President Roosevelt Leaves Groton School for Washington
President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. departs Groton Massachusetts with family and staff after a day of relief and happiness at the school. The party, including Cortelyou Barnes Peabody and two secret service officers, rides to Groton village station where locals cheer as he bows.
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Groton
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Roosevelt
Washington
Ted
Cortelyou
Barnes
Peabody
secret service
Groton village
Wor- CAobed
Roosevelt Farewells and Westward Movements Note
The president arrived in Washington at 12 30 p m. Mrs Roosevelt bears up as Miss Alee Roosevelt leaves for Groton to relieve her. Theodore Jr plans return to the White House within ten days when health permits. In New York a butler, John O Neill, pleads guilty to stealing Miss Gould’s valuables worth up to ten thousand dollars. Philippine Exploration Co files for five hundred thousand six hundred dollars capital to colonize Mindanao. Boring for oil in Mobile County reportedly yields Beaumont oil type at 200 feet depth.
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Washington
Warren
Mra Roosevelt
Alee Roosevelt
Groton
Butler
New York
Daniel Donovan
Helen Gould
John O’Neill
Miss Gould
Titus
detective bureau
Alabama
Mobile
Ala
Cintronelle
Mobile county
Guarding Health Against First Attacks of Disease
Advice emphasizes protecting health as essential, noting disease often begins with the liver and presents in many forms. The message urges vigilance and preventive care to avert illness, focusing on early, proactive protection.
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S. S
Philippine tariff vote looms as House backs direct election
Washington Feb 14 The House adopted a resolution to amend the constitution for direct popular vote to elect senators. Debates touched Philippine self government and tariff concessions. Teller urged fullest self rule while Mitchell urged 50 percent Dingrey tariff reductions. Two general bills passed: Confederate claims payment up to 30000 and Spanish claims committee powers. Corliss opposed private cable from San Francisco to Manila.
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House
Pacific Cable
Washington
senate
Teller
Colorado
Mitchell
Oregon
United States
Lee
Johnson
Spanish claims committee
Corliss
San Francisco
Manila
Big trolley deal links New York and Boston route
A Philadelphia capitalists meeting in New York perfected a trolley deal to parallel the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad from southern Connecticut to Hartford under a single management. United Gas Improvement Company reps attended. plan to acquire a line with uninterrupted connections from New York to Boston and branches along the route.
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Philadelphia Company
New York
Boston
New York, New Haven
Hartford
Connecticut
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Santos-Dumont Aims For Mediterranean Air Crossing
Photo by Nadarz Paris features inventor Santos-Dumont. The Brazilian, famed for navigation ambitions, describes trials near Monte Carlo as preludes to a 600 mile Mediterranean crossing toward Corsica Calvi with plans to head to Africa. He vows no crew on the voyage and expresses strong confidence in his airship and motor.
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Nadarz
Paris
SANTOS-DUMONT
Monte Carlo
Mediterranean
Corsica
Calvi
Africaa
Africa
Eleven Miners Injured In Mine Dumping Accident
Eleven men at the Boston Run colliery St Nicholas Pottsville Pa were injured when a hoisting error sent a mine car up a dumping chute. Several workers sustained critical or fatal injuries including William Thomas Owen Dunn Joseph Ruekus Joseph Francis John Davis Elmer Koch and others. One engineer William Bevan is missing.
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Pottsville
Boston Run
St. Nicholas
mois
William Thomas
Owen Dunn
Joseph Ruekus
Joseph Francis
John Davis
Elmer Koch
William Bevan
Vessel Abandoned Off Cape May As Ice Sinks Schooner
The schooner Frank Herbert carrying pine lumber from Opecoke North Carolina to New York was abandoned in a sinking condition off Cape May New Jersey after being caught in heavy ice. Cold Spring life savers attempted rescue but could not reach due to ice. Tug Harold arrived with barges to take off the crew. The vessel was set on fire by its captain and burned for hours.
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Cape May
N. J
Frank Herbert
Opecoke
N. C
New York
Delaware bay
Herbert
Hareld
Harold
Swindled Old Soldiers Claimed to Be Son of Pension Commissioner
Charles Evans, alleged son of U S Pension Commissioner H Clay Evans, was jailed in Elkins West Virginia after posing as a relative to con old veterans seeking pension increases. He swindled hundreds, charging fees to obtain higher monthly pensions. Meanwhile a Tangier dispatch reports the Benimsara tribe attacked by Gesagna. 38 Benimsara killed and eight chiefs among the dead.
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Evans
Winesire W. Val
Charles Evans
Charles Cullence
Elkins
W. Va
himeself
som
H Clay Evans
estemdas
haim
United Sisters grand jury
tendon
Tangier
WE NEGLECT CUBA General Wilson Slams U S Policy
General James J. Wilson, former governor of Matanzas, told the Union League Club in Chicago that the United States has neglected Cuba since occupation. He said no families have been returned to homesteads, no farms restocked, and no steps taken to expand commerce to aid recovery from war. He criticized perceived unfair treatment of the island by the administration.
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Wilson
Chicago
Cuba
James J. Wilson
Matansas
Edward
United States army
Union League Club
Geneval Wilson
Miller's Trust Forms $700 Million Miller Federation
A new national millers group with $700 million capital was formed in Chicago to defend American flour abroad, seek reciprocity with consuming countries, prevent railroad discrimination against flour shipments, and push favorable legislation. It absorbs the National Millers' Association with possible central headquarters in Minneapolis or Chicago and branches planned in New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New Orleans and San Francisco.
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Natral Association
Chicago
United States
National Federation of Millers
National Millers’ Association
Mineapoliss
New York
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New Orleans
San Francisco
German Admiral Goes Calling in New York
New York on February 14 Rear Admiral Count Von Baudissin commander of the German imperial yacht Hohenzollern visited naval and city officials including Rear Admiral Barker and Major General Brooke. He wore a blue dress coat with gold embroidery and imperial crown cuffs. Des Moines closes churches and theatres to curb smallpox during campaign season. Princeton wins Moskey match in St Nicholas meet, 3 to 1.
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Hohenollern
New York
Count Von Baudissin
Hohenzollern
Fritz Rebensburg
K. Buenz
Barker
navy yard
Brooke
department of the east
city hall
Des Moines
Judge Prouly
Congressman Hall
Boers Survive Kitchener Ring as Fire Flares Bright
Readable excerpts describe Lord Kitchener's vast encirclement of De Wet's Boers, a 60 mile line in heavy action near Hellbrow, with armored trains and electric searchlights. Boers stubbornly resisted, split into three forces, and escaped the ring amid continuous rifle and artillery fire for hours. Separate briefs report a fatal handcar strike near Chester, Pa, and a New York elevated railroad collision with multiple injuries.
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London
Lord Kitchener
block house
Hellbrow
halding De Wet
etders
De Wet
Van Collers
Imperial Light Horse
Elevated Road
New York
Third Avenue Elevated
194th street
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EBERT & SONS
Sargent Gem Cutter
Tegat Butcher Kuiver
Bes
SABELLA GAS WORKS
PATRICK
WILLIAMSON'S
HENLEY
Everese
TRE CARROLLTON CHEMICAL CO
Sele Proprietors
BALTIMORE, MO
ewe
MRS. ROOSEVELT
President Roosevelt
Coleman
W. H. BONDURANT
Pittsylvania Co
TNORTH MARKET STREET
DAVID WINEBERG
CITT HALL
ERNEST HELFENSTEIN
W. Patrick St
Frederick, Mi
Philippine Exploration Company
Mindanao
Philippine group
Tutt
Posmay
Releif
SOLE
A. L. PEARRE
BR. M. Wall
Morristown
Tenn
SWIFT
ATLANTA
Revision Committee
Presbyterian revision committee
Liam H. Roberts
Booker Washington
Lincoln
Neb
Booker T. Washington
University of Nebraska
Andrews
Mr. Washington
Barnett
James Baker
Shamokin
Royal Oak
Pittston and Wilkesbarre
J. Langdon & Co
Elmira
N. Y
Temple Coal and Tren Co
Booth-Tucker
Commanie Booth-Twekker
the
Salvation Arm
MILLER’S TRUST
Printtton
Moskey
Prireton
Brown Taiser
horker
St Nicholas mak
Rams
Prinzeton
General De Wet
Chester
Baltimore and Ohio railroad
Ridley creek bridge
Daniel Keeley
Horace
Wilmington
Fairview
Bethlehem
Robert A. Abbott
Jefferson Coal company
seariet
One Hundred and Thirty-second regiment
Antietam
Hayes
scliy
Rutherford Plait Hayes
uts
Ashevile
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