His Majesty in Good Health and Preparations Completed
Crowds line streets as cannon booms wake sleepers and people seek vantage points to view today’s grand procession. Officials announce all arrangements ready for the event with the king in sound health.
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London
Old London
Tower of London
Hyde Park
Whitehall
Westminster Abbey
Scotland Yard
Empire
Edward
Buckingham Palace
Coronation Day Carriages Parade Pages and Attendants
London crowds filled the streets at dawn for the coronation, with guards and crowds awaiting the procession. The list of occupied carriages includes royalty and nobility from Battenberg and Hesse to Denmark and Denmark and Greece, followed by the Prince of Wales procession and the King's own procession with aides and royal staff.
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Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Roumania
Louise and
Augusta Victoria
Schleswig-Holstein
Princess Christian of
Scheswig-Holstein
Victoria Patricia Margaret of
Connaught
Duchess of
Prince of Wales
York House
Prince and Princess of Wales
Buckingham Palace
Aoland Hood
Sidney Robert Greville
Mary Dyke
Sylvia Edwardes
Lord Knollys
D. M. Probyn
Duchess of Buccleuch
Lord Roberts
Pertab
Investiture at Buckingham Palace Bestows Orders and Honors
King Edward distributed coronation honors this afternoon at Buckingham Palace, knighting Ras Makonnen as a knight commander of St Michael and St George, and awarding the Order of the Garter to the Duke of Marlborough. The processional fret section will depart Buckingham Palace at 16:39 with royal carriages and trumpeters leading the Royal Horse Guards Band.
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London
Edward
Buckingham Palace
Order of the Garter
Duke of Marlborough
Ras Makonnen
Order of St. Michael and St. George
Abbey
Royal Horse Guards Band
Distressing streetcar accident claims life of young veteran
Raymond E. Elliott twenty two returned from the Philippines was struck by a street car at Massachusetts avenue and New Jersey street in Indianapolis. He was dragged about fifteen feet and wedged under the car’s fenders. Despite ambulance aid and hospital care his skull base was crushed and he died several hours later. Elliott, a clerk for the Indianapolis Hardware Company, lived with relatives on Central avenue and was a nephew of S D Pray, secretary of the Indianapolis Gas Company.
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Massachusetts Avenue
New Jersey Street
Raymond E. Elliott
Elliott
Indianapolis Hardware Company
City Ambulance
Goodwin
City Hospital
Philippines
Knightstown
Hardware Company
Central Avenue
8. D. Pray
Indianapolis Gas Company
Bryan changes mind on 1904 candidacy after Iowa platform remarks
In an interview en route to Danville Muscatine Bryan rejects 1904 bid rumors, says no fixed plans for future nominations, and remains a private citizen. He credits Iowa Republicans for recognizing tariff trusts, but argues national policy is controlled by big money and trusts, viewing the party plank as educational.
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Muscatine
William J. Bryan
Danville
Bryan
Mason City
Iowa
Congress
Republican Party
Mystery Over Cuban Post Funds Amid Embezzlement Case
Washington reports detail Charles F. W. Neely’s arrest for embezzling over 100000 from the Cuban Post Office. Cash totaling 62234 and diamonds, seized, were to be returned to the Cuban fund but now lie in the War Department vault. Spilker and a 20000 bond appear tied to the money, with ownership unresolved as officials weigh Cuban postal fraud implications and pending balance with Cuban authorities.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Charles F. W. Neely
Rochester
N. Y
Post Office Department
General Wood
War Department
Neely
Havana
United States
Spilker
Muncie
Post Office
Associated Press
Cuba
Root
Cuba Needs Immediate Aid To Secure Future Credit
The Cuban American League reports a $33,000,000 loan is needed to pay soldiers and honor Cuban bonds. It urges immediate help, proposing banks circulate a national currency backed by Cuban bonds, guaranteed by the United States, with bonds becoming U.S. debt if Cuba joins the United States.
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New York
Cuban American League
Cuba
Spain
United States
League
Wages Increase Across Chicago, Burlington System
About 7000 workers on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy system will receive wage hikes effective Sept 1. Minimum brakemen pay rises from 45 to 0 per month, passenger brakemen move to 5, collectors and baggagemen reach 55 to 0, with express work increasing pay by percent. Freight brakemen and conductors gain 1 to 2 cents per mile, passenger conductors up to 125 dollars monthly, boosting payroll by around 5.00. The raise covers the Chicago to Denver route.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Denver
Express firms prepare against teamsters strike in Chicago
Chicago suppliers including seven major express companies limit accepting goods billed to the city and seek to safeguard business. A secret conference with store representatives approved plans to resist wage and hour demands while rumors spread of a broader labor action by manufacturers and department stores.
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Chicago
Aug
The
Tribune
Teamsters
City Adopts Fast Freight For Perishables And Strike Settles
Shipping clauses ensure delivery when arriving at the city. Citizens' committee says trolley strike nearly settled as discharged worker reinstated and workers vow return if future talks with the committee occur. Separate notices report a receiver petition for Fair Haven Westville Railroad. Structural Iron Workers order a nationwide strike affecting 5,000, with union urging refusal to handle American Bridge Co products. Chicago stores report hundreds of delivery wagon boys strike for higher wages, delaying parcel delivery.
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New Haven
Conn
Citizens’ Committee
Fair Haven & Westville Railroad Company
Philadelphia
Structural Iron Workers’ Union
American Bridge Company
Real estate man Pierce Bodley dies by his own hand in Louisville
Pierce Bodley a well known Louisville real estate figure shot himself at his mother in law's home 313 Camp street. A note to his sister Rosa Brackett Washington DC explains he took his life due to Brights disease. He was 58, born in Vicksburg Miss. His brother Will Bodley resides in Louisville and another brother Temple Bodley is a leading Louisville lawyer.
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Louisville
Pierce Bodley
Mary McHenry
Camp Street
Rosa Brackett
Washington, D. C
Bright
Mr. Bodley
Vicksburg
Miss
Will Bodley
The
New York Sun
Temple Bodley
Addresses by Negroes at Atlanta Conference
At a Negro conference in Atlanta on August 8 R E Jones of New Orleans urged that Negroes must decide policy rather than white men and warned of forcing cooperation if the white man refused help. Rev J A Bray of Athens urged whites and Negroes to cooperate in policing crime and protecting women, even to dangerous lengths.
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Atlanta
R. E. Jones
New Orleans
Mr. Jones
South
Rev
J. A. Bray
Athens
Hell
Cable Must Not Be Cut to Shield U S Interests in Haiti
The United States and Haitien Telegraphic and Cable Company urged protection of the Cape Haitien to New York cable from the Haitian gunboat Crete-a-Perrot under Admiral Killick. Washington directed Commander McCrea of the Machias to prevent the attack, citing Monroe doctrine aims and safeguarding American communications and wartime uses.
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Washington
United States
Haiten Telegraphic and Cable Company
Navy
Cape Haitilen
New York
Killick
Firmin
Cape Haitien
McCrea
Machias
Atlee
Darling
West Indian
West Indies
Porto Rico
State
Navy Department
Vasquez
Haiti
Pacific Cable Deal Opens Way for Government Control
A Sagamore Hill conference between President Roosevelt and Attorney General Knox on August 8 approved amended conditions for the Pacific Commercial Cable Company to lay a transpacific line from San Francisco to China via Honolulu and Guam. The plan, while enabling construction, requires congressional ratification and grants priority service, rate control by the postmaster general, and wartime government control, with a provision for a separate China Manila cable and potential government purchase of the line. The project aims for an American owned and operated Orient cable, leveraging U S Chinese treaty rights and government soundings.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Knox
Commercial
Philippines
Sagamore Hill
Pacific Commercial Cable Company
San Francisco
Honolulu
Guam
China
Congress
United States
Manila
Hong Kong
Atlantic City
H. C. McCullough
Chicago
Fierce Forest Fires Near Battle Lake Wyoming
Immense wildfires scorch forests within miles of Battle Lake, destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars in timber. Fires along the west fork of the Encampment River began in three spots and have merged into a single large blaze, with losses expected to climb into the millions if rain does not come.
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Wyoming
Battle Lake
Wyo
Fire Flares Across Battie Lake Rambler Patch
Reported fire danger to Battie Lake and Rambler towns as sheep herders blamed for the blaze. In New Jersey a ferry boat New Brunswick was wrecked by an overturning lamp. 23 crew aboard, 16 passengers saved with no panic, captain ordered lifeboats deployed. Engineer injured, boat valued at $60,000, partially insured. Also a Hayti blaze in Port-au-Prince destroyed sixty houses with $200,000 in damage, residents calm through the night.
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New York
Aug
New Brunswick
N. J
George Fogers
Brooklyn
William Traver
Bath
Port-Au-Prince
Hayti
St Louis Fair Awards Rules Set for International Jury
President Francis issued regulations for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition defining an International jury of awards at about two percent of exhibitors. Nations with at least fifty exhibitors gain representation. Jury size and marks affect Bronze Silver Gold and Grand Prize determinations based on exhibitor merit.
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ST. Louis
Aug
Francis
Court Hearing On Davidson Embezzlement Case Continues
John W. Kern of an insurance firm accepts funds offered in court as evidence in the embezzlement case against John H. Davidson of this city. Davidson, agent for Traders Mutual Life Insurance, allegedly miscounted $96.77. Attorney Joseph Morgan produced the money, Kern accepted it, and Judge Stubbs warned against collection actions. The trial resumes Monday.
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John H. Davidson
Davidson
Joseph Morgan
Hale
John W. Kern
Morgan
Stubbs
Eleven Bodies Found After Bowen Mine Explosion
Rescue teams at the Bowen mine in Trinidad reported eleven dead after a coal explosion likely caused by a premature shot. Fire damp halted operations, with thirteen miners inside at the time. gas buildup and a shattered slope mouth damaged nearby structures. Names of the dead include Michael Cassidy and James Hunter among others. In Bradford, a separate Irvine’s Mills blast killed Joseph Gilson and Oscar Bergvall, with nitroglycerin and glycerin involved and only fragments of the wagon remaining.
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Trinidad
Bowen Mine
Michael Cassidy
James Hunter
Frank Groats
Joe Sanchez
W. H. Eliott
Philip Fenn
Bowen
Mike Cassidy
Bradford
Irvine's Mills
Joseph Gilson
Oscar Bergvall
Pennsylvania Torpedo Company
Gilson
Bergvall
Rice Brook
Olean
Premature dynamite blast harms three workers in Kentucky
In Paris Kentucky this morning a dynamite blast at a North Middletown project killed Manley Florence of Standford and fatally wounded Marion Blackford of Owensboro while injuring Walter Goode of Lexington who was in critical condition. The trio worked for the East Tennessee Telephone line crew running from Paris to North Middletown.
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Paris
Manley Florence
Standford
Marion Blackford
Owensboro
Walter Goode
Lexington
North Middletown
East Tennessee Telephone Lena
North
Insults to Himself Resented at Atlantic City Restaurant
An Atlantic City restaurant event draws sharp remarks from Mr Knox and his wife, guests of the president, as insults directed at them provoke resentful reactions among attendees and staff. The episode unfolds amid social tensions at a high profile gathering reported from Oyster Bay.
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Atlantic City
Assault on Attorney General Knox in Atlantic City hotel
Reports from Atlantic City recount Attorney General Knox being assaulted late Wednesday night after a dispute with Charlies Schoen Theodore Cramp and Stevenson in a cafe annex. Knox and his party were heckled shouted at and then attacked leading to a chaotic scene as bystanders intervened and the group retreated to their hotel.
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Atlantic City
Knox
Oyster Bay
Charlies T. Schoen
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Theodore Cramp
Stevenson
Schoen
Cramp
Ioafar
Blackguard
Mr. Knox
Cafe Annex
Mr. Schoen
Mr. Krox
Mr. Cramp
Mr. Jevenson
Funston III Again in Denver Confined by Illness
Brigadier General Fred Funston, commander of the Department of Colorado, is confined to his home in Denver after an operation for fistula. His condition is not alarming and friends expect a swift recovery.
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Denver
Col
Fred Funston
Department of Colorado
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