Edwin Alderman Inaugurated First President Of Virginia University
Edwin A Alderman former Tulane president was inaugurated today as the first president of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The ceremony featured a faculty alumni trustees and visiting educators in cap and gown with speeches from trustees faculty and students celebrating the foundation by Thomas Jefferson and the Roentgen ray congress accompanying exhibitions and lectures.
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Roentgen Ray Congress Opens In Berlin For First Time
Berlin hosts the first international Roentgen Rays congress with scientists from multiple nations. In Columbus, Ga, the Methodist conference opens its annual session in St Paul Church led by Bishop A Coke Sith, drawing many clergy and lay members. The sultan of Morocco offers a bounty of two dollars for rebel subjects' heads.
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Pioneer Woman Helped Create Oregon's First Flag
Susan Looney Sielwer of Salem, buried yesterday, was among Oregon's first pioneer women. She and her mother Mary Holden made the first flag used by Oregon's first volunteer infantry led by Captain Charles Bennett. The unit drilled weekly on Daniel Waldo's Marion County farm. On July 4, 1846, Salem held a parade with the flag at the head, followed by readings and speeches in the public square marking Independence Day.
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Daniel Walso
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Jefferson Dinner in Chicago to feature notable speakers
Elaborate arrangements are complete for a Jefferson banquet at the Sherman House on April 18 in Chicago. Invited speakers include William J. Bryan Mayor Dunne Thomas E Watson Clarence Darrow Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland and George Fred Williams of Massachusetts.
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Tom Johnson
Cleveland
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Massachusetts
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