Navy Secretary Long-Dewey Report Highlights War Tests and Builds
The annual Navy Secretary report lauds wartime tests and rapid fleet readiness after Manila and Santiago victories. It details operations from Cape Verde to Santiago actions, channel maneuvers, and Schley Sampson signals, plus hires of 110 vessels including the Mayflower yacht and local coaling needs.
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Secretary of the Navy
Manila
Santiago
Sissbee
Maine
Dever
Lfe
Pacific
United States
Cervera
Cape Verde Islands
Lampoon
Gaepe Haytien
Bt. Thomne
San Juan
Fortifica- A
Havands
Schley
Fueron
Curacao
Sampson
Schiey
Marblehead
Sandhaigo
Cienfuegos
Cerveray
Salmpson
Nicholas
Promrece Sampson
Key West
Cori
Merrimac
Cuba
Yucatan Channel
Osh
Eollfier
Yale
Harvard
Mole St. Nicholas
Schrey
Washington
St. Nicholas Mole
Haiti
Cuban official predicts Cuba’s annexation to United States
Domingo Nandez Capote, former Cuban vice-president and current head of the executive commission, says the future of Cuba will inevitably involve annexation by the United States. He denies Cuban leaders seek such an outcome, though Cuban independence is seen as temporary and the populace desires to see its flag over free Cuba before annexation occurs.
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Havana
New York Herald
Domingo Nandez Capote
Executive Commission
Cuba
United States
Constitution Elm of Corydon and Indiana’s birth
Historic Corydon landmark the Constitution elm shaded the 1816 Indiana constitutional convention. The tree along Big Indian Creek measures about 15 feet branch spread and over fifty feet tall. The piece urges state purchase of the ground to preserve the venerable landmark.
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Corydon
Indiana
Territorial State House
Indian Creek
Indianapolis raid causes insult with tobacco sign soldiers
A Saturday raid in Indianapolis exposed a parade of over fifty soldiers in uniform carrying inverted tobacco boxes as sign advertising a brand. An officer led the men, identity to be located, with suspicions of missing guns and government inquiry ongoing. Williams from Northumberland faces arrest amid broader investigations.
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Indianapolis
Uncle Sam
Indiana
Barnett
Bodemiler murder case case resurfaces with unnamed boy probe
A new development in the Bodemiler murder case involves an unidentified male child being examined under the case. Officials have not disclosed the boy's identity or relation to the investigation.
Indiana Patents Issued Tuesday To Eight Inventors
Patents granted to Edwin I Barber Larwill for spring heel for boots. Ernest F Barth New Albany for a game device. William H Brown Indianapolis for a floor. William H Cloud Kokomo for a measuring vessel. William M Denniston Bedford for a truck. Louis Pfeifer Jr Bufkin for an end gate latch for wagons. Walter W Schuks Richmond for a carriage pole. Elmer E Stephenson Wabash for a trace holder.
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Edwin I. Barber
Ernest F. Barth
New Albany
Wiliam H. Brown
Indianapolis
William H. Cloud
Wiliam M. Denniston
Bedford
Louis Pfeifer, Jr
Bufkin
Walter W. Schuks
Richmond
Elmer E. Stephenson
Wabash
Col William R. King Towing Steamer Under Construction
Work has begun at Howard's ship yards in Jeffersonville on a steel government towing steamer envisioned as the most powerful and costly yet. The vessel measures about 20 feet long and 40 feet wide and carries a price tag of $200,000. It is to be named Col William R. King in honor of Lieut. Col. King of the United States Corps of Engineers.
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Hobson
Guantanamo
Shatter
Tampa
Santiago
Shafter
Sampson
Long
Auxiliary Naval Force
Coast Signal Service
Cretans
Brazil
United States
Albany
Nictheroy
Buffato
Southern Pacific Company
el Norte
el Rilo
el Bol
el Sud
Panther
Vasiger
Venezuela
Pu- Mar
Yorktown
Old Dominion Line
Ogden Goelet
Sovereign
Borven
Topeka
Diogenes
Thames Iron Works
London
Charles Flint
Manley
Schichin-Iron Works
Germany
Mall Company
Niort
Tasts
Beppe
Naval Board On Construction Rec
Philippines
Congress
Jeffersonville
Howard's Ship Yards
William R. King
King
United States Corps of Engine
Rochester Man Kills Son-in-Law Then Takes His Own Life
Josiah Bowers argued with his son-in-law William Carr near Rochester on Monday and shot him in the roins. He then killed himself with a final shot. Bowers recently lost a divorce filed by his wife and was described as quarrelsome.
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Reformatory
Wabash
Manchester
Rochester
Josiah Bowers
Wm. Carr
Bowers
Carr
Baptists Plan New Goshen Church Building
German Baptist congregation in Goshen prepares to erect a new church facility. John H. Long, age seventy, a Columbus Democrat and former county auditor, joins the effort, contributing public notes on the project.
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Goshen
John H.long
Columbus
Dauaberty
Review of Postal Service achievements in wartime
General Charles Emory Smith reviews the postal service work during military operations. He highlights auxiliary steamers St Pauls and St Paul and York, their conversion into armed cruisers, and their vital role in naval support and rapid mail service. He advocates continued upbuilding of a merchant marine and swift mail steamers as strategic assets.
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Fiar
Charles Emory Smith
Rega
St Pauls
St. Paul
New York
Paris
Harvard
Yale
United States
Spain
Atlantic
Smith
Postal Spending and Money Order Boom Highlight Report
The document notes rising postal expenditures and receipts, with nearly a million dollars in mall transport subsidies paid from Department funds. It cites a 17 million increase in money order volume and 16 million in value, plus 23 753 412 money orders issued. It calls for post office reform and star route bidding fixes.
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Rea
Inc
Pacific Railroad
Interior Department review highlights land limits and pensions
The Bliss annual report details irrigation limits on desert lands, forest reservations, and Indian affairs progress including the Chippewa disturbance. It notes 35,000 pension claims, a separate Spain war class division, and calls for a pension law revision commission. The report urges early census work and discusses rail and trade plans with Pacific routes and potential government built lines.
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Washington
Bliss
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones
Departments of the Interior and Justice
Spain
Geological Survey
Sipcatop
Eociuaie. Ae
Alaska
Forest Reserve Survey Promise Tied to Funds
A government plan envisions surveying the 100000 square miles of forest added to the reserve within ten years if sufficient appropriations are approved.
Spanish Peace Commission Likely Accepts U S Offer
Senor Montero-Rios, head of the Spanish peace commission, awaits the government reply. Unless the situation changes, the reply tomorrow noon will accept, under protest, the American offer of 20 million dollars for the Philippines.
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Paris
Senor Montero- Rios
Spanish Peace Commission
Philippines
Star Pointer Sells at Madison Square Garden for 15000
New York special reports Star Pointer the famous pacer with a mile record of 1.59% sold Monday night at Madison Square Garden to W. J. White of Cleveland for 15000 dollars. The sale drew 15006 spectators and matched the price paid in 1897 to James A. Murphy of Chicago.
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New York
Star Pointer
Madison Square Garden
W. J. White
Cleveland
James A. Murphy
Chicago
Air Route Dream for Pacific Trade Growth
Washington special reports Gen. James Longstreet's annual railroad review calling for a first class double-track air line from Kansas City to San Diego. He links Hawaiian annexation and Philippine control to rising trade, Cuban and Puerto Rican outputs, and growing bondroad prosperity with future debt repayment prospects.
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United ‘States
Australasia
United States
Middle Western
Asia
Western Hemisphere
Atlantic
Pacific
Chicago
St. Paul
Pacific Slope
Central Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
San Diego
Cal
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Sandwich Islands
Philippines
Pacific Coset
Orient
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Acapulco
Corporationia
Beattie
Washington State
St. Louis
Washington
James Longstreet
Hawaiian Islands
Philippine
Ladrone Islands
Cuba
Porto Rico
Lydia E Pinkham remedy praised by Canton woman
Mrs Florence B Horrman of Canton writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her months of severe abdominal pain dizziness and insomnia after following advice from the company. The notice extols Mrs Pinkham's long experience treating female ills and handling a vast correspondence program.
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Florence B. Horraman
Roland St
Canton
Hoffman
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Butterflies Shown Voicing Thirst in Public Lecture
In a London lecture Mr Tutt demonstrated butterflies drinking from flowers of various species. The bizarre scene showed both male and female butterflies engaging in a drink, claimed to illustrate animal taste for liquids.
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Revue Scientifique
Gideon
Zola
la Terre
Medecine Moderne
Tutt
London
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Arkansas
Colorado
Idaho
Indian Territory
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
E. O. McCormick
Warren J. Lynch
Cincinnati
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the Constitutional
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Corydon, Indiana
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Muyler
Postal Service
Charles “Emory Smith
Tment
Opfonsin Military Fields
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