James town tercentennial opening marks grand Atlantic display
Norfolk April 26 The James town tercentennial exposition opened with President Roosevelt aboard the Mayflower reviewing warships and addressing a vast crowd. A ceremonial gold button signaled the opening as 300 guns saluted, with a national anthem, speeches by Harry St George Tucker and Roosevelt, and a grand military review led by Major General Fred D Grant. The event, hampered by weather and unfinished buildings, aims to showcase Virginia’s historic sesquicentennial celebration through November 30.
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Norfolk
United States
Roosevelt
Hampton Roads
Discovery Landing
Enterprise
America
Harry St. George Tucker
Tucker
P. F. Harrington
Fred D. Grant
H. St. George Tucker
Old Virginia
Mr. Tucker
Jamestown Dixie
Alfred Macill Randolph
Virginia
Wilberforce G. Owst
Fort Monroe
Exposition
Congress
Twentythird Regiment
United States Infantry
United States Coast Artillery
Naval Brigade
United States Atlantic Fleet
United States Field Artillery
United States Twelfth Cavalry
Seventy-first Regiment
Virginia Volunteers
Artillery
Cavalry
John Smith
Grant
Georgia
Barton Myers
Jamestown
Cape Henry
Great Britain
Ireland
St. Paul's
Republic
Atlantic
Florida
Rio Grande
Palmost
Lawrence
Mississippi
Need of funds for encampment of G A R in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne readers are urged to back the Grand Army of the Republic encampment to be held May 22 to 24 with an estimated $6 000 needed. The letter from General Secretary Skelton explains the vast costs including theater rent decorations bands and lodging for up to 50 000 visitors and asks citizens to donate and host.
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Grand Army Encampment
Skelton
Fort Wayne
G A. R
Princess Theater
Saengerbund
Elektron
Baptist
Pythian
Anderson
Warsaw
Lafayette
Cat
Scarerea
Benj. W. Skelton
Locomotive boiler explosion on Wabash near O'Fallon
At O'Fallon Missouri on the Wabash line a freight engine boiler exploded killing three train men from Moberly and injuring two others including the conductor. The dead are Engineer Paul Klinard Fireman Frank Appleby and Brakeman George E Brown. Injured Conductor Nicholas Dessert is seriously hurt. Pieces of engine and tender flew 150 feet from the track. Cause unknown.
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O'Fallon
Paul Klinard
Frank Appleby
George E. Brown
Moberly
Nicholas Dessert
Brown
Indiana Whitecap Mob Shoots A Man
Spencer Indiana April 27 eight masked men cut telephone wires at farmer John Laymon home three miles west of the city. Laymon resisted, was shot in the breast and spine area, tied to a tree, planned whipping, later released after family and medical help arrived.
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Spencer
Ind
John Laymon
Laymon
Blood Trickling as Laughlin Struck Blow
Deposition in Laughlin murder trial contrasts with Kennedy case. Kennelly testifies blood flowed before the blow, Laughlin chased workers with cues, then struck Augsburger with a cue. Trial set in circuit court with 60 jurors. Kennedy case context and new evidence bolster the state.
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Michael Kennelly
Charles Laughlin
Samuel Augsburger
John Kennedy
Laughlin
Barnes
Cox
Kennedy
Augsburger
Edward O’rourke
Famine Conditions in Russia Grow Worse
Prince Lyoff head of the zemstvo famine relief reports scurvy and ergotism spreading across Samara Saratov Kazan and Tamboy provinces. Zemstvo fed 1 066 000. relief costs 650 000 monthly. Calls for faster funds from America as sowing and crops lag. Government reports warn of poor prospects in central famine region. American wheat used for seed. winter crops delayed by cold spring.
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St. Petersburg
Prince Lyoff
Zemstvo Organization
Samara
Saratov
Kazan
Tamboy
Zemstva Organization
Zemstvos
Red Cross
Free Economic Society
Ufa
Prince Looff
America
Russia
Was Born in the North but Fought with the South
Rufus B. Bullock, once governor of Georgia, died at 73 at his Albion New York home. Born March 28 1836 in Bethlehem New York he moved to Georgia after school and helped organize the Southern Express company. He served four years in the Confederate army as a lieutenant colonel and was governor of Georgia from 1868. He led various enterprises including Augusta banks and mills and aided the Atlanta Expositions of 1881 and 1895.
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Bullock
Georgia
New York
Buffalo
N. Y
Albion
Rufus B. Bullock
Nebraska
Atlanta
Bethlehem
Albion Academy
Augusta
Southern Express Company
John B. Gordon
Atlanta Cotton Mills Company
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
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Srimee
Navies OF Nations
Mighty Review
States
Exposition Grounds
G. Alr
General Committee
O’fallon, Mo
Garrett
Toledo
Chicago
Cowen Street
Kendallville
Emma
Hinkle
Columbia City
Indiana
Whitecap
Kennelly
Montpelier
James Brown
Leona Helvie
Mathew Timmons
Timmons
Prisen
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