Roosevelt Proves Endurance Riding Ninety-Eight Miles
President Roosevelt rode ninety eight miles in a single day to defend the army and navy physical tests. He departed at 3 30 am and returned to the White House at 8 40 pm after a Warrenton Virginia trip. Surgeons Rixey Carey Grayson and Captain Archibald Butt accompanied him. He faced sleet and dark roads, but changed to evening dress for a hearty meal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Addie
Army
Navy
Roswell
Warrenton
Virginia
Rixey
Carey Grayson
Archibald Butt
Aqueduct Bridge
Potomac
Georgia
Executive Mansion
Powers of Congress Debate on Information Demands
Washington lawmakers clash as Senator Bacon argues Congress has absolute power to compel heads of departments to hand over information and justify actions. Senator Lodge questions the extent of this power while Senator Hale doubts the president’s willingness to withhold documents in a future message.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Bacon
Georgia
Nator Lodge
Hale
Isaac Brock 120 Years Old Featured in Waco Area Story
A McLennan County resident born 1788 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, Isaac Brock is celebrated for living 120 years. The feature notes his residence at Bosque Falls and later Valley Mills, his health, and his long association with Peruna and Dr Hartman’s remedy as factors in his longevity, citing letters from Waco.
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Saag Bruuk
McLennans County
Texas
Bosque Falls
Waco
Valley Mills
United States
Peruna
J. C. Stephenson
Isaac Brock
Buncombe County
North Carolina
French Broad River
Asheville
McLennan County
la Grippe
Brock
House Debate Pins Down DC Paygrounds Funding Time
Lawmakers devote most of a session to an amendment adding 15600 for children's paygrounds to the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Senators Fulton Teller Clapp Money join in backing the measure as the house probes secret service issues and awaits a president ordered PennsylvanIa depot demolition inquiry.
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Legislative Department
Fulton
Teller
Clapp
Money
Senate
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
House
House Committee On Judiciary
Department of Justice
Department
Congress
Senate Committee On Public Buildings
Pennsylvania
Hayward to Head Republican Committee in interim
Augusta Ga Jan 13 Frank H Hitchcock retires as chairman of the Republican national committee William Hayward secretary of the committee will be named as its head until the committee elects a chairman four years hence in December preceding the next national election St Petersburg Jan 13 General Buseitel Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and
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Hayward
Augusta
Frank H. Hitchcock
William Hayward
Chicago Wedding Takes Six Bishops
Archbishop Quigley presided at Holy Name cathedral as six bishops aided the ceremony for Miss Blanche Plamondon of Chicago and J Henry Smith son of former New Jersey senator James Smith Jr. The wedding drew many Chicago guests and sixty attendees from New York and Newark.
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Chicago
Quigley
Hennessy
Wichita
Kan
Spalding
Peoria
Ill
Muldoon
Rockford
McFaul
Trenton
N. J
O’connor
Newark
Blanche Plamondon
J. Henry Smith
James Smith, Jr
United States
New Jersey
Holy Name Cathedral
New York
Surgeon General O'Reilly Retires. Torney Takes Post
Brigadier General Robert M O'Reilly retires as surgeon general of the United States Army today. Colonel George H Torney assumes duty to oversee soldier health. Torney, born in Maryland June 1 1860, joined as assistant surgeon in 1875 and led the Relief during the Spanish American War. He was deputy surgeon general in 1903.
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Washington
Robert M O'Reilly
United States Army
George H. Torney
Uncle Sam
Torney
Maryland
Carrie Still Cutting Up Abroad in Newcastle
Carrie Nation, the American temperance crusader, continues her provocative campaign in Newcastle on Tyne England with bold speeches and confrontational tactics as she promotes prohibition.
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Carrie
Newcastle-on-Tyne
England
Carrie - Nation
Tennessee For Prohibition Passes in Tennessee House
Tennessee bill to prohibit alcohol sales passes the lower house 62 to 20 with 22 Republicans for and one against. It now goes to Governor Patterson who is expected to veto, though vetoes may be overridden by a bare majority after five days. Prohibition to take effect July 1, 1909. Cameron Found Guilty. Pittsburgh. Charles S. Cameron, Tube City Railroad president, convicted of conspiracy and bribery in railroad franchise case. appeal filed. bail set at 20000. Porto Rican legislature convenes in San Juan.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tenessee
General Assembly
Senate
Patterson
Cameron
Pittsburg
Charles 8. Cameron
Tube City Railroad Company
Wiliam A. Martin
Tube City Railroad
General Assembly of
Finais
United States
Deneen
Hopkins
Woman killed in Washington husband dispute. killer dies
In Washington on January 14 Lizzie Harbin aged 41 and mother of seven was shot by Frederick J. Kraemer 23 at her home after returning to her husband. Kraemer then shot himself in the head and died instantly from the self-inflicted wound.
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Voude Trageay
Ywasmngston
Washington
Lizzie Harbin
Frederick J. Kraemer
Kraemer
Beatrice Mills Becomes Countess of Granard in Private New York Ceremony
Miss Beatrice Mills of New York marries the Earl of Granard at the Mills home on Sixty-ninth street and Fifth avenue. The dispensation for Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths shows royal etiquette with Viola bridesmaids as young girls. Attending are Ellin Mackay Edith Taylor Alice Aston and Grace Vanderbilt. Donald Forbes is best man.
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New York
Great Britain
Beatrice Mills
Countess of Granard
Earl of Granard
Edward
City House
Ogden Mills
Sixty-ninth Street
Fifth Avenue
Miss Mills
Thomas Francis Cusack
Archdiocese of
Ellin Mackay
Clarence H. Mackay
Edith Taylor
Moses Taylor
Alice Astor
Colonel
John Jacob Astor
Grace Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Donald Forbes
Ear of
Gladys
Henry Carnegie Phipps
Cavendish Bentinck
England
D. O. Mills
United States
Miss Beatrice Mills
Clearing Decks for Senatorial Contest in Illinois
Springfield Ill Jan 14 disorder ends as legislature canvasses elections and announces Governor Deneen and other state officers elected amid a looming recount bid for the governorship. Senatorship contest anticipated to delay until governorship disputes resolve.
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Springfield
Ill
Senate
Hall of Representatives
Deneen
State House
Albert J. Hopkins
Capitol
Representatives
House
Sugar Trust on Trial for Defrauding Government
The American Sugar Refining company known as the sugar trust faces federal fraud charges in Brooklyn federal court. The government alleges fixed scales were used by the company and some employees to defraud import revenues on raw sugar.
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New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Thomas I. Chatfield
Federal District Court
Brooklyn
The
Sugar Trust
United States Treasury
Newspapers to Be Prosecuted in Georgia Adverts
Georgia Anti-Saloon League says it will prosecute state newspapers for printing whisky advertisements, arguing papers act as hired agents and solicitors for whisky houses in violation of prohibition law.
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Atlanta, Ga
The
Georgia Anti-Saloon League
League
Two Boys and a Gun Fatality in Alexandria
In Alexandria Indiana on January 14 Clyde Wooten, seventeen, was instantly killed by a bullet from a flobert rifle held by Walter McCarty, fifteen. McCarty opened the rifle and, as he closed it, it discharged without him knowing it was loaded, the bullet entering Wooten’s face below the left eye and penetrating the brain, causing instant death.
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Alexandria
Ind
Clyde Weoten
Flobert
Walter McCarty
McCarty
Wooten
Hains Will to Jury as Taft Inaugural Ball Plans Move
A collection of terse telegrams notes the Hains will case going to the jury, Taft inaugural ball funding under pension office use, Harvard electing a new president, and senate ratifying arbitration treaties with Haiti Ecuador Uruguay and Bolivia. Also updates on wheat market strength and foot and mouth disease eradication in several states.
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Thornton Jenkins Hains
Senate
Haiti
Ecuador
Uruguay
Bolivia
Chicago
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Michigan
Pension
Taft
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
House Committee
National Billposters Association
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Mithu
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Gen. O'Reilly
Army Medics
Tennessee
San Juan
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Granard
Waoer
Beautiful Mills Twins
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