Uniform of enlisted men praised as badge of honor in Roosevelt letter
President Roosevelt writes that the uniform of army and navy enlisted men is a badge of honor entitling wearers to respect in all settings. The piece notes Taft transmitted Lieut Roy I Taylor’s court martial, which reduced him twelve filas for unbecoming conduct toward an unlisted man.
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Navy
Roosevelt
Jaft
Taft
Roy I Taylor
Taylor
Fetter
Gettn SS
Dooman
Tomor
Meade Fire Report Supports Investigations Origin Claim
Meade fire report from the board of inquiry confirms that the blaze likely started from oil or a crate contents and rules out access by any person between hatch closure and discovery. The damage is confined to the drop deck ceiling and can be repaired without ship overhaul. The Meade sails to the hulls for the happiness next Saturday.
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Humphrey
Esterday
Ile
Tansport
Preas
Trean
Miro
Toud
Mooxpons
Army Orders and Commission Changes Listed
A historical Army orders item lists officers with transfers, resignations, and appointments. Names include Wright, Burnival, Hoff, Dombick, Rowleen, McCloskey, Stephens, Wak, Faulnier, Tobin, Watson, Wyke, Hale, Michell, McEnde, Vance, Coward, Hopkin, and many others with dates around 1906 to 1946 and notes on duty, reporting or retirement. The document reflects routine personnel movements across artillery and infantry branches, noting promotions, temporary duties, and reporting instructions.
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Walter K Wright
Severth
Waj
FP Ray
Rochard
Stanley Dombick
Jon Bia Company
Fort Slocum New York
Tlesilos Wg
Artillery
Omnandant Artillery Scho
Fort Mauroe
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Manos McCloskey
John B Stephens
Wollam
Hamilto
Han
H Wak
Albert L Faulier
En Molliam H Tobin
Harry J Watson
Jacob E Wyke
Furst Leut Charles
FZ Ilans
Jinha Stork
Etgar Hale
Miran Bo Michell
Robert
McEnde
Gora Mollis R. Vance
Jaiuh
WM Coward
John
Robert Jriret
J+ P Hopkin
Resmond Ho Penner
Charles
Too Frouatter
Edward F Noses
Ptree Tieat
Arthur P S Hyde
Ifeu
Harry Foot Oe
Fred ¢ Doyte
George T Perking
Auzistie Moimsre
Starkey Yuritt
Loum F Buck
Jairus A Moore
Frank B Edwards
Greene
Robert M Boca
James Prentice
Taku Vrtian Lo Iduther
Naval Officer Appointments and Vessel Movements
Commissionings and promotions noted for 1906 including Capt L Hetner as captain from January 7 and Lieut Commander Wo Fyans from January 1. Paymasters and clerk appointments listed with Cleveland Yard movements. vessels Arkansas Charleston Lawten Scorpion arrive at Monte Cristi. Sioux sails from Boston to Rockland.
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Hetner
Nave
Rom
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Fl Shnarp
Gunn Ir
Rath
Ras
Wo Fyans
EE Rose
Mocounta Sunt
Wait
Parusit
Fite
Navy Yard
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Washington
Perusty
Daly
Cleveland
Groff
Teveland
Arkansas
Clarieston
Lawten
Scorpion
Monte Cristi
Sioux
Beston
Rockland
Log an Arrivals Deport Forty Five From Manila On Logan
San Francisco authorities photographed and released forty five white men deported from Manila on the transport Logan. Among them were men with prior murder, robbery, and embezzlement records. The Logan carried the Second Cavalry squadron, band, and casuals under Col Ward. General Butler Price won among passengers, after forty two years service.
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San Francisco
Logan
Manila
Secret Service
Second Cavalry
F K Ward
Fortssinniboine
Mont
Butler Price
Price
Army
United States Army Marine Corps
Navy
Marine Corps
Lucky Bag Published Dedicated to Commander Fullam
The thirteenth Lucky Bag issued by the United States Naval Academy midshipmen appears today. Edited by Roy F Smith of Minnesota with Roland M Brainard of Ulmers as business manager, the volume is bound in green leather with gold lettering and honors Commander William F Fullam for his courteous treatment of the class.
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Midshipmen
W. F. Fullam
Washington Post State House
Annapolis
The
Roy F Smith
Minnesota
Roland M Brainard
Ulmerset
William F Wuliam
Department of Ordinance and Gunnery
Storm Interrupts Wireless Messages Between St Michael and Nome
A Sunday storm broke the wireless telegraph line between St Michael and Nome Alaska severing the 107 mile link for several hours. The interruption marked the first outage since installation eighteen months ago and came as officials record a world best for uninterrupted service with over a million words sent last year.
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St. Michael
Nome
Alaska
Signal Corps
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Ad Claims Satisfaction Guarantee
A Louisville reader reports using Dr Miles anti pain pills for rheumatic pains headaches and neuralgia with consistent results. The ad states the first package benefits or money back and warns the product is 25 doses priced at 25 245 cents and not sold in bulk.
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Miles
Reform in Turkey urged by Prince Sabaheddine in letter
Prince Sabaheddine, nephew of the Turkish sultan and leader of the young Turk faction, writes Senator Berthelot arguing revolutions were staged by foreign agents for their aims. He urges decentralization to empower peasants and local governance, warns of abuses against reform-minded Turks, and calls for fair intervention to ease Armenian Turkish suffering and align Turkey with modern ideas.
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Paris
Sabaheddine
Turkey
Young Turk Party
Pierre Berthelot
Roosevelt
Europe
America
Liberal Deputies Press Pause on Church Inventories
A Paris deputation urged Premier Rouvier to suspend church property inventories until final regulations on church and state separation are published. Rouvier said the law would proceed normally without awaiting full regulations. Inventories of several Paris churches taken without incident.
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Liberal Deputies
Rouvier
M. Rouvier
Germany Opposes Moroccan Police Control by France and Spain
Berlin reports Germany firmly opposes awarding control of the Moroccan police to France and Spain, viewing the proposal as giving France practical authority. The Moroccan conference gains a new French delegate, Count St Rene Taillandier, and talks continue among ambassadors about reaching a genuine accord, with progress seen as hopeful but not decisive.
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Spain
Berlin
Germany
Algeciras
St. Rene Taillandier
Fez
Eighty Strokes Not Thousand for Peking Policeman
In Peking a British consul general cites Yuan Shi Kai denying a report that a Chinese policeman in the British settlement was to be beaten with 1000 bamboo strokes and imprisoned. He says the offender received eighty blows and six months in jail, amid foreign opinion that the demand aimed to impress foreigners with Chinese authority.
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L . Hopkins
Tien Tsin
Yuan Shi Kai
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Pub
Wil Harv
Yuan Shisai
Poniceman
Bomb kills twelve in Prussian Silesia blast
A Jokal Anzeiger dispatch from Katto witz reports a private house at Silee across the Russian frontier destroyed by a bomb. Twelve bodies are visible in the ruins with many more believed dead. In Warsaw a military patrol escorting 41 jailed workers was attacked by prisoners’ sympathizers. soldiers fired a volley.
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Jokal Anzeiger
Kattowitz
Prussian Silesia
Silee
Warsaw
Russian Poland
Disordered visit by Manchurian marshal to Harbin route
Vladivostok reports Malaroff, pro vost marshal of the Manchurian army, arrived from Harbin by sledge due to railroad strikes. In Sesnovne, Russian Poland, an explosion killed three men and wounded three women in a Pola named Gigmund’s house. Gigmund was handling the bomb when it exploded.
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Harbin
Sesnovne
Russian Poland
Pola
Gigmund
Jews of Kieff in Panic Over Death Sentences
In Kieff on February 5, many Jews report receiving mailed death sentences in the name of the Pan Russian League defending the Holy Cross. The city faces a widespread panic as the Jewish population anticipates renewed anti Jewish excesses and possible violence.
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Kieff
Pan-Russian League
Holy Cross
Legal fight for liberty and embezzlement charges in flux
In New York on Feb 5 renewed efforts by St Petersburg secret police seek extradition of Felix Gaidsis a Russian fugitive claiming political grounds for charges. US immigration officials release him then US marshal rearrests on new charges of embezzling 4200 rubles from a Russian merchant. Gaidsis plans to fight in US courts with a lawyer noting ties to fugitive Gen Lamanski. The warrant comes under a Russia US extradition treaty. The prisoner is held pending Russian consul general appearance.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Felix Gaidsis
Geo. Gaidsis
United States
Gaidsis
Galicsis
Eivegeni Lamanski
Washington
Shields
New York City
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