Aero club shifts to heavier than air flight focus
The Aero Club of America votes to stop balloons and dirigibles and create a dedicated aviation section led by Albert C. Fracas Wilbur R. Kimball Lee S Burridge Daniel Braine and Stanley Y. Beach with Charles M. Manly as adviser A New York land tract and workshop will support aeroplane tests to be conducted on Fort Myer grounds Virginia and a five member committee will oversee the project.
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York
Aero Club In
America
Aero Clubs of
North Adams
New York
Albert C. Fracas
Wilbur R. Kimball
Lee S Burridge
Daniel Braine
Stanley Y. Beach
Charles M. Manly
Com
Fort Myer
Party in a Savoy theater features amateur vaudeville
Miss Isabel Frances McKee and her college friends hosted a lively vaudeville party at the Savoy theater. The crowd enjoyed dances, songs, monologues, and the language waltz from The Merry Widow performed by Miss McKee and George H. Reaney.
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Savoy Theater
Isabel Frances McKee
Frank McKee
Miss McKee
George HH Reaney
Princess Returns Home Saluting Saxony Royals
The young Princess Monica Pia, daughter of ex Crown Princess Louise and King of Saxony, arrived via Leipzig homeward amid cheering crowds. Her arrival marked a high profile reception as she travels to reclaim possessions and reconcile with royal authorities.
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Monica Pia
Louise
Saxony
Leipzig
New York Assay Office to Erect 400-Foot Chimney
A new treasury project in lower Manhattan will include an assay office built on the old site near Nassau and Wall streets. Construction costs are projected at about 400,000 dollars with bids due May 12. The reinforced concrete building will feature a chimney rising 400 feet to vent furnace fumes above surrounding offices.
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New York
Apri
Singer
Roosevelt Sends Autograph Stone Cornerstone Token
A. K. Hicks of the Long Island Railroad M. C. A. in Long Island City asked President Roosevelt for a token to place in the cornerstone of the new Young Men's Christian Association building to be laid April 30. Roosevelt sent a steel engraving of the White House with his handwritten inscription, The Best Wishes of Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Russell Sage recently gave $50,000 toward the building honoring the railroad men.
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New York
A. K. Hicks
Long Island Railroad
Long Island City
Roosevelt
Young Men’s Christian Association
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Russell Sage
Long Island
Colorado Split Victories on Prohibition Votes
Thirty five Colorado towns voted on prohibition yesterday. Nineteen chose license and sixteen banned saloons. Anti-saloon gains in four open towns shifted momentum. five liquor-friendly towns then favored licensing. Arravada Silver Plume Lyons and Cortez voted to abolish saloons. Littleton Sterling Holly Brighton and Lamar voted to license liquor sales.
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Denver
Colorado
Hcense
Arravada
Silver Plume
Lyons
Cortez
Littleton
Sterling
Holly
Brighton
Lamar
Oes
Chicago to entertain Japs with touring Japanese party
An escort of honor from the Chicago Association of Commerce will accompany a large touring delegation of Japanese visitors from Cedar Rapids to Chicago. The Association will host a luncheon at the Auditorium with speeches by President Hall, foreign trade chairman George W. Sheldon, and Counsel Brundage.
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Curiaco
Chicago Association of Commerce
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
United States
Association of Commerce
Hall
Association
George W. Sheldon
Foreign Trade Committee
Brundage
Wallace elected mayor in Winfield on pledge of municipal ownership
Charles M. Wallace, a businessman, was unanimously elected mayor in Winfield Kansas. He vows continued enforcement and support for municipal ownership of works and electric light plants. Voters also approved 10000 in bonds to finish water works extensions, cutting rates from the old water company by 20 to 50 percent after three months of operation.
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Winfield
Wivrtero
Kas
Charles M. Wallace
Old Water Company
Roosevelt Mulls Venezuelan Naval Demonstration With Castro
Plans are laid for mobilizing a joint military and naval force in Venezuelan waters after Roosevelt gains congressional sanction to act against Castro. The War and Navy Departments map a tentative movement while staff review under direct presidential orders for preparedness to back potential emergencies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Castro
War and Navy Departments
Staf
Army
General Board of the Navy
Root
Venezuela
Pekin
Soldiers' Home Official Seeks Shutdown of Leavenworth Saloon District
Major W. W. Martin, treasurer of the Leavenworth Soldiers' Home, asks the Kansas Attorney General to use authority to close saloons in the Klondike district between the city and the home, alleging county officials refuse to act. In another item, Clifford Borros, from Rockford Illinois, attempted suicide at Englewood police station after seeking shelter, in precarious condition.
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Kansas
Leavenworth, Kas
W. W. Martin
Soldiers’ Home
Jackson
Klondike
Martin
Clifford Borros
Rockford
Englewood
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Wide Health Cure Ad
An 1890s style advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for eruptions pimples boils scrofula sores salt rheum eczema and many internal ailments including dyspepsia rheumatism catarrh nervous trouble debility and fatigue It features a Vermont user Mrs C K Tyler praising renewed health and notes the product sold as liquid or Sarsatabs 100 doses for $1.
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Hood
C. K. Tyler
Burlington, Vt
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