White House Bride Receives World Gift Tribute
President Roosevelts eldest daughter Nel Grant receives lavish wedding gifts valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign rulers and governments. The most notable is a Gobelin tapestry from France and a jeweled necklace from Cuba, with other items including pearls, diamonds, and Dresden china.
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Roosevelt
Nel Grant
Alize Roosevet
White House
Nelly Grant
Algernon Sartoris
Uncle Sam
Grant
Thoy Ud
Roosevel
France
Ehrman
Strasburg
Cuba
New Republic
Paris
White Houses
New York
United States
Washington
Rsers
Miss Roosevelt
M. Jusserand
Louis XIV
America
Dresden
China
Ohio
State of
Tiffany
Morgan a Good Loser in Senate Career and Panama Clash
The piece profiles Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama at eighty-one, praising his vigor as a fighter for the Nicaragua route over Panama while defending his fair-play nature as a good loser. It recounts his life from Athens Tennessee to Alabama, his Civil War service, and long tenure in the U S Senate, noting his stance on canal options and a letter to the Panama Canal Commission. The article also briefly mentions Scranton shaft progress and Father Murgas wireless coding system.
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John T. Morgan
Alabama
Senator Pettus
United States Senate
Senate
Nicaragua
Panama
United States
Morgan
Cou
Papama
Senator Morgan
Athens
Tenn
Breckinridge and
Lane
Dallas County
Cahaba Rifles
John Morgan
Fifty-First
Samuel J. Tilden
George Goldthwaite
Scranton
Father Murgas
Underground wireless to Europe planned by Father Murgas
Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania engineer Father Joseph Murgas says underground wireless telegraphy will soon send messages to Europe. He has tested shallow underground links and is building deeper shafts in Wilkes Barre and Scranton to expand tests, with an estimated $22,000 cost and a 3,000 foot shaft needed to reach Europe.
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Joseph Murgas
Wilkes- Barre
Pennsylvania
Europe
Father Murgas
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Miss Maud Titus Receives Carnegie Hero Medal
Maud Titus of Newark New Jersey rescued Laura Reifsnyder from drowning in Casco Bay Nova Scotia July 30 1904. The 16 year old swimmer earned a Carnegie medal and a $2500 education reward allocation for Reifsnyder toward college.
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Maud Titus
Newark
N. J
Laura Reifsnyder
Casco Bay
Nova Scotia
Andrew Carnegie
Steel King
Miss Titus
Miss Reifsnyder
Carnegie
Reifsnyder
Carnegie Commission
Homes for City Waifs and Eight Million in Charity
Long piece on New York’s homeless children, cost of care, and charity. Advocates private foster homes over institutions, noting 600,000 under 14 in NYC with 200,000 homeless. Details on orphanage, costs per child, and adoption versus wage-based child placement. Calls for reform and reliance on country families for foundlings.
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New York
Tumsel
New York City
Tate
Massa
Pennsylvania
Children’s Aid Society of
Tilled Celebrities and Grand Monarch Titles
A humorous catalog of royal epithets from Edward VII to the Sultan Abdul-Hamid Khan and other rulers. European monarchs envy such ornate praise, while even King Edoward accepts the more humble forms of address.
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Edward VII
England
India
Turkey
Abdul-Hamid Khan
Ava
Ceylon
Shahin Shah
Monomopotapa
Edoward
Size of Brains Reveals Heavy Witterats Person
A historical note states Witterats person weighs more than the average weight of renowned scientists poets and philosophers. The fragment hints at comparisons among intellectuals but lacks precise figures or names.
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Witterats
Scientista
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Panama Canal
Messages Underground
Miss Maud Titus
Carnegie Medal
Charities Commissioners
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