Panama Canal Treaty long land grant and rights
Article I promises U S independence for Panama. Article II grants a ten mile wide canal zone and five miles each side, with exclusion for Panama cities. Panama also provides lands and islands for canal construction and operation. Article III surrenders Panama sovereignty within the zone. Article IV grants waterway use rights. Article V reserves a canal RR monopoly. Article VI protects private property rights with a damages process. Article VII allows eminent domain for sanitary works in Panama and Colon. Article VIII assigns future Panama Canal Company and Panama Railroad rights to the U S. Article IX makes Panama ports free of tariffs for canal traffic. Article XVII establishes perpetual canal neutrality. Article XIX assumes preexisting debts. Article XX renounces certain future profits. Article XXII provides U S armed protection rights and payment terms totalling 10 million upfront and 250 thousand annually. Article XXIII preserves U S rights against Panamanian legal changes. Article XXIV provides for coaling stations. Article XXV sets a joint commission for dispute resolution.
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United States
Republic of Panama
Caribbean Sea
Isthmus
Panama
Pacific Ocean
Colon
Bay of Panama
Perico
Naos
Culebra
The
Republic
Priest Objects to Improvements in Five Street Block
A New York priest Reverend J B Curry of St James Catholic Church condemns tearing down Hamilton Cherry Catharine and Market streets long block calling it a disease nursery amid tenement reform efforts. The block is criticized for lack of air and light.
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J. B. Curry
St. James’ Catholic Church
New York
Hamilton
Cherry, Catharine
Market Streets
Duchess Runs Skating Rink In London
The Duchess of Bedford owns a fashionable London skating rink frequented by the duchess herself who skates daily. A note on war losses claims over 30 million civilized men died in the last century.
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Duchess
Duchess of Bedford
London
Plans for New York Workingmen Clubhouse
Plans by the Workingmen's Education and Home association envision a five story fireproof clubhouse in East Eighty fourth street near Third avenue New York for working men. The $200000 project features a library lecture and ball rooms a stage cafe billiard rooms and special apartments for women members with courses of lectures and debates.
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Workingmen’s Education and Home Association
New York
United States
East Eighty-fourth Street
Third Avenue
Woman Who Loves Danger Annie Peck climbs El Miste Peru
Annie Peck of Boston, famed for mountain climbing, returns from South America after failing to reach Mount Sorata in Bolivia. She and Prof Tight of the University of California waited three weeks for weather and abandoned the attempt. Peck did ascend Mount El Miste in Peru to 19,200 feet and descended into its crater, with only Prof Batley knowing details of the interior.
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Annie Peck
Boston
South America
Mount
Sorata
Bolivia
Andes
Prof
Tight
University of California
el Miste
Peru
Batley
Arequipa Observatory
Remarkable Career of Edwin Warfield Maryland Governor Elect
Edwin Warfield, governor elect of Maryland, has held many roles from farmer’s boy and country store clerk to rural school teacher and registrar of wills in Howard County. He was a lawyer, country editor, Baltimore Day business manager, state senator, Port of Baltimore surveyor, and leader of several organizations including the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, the Daily Law Record, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the American Historical Society.
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Maryland
Edwin Warfield
Warfield
Howard County
Old Baltimore Day
Baltimore
Daily Law Record of
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland
The
Sons of the American Revolution
American Historical Society
Pension for Senator Quay Benefits Suggested by Measure
Pennsylvania Statesman to benefit if a bill by Senator Penrose becomes law. Quay would be eligible for 752 dollars monthly as a Civil War veteran with Medal of Honor, 60 or older, who relinquishes any current pension. He already holds the medal and does not draw a pension. Also notes a Hastings Neb postmaster indictment for bribery involving Senator Dietrich, and Louis De Mores entering Yale as Duke De Vallambrosa heir to a vast fortune, living modestly at university.
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Pennsylvania
Senator Quay
Senator Penrose
Congress
Harvard
Louis de Mores
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Duke de Vallambrosa
Marquis de Mores
West
Beef Trust
Soudan
University Commons
New Yorker Sells Lincoln Cane for 145 Dollars
Public auction in New York sold Abraham Lincoln s walking cane for 145 dollars after starting at 25. The relic, tall and buckhorn handled, bears silver-letter knots spelling Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions linking it to Lincoln s circle, including 1860 presents from Old Chum and later ownership by Frank B Carpenter and Mrs Lincoln. Fannie Mathewson, custodian via her attorneys, arranged the sale after Carpenter died still owing a loan.
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New Yorker
Abraham Lincoln
New York
Sam Co H. H. Wilbert
Broadway
Lincoln
Frank B. Carpenter
Carpenter
Fannie Mathewson
Prof Norton 76 at Harvard house birthsite
Prof Norton aged 76 celebrated informally with a small gathering at his longtime home in Cambridge. Friends and several Harvard faculty joined to offer congratulations and remembrances, noting he remains one of the few Americans his age living in the house where he was born.
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Rotterdam
Ali Nouri Bey
Daoul
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Hairie Ben Aiad
Norton
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
Prof
Italian Lawyer Admitted To Boston Bar
Count Solene Di Campbell president of Il Circolo Italiano and honorary president Mrs Julia Ward Howe is admitted to the Boston bar. Since arriving in Boston he has done sociological work for Italian residents and previously practiced law in Rome. Forty five years a teacher. Miss Dorothea Beale LL D has completed forty five years leading Cheltenham College for girls in England.
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Count Solene di Campbell
Il Circolo Italiano
Julia Ward Howe
Boston
Count di Campbello
America
Rome
Dorothea Beale
LL. D
Cheltenham College For Girls
England
A Woman's Reasoning by Mrs Blake on Mayor-elect McClellan
Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake, noted suffragist, says Mayor-elect McClellan will provide good government. She reasons from recalling his mother Nellie Marcy as an admired, beautiful girl, believing her son will do well in his new role.
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Lillie Devereux Blake
McClellan
New York
Nellie Marcy
Will Test Rights of Women Candidate in Australia
Vera Goldstein of Victoria plans to test women’s political rights by standing as a candidate for parliament. She is known as the Australian delegate to the Washington suffrage convention, invited by the Criminological society of Victoria to review juvenile crime and neglect laws. Dr. Henson opens Tremont Temple Boston with a 4009 strong congregation.
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Vera Goldstein
Victoria
Washington
Criminological Society of Victoria
Dr. Henson
P. S. Henson
Tremont Temple
Boston
Why Do We Whistle A Blackford Opinion Piece
Horace Seymour Keller in Philadelphia Ledger muses on whistling as both art and offense. He contrasts innocent tones with profane, cites varied ages and styles, and recalls an ashman who rarely whistles yet delivers the best bird songs.
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Florida
Palma
Ashman
Horace Seymour Keller
Philadelphia Ledger
Skeleton Prank Triggers Trolley Fear On Grand Street
A New York shop selling surgical instruments keeps a jointed skeleton wired to a battery that dances when activated. A doctor’s boy visits, brags with a store boy, sees the skeleton, fears the devil, and bolts into the street. The salesmen calm the doctor’s boy with a wary reunion, who recognizes the cadaverous man even in clothes.
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Grand Street
Saya
New York Press
Bowery
Africander Crowned Turf King of 1903 Racing Season
Africander, a 3-year-old colt, led earnings at just over 70 000 dollars, with victories in the Brooklyn and Suburban handicaps boosting sire Star Ruby to prominence. Waterboy tops all aged horses, Hamburg Belle dominates 2-year-olds with about 45 000 dollars, and Domino set a national record with 186 000 dollars as a two-year-old. Ben Strome sires lead with 99 000 dollars in offspring earnings, while J. B. Haggan's western stable closes a brilliant season and eyes 1904.
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Africander
Star Ruby
Brooklyn
United States
Waterboy
Mr. Keene
Domino
Ben Strome
Ben Stromes
J. B. Haggan
The Very Smart Young Man and His Failed Dream
A satirical verse follows a clever youth named Hank Spink who plots to gain wealth and fame in Boston. He boasts of plans to outpace rivals, but the world changes and his fortunes never arrive. In the end he writes home for help with basic needs, revealing his broken ambitions.
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Leatherhead
Hank Spink
Boston Herald
Sketch of John Stuart Mill Inspired by Nervous Disposition
Sir Leslie Stephen recalls John Stuart Mill in the House of Commons as a frail, nervous figure who spoke with rapid, memorized lines and intense feeling yet failed to sustain discourse. The audience, country gentlemen, mocked the philosopher and pierced his temper with scorn as he faced irritation and contempt. Money isn't the root of all evil. What's the matter with a stray hog in your garden?
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John Stuart Mill
Leslie Stephen
House of Commons
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