Wood mission to study colonial systems abroad
March 28 1908 Brig Wood accompanied by HL L Scott seventh cavalry and 5 eCoy Tenth cavalry sails on the steamship Com for Gibraltar en route to the Philippines. Stops at Bombay Calcutta Singapore and the Malay Straits then Manila where he will command Mindanao provinces and later the division of the Philippines. He is to investigate colonial government forms in Egypt India and Dutch Sumatra and Java to adapt the best features to Mindanao.
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Egypt
India
Briga- Wood
HL. L. Scott
Philippines
Bombay
Calcutte
Pore
Malay Straits
Manila
Mindanao
Divis
Philippines. Interest Itt
Gen- Wood
General Wade
Philip
Taft
Cairo
Lord Curzon
King Edward's
Casth
Woman Leaps From Balcony in Seattle Crashes to Ground
Misa Lou Storme, in personal crisis, jumped 60 feet from a balcony in Seattle. She narrowly escaped death from the fall in the early hours Thursday. She struck ground hard, breaking a bone, and was not unconscious after the impact as she urged officers to let her walk to the hospital.
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Mies Lewi Storma
Earth
Seattle
Wash
Misa Lou Storme
Roosevelt Address on Forestry Policy at Foresters Meeting
President Roosevelt and Secretary Wilson attended the weekly meeting of the Society of American Foresters in Washington at Gifford Pinchot’s home. He urged forest preservation as essential to prosperous homes and irrigation in arid regions, praising foresters and noting lumbermen increasingly value forestry. A later note mentions Li Lehman, a prima donna, age 52, with four years on stage since debut in Prague at 18.
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Society of American Foresters
Washington
Roosevelt
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Gifford Pinchot
Li Lehman
Prague
Redmond Talks on Irish land bill prospects in national movement
John Redmond writes for the Associated Press on Ireland’s land bill. He notes a £12 million loan plus a bonus to buy out landlords, calls the measure a major advance, and says its fate hinges on the national convention at Thiblin on April 14. The piece links the bill to Home Rule and unity in Ireland’s nationalist movement. Case details follow about inmate Casey, a former Anaconda fighter in the Philippines, now at the Tacoma penitentiary after a varied life and a theft-related episode in Walla Walla.
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Ireland
London
John Redmond
Associated Press
National Movement
Island
United Ireland
Thiblin
Casey in Penitentiary Hero of Coracan Case
James Casey, once a soldier in the Philippines and a member of the Montana Volunteer Regiment, is identified as the subject of a penitentiary case. The article notes his noted bravery and exploits, including past exploits that have been cited publicly, though details are fragmented in the readable text.
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Philippines
Montana Volunteer Regiment
James Casey
Cajcoran
Tuberculosis Cripples One Quarter of Dannemora Prison
Dr. J G Rawson testifies to the New York assembly ways and means committee that about 260 inmates at Clinton prison in Dannemora are tubercular. He says only 54 can be cared for in hospital wards with others housed in cell blocks and treated areas. He notes 90 to 100 tubercular prisoners are discharged annually to the outside, risking further spread unless treatment capacity is expanded.
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Albany
N. Y
Clinton State Prison
Dannemorna
J. G. Rawson
Ways and Means Committee
Assembly
Ran Som
One plague point remains in Mazatlan district
Mexico City reports Siqueros as the sole plague point in Mazatlan district causing anxiety with 18 patients in the village and potential deaths. The Mazatlan charity committee still holds $13,500 after covering burned houses and aiding the displaced. In Berlin a cripple was fined $20 for thrashing a constable with a wooden leg.
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Mazatlan
Mexico City
Charity Committee
Berlin
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Baker County
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Col
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Rossont
Eldorado
North Wall
Hang'ng Way
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Creek
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Eldorado Tunnel
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Mother Lode
Sumpter
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