Crown Blessing of Edward and Alexandra at Westminster
London Aug 11 King Edward and Queen Alexandra were crowned in Westminster Abbey in a lavish ceremony. The event featured the regalia reconsecration, anointing under a canopy, and the archbishop reading prayers while the crowd cheered Viva Alexandra and Viva Rex Edwardus.
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Queen Alexandra
Westminster Abbey
London
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Alexandra
Seadok
Westminster
Chapel Royal
Archbishop of Canterbury
Earl of Halsbury
Westminster Boys
Crowds Gather for Coronation Day in London
Description of Scenes To and From the Famous Abbey reports a bright sunrise giving way to threatening clouds as coronation day approached. Early procession crowds were smaller than expected despite enthusiasts with camp stools and equipment along the route.
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London
Return of King and Queen Draws Enthusiastic Crowds
Crowds in London and colonies greet the monarchs after the coronation. The king signals openness to public access to Osborne House while proposing convalescent homes for navy and army officers. Blessings and cheers accompany the return to Buckingham Palace and Sunday services.
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Clubland
Constitution
Buckingham Palace
Osborne House
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Army
London
Australia
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Queen Alexandra
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St. James Palace
Oxborne House
Queen Victoria
Wind storm causes heavy damage in Kansas City
A wind storm in Kansas City did $100,000 damage in eight minutes and injured 12 people. Liberty Warrenville and other towns also reported damage. Streets were filled with debris.
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Kansas City
Liberty
Warrenville
Death's Sudden Call Ends Michigan Senator McMillan's Life
Senator James McMillan died at his summer home in Manchester-by-the-Sea Massachusetts after a brief illness from heart failure. He had faced overwork and recent personal losses, with his death prompting shock from Governor Bliss and a note that a legislative vacancy would be filled by the Michigan Legislature in January.
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Manchester-by-the-Sea
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Saginaw
Mich
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Ont
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Cleveland
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State Central Committee
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Fire at London hotel claims seven lives in San Angelo
A blaze at the London hotel in San Angelo Texas destroyed the structure and killed seven people including Mrs Landon wife of the proprietor and Ed Hendrick of Waco and Houston residents. About 75 guests were evacuated with three others unlocated. Three stables and several stores burned as firefighters saved the business district.
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Landon
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Waco
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Houston
River to be Abandoned Missouri as a Transportation Route
Sioux City August 11 United States plans to abandon the Missouri river as a transportation channel after failures to control sandbars snags and floods. Congress recognizes the river cannot stay open without costly dredging and Chittenden notes the Missouri's productive era has ended. Since 1890 about $376 144 has been spent to keep the upper channel clear.
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Missouri River Commission
Missouri
Roosevelt Grants Cable Landing Rights to Commercial Pacific
President Roosevelt announced approval of the Commercial Pacific Cable company with permission to land a cable on U S shores and in Hawaii Guam and the Philippines. Access to navy soundings and profiles is included in the memorandum drafted by the justice department. A separate report notes Prince Tsai Chen arrival in New York aboard the St Paul as the first Chinese royal to visit the United States.
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New York
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Prince Ching
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Liang Chen Tung
Wu Ting Fang
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Prince Chen
America
Aged Actress Eliza Young Dies at 91 in New York
New York August 11 Mrs Eliza Young the oldest American stage actress died Sunday at the Actors Fund home West New Brighton She aged nearly 92 suffered a hip fracture from a fall two weeks earlier Born in London she acted long in London and the provinces came to the United States in 1856 and last appeared in 1889 at the Fifth Avenue Theatre with Mrs Langtry in Mancbeth Root Denies Writ to Restore Miss Taylor Washington Aug 11 Secretary Root rejected a mandamus petition to restore Miss Rebecca J Taylor to a War Department clerkship saying court review cannot compel executive action Miller ex sheriff of Scotland county Mo dies at 63 from eating matches in Peru Ind He believed phosphorus stimulant from army service
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Fifth Avenue Theater
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Peru
Ind
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Scotland County
Knox Assaulted in Atlantic City Over Trust Foe
Attorney General Knox reported assaulted in a hotel restaurant incident linked to his persecution of trusts. The assailants named include Charles T. Schoen and Theodore Cramp, both Philadelphia figures, with another Philadelphia acquaintance. Knox described a hurried exit and noninjury.
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Mr. Schoen
Richard D. Lewis
Mr. Cramp
Europe
Bryan declares no 1904 presidential bid
William Jennings Bryan, while traveling to Danville NL to speak, says he will not be a candidate for president in 1904. He dismisses Thursday reports of a future nomination as unreliable and prefers to remain a private citizen focusing on his editorial work and reform advocacy.
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Col. Bryan
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Sixteen Dead in Wreck at Milwaukee Line
Marshalltown Iowa reports sixteen killed and about forty injured in a Milwaukee Road freight wreck on Wednesday. Coroner notified of William Thorpe death at Mercy hospital Des Moines. Wreckage not cleared and more bodies may be found. Cholera Spreading in Manchuria. Cholera deaths in Harbin rise to between 100 and 180 daily. fears of spread to Irkutsk and Vladivostok.
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Manchuria
St. Petersburg
Harbin
Prohibitionist Ticket Chosen in Michigan and Nebraska
Detroit convention nominates a full slate headed by Westerman for governor and Hart for lieutenant governor with a two plank platform opposing liquor and supporting equal suffrage. Nebraska convention names S. T. Davies for governor on a liquor suppression platform. Democratic ticket leads in Tennessee returns for supreme court and chancery appeals. Colorado Republicans set date for state convention in Denver on September 4.
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Manley M. Chase
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Mount Clemens
J. G. Ward
Hillsdale
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Milan
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Neb
Nebraska
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Otoe County
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Tenn
Court of Chancery Appeals
Denver
Col
Republican State Central Committee
Cuba Increases Tariff and Cuba Loan Plan Outlined
The Cuban senate authorized higher import duties touching shoes hats and foods with rates up to 150 percent on common soap and 100 percent on eggs and onions. The American league urged immediate aid for Cuba to secure future credit and proposed issuing national currency backed by Cuban bonds with U S guarantees.
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State Department
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Senate
New York
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Cuba
Spain
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League
Trade Review Outlook Boosted by Bright Crop Prospects
Bradstreet reports midsummer quiet fading as fall demand rises with strong crop prospects and good prices. Buyers flood markets, sure of higher activity next week. manufacturing remains active and failures are few. Dun & Co notes agricultural strength offsets labor disputes, with heavy fall trade anticipated, lumber and fish sectors strong, and rail earnings up.
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New York
Bradstreet
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Ambassador White Resigns From Berlin Post
Berlin August 6 Ambassador White mailed his resignation to the United States and set November 7 as the effective date. He is in Hamburg taking the waters and may remain there until month’s end. Rumors place possible successors as Tower to Berlin Storer to Russia and Henry White to Spain.
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Roosevelt
Hamburg
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Storer
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Russia
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London
Tower
Man Commits Suicide in Bloomfield Jail
Ottumwa Iowa August 9. B G Chidhester 25 son of Bushnell Illinois took poison in Bloomfield jail amid grim prospects of penitentiary for grand larceny and a broken engagement leaving him desolate.
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