Clerical naturalist backs Roosevelt debate on woodcock tale
Rev Theodore Wood of St Mary Magdalene’s Church Wandsworth supports Dr W J Long in the Roosevelt natural history controversy. He cites snipe as capable of making splints from feathers and ligatures, detailing older observers and cases, and notes he is not related to the other Wood involved in the dispute.
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London
Theodore Wood
St. Mary Magdalene’s
Wandsworth
W. J. Long
Natural History
Long
Roosevelt
Everybody's Magazine
Wood
United States
Snipe
M. Fatio
Physiological Society
Geneva
Samme
M. Magnin
J. G. Wood
Railway Wreck in South Leaves One Dead in Alabama
Birmingham August 24 One passenger was killed and twelve were seriously injured in a wreck of the Blockton accommodation on the Birmingham Mineral railroad a branch of the Louisville and Nashville at Johns station yesterday The dead man is James Smith.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Mineral Railroad
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Johns Station
James Smith
Mrs Ella Pepper Returns to Racing after Setback
Lexington Kentucky August news highlights Ella Offutt Pepper, renowned owner, resuming thoroughbred racing at Meadowthorpe after reviving her fortunes post 1890s panic. Her stable includes King Pepper and Whiskey King, with plans to train new colts and erect a Pepper statue honoring her husband James E. Pepper, distiller.
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Lexington
Ella Offutt Pepper
Kentucky
America
Pepper
Meadowthorpe
John E. Madden
T. C. McDowell
King’s Courier
Whiskey King
Joseph Wolf
Chicago
James E. Pepper
Colonel Pepper
Mrs. Pepper
Stylitene
Hemphill signals bid for South Carolina senate seat
Major Hemphill, long a power broker through the state’s leading paper, may seek the junior U.S. Senate seat. Supporters led by editor T. R. Waring argue Hemphill will run, while he remains evasive but confirms party loyalty as Democrats weigh a field including Heywood and Lyons. Latimer faces a crowded race with six to eight possible opponents, and Hemphill’s career as a Cleveland Democrat frames the controversy.
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A. C. Latimer
Hemphill
T. R. Waring
Charleston Evening Post
Sena
Torial Timber
Cleveland Democrat
Cleveland
Mr. Cleveland
Tillman
South Carolina
Washington
Latimer
Europe
Heywood
Lyons
Jamestown Exposition
Norfolk
Ansel
State Senate
House of Representatives
Railroad fined for rebating in Minneapolis case
A United States district court fined the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad company $20,000 and its former general freight agent Hiram M. Pierce $2,000 for granting rebates. The Omaha road and Pierce were convicted April 11 on a fifty count indictment involving rebates to Spencer Grain company.
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Minneapolis
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Company
Hiram M. Pierce
Page Morris
United States District Court
Omaha Road
Spencer Grain Company
Jealous husband murders wife in Crawfordsville with knife
Otto Walker 33 is jailed after dragging his wife Laura Walker to weeds near their home and fatally slashing her throat with a pocket knife. He attempted to cut his own throat, was wounded, and later arrested. The couple leaves two children, ages 4 and 6, in care of relatives while investigators note jealousy as motive.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Otto Walker
Laura Walker
Walker
Clive Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
Russia Examines Navy Urgently Under Commission
Odessa says an urgent inspection of the entire Russian navy and fortresses has been entrusted to a commission of naval and military experts led by Gen. Kolodovsky. The government keeps the reason secret, but officials fear revolutionary propaganda among sailors and soldiers may spark a general mutiny.
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Odessa
Russia
Koladovsky
Woman Found Hidden In Vacant Kokomo House
Mrs Mae Young missing since Thursday noon was found dazed in the rear of a vacant house in Kokomo Indiana. Her husband Isaac believed she had gone to Indianapolis leaving the family. Relatives suspect she was drugged but the motive remains a mystery.
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Kokomo
Ind
Mae Young
Isaac Young
Father and Son Veterans at Brownstown Reunion
In Seymour Indiana this week Amos Weddle aged 86 the oldest Civil War veteran in Brownstown vicinity is honored for three years service with the Twenty fifth Indiana regiment His son George Weddle aged 64 a veteran also attended after running away from home at 20 to enlist in the same era.
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Seymour
Ind
Brownstown
Amos Weddle
Indiana Regiment
George Weddle
Roosevelt secretly visits Elihu Root at rest cure sanatorium
President Roosevelt slipped away from Oyster Bay to White Plains to observe Elihu Root at Muldoon’s rest cure. Root, weakened by mental and physical strain from anti trust policy battles, shows improvement under rigorous treatment. Muldoon reports Root now stronger, walking and sleeping well, after isolation from distractions.
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New York
Roosevelt
Elihu Root
William Muldoon
White Plains
Muldoon
Oyster Bay
Winchester County
Secretary of State
Long Island Sound
Secretary of
Sagamore Hill
Root
Chauncey M. Depew
John H. Choate
Taft
Meyer
Mr. Root
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