Charleston Exposition Opens With Pageantry and Speeches
South Carolina hosts the interstate and West Indian Exposition with thousands of visitors. President Roosevelt initiates ceremonies from Washington as Gov. McSweeney and Mayor Smyth welcome attendees. Chauncey Depew delivers the oration while a 600-voice chorus performs and a 40 gun salute marks the opening. Captain Wagener presides over the event amid formal reviews and addresses at the auditorium. The article also notes long-standing civic interests and a Purdue hall gift by a local donor.
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South Carolina
Charleston
Roosevelt
Washington
Union
F. W. Wagener
Exposition Company
M. B. MrSweeney
South Caroline
J. Adger Smyth
Ellison Capers
Capers
Wagener
McSweeney
Smith
Manyor
Chauncey M Depew
New York
Liapew
White House
Woman Reunited With Daughter After Twenty Nine Years
At McKaysport Pennsylvania a dying mother, Mrs Jane Williams, is reunited with her long lost daughter now grown, Annie Madden of Liverpool. The tale recounts years of separation after a custody dispute, a kidnapping by a stranger, and the daughter’s return to The Hague with her mother.
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Spire
Purdue
Board of Trustees
Mia Fowler
Hamilton
Lafayette
Jamima Winship
Adame Earle
Jane Williams
McKaysport
Williams
Chicago
Illinois
Mary
Williama
Eforis
Prince Meury
Usipopolar
Prince Henry
Holland
M ‘Burg
Wilhelmina
Hague
Hanis
Emms
Annie Madden
Liverpool
England
Bank Bills In Car Wheels From Treasury Destruction
Currency shrinks through a macerator daily in Washington, turning cancelled notes into pulp sent to railroad car wheel makers. Affects about 50 to 60 million dollars yearly, with ink extracted and reprinted notes produced, at no cost to the government. Three treasury staff oversee the process, linking secretary, treasurer, and comptroller of the currency.
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Treasury
Treasury Department
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasuyer
United States
Comptroller
St Bureau” of
St Bureau” of Printing and Engraving
Pey
United States as World Bread Supplier and Baptism Record
The text notes the US as a leading bread producing nation with $1,000,000,000 in annual surplus farm products and lists major buyers England Germany and France. It also reports Roy Sandford of Shiloh Maine baptizing 215 persons in one hour and thirty seven minutes.
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United States
Hoors
England
America
Germany
France
Roy
Sandford
Shiloh
One Touch of Nature and a Dawn Ride of Amos Brandon
Amos Brandon, aged 97, rises before dawn, walks to the lake, and meets a young girl delivering her father's breakfast from a mill. He admires her and the swarthy worker, then returns home to draft a plea to his daughter Mary, which he ultimately destroys before telegraphing plans to reunite. The tale ends with reflections on laughter and wisdom from London Lancet.
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Amos Brandon
Amos
Agabe
Amon Brandon
Cather
Amos Branton
Bradder
Elster
Lena
Banda
Mr Brandon
George
Mary
Miss Mary
W. R. Rose
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Thackeray
London
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Uled
Genaroue Git
Tordae
Hirza Fowler
Purdie University
Tippeanoe County
James M. Fowler
National Fowler Bank of
Juatayette
Fowler
Duke of Mecklenburg
Netherlands
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