Sailors to Get Shore Leave as Fleet Lingers at Virginia Capes
Weather bars the sixteen battleships at Fort Monroe with a southeast gale and rain. Nearly half the ships begin leaving the Gibrlaltar run while Vermont remains in quarantine after a smallpox case. Enlisted men whose terms expired ashore in boats pulled by launches for discharge.
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Fort Monroe
Virginia Capes
Ealing
Gibraltar
Norfolk
Vermont
Naval Hospital
Justice Brewer Disses Naval Parade For Peace Policy
In an address to University of Michigan students Justice Brewer denounced building a great navy as ignorance of history. Hecriticized the world tour of the fleet as a wasteful boast and warned that it does not bring peace. He noted coal and other costs consuming over five million dollars and cited that more than sixty five percent of national expenditures go to defense-related outlays.
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Arbor
University of Michigan
Avid J Brewer
United States Supreme Court
From football to warships a military love of fighting grows
Army and Navy themes merge as sports culture fuels a martial lifestyle. The article traces how athletic devotion bleeds into naval and army identity, celebrating competition and readiness through football inspired skills and discipline.
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Army
Navy
Indefatigable class battleship keel laid in England
Devonport February 24 reports the keel plate of the British battleship Indefatigable first of her type. The vessel will have armament and speed similar to latest cruisers but no funnels due to internal combustion propulsion.
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England
Devonport
Naval sponsors to attend second annual society meeting
Mrs. John G South announces that Admiral George Dewey and Rear Admirals Sigsbee Winfield Schley and Evans have accepted invitations to attend the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy second annual meeting. The event will be held in Washington on Saturday with noted naval leaders in attendance.
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Louisville
John G South
Society of Sponsors of
United States Navy
George Dewey
Charles D. Sigsbee
Winfield , Schley
Robrey D Evans
Washington
Comet Brightly Seen Over Cherbourg For Hour
A large brilliant comet was visible in Cherbourg France for about one hour on February 24. Locals reported the sight as a striking celestial event observed before nightfall.
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Cherbourg
France
Pendleton Student Flora Heath Dies in Boston
Flora Fullerton Heath twenty years old a Potsdam New York student at the Leland Powers Elocution school died by her own hand in Boston authorities report. Mrs Heath her mother said the girl studied too hard and the strain may have driven her to suicide, the body found by Mrs Heath.
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Boston
Flora Fullerton Heath
Potsdam
N.Y
Leland Powers Elocution School
Man Gasarian Denied White House Interview
M M Mangasarian of Chicago, delegate from the Independent Religious Society to present resolutions for Thomas Paine, called at the White House but was told President Roosevelt would not grant an interview.
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Washington
M. M. Mangasarian
Chicago
Independent Religious Society
Thomas Paine
White House
Roosevelt
Daughter of Hetty Green Is Married
Sylvia Hetty Green Wilks wed Matthew Astor Wilks at St. Peter's Church Morristown New Jersey The ceremony was led by Rev Philomon F Sturgess and the bride was given away by Howland Pell The marriage ties Hetty Green to New York society while Wilks traces to the Astor lineage The Green fortune is variously estimated from sixty million to a hundred million dollars and her daughter's trousseau reportedly surpassed her mother’s lifetime clothing spending
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New York
Hoboken
Hetty Green
Sylvia
Matthew Astor Wilks
Morristown
St. Peter's Church
Philomon F. Sturgess
Howland L. Pell
Wilks
Astor
Green
Trousseau
Mrs. Green
Standard Oil Jury Venire Challenge in Indiana Trial
John S. Miller moved to quash the venire of 150 men for the Standard Oil of Indiana trial after it was revealed sixty percent of prospective jurors were farmers. Judge A B Anderson paused the venire, ordering production of the venire source list and evidence from clerk Thomas C MacMillan and jury commissioner Frank H Jones. The defense’s move signaled a dispute over whether farmers should dominate the jury in the case involving concessions with the Chicago and Alton Radway company.
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Venire
Chicago
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Chicago and Alton Radway Company
A. B Anderson
John S. Miller
Cook County
Hich
Anderson
Thomas C.macmillan
Frank H. Jones
Miller
K.M. Landis
Sims
Oil Company
Miles Order Legal: Supreme Court Denies Mine Housing Claim
The Jaragua Iron Mining company’s claim against the United States over 66 miners’ houses destroyed in Cuba by General Miles to curb yellow fever was decided against the petitioners by the Supreme Court. The ruling says the United States bears no greater liability for American-owned property than for Spanish-owned property.
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Washington
Jaragua Iron Mining Company
United States
Cuba
Miles
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court Upholds Arkansas Anti Trust Law
The U S Supreme Court in a decision to Justice White upholds the Arkansas anti trust law of 1905. It sets penalties from 200 to 500 dollars per offense and forfeiture of the right to do business in the state. Hammond Packing Co was involved and a 10000 dollar fine was imposed.
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Washington
Justice White
Supreme Court of the United States
Hammond Packing Company
Jail alleged swindlers linked to string of horses
J. G. Mabry F. M. Clark and I. J. Warner are under arrest as leaders of a swindling ring that took large sums in fake foot races wrestling matches and horse races at Little Rock Arkansas. The group keeps a string of horses in the city.
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Little Rock
Ark
J. G. Mabry
F. M. Clark
I. J. Warner
Cooper on Stand in Carmack Murder Case
Nashville court reports the sixth day of testimony in the Carmack murder case. Colonel Duncan B Cooper, Robin J Cooper and John D Sharp face trial for the shooting of former Senator E W Carmack. Cooper remained calm on the stand as defense aims to have him recount the killing.
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Nashville
Tenn
Duncan B
Robin J. Cooper
John D. Sharp
E. W. Carmack
Colonel Cooper
Cooper
Suffragists Send Two Human Letters to Premier
London reports two militant suffragists Mrs Drummond and Miss Cristobal Pankhurst sought to mail two human letters to Premier Asquith. After confirmation, Mrs Mc Lellan and Miss Solomon delivered them to the premier's residence. Servants refused to accept delivery.
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London
Asquith
President Attends Funeral for Harvard Student Nephew
President Mrs Roosevelt and family attended the funeral in New York for Stewart Douglas Robinson, the president's nephew, who died after falling from a dormitory window at Harvard College. Secretaries and admirals also attended as the president traveled by special car on the midnight Pennsylvania train.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Kermit
Nicholas Longworth
W. S. Cowles
Loeb
New York
Stewart Douglas Robinson
Harvard College
Pennsylvania
Weather forecast across Midwest with snow and fair days
The forecast calls for snow probable today in Illinois and Indiana, with fair conditions Thursday. Lower Michigan expects snow and rain today, followed by generally fair weather Thursday. Wisconsin and Iowa will be colder with snow probable, then fair Thursday.
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Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Re-enlistment Bill Passes the Senate
The Aldrich measure authorizes a court of inquiry to assess re enlistment of discharged Negro soldiers from the Twenty fifth infantry tied to the Brownsville incident. Passed 66 to 26 with Teller joining Republicans. Roosevelt Foraker and GOP military committee members supported it. Re enlisted soldiers may receive back pay from the discharge date.
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Washington
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Aldrich
Teller
Roosevelt
Senator Foraker
Committee On Military Affairs
Carnegie urged to fund world’s greatest newspaper
Columbia Mo February 24 Walter Wellman urged Andrew Carnegie to found a Washington newspaper that would be the enduring monument to journalism. He framed it as a non profit style venture operated as a business and dedicated to international peace good government progress and reform in America.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Walter Wellman
Andrew Carnegie
Washington
America
Seattle sewer cave-in claims Daniel Roberts life
In Seattle on February 28 Daniel Roberts died while working on a sewer line at the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition grounds. Nine colleagues were buried under thirty four feet of debris but were saved by a sewer pipe supplying air and were not seriously hurt.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Daniel Roberts
Americans Presented to King Edward at First Levee
London February 24 King Edward's first levee of the season at St James Palace drew a large attendance. Among the notable attendees were cabinet members and the diplomatic corps. The American ambassador White law Reid presented to the king William Rockefeller Jr James Stillman L H McCormick and Lieutenant Commander Chester Wells U G N.
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London
Edward
St. James’ Palace
Whitelaw Reid
William Rockefeller, Jr
James Stillman
New York
L. H. McCormick
Chester Wells
Waddell Plans Cross-Bill Divorce to Play in Boston
Star pitcher Rube Waddell, long away from Boston over divorce papers, has decided to file a cross-bill and seek a divorce so he can continue playing for the Browns when they visit Boston. He has hired an attorney and will begin action soon.
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Boston
St Louis
Rube” Waddell
Browns
Fear for Victim of Dog in Marinette
Carl Leonardson, among patients sent to the Pasteur Institute in Chicago from Marinette a week ago, is in critical condition. George Laig, fourteen, was bitten by a dog reported mad and taken to the institute. The dog was killed and its head is being examined at Madison.
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Marinette
Wis
Carl Leonardson
Pasteur Institute
Chicago
George Laig
Madison
Russia Bars Darwin Celebration at Kiev University
Kiev reports that local police forbade the centennial Darwin celebration at the university lore citing religious objections to the Darwinian theory.
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Russia
Darwin
Kiev
Charles Darwin
Hogs Cattle Sheep Markets Summary February 24 1909
Chicago February 24 1909 official receipts yesterday 17928 shipments 6372 estimated receipts today 28000 tomorrow 33000 market notes show hogs mixed packers heavy ships grades and rough with values from 610 to 650 porkers 630 to 640 pigs 510 to 600 cattle beeves 440 to 700 cows and heifers 190 to 565 Texas steers 430 to 540 stockers and feeders 345 to 560 western cattle 410 to 660 native sheep 325 to 570 western sheep 300 to 560 yearlings 600 to 716 lambs 575 to 770 western lambs 575 to 780 closing market active mostly 10 higher
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Texas
Ohio Flood Crisis Shuts Down Louisville and Cyclone of Loss
Storms flood Kentucky and Indiana as the Ohio River rises. Louisville endures streetcar tragedies and a deer of peril as a Big Four freight wreck near Carmi kills a brakeman and injures a conductor. Churchill Downs floods turn the track into a lake.
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Carmi
Louisvide
Churchill Downe
Hillnots Central Railroad
Fishercville
Churchill Downs
Kentucky
Frankfort
Ohio
Carrollton
Indiana
Evansville
Damage by lightning floods in Indiana threaten regions
Heavy rainfall has swollen creeks and rivers to danger levels in central and southern Indiana. Electric storms caused damage by lightning. Hell's Neck remains in peril as farmers flee to higher ground. The lower Ohio River rose and Evansville's level exceeded thirty five feet.
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Indianapolis
Hell's Neck
Indiana
Ohio
Evansville
Weather Warnings for Ohio River Tributaries
The weather bureau issued warnings to residents along Ohio river tributaries to brace for sudden rises from heavy rains. Local authorities urge vigilance and prepare for potential flooding conditions.
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Cincinnati
The
Weather Bureau
Ohio River
Mardi Gras Balloon Explosion Injures Two Women
During Mardi Gras in Paris a toy balloon caught fire from an ignition, causing an explosion. Mrs Florence Clark of Syracuse, New York, had her hat blaze up and hair singed before her millinery was removed. Mrs Laura Martin of Chicago suffered badly singed eyebrows.
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Paris
Florence Clark
Syracuse
Laura Martin
Chicago
Mardi Gras Celebrated with Revelry in New Orleans
New Orleans observed Mardi Gras with gaiety as maskers took to the streets. The Rex parade stood out with its grand floats and richly dressed participants signaling the day’s festive mood.
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Crescent City
New Orleans
Bride room ambush at reception ends in shooting
In Lexington Kentucky on February 24 William Throckmorton was summoned to his mother's doorway during a wedding reception and shot in the chest by an unidentified assailant who fled. Doctors fear he will die.
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Lexington
William Throckmorton
Throckmorton
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