Midshipmen Life At Annapolis Reveals Sailor Valor
A historical look at Annapolis training covers three month cruises and tall tales of midshipmen. It contrasts sail handling drills with modern instruction, notes boxing and discipline, and honors Midshipman Worth Bagley and the rescue of skaters near the prison ship Santee.
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Annapolis Midship
Worth Bagley
North Carolina
Bagley
Wen
Washington
Annapolis
Navy
Cait
Davy Jones
Davy
Severn
Decatur
Mediterranean
IB. H. Durell
Hlhu’ § Riley
Coombs
Dee
Presbyterian Assembly Backs Missionaries Over Tennis Dispute
Denver May 31 Missionaries in northern China faced censure for tennis and worldly sport with charges they could not save the heathen and play tennis at once. The committee on church policy praised zeal of Alexander and James Waite but suggested they change field or residence. The assembly voted to meet next year in Atlantic City in the steel pier music hall, and adjourned sine die.
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Denver
Col
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian’ Church
Alexander
James Waite
China
Waite
J. Gray Bolton
Philadelphia
Waite Brothers
Atlantic City
N. J
Two Die in Snowslide Near Copper River Canyon
Cordova Alaska dispatch reports a large snowslide in Aber crombie canyon on the Copper River and Great Western railroad. Two carpenters, N. H. Meyers and Charles Doyle, were buried. Four hundred workers search for the bodies.
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Seattle
Wash
Post-intelligencer
Cordova
Alaska
Abercrombie Canyon
Copper River & Great Western Railroad
N. H. Meyers
Charles Doyle
Incendiary Blaze Destroys Sharpsburg Plant
Pittsburg May 31 Fire believed incendiary destroyed the Sharpsburg plant of the National Lead and Oil Company. Superintendent John Thompson estimates losses for building machinery and stored oils and lead at 75000 dollars. Also reports two Americans James Barner and F O Louner blown apart by a dynamite explosion near Mazatlan. bodies not fully recovered.
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Pittsburg
Sharpsburg
National Lead and Oil Company
John Thompson
Mazatlan
Mexico
James Barner
F. O. Louner
New Hartiman
Here
Markets report from Chicago and New York
Chicago trade shows flour prices firm with various grades and bags noted. Wheat bids steady to firm for May and July contracts amid mixed oats, butter, eggs, potatoes, poultry and dairy listings. New York session mirrors stable flour tones and firm wheat as receipts and bullish tone support prices.
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Chicago
Minnesota
New York
Minnewsota
Kansas
Live Stock Prices and cattle figures from Chicago and Omaha
Market notes show cattle prices steady in Omaha with native steers at 4.50 to 5.00 per hundredweight and cows to 6.25. Chicago quotes list steer values from 4.20 to 5.50, yearlings 5.25 to 6.75, and stockers 3.00 to 4.50. Hogs range 4.50 to 7.85 depending on weight and grade.
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Chicago
Omaha
Neb
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West Point
Naval School
West Pointers
Military Academy
Grant
Lee
Ife
Sea School
Naval Academy
Academy
Military School
Bancroft Hall
Midshipmen
Hudson Highlands
Annapolia
Harvard
Yale
Harvard Yard
Annapolip
Wasa
Hampton Roads
WA. Patterson
Atlantic
Presbyterian Assembly
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