Roosevelt Will Not Return Westward By Special Route
Cairo dispatch reports Theodore Roosevelt will return to the United States via New York for his grandson's wedding, rejecting a western backdoor route invite. He plans a Cairo to Luxor visit with stops at Assuan Dam, Denver, Cheyenne frontier Day events, and a long European itinerary.
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Theodore Roosevelt
America
San Francisco
F. G. Bonfils
Denver
Western Chambers of Commerce
Roosevelt
United States
New York
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Eleanor B. Alexander
Cheyenne
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Africa
Col
Omdurman
Wichartoum
Cairo
Assuan
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Luxor
Europe
Washington society to stage tableaus for House of Mercy
Washington March 16 Society figures will stage multiple tableaus for the House of Mercy on April 7. Countess von Bernsdorf and Countess Moltke arrange a scene with Pocahontas and John Smith. other tableaux include Franklin at the Court of Louis XV and Washington’s Birthday Anniversary. Representatives from high society plan costumes and directing duties.
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Washington Society
House of Mercy
Countess von Bernsdorf
Countess Moltke
Napathaniel Thiyer
Boston
Pocahontas
John Smith
Mary Lord Andrews
John Hays Hammond
Chetard
Franklin
Louis XV
Aleshire
Crawford
Humphrey
Hall
Downey
Langfitt
Army Lfe
Hunt Slater
Commodore Truxtun
Miss Cameron
John Adams
Stove Explosion injures woman at Cheetham home
A gasoline stove exploded early morning at 2008 Hovey Street injuring Mrs Paulin while she prepared breakfast for Charles Cheetham and children. The blast burned her arms and the incident occurred as Mrs Cheetham was ill. Authorities described the building as affected.
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Paulin
Charles Cheetham
Hovey Street
Unions Vote on Statewide Strike Over Transit Standoff
Philadelphia reports labor unions in Pennsylvania vote on a statewide sympathy strike. About 140000 mine workers and other unionists are involved as the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company resists concessions. Leaders warn a standstill could halt all industries within 48 hours, though postponement for settlement is possible. President Greenawalt and others vow readiness for a general strike unless a settlement is reached.
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Philadelphia
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Fire damages boarding house roof on Butler Avenue
Fire from a defective chimney at 108 Butler Avenue Urvington destroyed the roof this morning. Firemen valued loss at SIG. The building, once housing Butler University students, had multiple recent fire calls. At 503 N East Street C Candigan’s home roof also caught fire causing $15 damage.
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Butler Avenue
Urvington
SIG
Mulding
Butler University
Johnson
C. Candigan
N. East Street
Parks
Death Claims Mrs Louise Spiegel Nichols
Mrs Louise Spiegel Nichols aged 50, wife of the federal court chief deputy clerk, and mother of Laurence Nichols, deputy United States district attorney, died last night at Blacherne flats after ten days illness. Survived by husband, one son, a daughter Mrs Jesbella Nichols Gardner of Riverside, and her father Augustus Spiegel, a noted furniture manufacturer.
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Nichols
Federal Court
Robbers Blow Safe in Bank at Van Buren
Robbers broke into the Van Buren bank by a rear window during the night using electric power from vault wires and a nitroglycerin charge to force the vault door. A chest containing gold was opened and partly emptied while several thousand dollars in currency inside remained untouched. Bank president John J. Howard and cashier H. S. Howard confirmed the bank’s insured protection and said the total taken could not be estimated. no suspects reported.
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Ind
John J. Howard
Howard
John
Durghar
Sui ng for Divorces From Two at Once
Chicago March 16 A woman named Irene Blase files for divorce from both husbands in Illinois, creating a unique procedural precedent. The first marriage allegedly ended by elopement with Walter B Neal in Atlanta in 1905 after she ran away from a Indiana boarding school. she was 16. The second marriage to Frank L Blasa occurred in Windsor Canada across from Detroit.
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Chicago
Irene Blase
Illinois
Glass
Jokes About His Coffin End In Tragic Death
March 16 near Connersville a 73 year old farmer John Elliott joked he would need a coffin big enough for him. He weighed nearly 300 pounds and died after collapsing outside his home. Cause listed as apoplexy.
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Connerseville
John Elliott
John Thompson
Broken Jaw Sanctions Damages Suit Against Bedford Stone
Surdum filed suit in Bedford County for 810000 in damages after a fall at the Murat theater construction site when a landslide of frozen debris struck him. The blast left him with a broken left jaw and other injuries, and he claims the accident was due to the companys neglect.
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Orlando
Surdum
Bedford Stone and Construction Company
New Murat
Divorce Petition Alleges Wife Struck Husband With Iron
Fred C. Hiatt sues Cassie E. Watt for divorce alleging she struck him in the back with a flat iron and caused furniture damage during fits of rage. He says she came home drunk, frequented saloons, and carried liquor home, with two years of conduct unbecoming a wife.
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Fred C. Hiatt
Cassie E. Watt
Wagon accident in Waynetown injures 5-year-old boy
Oliver Schneck while hauling wood drove a heavily loaded wagon over his 5-year-old son Russel in Waynetown Indiana. The child sustained injuries that may prove fatal as the father did not see him in front of the team until he heard running around the wagon.
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Waynetown
Ind
Oliver Schneck
Russel
Schneck
Likes His Home J. P Morgan Jr Plans $1 500 000 Glen Cove Home
The article profiles J F Pierpont Morgan Jr son of J Pierpont Morgan and notes his plan for a $1 500,000 home at Glen Cove Long Island. It contrasts his aim toward home life with his father’s constant schemes in banking and expanding holdings. It mentions his nickname Jack and his apprenticeship in banking.
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J. F Pierpont Morgan, Jr
Glen Cove
L. I
Morgan
Jack
Bunce seeks wife by unusual public plea in Boston
Marcus A Bunce of Groveland Mass appeals to women nationwide in a public letter offering marriage. He is a 30 year old stationary engineer who promises a home, a fair cook, and a life with no alcohol. He draws a color line but says religion does not matter and favors a New Englander or New Yorker.
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Highland Avenue
Groveland
Mass
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Kill One to Save the Lives of Two in Kansas City Mo
At police headquarters a guard and officer shot and killed Jesse Jones after he attacked the jailer and four prisoners with the holdover keys. Jones, from Oklahoma City, attempted to free inmates and wounded several before Sergeant Reed and Patrolman Pierce intervened at midnight.
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Benjamin Meyers
Jesse Jones
Oklahoma City
Samuel Reed
C. B. Pierce
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Reed
Pierce
DIES IN CHASE AFTER FIGHTING ROOSTERS AT SHELBYVILLE
George Khel, a well known farmer and former resident of Prescott, died in Shelbyville Indiana after suffering a heart attack while chasing two fighting roosters on Tuesday. He had a history of heart trouble and recent severe attacks.
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Shelbyville
Ind
George Khel
Prescott
Kha
Power of attorney filed for Cairo inherited property
Huntington Ind March 16 A document filed in the recorder's office here was signed in Cairo Egypt. The paper is a power of attorney given by Mr and Mrs Frederick P Stone to Jon Clayton authorizing him to sell real estate recently inherited by Mrs Stone.
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Huntington, Ind
Recorder's Office
Cairo
Egypt
Frederick P. Stone
Jon Clayton
Leading Men of the City to Attend Bookwalter Talk
Indianapolis plans a large gathering in the Board of Trade assembly hall to form a Trade association aimed at drawing new money through increased commerce. William J. Mooney will preside. Charles A. Bookwalter will speak on mayoral challenges and future strategy. Harold Hibben Jr. reports on insights from other cities as plans are laid.
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Indianapolis
William J. Mooney
Charles A. Bookwalter
Asso
Hibben, Jr
Indianapolis Trade Association
Rats Now Alone in Old Pool Room Desolate After Shipments
In LaPorte Indiana on March 16 a near yearlong pool hall operation’s chairs tables and other equipment were shipped to Chicago. The Calumet river bank site is famed for fights with gambling laws and will be abandoned by Chicago interests. Workers including Col William Johnson King Peter Short George and Gary watchman James Learbyne helped load the gear. The pool operation in Lake County ends as Chicago syndicate declares it done with the region. The building will likely be sold soon as it has no further use for them.
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Laporte
Ind
Chicago
Wabash
Calumet River
Col
William Johson
King Peter
Short George
James Learbyne
Gary
Lake County
Explosion in Camden Garage Destroys $100000 Fire and Cars
In Camden New Jersey on March 18 three firemen were blown fifty feet and badly hurt by a gasoline explosion that destroyed J B Reeves garage valued at 100000 dollars. Twenty three automobiles burned and the adjoining Lutheran church was damaged.
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Camden
N. J
J. B. Reeves
Doctor Morris Wickey Morgan Dies in Newport
Dr Morris Wickey Morgan professor of classical philology at Harvard and a leading Greek scholar died in Newport March 16. Born in Providence in 185? he married Migs Eleansora Semmes Gibeon of Kaltimene.
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Newport
R. L
Morris Wickey Morgan
Harvard
America
Borun
Providence
Migs Eleansora Semmes Gibeon
Kaltimene
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