Great Congress of Peace Workers Held in Chicago
The National Peace Congress gathering in Chicago drew 75 000 zealous supporters from across the globe though President Taft and Secretary Dickinson were absent. Sessions in Mandel Hall and Music Hall featured talks on arbitration, universal peace, and the Hague conferences with leaders like Jane Addams, Samuel Gompers, and John Spargo contributing.
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Great Congress OF Peace Workers
Chicago
National Peace Congress
America
Taft
Nata Mickinson
The
List and
Labor Organizations
Schurman
I) University
Jenkins Lloyd
Emil G. Hirsch
Chi
International Court of Arbitration
W. F. Rogers
Cincinnati Law School
Hirsch
Paul 8
University of Wisconsin
H. T. Kealing
Nashville, Tenn
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford, Jr. University
Music Hall
Jane Addams
Joseph B. Burtt
Graham Taylor
Chicago Commons
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Commerce
George E
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Women and Peace
Ellen M. Henrotin
Helton Gilreath
Birmingham
Ala
W. A. Mahoney
Columbus
James Arbuckle
Spain
Colombia
St. Louis
Marcus M. Marks
National Association of Clothiers
New York City
Philip N. Moore
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lucia Ames Mead
Boston
William J. Calhoun
William I Hull
Swarthmore College
James Brown Scott
State Department
Charles Cheney Hyde
Mandelhall
University of Chicago
Laula P. Lochner
Madison
Wis
Abs
Richard Bartholdt
Missouri
Interparliamentary Tew
Edwin
Mead on Competitive Arming and The Hague Movement
D Mead of Boston argues that Britain Germany and the United States control armament trends and must act in accord with The Hague spirit. He cites rising military spending, the need for international legal machinery, and calls to expand peaceful dispute settlement as diplomats from several nations attend the Chicago Peace congress.
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D. Mead
Boston
Mead
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Washington
Jefferson
Franklin
Republic
International Tribunal
Movement For International Justice
Chicago
Count Johann Sweden
Wu Ting Fang
China
Alfred Mitchell Innes
Halvdan Kent
University of Norway
Mars Compared With Earth In Land Water And Life
A discussion of Mars as compared with Earth notes Mars has more land than water and possesses water and an atmosphere. Dr. Percival Lowell’s ideas are cited on Martian life and possible intelligent beings, including theories about polar ice caps and the famed canals as evidence of intelligent action.
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Mars
Percival Lowell
Earth
Lowell
Fragmentary Q&A Sparks Transit Dream in Northcoming Voice
Text presents a fleeting dialogue about transmigration between Vietnan and a stranger. The exchange hints at a dreamlike, philosophical mood with a reference to a brakeman on a rail line, but the fragmentary source limits fuller interpretation.
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Vietnan
The Near-Halos In A Millinery Shop
A lighthearted vignette describes clerks in a millinery store wearing large rings on their arms as rims to lift halos or hair. A customer questions the purpose and the clerk explains it is to keep halos from trailing on the ground. In a Western joke, cow herd banter follows about misidentifying cattle and duty on stockings is joked with.
Welcome awaits ship as Mississippi reaches New Orleans
The battleship Mississippi arrives at New Orleans on May 6 and will be greeted with receptions and fetes. This visit marks the first time a first class battleship has progressed so far up the Mississippi, offering thousands their first sight of such a warship.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Natches
Southland
Kate Markham Power
Roosevelt kills three lions in Mau hills hunt
In Nairobi, four trophies mark Col Roosevelt's camp as 200 native followers join the American party celebrating. The lions were bagged Friday with Col Roosevelt taking three on the first shot and his son Kermit four shots for the fourth lion. Both father and son are jubilant on their first hunt. the group calls it a magnificent kill beyond expectations.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Roosevelt
Mau Hills
Col. Roosevelt
Kermit
Storm Toll Rises as Tornado Wrecks Georgia and Tennessee
A three day storm moved through the South Atlantic states causing extensive destruction and loss of life. New reports show thirty four deaths in Georgia and 60 to 100 in Tennessee as the storm continued toward Cedartown and Albany, disrupting trains and communications.
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Atlanta
Tle
Georgia
Tennessee
Albany
Cedartown
Old Hande
Unveiling of Lee Statue Planned for Memphis Reunion
United Confederate Veterans announce the unveiling of Gen Stephen D Lee's statue at Vicksburg National Park as part of the Memphis reunion in early June A special Memphis to Vicksburg train run is arranged with a round trip fare of 3 dollars for veterans and attendees.
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Memphis
Tenn
United Confederate Veterans
Stephen D. Lee
Vicksburg National Park
Wm. E. Mickle
Vicksburg
Clement A. Evans
Atlanta
United States
Gen
Stephen Lee
Bre'r Fox II Sets Mississippi River Record Run
The Bre'r Fox II owned by Morris P. Bean of Cincinnati arrived in New Orleans after a record breaking 1,554 mile voyage. It completed the trip in 54 hours 21 minutes 55 seconds setting motor boat speed records on the Mississippi River.
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New Orleans
Morris P. Bean
Cincinnati
Mississippi
Massive orange tree planting spreads through Louisiana and Texas
In New Orleans and across the region five million orange trees are being planted due to boll weevil incursions. One firm has shipped 100000 buckling stocks of trifoliata seeding with seeds for 3400000 more to Louisiana and adjacent Texas lands. Rice planting increases, especially foreign varieties, in the river bottom regions.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
Amendment to restrict college funds for millinery work
In Austin a House amendment to the annual appropriation for the state industrial college for girls bars any funds from being used to teach millinery and dressmaking if the college allows students to learn hat making that costs more than twenty dollars.
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Austin
Tex
State Industrial College
House of Representatives
Mississippi Citizens Prepare for Southern Maypole Event
Mississi ssissi eas Mississi ssissi eas Fight hundred young women at the Industrial Institute and College Columbus will parade in a large May pole event under Miss Emma Pohl. The piece covers trials in Vicksburg, railroad plans, Scottish cathedral funding, and civic activities across the state.
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Industrial Institute and College
Columbus
Emma Pohl
Athellew
Celeed
Devastating Regional Cyclone Leaves Widespread Destruction
A multi state cyclone devastates eastern Arkansas Missouri Tennessee and northern Alabama. It threatens hundreds dead and hundreds more homeless with extensive property losses across Shelby Tipton Crockett Gibson and Chester counties. The storm path crossed Arkansas Missouri Tennessee and Alabama causing ten minutes of fury at each stop and bringing heavy rain hail and an eerie electric display.
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Memphis
Tennesare
Alabama
Arkansas
Missisippi
RESO
Wwe
Missouri
West
Tennessee
Middle
Shelby County
Tipton County
Crockett, Gibson
Maciron
Chester
Arkansas Missouri Line
Tennessee-Alabama
Middle Tennessee
van Buren
Cleburne
Hard End Crittenden
Mississippi
Shelby
Tipton
Lawrence County
Wonderful Phenomenon In Amory Miss Storm Hail
An electrical storm passed over Amory Mississippi on Friday at 3 30 PM followed by a minute long hailstorm covering streets with hail as large as a man s fist. Many watched in fear as roofs of several stores with rubber oil roofing were wrecked and rain damaged goods in stock.
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Greenville
Amory
Miss
Three Negroes Lynched in Marshall Texas Jail Raid
A mob of about forty men overpowered the jail guards in Marshall Texas at 2 a m Friday morning. Creole Mose Pie Hill and Mat Chase were dragged from the county jail and lynched after being charged with firing on Deputy Sheriff Huffman and wounding Constable Cargill during a craps raid. The militia guarding the jail for three days was dismissed at midnight prior to the mob action.
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Marshall
Mose
Pie Hill
Mat Chase
Hill
Chase
Sherif Mark Huffman
Alex Cargill
Collier's Strange Bequest inwill Mixup
In the will of Peter F. Collier a $2000 yearly bequest for ten years is directed to St. Joseph's Poman Catholic Seminary of Cincinnati. No such school exists in Cincinnati. Collier attended Mount St. Mary's Seminary at Price Hill long ago, thought likely the intended beneficiary. The estate totals about $5,000,000.
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Cincinnati
Peter F. Collier
St. Joseph's Poman Catholic Seminary
Collier
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary
Price Hill
Tippecanoe County Votes Wet in Indiana Setback
Lafayette residents vote wet by a narrow margin, defying Purdue University leaders and the dry faction. President W. E. Stone and Purdue faculty backed the dry campaign to close about 103 saloons in the city.
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Lafayette
Indiana
Tippecanoe
Purdue University
W. E. Stone
Purdue
Florida Senate approves disenfranchisement measure
The Florida senate passed a joint resolution to disfranchise Black voters, 20 to 10, proposing a constitutional amendment to ensure voters in Florida are "white male" per con. The measure, similar to one two years earlier, would submit the amendment to voters for ratification.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Senate
House
Mississippi Memorial Day origins in Columbus history
A writer contends Mississippi and particularly Columbus deserve credit for initiating Memorial Day decorates for fallen soldiers. She cites a 1866 Jackson Clarion editorial and letters from local women, detailing a midnight call to decorate graves and a 25 April gathering at Mrs. James H. Boyd’s home, with ties to the Boyd family.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Columbus
Certa
Jackson Clarion
Boyd
Hall of History of the
Mississippi Archives
Mra Sue Landon Vallechean
James H. Boyd
Jefferson Street
Lew
Appomattox
Johnston
Misa Adams
Vaughn
Memorial tribute to Jefferson Davis in the postwar era
The piece honors Jefferson Davis as a revered figure for many and describes the shifting views after his death. It notes his later life including Beauvoir, his failed autobiography Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, and his burial in New Orleans. It mentions the statesmanship and memory that followed his passing.
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Beauvoir
New Orleans
Davis
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