President's flags dispute prompts navy correction
A Foreign Attache noticed a discrepancy between army and navy presidential flags. The army flag showed seven white and six red stripes while the navy flag had seven red and six white stripes. Secretary Hay then instructed that the army flag is correct and the navy flag will be changed.
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Bingham
Engineer Corps
Army
Navy
Washington
New York
Darling
State Department
United States
Hay
Navy Department
Clergue Predicts Water Power Era Near at Soo Canal
At a Sault Ste. Marie banquet by Consolidated Lake Superior, I H Clergue forecast the water power era replacing coal. He said the Hamilton to Quebec fall of water equals 10,000,000 tons of coal yearly and that within ten years no coal will be used in Canada or Michigan for manufacturing. He foresaw massive Soo development including steel plants and shipyards.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Consolidated Lake Superior Company
Canada
Hamilton
Quebec
Michigan
Soo
Clergue
Typhoid Claims Evanston Woman Despite Christian Science Care
Miss Louise Hoge of Evanston Illinois dies after a month of illness treated by a Christian Science healer in Chicago and at Dr Samuel A Bogan's home during her wedding visit. Autopsy planned.
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Washington
Louise Hoge
Evanston
Ill
Miss Hoge
Holmes Hoge
First National Bank of Chicago
Ethel H. Bogan
Samuel A. Bogan
Dr. Bogan
Ellen Brown Linscott
Christian Science
Christian Science Church
Mission for Navajo Indians by Miss Kate Drexel
Philadelphia philanthropist Miss Kate Drexel, famed for supporting Indian mission schools in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, plans a major Navajo mission in Arizona. She aims to spend fifty thousand dollars on a main building with brick hauled across the plains from Kansas to the Navajo country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Drexel
Philadelphia
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Southwest
Guthrie
New York Times
Miss Drexel
Arizona
Kansas
Navajo Country
Preparations for Chilean Observatory by Campbell and Brashear
Professor W W Campbell of Lick Observatory visits Professor John A Brashear of Allegheny to take mirrors for telescopes and complete the Santiago observatory in Chile. The project aims to photograph the missing southern heavens, a three year effort, with four years to develop plates and interpret data. The solar system’s motion toward Lyra is noted as twelve and a half miles per hour.
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W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
John A. Brashear
Allegheny
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Campbell
Brashear
Santiago
Chile
Chile Observatory
Constellation
Lyra
Phonograph Used At Funeral In Leavenworth
The funeral of Daniel P. Williams in Leavenworth Kansas used a phonograph instead of a choir. Rev Samuel Pearson led the service after obtaining two records The Holy City and Jesus as Thou Wilt. He said the device proved satisfactory and may become common at future funerals. He plans to bring a phonograph when visiting the sick.
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Daniel P. Williams
Leavenworth
Kan
New York Times
Samuel Pearson
First Congregational Church
Pearson
Holy City
Jesus
Siam crown prince showers lavish gifts before departure
The Siamese crown prince and his brother impressed Washington with oriental magnificence. They tipped staff with generous sums, including $100 to crews and $5 to bellboys, and gifted valuables such as a desk set to Arlington Hotel manager Roessle and a case of Siamese spoons to Colin Studds of the Pennsylvania Railroad, surpassing earlier royal gifts.
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Washington
Siam
New York World
Europe
Paris
Rome
Treasury Department
Prince Henry
Prussia
Mr. Roessle
Arlington Hotel
Colin S. Studds
Pennsylvania Railroad
Andrews Taken To Prison For Bank Wreck Case
Frank C. Andrews former vice president of the wrecked City Savings bank was sent to Jackson state prison to serve a fifteen year term. He waved to reporters and officers at the Michigan Central depot and predicted a possible new trial in Detroit in April. Sheriff Dickson and ex Sheriff O P Collins escorted the prisoner.
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Detroit
Mich
Frank C. Andrews
City Savings Bank
Jackson State Prison
Michigan Central
Dickson
O. P. Collins
Trade With South Africa Valuable Advice From a Consul
Consul General Cringham at Cape Town urges American manufacturers to enter the South African market after peace. He notes vast demand for roofs galvAnized iron, farming implements, vehicles, furniture and food as interiors reopen. He warns the United States must establish direct trade lines to compete with British and other exporters.
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South Africa
Transvaal
Orange River Colony
United States
Cape Colony
State Department
Washington
Cringham
Cape Town
Great Britain
Argentine Republic
New Zealand
Australia
Richard Seddon
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Barataria
Ryan
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FE. H. Clergue
Soo Canal
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Lippincott’s
Leavenworth, Kan
Andrews
Chicago
Nishings
Paulson’s
Raarup
Lower Bayfield Street
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