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PEACE TEMPLE’RESIDENT ROOSEVElT CHIEF MFIGURE IN IMPRESSIVECEREMONY.tIHiENilSHIP ERA DAWNS Wwcnty-One American Republic* ShareInternational Court atWashington.Washington. May 11.—PresidentRoosevelt will at three o'clock this afternoon lay the corner stone of theIrst international temple of peacefriendship and commerce to be erectedis tangible evidence of the desire ofwenty-one American republics thatmore in the westernworld and that material prosperityprompted by international trade shalltake its place21 Republics Participate.Fitting the historical importance ofthe event, th* exercises are to be madeI m impressive by participation of the fe heads of each of these republics. Following addresses by President Roosevelt. Secretary Root. Ambassador Na-buco of Brazil and Andrew Carnegie, acabled sentiment expressing the heartyitefhiapproval of each president \yhl be read. Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Cranston!awill pronounce the Invocation and the benediction on the work done and the United States Marine band ail! renderhnlt;■elections of Pan American music, especially prepared for the occasion.The Contributions.The new building is to be the joint property of all the republics. The site, provided by the American con-eonaists of the historic old VaiclClitRbbness home, within a few hundred yards of the White House adjacent to State. I mWar and Navy building. IThree quarters of a million dollars tomard the construction of the building j to the contribution of Carnegie, white each republic has added an appropria-fund Invitationses have been accepted by the en-diplomatic corp* in Washington, ell as bv high * officials in allsAmerican governmentF
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Mon, May 11, 1908
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