Roosevelt climbs a steam shovel in Culebra cut inspection
President Roosevelt rode the Panama Canal project line to Pedro Miguel and the Culebra cut, climbing a steam shovel for twenty minutes amid rain and landslide concerns. He questioned engineers about overtime pay, promised to look into it, and toured the deep cut with officials as explosives were set to show effects.
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Panama
Roosevelt
Engineer Gray
Stevens
Pedro Miguel
Pedro Miguel Lock
Culebra Cut
Standard Broke on Market Report Declines Sink Prices
A brief market note states the standard index broke to a new low in years as bale prices slipped. Traders suggested cautious selling and weaker demand amid unsettled financial conditions impacting futures and spot rates.
St Louis to Host Mississippi Valley Lake to Gulf Group
The Mississippi Valley Lake to the Gulf association may name St Louis Missouri as its headquarters when the organizational committee reports at the deep waterways convention at the Odeon. William Flewellyn Saunders is expected to become secretary of the association. The 1500 delegates, gathered from across the valley, will form a permanent body after the committee's report Saturday. The plan outlines a president secretary and state governors as vice presidents with an executive committee from each state. E S Conway of Chicago serves as permanent chairman.
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St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Lake-to
Conway
Chicago
Physician Commits Suicide Aboard Train in California
Dr A De Young of Taylor Texas, traveling with his wife on a westbound Southern Pacific train near Bakersfield, killed himself with a razor in a toilet room. He suffered nervous prostration and melancholia. the act severed neck muscles and arteries, the spinal column preventing complete detachment.
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Bakersfield
Cal
L. A
Twelve Bodies Recovered After Arizona Quarry Blast
In Douglass Arizona twelve bodies were recovered from a silica and lime quarry wreckage near Lee Station after a dynamite explosion on Thursday. Three more men are believed buried under debris. Several injured were treated at local facilities as dynamite was being brought into the quarry for blasting.
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Douglass
Ariz
Lee Station
Shortage in Cuban Treasury Triggers Panic over Missing Funds
In Havana Ernesto Fonts Sterling, secretary of the treasury under Palma, has been in daily talks with sub-officials who fear they cannot account for 60,000 dollars missing from the department amid lax controls during the recent revolution.
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Havana
Cuba
Ernesto Fonts Sterling
Treasury
Palma
Venezuelan consul denies Castro illness rumors
Charles B Fi gueroa, consul general of Venezuela, sent a statement to New York newspapers denying reports that President Cipriano Castro is seriously ill. He says he has an official government cable authorizing him to deny the rumors and that Castro remains in full charge of his duties.
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Castro
New York
N. Y
Charles B. Figuerdo
Venezuela
Tuat
Cipriano
Rome Cathedral Bomb Threats Leave St Peters Scene in Panic
A bomb planted under scaffolding near the tomb of Clement XII at St Peter's exploded after Mass, causing a panic but injuring no one. The blast, with a long fuse, occurred as a canon blessed worshippers, and the bomber fled. The tomb and Canova sculpture were undamaged, and investigators seek the unidentified assailant.
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Rome
St. Peter’s
St. Petronilla
Anacletus
Peter
St. Peter
Clement XII
Canova
Gates to Build Pipe Line From Tulsa to Port Arthur
Austin Texas reports that John W Gates oil company known as the Texas Company has ordered 430 miles of eight inch pipe for a new line from Tulsa Oklahoma to Port Arthur Texas. The project cost about four million dollars and laying will begin soon.
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Austin
Tex
John. W. Gates
the Texas Company
Tulsa
Port Arthur
Ter
Great Brussels Education Petition Draws Mass Rally
In Brussels a large demonstration supported obligatory education with as many as 60,000 people marching to the city hall to present a petition to the mayor. The rally underscored strong public demand for compulsory schooling in Belgium.
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Brussels
Belgium
Boston Elevated Railway Grants Wage Increase for 5300 Employees
The Boston Elevated Railway Co. announces a voluntary wage increase for 5,300 employees starting January 4. The raise averages 10 cents per day, totaling about $160,000 for the period.
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Boston
Mass
Boston,” Elevated Railway Co
Consolidation talks and political spillover across nations
Telegraphic briefs report railroad consolidation details between Burlington and Great Northern, gubernatorial pardon absence, suspensions in Buffalo, and Interstate Commerce Commission actions. It notes presidential push to apply criminal law to Standard Oil, a poisoning case in Amesbury, severe winter weather across Kansas, a ship collision in Puget Sound, and various obituaries and society items.
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Burlington
Great Northern
St. Louis
Penitentiary
Interstate Commerce’ Commission
Texas
Washington
Congress
Southern Methodist
Commission
Roosevelt
Standard Oil
John G. Whittier
Poet
Amesbury
Missouri
Kansas
Puget Sound
Seattle
Dix
Jeanie
Hroni
New York
Mary Skidmore
Robert E. Lee
Minia Rockefeller
John
Nashville
Leupp
Choate
Carl Schurz
St. Louisans
Thomas T. Crittenden
Kansas City
Senator Platt May Retire Over Domestic Scandal
New York The retirement of Senator Thomas C Platt from Congress is seen as the likely outcome of the domestic scandal. If he returns to Washington he may be forced to retire due to personal and political pressure. Republicans generally favor his retirement and say he has outlived his usefulness. Rumors claim a settlement with Mrs Platt ranging from 500000 to 1000000 dollars.
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New York
Thomas C. Platt
Congress
Washington
Mr. Platt
Gompers Acts Indorsed at Labor Convention
Minneapolis delegates at the AFL annual convention endorse President Gompers political policy from the last campaign and urge continued independence, denouncing affiliating with any party and opposing a national labor party formation.
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Minneapolis
Minn
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
National Labor Party
Explosion Kills Two At Cement Plant In Mitchell Indiana
An explosion at a cement company house in Mitchell Indiana eight miles south of Bedford late Friday afternoon killed two men and injured several others. An employee tried to open a box of dynamite when the blast occurred causing the deadly accident.
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Bedford
Ind
A .Cement
Mitchell
Here
Thanksgiving Prayer Of Edith Livingston Smith Poem
A meditation thanking God for music beauty and the promise of life in seeds and spring. The speaker Edith Livingston Smith notes gratitude for nature, love, home, and hopeful growth amid hardship and winter.
A New England Thanksgiving Echoes Puritans and Pilgrims
The article traces Thanksgiving origins from Hebrew harvest feasts to Pilgrim and Puritan traditions in New England. It links Washington and Lincoln proclamations to a fixed late November date, recalls Plymouth’s early feasts, and evokes Puritan discipline, poetical visions, and historic figures like Hester Prynne, Miles Standish, John Alden, and Paul Revere.
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United States
Pilgrim Church
England
New England
Aimerican
Tabernacles
Europe
Plymouth
Gov. Bradford
Ireland
Congress
Washington
Lincoln
Hester Prynne
Haythorne
Hester
Mistress Hibbins
Salem
Pilgrims
Miles ‘Standish
John Alden
Priscilla
John
Alden
Paul Revere
Middlesex
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Deep Waterways Association
W. F. Saunders
Mississippi Valley Lake-to- Gulf Association
St.peter’s
Senator Platt
Federation of Labor
Man
Edith, Livingston Smith
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