Roosevelt Africa to Europe tour shrouded in triumph
Ex president Theodore Roosevelt completed a fifteen month voyage from Africa to Europe. The Smithsonian expedition yielded thousands of animal specimens and fossilized records. He received grand receptions across Naples, Mombasa, Rome, Vienna, Paris, and London. He lectured at the Sorbonne and Oxford while his son Kermit shot photos and helped collect specimens.
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Roosevelt
Africa
Europe
Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution
New York
Naples
Kermit
East Africa
Institution
Hamburg
Azores
Gibraltar
Mr. Roosevelt
Italy
William
Mombasa
Messina
Victor Emmanuel
R. J. Cunninghame
Leslie J. Tarleton
Pope
Vatican
Holy Father
Rome
Venice
Riviera
Copenhagen
Christiania
Berlin
Edward
United States
England
George
Mary
Queen Mother
London
Guild Hall
Oxford
Roosevelt Abroad Receives Global Honors on World Tour
The former president and wife endured lavish receptions across Europe with emperors and kings hosting dinners and toasts. Cambridge University awarded him a doctor of laws degree, underscoring his broad popularity. After fifteen months abroad he sailed home June 10 aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria to a warm New York welcome.
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Europe
Paris
Christiania
Berlin
Roosevelt
Cambridge University
Keramit
Ethel
New York
Record-Setting Congress Faces Pension Bill Surge
Washington dispatch notes unprecedented bill activity in this Congress with 8,592 Senate and 26,651 House introductions. About 10,000 reported, 5,500 passed, and over 6,000 enacted in some form. Pension measures dominate as veteran pensioners dwindle, easing charges while public work bills rise.
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Congress
Taft
House
Senate
Pension Committee
Polo Pony Punch Dead at 45 in Woodbury Kane's Stable
The famous polo and tander pony Punch has died at age 45. Rest of notes cover horse racing Derby at Epsom Downs won by Lemberg, tennis match May Sutton over Hazel Hotchkiss, amateur trotting meetings, Frank Gotch defending wrestling title, Edward VII memory and Epsom opening, Juarez race course plans with $300,000 stakes, and Swedish runner Gustav Ljungstrom winning a 15 mile race in Wheeling.
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Woodbury Kane
Punch
Harry Birkéfaruth
Belgium
Eprom Downs
Eng
Lemberg
May Sutton
Hazel Hotchkiss
Los Angeles
Miss Sutton
Baltimore
Wilmington
Philadelphia
Frank Gotch
Humboldt
Iowa
Stanislaus Zbyszko
Coliseum
Chicago
Edward
Juarez
Mex
Mexico
Gustav Ljungstrom
Fairgrounds
Wheeling
W. Va
Johansen
Sweden
St. Yves
France
Immigrant Knowledge Studied Across 25 Industries
Nearly 700000 industrial workers and 200000 families in 250 communities have been examined by immigration commission agents. Investigations span cotton, iron and steel, meat packing, clothing, glass, woolen goods, oil refining, copper mining, silk, leather gloves, furniture, sugar refining, tobacco, implements, and coal mining to assess immigration impact on industries and communities.
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The
Immigration Commission
Congress
United States
Judge Waite Urges Tighter Alimony Rules
Massachusetts Supreme Court justice William C. Waite argues courts should curb alimony to reduce divorces. He calls for proving fault by the filing spouse and criticizes sensational alimony stories as incentives for women to seek divorces for income.
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William C. Waite
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Medical Colleges Rebuked in Carnegie Study
The Carnegie Foundation report on Medical Education in the United States quotes Abraham Flexner criticizing low entrance standards and overproduction of untrained doctors. It notes proprietary schools, misaligned hospital ties, and overcapacity, with President Pritchett endorsing the critique.
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United States
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Abraham Flexner
Pritchett
Foundation
Vegetarian Diet Testa Suggests Less Food, More Work
French scientist Tissier reports that a vegetable diet can sustain active labor with reduced intake. The method aims to suppress harmful intestinal microbes while favoring beneficial cultures, using a carbohydrate rich plan that excludes meat eggs milk and cheese and limits legumes. The diet was tested for two years on two men who did vigorous work and ate less than on a meat diet.
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Tissier
Literary Digest
Revue Scientifique
Medical Men Hold Convention in St. Louis
Several thousand physicians attended the American Medical Association convention in St. Louis. Dr Welch of Johns Hopkins and other prominent figures presented papers on new methods of curing and preventing disease without drugs, urging doctors to rely more on nature under proper patient condition regulation.
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American Medical Association
St. Louis
Welch
Johns Hopkins
Monument to Confederates Unveiled at Toledo Site
A monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Toledo to honor Confederate soldiers buried on the site of a former federal prison during the war was unveiled. Gen. Gordon of Memphis delivered the address as Confederate and Union colors were displayed side by side.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Toledo
Gen. Gordon
Memphis
Confederate Veterans Confederate
Union
Publisher Sir George Newnes Dies in London
British publisher Sir George Newnes founder of Tit-Bits and owner of the Westminster Gazette and other papers died in London at age 54.
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George Newnes
Tit-Bits
Westminster Gazette
London
Prize for Two-Motor Plane Challenge At Dinner
At the New York Press Club dinner to Glenn Curtiss Edwin Gould offered a prize of 15000 dollars to the person who first produces an aeroplane with two motors and two propellers. The aircraft should have reserve motive power. The Evening World also established a silver cup trophy for the best amateur flight each year under defined conditions.
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New York Press Club
Glenn Curtiss
Scientific American
Edwin Gould
Evening World
Lala
Airplanes to Carry Men and Guns, Says Gen Bell
Maj. Gen. J Franklin Bell, former U S Army chief of staff, predicts within five years aeroplanes will carry three to five persons and explosives. He foresees ground anti aircraft ordnance, high speed photographic gear, and rapid reconnaissance use, with reliable flight in storms and new ballistic guidance.
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Bell
Army
J. Franklin Bell
United States Army
Labor unions report gains and cuts across sectors in 1909
The 1909 union landscape shows declines from 30 000 to 22 090 in Austria and rising activity in the United States with wage earners contributing to strikers. Boston hosts a June 1912 Brotherhood of Railway Clerks convention as talk turns to a nine hour day and fifty four hour week for women during Washington state legislative sessions.
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Bricklayers’ Union
Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks
Boston
Organized Labor
Washington
United States
United States Bureau of Labor
Building Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
New York
Electrical Workers’ Union
Albany
Northumberland
England
Miners’ Association
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Loring
Heller
British East Africa
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White Nile
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Kermit Roosevelt
Sir Alfred Pease
Kapitil Plains
Thompson
Roosevelts
MacMiland
Uganda
Ndokoro
Amer
Rdar
Khartum
Cairo
M’'nyumnezi
Makangarri
Major Ross
Nairobi
Guildhall
Colonel Roosevelt
Bill
QODS
SBORE
Sunt Immigrant Knowledge
Massachusetts
Arment Workers’ Union of
Mass
Honesdale
Shoemakers’ Union
United Mine Workers of America
Cigar Makers’ International
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