Jamestown Exposition Nears with Tidewater Hopes and Plans
Norfolk Virginia April 6 residents of Tidewater towns expect a large Jamestown exposition opening April 25 with President Roosevelt to press a button. Officials forecast eight million visitors between April 26 and December 1 and a five to six million dollar revenue, while hotel construction booms and transit limits raise concerns about crowd traffic.
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Jamestown tercentennial Expo to span Norfolk period
Mr. Harry St George Tucker announces a worldwide Jamestown tercentennial exposition to run April 26 through November 30 near Norfolk Virginia. The event will showcase state and international exhibits, historic sites, and a major aeronautic program with balloon and flying machine contests.
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Jamestown
Fremont Son to Face Court Martial Over Irregularities
Major Francis P. Fremont, son of the late General John C. Fremont, is to be tried by court martial next Wednesday on charges of financial irregularities while at Plattsburg Barracks New York. An inspector general investigated the affairs, leading to the court martial order. Fremont, 52, has served in the army since 1874 and was recently relieved of his command of the Fifth United States Infantry.
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Fifth United States Infantry
Hopkins student endures two month vigil for ionization study
William W. Strong a Johns Hopkins University physics graduate student has spent more than two months monitoring ionization of air with complex equipment. He takes a reading every thirty minutes sleeping only in cat naps beside the apparatus with an alarm clock to mark the half hours. The effort aims to illuminate problems in physical chemistry and pure physics and is nearing completion with expected valuable results.
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William W. Strong
Strong
Johns Hopkins University
Pedagogues for Philippines Sail for Insular Posts
One hundred twenty American teachers will sail for the Philippines before June 1. The first group departs from San Francisco April 23 aboard the Korea, with others on May 3 aboard the America Maru and May 10 aboard the Siberia. The mainly male cadre will face interior hardships. civil service exams apply. An additional examination will fill remaining quota as the new school year opens June 1.
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Trained nurse commits suicide in sanitarium
Helen Cochran a 31 year old nurse killed herself at Dr Carey’s sanitarium by swallowing carbolic acid. She left a note blaming herself to the doctor and Mrs Carey and asked for forgiveness. Her mother Mrs A C Loucks of Fullerton Nebraska was named.
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Helen Cochran
Preacher Fatally Hurt in Gas Explosion
In Columbus Ohio on April 6 Rev J J Blackshear who had moved from Marshall Texas to fill the late Rev James Poindexter's pulpit was fatally injured when natural gas exploded. He lit a match in Alonzo Davis room causing a blast that blew him through a window fifteen feet to the ground. Davis suffered severe burns and the house was partly wrecked.
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Naval Board Plans June Newport Program in Tactics
Washington April 6 The naval general board intends to embark for Newport R. I. early in June to oversee a major program in naval tactics and strategy on a large scale.
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