Leaving White House Veterans Recall Farewell Mood
The retiring president leaves March 4 with Taft as successor. Colonel W H Crook, veteran White House disbursing officer, recalls decades of goodbyes from Lincoln to Roosevelt and notes the sorrow of families, staff, and servants as each era ends.
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United States
White House
Capitol
William Howard Taft
Mr. Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Boston
Goodbys
Loeb
Bramwell
Oyster Bay
Roosevelts
Sagamore Hill
Goodby
Cleveland
Jerry Smith
Jerry
Mrs. Cleveland
Peru Adopts Greenwich Meridian In Official Maps
Peru publishes survey results and will use the Greenwich meridian, unifying longitude across cartography. The change eases navigation and geographic comparison with other nations, aligning with global chart standards.
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Peru
Greenwich
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia
New York Sun
Atlantic Coastal Plain
United States
United States Coast Survey
New York City
City Hall
New York
France
Paris
Spain
San Fernando
Portugal
Lisbon
International Geographical Conset
Wil Paitians
Great Britain
Indian Idols Found Near Costa Rica Graves
Emile Mosonyi, an Austrian mining engineer, reports to the Smithsonian that gold idols lie buried near graves in Costa Rica’s Indian burying grounds. He notes graves are unmarked and idols lie just under the earth, away from markers, and seeks American scientific interest in exploring Central American sites.
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Costa Rica
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Emile Mosonyi
Mosonyi
Central America
Oranges Grow in Bee County Texas Commercially
W O McCurdy of Beeville says Bee county hosts the Dugat orange tree now over 23 years old and the mother of more than 100000 trees planted from Florida to California. He notes California growers introduced 30000 trees and over 100000 were set last spring. Every Bee county farmer tends from a dozen to sixty trees.
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Bee County
W. O. McCurdy
Beeville
Tex
Florida
California
Wireless Breakthrough Between San Francisco and Honolulu
The steamer Lurline of Matson Navigation proved a historic feat by communicating simultaneously with both San Francisco and Honolulu stations while 1,400 miles from port en route to Honolulu. This marks the first time a vessel has held two-way contact with both ends of the wireless line at once.
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San Francisco
Honolulu
Lurline
Matson Navigation Compuiny
Tufts Professor Prefers Farm Life Over Teaching
Tufts professor Jerome Schneider aged eighty four who has taught Greek for fifty two years says he favors farming over academia He declares he prefers the hoe to a professorship and would rather till the soil than teach in a Boston dispatch reporting his remarks
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Tufts
Jerome Schneider
Tufts College
Boston Dispatch
Schneider
Trial opens in Gunness murder case in Laporte
Lakeport press coverage details the start of Ray Lamphere’s trial for the murder of Belle Gunness and her three children. The defense plans to argue that Mrs. Gunness is alive as prosecutors seek the death penalty and jurors unconvinced by the claim.
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Laporte
Ind
Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
R. N. Smith
H. W. Worden
Gunness
A. K. Helgelein
Aberdeen
S. D
Andrew Helgelein
Olaf Budsberg
Walter Haines
Chicago
Nancy and Bobby Seek Marriage Over School Rule
Eight year old Bobby Seaton and six year old Nancy Hartman run away from school discipline to marry. They visit the minister Rev. Scarritt and, rejected, head toward Riverside to elope, facing dusk, hunger, and fatigue as Nancy falls asleep on Bobby's shoulder.
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Nancy
Nancy Hartman
Bobby Seaton
Bobby
Magnus
North Pole
Scarritt
Riverside
Elopement Dreams And Proxies On A Silent Road
Bobby and Nancy flee to marry but are found by Howard and Nancy’s sister in a late night car reunion. Howard offers to be proxy for Nancy in their marriage by proxy scheme while trading a silver half dollar for support, and Etta agrees to act as Nancy’s proxy.
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Bobby
Howard
Nancy
Touneau
Hartman
Seaton
Etta
The Shoemaker Hiram Pool and the Weather Talk
Willowby's shoemaker Hiram Pool, famed for skill in mending and tapping shoes, attends an astronomer’s town hall talk. He quips that the weather chatter needs waxing, then jokes that rain comes when clouds are old and rotten and cannot hold patches.
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Willowby
Hiram Pool
Hiram
Pool
Empress Frederick Proves Proud Yet Hopeful
A youthful Empress Frederick, daughter of Queen Victoria, once retorted to a sailor who called her a little lady. The queen overheard and clipped her pride with a motherly rebuke. The monarch urged gratitude and the future hope of earning the title of a princess.
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Frederick
Victoria
Cleveland Crosses Storm to Speak Amid Hail and Band
During a political tour President Cleveland and Secretary Olney arrived in a town amid a severe storm. Rain turned to hail as they left the station while a brass band performed in the bad weather. The president quipped that the music was the most realistic he had heard, and the secretary asked what they played.
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Cleveland
Olney
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Smith & McCullough Law
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Arch Stevenson Reinhard & Stevenson
B. F. Hoffman
Allen J. Payton
Sargent’s Drug Store
Main and
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Krieger
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