Coronation Plans Highlight Edward IIs Great Event
King Lewanika of the Sieiml arrives in London as the only royal presence from Northwestern Rhodesia for King Edward VII’s coronation. Gifts for envoys are prepared, invitations sent, and royal balls, operatic performances, and the Ascot royal enclosure draw unprecedented interest with tickets scarce and prices soaring.
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Lewanika
Sieiml
Rhodesia
Edward
Whitelaw Rew
Arthur Paget
Paran Stevens
New York
General Paget
Scots Guards
Grand Opera
Convent Garden
Covent Garden
Jean de Resarke
Melba
Calve
Nordica
Lohengrin
Siegfried
Tannhauser
Lucia di Lammermoor
Ascot
Royal Enclosure
Earl of Clarendon
Lennon
London
Corporation of the City of London
King's Hospital Fund
Stanford Faculty Turmoil Spurs Resignations and Dismissal
At Stanford University May 25, President David Starr Jordan demanded the resignation of Latin department head E M Pease after a fresh faculty quarrel echoes the earlier dismissal of Professor Ross. Pease refused, and the president dismissed him from the service of the institution.
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Stanford University
Cal
Ross
David Starr Jordan
E. M. Pease
Rathbone May Be Released
Havana May 26 The house amended the relief bill to grant a general amnesty for Americans involved in the intervention instead of a pardon. The measure passed without opposition and a Senate version is pending final action Monday. If enacted Estes G Rathbone and others under sentence or awaiting trial would be freed.
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Havana
House
Senate
Liberty
Estes G. Rathbone
Floods inundate Chicago as storm floods three basements
A severe thunderstorm hit Chicago on Saturday, dumping about one inch of rain in under 40 minutes. At the Grand Opera House chorus members were trapped in rooms, stage hands helped them out, with water reaching two feet in some areas. Studebaker basement flooded forcing chorus girls to flee to the stage. Downtown hotels also reported basement flooding.
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Chicago
Grand Opera House
Studebaker
Fourth of July Prizes at Spokane Parade
A Spokane Fourth of July parade committee set prize limits for the event. City bands will share under 450, with 200 to the best country band, 125 to the top labor organization, 125 to the leading fraternal order, and 100 for the best parade float from a business house, labor, or secret organization.
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Spokane
Business House
Labor Organization
King Edward and Lansdowne Send Condolence Cables
London May 25 King Edward and the marquis of Lansdowne secretary for foreign affairs sent condolence cables to Lord Pauncefote's family after news of the ambassador's death reached the foreign office Crutches become a curse when we might have wings.
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London
Edward
Marquis of Lansdowne
Foreign Affairs
Lord Pauncefote
Foreign Office
Happenings Across Hemispheres and World Events
Spokane boy Erwin Miller, missing at ten years old, is sought as reports span a wide range of events. Notable items include the death of Norman C. Hewes in Lebanon New Hampshire, a British Columbia lightweight title bout in Ymir, a Utah crime suicide, a Chicago meat strike, a Mollala River body, Victoria Day peace cheer, and a Denver boxing bout. Also covered are bank resource figures, irrigation policy, labor conflicts from Chicago to Spokane, and railroad and industrial notes from Baldwin works to Oregon City injuries.
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Balmoral
Transvaal
Denver
Treasury Department
Colorado Telephone Company
E. H. McHenry
Northern Pacific
Canadian Pacific Railway
William
Corbin
M. B. Young
Leonard Wood
Foreign Office
Associated Press
Germany
Hague
Vreeniging Transvaal
Europe
Victoria
B. C
Fernie
Prior
Fairhaven
Wash
Butch
Anders Peterson
Grandjean
Thomas Barger
Grants Pass
Sugar Pine Door & Lumber Company
Williams Brothers & Kendall
Erwin Miller
Spokane
W. D. Dressler
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Norman C. Hewes
Lebanon
N. H
Ymir
Billy Armatrong
Danny Dean
Phoenix
British Columbia
Ogden
Utah
Lorenzo Faulkner
Rose Duke Faulkner
Chicago
Burt Batty
Mollala River
Canby
Pretoria
William H. Rothwell
Corbett
Kid Proud
Cleveland
Ohio
Broad
United States
The
New York Tribune
National Civic Federation
New York
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Millard Lee
Lila Suttle
Wesley Chapel
Atlanta
Lee
Miss Suttle
D. A. Parks
Oakesdale
Clarkston
Vancouver
City Light
Washington
Sprague Rod & Gun Club
Lincoln County Clube
North Star
Wenatchee
Chelan Landing
George D. Evans
Walla Walla
Kalispell
Brier+’ Union
Idaho
Oregon
Albert Kennedy
Thomas Kennedy
Milan
Coleman
Alfred Hamilton
Alfred Hawkins
Whatcom
D. M. Woodbury
Anacortes
Hoquiam
Colfax
Whitman County
Sound
Sprague
Farmers’ Telephone Company
Great Northern
St. Paul
Spokane Falls
Northern
W. D. Wood
Seattle
Adolph Nelson
Paul F. Mohr
RE. E. Hens
John Perkins
Los Angeles Chosen for Presbyterian Assembly
The Presbyterian general assembly selected Los Angeles California as the site for its next meeting announced from New York on May 27. The decision designates the city as the gathering hub for church leaders and delegates in the coming session.
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New York
Presbyterian , General Assembly
Los Angeles
Cal
Censure of Major Waller and Day sentences in Samar cases
Manila reports Major John A. Day and Major Waller faced censure from Major General Adama R. B. Chaffee for actions in Samar. Waller’s order and Day’s disobedience are deemed unlawful and damaging to the U.S. military code. The piece also notes Saint Lucia and Martinique volcanic activity and relief efforts in St Vincent with tolls and damage figures.
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Manila
John A. Day
Marine Corps
Gamar
Adama RB. Chaffee
Philippines
Wahler
Samar
Waller
Major Waller
General Smith
Pamar
Smith
Lieutenant Day
Day
Military Service of
United States
Senate to Probe Lynching with Remedy Aim
Washington May 27 Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire urged a judiciary committee inquiry into lynchings to seek remedies. He noted cases across the nation affecting both white and black victims, not limited to the South. Helena May 27 Elbert O Weed ex mayor and former U S district attorney for Montana was suspended from practice for two years by the state supreme court for malpractice in a disbarment action. The court did not proceed with the disbarment due to evidence of his good character.
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Clark
New York
University of Iowa
Evanston
Wyo
State Supreme Court
Congress
Washington
Senate
Gallinger
New
Helena
Mont
Elbert
Weed
United States
Montana
Supreme Court
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Hemi
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King Mill
Abe Witherup
William Grow
Paris
Portland City & Oregon Electric Railroad
Oregon City
Union
S. C
Sallie Hart
Annie Lawson
Maxey Sims
Vera Sims
Lawson
Jonesboro
Pacolet
Chi-Li
Yuan Shai Kai
John Slaucer
George Spencer
Big Dry Creek
Slaucer
Spencer
Woods
James J. Jeffries
Robert Fitzsimmons
Central Theater
Billy Delaney
Jeffries
Bob
Fitzsimmons
San Francisco Athletic Club
Bulding Trades ‘Council
Wyoming
Castries
St. Lucia
St. Pierre
Martinique
Ao Pelee
Fort de France
St. Vincent
Georgetown
Chateau Belair
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