Booth's Knife Attack Witness Tells of Stage Scuffle
Wilam Withers, old orchestra leader at Ford's Theatre, recalls Booth's sudden attack during the Lincoln assassination night. He describes meeting Booth in the foyer for a drink, Booth's later appearance in the balcony, and the deadly escape through the stage door. He details grappling with Booth in the wings, a dagger wound to his coat, and seeing Lincoln slumped in the box. Withers also recounts guiding Mrs. Lincoln to aid, the crowd outside, and the police pursuit that followed. The article closes noting Withers later identified Booth and that Lincoln's death was reported.
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Lincoln
Booth
Ibnly
Ime
Keene
Wright
Ihr
Edward Spangler
Pen
Spangler
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Hotaily
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Lincoln Centenary Tributes In House Hear British Message
The House marked Lincoln's memory on the tenth anniversary of his birth with invocations readings and speeches including Boutell Nye and Douglas. James Bryce British ambassador sent a dispatch expressing sympathy and honoring Lincoln's emancipation legacy.
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Minnesota
Abraham Lincoln
Couden
House
Lincoln
Boutell
Winds
Douglas
Ohio
Nye
South
Lincoln Conference on the Negro Question Calls Nationwide Discussion
A New York call for a Lincoln Conference on the Negro Question urges a full debate on how far the nation has met emancipation obligations. Signers include Jane Addams Samuel Bowles Ida Wells Barnes W E B Du Bois Francis J Grimke and others, condemning violence and disfranchisement while stressing representation and economic welfare.
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Lincoln
Georgina
Supreme Court of the United States
Jane Addams
Chicago
Samuel Bowles
Springfield
Mass
Ida Wells Bernett
William Lloyd Garrison
Boston
W. E. B. Dubois
Avlanta
Francis J. Urimke
Washington, D. C
Rabbini G Hinseh
Lous F.post
Wiliam M. Salter
Redman Warton
Philadelphia
Susan Warton
Charles Zueblin
Postum Aids Wisconsin Couple Says It Replaced Coffee
A Wisconsin woman reports a year of Postum use relieved her stomach and heartburn symptoms and stopped her husband’s sick headaches after coffee was quit. She notes the flavor resembles mild Java when prepared correctly and credits Postum with restoring health, urging others to try Read The Road to Wellville.
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Lincoln memorial tablet proposed by Orr School pupils
Pupils of the Orr School inaugurated a drive to erect a memorial tablet on Done Hill in North Rancho Highlands marking the spot where President Lincoln is said to have viewed Washington. Capt J Walter Mitchell cited Lincoln’s visits to the area as he urged community support during school ceremonies led by Miss Constance Luebkert.
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Orr
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Orr School
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District Work Halts as Health Officers Take Holiday
District offices largely emptied as health department staff, detectives, and watchmen were scarce. Commissioners Macfarland and Cosby remained at desks part of the day, with Macfarland attending Lincoln birthday events at the Masonic Temple. Visitors seeking tours were turned away while a White House messenger conveyed the President’s holiday proclamation.
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Detective Bureau
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Cosby
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Lincoln
John J. Strath
Watch
Hia
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Lincoln and Lodge on Lincoln's Career and Centralization
Massachusetts tributes mark Lincoln's memory with speeches by Senator Lodge at the statehouse and public ceremonies across Boston and New England. Lodge argues a great leader must subordinate lesser matters to greater goals and warns against hasty judging of Lincoln's actions amid growing central government power and federal treaties.
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Wright Speech Recalls Lincoln Era and Reconstruction
Secretary Wright’s address recounts party unity across scales of allegiance, notes Lincoln’s abolition stance, and laments Reconstruction’s delay in healing the nation. A granite cornerstone ceremony features a sealed box with historic documents and a speech by Isaac T. Montgomery, a former slave.
Praise from Fairbanks at Lincoln Day observance
Vice President Fairbanks delivered the principal address at a Lincoln day meeting in Alarmsburg on February 12 concluding a centennial observance including school and religious exercises. Gov. Stuart chaired. Fairbanks lauded Lincoln as a great lawyer, statesman, and orator, recounting emancipation and wartime deeds and noting Lincoln’s lifelong fight for truth.
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Capitol
Tribute by New Yorkers centennial Lincoln event at Pythian Temple
The New York State Club gathered at the Pythian Temple to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's centenary with a reunion, entertainment, and dance. President William C. Connor opened the program followed by speeches by Representative James B. Perking and VW. 2. 'Driscoll. The musical lineup featured Stephen P. Lout, a soprano solo, a medley of songs by Miss Kate Jellis and Thomas Jones, accompanied by Norica Banjo Club and Walter Holt directing a bass solo by Arthur Middleton, ending with a Star Spangled Banner and orchestra performance.
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Pythian Temple
Abraham Lincoln
William C. Connor
James B. Perking
VW. 2
Driscoll
Glen
Barytone
Stephen P. Lout
Love You
Zebeard
Kate Jellis
Tosta
Thomas
Jones
Thomas L. Jones
Nordica Banjo Club
Woodland Memories
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Arthur Middleton
Morsell
Lincoln Birthday Observed at University of Berlin
Berlin February 12 at noon the one hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln is celebrated at the University of Berlin with Prof Felix Adler of New York delivering an address on Lincoln as a typical American. The hall is crowded with leading professors, David Jayne Hill the American ambassador and Mrs Hills among foreign officials and Prussian ministry representatives. Adler presents a bronze bust of Lincoln to the university, a replica of the Volks bust in Washington National Museum, to be placed in the Roosevelt room. This afternoon the Hills hosted an Lincoln celebration for the American colony.
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Berlin
Abraham Lincoln
Felix Adler
New York
Lincoln
David Jayne Hill
Hill
Fica
Ministry of Education
Adler
University
He Volks
Washington
Roosewelt
Brazil Honors Lincoln Centenary Worldwide Tribute
Brazil yesterday paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln with a national flag hoisted on federal and local buildings. Warships and fortresses fired a 21 gun salute at 1 pm while the Brazilian embassy in Washington flew its flag at top mast to mark the Lincoln centenary.
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Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Students Honor Lincoln at Howard University Centennial
A centennial celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birth was held at Howard University in Memorial Chapel. Secretary Garrel, Speaker Cannon, and ex-Speaker J. Warren Keifer led speeches, with music by the students. A bronze tablet bearing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was presented by the Lincoln Educational League, and "The Underground Railway" painting was unveiled by artist C. T. Weber.
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Cannon
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Ohio
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Lincoln
Lincoln Educational League
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Cinenati
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Levi
Catherine Coffin
Children Honor Lincoln at St Patrick's Academy Exercise
Children at St Patrick's Academy gathered in the assembly hall at noon for Lincoln Day exercises. Miss Gen evieve Garkins read a biographical sketch, Miss Alice Lucas delivered a poem, and a boys chorus sang. Rev Dr William T Russell spoke on Lincoln’s life lessons in American citizenship, praising high purpose, steady pursuit, gentleness, and effort. Clergy and parish members attended.
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Lincoln
Genevieve Garkins
Alice Lucas
America
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Must Grow by Education At Lincoln-Douglass Banquet
The Lincoln Douglass banquet of the Attucks Republican Club in Cleveland featured Roscoe Conkling Bruce delivering the address Freedom Through Education. He noted seven million of nine million African Americans live in rural areas and urged internal renewal through trained teachers, preachers, mechanics, farmers, and homemakers in negro schools to drive moral and industrial progress.
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Favorable Parliament Vote on Franco Canadian Treaty
Paris reports the tariff commission voted to recommend Senate passage of the amended Franco Canadian commercial treaty of 1907. The amendment secures protection for French agricultural interests with a special tariff.
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Senate
Lincoln Ceremony Wreath by Kentucky Lincoln Association
The President received a wreath of carnations from the Kentucky Lincoln Association before boarding a tram to Louisville. He expected to arrive in Washington around 2 p.m., with the schedule noted as 345 yy. 2s.
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Louisville
Washington
Pittsburg Dinner Features Vice President Sherman
Sherman as principal speaker at the chamber of commerce dinner at Hotel Schenley. He praised Abraham Lincoln noting Lincoln's duty and the stern steadfastness of his character. Earlier he spoke briefly at the University of Pittsburgh convocations at Carnegie Hall.
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James S Sherman
New York
Chamber of Commerce
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Sherman
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
University of Pittsburg
Carnegie Hall
Stirling and Atherton in Divorce Suit Proceedings
The Stirling divorce case naming Lord Northland as co respondent and Mrs Stirling’s cross suit, formerly Miss Clara E Taylor of Washington, continued. Mrs Atherton, notable at counsel’s table, faced remarks about her past as the affair was hinted, while Alfonso of Spain arrived in Vila Real de Santo António and prepared for a yacht launch in San Sebastian.
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