Roosevelt Panama Canal Message Praises Work and Policies
President Roosevelt defends Panama Canal progress, lauds sanitation by Dr. Gorgas, and defends French and American efforts. He defends criticisms as slander, endorses a mixed contract plan and suggests a single commissioner with expert engineers to oversee dam and canal construction for an eight year completion outlook.
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England Growing Temperate Amid Drink Decline
A London report shows the United Kingdom spent $111 million less on alcohol in five years than the previous period. Per head drinking averages fall across England Ireland and armies messes with water intake rising among officers. In Woolwich Royal Artillery mess most drink water except on occasions. House of Commons catering stock reveals over 45 percent drink water habitually and 170 of 670 members are teetotalers.
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Polite Exchange In Yonkers Statesman Dialogue
A playful exchange unfolds with a courteous reply to a flirtatious question. The Yonkers Statesman style event captures a witty moment between polite speakers in a newspaper brief.
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The Simple Way Figure Snags Corn Butter Ears
A girl uses a fork to eat corn kernels while a man suggests using fingers. She replies she avoids butter on her ears. The exchange captures a light moment of everyday etiquette and humor.
No Parting. Mother No Child There Will Be No Pees In Heaven
Fragmentary dialogue reads like a domestic scene with characters debating heaven and a cook named Will. The lines imply a humorous or cryptic exchange about afterlife expectations and daily life constraints.
Captain Brunswig Seizes Fatal End Amid Victoria Luise Wreck
Kingston Jamaica December eighteenth. The Hamburg American steamship Prinzessin Victoria Luise ran aground off Port Royal on its return voyage from New York. Captain H Brunswig shot himself in his cabin as passengers were saved. the ship remained on a rocky ledge and efforts to refloat it continued. The incident follows confusion among authorities and rumors of autopsy and burial plans in New York.
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Demonstrators Clash Near French Embassy in Rome
Thousands gathered before the French embassy railing against Vatican influence as Rome’s garrison and cavalry secured the area. Protestors led by radicals sang the Miserere by the monument to Giordano Bruno amid cries of Long live France and Down with the Vatican.
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Body found in barrel on mountain after gruesome murder
In Hazleton Pennsylvania on December 18 a young woman was killed and placed in a sugar barrel. The barrel was towed to a lonely mountain spot two miles northeast, saturated with kerosene, and partially cremated. Deput y Coroner Lamont notified. body badly damaged with severed limbs and head bent to fit the lid. identity remains unknown.
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Leap from Porch Ends Wedding Witnessed by Bride’s Brothers
Culpepper Virginia December 17 Four hours after marrying Miss Viola Strothers the groom W F Bywaters was shot dead on a porch by the bride's brothers Philip and James Strothers. The brothers, who had forced the marriage over suspicions of betrayal, surrendered after the shooting.
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Buffalo Local wreck burns train near Palmyra
The New York Central Buffalo Local wrecked one mile east of Palmyra Rochester on December 18. The engineer was fatally injured and the entire train burned to the trucks except for one Pullman car. All passengers were shaken but survived with non serious injuries.
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Operator Blamed for Wreck That Killed Spencer
Washington Dec 18 The Southern railway rear end collision at Sawyers Va on Thanksgiving day causing the deaths of President Spencer and six others has its cause found. G D Agiton block operator at Rangoon Station Va is held responsible by the official investigation.
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Man dies in Genesee river falls accident
In Rochester New York on December 18 a raft Gudell was working on broke from its moorings and was swept into the swift current. He plunged over the 96 foot upper falls to instant death.
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Historic Long Bridge To Be Torn Down
Washington on December 17 reports workmen will start tearing down the historic Long bridge no longer used since newer Potomac crossings by Pennsylvania Railroad and the government. In San Francisco also on December 17 officials indicate the United States government may take drastic measures in the international dispute over segregation of Japanese in schools.
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Two Attackers Executed After Dubasoff Assault
In St Petersburg on December 18, two men who attacked Admiral Dubasoff, the acting governor general of Moscow, in the Taurida palace garden with revolvers and bombs were executed.
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Leg Torn Off By Bomb Explosion In Radom
A bomb exploded in Radom Russia Poland injuring Col Plotta head of gendarmerie. a student from the technical school who threw the device was arrested.
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Nine Hindustar Sailors Drowned In Scattering Incident
In Portsmouth on December 18, nine sailors aboard the battleship Hindustar drowned when a scattering boat upset while returning to the ship. Thirty one others were thrown into the water and rescued with difficulty.
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Congress to Adjourn for Christmas Holidays Next Thursday
Washington reports that both houses of Congress will adjourn on Thursday for the Christmas holidays unless the Senate alters the House adopted program, which is not likely.
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Supreme Court Upholds Butt Bribery Sentence
In Little Rock on December 18 the supreme court sustained the two year penitentiary term for State Senator F O Butt of Eureka Springs, convicted of bribery.
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Auto Crash In Chevy Chase Injures No One
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth were occupants of an automobile that crashed into the station platform at Chevy Chase. They were uninjured. The same day in Kansas City reports the heaviest snowstorm of the winter with 4 to 6 inches of snow across southwestern Missouri and nearby regions.
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