Public Eye eyed sealer captain tied to notorious raids
The piece profiles Capt. Alexander McLean, described as a modern sea rover guiding raids on seal rookeries near St Paul Island and praised and feared for piracy near history. It recalls his Carmencita ventures, arrests in Victoria, and brushes with foreign flags, with Rudyard Kipling invoking his legend.
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St. Paul Island
Alaska
McCullough
Alexander McLean
McLean
Kidd
Pacific
Capt
Aleutians
Behring Sea
San Francisco
Half Moon Bay
Kuriles
Smoky Sea
Victoria
B. C
Carmencita
Commander , Islands
Sheerwater
Mexico
Rudyard Kipling
Yeddo
Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson A Branded Naval Hero
The article profiles Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson as the British fleet commander in maneuvers simulating wartime coast defense. It highlights his long service from the Crimean War through the Soudan campaign, where he earned the Victoria Cross, and notes his famed devotion to duty and reluctance to take holidays. Benson remains modest about his exploits despite his age and experience.
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England
Arthur Knyvet Wilson
Jackie” Fisher
Admiral Wilson
Navy
China
el Teb
Englishman Runs American Railroad At Montreal Board Meeting
Sir Chartres Rivers Wilson president of Grand Trunk, a leading English financier, directs a major American railroad from London. He arrived in Canada to meet Montreal directors as Grand Trunk Pacific expansion dominates agenda with a $15,000,000 rolling stock investment. Born 1831, educated at Eton and Balliol, he served as comptroller general of the debt office 1874–94 and spent time as Egypt finance minister and on the Suez canal council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chartres Rivers Wilson
Grand Trunk Railway System
England
London
Canada
Road
Montreal
Grand Trunk Pacific
Sir Charles
Pacific Ocean
Grand Trunk
Othelen Rivers Wilson
Eton
Baliol College
Oxford
National Debt Office
Charles
Egypt
Suez Canal Council Board
Richard Strauss Urges Loud Orchestra Roar For Salome
Richard Strauss, famed Prague opera conductor, inspires his Prague orchestra to abandon timidity during a rehearsal for Salome. He demands passion, not politeness, urging musicians to yell and roar to fit the dramatic intent. Strauss has led Berlin's orchestra and declined New York’s Metropolitan run for financial reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Strauss
Ae Eoue
Prague
Salome
Oscar Wilde
Strauss
Herod
Herr Strauss
Berlin
Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York
Maurice Grau
Mozat
Wagner
Missouri farmer a wonder lives with frog in stomach
Kansas City reports Roy Seward a Vernon county Missouri farmer claims a frog entered his mouth in 1886 and grew inside his stomach for twenty years. He says it dictates his meals and croaks after rain, with family corroboration and consideration of surgical removal. He remarried after a prior elopement and continues to live with the unlikely tenant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Roy Seward
Metz
Vernon County
Missouri
Seward
Reed's Creek
Rich Hill
Mr. Seward
Devilfish Steals Fisherman Anchor In Sea Chase
San Antonio report tells how Captain Brackenridge witnessed a giant devilfish seize the anchor from Mr. Leach's boat during a Tarpon area chase. After a harpoon strike, the crowd watched the sea monster surface and release the anchor, then vanish beneath the waves. Also notes Newport bathing suit gossip about Mrs. Glen Collins in a bright red suit.
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San Antonio
Tex
John A. Brackenridge
Austin
Tarpon
al Leach
Tarpon Jetties
Mr. Leach
Newport
R. J
Glen Collins
Victoria Lawn
Collins
Coles
Nathal ‘Chesec
Navy Uses Biograph Show to Recruit Sailors
Washington reports a new recruiting push as the navy plans road show biograph exhibits to illustrate life aboard battleships. Photo displays will travel from Detroit to the great lakes and into Minnesota Wisconsin and North Dakota, aiming to draw young men into naval service and highlight enlistment hardships and rewards. Separately the American Federation of Labor names Thomas F. Tracey to head the campaign from Boston, bringing his long history in labor leadership to advocate for legislation aiding workers.
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Sam
Navy
Boston
Federation of Labor
Washington
Navy Department
Sea Service
Washington Navy Yard
Detroit
Great Lake
Minnesota
Wisconsin
North Dakota
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Thomas F. Tracey
Tracey
Cigar-Makers’ Labor League
Central Labor Union of
British Trades Unions
Cigar-Makers’ International Union
British History of the President and Ancestry Summary
A British genealogy outlines Theodore Roosevelt’s lineage from Dutch and New Netherland roots to American status. It traces ancestors Isaac, Nicholas, Jacobus Roosevelt and later generations to Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, culminating in Theodore Roosevelt born 1858 in New York. The piece lists Roosevelt’s education and public service roles from 1880 onward and notes residences at Sagamore Hill and the White House. It also highlights Flora W. Patterson, a Harvard-trained mycologist who leads plant health inspections at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and studies mushrooms, fungal diseases, and gypsy moth suppression.
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England
United States
New York
Alice Hathaway
George Cabot Lee
Theodore Roosevelt
Harvard University
Columbia University
Hope College
Yale
Harvard
New York State Assembly
United States Civil Service
New York City
United States Navy
United States Volunteer Cavalry
Santiago de Cuba
Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt
Zeeland
Holland
New Netherlan
Isaac
Nicholas
Nicholas Roosevelt
Heyltje Jans Kunst
Jacobus
Johannes
Johannes Roosevelt
Esopus
N. Y
M. Heyttje Sjoerts
Jacobus Roosevelt
Thomas Potts
New Jersey Provincial Congress
Theodore
Anna Hall
Anna
Corinne
White Hous Bay
Long Island
Iszs
Martha
Day
Maj
James Stephen Bullock
Elliott
William S. Cowles
Douglas Robinson
Washington
D. C
Sagamore Hill
Oyster
Flora W. Patterson
Agricultural Department
Harvard Annex
Radcliffe College
Patterson
Grey
Ohio
Pericultural
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Charles Carew
Kermit
Archibald Bullock
Quentin
Echel Carow
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