Des Moines Cruiser Launched at Fore River Shipyard
The Des Moines cruiser was launched at Fore River, Quincy Massachusetts, with Elsie Macomber and Gov. Cummins watching. A champagne bottle shattered the prow as dignitaries including Lt. Gov. Bates and Des Moines officials attended. The ship measures 308 feet, carries five 10 inch guns and a 450-man capacity crew, designed for speed, endurance, and hard service with coal fueled range to Manila.
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Quincy
Mass
Des Moines
Fore River Ship & Engine “Company
Elsie Macomber
Cummins
Iowa
Brenton
Clara N. Carleton
Haverpill
Jownus
Boston
Miss Macomber
Gov. Cummins
Gilbertson
Martin
Merriam
M. H. Byers
John R. Prime
John G. Lopez
C. 3. Saunders
J. B. Santee
Charles E. Mitchell
Walter M. Davis
Robert M. Bigelow
Doe Besson
John Briar
John L. Bates
Hichvorn
San Francisco
Manila
Menin
Vassel
Tropical Service
Roosevelt Arrives in Cincinnati for Fall Festival
President Roosevelt and party reached Cincinnati at 10 a.m. escorted to the St. Nicholas Hotel amid police lines and gun salutes. A noon luncheon, two parades, a civic procession, fireworks, and speeches at Music Hall marked the day with business suspended for the event.
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Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Pennsylvnia
Wee
St. Nicholas Hotel
Senator Foraker
Fleischmann
Frank W. Foulds
Columbus
Waynesville
Music Hall
Agent Disappears in Estate of Grove Young Worth 300000
A Times dispatch from Higginsville Missouri reports Theodore Young business agent of the Grove Young estate, valued at 300000, has vanished. The estate was to be divided after 30 years. Young sent a letter stating he could not face trustees over shortages. His wealthy farmer father deposits funds to cover the alleged deficit.
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Kansas City
Times
Higginsville
Theodore Young
Grove Young
Young
Providence and a Second Wife Follies in Rural Folly
Jacob Matthews seeks a second wife after his wife Hannah dies. He invokes Providence to justify marrying Susie White, and Aunt Sarah reluctantly supports the idea. The new marriage devolves into an abusive, volatile household as Susie resists, confronts his control, and ultimately leaves, with Aunt Sarah noting Providence can be erratic.
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Jacob
Hannah Matthews
Hannah
Bim
Han‘nah
Sarah Weldon
Sarah
Providence
Susie ‘White
Jacob Matthew
White's
Susie
Beggar Policy Tale From Mexico City Police Encounter
An American recalls living in Mexico City where police record how many beggars may eat at a house each morning. A mix up over two brothers named Jones leads to a messenger delivering a harsh message that the beggar issue is not to be tolerated and to go to blazes if one is not fed.
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Mexico
Jones
em-Jones
Senor
Fasting for Health and the Call for Weekly Abstinence
The article argues modern meals exceed need causing obesity and liver upset. It contrasts past irregular eating with present constant meals and urges strict fasting once a week, as taught by the church, to balance intake and output. London Hospital is cited.
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London Hospital
Our Daughters and the Call to Nurture Nature
A dispatch on parental duties to raise daughters with virtue and noble character. The text urges aligning education with nature and spiritual ideals, arguing baptism and faith require sincere inner nurture alongside church rituals.
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Washington, D
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Bate
Laden Sakiru
Renee
Sabe
Pactieuium
Reluen Mail
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PHILA
Chamber of Coromerce
Minne
Board of Trade
Hound of Trace
Chicago
Minneapolis
Ce Dyovishnis
Dewrrt Fe Co
Eugene A. Pfefferle
Ulm
Minn
Coe
Skip Smur Graletts
United States
Ivis Tree
Ottomeyer Block
WM. Koch
Wils Elsie Macomber
Quinncy
Massachusetts
Elsi Macomber
Dew Moines
President Roosevelt
Speecken
Missouri
Mistice
Card
Los Angeles
Cal
Bard
Taggert
Trading Company Incorporated
Trenton
N.J
Pacific Oriental Trading Co
Pacific Oriental Trading Company
J. E. Sagethy
Edward G. Sefle
H. G. Plagemann
Pittsburg
Duquesne Sanitary Company
Third Avenue
New York
Islands
St. Thomas
Atinek
Rebein
Willemstadt
Curacona
Castro of
Venezel
Covington
iStagle
Goulds
York
Frank J. Gould
Helenita
Oyster Bay
Gould
Helen Kelly
Eugene Kelly
di Sherman
Tex
John Co. McConville
Order of Catholic Knights
Cleveland
May Reed
Kes
Moe
Incod
Cora
Jatob
Trousseau
Sarah Welton
Buskis
A. Wallow
Dizzinens
Wheeler & Wilson
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg
Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Ill
Forster Brothers
Nuw Uw
Seliell
Belell
Marx
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