Monaghan to Receive 1908 Laetare Medal at Notre Dame
Dr James Charles Monaghan, a noted Catholic lecturer born in Boston in 1867, has been selected as the 1908 Laetare medalist by Notre Dame. He has served as consul in Mannheim and Chemnitz, edited foreign commerce reports, taught at Wisconsin and Notre Dame, and is currently touring the United States giving lectures. The Laetare medal honors service to religion and humanity, with a reunion planned at Notre Dame on May 17. Previous recipients include Bonaparte, Burke Cochran, and Gen William Rosecrans.
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Notre Dame University
Dr. Monaghan
Boston
Mannheim
Germany
Chemnitz
Bureau of Foreign Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Monaghan
Wisconsin
Notre Dame
Brown University
United States
John Gilmary Shea
Irving Laetare
Bonaparte
Burke Cochran
William Rosecrans
Asquith Named British Premier After Campbell Bannerman
The Right Honourable H. H. Asquith becomes Britain's new premier after Campbell Bannerman resigns for health reasons. Born in Yorkshire to a Puritan family, Asquith rose from Moravian and London schoolboy roots to Halliol scholar, law, and early political success in 1886. He served as home secretary and later as chancellor of the exchequer before taking the premiership.
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Oxford
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Jewett
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East Fife
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Lord Rosebery
Campbell-Bannerman
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Exchequer
Lever Serves Fourth Term in House after Early Prominence
Congressman Asbury Francis Lever of Lexington DC, once a potential Latimer successor, now serves his fourth term in the lower house. A key figure in Appalachian forest reserve efforts, Lever’s early boyish look gave him a pagelike reputation. He descended from South Carolina Germans and Irish Americans, with connections to Bishop Asbury.
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Lexington
D. C
Latimer
Appalachian Forest Reserve
Congress
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South Carolina
Lieber
Senator
Lever
Bishop Asbury
J. William Stokes
Farmers’ Alliance
Stokes
Lord Esher Aims at Sanitary Reform Not Politics
The article portrays Lord Esher as a highly capable nonpolitician, urged to join the cabinet as secretary of war but declining to pursue party politics. He preferred retirement to Windsor Forest, to focus on Windsor castle sanitation, race horses, and family, later returning to London for public service roles on army and war department commissions amid Kaiser's criticism of his naval influence.
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Esher
Windsor Forest
Gladstone
Egher
London
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Navy
Jord Baker
Youngsters Take Chances In Returning Contracts
Young players entering spring training weigh unsigned contract bets against minor league futures. If they sign, salaries average around $300 a month for five months, with majors offering roughly $1,800 per season. Clubs farm underperformers and pay gaps if placement fails, while ambitious youths hope for future raises. Summers to Tigers remains likely as Hughey Jennings praises his slow ball.
Winter Training League in Florida Planned for Prospects
Cincinnati Reds discussed a winter Florida league for January drafting of National League prospects. Six towns could host teams, offering nominal pay and expenses paid by Florida towns to field recruits for two months. Goal is early evaluation before veteran spring training. Also reports major wrestling and Russian turf news noting Gotch dethroning Hackenschmidt and jockey Radtke hired by Lagareff in St Petersburg.
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Jacksonville
Frank Bancroft
Florida
St. Augustine
Ormond
Seabreeze
Orlando
Palm Beach
Miami
Banny
Call of the Soil Promotes Return to Farm Life
A southern newspaper staff writer argues the government history favors youths raised on farms as leaders. Amid financial panic he urges investing in Canadian lands 10 to 15 dollars per acre with free homestead grants of 160 acres. Government agents in the US offer district details and railway access information.
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Canada
Government of
Woman Recovered After Use of Cuticura Treatments
A city mission case describes a young woman with scabies incipient paresis and rheumatism brought on by exposure. After seven weeks of care and using Cuticura Soap Resolvent and Ointment, she improved greatly. five weeks later she could seek work. Laura Jane Bates of Fifth Avenue, New York, reports March 14 with signature.
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Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
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