Roosevelt to Lecture in Washington Visit to Wilson and Congress
Former President Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Washington for a visit marked by a lecture on recent American explorations at the Geographic Society and a conference with Progressive leaders in Congress. He will review Smithsonian exhibits, dine with diplomats, and meet President Wilson before a GE Society audience.
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Washington
President Wilson
White House
D. C
National
Roosevelt
National Groaphic Society
Congress
Jonel Roosevelt
America
Themithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
Wilson
Oedar Alcenator Lodge
Maschusetts
Diplomatic Corps
Geographic Society
Progressive
Roosevelt Motoring to New York for Washington Conference
Theodore Roosevelt traveled by train from Oyster Bay to New York then to Washington this morning. He planned to discuss the political situation en route to the capital. He would meet Philadelphia Indexter of Washington Pressive, K. Davis national Progressive committee secretary, and Representative Hinebaugh of Illinois who chairs the Progressive congressional committee.
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Theodore Rosevelt
Oyster Bay
Washington
Pennsania
Anmed
Pital
Philapindexter
Pressive
K. Davis
National Progressive Committee
Hinebaugh
Inois
Progressive Agressional Committee
Showers and unsettled weather sweep Texas and west
Unsettled weather with showers is expected tonight into Wednesday for San Antonio and vicinity. A low pressure area over Canada extends southward, bringing generally unsettled conditions across the southwestern country, including Texas and New Mexico. Rain has occurred in parts of Texas, but the Kerrville area reports only light showers, offering a respite ahead.
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San Antonio
Visity
Buell
New Mexico
Arizona
Rocky Mountain
Twason
Texas
Kerrville
Cadet Wounded in Shooting at St John’s College
Wilim Bowlus a Middletown Maryland cadet at St John’s Military College is hospitalized in Annapolis with a serious revolver wound from an attempted intrusion by five or six freshmen. A party of five sought admittance to a room when a shot was fired striking Bowlus through a heavy door panel. College President Fell says civil authorities will handle the case. Doctors do not expect the wound to prove fatal.
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Annapolis
Wilim Bowlus
Middleton
Bowlus
Riis Dies at Summer Home After Long Illness
Jacob A. Riis author and social worker died at his summer home in Barre Massachusetts after a long illness. He was brought from Battie Creek Michigan where he had been treated for heart trouble. Riis known for urban reform writings and Parks movements, lived in Richmond Hill New York.
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Jacob August Riis
Ribe
Denmark
United States
New York Sun
New York Playground Commission
Good Government Clubs
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Richmond Hill
New York
Mr. Riis
Bre Ae Ee
Mary Phillips
St. Louis
Jones Attacks Repeal on Panama Tolls Exemption
Washington May 26 Senator Jones Republican of Washington attacked the Panama tolls exemption repeal bill stating the American people will not have their rights foreclosed and that repeal would prompt a rewrite. Hopes for a vote tomorrow faded as Lane and Weeks set Friday address on the issue. Senator Sutherland of Utah filed a resolution urging the president to seek from Great Britain a plan for a special impartial tribunal for arbitration.
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D. C
Panama
Senate
Jones
Kern
Lane
Weeks
Sutherland
Utah
Trains Resume Steady Traffic Toward Monterey
A five coach train carried a few passengers and several workers from Monterey reached Nuevo Laredo overnight. About 200 passengers for the south boarded this morning for Monterey, with service expected to be steady along the line within a week or two.
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Monterey
Laredo
Tex
Nuevo Luedo
Weather Outlook For San Antonio Area
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Tuesday night and Wednesday with a chance of showers.
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San Antonio
Regional Weather Snapshot Across Six Cities
Observations at 8 a m report temperatures in St Louis 76 partly cloudy with a 14 mile southwest wind and possible rain. Chicago 78 clear with showers likely and a 14 mile southwest wind. Milwaukee 68 clear with possible rain and a 4 mile southwest wind. Kansas City 74 partly cloudy with a 14 mile south wind and Wednesday fair. New York 70 partly cloudy with a 12 mile southwest wind and 64 as the low. Washington 70 partly cloudy with a 12 mile south wind and probable rain with a 56 low.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Morgan’s Book to Be Brought Into Inquiry
Interstate Commerce Commission postponed further testimony on New Haven railroad finances to June 3 to allow examiners to inspect Morgan books and Pierpont Morgan papers. Several witnesses were ill, including Plant and Morehouse, with doctors certifying their conditions.
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Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Haven
J. P. Morgan & Co
J. Pierpont Morgan
Samuel C. Morehouse
George McCulloch Miller
Devere Warner
Morton F. Plant
Morehouse
Billard Company
Miller
Plant
Warner
McChord
Wilson
McReynolds
Folk
Croton, Conn
Ledyard
Morgan calls Mellen testimony untrue in Washington hearing
In New York on May 26 J P Morgan rejected Charles Mellen head of the New Haven rail line claim that Morgan hid facts from Mellen. Morgan offered to present records of J P Morgan & Co and his father’s personal records before any proper tribunal. He spoke in response to Mellen’s Washington testimony he had read via stenographic report.
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J. FP. Morgan
Charles 8. Mellen
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
J. Pierpoint Morgan
Mellen
New Haven Road
Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Company
The San Antonio Light Leased Wire Day Report Summary
The San Antonio Light presents the AP Leased Wire Day report, a broad daily news digest. It notes the wire service’s status as a top global news source and mentions the newspaper’s own extensive metropolitan coverage and special features.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Detectives Sue Two Officers Over Salary Claim
George and Burgess Neal private detectives sue Rev. S. B. Johnston and Professor Wesley Peacock in Campbell County Justice Court over 31 dollars owed for gathering evidence on alleged Sunday closing law violations. They seek 150 dollars exemplary damages after a Monday scuffle near the county courthouse left Johnston struck. George D. Neal Jr. pleaded guilty to assault and was fined 10 dollars at 2 pm Tuesday.
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Mr. Johnston
Texas Postmasters Meet in Sixteenth Annual Convention
Postmasters from across Texas converge in Austin for the Texas Postmasters Association convention held in the federal building. Mayor Wooldridge welcomes attendees as Jeffer son Johnson delivers the association’s response. Proceedings include enrollment and remarks by W. G. McClain and William Gil ford with greetings from postal inspector C. B. Anderson. Headquarters are at the Driskill hotel.
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Tex
Texas
Texas Postmasters’ Association
Federal Building
A. P. Wooldridge
A. F. Bishop
Jefferson Johnson
W. G. McClain
William Gilford
Postmaster’s League
C. B. Anderson
Driskill Hotel
Demand for certified babies shocks Chicago morals court
In Chicago the stock of certified babies was exhausted in a week. Judge Goodnow stated the morals court would offer options on babies deemed physically and mentally perfect by the psychopathic laboratory, with trait charts. Applications came from across the country, but none remain.
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Chicago
Judge Goodnow
Morals Court
Vandal protests lead to six month sentences in London court
In London a quiet court day saw women vandals from the National Gallery and Royal Academy sentenced. Six months for each picture destroyer and four months for window smashers. Hunger strike cases produced a collapsed defendant carried in by wardens. Freda Graham and Mary Spencer defended actions as protests against King George’s refusal to meet a suffrage delegation. Additional security planned for the Epsom Derby with 2000 police and barriers around the course.
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National Gallery
Royal Academy
West End
Freda Graham
George
Mary Spencer
Epsom
Emily Wilding Davison
King George
Queen Mary
Vice President Marshall visits Agnes Scott College in Atlanta
Thomas R. Marshall, vice president, attended the twenty fifth anniversary celebration of Agnes Scott College and was expected to deliver the principal address at the commencement exercises. He was welcomed by committees from Agnes Scott College, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Society of Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Marshall
Agnes Scott College
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Indiana Society of Atlanta
Want Ads Offer Daily Sacrifice Prices and Savings
Buying articles advertised in Lieut Want Ads often yields big savings. Time limits or other circumstances create sacrifice prices. Light Want Ads should be read daily as opportunities change each day.
Lie¢HtT Want Ads Promote Quick Results for Readership
The Lieut daily offers low cost selling through want ads and claims it reaches 90 percent of San Antonio reading homes. Rates shown: 15 words 15 cents, 4 times 45 cents, 7 times 60 cents, 10 times 75 cents.
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San Antonio
Contempt Cases Dismissed For Burns And Lehon
In Atlanta Judge Ben Hill dismissed contempt charges against detective W. J. Burns and employer Dan Lehon after they purged themselves by returning a witness tied to the Leo Frank case. The court found their actions not contemptuous since the witness was brought back and the move explained as nonconfrontational.
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Atlanta
W. J. Burns
Dan Lehon
Superior Court
Ben H. Hill
Leo M. Frank
Posse Hunts Black Man After Texas Slaying
About one hundred men hunted Lloyd Thomas a Black man near Fairfield Limestone County after he allegedly killed James Casey during a debt dispute. Casey was fatally injured Sunday and five other Black people are jailed in connection. The mob fears vengeance if Thomas is captured alive and may transport him for trial.
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Fairfield
Tex
Lloyd Thomas
Thomas
James Casey
Casey
Limestone County
Hancock Arrives in Galveston Refugees May Go to Tampico
The naval transport Hancock arrived from Vera Cruz with plans to repatriate American refuges to Tampico but no official orders have been issued. The City of Tampico is also expected to sail today carrying many strong refugees.
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Tampico
Galveston
United States
Hancock
Vera Cruz
Alfred Hampton
State Department
Wolvin Line
Denver Judge Lindsey Seeks Rockefeller Interview
Judge Ben B Lindsey of Denver traveling with two Ludlow district women in New York for mass meetings against Rockefeller policy in Colorado strike troubles aims to interview John D Rockefeller Sr. He says a telegram to John D Rockefeller Jr reached the elder Rockefeller and he hopes to arrange a meeting today.
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New York
Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
Ludlow
Colo
Colorado
John D. Rockefeller Sr
Lindsey
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Rockefeller Sr
German Prince Engaged to Countess Von Bassewitz Levetzow
Prince Oskar sixth son of the German emperor and empress is engaged to Countess Ina Marie Von Bassewitz Levetzow maid of honor to the empress. The match marks the first dynastic union in the Hohenzollern line since 1858 with the emperor granting consent due to lack of an available German princess. Count Charles Von Bassewitz Levetzow premier of Mecklenburg Schwerin is her father.
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Potsdam
Germany
Oskar
Countess von Basse
Witz
Albrecht
Prussia
Rosalie von Hohena
Ina Marie Vona Bassewitz-Levetzow
Count Charles von Bassewitz
Levetzow
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin
Six year president with eternal ineligibility urged
Speaker Champ Clark urged six year presidential terms with perpetual ineligibility after one term. He proposed ending inaugurations on March 4 and switching elections to the last Monday in October, suggesting 1920 as the latest change and allowing Roosevelt Wilson and Taft a second term.
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Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
Rio Grande Flood Threatens Lower Valley Homes
Rio Grande River rises to new high levels with Roma reporting twenty three feet above low water. In Brownsville thirty acres of river front underwater, forcing about twenty Mexican families to abandon homes as new levees stay too low.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande
Roma
Suspect Confesses Identity in Fort Worth Forgery Case
A man calling himself George Williams confessed today to passing forged Katy pay checks in Fort Worth stores and to similar work in other Texas cities. He admitted he is Jeff Sharum, an escaped Illinois convict convicted in Chicago of forging money orders. A reward is offered for Sharum's capture and complaints have been filed in Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
Tex
George Williams
Katy
Texas
Jeff Sharum
Illinois
Chicago
Sharam
Unitarian Bequests Reported at 69th Annual Meeting
Boston May 26 Bequests totaling 158000 were announced in the annual report of Henry Williams treasurer submitted to the 69th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association today The secretary Rev Lewis G Wilson called the name Unitarian inadequate in the reference through the report
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Boston
Mass
Henry Williams
American Unitarian Association
Lewis 'G, Wilson
Traction Company to resume street cars on Alamo Plaza
The Traction Company plans to restart street car service on Alamo Plaza next Saturday with top creosoted wood block paving hoped to be completed. Through service on all lines will return, though continuity may be interrupted by ongoing bridge construction on Houston Street. West Commerce street work advances as rails are laid and foundations prepared toward the business district.
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Traction Company
Alamo Plaza
Houston Street
West Commerce Street
Commerce Street
Vice Stamped Out in Chicago War Against Vice
Chicago report by Citizens' Committee of Fifteen says commercialized vice nearly eradicated. The old South Side levee district abolished. Two thousand undesirables forced to leave, two hundred resorts closed, many women restored to respectable lives.
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Chicago
Citizens’ Committee
Old South Side
Tennessee Democrats face nominating clash at state convention
Nashville May 26 The state Democratic convention to nominate a justice for the Supreme Court to fill the Shields seat looms as a battleground for the gubernatorial contest. Robert Burrow of Bristol challenges incumbent Samuel Williams, appointed by Governor Hooper, while contenders for governor Thomas Rye of Paris claim control of credentials committee though Rye supporters say they can organize the convention.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Supreme Court
John K. Shields
United States
Robert Burrow
Bristol
Samuel Williams
Hooper
Thomas Rye
Paris
Rye
Brazilian minister praised for care of Americans in Mexico
Secretary Bryan sent a cablegram to the Brazilian minister stating the American colony in Mexico City is greatly pleased with the minister. It thanks him for untiring and splendid services and watchful care in behalf of Americans.
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Bryan
Mexico City
Mediation Heads to Common Ground on Mexican Land Question
Niagara Falls Ont May 26 The Mexican and American delegates and mediators press toward a shared stance on the agrarian dispute. Mexican insistence on no binding guarantees and an internal approach to the land issue complicates the talks as efforts continue toward a provisional government and a declaration of principles.
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Mr. Wilson
Justice Lamar
Mexico
United States
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