Battleship Fleet Sets Sail on World Voyage From San Francisco
Eager crowds watched as the Atlantic fleet led by the Connecticut steamed from the Golden Gate in a grand display of naval power. Sixteen battleships formed four divisions under Rear Admirals Sperry Wainwright Emory and Seaton Schroeder, with the Maine and Alabama replaced by the Nebraska and Wisconsin as pacific to Hampton Roads voyage proceeds, via Honolulu Yokohama and Manila, ending in February 1909.
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Sixtess Desi Sperry
Francisco
Atlantic
Connecticut
Ocean
Pacific
Bay
Wayaer
Alabama
Maine
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Hampton Roads
San Francisco
America
Charles S. Perry
Golden Gate
United States Navy
Sperry
Kansas
Minnesota
Vermont
Scond
Richard Wainwright
Georgia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
William H. Emory
Louisiana
Virginia
Ohio
Misouri
Seaton Schroeder
Illinois
Kearsage
Kentucky
Honolulu
New Zealand
Panther
Glacier
Colgon
Ajax
Relief
Hampton S
Manila
Eton Roads
San Francisco Bay
Upton Roads
Roosevelt
United *S
Puget Sound
Hon- 5
Aukravian
Zealand
South America
Sidney
Australia
Aukland
Government of
Melbourne
Albany
Japan
Yokohama
Amoy
China
Aden
Suez Canal
Samoa
Philippines
San Diego
Admiral Dayton
Pacific Fleet
Swinburne
Atlantic Fleet
Lane County urged to buy portable sawmill to build plank roads
Petition from Lane County residents asks the County Court to purchase a portable saw mill to aid road construction. The plan aims to create plank roads across timbered districts, notably the Siuslaw area, improving winter accessibility and market connectivity for farms and coastal products. The petition cites the Mapleton to Eugene route and broader county welfare as justification.
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Lane County Court
Lane County
Siuslaw
State of
Oregon
Eugene- Mapleton
County Court
Mapleton
Eugene
Willamette Valley
Hale
Democrats in Denver National Convention Nomination Vote
The Twentieth National Convention of the Party of Jefferson and Jackson meets in Denver on July 7. Delegates must achieve a two-thirds vote to secure the nomination.
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Jefferson and
Jackson
Demostrate the long arc of Democratic conventions through history
By Robertus Love, Denver July 7 1908 report traces the Democratic national convention from its Baltimore 1832 start to 1904 and 1908 notes. It covers two thirds rule, major candidates, dark horses, platform shifts, and key figures like Jackson Van Buren Polk Pierce Buchanan Cleveland Bryan and Parker. It also includes an Oregon timber lands notice dated April 17 1908.
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Jackson
Martin van Buren
New York
Baltimore
Missouri
Richard M. Johnson
America
Andrew Jackson
van Buren
John .C. Calhoun
Old Hickory
Johnson
William Henry Harrison
United States Senate
James K. Polk
Tennessee
Silas Wright
Wright
George M. Dallas
Pennsylvania
Polk
Lewis Cass
Michigan
William ©. Butler
Kentucky
Jone
Franklin Pierce
New Hampshire
Cass
James Buchanan
Pierce
Virginia
Innati
Pierre
England
Kansas
Buchanan
Douglay
John C. Breckinridge
Charleston
D. C
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas
Richmond
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Alabama
Fitzpatrick
Herschel V. Johnson
Joseph Lane
Oregon
Chicago
Confederacy
George B. McClellan
George H. Pendleton
Ohio
Horatio Seymour
Frank P. Blair
Horace Greeley
B. Gratz Brown
Cincinnati
Carl Schurz
Greeley
Brown
Grant
St. Louis
Samuel J. Tilden
Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
Hayes
Tilden
Cinetonatl
Winfield Hancork
Pennarlvania
William H. English
Chover Cleveland
Thomas A Hendricks
Allen G. Thurman
Adiai E. Stevenson
Lllinois
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Electoral Commission
Bryan
United States Land Office
Roseburg
W. M
W. W. Calkins
A. S
Eugene
William H. Pierce
Walton
Jarvis A. Sutherland
William S. Sutherland
William Neely
Sptember
Benjamin L, Eddy
Register
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Charles S. Sperry
Hugo Osterhans
Knota
Chas. E. Vreeland
John Hubbard
William Co. Potter
Qualtrough
Reginald F. Nicholson
W. H. H. South
Erland
Joseph B. Murdock
Kossuth Niles
Alexander Sharp
Charlee W. Bartlett
Greenlief “A. Merriam
Seaton
Schroeder
Henry Morrell
John M. Bowyer
Kearsaze
Hamilton Huatchins
Walter C. Cowles
Kearseye
Valentine S. Nelson
William 8
Charles B. McVay
Charles F. Stokes
ASK County
Bomgil C
Democrats
Denver
Jefferson
Bryan and
Little Giant
Robertus Love
Colorado
United States
William J. Bryan
John A. Johnson
David R. Francis
George Gray
Delaware
Lewla
Chanler
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Richard P. Bland
Arthur Sewall
Kansas City
Stevenson
Champ Clark
Alton B. Parker
Henry G. Davis
West Virginia
Sam Saine
Standard Oil Company Incorporate
Eugene School Supply Co
Eighth St
E. L. More
Hort Cramcar Co
T. Bh. Ackers &O
Washington St
Portland, OF
George W. Kinsey
E.0th St
Oregon Impo
Third Street
Liquor House
Ting CO
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