Hayti in Terror as Murder Routs Shake Port-au-Prince
A British newspaper report from Port-au-Prince details a brutal crackdown after a deadly shooting of political prisoners. It notes foreign warships protecting locals, widespread arrests, and fear of renewed insurrection under President Alexis and Gen Jules Alexis Coicou. Despair, currency woes, and calls for strong intervention frame a dire political crisis in Hayti.
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Port-au-Prince
Hayti
Port-au- Prince
Lord Alexis
Jules Alexis Coicou
Police Watch Sunday Baseball At Alaska Park West Brighton
About 900 to 1000 spectators watched the Alaska Baseball Club play Sub Urbane at Alaska Park in West Brighton Richmond yesterday afternoon. Alaska won 7 to 2 as police observed but no arrests were made with spectators bearing membership tickets. Membership can be obtained at a Castleton avenue directors meeting. a ruling from the Corporation Counsel is expected this week.
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Alaska Baseball Iet
Alaska Park
West Brighton
Richmond
Castleton Avenue
Corporation Counsel's
Coffee Eyes and Postum Cure Reported in Oswego Case
A Oswego Montana woman describes gradual eye disease linked to coffee and improved after switching to Postum. She notes eye pain and white lines with coffee, then three months on Postum ended eye weakness, and reports her nursing baby staying healthy. A friend with gastritis and headaches also improved after choosing Postum.
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Oswego
Mont
Postum
Testing Fireproof Material at Chicago Laboratories
Building stones subjected to fire and water tests at Fire Underwriters Laboratories in Chicago show varied durability. The tests assess stone resilience under heat exposure and water immersion to judge suitability for fireproof construction.
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Fire Underwriters’ Laboratories
Chicago
State Dept creates Far Eastern Affairs division in Washington
The State Department forms the Far Eastern Affairs division under Secretary Root with Huntington Wilson named general superintendent and William Phillips as chief. Percival Heintzleman becomes assistant chief as plans outline broader regional divisions for Europe Asia Latin America and more to follow under various assistant secretaries. The move is seen as a major step in reorganizing foreign service.
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Washington
State Department
Root
Huntington Wilson
Tokio
Generral
Willian Phillips
Peking
Wilson
Far East
Foreign
Europe
Asia
British America
Latin America
Robert Bacon
Alvey A. Adee
Congress
Fleet in four parts sails toward Santa Barbara
Los Angeles easter with the Atlantic fleet split into four divisions anchored at San Pedro Redondo and Santa Monica Bay. Spectators flock to shore while churches host sailors in pews and public tours of battleships begin. Thousands board ships daily as illuminations continue. About a quarter million locals expected to inspect the fleet.
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Los Angeles
Hampton Roads
Thomas
Santa Barbara
San Pedro Harbor
Georgia
Long Beach
Maine
Anchorage
Santa Monica Bay
Alabama
Southern California
Jack
Cortelyou Opens Speaking Tour in New York State
Secretary Cortelyou of the Treasury Department begins a speaking tour in New York with talks in Utica Syracuse and Auburn during the week. He departs Washington today and plans to return Friday after three engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cortelyou
Treasury Department
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Utica
Smilar
Syracuse
Business Men's Association of
Auburn
Five-Master George F. Hudson Reaches Sandy Hook Again
The five mast schooner George F. Hudson, ashore off Southampton on Long Island, was pulled into deep water by wrecking tugs Relief and Merritt. She leaked badly while in tow near Sandy Hook and later beached again on mud flats inside the Hook. The New York pilot boat assisted before the Merritt lashed the vessel to keep her from capsizing.
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George F. Hudson
Southampton
Long Island
Relief
J. Merritt
Merritt- Chapman Wrecking Company
Sandy Hook
Hudson
New York
Merritt
Patterson
Teachers Return From Savannah Visit
The City of Columbus, part of the Savannah Line, arrived yesterday with seventy four Columbus teachers who spent a week in Savannah. J. C. Horton, the general passenger traffic manager, greeted the visitors and was thanked for the courtesies arranged at sea and in Savannah.
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Columbus
Savannah
J. C. Horton
May Build Battleship Here in Brooklyn Navy Yard
Congressman Goldfogle informed the Central Federated Union by letter that an amendment passed by the Naval Committee of the House would require one of two new battleships to be built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The union planned to urge the Senate committee to adopt the amendment.
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Central Federated Union
Goldfogle
Naval Committee
House of Representatives
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Senate Committee
Taft Honors Grant At Birthday Exercises
Secretary Taft spoke at the anniversary of General U S Grant’s birthday at Metropolitan Temple. Andrew Carnegie and ex-Secretary Shaw followed, praising Grant’s simplicity and leadership, while a silk flag was presented to the temple.
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Taft
U. S. Grant
Metropolitan Temple
Seventh Avenue
4Th Street
General Grant
Grant
Andrew Carnegie
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
Mr. Taft
Appomattox
Lee
South
Canada
Britain
South America
Argentina
Chile
Prince of Peace
Christ
Shaw
H. W. Knight
U. S. Grant Post
Brooklyn
John Wesley Hill
Fred D. Grant
Nellie 5. Grant
Elbert H. Gary
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry W. Taft
Bishop Hartzell
Charles Street
Taft to Speak on Missionary Work at Carnegie Hall
Secretary Taft is invited to address Carnegie Hall tonight on missionary work in the East from a government perspective. The event is for Laymen's Missionary Movement and features speakers John R. Mott Silas McBee Samuel B Capen and J Campbell White.
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Taft
Carnegie Hall
John R. Mott
International Committee
The
Young Men's Christian Association
Silas McBee
Churchman
Samuel B. Capen
J. Campbell White
Taft Gets Two Delegates From 1st Congress District
John Hoffman and W. E. Koehn were elected as delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago at the Fairmont West Virginia district meeting. Delegates were instructed to vote for Secretary Taft for President. no other candidates mentioned.
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Wheeling
W. Va
John Hoffman
W. E. Koehn
Chicago
Congress
Fairmont
Taft
Railway strike disrupts Peru Arequipa Molendo line
In Paz on April 19 reports state a strike by employees of the Arequipa Molendo railway, linking Arequipa with its port. Serious disorders are reported though details are scarce.
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Ln Paz
Arequipa
Peru
Mollendo
Fire Tests on Building Materials Aid Government Fireproofing Efforts
The United States Geological Survey conducts two hour blaze tests at the fire underwriters' laboratories in Chicago to compare concrete blocks bricks and stones. Results show brick and hydraulic pressed bricks resist heat better than natural stone while limestone granite and cinders vary. Concrete heat travel is slow and reinforcement could prevent cracking. Hollow blocks with wetter mortar show less damage than leaner dry mixes.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Chelsea
Mass
Boyertown
Penn
Coellinwood
Ohio
United States Geological Survey
Baltimore
San Francisco
Structural Materials Laboratories
Geological Survey
Richard L. Humphrey
Fire Underwriters’ Laboratories
Chicago
National Board of Fire Underwriters
National Fire Protection Association
Smith
Father Chadwick in critical condition with pneumonia
Henry Chadwick conocido as the Father of Baseball lies gravely ill from heart disease and pneumonia at his Brooklyn home. His age eighty three and the illness followed a recent Polo Grounds trip to see the Giants play Yale.
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Henry Chadwick
Halsey Street
Brooklyn
Arnold W Catlin
Greene Avenue
Chadwick
Polo Grounds
Giants
Yale
General Conference of Methodists Gathers in Baltimore
Baltimore hosts the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church from May 6 with over eight hundred delegates and thousands of visitors. The event marks the centennial of the conference and includes elections for eight bishops, constitutional amendments on race episcopacy, and a packed schedule of lectures at the Lyric Theatre.
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Baltimore
General Conference of
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Conference
Light Street
Lovely Lane
New York
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New England
William Alfred Quayle
Chicago
Quayle
St. James's Church
Iowa
Wisconsin
John W. Hamilton
San Francisco
ISW
Lyric
Wilbur & Sheridan
Flexner Serum Shows Success Against Spotted Fever
Dr Simeon Flexner's new serum used in Boston hospitals and New England with considerable success. Experiments indicate mortality in spotted fever cases, previously as high as eighty percent, has fallen to below one half by the serum.
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Boston
Simeon Flexner
New England
Prayer Rug to Be Sold at Fifth Avenue Auction
The private collection of the late H. S. Tavahanjian will be auctioned starting Wednesday at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries 346 Fifth Avenue. James P. Silo will conduct the sale by order of attorney Joseph Osborne. The lineup includes a fourteenth century Ghierdez prayer rug from the Habib Askar Ali Mosque with a green arch, star motif, and blue green ivory borders. exhibits run today and tomorrow.
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HS. Tavahan- Jian
Fifth Avenue
James P. Silo
Joseph Osborne
Ghierdez
Habib
Asn
Auto Apparel Demonstrates Exclusive Saks Fabrics
Auto apparel crafted by skilled designers highlights minute details and the sweep of garments for comfort and freedom of movement. Most fabrics used are exclusive with Saks & Company and woven for this purpose. Everything for the autoist but the auto.
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Saks & Company
Major George E Pickett passes military fitness review
Major George E Pickett of the pay department V A, son of the late Confederate cavalry leader, is declared qualified for active duty after a hearing on his deafness. He emphasized his readiness to serve, and surgeons noted his record as a capable paymaster and fighter in the Philippines. The article also outlines plans to select officers for national rifle and pistol matches at Camp Perry and discusses naval testing of scout cruisers and turret modernization.
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Washington
Pickett
George E Pickett
Furgeons
Philippines
San Francisco
Army General Hospital
War Department
Major Pickett
Camp Perry
Ohio
F. D. Grant
United States
Cuba
Army
Military Academy
West Point
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Haytians
Wisrule
Republic
Alexis
Dessalines
Jean Jacques I
Harti
Amiies
Uan
Septimus Marius
Supreme Court
Gation
Island of
St. Thomas
Gattle Creek
Mich
Fire Underwriters Laboratories
State Dept
Far Eastern Division
George P. Hudson
Victor
Army of the Potomac
Carnegie
West Virginia
Charles B. Gallows
James M. Buckley
William Alfred Iguaste
Jean Valjean
Robert McIntire
Byliver
Laws
William Jennings Bivan
Thern Rrank Flenle
Indiana
Baltimers
Oreterio Larcier
David Hi. Carrel
E. Locke
Pr. Buckley
Jome S. Huyler
the Tribune
Broadway
34Th St
Army and Navy News
Ivy Department
Naval Engineers
Curtis
Birmingham
Navy Department
Salem
Quincey
Atlantic
Pacific
Magdalen
Vichy
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