Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize Address Calls for World League
Theodore Roosevelt outlined a plan for arbitration and a world league of great powers to preserve peace. He urged force if necessary to defend peace, spoke before Norwegian royalty and dignitaries, with vast crowds and 2000 university students in attendance.
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Christian
Theodore Roosevelt
Norway
Roosevelt
Federation
Mr. Roosevelt
Christiana
Nobel Committee
Defense in Hyde case begins in Kansas City
Kansas City report states Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde's defense opened Thursday for the murder of Colonel Thomas H. Swope. Witness Sylvester W. Spangler testified on Swope's heart complaints, a July death prediction, and a $10,000 Forest Avenue home given to Hyde and his wife, plus remarks on Hyde's marriage to Swope's daughter.
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Kansas City
Bennett Clark Hyde
Thomas H. Swope
Colonel Swope
Sylvester W. Spangler
Forest Avenue
Dr. Hyde
Spangier
Hyde
Swope
Feud Outbreak Now Imminent in Fayetteville
Feud between Hatfield and Baldwin clans looms as trouble mounts in Fayetteville amid the Felts robbery case. Wires cut, town cordoned, runners summoned all clan members, Governor troop appeal discussed, detectives patrol streets, and many armed residents defy law.
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Wheeling
Fayetteville
Hatfield
Baldwin
Albert C. Felts
Wick
Trial Closing Testimony Names Felts Robbery Suspect
Late information reports the Felts trial ending today with Troy Hatfield testifying before Prosecutor George Love. Hatfield identified Felts by clothing as the robber, strengthening the case amid fears of an outbreak.
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Felts
George Love
Troy Hatfield
Scandalous European Tour After Millionaire's Secret Marriage
New York reports Henry Darian, noted financier in theatre, secretly wed former Mrs A J Levy, whom he sailed with weeks ago. They traveled Europe in Darian's car after disembarking at Gibraltar and are expected back within two months. Levy’s divorce preceded their marriage. she left a stage role in Paid in Full to wed in August 1905.
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New York
Broadway
Henry Darian
A. J
Gibraltar
Europe
Dazian
Lillian Albertson
Mr. Levy
Mra
Leve
Start in Wall Street with a quarter of a million
A dialogue from The Catholic Standard and Times quotes two capitalists. The first asks how the son is doing in business and the other replies he’s prospering, having started with a million and turned it into a quarter of a million in two months of operations in Wall Street.
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Wall Street
The
Catholic Standard and Times
Aftermath of Gaynor Attack in New York Banquet
Washington correspondents reflect on Mayor Gaynor's savage attack on William Hearst at a New York banquet. They deem the speech in worst taste, question its propriety, and fear it ends any potential Gaynor presidential bid.
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Washington, D. C
Associated Press
New York
Gaynor
William R. Hearst
Washington
R. M. Johnston
Houston Post
E. Stahlman
Nashville Banner
Mr. Hearst
Congress
Worry Over Winter Battle With Aero Planes
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet, two speakers discuss the challenge of beating aero planes in winter. One asks how it will be possible, while the other insists business is not the issue and seeks a solution.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dancer Ruth St Denis Wins Settlement Suit
New York special. Ruth St Denis defeated Mohamed Ismail in a $2000 suit over a contract for a Hindoo Temple Dance. Ismail’s case collapsed after witnesses testified he lacked dancing skill and had worked in a restaurant and as a butler. St Denis cited her own preparation and support from friends including Robert Skelly, one Carnegie secretary.
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New York
Ruth St. Denis
Mohamed Ismail
St. Denis
Ismalil
Bony
Part I
Ismail
C. M. Beattie
Omar Khayam
Fourteenth Street
H. J. Vanhaagen
Miss St. Denis
Lemail
Robert Skelly
Andrew Carnegie
Temail
E. Macatamny
Senate bill to raise Maine and mark Arlington graves
Senate approves a bill to raise the battleship Maine from Havana harbor after twelve years. The dead aboard will be buried in Arlington Nation Cemetery with the ship’s mast set above their graves as a monument.
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Maine
Washington
Senate
Havana
Nations
Arlington
No Congressional Primary in Tenth Declared
Lynchburg Virginia special report states the Democratic Committee of the Tenth Congressional District passed a resolution naming Hal D Flood as the Democratic nominee for Congress. Since Flood is unopposed, the August 9 primary will not be held.
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Lynchburg
Democratic Committee of the
Tenth Congressional District
Hal D. Flood
Congress
Fredericksburg School for Women project discussed
The grounds and buildings committee of the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg met in Richmond. Alden Bell presided with Joseph D. Eagleston Peter J. White and J A C Chandler present. E R Russell attended. The proposed $165000 plant aims for 1000 dormitory students with future expansion to half a million dollars. It will source water from an artesian well and include its own electric plant.
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Richmond
State Normal and Industrial School For Women
Fredericksburg
Corporation Court
Capitol
Alden Bell
Culpeper
Joseph D. Eagleston
Peter J. White
J. A. C. Chandler
R. A. L. Chichester
Falmouth
E. Russell
Adon Yoder Arrested Again Over Capitol Street Sign
Richmond Va special report shows Adon Yoder editor of the Idea, after being convicted for obscene literature and fined $100 with thirty days in jail and $500 good behavior bond, summoned to court again for erecting a wooden sign at 1106 Capitol Street violating city ordinance. Police officer F L Chatterson reported the incident and Yoder is set to appear in Police Court Saturday.
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Richmond
A. A. Yoder
The
Idea
Justice Crutchfield
Capitol Street
Bicycle
F. L. Chatterson
Federation of Women's Clubs of Virginia Convened
The third annual convention met in Danville with twenty eight clubs represented. Mrs Austin Quick of Lynchburg presided in Mrs A B Carrington's absence. Discussion covered Sunday newspapers, moving picture theaters, and bird killing for hats. Dr Ormond Stone of the University of Virginia spoke on the higher education of women.
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Danville
Federation of Women's Clubs of Virginia
Austin Quick
Lynchburg
A. B. Carrington
Moving Picture Theaters
Ormond Stone
University of Virginia
Suffrage Speakers Active in New York Meeting
Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney spoke at the New York Equal Suffrage League event at the Hotel Astor. Dora Montefiore, new to America, urged joint male and female governance and broader reform while Irving recalled Hyde Park insults that spurred his support.
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New York
Laurence Irving
Mabel Hackney
Equal Suffrage League
Hotel Astor
Dora Montefiore
London
Irving
Hyde Park
Mr. Irving
Si Pew
Shiv
Completing the Simile with Flower Face and Stem Like Gown
A dialogue notes a flower like face and a stem like figure in a tube gown, framing a poetic comparison. The exchange highlights botanical imagery to describe appearance with compact, stylized lines.
Woman's Kidney Pain Cured By Pills Called Oan'a
Mrs Jas M Long of Staunton Virginia says kidney pain backache and urinary trouble kept her awake and distressed. She credits Oan a Kidney Pills with immediate relief and says four years later she has had no kidney trouble. 50 cents a box or mailed from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Jas. M. Long
N. Augusta St
Staunton
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Churches Protest Against the Fight
The Presbyterian Ministerial Union, spanning eighty Bay Area churches, sent resolutions to Governor Gill Attorney General Webb Sheriff Barnett and District Attorney Donahue condemning the Jeffries Johnson heavyweight bout at Emeryville. They call it a brutal disgrace to the nation and warn it endangers lives, taints California’s reputation, and would bring undesirable elements into the community.
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San Francisco
Presbyterian Ministerial Union
Bay
Gill
Webb
Barnett
Alameda County
Donahue
Jeffries
Johnson
Emeryville
Tom McCaurthy
Jeffries and
California
Artist captures two park vandals near West Sixty seventh Street lake
New York report says Troy Kinney an artist and his wife saw ten to twelve boys stoning ducks at a lake near West Sixty seventh Street. Kinney captured two boys Bradford Crandell eleven of 1926 Third Avenue and the pair were taken to the Arsenal with the artist. They were sent to the Children's Society and faced arraignment in Children’s Court.
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New York
Troy Kinney
West Sixty-seventh Street
Kinney
Fitzgerald
Arsenal Station
Arsenal
Bradford Crandell
Third Avenue
Children’s Society
Children's Court
Woman in Knickerbocker Hotel shoots self in New York
A Savannah Georgia woman registered as Mrs J W Snow shot herself in a ninth floor Knickerbocker Hotel room. She was brought to New York Hospital in critical condition after the bullet was removed. She is about twenty eight, a blonde and well dressed.
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New York
J. W. Snow
Savannah
Knickerbocker
Priests Brave Death Save Sacred Vessels in Brooklyn Fire
In Brooklyn the Roman Catholic Church of the Presentation on St. Mark's and Rockaway Avenues burned Tuesday night. Three priests entered the burning church to save the host and sacred vessels, were trapped, and guided to safety by Patrolman Holwell as bystanders formed a bucket brigade. The fire's origin remains unknown.
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New York
Holwell
James Flynn
Clarke
Burke
Thames
Flynn
Eldwell
Liberty Theater
International Waterways Treaty Ratified Between U S and Canada
Washington reports that Secretary Knox and British Ambassador Bryce exchanged ratifications of the international waterways treaty. It governs waters along the 3,000 mile U S Canada boundary and creates a bilateral arbitration tribunal for differences only involving the two nations. The treaty remains in force for five years or until twelve months notice by either government.
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Washington
Knox
Hkryce
United States
Canada
Free press must resist money power says Dr Wise
Dr Stephen S Wise argues in Monthly that the press should reject partnership and sectionalism and remain free from money influence. He compares funding needs of newspapers universities and churches, urging limits on dollar influence to preserve moral power and independence.
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Our Cay
Stephen
Wise
How Immigrants Find Joba in a Port March Flow
Immigrants reaching this port in March totaled 108 286 with 2 611 seeking work aboard. Most follow friends and relatives to destinations where employment awaits, aided by informal networks. Wages and high living costs fail to curb arrival while thrift drives adapt to a new country. Mary had a little lamb on wheels and a jammed ratchet now cannot be wound, noted in a whimsy from the Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Joba
Williams
New York World
Mary
Father
Philadelphia Bulletin
Rent-Suites of fourteen rooms and five baths in New York
Excerpted passages criticize luxury flats and the social cost of urban living in New York. The piece contrasts huge twelve story buildings with homes lacking yard space, urging readers to keep traditional homes and reject ostentatious $12,000-a-year flats. It laments the loss of ordinary domestic life amid upscale rentals. Also notes a legal view on women keeping maiden names after marriage with examples from Mrs Stone.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Aple
Kansas City Post
Mrs
Lucy Stone
Mary Jones
John Jones
New York Tribune
Filibusterer Arrives in New York After Brazil Escape
George Vice, a young filibusterer, reached New York on Thursday after liberation from the Black Hole of Bahia Brazil. His release came after his mother Mrs Leonora Vice of Hackensack New Jersey urged US government intervention for the filibuster party and their capture in a plot against Brazil.
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New York
George Vice
Bahia
Brazil
Leonora Vice
Hackensack
N. J
United States
Bull Cotton Campaign May Set Record for 1909 10
New York officials report a surge in May option deliveries, predicting a record season for 1909 10. Through May 3, spot cotton sales reach 187,068 bales and contract deliveries 621,200, totaling 708,263, higher than any full season except 1902 3 and 1905 6.
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New York
Cotton Exchange
King
Tlyme
New York Cotton Exchange
Breakfast prompt ends playful town scene at midnight
A South Full Street woman and her blue eyed daughter converse with a Prattville visitor as the clock nears 12:30. The moment ends with a farewell kiss sound, hinting at a light domestic vignette.
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Margaret
Mommer
Hoax Notes Doctor's Spending in Exchange with Record
In the Philadelphia Record a hoax remarks on a doctor spending money like water and asks where he sources it, implying excess and deceit. The exchange underscores public suspicion of medical figures and financial probity in period press.
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Philadelphia Record
Domestic Arts and Culinary Tips in one issue
Practical household hints cover cleaning methods using coal oil, preparing sweetbreads and bacon, and pineapple pie. Recipes include rice mold with nut meats, nut balls, and nut sandwiches. Also notes on lace insertion, decorating with ribbon and featherbone, and advice on fats, butter substitutes, and pie fillings.
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Luzianne
Greer the Reily-Taylor Co
New Oriens
U.s.a
Universal Peage
Life Norway
Ame
Detective Felts
W. Va
A. J. Levy
Birkins
Jean Soenencor
Adon Yoder
Mothers’ Club
Cardui
Woman’s Department
Wales
Louisville
M. Sabel & Sons
Plain Citizen
A. F. Thomas
Neale Publishing Company
Carlosd Fete
Grand Rapids
Sydnor & Hundley
Home Beautiful
Broad St. Eichmond
Hancock
Westmon
Mare the Kidmey
Pape Ots
Iidoey
Ellin
Pearl
Sulpute Co
Bali
Pew
Pew Eter A
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