Ban on Silence Hits Roosevelt Campaign In London Warnings
The piece reports that Colonel Roosevelt must not speak publicly for months due to a vocal cord condition diagnosed by a renowned specialist. While the prohibition limits his Pennsylvania and New England appearances, his influence persists through writing. The note hints at ongoing party tensions and future campaign activity despite the ban.
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London
Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Penrose
Europe
Amos Pinchot
George W. Perkins
Bill Flynn
Palmer
Massachuestts
Barnes and Murphy
New York
T. R
Bryan’s treaty with Colombia faces Senate opposition
Early indications show opposition in the Senate to Secretary Bryan’s proposed Colombia treaty. It would pay Colombia 25 million dollars and include an apology from the United States. Bryan testifies before the Senate committee as critics doubt the plan as drafted.
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Bryan
Colombia
United States
Senate
United States of America
Bryan Questions Treaty Aims Before Senate Committee
Secretary Bryan faced sharp questioning over aims of the Panama Canal treaty. He cited three goals including restoring amity with Colombia and with Panama and shaping Latin American opinion toward the United States. The panel pressed on concerns about Colombia rights and the $1,000,000 fee for Hannis Taylor, while Nicaragua talks were also presented by Bryan.
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Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
Bryan
Colombia
Panama
United States
Latin America
State Department
Taft
Knox
Mr. Bryan
Panama Canal
Hannis Taylor
Taylor
Nicaragua
Charles A. Douglas
Washington
Panama Canal Parade Heralds New Era in World Trade
The Atlantic fleet escorts warships from many nations through the canal led by the U S president aboard the Oregon then the New York. Admiral Dewey and other dignitaries travel to the isthmus for a historic transit. Foreign powers plan participation with Congress funding for officer entertainment as ships proceed to San Francisco.
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Panama Canal
United States
Pacific Ocean
Oregon
Cuba
Cervera
Texas
New York
Isthmus
Big Ditch
Admiral Dewey
Canal
Congress
San Francisco
Washington
Wireless telephone advances promise new era of communication
The article notes experiments in New York proving the wireless telephone is near. It recalls the struggle since the wireless telegraph and hints that six years ago a device appeared to carry sound, signaling progress toward a practical wireless phone.
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New York
Wireless telephone tested across Chicago to Norfolk
Dr. D. G. McCaa of Lancaster Pennsylvania demonstrated a wireless telephone capable of transmitting the human voice over a long distance. In tests between the Battery New York and a vessel near Norfolk the inventor spoke clearly while the ship moved, suggesting the wireless telephone could replace the wireless telegraph and connect land and sea lines directly.
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Chicago
D. G. McCaa
Lancaster
Penn
New York Herald
Battery
Manhattan Island
Herald
McCan
Herald Office
Norfolk
New York
Vanderbilt estate to join national forest reserve in Pisgah tract
The 86 700 acre Vanderbilt Pisgah Forest in western North Carolina will be acquired by the National Forest Reservation Commission for 438 500 dollars. The purchase covers parts of Translyvania Henderson Buncombe and Haywood counties and preserves the Pisgah range’s eastern slope. The gift from Mrs. Vanderbilt aims to maintain the forest as a national treasure and game refuge with deer wild turkey pheasants and trout. Total Appalachian Forest Reserve acreage rises to about 1 077 000 acres. Biltmore is excluded from the sale and remains opposite the Pisgah tract.
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Hayward Counties
North Carolina
Pisgah Range
Knoxville
Tenn
Vanderbilt
Mr. Vanderbilt
America
Pisgah Forest
George W. Vanderbilt
French Broad River
Pisgah
New York Evening Post
New Professions Rise in Texas as City Manager Roles Grow
In recent years Texas has seen two new high level careers emerge the commercial secretary and the city manager. Amarillo hosts both and the mayor in a Beaumont Journal report praised them as honorable demanding talent and offering attractive, useful service opportunities comparable to traditional professions.
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Texas
Amarillo
Theigh School
Beaumont Journal
Three Maids and a Man of Philosophy
A young man loves three women blonde brunette and raven haired. He seeks advice from three friends a scientist artist and merchant who each praise a different woman in letters. He marries the raven haired one and a year later remains devoted to all three through their spouses outcomes.
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Science
Paul
John
Frank
Raven Hair
Frock for Summer Versatility in Butterfly Marquisette
A versatile summer dress in copper toned butterfly marquisette serves as afternoon wear or informal dance attire. It folds neatly for travel, with copper satin trim at the girdle and lower skirt. A long Russian tunic style features self ruffles and a hang embroidered ripple collar backed by bronze boots as a stylish finish.
The Horror of Cost Cutting in Public Works
The passage laments road neglect caused by directors and flood disasters from shoddy dam construction. It cites collapsed dams burying hundreds, fires in tin or wooden buildings, and the St. Lawrence disaster near thousand deaths, urging that greed and cupidity be blamed for preventable tragedy.
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St. Lawrence
Paintings Targeted as British Militant Suffragists Rise
The Washington Star notes militant suffragettes in England harass and attack national art treasures. King loomed against, judges faced indignities as women deride royalty with shoe throwing. The piece urges moving masters works to a country valuing art and safer protest.
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Washington Star
England
Royal
Old England
Empress of Ireland sale rumor questioned
A Sioux City Tribune report distrusts a claim that the Empress of Ireland was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway after rejection by a trans Atlantic steamship line. The piece laments disasters followed by rail line shamblings caused by inadequate equipment and profiteering.
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Sioux City Tribune
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
trans-Atlantic Steamship Company
Field mice learn sharing after quarrel with quail
A field mice pair argue over a stalk of wheat and miss a meal as a quail quietly observes. The quail offends no one yet cunningly eats the wheat they fight over, then invites them to seek a better meal together for all.
Arbitration Treaty With Japan Promotes World Peace
The Ohio State Journal notes the arbitration pact with Japan undercuts jingoism and delays war by settling disputes without invoking vital interests. It argues diplomacy extending time reduces the chance of bloody conflict, suggesting arbitration makes war less likely when honor is at stake.
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Ohio State Journal
Japan
Violence shocks west with Manhattan killings
Kansas City Times reports a brutal weekend on Manhattan Island with eight dead after gunfire along Ninth Avenue and West Forty-sixth Street. A dance hall brawl nearby left two stabbed and three shot to death as residents fled crowded tenements.
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Kansas City Times
Manhattan Island
Ninth Avenue
West Forty-sixth Street
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