War crimes and disasters in distant headlines
A mixed digest reports an insane assailant wounding General Verand in Paris, a ship presumed sunk near Cuba, and various international notes. Other items include political moves in Britain and France, canal openings, strikes, resignations, and disasters from the Americas to Asia, with Taft's pending message and regional rail news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Verand
Paris
Continental
Herrera
Maria Herrera
Santiago
Cuba
Ponce
Porto Rico
United States
Great Britain
North America
Colonial Office
Canada
London
Germany
State Department
Turinase of
Hancy
League of Catholic Voters
Navy yard overhaul eyed after special board report
A forthcoming report chaired by Rear Admiral Swift is expected to push naval yard reforms with a focus on concentration. Officials offer little detail, while experts anticipate major efficiency changes across the fleet support network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Special Naval Board
Swift
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Ralph Peters
Long Island Railroad Company
Taft
Congress
Peters
Frederick Grant
Department of the Great Lakes
Wilber FP. Crafts
Washington
International Reform Bureau
Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Nebraska
Kansas
Wellman Denounces Doctor Cook as Fraud Over Pole Claim
Walter Wellman accuses Dr. Cook of Arctic pole discovery fraud while Cubans grow discontent with President Gomez and call for his removal. Dr. Cook allegedly nears a nervous breakdown. Secretary of the Interior Dallinger submits his annual report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Wellman
Dr. Cook
Gomez
Arctic
Interior
Dallinger
Port Annandale Intrigue Involving Holbrook Sisters
Miss Patricia Holbrook and her niece Helen flee threats from Henry Holbrook and find shelter with Laurence Donovan at a quiet summer home near Port Annandale. Donovan protects them while exposing an intruder Reginald Gillespie, a suitor for Helen, who vanishes by morning. A rough sailor is dismissed. a dramatic reunion unfolds as the narrator returns to Glenarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Washington
James Freeman Curtie
Boston
United States
U.S. Treasury
Panama Canal
Bay of Panama
San Francisco
Panama
South America
Topeka
George Crocker
California
Charles C. Crocker
New York
Clarkson
Myra Smith
Lima
Ohio
Princton
Navy Department
Corinto
Nicaragua
Vicksburg
Cannon
Kansas City
U. Ll. Norval
Seward
Neb
Great Plains
United States Bureau of Soils
Victoria
Tex
Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Omaha
Congress
DeArmond
Misssouri
Great Northern
Vancouver
New Westminster
Chile
Edward
Los Angeles
Roosevelt
Europe
Baron Albert Rothschild
Vienna
Schillersdorf
Upper Silesia
War Department
Leonard Wood
Department of the East
Alsop
Hague Tribunal For Arbitration
London
Hague Permanent Court
Lyman J. Gage
Joe Camp
Meehan
Miss
Comptroller of the Currency
First National Bank of
Linton
N. C
Friend
O'Neill
Steele City
Winside
Onoura
Bukoko
Japan
Guggenheim
Colorado State Normal School
Canadian Pacific Railway
Rocky Mountains
Patricia Holbrook
Helen Holbrook
Laurence Donovan
Port Annandale
Patricia
Donovan
Henry
Miss Patricia
Henry Donovan
Miss Helen
Reginald Gillyspie
Helen
Brook
Gillespie
Ijima
Glenarm
Fight on a Houseboat on Tippecanoe Creek
Donovan confronts two would be killers aboard the canoe maker Henry Holbrook’s secluded houseboat. After a tense chase on deck he discovers the mastermind is Hart ridge and that Holbrook is actually Robert Hartridge the canoe maker, in a dangerous midnight reveal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ijima
Henry Holbrook
Rosalind
Holbrook
Tippecanoe Creek
Glenarm House
Calaboose
Tippecanoe Village
Tippecanoe
Mr. Holbrook
Mr. Donovan
Robert Hartridge
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Ncwo
Isthmian Canal Commission
Secretary of War
Interior Department
Smith River
Montana
American Federation of Labor
Rosabind
Meredith Nicholson
Pay Walters
Bobbs-Merrill
St. Agatha’s
Miss Pat
Paul Stoddard
Red Gate
Hartridge
Indiana
St. Agatha's
Giuseppe
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