Taft Narrow Escape Shocks Traveling Party
A Taft party train at fifty miles an hour suffered a piston rod break causing a sudden stop. Passengers were shaken but unharmed. Taft later reached New Haven and spoke on continuing Roosevelt era policies with Roosevelt expected to join for college sports events.
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Planes Approved by Roosevelt Taft Shaping GOP Platform
Columbus dispatch notes Roosevelt and Taft influenced the Republican platform via Attorney General Ellis who drafted it. Also reports Dawson Yukon winter temps with December 5.2 below zero and February 44 below, calling it the mildest Yukon winter on record.
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Dawson News
Harvard Wins In Boatrace
In New London Conn Harvard defeated Yale as their eight-oared boat finished ahead amid whistles and horns. Yale’s boat was crippled with seven men rowing and Griswold’s stroke weakened after the first two miles.
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New London
Conn
Harvard
Yale
Griswold
Cleanup of Winter Dumps Brings $200,000 Yield at Banner and Tenderfoot
The steamer White Seal returned from Tenderfoot with $200,000 from the first cleanups of winter dumps on Banner and Tenderfoot creeks. Laymen praise the result, as dirt washed up better than expected with reports from other streams indicating the cleanup should meet expectations.
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White Seal
Tenderfoot
Banner
Tenderfoot Creeks
Cleveland Dead at Princeton and Czar Proclamation
Ex president Grover Cleveland died at his Princeton home at 8 40 this morning after a winter illness. The czar of Russia issues a proclamation expelling all women students from universities amid revolutionary unrest.
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Ily
Daily Gateway
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St. Petersburg
Funeral for Grover Cleveland to be guarded by troops
In Princeton on June 26 at 5 PM simple funeral services will honor Grover Cleveland. His remains will be buried without pomp under military escort and guarded route to the tomb. The widow rejects all eulogies.
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United States
Walter Barnett Found Guilty By Jury In Embezzlement Case
Walter Barnett, former vice-president of the California Safe Deposit Company, was found guilty by a jury in San Francisco on embezzlement linked to Cullen estate securities. Verdict returned in under fifty minutes after deliberations. The report also notes Bryan attacking the Republican platform in Lincoln and Alaska railway work resuming on the Guggenheim route near Katalla with camps to open by July 1 as coal land rights proceed.
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Congress
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Bonanza
Alaska Telegraphs Improve With Duplex System
The Valdez Sitka cable now uses the duplex system and has operated between Sitka and Seattle for a year. The Cordova line will be cut in soon and wireless stations will be erected, greatly enhancing summer telegraph service in Alaska.
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Cordova
Alaska
Heat waves grip Chicago as deaths rise in citywide misery
Chicago reports two deaths and dozens prostrated as an intense July like heat wave sweeps the city. Daily updates cite rising sunstroke tolls and widespread suffering from extreme temperatures. Separate dispatches note eight deaths from sunstroke in New York and ongoing oppressive heat across major cities.
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Daily Gateway
Chicago
New York
Alaska Central railroad gains new receivership to push toward coal fields
Judge Reid places control of the Alaska Central railroad receivership in J. H. Rogers as construction resumes. Rogers says work toward the ultimate destination should proceed soon aided by Snow & Watson contractors. Sixty-nine miles graded, rails on hand for seventy-eight more, and seventy-five miles could be completed by fall toward coal fields, with only two major rock cuts remaining before continuing toward Fairbanks and other traffic.
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Reid
Goodwin
Snow & Watson
Spokane
Alaska Central
Fairbanks
Mile
Susitna
Special 5 Dollar Fare From Seward For July 4 Ball Result
Word from Alaska Steamship Co reports a five dollar rate from Seward if forty passengers join for the July 4 ball game at Valdez. The Pennsylvania sails from Seward to Seldovia, with an expected noon return to Valdez on July 4. An attempt will be made to have the captain push the boat through and Valdez will monitor Seward for boat arrival.
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Valdez
Alaska Steamship Company
Seward
Pennsylvania
Seldovia
Valdez Prepares For Seward Visit On Independence Day
Valdez braces for a July 4 baseball game with Seward. Hotel Valdez offers free rooms and baths, and a large dinner is planned after the game. Steamer Elsie posts a flat rate from Seward if forty passengers are guaranteed. A cable to Alaska Steamship Co. about rates on the Pennsylvania has not yet received a reply. The Valdez team hopes for a return game.
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Seward
Elsie
Alaska Steamship Company
Pennsylvania
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