The McKinley Mausoleum at Canton details
The McKinley Mausoleum rises on a hill above Canton’s Westlawn cemetery. It is a circular pink Milford granite memorial with a dome and Doric interior, housing black and green granite sarcophagi for Mr and Mrs McKinley. A bronze statue by Niehaus stands atop a sixty five foot stairway overlooking a long reflecting water basin.
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Canton
Milford
Knoxville
McKinley
Charles Henry Niehaus
Memorial to McKinley and War Leader Crowned by Crowed Symbol
The memorandum describes a McKinley memorial mausoleum with four crow and sword imagery symbolizing his roles as soldier leader during war and martyr during peace. Designed by H Van Buren Magonigle of New York, it cost 525000 with 100000 reserved for maintenance. Justice William B Day chairs the Memorial Association. Senator Beveridge of Indiana spoke of a quainity pot remark. An anecdote recounts an elderly man falling in his room while letting out the cat, prompting a wife’s quip about the fall.
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William BR. Day
Senator Beveridge
Indiana
Wittlelen
Lke
Arctic Captain Mikkelsen Sailed From British Columbia Northward
Captain Einar Mikkelsen led an Arctic expedition that sailed from British Columbia in 1906 to test for a continental landmass north of Alaska. The party sledged across ice after their ship Duchess of Boxford sank, covering 500 miles and reaching 2,000 feet depth sounding off the coast. Mikkelsen, a Dane, previously joined the Baldwin Ziegler voyage.
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Polar
Einar Mikkelsen
Arcthe
Alaska
Cnilkke
Rawat
Roosevelt
Washington
Siberian
Parry Isands
Wrangel Land
British Columbia
Mikkelsen
Ernest Leffingwell
Knoxville
Lil
Duchess of Boxford
See
Baldwin-Ziegler
Koch and associates treat sleeping sickness in Africa
Reports from Africa recount Dr. Robert Koch arriving at Sese Uganda with Kudicke and Feldmann to Kigaranuna. About 400 patients received atoxyl injections in a newly built hospital, followed by seventy cases in Shirati. The expedition boosts Kochs scientific prominence and notes sleeping sickness as a fatal African disease.
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Reat
Africa
Robert Koch
Berlin
Aftca
Sese
Entebbe
Uganda
Sultanate of
Kisiba
de. Koch
Kigaranana
Shirati
Koch
Central Africa
Westers
No Boove for Boxers Hyde Park Liquor Dealers Move to Brand Drunkards
The Hyde Park Liquor Dealers Association in Chicago launches a self protection drive to photograph every drunkard, demanding bartenders obtain wives or families photos and paste them behind bars. Two members have faced prosecutions by angry wives for serving intoxicated husbands, spurring the campaign.
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Hyde Park Liquor Dealers Association of
Chicago
Association
Stockmen Lose Bid for Return Rail Transport
Lincoln Neb Oct 19 The State Railway Commission received a letter from the Interstate Railway Commission declining to allow return transportation to stockmen, citing a rule adopted last December. B F Lantz of Chapman sought round trip transport from Union Pacific, appealing to the State Commission before the case went to the Interstate body.
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Lincoln
Neb
State Railway Commission
Interstate Railway Commission
B. F. Lantz
Chapman
Union Pacific
State Commission
Interstate Commission
Dr Koch’s Africa Work and Tuberculosis Pioneering
The article recounts Dr. Robert Koch’s ventures in Central Africa studying a parasitic disease, his background, and his broader medical breakthroughs. It notes his earlier Rhodesia work on coast fever in cattle, his 25 years of isolating the tuberculosis bacillus, and his cholera microbe discovery, praising his serum research for tuberculosis despite limited curative results.
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Professor Koch
Klausthal
Hanover
Central Africa
Dr. Koch
Africa
Rhodesia
Chartered
America
Texas
Koch
Nevada Water Permit Request by Kemp in White Pine County
Application filed October 1907 by George Kemp of Ely White Pine Nevada to appropriate state waters from Big Creek Canyon Nye County. Plan calls for dam and three cubic feet per second irrigation flow to land via ditch from a canyon mouth near Crows Nest Troy. Nicholas State Engineer notices first publication October 19 1907 last publication November 16 1907.
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George Kemp
Ely
White Pine
State of Nevada
Nevada
State of
Big Creek Canyon
Nye County
Crows Nest
Troy
Canyon
Frank R. Nicholas
Miners Pay Bi Monthly in Goldfield Strike
In Goldfield Nevada on Oct 18 smaller properties closed after a Miners Union notice. Members would not work for mines or leases unless they adopted a semi monthly pay day. Most companies complied or already paid twice monthly. When the rule took effect at 9 pm, only two or three shut downs occurred.
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Goldfield
Nevada
Miners’ Union
Notics
Hydraulic Mining in Round Mountain Nevada
Round Mountain Hydraulic Mining Company starts operations at Round Mountain Nye County with a million dollars of ore in sight. The hydraulic plant cost over 95000 dollars, with more than ten miles of pipe from nearby mountains to supply water and resources. Three shifts will work, and powerful searchlights will illuminate the works at night. The venture draws statewide and coastal attention as the industry develops. I. W. Harper whiskey is advertised as healthful and enjoyable, sold by The Zureka Cash Store and Ruby Hill Mercantile Company.
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Round Mountain
Nye County
Round Mountain Hydrauic Mining Company
Desert
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Willan McKinley
Westlawn Cemetery
Memorial Asquelation
Silas
Penasina
Captain Mikkelsen
Johnson Mercantile Co
Hiram Johnson
Henderson Banking Company
Jonx Hexperson
L. C. Hexperson
Hayes Hexperson Cannons
Henderson
Hleo
J. J. Hylton
George W. Hanna
General Merchandise
Mound Valley
Elko
Levi Strauss & Co
Merking
Eureka & Palisade Railway
Eureka
Palisade
Palinade
Hamilton
E Y
Tybo
Reveille
Hot Crew
Tonkin
Newark Valley
Gold Creek
Bald Mountain
Karela Belmont
Diamond
Alpha
Hay Ranch
G. D. Abbott
Parown TL
Will Robertson
Eureka, Nevada
Hot Creek and
C.l. Hagaman
U.S. Maile
Mons
Hot Creek
Hat Creek
Hiareles
C. Whitmore
Mevada
Buckingham & Hecht
Thomas Rosselli
South Main St
New
California
Furmishir Alllinds
San Francisco
Pioneer Bottling Works
F. J. Brossemer
Live Stock Directory
Joseph Sire Feane
Cirely
Shouler
Ant
Hall Elete
Teverted
Lider
le Range
Eft
White Pine Coutting
P.O
G. W. Halstead
Joe Tognoni
Morse
Brandon
Duckwater
Vincent Lans Moraes
Leyevada
Carletti
Humboldt Hiver
Alyha
Eureka County
Mike Vaccaro
Range
Prospect
Nev
North Western Consolidated Wining Company
Yaa
Pcr
Wilt
Kureten
Area
Sevada
Etek
Ahl
Parenti Aes
Bassens
C. Ponan Buccs
Skelton
Elko County
Wurrtone
Eha
Fireman's Fund
Inawra! Corporation
Hartford
Connecticut
Norwich Utton
Enland
London & Lancashire
Bing Hamburg-Bremen
Germany
Scottish Union & National
England
Queen of America
Liverpool
Lowen and Globe
Fayal
Pident
Soundest Fire Laeman
United States
Mnevude
Bateman
Eareh
A.C. Harris
Prop
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