Education of Negroes Address by Cleveland in Philadelphia
Former President Cleveland presided at a Philadelphia public meeting supporting Berean Manual Training School to promote industrial education for Black citizens. Booker T. Washington also spoke. the school, two years old with 200 students, seeks broader local support to expand opportunities and improve civic life.
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Philadelphia
Cleveland
Berean Manual Training School
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
Berean Manual
National Reciprocity Convention Adopts Trade Resolutions
Detroit delegates to the National Reciprocity Convention adopted resolutions urging liberal trade relations with all nations. They reaffirmed Kasson treaties, advocate Cuba and Newfoundland pacts, seek Canada tariff removals, and call for a joint high commission or alternatives. The finance report urged organizing auxiliary leagues and securing organizers.
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Detroit
Mich
John Lind
Minnesota
Finance Committee
Eugene N. Foss
Boston
Frank D. Pavey
New York
Cuba
Canada
Congress
Joint High Commission
Newfoundland
Grand Lama of Tibet Visit Recalls Dalai Lama History
London Chronicle recalls 1882 journey by Sarat Chandra Das to Lhasa under Indian government auspices. Das meets the Dalai Lama, notes regency under China, and describes Potala ascent and ceremonial gifts amid Tibet’s sacred leadership and youthful ruler.
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London Chronicle
Government of India
Sarat Chandra Das
Tibet
Royal Ehical Society of
Great Britain
Ted
Calcutta
O Ie
Darjeeling
Lhasa
Dalai Lama
Buddha
Atra
China
Shacham
Shenreazic
Pandibia
Dalai
Potala
Red Palace
Khatae
Priesh
Portrait of the Dalai Lama Court Scene and Shacham Figure
Descriptive passage depicts a Dalai Lama ceremony with a yellow mitered figure on a silk throne, tea, rice, and blessed pills as gifts. It also portrays the Shacham, described as a grand dame devoted to family, exhibiting wealth and finery in a vivid, human portrait.
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Dalai Lama
Shacham
Pandibla
Sarat Chandra Das
Lhasa
Roosevelt on Reed in the Fifty-First Congress
Theodore Roosevelt argues in the Forum that Thomas B Reed shaped a republic by ending abusive parliamentary practices. He notes Reed led the Fifty-First Congress, faced minority leadership in the Fifty-Second, and that subsequent Reed rules were vindicated by Supreme Court rulings and Democratic reversal, praising Reed as a great servant of the American Republic.
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Thomas B. Reed
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Reed
House
Supreme Court of the United States
New York Mail on Desecration of the American Flag
A critique of a pamphlet urging national flag legislation cites Roosevelt’s desire for action and condemns flag abuse both at home and abroad. The piece notes the flag’s use as advertising and in places of vice, calls such acts treasonous, and discusses opinions about using the flag as a wrapper for American hams.
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New York Mail and Express
Congress
Roosevelt
Philippines
Paris
Continental
Heraltren
Henderson
Not Enough of Them in Philadelphia Record
A clipped editorial notes that unions do not represent most wage earners and that some members resign from the National Guard or oppose street car letter boxes amid fears of a street railway strike. It argues the broader U S would be drawn into conflict, but stresses that wage earners in unions are a small portion and not all support the mastnotoee agenda and its socialist leanings.
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National Guard
Indiana
United States
Mastntoee
Roe
Washington Post
Beecher Stowe
Capt. J. 8
New York
Virginia
Jim Hayes
Robert
Oliver P. Morton
Congress
Virginia Election
Richmond
Far West
Law proposals on monopoly, education exhibit, and corporate reporting
Abstract of bills proposing stamps on imports to mark no monopoly products, a $100,000 appropriation to display agricultural and mechanical progress at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and a bureau of corporations within the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring annual corporate reports. Also notes on a canal project from the Ohio River to Lake Er ie and a forthcoming general army retirement bill.
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Treasury
de Armond
Tawney
Committee On
Industrial Arts and Expositions
United States
Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Agriculture Experiment Stations
St. Louis
Sulzer
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bureau of Corporations
Dalzell
Ohio River
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Conneaut
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Proctor
Warren and Cockrell
Salvador seeks reduction of $40,000 arbitration award
Salvador has applied for a reduction of the $40,000 award set by the arbitration commission in Washington last spring for injuries to the Salvador Commercial Company from the franchise appropriation. The State Department has considered the matter for three weeks and plans to pay by next February. Also noted, a post office committee rejects devices to replace twine in mail ties as impractical, likely delaying mail. Nearby, Loomis and Dooley visitors, and a religious bodies deputation urged aid for Irish educational and religious efforts in the Turkish empire. Confirmations of Senate appointments were noted.
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Washington
Salvador
Arbitration Commission
Salvador Commercial Company
State Department
Wynne
Hhe
New England
Frank B. Loomis
United States
Portugal
Peter Dunne
Mr. Dooley
Washon
Rosevelt
Hay
Morris K. Jesup
Chamber of Commerce
New York
Syran Protestant College
Beirut
Journal
Senate
George H. Bridgeman
Kingston
Jamaica
William F. Doty
Tahiti
Society Islands
Army Orders Honorably Discharge Officers and Assignments
Recent Army Orders from Washington detail Maj. Charles H. Andrews being honorably discharged effective February 1, Capt. Frank H. Lawton ordered to Governor's Island New York, and Capt. G McD Weeks leave of absence extended through January 31 with the Fourteenth Infantry.
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Washington
Charles H. Andrews
United States Volunteers
Frank H. Lawton
Governor's Island
New York
G. McD. Weeks
Fourteenth Infantry
Pacific Cable Enterprise Begins Work in San Francisco
San Francisco hosts a reception for Clarence H Mackay G C Ward William H Baker and Edgar C Bradley as Pacific Cable Company moves to lay a vast transoceanic line from San Francisco to Honolulu and beyond. Ward forecasts a 10000 nautical mile route reaching Far East undersea links with completion targeted by June. Mackay pledges to honor his father John W Mackay and carry out the all American cable project to the East and Golden Gate.
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San Francisco
Dec
Palace Hotel
Clarence H. Mackay
G. C. Ward
Commercial Cable Company
William H. Baker
Edgar C. Bradley
The
Postal Telegraph Company
Honolulu
Gage
Schmidtz
Pardee
Barstow
Oakland
Ward
Atlantic
England
France
China
Puck
Midway
Guam
Manila
John W. Mackay
Clarence Mackay
Cable Company
Pacific Coast
Far East
Golden Gate
Molineux to Publish The Room with the Little Door
Renowned writer Roland B. Molineux prepares in New York to release The Room with the Little Door recounting four years in prison. The memoir blends wit with criticism of the district attorney and defends Patrick and Jones, including an exposé chapter on Third Degree methods.
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New York
Roland B. Molineux
John
Old Customs in New Dress, New York Run
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New York
Eile Neefen
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Advertised for Teething Relief
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a universal teething remedy. It claims to soothe irritability, ease wind colic, regulate digestion, and cure diarrhea, with testimonials of prevention against consumption and a claim of quick relief for toothache.
Cornell Presidents Views on Islands Becoming States
BRIG. GEN. A W GREELY AND CORNELL PRESIDENT J G SCHURMAN addressed the Nineteenth Century Club on The United States in the Philippines. Schurman urged Luzon and the Visayas become states, arguing independence or continued subjection are options. Greely, while doubting the war and the Philippines, favored best outcomes for the nation. He praised army leadership and noted officers Merritt Otis MacArthur Chaffee and Davis for guiding postwar federal reform.
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New York
A. W. Greely
Jacob G. Schurman
Cornell University
Nineteenth Century Club
United States
Philippines
Walter S. Logan
Oklahoma
Alaska
Cuba
England
Canada
Australia
Luzon
Mayne
Philippine
General Greely
Greeley
Merrittt
Otis
MacArthur
Chaffee
Davis
Hat Man
Oreover
Castro Defiant Over Venezuelan Crisis and British Prisioners
The Foreign Office said seized Venezuelan customs and ships may be delayed by pro rata claims among Britain Germany and allies. Cranborne confirmed captures at Laguayra and Bolivar Port of Spain with two prizes sunk. British subjects arrested at Caracas were released or not yet freed, and the vice consul and dependents were taken aboard a British warship amid hostages claim by President Castro.
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Cranborne
Foreign Office
Germany
Great Britain
China
Laguayra
House of Commons
Castro
One Menace Removed in Venezuela Crisis
Washington reports Minister Bowen confirms the release of all German and British prisoners in Caracas. Officials view the act as reducing danger, hoping for a peaceful blockade and limited seizure of Venezuelan customs houses, with no change in U S policy of noninterference.
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Washington
Bowen
Caracas
State Department
Venezuela
Castro
Hay
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
England
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Venezuela Crisis Clouded by Peace Blockade Debate
The State Department has not restricted American commerce if Venezuela enforces a peace blockade, while Germany and Britain seek joint action. Ambassador Bowen helped secure the release of German and British subjects in Caracas. Venezuela’s chargé d’affaires criticizes the sinking of gunboats as unwarranted and confusing the situation.
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State Department
Germany
Venezuela
England
France
Lopthaetien
von Holleben
Michael Herbert
Bowen
United States
Castro
Caracas
Hay
Berlin
London
Washington
Great Britain
Puledo
Laguayra
Ossun seizure tied to Venezuelan dispute prompts arbitration
A long Foreign Office dispatch from Caracas reports German warships seized the Ossun, a French merchant steamer, in addition to Venezuelan targets. France seeks indemnity and arbitration, claiming the Ossun’s French nationality and pressing a $10.9 million demand tied to pre 1899 damages and a Gulf railroad destruction. Public opinion leans toward Venezuela. Europe may weigh in to avert broader conflict.
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Paris
Foreign Office
Caracas
Venezuela
Ossun
Germany
South America
Castro
France
Gulf of Maracaibo
The
Temps
United States
Europe
Minister Bowen Praised in Germany for Rescuing Foreigners
Berlin dispatches say German Foreign Office commends Minister Bowen for his energetic action leading to the release of Germans imprisoned at Caracas. Washington confirms advices. Venezuela’s revenue cutters are seized with plans for broader seizures reported, while the pope is referenced in blurred accounts.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Bowen
Aracas
Washington
Venezuela
Wen
Germany
Caracas
From an Ex Confederate Opinion on Civil War Rights
A New Orleans editorial argues that Civil War rights and principles were sacred on both sides. It honors Confederate soldiers while balancing praise for Union leaders like Abraham Lincoln, noting that both North and South defended the right as God directed.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Carevlina
Bia Bethel
Burg
Chickamauga
Mattox
Gether
Harold
Seniac
South
Confed
Ball
Abraham Lincoln
Wealthy attorney William M Evarts passes after long career
In Philadelphia Inquirer notes the death of multi millionaire William M Evarts. The obituary hints he amassed wealth during years as an estate attorney and suggests the fallen magnate took no fortune with him in the end.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Wasen
Wiliam M. Evarts
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