Roosevelt letter on Brownsville affair report approved
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress transmitting War Secretary Browne’s investigation of the Brownsville shooting in August 1900. He urges reinstating soldiers proven innocent and calls for further inquiry to identify the truly guilty, while noting most involved were in Company B. An amendment to re-enlist discharged negro troops was introduced by Senator Foker.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Brownsville
Senate
Secretary of War
Herbert J. Browne
Department
W. G. Baldwin
Company B
B Troop
Cheler
War Department
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Senator Foraker
Oday
Texas
Hains trial for Annis murder opens in Flushing
Thornton Jenkins Hains, author and seafarer, stands charged as an accessory in editor William E. Annis murder at Bayside Yacht Club last summer. Trial to begin this afternoon before Justice Crane in the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flushing
Thornton Jenkins Hains
William E.annis
Lled
Bayside Yacht Club
Peter C. Hains, Jr
Justice Crane
Supreme Court
The New Church Unveiled in Community Effort
The Journal praises a handsome new church built to attract broader membership. It notes a modest congregation with a comfortable base and over a hundred members and stresses an attractive building to support sermons and auxiliary work.
STOP JAPANESE IMMIGRATION and Its Truth in Latent Report
Chicago dispatch reports the Japanese government will stop all emigration to the United States after a future date, with travel still permitted for merchants, students, and tourists under a passport accord. The decision followed negotiations between Secretary Root and Baron Takahira, aiming to remove tensions between the nations. Funeral notices: Mrs. H S Gardner, Huston Nesbitt, John Gillham, Mrs. Martha Dixon, J F Brooker, and Edward Hubbell family obituaries with services and interments noted across Kansas localities.
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Japan
Chicago
Record-Herald
Washington
United States
Baron Komura
Tukio Omy le Mada
Root
Baron Takahira
America
Gossiping Visits Bring Lawrence Ladies to Kansas City
Miss Agnes Thompson of Lawrence and her cousin Miss Frances Rogers of Wilmington Del spend a week at the Hotel Latham with Miss Thompson who earlier stayed at Wells College Aurora with Miss May Gardner and Miss Anna Reese Pugh. Miss Rogers and Miss Alice Beard of Brooklyn accompany next week for a month long visit. Mr Stanbury Thompson of Studebaker autos joins in Chicago bound plans for Lawrence holidays. Rogers and Beard are artists with covers for Sunday magazines and work in Collier's and American. Fresh butter and eggs at Windfall Grocery. Leather novelties and Indian goods at Beech's store.
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New York
Automobile
Studebaker’s
Lawrence
Miss Rogers S
Mfiss Beard
Miss Rogers
Collier’s
the American
Merry Christmas Travelogues Edited by James Murphy
A compact holiday themed travel note collection edited by James Murphy features journeys across New York and London with brisk, festive commentary. Includes branding from Swan S-Metcalf Co and product mentions, reflecting period commercial tone.
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James Murphy
New York
London
Christmas Goods At Wholesale At University Book Store
The University Book Store in the Bergman building at 724 Massachusetts street begins a wholesale Christmas sale. It features leather goods china pipes toys and a wide range of holiday items at wholesale prices, with trained clerks and a focus on clearing unsold stock. Also promotes other local stores and the Moffett studio delivering Christmas photos on time.
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University Book Store
Bergman
Massachusetts Street
Lawrence
University
China
Gibbok
A. Young
Packard
Young
Indies
Moffett Studio
Morris Studio
Moffett
Baker Orange Brings Bakerite Fanfare to Squires Studio
Baker students and visitors crowded downtown to watch Tri Delts sorority and the Baker basketball team pose for group pictures at Squires Studio. Topeka and Kansas City guests joined local Bakerites, with fashioning jewelry displays drawing crowd attention and praise for Lawrence’s bustling scene.
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Tri Delts
Baker
Squires
Lawrence
Tri Helis
Socil
Squires Studio
Squares Studio
Local Society Notes Highlight Parties and Romance
IN SOCIETY items describe Mr P E Emery and W F March at clubs in Lawrence rire. A large ninth birthday party for Master Wilfred Charitan featured a fish pond and a live Santa Claus with gifts, followed by a thre e course luncheon. A home talent show romance thread recounts a city stranger’s pursuit of a girl and urban gossip about proposals, quarrels and canceled gatherings by four Lawrence women.
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H. S. Gardner
Kentucky Street
Lawrence
W. F. March
Hugh Blair
Charles Stark-weather
C. G. Dunlop
E. ®. Engel
A. M. Wilcox
K. L. Charitan
Wilfred
Santa Claus
F. H. Smithmeyer
Phi Kappa Psi
Fred Lk
Eternia
Pink and Tavenner of ei oe _ is J tenabee
Robertson Ab
Ivinal Limerick
Edwithier
Mass
St. Addreys
Topeka
Kuberisun Furniture Co
Wedding Plans, Loans, and Local Ads Highlight Busy Day
Town residents discussed loans and security with Rev T F Rudisill, announced Edith Steeles wedding to Emice Smith, browsed private libraries for sale, and noted rentals, sales, and shop windows. Fragments describe Phi Kappa Psi event details, furniture ads, gifts, and local merchants like Robertson Furniture and Byers Art Store.
Markets by Wire. Grain and Provisions in Kansas City
Kansas City market roundup lists wheat and corn futures with various delivery months and basis quotes. It notes cash grain prices for No. 2 hard and red wheat, mixed corn, and No. 2 oats, alongside hay, butter, and other farm products. Livestock arrivals include calves, cows, heifers, and hogs with representative prices and receipts.
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Kansas City
Dee
Sac
Buiter—Creamery
Christmas shopping ads head home in Illinois daily
Chicago notice of December 14 mentions Kansas weather and ads for dolls dishes furniture and toys at foster's. Christmas Stationery fountain pens magazine subscriptions all books pictures novelties calendars and presents highlighted. Includes Home Book Co and Boyles 725 as sellers in local listings.
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Foster
Home Book Co. d
Pure Milk and Tuberculosis Danger Urgency
Dairymen conforming to the pure food law are praised as crucial after noting that one tenth of city deaths stem from tuberculosis. The piece stresses the need for strict dairy inspections and full compliance, calling the pure food law the greatest enacted in the last quarter century and urging universal cooperation to keep milk pure.
Missing gold watch with filigree silver fob
Woman reports a gold watch with a filigree silver fob lost Saturday afternoon between the Opera House and 1020 New York street. Return to Eleanor Gilmore at Bell phone 1742.
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Opera House
New York Street
Eleanor Gilmore
Bell Phone
Dedicatory Services Raise 11200 for Church Fund
The Christian church in Lawrence reported 11200 raised at dedicatory services to support the building fund. Members contributed most of the amount, with a total cost around 37000 for the church, about 33000 paid. The day featured special music, a Cincinnati official sermon, and an open house showing off the new facilities and Sunday school flag accommodations.
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Christian Church
Bath
F. M. Hains
Cincinnati
Board of Foreign Oissions
Lawrence
C. E.uubach
Gertrude Rugs
Bertha Shorky
Baker University
E. H. Helnes
Thei Chuir
Ruins
Htuins
Lawrence Way
Hulding
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Neville
Lric Jean Beaugere
Cleopatra
David Garick
Kero
Ic—Lybig—Sc
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Lena
Bouin Poynter
Mary J. Holmen
Burton
Nixon
Woodward & Co
Ces
Wilhelm Hypnotie Comedy Co
South Hampton
N.Y
Petine
Brownssville
Annis
Parker
Bayles
Huston Nesbitt
Masonic Lodge
Methodist Church
John Gillham
Martha Dixon
Oak Hill Cemetery
J. F. Brooker
Edward &. Hubbell
3B. Hubbell
North Lawrence
Tonganoxie
Wind Fill Grocery
Beech’s
Christmas
Swan S-Metcalf CO
Smith News
Depot
Dick Brot
J. M. Travel
Dick Bros
Broshus
Eborons
THE
Ed. Parsons Jewelry
S'ravel
P. E. Emery
Old
Mr. W. F. March
T. F. Radisill
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Tri Delt
Isabella Steele
Edith
Emice
Ee Smith
Belvoir
Liberal
Kansas
T. F. Rudisill
N.Y. Street
East Henry
Robertson's
J. W. Byers
Chusetts Street
Byers
Charley Seewir
Brown
McColloch
Joni Boughton
Kodaks
Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Weed
Nebrasky
Taranient
Caracas
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Paul
Venezuela
Venezuelan
Sincce
Uiecunstwisse
Justice Ielmes
Supreme Court of the United States
B.D. Harriman
Otto Kahn
Union Pacific
Missouri
Smith
Helen Senseman
Sperry Sands
Colombo
Ceylon
S. R
Sperry
Tle
Connecticut
Henry
Edward McCallura
jMina Clara Rudolph
Miss Anna Rudolph
Miss Roberts
United Presbyterian Church
Zuttermeister’s
Raymond's
Fair
Couler
Woodward & Co.'s
Kendaks
Thompson
Manas, Bt
Lyon
Christian Church Fund
Aurora
Louis Dean
Mademoiselle Pleam
Kentucky
Thos
Hood
Kurt Lambs
Faxon-Newman
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