, conducted with solemnity.
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Santa Barbara
California
America
Atlantic
Boston Navy Yard
Baltimore
Ace
Island Suffering from Low Sugar Prices Hurts Martinique Trade
The article notes the impact of low sugar prices on Martinique, where chief exports include sugar, rum, and cocoa. It explains the island’s economic squeeze and its purchases from the United States such as butter, oatmeal, tobacco, vegetables, horses and mules, harness, wagons, and machinery.
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Martinique
United States
Dairying as a specialty and pig feeding notes
Farm topics urge treating dairying as a specialty to produce superior butter while the farm supports the animals. It highlights protein rich feeds boosting pig growth and cites experimentation on feeding and water glass preservation of eggs. It also discusses fence repair, potato cultivation, Armenian church plans, and a note on the gray buzzard's weight.
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Edwin C. Powell
New England
Womestead
Stockden
W. A
New York Tribune Yarmer
Government spends on army transport repairs and world events
Minor weekly items show Secretary Root reporting $0,926,001 spent on army transport repairs, a $250,000 suit against an officer, a Roosevelt memorial unveiling in Arlington, and various international notes from Cuba to Italy. The roundup also notes cholera in the Philippines, Manila deaths, and a bridge move in North Carolina.
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Root
Senate
Department of Justhee
Brooke
Buena Vier
Roosevelt
Arlington Cemetery
National Society of Colonial Dames
Internal Revenue
Bartholdt
Baron Steuben
Steuben
United States
Locust Brood Forecast and Local News Update
Entomologist warns seventeen year cicada brood from New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania will emerge in March causing tree damage before egg laying. Also reports on rioting sentences, notable deaths, civic notices and state updates across New Jersey communities.
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B. Sturth
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
The Great Paris Bunco Swindle Exposé
A Paris investigation shows a century’s swindle centered on a vast but fictitious Crawford inheritance. Mme Therese Humbert allegedly borrowed millions by pledging a phantom 100 million franc estate while living in luxury, with investigations by Chief de la Surette and detective Cochgefart clarifying the fraud amid court and banking scandal.
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Paris
France
Nll
Yaris
Aventue
Grande Armee
Cochefort
de la ‘Surette
America
Therm
Avernue de la Grande Armee
Robert Henry Crawford
Mme
Therese Humbert
Duimna
Gaboriou
Mme. Humbert
Toulovec
M. Humbert
le Matin
Mlle
Marie d'Aurignac
M. Cochgefart
Refugees Flee as Martinique Volcano Unleashes Destruction
Norweigan steamer Helga arrives with refugees from Fort de France as ash and stones blanket the city. French steamer Salvador brings 1000 more evacuees while reports say Carbet and Basse Pointe suffer severe damage and many vessels evacuate passengers.
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Castries
St. Lucia
Helga
Braastad
Fort de France
Martinique
Point-a-Pitre
Gaudeloupe
Horten
Fort de Krimee
Boamt
Salvador
Morten
St .Carbet
Basse Folnte
Exery
Chicago students study Mont Pelee in geology project
A group from the University of Chicago will study Mont Pelee as the object of a geology project. Walter Atwood, an instructor, is to lead the team as head of the company.
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Chicago
Mont Pelee
Walter Atwood
Girls Confess to Durned and Scalded Mrs Bailey
Justice Hires of Palmyra reports two girls nine and fourteen and a younger sister have confessed to beating scalding and burning Mrs Isabella Bailey of Wrightsville before her death. Autopsy shows death not caused by their actions though convicted of atrocious assault. The trio wept when jailed, signaling remorse as they await further charges. Local trade remains strong with rising bank clearings and railroad earnings.
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Bailey
Mount Holly
N. J
Justice Hires
Palmyra
Alan Rogers Tester Rogers
Elsnellie Henry
Isabella Batley
Wrightsvide
Ries
New York
Tremors and Explosions Reported in St Agnetine Florida
A sequence of shocks attributed to an earthquake rattled St Agnetine Florida. Short decisive reports occurred every three minutes for three hours, with distant cannonading from sea and a glowing sky to the southeast.
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St .Agnetine
Fla
Uncles Marry Nieces and Other Notables In Brief
The report notes six uncles married nieces in Berlltr last year and one aunt married a nephew. The Seatch taluers plan to contest three seats in the next general action. Baltimore and MeL colored organizations held a parade for Joe Gans the lightweight champion. Judge Hopkins of Massachusetts died in Milbury. Sage College and Cornell women turn from basketball to base. A Laborers Protective Association forms in Montreal to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Maurice Farman won an alcohol automobile race from Champigny to Saint Germain, France.
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Berlltrs
Seatch Taluers
Baltimore
Joe Gans
Jon Hopkins
Massachusetts Superior Court
Milbury
Maas
Cromesneer
Intestines
Tle Wits Platy
Sage College
Cornell University
Laborers” Protective Association
Montreal
Canada
Te Ameriean Federation of Labor
Maurice Farman
Champigny
St. Germain
France
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Furg
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HLA
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Read
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Pinister
Tilly
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Isis
Vadis
Rue de Vienne
Marseillen
Vekeyneau Mer
Armentins
Pall Mall Gazette
Warrington Stemma
Islanda
Baker
Constabulary
Cavite
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Manila
Mia
Aung Waops
New York City
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Jewete City
Kaw
John Keegan
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Brunswick
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Goronersshing
Colm W. Ford
Boul
Charlotte Blurber
Lake Ontario
Annie Stetzel
Jennie Stetzel
Brookly
A. E. Justice
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Chileagoa
African Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Cuba
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Martinelli
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Madrid
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Uribe
Soto
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Loubev
Russie
St. Petersburg
Murry A. Verner
Robert Llewellyn
Windward Islands
St. Vincent
Widhendun
Ube Clund
Paterson
Scott
Gerald Mistell
Halstead
John Bell
Weidmann
Ernest Fortha
Louis Fortina
Louis Casper
Angelo Benjamin
Rogers
Iverkouga
Samuel Clark
Germantown
Mr. Chirk
New Milford
Conn
Tebamon
Clark
Ethyied
Fay
Charles Hyde
Paylor
Llyde
Ovat
John Lackes
TITAN
G. A. i. Companier D.dec
Bridgeton
Gloucester County
Changewater
Elias W. Bird
Bach
Plainfeld
Glassboro
Woodbury Heights
Woodbury
South Jersey
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Salem
Slvaterdon County Inns
Wintver
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Aithen Ball
Newton
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Alva Danham
Cleveland
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Potters
Neire
Digitulead Securities
Florida
Almor Mendon
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