Presidential review as Pacific Fleet sails away
Roosevelt witnesses the departure of Rear Admiral Evans Pacific bound Atlantic fleet from Old Point Comfort. Mayflower leads the yacht line to the horseshoe as 16 ships prepare for review. Naval pageant ends with the president's farewell and signals to get under way.
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Old Point Comfort
Roosevelt
Evans
Norfolk
Atlantic
Hirself
Yankton
Jill
Connecticut
Admiral Evans
Monroa
Nnfid
Hampton Roads
Old Pontier
Jyesad
Colmys
Bre St
Mayner Hl
Mayflower leads naval review with Hartford Connecticut tribute
The Mayflower and a fleet pass in review near Thimble Shoal light, officers salute from the bridge while the Star Spangled Banner plays. Connecticut, built in Brooklyn and designed in Washington, is hailed as the pinnacle of American battleship design with 16,000 tons displacement, 16,500 horsepower engines, and 18 knot speed.
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Thimble Shoal
Chesapeake Bay
Tomsterhaus
Naval Establishment
Navy Department
Washington
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Connecticut
Navy
NEW CARDINALS CREATED SECRET CONSISTORY HELD BY POPE
Rome December 16. Pope Pius X held a secret consistory in the Vatican creating four new cardinals and advancing several bishops. Named cardinals are Gasparri Delat Lucan and Feuare, with Kennedy and O’Conner named titular bishops. The pope condemned modernist propaganda and warned of attacks on church rights.
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Vatican
Rome
Pius X
Monsignor
Pietro Gasparri
Monadignor Delat
Ludovic Henry Lucan
Rheims
Feu Phare
Marseilles
Monaignor Kennedy
American College
Piston
Adrianapolis
Moneignes Dennis O'Conner
Catholic University At
Washington
Sebaste
the Redeemer
Werfare
Ponte
Italy
Tillman talks of financial issues and Senate actions
A Washington report describes Tillman delivering a keynote senate speech on his bond issue investigation resolution, praising some financial figures while criticizing policy. Frye sworn as president pro tempore. Oklahoma senators Gwen and Gore sworn in by lot. banks in Kansas City reopen following a local banking crisis. Juvenile court actions include Eddie Sullivan and Buckley ordered to appear.
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Washington
Senate
Tillman
Treasury
Wall Street
J. P. Morgan
Roosevelt
Frye
Oklahoma
Gwen
Gore
Lot
Owen
Eddie Sullivan
Justles Kepford
C. Buckley
Fig
Farley Tragedy: Three Die In Illinois Central Train Crash
Three prominent Dubuque county residents from Farley died Sunday night when their buggy was struck at a Illinois Central crossing near Epworth. James Cantdell, 55, his son William, 30, and William’s wife, 30, were killed instantly as train No. 1, engine 1013, hit the buggy. The crash occurred after the whistle warning was blown, and the three were returning from relatives. The coroner ordered immediate handling of the bodies and no blame was placed on the enginemen.
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James Cantdell
Willian Cantdell
Ilinois Central
Epworth
Jamies Cantdell
Farley
Cig
King
Dubuque County
pasgen‘Bor
Nelson
Frisble
Tolletson
Hhe
William Cantdell
Mra
Wm. Cantdell
Piiot
Pt Wag
Tilnois Central
Victm
Narrow escape for Rock Island conductor at station
Conductor Tiffany of Cedar Rapids narrowly avoided death at Rock Island station as No 32 train slowed to stop. A jammed step gave way while Tiffany descended, he clung to rods with a vise like grip and kept from being thrown under wheels until the winded train halted. He recovered quickly and resumed duties.
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Tiffany
Cedar Rapds
Woman Breaks Engagement Over Anti Gift Society
In Waterbury Connecticut on December 16 a woman broke off her engagement after France said nothing doing. The anti gift society formed a week earlier by a wealthy matron drew 360 members pledging no gifts for Christmas. One man’s sweetheart refused a present and she ended their engagement, trimming the society to a small group of elderlySingletons and curmudgeons.
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France
Waterbury
Conn
Dee
Anti-Gift Society
Thompkins Named Chair of Public Speaking at Normal
Cedar Walls Dec 16 Special Prof F K Thompkins of Carlton College Northfield Minn has been elected to the chair of public speaking at the state normal to succeed Prof G W Todd who resigned He will assume duties January 6 G B Morton takes Milas Agnes Wallace's place as instructor in the seventh grade at the Lincoln school in Cedar Falls Miss Wallace to marry December 26 to Prof G O Smith of Woodbine
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Wallace
Bel
O.r Smith
Woodbine
National Civic Federation Opens Annual Session in New York
In New York on December 18 the eighth annual meeting of the National Civic Federation opened with over a hundred prominent men and women in attendance. Samuel Gompers presided in the temporary absence of August Belmont, with James Speyer guiding the session as president. The day’s topic focused on protection of the people’s earnings, and Speyer backed an elastic currency anchored to gold, introducing Andrew Carnegie to speak.
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New York
National Civic Federation
Hare
August Belmont
Federation
Samuel Gompers
James Speyer
Speyer
Andrew Carnegie
Death and Accident Neked by Fall in Railroad Fatality
Coroner's jury reports Bert W Edwards instantly killed after falling from a Illinois Central freight train at Iowa Falls Saturday night. He stood on the steps during a coupling task when a sudden jerk threw him from the train. Survived by parents, wife, daughter, and siblings. funeral at Lafayette Street home Tuesday at 4 pm.
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Bert W. Edwards
Ian Hilnois
Iowa Falls
Edwards
Conch
Michael Lordan
Teast
Bert W. Wwdwards
Tracr
Llindle Central
L. H. Edwards
Lafayette Street
James
Rowena
Genevieve
H. W. Roberd
Yeemetery
Jordan steadily gaining after train injury in Waterloo
Paul Jordan of Waterloo, badly injured when struck by an IrMnore Central train at Aplington weeks ago, remains in Dr Strout's private hospital in Parkersburg. Attending Dr Hobson says recovery will be slow with crutches needed for about a year. Left leg amputated near the body, left hand thumb and right foot injuries among the complications, but prognosis remains hopeful despite slow healing.
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Parkersburg
Dee
Paul Jordan
Waterloo
IrMnore Central
Aplington
Strout
Stere
Hobson
Jailed for Thieving Elmer Hawkins Pleads Guilty
Elmer Hawkins faced a morning hearing on a petit larceny charge for taking junk from Cotn Bros yards. He pleaded guilty and received ten days in county jail from Judge Van Metre. Bert Coleman, an Indian from Ant iwwerp, Ohio, and companion H. B. Parks of Des Moines were picked up for begging and ordered out of the city. Coleman, held for parole-dictation at the reformatory, is under investigation.
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Elmer Hawkins
Cotn Bros
Guity
van Metre
Bert Coleman
Antiwwerp
Ohio
H. 8. Parks
Des Moines
Coleman
Reformatory
LIDON IN IDAHO SUNDAY CLOSING LAW UPHELD
Portland observers note Idaho Supreme Court recently declared the Sunday closing law constitutional. Citizens in Idaho discuss enforcement and potential effects as the law stands.
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Portland
Ore
Dee
Idaho
Supremey Court of Idaho
CUMMINS ENTERS SENATE CONTEST
Nes Moines reports Gov A B Summits announces candidacy for United States Senate opposing W B AlIGon. He denies promising not to run and repudiates his letter, defending his actions amid controversy over statements attributed to him and to Torbert in fall 1905.
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Secree
Allison
Torbert
Alleon
Fides
Senate
Iowa
Gbert B. Cumming
Duke Navin Not So Well Surgeries Reported
Laporte reports Duke Navin in poor condition after another operation on the left side of his face. St Paul doctors aided by Corwin performed the procedure but delirium and critical status persist. In Dewar, an eighteen months old boy died from pneumonia linked to a long illness and a head abscess. Funeral services in M B church and burial in Waterloo planned.
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Duke Navin
ST. Paul
Laporte
B. Dulke Naven
Lisfe
Corwin
SS Paul
Jt Te
Dewar
James Taylor
Irving
M. B
Waterloo
Farmer Burns Ten Thousand In Bills Then Dies
Marion Ohio December reports Tobn Gordon an 84 year old farmer burned his $10,000 savings rather than place it in a bank. He set the bills ablaze on Sunday morning and watched them burn, then died of heart disease shortly after. He had grown childish in recent weeks and had refused to deposit his money.
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Marion
Ohio
Tobn Gordon
Gordon
Billy
Aged Nashua Citizen Fatally Injured in Fall
Nashua Dec. 16 Special Mia Waldo Flint one of Nashua's oldest and most prominent citizens met with an accident at 6 40 Sunday morning. She has long suffered weakness and while rising to start a fire she fell, breaking a rib. She is 38 years old and unlikely to recover.
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Nashua
Mia
Waldo Flint
Omaha Police Tie Offenders Test Gases Are Successful
In Omaha on Sunday after a citywide Sunday-law enforcement operation, police listed 2000+ workers for arrest and issued warrants for many, with markets and shops closed while theaters remained open. Districts policed to enforce the Sunday law, with warrants to be issued for listed offenders including garage staff, druggists, and theater personnel.
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Omaha
Neb
Dla
Davenport Sees First Dry Sunday As Saloons Close
Davenport observed its first dry Sunday with saloons closed by order of Attorney General Byers. The city canceled the Coliseum concert and Turner Hall gatherings, with many residents traveling to Rock Island to spend the day and merchants voicing protests over lost patronage. The saloonkeepers promised to comply with the mandate.
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Davenport
Byers
Haman
Coliseum
Turner Hall
Rock Teland
Towa
Mitnala
Insthaa
Davenpart
Hunt for Missing Girl Exhausts Three Hundred Men
Eight hundred men scoured four square miles and dragged Logan creek for Lillie Olson daughter of Olaf Olson of Rosalis Ned without finding a trace. Volunteers from surrounding areas searched on horseback and on foot across a wide radius in a neighborhood effort. The large-scale search has essentially been abandoned with no satisfactory theory offered.
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Doux City
Der
Logan Creek
Lillie Olson
Olaf Olson
Rosalis
Ned
Mine Explosion Leaves Dozens Trapped in Yolande Mine
At Yolande in Kalooka County Alabama a mine explosion at 10 00 Monday traps seventy five miners. Eight escapees reach surface as rescue teams prepare to go in raising fears of sixty to seventy five deaths. Local authorities report the blast occurred below the second seam and rescuers proceed with caution.
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Birmingham
Ala
Yolande
Vuskaloosa County
Hughes Club Organization Formed in Lincoln Nebraska
Lincoln Neb Dec 16 George E B Tobey former private secretary to Senator Burkett begins the organization of a Hughes club with Burkett as a vice presidency aspirant. La Follette followers also active. Delegation pledged to Taft by the Republican platform. Hughes and La Follette camps to contest delegates at the next primary.
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Hughes Club
LA Follette
Lincoln
Neb
George EB. Tobey
Burkett
Buckett
la Fallette Arsulao
Taft
Hughes
St. Follette
Weller Golden Wedding Celebrated in Nashua Home
Luman H Weller and Miss Mary Pickett wedded in 1857 at Poughkeepsie and later settled in Nashua. A Saturday golden wedding gathering of about twenty five friends heard reminiscences from ex congressman Weller. two sons died young, surviving children Mrs G D Willett, Miss Marie Weller, and Miss Beatrice in New York. Weller, a notable figure in state and national politics, led the state ticket and once appeared on the national ticket as president hopeful. He served one term in Congress after 1882, with limited opportunity to enact theories, remaining active in public affairs.
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Naghud
Weller
Dr. Goodale
Mies Mary
Pickett
Poughkespsi
N.Y
Goodspead
Greenwood
New York
Nashua
G. D. Willett
Mingonpolis
Marie Weller
Thia City
Misa Beatrice
New York City
L. H. Weller
Congress
Cleveland
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