Mediterranean Crisis Grows as Naval Powers Build For Show of Force
Cablegram reports rising tensions in the Mediterranean as Russia France Italy and Austria strengthen navies while Britain readies reinforcements. Contenders over Tunis and the Adriatic threaten crises with Italy seeking to assert coastal claims and Victor Emmanuel pushing Adriatic policy.
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Philadelphia Times
London
Mediterranean
Russia
France
Italy
Austria
Great Britain
Lord Charles Beresford
Morocco
Tunis
Adriatic
Rome Secolo
Victor
Emmanuel
Prince
Naples
Montenegro
Albania
Dalmatia
Victor Emmanuel
Europe
The
Vassallo
Francis Joseph
Will Uphold Canal Treaty Cabinet Considers Matter
London dispatch says the British Cabinet weighs Nicaragua Canal policy with Lord Pauncefote to receive instructions in about a month. Officials anticipate broad interpretation of directives unless the Senate rejects the Clayton Bulwer treaty, while the Foreign Secretary Lansdowne resists abrogation. A high English official adds Britain does not seek to delay the canal but dislikes tearing up a treaty.
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Cabinet
Lord Pauncefote
London
Nicaragua Canal
United States
State Department
Congress
Senate
Lord Lansdowne
England
Spain Prepares for War with Naval Armament Boost
Spain accelerates armament after the Spanish-American War. A naval commission in London ordered guns from Maxim Vickers including 7% inch models. Tests this week showed five armed rounds in 37 seconds with a 200 pound projectile, averaging over eight rounds per minute and a striking muzzle energy of 11,687 feet tons, about six times greater than Britain's current battleship guns.
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London
Spain
Maxim Vickers
Great Britain
Will Not Wed Balfour Miss Sartoris Declares Engagement Off
London June 22 The Morning Post prints a communicated announcement that the engagement of Miss Vivien Sartoris and Archibald E Balfour will not take place. Society circles are astounded as the union would have linked two prominent families and political circles.
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London
The
Morning Post
Vivien Sartoris
Archibald E. Balfour
Ulysses
Graianera Grant
Arthur Lfour
Kaiser's Brother Urges Expansion
Princess Henry of Prussia christened a cruiser in Kiel naming Prinz Adalbert. Discussion touched on expansion plans and transoceanic capability, with remarks on feasibility and obstacles.
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Kaiser
Kiel
Princess Henry of
Prussia
Prinz Adalbert
Prince Henry
Prince Edward to become a sailor as he nears age seven
A London report notes Prince Edward will be seven tomorrow and likely train on a ship, with the king opposing heavy schooling. The king recalls his own misfit as a junior dictionary and a juvenile party moment where the young prince used an old-fashioned thanks. The Duke of Cornwall quips the boy speaks better than he does.
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London
Prince Edward
Duke of Cornwall
Mad Mullah Defeated Near Aden by British Cavalry
June 22. After a prior repulse, the Mad Mullah collided with the main British cavalry and mounted infantry force. The British attacked and routed him and pursued through the night. About a hundred of the enemy were killed, while the Mullah and the Sultan narrowly escaped capture. The British suffered seven killed and wounded.
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Aden
McNeall
Nur
Art and Drama in London Special Cablegram
John Sargent suffers overwork risk after spring influenza. He works on mural design for the Boston public library while responding to portrait requests. Coquelin, Blenner, Abbey and Crane engage in arts and sport around London. Paderewski draws acclaim. Rejane acts at Notting Hill. John Drew sails home with plans for new works. Nat Goodwin and wife plan Kent summer. Fitch travels to London for new plays. Lena Ashwell to star in Jones plays at Wyndham Theatre.
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London
John
Sargent
Boston Public Library
Constant Coquelin
Kensington and Chelsea
Carlo Joan Blenner
New York
South Kensington
Edna May
Edwin Abbey
J. M. Barrie
Walter Crane
Old London
County Council
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Paderewski
Mme. Rejane
Nottinghill
Cecil
Paris
John Drew
East Hampton
Clyde Fitch
Count D'Orsey
Lady Blessington
Nat Goodwin
Jacob
Kent
Comedy Theatre
Carlsbad
Lena Ashwell
Henry Arthur Jones
Jones
British Press Praises Frank Report On South Africa And China
London papers applaud Captain Blo cum and General Chaffee for forthright remarks about British mercifulness in South Africa and U S troop actions in China. Editors wish the full frank story had been printed without asterisks to reveal the truth.
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London
Blocum
United States
South Africa
Chaffee
Tde
China
Ambassador Choate resumes work at London Embassy
The ambassador Choate returned to duties at the American Embassy in London yesterday and is reported to be in perfect health. The body of former Governor Pingree was placed aboard the steamer Geeland for New York today. In Italy, Catholic worker leagues and anti Socialists have been established with the pope's approval. Pro Boer Germans sent cable to Henry La pouchere affirming support for the Boer cause. Bonn students heard Prince Herbert Bismarck advise adherence to his father's teachings. An edict from Pekin states the court will return in October. The United States has made a new demand on China and will discourage similar actions by other powers.
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Choate
London
Pingree
Geeland
New York
Italy
Henry Lapouchere
Bonn
Herbert Bismarck
Empire
Bismarck
Frederick ‘William
Pekin
United States
China
You and I and fate defying love in verse
The fragmentary poem speaks of a solitary bond between two people. It emphasizes exclusive intimacy and mutual knowledge, promising shared growth and resilience against sorrow and time. It hints at love transcending fate as they face gray hair and looming death together.
Earl Russell Bigamy Case Returns to Bow Street
London June 22 Earl Russell again faced Bow Street Court on a bigamy charge and was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Bail set at 10,000. Nevada witnesses testified to a Reno marriage and to divorce law issues. The case explores whether Russell can be tried by peers or an ordinary jury and how English and Nevada decrees interact.
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Philadelphia Times
London
Earl Russell
Bow Street Court
Central Criminal Court
Brown
Public Prosecutions
Reno
B. F. Curter
Washoe County
Nevada
Sommerville
Riverside
Carter
Earl
Law Journal
House of Lords
Oxford University
London County Council
Cits
Countess Russell
Molly Somerville Cooke
United States
House of Peeresses
Curter
New Jungle Dwellers Arrive at the New York Zoo
A delegation of thirty exotic forest dwellers arrives by ship from Hamburg to the New York Zoo. The lineup includes rare clouded tiger and golden cat, Binturong, emus, cassowary, Siamese gray gibbon, several monkeys, and two cockatoos, all described as valuable additions to the collection.
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Far East
New York
Hamburg
Philadelphia Day at Buffalo Pan American Exposition
Philadelphia Day at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on Saturday June 20 attracts many Philadelphians. Mayor Ashbridge will preside and open with remarks, followed by Buffalo Mayor Diehl and ex Governor Pattison who will speak on Philadelphia Its Merchants and Commerce. John G Milburn Pan American president and Colonel Alexander K McClure also present.
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Philadelphia
Buffalo
Ashbridge
Diehl
Pattison
John G. Milburn
Alexander K. McClure
Pen and Penel Club
Goon Ee
Grace Baptiat
Philadelphia Exposition attendees to Buffalo trip plans
The church with about 260 members led by the Rev. Dr. Conwell will send a Young Mannercher party to Buffalo from Monday to Friday. Most members will stay for Philadelphia Day festivities. Many trade organizations plan delegations and nearly all Philadelphia exhibitors at the Exposition will attend and create decorative displays.
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Conwell
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Plans for New Four-District School at Torresdale
Plans for a four-dimalon brick school house at Torresdale by Architect Cook of the Board of Education. Fifteen thousand dollars is available for the house and lot though a site is not yet secured. The ordinance allowing excess sums for specific work has been signed. The property committee is to award contracts for divisions of Wissahickon and Baldwin schools and a new Wissinoming school, delayed six weeks due to bids being slightly over the allotted sums.
Automobiles Rise in Philadelphia as Industry Grows
The Philadelphia Times notes the city leads in auto craft and racing ambitions with Willie Vanderbilt pursuing a fast French rover on a Philadelphia machine. Manufacturers focus on serviceable cars for moderate buyers and rubber tires drive up costs, while instructors train new chauffeurs across Broad Street suburbs.
Rare Books Dealer Reveals Prices and Pitfalls of Collecting
A Walnut Street dealer in rare books discusses eight page pamphlets selling for over $500 and recalls a New York case where autographs of Washington and Jefferson were stolen from the government. He notes dealers protect buyers, rely on trusted patrons, and that religious texts rarely sell, while American history volumes fetch high prices and margins vary due to wartime destruction and paper shortages.
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New York
Washington
George Washington
Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Burr
Congressional Library
I Beiieve
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Portland
Oregon
Chicago
Boston
Three Great Cathedrals Compare Paris London New York
A London Telegraph feature surveys cathedrals under construction in Paris London and New York. It notes Westminster Westminster Cathedral in progress since 1895 with vast funding needs and a Byzantine style. Paris Church of the Sacred Heart costs exceeding a million pounds and its grand penance narrative. St John the Divine in New York rivals in ambition with colossal monolithic pillars and massive stones from Vinalhaven, funded by generous Americans.
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London Telegraph
London
Westminster
Chester
Canterbury
St. Sophia
Constantinople
Britain
Cardinal Manning
Paris
Church of the Sacred Heart
France
Germany
Uncle Sam
New York
St. John the Divine
Westchinster
Vinalhaven
St. Isaac
St. Petersburg
The Return to Rough Edges in Modern Bookbinding
The article notes binders paid sixteen cents a pound for waste scraps, with later generations repeating the practice without question. It argues close trimming is a relic of war, and that publishers now produce volumes with rough edges recalling antebellum days.
Estey Co Lands Public School Piano Contract
In St Louis on June 22 1901 manager FE M Read of the Estey Co expresses elation after securing a contract to furnish seventy five Estey upright pianos to the public schools. Thirty six competing makes were considered and the award was approved after committee review and the supervisors of music urged Estey as best value. Delivery required by August 31.
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St. Louis
FE. M. Read
Estey Co
Estey
Absinthe Drinking Debated In The Press
A Washington Post piece notes New York Tribune views on absinthe declining in the United States. It cites European cases of harm but argues limited danger domestically, while French tax changes curb consumption and other spirits also threaten health.
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Mad Mullah
ART and Drama
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Déuy
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Zoo
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Chaffeur
Newport
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Willie K. Vanderbilt
Rover
Rubber Trust
South Broad Street
Stawart
Ashbourne
Wilow Grove
Elkins
Overbrook
Walnut Street
Pennsylvania
America
Benjamin Franklin
Trenton
Martin Luther
Senase
Ludwig
Ludwig & Co
Bourne
Haines Bros
Ludwig Piano Co
Columbia Avenue
Chestnut Street
Board of Education
Estey Company
ALBA
Wayer
P. Courtright
Washington Post
New York Tribune
Mandhouse
Mwan
Columbia
Seneca St
Union
HOTEL
Buffalo, N. Y
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