Pole explorers race to reach Antarctic pole in multi nation effort
Antarctic expeditions from England Norway Australia Japan and Germany race to touch the pole as Stewart Island hosts return telegraphing from New Zealand. Captain Scott leads with Terra Nova, backed by a 100000 dollar government fund and Siberian dogs while Amundsenreadies Pram for a possible pole first.
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London
South Pole
Globe
Antarctic
Stewart's Island
New Zealand
Robert Falcon Scott
England
Roald Amundsen
Norway
Mawson
Scott
Amundsen
Cardiff
Wales
Christchurch
Terra Nova
Steward’s Island
Bend Polar
Ritain
Mac Murdo Bay
Northwest Passage
Pram
Trad Amundsen
Courier-Journal rails at Wilson-Watterson clash in Kentucky
Special from Louisville reports Colonel Henry Watterson's newspaper accuses a group of would be leaders of scheming to push a weak Democratic nominee. The piece argues Governor Wilson avoids meeting Watterson's truth and suggests the feud hampers a Kentucky man’s path to the presidency.
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Wilson
New Jersey
Courier-Journal
Kentucky
Roosevelt Sees Quick Reply on Presidential Nomination
The long awaited reply from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to whether he will accept the presidential nomination is expected within a week. Prominent upstate New York politicians are named in connection with the campaign across the state from Maine to California.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Maine
California
Upstate
Dynamite Bank Robbery Strikes Austell Georgia
Two men dynamited the Austell Bank in Austell Georgia on the ground floor of a hotel early today and escaped with 2,500 dollars in cash and valuables. A posse and search dogs pursued the suspects after witnesses saw them flee with satchels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Austell Bank
Austell
Here
Posse
Y W C A Conference Concludes in Lynchburg
The annual State conference of the Young Women's Christian Association ended after three days at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg Virginia. About fifty delegates attended with Miss Annie Casler presiding. Speakers included Miss Louise Holmquist and Miss Bertha Conde from the Virginia Carolina territory.
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Y. W
Lynchburg
The
Young Women's Christian Association
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Annie Casler
Virginia- Carolina
Louise Holmquist
Bertha Conde
Young Woman's Christian Association
National board and two officials cited from agriculture and education
National board Miss Agnew of the United States Department of Agriculture and Miss Richardson, general Secretary of the State Normal Association at Farmville, are noted in this excerpt as prominent officials involved in the event.
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National Board
Agnew
The
United States Department of Agriculture
Richardson
State Normal Association At
Farmville
Federal grand jury asked to probe perjury in Packers trial
A special federal grand jury will be selected and sworn in Chicago today by U S District Attorney Wilkerson to investigate perjury charges against several witnesses from the ten millionaire Packers trial. The trial before Judge Carpenter continues as the grand jury sits, prompted by discrepancies in testimony before both court and grand jury that led to indictments.
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Chicago
United States
Wilkerson
Carpenter
Suburbs Fire Dept Parade of Reels Banter
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes comic exchanges about a prominent aristocratic volunteer fire department enjoying extensive active service. Banter mentions seven reels of moving pictures as proof, followed by a witticism about aging and a tease of birth notices.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Virginia House approves convict labor plan for prison
Sixty-five members of the House of Delegates vote to allow the penitentiary board to lease 611 dangerous inmates to a game manufacturing concern while about 500 other prisoners are assigned to road work. Nineteen delegates oppose convict labor. The Creamer bill to restrict contracts is killed 55 to 22.
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Richmond
House of Delegates
Penitentiary Board
House
Creamer
Senate
Virginia Gamblers Go to Jail in Suffolk Court
Four proprietors of gambling houses were fined 100 dollars and costs each and placed on 100 dollars surety bonds for twelve months in Suffolk Police Court. The defendants Fenton King Bradford Krufin Sam Collins and Will Smith were all remanded to jail except King.
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Virginia
Suffolk
Fenton King
Bradford Kruftin
Sam Collins
Willt Smith
King
New Police Reign Begins in Lawrence Amid Textile Strike
Lawrence Massachusetts a shake up brings Captain John J Sullivan to lead police replacing City Marshal O Sullivan amid textile mill violence. Governor Foss rumored to seek city control but Mayor Scanlon says administration remains in place. Union leaders note ongoing organizing as eight thousand mill workers remain out.
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Lawrence
Mass
John J. Sullivan
O'Sullivan
Foss
Scanlon
James Menzie
The
Federation of Labor
General Strike Committee
United Textile Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
California Governor backs Roosevelt for Republican nomination
Gov. Hirwin W. Johnson of California, after backing La Follette, endorses Theodore Roosevelt for the GOP nomination in New York. He cites the party’s risk of defeat if Roosevelt is not the choice and notes multiple talks with Roosevelt during his stay.
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New York
Hirwin W. Johnson
California
Theodore Roosevelt
Johnson
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Republican Party
The Feminine View on a Country Without a Man
A Lady quotes The Man Without a Country and muses that a country without a man is worse than a man without a country. The exchange appears in Ladies Home Journal reflecting societal reflections on gender roles and national identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
Ladies’ Home Journal
Brave Union Market Policeman Smothers Burning Bomb
Special-Policeman Sterghan of the Union Market station risked his life early today to grab a burning bomb planted in front of a restaurant at 225 Avenue K. He extinguished the blaze, saved nearby patrons, and the coffee pot bomb was later examined at the Market station with Italian writing found inside.
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New York
Sterghan
Union Market
Avenue K
Storchan
Personal Sketch of Viktoria Luise in Woman's Companion
A February Woman's Companion feature profiles Viktoria Luise, Emperor William’s daughter, describing her as a poised young princess in her teens. It recounts her family, royal household, and a vivid anecdote from a Wildpark visit where she saluted her six brothers before greeting them with kisses on the cheeks.
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Arc of
Pour
William
Viktoria Luise
Ais Ilar
Prederick the Great
Wildpark
Palace Station
Jady
Supreme Court rejects steamship plan to evade immigrant law
The Supreme Court declares invalid the plan by steamship companies to dodge the law requiring them to return deported aliens. In the government versus Nord Deutscher Lloyd Steamship Company, the high court ruled against the strategy aimed at avoiding liability under immigration provisions.
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Washington, D. CC
Supreme Court of the
United States
Nord Deutscher Lloyd Steamship Company
President Taft Accepts Two Invitations
President Taft accepts two invitations. He will travel to New York on March 2 as guest of Col. George Harvey for a dinner honoring William Dean Howells. He will also visit Chicago on March 5 to meet several organizations including Armour Institute of Technology Union League Club Press Club Swedish American Republican Society and the Traffic Club.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
New York
George Harvey
William Dean Howells
Chienzo
Armour Institute of Technology
Union League Club
Press Club
Swedish- American Republican Society
Trathic Club
Miss Linnell Wrote Own Death Note
Boston dispatch reports Avia Scrmnell, a Hyannis choir singer, murdered by Hey Co. T Richeson, her former pastor, who wrote his own death sentence. Richeson remains jailed in Charles Street for a May 19 execution. A Cambridge sermon on September 7 titled The Bible the Indestructible Book is cited as related to the case.
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Boston
Mass
Avia Scrmnell
Hiyvanhnis
Hey Co
T Richeson
Richeson
Charles Street
Cambridge
Hyannis
Avis Linnell
Dublin
N. H
Violet Edmands
Richeson Proposes to Miss Edmands in Dublin
Richeson reached Dublin and asked Miss Edmands to marry him. she accepted and set the wedding for October 3. A sermon from that evening survives in Avis Linnell’s ink handwriting. Avis Linnell lived about a month after the October sermon, and Richeson, who had bought cyanide of potassium, met her and gave her the rug.
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Richeson
Dublin
Woman's College bill passes Senate without debate
In Richmond Virginia the women's college bill moved to engrossment after swift Senate action. An amendment to require the college be at least one mile from the University of Virginia failed. Another proposal to end co education was rejected as the measure proceeded to engrossment with little discussion.
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Richmond
Woman's College
Senate
Tucker
University of Virginia
Walker
Early
Board of Visitors
Widow Evelyn Wingfield Takes Her Own Life
In Lynchburg Virginia special report Mrs Evelyn Wingfield a widow committed death by her own action yesterday evening by taking carbolic acid. She was last seen alive at 4 pm and found dead at 7 30 pm in her bed. Her son who died last fall killed himself in Rivermont Park by swallowing carbolic acid.
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Lynchburg
Evelyn Wingfield
Rivermont Park
Brakeman Accused In Piedmont Rail Hold Up Case
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad police arrest P A Becker after a night search for the No 1 sleeper hold up eight miles east of Piedmont. $133.37 four watches two revolvers and stolen jewelry found on him. Becker, a freight brakeman, provides conflicting stories. The right man charge is being pursued.
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Kenny
Water Station No
Arres Becker
Becker
Grafton
W. Va
Baltimore and Olio
Roamer Known as Floating Worker
A brief note describes a man called a roamer, a floating worker who travels between places, works a short time and then quits, with details about his origin remaining unclear.
Bandit Robs Westbound Train Near Piedmont
A bandit wearing a red bandana robbed the New York and St. Louis Express eight miles west of Piedmont in a bold hold-up. He stole about $1000 in cash and jewelry from about twenty passengers before escaping into rugged Allegheny Mountain terrain as Mineral County deputies and Baltimore and Ohio detectives spearhead the chase.
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Piedmont
W. VA
Mineral County
Posse
New York and St. Louis
Baltimore and Ohio
Here
Allegheny Mountains
Baltimore
Altamount
Theobbery
Nmberland
Hobbs
Cumerland
Ovek
Richmond Senate to Decide on Full Investigation
The Senate Committee on Public Institutions in Richmond will meet to decide a resolution seeking an investigation of the State Department of Public Instruction. The House had already passed the resolution, while Chesterfield County citizens filed charges and pressed for proofs.
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Richmond
Senate Committee On Publc
State Department of Public Instruction
House of Delegutes
Chesterfield County
Ntine Fick Bower
Beleeten
Eggleston
Chesterfield
Department of Public Instruction
Egsleston
Evening Journal
Times-Dispatch
Eegleston
House of Célegites
W. W. Baker
Captain Baker
Baker
Megers
Davie
Lambert
Beasley
House of Delegates
Mr. Explesion
Mr. Eggleston
Senator Rison
Commission confrontation over investigation request
Transcripts show tense exchange as a chair and members press Mr. Eggleston for an investigation. Despite repeated calls and challenges, Eggleston fails to respond, with comments accusing him of avoiding the question and fearing to answer.
John L. Watson Dies at First National Bank Leader
John L. Watson president of the First National Bank and long time head of major insurance and real estate operations in Portsmouth Virginia died this morning in the city.
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John L. Watson
Portsmouth
First National Bank
Judge Skeen Delays Trial Of Vote Sellers In Virginia
Judge Skeen of the Lee county circuit court in Jonesville postponed the trials of all indicted for alleged election bribery. Indictments total 147 as the grand jury resumes. continuance to May term follows awaiting auction of the measure drafted by Judge A. Phiegar to amend election laws.
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Bristol
Skeen
Circuit Court
Lee County
Jonesville
Merchants Oppose Instalment Bill In Virginia
Merchants across Virginia oppose Senator Hart's bill to amend lien recordation fees. The measure would let clerks charge 25 cents or 2 cents per item in a bill of sale, with buyers paying more if many items exist. William A. Clarke of the Retail Merchants Association questions clerk choices and impact.
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Richmond
Hart
Norfolk
Danville
Charlottesville
Lynchburg
Petersburg
William A. Clarke
Inland Waterways Policy Calls For Municipal Terminals
Washington dispatch reports the Rivers and Harbors Committee and General W H Bixby urge nationwide waterway growth with municipal controlled terminals. They demand adequate warehousing, modern equipment, railroad trackage, and through bills of lading to move freight efficiently.
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Washington, D. C
North Carolina
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Small
Congress
W. H. Bixby
United States Army
Europe
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
Trenton
N. J
Council
Montgomery
Ala
First
New York
New Orleans
Ospina Cares Not For United States In Panama Talks
The article notes speculation that Senor Ospina, a wealthy mine owner with a strong military record, may enter Colombian politics after diplomacy in Washington. He reportedly plans an antiAmerican presidential bid and could be recalled. Knox may skip Bogota unless invited, while James T. Dubois reports U.S. reaction as enthusiastic.
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Panama Canal
Ver Annes
Panama
Tore Roosevelt
United States
Colombia
Senor Ospina
Ospina
State Department
Knox
Bogota
James T. Dubois
Senor Vspina
Washington
Three Remarkable Women in the February Home Companion
The piece profiles Helen Gould Kathleen Norris and Minnie Maddern Fiske as remarkable women. It highlights Gould generous philanthropy and action during a New York fire emergency at her Fifth Avenue home and notes Norris as author of Mother and Fiske as actress and manager. Gould’s charity and personal virtue are praised.
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Women's Home Companion
Helen al
Gould
Kathleen Norris
Fhce
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Helen Gould
Carlomen
Americas
Senate committee reports adverse on Cummins bill to enable court
The Senate Judiciary Committee decided to report adversely the Cummins bill to enable the Supreme Court to review the Circuit Court decree in the American Tobacco Company case. Senator Cummins reserved the right to submit a minority report.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Cummins
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Southern District of New York
American Tobacco Company
Senate Finance Committee backs convict lime plant bill
The bill to employ state convicts in lime quarries and furnish lime for cultural uses was favorably reported by the Senate Finance Committee. An appropriation supports establishing the plants. The hearing was animated with sharp exchanges, and the measure moves to the calendar for regular order with a long road ahead to passage.
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Senate Finance Committee
Callendar
British Coal Strike Averted by Government Action
London reports the planned national coal strike for March 1 is believed averted. The miners, potentially 1,000,000 workers, faced disruption but prompt government measures and the recommissioned economic board meetings spurred hopeful sentiment, including on the Stock Exchange.
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London
Eneiiiation Board
Stock Exchange
Unclear fragment from London Opinion dialogue
Fragmentary dialogue references girls practicing on a gas range and a mispronounced diagnosis locomatop ataxy, with a joking remark about removing the beatly things. The text appears as a nonsensical snippet from a London Opinion page.
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Thomson
London
Songs of by-gone days and hopeful lines in verse
The fragmentary text recalls old songs and faded rhymes from bygone days, touching hidden chords in aging hearts and offering faith and hope. It notes Sarah Beaumont Kennedy and items from Commercial Appeal, Daily Optimistic Thoughts, and remarks on a pleasant work, Ada girl admiration, and beauty versus attractiveness.
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Cloudland
God Grant
Sarah Beaumont Kennedy
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