Taft Outlines Panama Canal Obstacles and Labor Issues
Secretary Taft in his annual Panama Canal report cites two key questions on progress and value, details the cost and spending, and warns of possible reliance on Asian labor if American labor cannot be secured. He notes findings on engineering, labor shortages, yellow fever controls, and the need for more officers while stressing preparatory work before significant digging can begin.
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Panama Canal
War Tart
Tatt Gves
Taft
Taft Bens
Mr. Taft
En- Binner Wallace
Wallace
Canal Commission
Wallice
Asia
Mr. Wallace
Jaorami M Taft
Steves
Tate
Shont
Stevens
Law
Wovieee
Bedith
Dutles
Carmos
Canal Zone
Orient
General Staff
Congress
Tribute to Gen Henry Boynton and park commission work
The Secretary honors Gen Henry Boynton chairman of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission who died June 3 1905. A Civil War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient he played a key role in launching the park project and inspired work through the years. From his sick bed he recommended Gen Ezra Varnoff as successor to continue the commission’s mission.
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Ordnance and
Medical Departments
Army
Henry V. Hoynton
Chickamauga and National Park Commission
Gen. Boynton
Henry ¥. Boynton
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission
Boynton
Spain
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Acces
Ezra. Varmof
Roosevelt backs merit rule across federal offices
President Roosevelt endorses Postmaster General Cortelyou’s merit rule favoring merit over politics for appointments in the Post Office and possibly other federal branches. The policy faces Senate resistance and public criticism as officials weigh extending the approach to deputy collectors, district attorneys, and other posts, with emphasis on merit and limited political influence.
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Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Indian Service
Internal Revenue
United States District
United States Marshalships
Customs and Internal Revenue
Interior Department
Senate
House
Gratified Confederate Leaders Thank Roosevelt over Graves Paragraph
General Stephen D Lee, commander of the United Confederate Veterans, writes to President Roosevelt praising his message’s paragraph urging government care for Confederate graves, especially those in Northern prisons, and extending personal regards. A Cotton Congress is called in Atlanta for January 1906 to discuss crop handling and market expansion with leaders from the South.
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Viksburg
Stephen O ' Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Rooses
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Confedirete Veterans' Organizations
Federaiie
Atlanta
Deep
Harvie Jordan
Southern Cotton Associaton
South
New Orlering
Hospital for ships would be of great value
The annual report from Mordecai Endicott urges a floating dry dock near the Patuxent River to shelter battleships and merchant vessels during war. Estimated cost about 1.95 million dollars, with a 600 foot lifting capacity, to serve as a refuge between North Atlantic and Caribbean squadrons.
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Benair
Mordecai Endicott
Navy Department Bureau of Yards and Dorks
Admiral Endicott
Congress
Patuxent River
Baltimore
North Atlantic Fleet
Caribbean Sea Squadron
Bureau of Yards and Docks
United States
Tr Fg
Patuxent
Washington
Routh
Cometeuction
Renair
Carlisle Jeweler Kills Himself in Shop Despondency Suspected
Edward L. Kramer, a Carlisle, Pennsylvania jeweler, shot himself in his shop today. Police say despondency is the believed cause, the suicide taking place in the shop of the ramers.
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Carlisle
Carlsle
Edward L. Kraner
Ramer
Rim
BOOKS RECEIVED. MANY TITLES LISTED
A long catalog of new books from multiple publishers and authors with prices, formats, and edition details. Entries include works by A Neely Hall, Mar nard Sidmey, Mary TD Bruali, Ethel Wood, Amanda M Dowgtan, Edna A Fos ter, Emilie Foulsson, and many others. Prices range from 25 cents to several dollars, with several titles noted as cloth bindings from Boston and New York houses.
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Lee & Shepard
Boston
Ben Pepper
Marnard Sidmey
Price
Mary TD. T. Bruali
Les Shepard
Dolley
Ethel Wood
Deston
Helen Grant
Aldred House
Amanda M. Dowgtan
Les & Shepard
Cordelia
Edna A. Foster Lee
Fitza Orne White
Houghton, Mittin & Co
New York
Quiller- Couch
Longmans, Green & Co
Jedeon Wade Shaw
Barnes & Co
H. A Mitchell
Kenys
Abbey Tedx Klein
A. C. McClurg & Co
Chicago
Olb Ann
Jexanette Grace Watson
The
Sam
Meld Pubdusting Company
Dainty Dorothy
Amy Brooks
Leo & Shepard
Boaten
Cloth Priv
Hide and Shek
Bingham ‘Thoburn Wilson
Consolidated Retail Bookcdllera Cloth
Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
Bobbs, Merrit & Co
Indianapolis
Ind
George W. Rauch
the Grafton Press
George Brehm
Bobb, Merrill & Co
Theodore Roberts
Page & Co
Benjamin F. Cabb
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Tree
Hush Mann
Itician G. Badger
Reson
Squire Phin
Holman F. Day
A. G. Daroes & Co
Henry Wow
Lee & Shepari Co
Kosten
Iica
Mery White
Doubleday, Page & Co
Oliver Herford
Carles
Mother Goosh
Edward E. Hate
James A. le Roy
P. Putcam
Brentano's
Thomas Curran Ryan
J.B. Lippincott Company
Piies
George Carr Eggleston
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Chath
G. Mozisy Sorrell
Neale Publishing Company
Baglioni
Henry Lane
Cnp
Moffat, Yerd & Co
A. L. Chatterton
Stitt Publishing Commuany
Dexter Wallace
the Books Press
Canada
John Foster Frazier
Carsell & Co
Jom
Tastuck
Cassell & Co. (Ltd
Loth
Gassell
Eustace Miles
Cassell & Co.Ltd
Royal Academy Pictures
Camel al’ Go, (Ltd
Mary Grant
O'Sheridan
W. C. E. Seeborck
Rand, McNally & Co
Owen Kilgore
F. H. Revell
Rober
Sarah Tyeon Horr
Arnold & Qr
Moscow
Samuel McChord
Houghton, Miflin & Co
Pries
Sarah Hawks
George W. Jacobs & Co
Philadelphia
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Lothrop
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Henry
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Three Weavers
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Carolyn Welle
Charles Scribuerta
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Inchyond
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Lite
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Speacres
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Caplan € Co
Alfred Wesley Wishart
University of Chicago
Tae
Daughters OF the Puritans
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American Unitarian Association
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Robert Collyer
Aston
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Nature
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Frederic Tawrence Knowles
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Love
Charles Welch
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