Battleship world cruise reshapes fleet prestige
APLSET encircles the globe with a modern Atlantic Fleet voyage from Hampton Roads four months earlier. The 45,000 mile voyage tested repairs and training, producing praise for naval prowess, discipline, and the efficacy of American sea power amid cautious optimism about safety and results.
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Hampton
Straits of Magellan
South America
Cavite
Nanval
Hampton Roads
Ronnad
Canal plan trims Gatun crest height in revised dam plan
Engineers say plans are sound and can be trusted to operate. They reduce the Gatun Dam crest elevation to 115 feet above sea level, 30 feet above the water level. Total canal cost estimated at 360 million dollars, correcting prior figures. Costs include sanitation and zone government, with payments to Panama and the canal company totaling about 50 million. The difference from earlier estimates largely reflects changes in scope and higher unit costs.
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Gatun Ham
Canal
Republic of Panama
Panama Canal Company
Earthquake Churns Nuristan. Relief Slow Inaccessible
An earthquake in Nuristan has devastated the region, altering the landscape and destroying villages. Authorities report unprecedented violence and altered streams, with relief efforts hampered by the mountainous, hard to reach terrain about 100 miles from the capital.
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Nuristan
Railway Workers Reach Agreement With Hawley Company
The agreement settles a wage scale across the system and adopts a five hour schedule for employees while management sought a ten hour rule. Machinists receive 32 cents per hour and other crafts boiler makers blacksmiths carmen and drivers are covered. General satisfaction and an amicable settlement extend for another year.
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Orm Hailwee Company
Carmen
Ipemen
Roosevelt on the Ton Magazine Importance and The Plan
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Roosevelt and a topic about magazine importance, mentioning a president, a battalion, and names like Hattie A. The text is garbled and offers no clear event, date, or outcome.
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Bpoelal
Iean Battu
Boomet Co
Hattie A
Hogs of Congress Senate debates naval bill and spending
The Senate spent most of Monday on the naval appropriation bill with broad talks on military spending. Senators criticized navy yard expansion and called for economy while measures on statehood for Antona and New Mexico and standards for car equipment were approved by the House.
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Senate
Hale
Congress
LaFollette
Dixon
Navy Yards
Knox
Taft
House of Representatives
Antona
New Mexico
Capron
Rhode Island
Granger
House
Marine Corps
Montana
Atlantic
Pacific
Lodge
LeFollette
Naval Academy Band
Mouse of Representatives
Rivers
Harborstill
57Th House
Allison
Towa
Latimer
South Carolina
Wiley
Alabumna
First Day of Cooper Trial in Nashville Ends
Dramatic first day of the Cooper trial closed with both sides claiming progress. The case centers on Col. Duncan B. Cooper Robin J. Cooper and dake Sharpe and whether they killed former Senator Edward W Carmack in self defense or by conspiracy.
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Cooper
Nashville
Tenn
Col
Duncan B. Cooper
Robin J. Cooper
Dake Sharpe
Eadeward W. Carmack
Negro shoots White Boy in Memphis murder despite crowd
In Memphis Tennessee on a late Wednesday a 16 year old, James Holman Taylor, nephew of the city’s chief of police, was shot and killed near his father’s home by Eddie Prodo, a Black man. A large mob formed seeking swift vengeance.
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Negro
Memphis
Tenn
James Holman Taylor
Davis
South Memphs
Eddie Prodo
Prode
Large Florida hotel destroyed by fire in Seabreeze
The Hotel Clarendon at Seabreeze and ten adjoining cottages were totally burned on Monday morning, with 250 guests safely awakened. many retrieved belongings as they fled.
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Clarendon
Seabreeze
Florida
R. L. Patton
Bix Horn
Mount Airy
N.C
Henry McCrea
Georgia
Greentie
A. Hermanthe
Missouri
Pacific Coast
Aurelius Christian
Mary Dobbs
Botetourt County
James G. Green
Edenton
N. C
J. L. Fox
Stephen Watson
Wadesboro
Niagara Falls
Kentucky
John Simpson
Curtain Bay
Fla
Charles Salas
Laare S. C
Lina Sykes
Elizabeth City
Elida Burkhead
Concord
Gray Coleman
Nepro
Wilson
Court House Square
Lancaster
S.C
John R. B Carraway
National Bank of New Bern
H. Clay Pierce
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Jury Returns True Bill Against Editors in Libel Case
Washington grand jury issues bench warrants for Joseph Pulitzer and editors of The New York World and The Indianapolis News over alleged libel tied to Panama Canal purchase irregularities. Warrants target five defendants. corporate publishers summoned to court. Cromwell accuses payoffs and blackmail aimed to suppress stories. editors defend press freedom and pledge to fight extradition attempts.
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Taft
Congress
Oxten
Mareh
Joseph Pulitzer
Caleb M. van Horn
New York World
Delovan Smith
Charles R. Williams
Indiana
Lis News
Tne
Eleet Taft
Federal Grand Jury
Washington
New Yai World
Indianapolis News
Jospeh Pulitzer
Cale M. VanHamn
Robert H. Lyman
New Yok World
Lelavan Smith
Tibet
United States
Panama Canal
United States Grand Jury
The
Preas Publishing Company
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
William TI. Taft
Elihu Root
J. Piermont Migen
Traisnopolis News
District of Columbia
Bad Day for Defendants in Tennessee Senator Carmack Case
Bitter day in Nashville as Cooper-Sharp murder trial resumes with sharp exchanges between attorneys. State witnesses provide new testimony while defense positions remain unsettled. Earthquake shocks reported in Porto Rico at 3 am caused alarm but no damage. Stormy weather continues.
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Carmack
Nashville
Tenn
Cooper-Sharp
Nuteide
Partiaana
Porto Rico
San Juan
Well Known Confederate Nurse Dead in Washington
Special Miss Emily Virginia Mason of a famous Virginia family died Wednesday night in the city at age 194. She gained fame during the Civil War as a Confederate nurse and ministered to Union soldiers at Libby Prison. Appointed by President Davis to organize hospital camps, she later authored a life of General Robert E. Lee and conducted a school in Paris.
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Washington
Emily Virginia Mason
Confedera
Libby Prison
Mason
Davis
Confedency
Lfe
Robert
Paris
St . Conductes
Negro Appointed Judge in District of Columbia
Robert H. Terrell, a colored Harvard graduate, has been appointed judge of the municipal court of the District of Columbia newly created by an act of Congress. He is the only colored man in the district’s judicial system.
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District of Columbia
Washington
Robert H. Terrell
Harvard College
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