Pirate Captain MacLean Faces Indictment for Sealing Crimes
The notorious captain Alexander MacLean known as Big Alec and his crew of about thirty face U S and British authorities after illegal sealing and poaching raids from the Carmenella later renamed Carmencita He is charged with conspiring to run up the flag and evading patrols with altered registry and a Mexico registry. The case centers on raids on Arctic rookeries and sealing laws violations with the Department of Justice building a substantial evidence record leading to the San Francisco indictment.
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Alexander MacLean
Rover
United States
Big Alec
Revenue
Carmencita
Copper Islands
Revenue Patrol
Seattle
Wash
Mexico
MacLean
Acapulco
Drake Bay
Arctic
Pacy
Victoria
British Columbia
Department of State
Air
Captain MacLean
Aeals
Jenny Thelin
Great Britain
Canada
Czar Yields Power as Russia Promises Constitutional Liberty
Editorial reflects on the Czar’s abdication of autocracy and the expected birth of constitutional government in Russia. It lauds Count Witte as a guiding leader, contrasts old Russia’s oppression with promises of free speech, habeas corpus, a representative parliament, universal suffrage, and an educated populace. The piece notes nationwide celebrations in St. Petersburg and Moscow as the manifesto sparks optimism.
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Russia
Czar
Count Witte
Russhki
United States
Romanoff House
England
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Japanese Dwarf Trees in Count Onuma’s Garden
The article describes ancient dwarf trees in Japan famed for their size and age. It highlights the Count Onuma collection near Tokio with pines and plum varieties trained over centuries. Japanese masters prune roots pinch limbs and with limited soil to create lifelike manikin forms with patient meticulous care.
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Japan
Onuma
Tokio
America
Cleveland
Princess Victoria Declares Love Marriages Only
Princess Victoria of England, the king's unmarried daughter aged thirty seven, states she will not marry by arrangement. She insists any future marriage must be for love and chosen by herself, rejecting proposals from father, mother, and government. The claim has startled the royal and aristocratic circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
England
Edward
The Aromatic Havana Story of a Cigars Enjoyment
A Havana cigar scene recounted by Cawthorne the newspaper correspondent in the Tallahasse Girl tale. Dialogue reveals taste for fine tobacco and the social habit of smoking, noting a man who smokes two or three daily while saying Papa smokes twenty pipes a day.
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Cawthorne
Papa
Havana
Huge Precious Stones Across the World
The article notes the largest diamond once exhibited in Paris valued at about one million dollars. It cites a premier ruby in London worth fifty thousand dollars, a large cat's-eye insured for rupees thirty thousand, and the 2,980 carat emerald held in the Imperial Jewel Office in Vienna.
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Paris
London
St. Petersburg
Imperial Jewel Office
Vienna
Dress Reform for Women Proposed by Dr. Cora Eaton
Dr. Cora Smith Eaton of Minneapolis Minnesota argues dress restrictions cause many female ailments and urges reform. She advocates practical garments offering normal movement and relief from tight bands and heavy skirts, testing ideas with she wears one piece wet gowns and shoulder weight measures.
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Cora Smith Eaton
Minneapolis
Milli
Government builds Shoshone dam in Wyoming to irrigate vast desert
A vast federal irrigation project in the Big Horn Basin Wyoming advances as the Shoshone dam rises 240 feet to unite canyon walls and form a 5000 acre lake. The plan stores water for 150000 acres via seven miles of tunnels, employing engineer Jeremiah Ahern and nationwide labor to pioneer desert reclamation and home creation.
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Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Colonel Cody
Buffalo Bill
Shoshone
General Miles
Hitchcock
Jeremiah Ahern
India
Tim Wisdom
America
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Exander Maclean
MaclLéian
Beck and Cail
Islands
Bering Sea
Akins
West
the Pirate's Schooner
Alex. Maclean
Freedom For Russia
Willred
Mountains
Missouri
Thecanyon
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