Federal Fine Arts Council Aims to Shape Washington Plan
President Roosevelt forms a 24 architect 4 painter 4 sculptor and a landscape architect council to advise on federal buildings and decorations. The plan echoes Burnham L'Enfant ideals for a grand mall from Capitol to river with a Lincoln Memorial site debated alongside the Union Station backdrop and Washington park commission support.
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Treasury Department
Foedy Roosevelt
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Newlands
Nevada
Office of Supervising Architect of the Treasury
Bureau of Fine Arts
Council of Thirty
House
Cannon
Capitol
Union Station
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Washington
Burnham
Maj. L’enfant
Washington Monument
White House
Lincoln Memorial
Arlington
Capitol Square
Senate Committee
Capitol Group
Abraham Lincoln
Columbus
Speaker Cannon
Washington Park Commission
B. P. Trowbridge
New York
John G. Howard
San Francisco
Glenn Brown
Thomas R. Kimball
Omaha
John L. Muren
St. Louis
D. A. Burnham
Chicago Exposition
John M. Donaldson
Detroit
George B. Post
Arnold W. Brunner
The
American Institute
Robert 8. Peabody
Boston Society of Architects
Charles F. McKim
McKim, Mead & White
William S. Eames
James Rush Marshall
Adam Garfield
Cleveland
William B. Mundie
Chicago
Frank Miles Day
Philadelphia
C. Howard Walker
Architectural Review
John la Farge
F. D. Miller
B. H. Blashfield
Kenyon Cox
Daniel Chester French
Earl Bitter
Herbert Adams
H. A. MacNeil
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr
Bernhardt Snaps At Emissary Over American Play
In a New York apartment last visit, Mme Bernhardt recalls a meeting with a friend of a leading author who urged her to refuse an American play by Clyde Fitch. She retorted with a sharp quip asking who Fitch was and telling him to wait.
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Bernhardt
L’escarpolette
Mme, Bernhardt
New York City
Mme. Bernhadt
Clyde Fitch
Mme. Bernhardt
Don't Give Up the Classics
A New York Evening Post quotation defends preserving classical study. It argues that liberal education should not discard the culture from Greece and Rome or devalue first hand contact with ancient civilizations. The remark emphasizes enduring value of classics in colleges.
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Greece
Rome
New York Evening Post
Steam hides train as Cleveland grade crossing wreck injures many
A Pittsburg flyer crashed into a Cedar avenue street car after steam from the power plant hid the locomotive. Gate tender Schafer and conductor Kinder couldn’t see the engine before impact. Fifteen year old nurse maid Eileen Borky saved a baby and may die from internal injuries. St Luke's Hospital treats nearly a dozen injured.
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Cleveland, O
Pittsburg
Cleveland & Pittsburg Railway
Cedar Avenue
W. Nagle
Eileen Borky
C. H. Ball
C. H. Barrows
Mary Herberger
Grace Hawley
Cleveland & Pittsburg
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co
Robert Schaefer
Anton Kinder
Schaefer
Kinder
Howard Stearns Clark
Mills
St. Luke’s Hospital
Theft of $60,000 pearl necklace at San Francisco Mardi Gras ball
Miss Jennie Crocker, daughter of the late Frederick Crocker, reported to have worn 53 flawless pearls valued at $60,000 during a St Francis hotel Mardi Gras ball hosted by Mrs. Charles O. Alexander. The necklace vanished after she left the ballroom around 4 am, despite attending a private dinner. Crocker is noted as one of the city’s wealthiest social figures.
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San Francisco
Jennie Crocker
Charles O. Alexander
St Francis Hotel
Miss Crocker
Mrs. Alexander
Miss Crock
Frederick Crocker
California
West
Federal report shows tobacco trust's power
Washington report by Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith details the tobacco combination's structure through 1906. It names the American Tobacco Co and three major subsidiaries, notes control by ten holders of 60 percent of voting stock, and cites rising concentration across cigarettes cigars and other tobacco products with hundreds of plants involved.
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Washington
Herbert Knox Smith
Smith
American Tobacco Co
American Snuff Co
American Cigar Co
British-American Co
United States
Porto Rico
Cuba
Fire destroys three story brick building in Jacksonville
A three story brick building on Forsyth Street in Jacksonville’s business district burned Wednesday afternoon. The Florida Electric Co. J. H. Trembly real estate McGraw Bros bicycle dealers and the Jacksonville Gas Co were housed in the structure. Loss estimated at 200000.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Forsyth Street
Florida Electric Co
J. H. Trembly
McGraw Bros
Jacksonville Gas Co
Burglary Foiled at Kansas Mercantile Co Store
Two burglars were shot by proprietor H. M. Craddock during a robbery at the Kansas Mercantile Co. in downtown Kansas City. John Sterner was captured and mortally wounded, while another companion lay severely wounded at a hospital.
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Kansas City
Kansas Mercantile Co
H. M. Craddock
John Sterner
Sterner
Suffrage Bill Passed in House Vote 68 to 28
Pierce D February 25 An equal suffrage bill passed the house Wednesday by a 68 to 28 vote. Supporters are jubilant after a similar bill earlier in the section carried, but barely failed.
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Pierce
Man shoots wife then kills self in London gallery
John Tempest Dawson, 70, shot his wife in the National Portrait Gallery and then died by suicide. Mrs. Dawson died later in hospital.
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London
John
Tempest Dawson
National Portrait Gallery
Taft Cabinet Complete with MacVeagh as Treasury Secretary
New York Feb 26 report states William Howard Taft will not announce a full cabinet until all posts are filled. Franklin MacVeagh of Illinois is named Secretary of the Treasury, completing the Taft cabinet alongside Knox Dickinson Wickersham Hitchcock Meyer Ballinger Ballinger Nagel Wilson. Other posts listed include Secretary of State and Navy and Interior.
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New York
Taft
Minis
Jacob M. Dickinson
Tennessee
George W. Wickersham
Frank N. Hitchcock
Massachusetts
Navy
George von L. Meyer
Interior
Richard A. Ballinger
Washington
Agriculture
James Wilson
Iowa
Commerce
Labor
Charles Nagel
Missouri
Fire destroys Sanger Automobile Co garage in Milwaukee
The Sanger Automobile Co garage at 572 to 574 Farwell avenue burned on Thursday along with 94 cars. Loss estimated at 70000 dollars, partly insured.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Sanger Automobile Co
Farwell Avenue
Monumental Swindle Tied to Maybray Head Varies in Little Rock
Post office Inspector Swenson reports a nationwide confidence scam run by an organization led by J. C. Maybray. Victims across the country lost sums from five thousand to thirty seven thousand dollars each, with diary records showing foot races wrestling matches and horse races used to fleece targets.
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Little Rock
Council Bluffs
Swenson
Ark
J. C. Maybray
New Orleans
G. C. Craft
H. C. Smith
Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco
E. C
Golden Gate, Avenue
Post Office
Post Office Department
Maybray
Widow and five slain in Kern County fire tragedy
Bakersfield California February 27 An awful crime struck near the city Friday as Mrs Minnie Beekman widow and her four children were murdered in bed and the house set afire the bodies burned. Coroner McGinn and Sheriff Kelly investigated the scene finding no known enemies. A watchdog had been poisoned two days earlier and a second dog survived. Beekman left the estate mostly to his widow and four children with $100 to a child from a former wife. Estimated value about 75000 dollars.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Minnie Beekman
McGinn
Kelly
Five Men Killed In Joplin Mine Collapse
Five men died instantly and two were fatally injured when a rock slab collapsed at the West Seventh Street Mining Co mine in Joplin Missouri on Friday night. Workers were timbering the unsafe roof when the huge slab fell, covering the area and delaying rescue for 30 minutes.
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Joplin
West Seventh Street Mining Co
Senseless Brawls And Teas In Humorous Patchwork
A jumble of quotes and ads shows humorous quips about marriage, eye remedies, laxatives, and child teething oils. Bursts of old timey ad language promote Garfield Tea and Mrs Winslow soothing syrups alongside pithy maxims and moral sayings.
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Iscoln Memorial
Watwashington “of Fine Arts
ESTED
Rolind Pond
Flyer
Tobacco Trust
Treasury
MacVeagh
Adolph Netopech
Houston
Tex
Luan
Montgomery
Ala
R. R. Broadnax
Hynesville
Broadnax
W. B. Hayes
Albert Dickinson
West Taylor Street
Woodsville
N. H
H. W. Allen
Woodsville National Bank
Durant
Okla
Henry Gorday
Te Aggists
Confucius
Garfield Tea
Sampl
Garfield Tea’ Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Macdonald
Lydia E. Pinkham
Vienna
W. Va
Pinkham
Pita
W. H. May
Pearl Street
Carters
Allen Pany
Clinton
Beale
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