Five Republican candidates vie for 1908 nomination in Washington
The piece surveys ambitious rivals Fairbanks Cortelyou Taft Foraker and Root as they plot in Washington. It notes the role of state delegations, regional blocs, and party machinery in shaping a presidential race, with discussion of figures like Cortelyou Taft and Fairbanks and possible contenders from Chicago and the East. The article anticipates the preliminaries, delegate strategies, and the contest’s evolution over the next year or two.
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Fairbanks
Stow
Cortelyou
Taft
Foraker
Washington
Ohio
New York
Root
Supreme Court
Shaw
Aime
Vermont
New England
Iiinels
Wisconsin
Minnesola
Obituary Notice for John Bb Pee and Local Residents
A fragmentary obituary notice lists John Bb Pee years died, mentions Thomas Lley of New York, and references services and residence details. The readable lines indicate a February date and memorial rites held at a local church or cemetery with city and street hints, though many words are garbled.
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John
Tatanerine Dd
Thomas Lley
New York
Newhall
Mouliy
Lithias
Raf
William S
Nic
Hix
Tskathwe
Osage oil lease scandal questioned by ex officials
On February 4 ex-Seers Tari Francis and Bliss testified they knew nothing of any Osage oil land lease scandal. They said no criticisms occurred during their terms and declined to discuss Hitchcock and Smith statements. Ireneis, Life, and others offered cautious remarks, suggesting possible misunderstandings but no proven misconduct.
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Hrunswick
Tari Rancis
Bliss
Osage
Hitcheurck
Smits
Poster
Voncvernine
Hitchcock
Smith
Celladent Fepe
Ireneis
Royal Betrothal Stands Amid Reported Differences
Reports abroad allege a rift between Crown Prince William and fiancée from Mecklenburg, threatening their engagement. The couple toured Florence together. she later went to Cannes due to her mother Archduchess Anus’s illness as the prince and his party arrived at their destination.
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Belin
Peb
United States
William
Mecklenburgwerk
Florence
Cannes
Archduchess
Anusauch
Fell Down Ship Hatchway on Steamer Crizzo
New York lumber dealer Charles G. Roger of Brook was killed instantly when he fell down the hatchway of the steamer Crizzo while inspecting a cargo of mahogany. He was sixty five, a neighbor of President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay and a former master of a local judge. District Attorney Coatsworth and Detective Holmes left for Boston to pursue extradition of Artur Appleyard in a related grand larceny case linked to the German Bank of Buffalo. A separate note reports John Dean and Roy Emerson drowned when a boat capsized at Levy Lake, Micanopy Florida, with Dean to be interred in Anderson. Additional items cover ocean steamer movements with arrivals and sailings between New York and European ports.
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New York
Charles G
Roger Nowedthy
Brook
Roger
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Dent
John Dean
Amiersen
Roy Emerson
Tacoma
Levy Lake
Dean
Anderson
Governor Peabody Contests Adams Vote in Colorado Hearing Ends
Hearing on the former governor James Peabody contesting the 1908 Colorado governor election ends amid bids from both parties. Adams supports challenge to Denver precincts, while Peabody’s team cites 7,327 alleged legal ballots and 4.3 questioned votes. Adams dissents from a March 2 demonstration by labor groups at the capitol.
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Denver
James Lj. Peabody
Gen J] Assembly
McDonald
Dent
Gov
Adams
Mir
Peabody
Building Trades Council
Death of Rt Rev McLaren Bishop of Chicago
Death in New York at 1 the Right Rev William McLaren bishop of Chicago after a month long illness heart failure at his bedside widow one son and two daughters survive born in Geneva 1881 entered ministry 1860 joined Episcopal faith 11 years later died 1895 founded Western Theological Seminary Chicago 1893 author of several religious works brief obit notes other deaths across states including J L Crawford Pecoppt’s Coat Co died in Florida and Maj John B Self former Congo from Te ned a veteran died in Mounds Illinois past several obits include Rev Christian Lepley and Joseph Schrage dean Jabez Parker and others in various cities.
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New York
Roy Wiliam
McLaren
Chicago
Geneva
Detroit
Assault charge suspect seized after late-night poolroom assault
Police in the Third precinct arrested Stuart Marshall after a dawn search of nineteen houses. He faces a charge of striking William Hill on the head with a billiard cue in a poolroom at Twentieth and E streets NW. Marshall, 21, described as the tallest man in Foxey Bottom, was found at his father’s house in St. Mar Court at 12:15 a.m. Hill was hospitalized in serious condition. Special to The Washington Post. In Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 9, a judge’s ruling extends every state office term by one year, delaying state conventions and Gov. Cummins’s Senate campaign by a year if upheld by the Supreme Court.
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William Will
Twentieth
E Streets
Marshall
Foxey Bottom
Strawser
McCarty
Lawton
English
Trice
McGinnis
St. Mar Court
Hill
Washington Post
Des Moines
Iowa
Story County
Supreme Court
Cummins
Auction of Antique Chinese Art at Mesar Co Galleries
The Leong Kai Yuen collection from Peking will be on view today and tomorrow at the galleries of Mesar Co Shan & Co Ho G street and be offered at public auction Wednesday Thursday and Friday of this week. The display features antique porcelains rock crystals rich jades bronzes icons wood carvings and a host of other valuable articles.
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Leong Kai Yuence Pekin
Nina
China
C.G. Sloay
G& St
Surrender Ends After Stores Exhausted at Mukden
The Mukden report notes Smirnoff's position of no surrender until stores ran dry. Stores for a month remained after distributing 3600 pounds of flour per garrison company along with hospital provisions and horse meat and canned foods. Japanese regiments paraded on January 7 with thin ranks, many drafts recording only a few hundred, revealing Japan's costly fortress victory.
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Ee Smirnoff
Mukden
Mukdey
Regi“Nts
Japan
Attempt on the Railway Near Yuemyn Reported
A Japanese and Chinese bandit party damaged the Yuemyn railway abutment near here early today, with two telegraph poles destroyed and an unexploded charge found nearby. Line service resumed by 7 o'clock. Authorities suspect an effort to cover bandit movements across Mongolia.
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Yuemyn
Frontier Guards
Mongolia
Grand Duke
Sersius
Tokyo
Oyama
Huan Mountain
Stosintun
Koutiantsze
Vatisun
Soehctun
Funeral Set For Thursday In Mourning Over Grand Duke Sergius
Aloscow reports a cold unsettled scene as investigations continue into Friday’s assassination. Palace of Justice windows reglazed. carriage fragments and flesh found on a fortress parapet. Grand Duke Sergius lies in state at Chaudoff Monastery awaiting funeral on February 23. Police probe lacks clear motive or accomplice. coachman alive and improving. Imperial manifestos posted. mourning wreaths from royalty arrive. No music or theater performances during the city’s period of grief.
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Aloscow
Senate Square
Palace of Justice
Sergius
Chaudoff Moneetery
Maheen
Inez
Sassin
Aw Sim
Afta
Cottin
Xpeet al Déep
Submarine Simon Tele hav ben loaded for Russia voyage
Special to The Washington Post reports all preparations for shipping the lake submarine torpedo boat Simon Tele hav been completed. It is expected the craft will be loaded onto an overseeing steamship and sent to Lihau Russia. The submarine has been described as ready for transport and deployment aboard the voyage.
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Washington Post
Newport News
Simon Tele
Lihau
Russia
My Offer to Kidney Sufferers
An advertisement promotes Dr. Shoop Restorative claiming to cure kidney trouble by strengthening the nerves that control kidneys. It offers free orders for books on related topics, a dollar bottle, and directs readers to send for six specific books. The copy urges readers to act quickly and lists Shaop Box F 748, Ra vine, Wis as the contact.
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Bagk
Vine
Wis
Paule
Miniature war craft loaded onto steamer at yard
The vessel floated from dry dock No 1 and was towed to the pier. The electric crane Hercules placed the craft atop the pier where loading onto a steamer will take only a short time.
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Hercules
Priest Defends Russia at Requiem Mass in New York
At the Russia Cathedral of St. Nicholas a pannichida for Grand Duke Sergei was held. Rev. Alexander Horovitzky said the assassination harms freedom and was not done by patriots, asserting Russia is maligned and that anarchists fueled the uprising.
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New York
Russia
St. Nicholas
Sergius
Alexander Horovitzky
Shremlin
Japanese Press Sees Assassination as Oppressive Russian Policy
Tokyo reports Jiji Shimpo condemns the Russian government for suppressing labor demonstrations and oppressing national expression. It says Japan fights the autocracy, not the Russian people, and forecasts calmer ties after the war while lamenting Grand Duke Sergius death. Other papers mock the incident.
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Tokyo
Sergius
Moscow
Far East
Japan
Russia
Sveahun Workmen Riot At Political Informer House
A Sveahun telegram reports a serious riot in St. Petersburg with workmen wrecking the house of a suspected political informer. In the clash with police, one rioter was killed and several rioters and a policeman were wounded. A separate dispatch from Isaw notes chemists assistants striking for shorter hours and a weekly free day, with most workers returning to work except iron workers, yielding a general wage rise of about ten percent. In Lodz, the scene remains quiet as of February 19.
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St. Petersburg
Sveahun
Isaw
Warsaw
Rebel boat total wreck in Haitian ship Crete-a-Pierrot
Kingston reports the wrecking steamer Premier returned from Gonaives after examining the sunken gunboat Crete-a-Pierrot, sunk by the German cruiser Panther during a September 1902 incident. The Haitian project to raise her was abandoned as too costly amid revolutionary actions and international tensions.
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Jamaica
Gonaives
Haiti
Nord
Crete
Panther
Hayti
Crete-a-Pierrot
Kil- Hek
Killick
Confesses to Smuggling in Ice Cream Freezer Plot
Genefredo del Ris, a Spanish jeweler in Mexico City, confessed to plotting jewel and gold watch smuggling to defraud the revenue department. The loot, valued at twenty thousand dollars, was found in the freezer upon arrival from Europe, with a Paris jeweler named as the plot partner. Del Ris faces fines and imprisonment.
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Mexico City
Genefredo del Ris
Revenue Department
Vera Cruz
Paris
del Rio
Twenty Die in Naphtha Barge Explosion at Baku
An explosion on a naphtha barge at Baku caused a blaze that spread to several other barges and a landing stage. Reports say twenty people perished. A second item notes the seizure of the British steamer Sylvianna by the Tokyo navy with no stated seizure location. The Sylvianna, 23,715 tons, owned by Furness, Witley & Co., sailed December 13 bound for Labang, later reported arriving Hongkong around February 8. Russia disputes involve two steamers Roslin Castle and Raglan Castle, placed in service by Union Castle Line. Roslin Castle 2,260 tons net, built Glasgow 1883, Raglan Castle 2,743 tons net, built Glasgow 1897.
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Baku
Tokyo
Navy Department
Vladivostok
Cardiff
Furness, Witley & Co
Westhartlepool
England
Labang
Hongkong
Glasgow
Paine's Celery Compound Promises Quick Nerve Energy Gain
An ad extols Paine's Celery Compound as restoring nerve force and vitality. It cites Mrs Ina M Lowry praising it after months of fatigue and poor appetite, claiming rapid improvement in six weeks and ongoing use each spring and fall. The copy cites Prof E E Phelps of Dartmouth and notes druggists sell the remedy.
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Paine
Ina M. Lowry
Dunham Ave
Kansas City
Order of Eastern Star
Kansas City Friendly Aid Society
E. E. Phelps
Dartmouth University
Call for a modern theater in Washington
E J Brookings urges Washington to build a large modern theater with up-to-date amenities. He cites crowded performances at current venues, argues a new or multiple theaters would pay dividends and benefit the public, and suggests possible sites on or near Fourteenth Street and New York Avenue or Lafayette Opera House area, urging leadership and funding from prominent locals.
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Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Decago
Legation
Thomas F. Wilsh
Fourteenth Street
New York Avenue
H Street
Lafayette Opera
Nex
Persay
E. J. Brookings
Conference of Latter-day Saints Holds Ohio Session
The Ohio conference of the Latter-day Saints, claiming lines to the original church, closed a two day Columbus meeting. Elders and deacons were ordained, and Apost. Green of Kirtland explained the society’s stance against polygamy and labeled Brigham Young as an apostate.
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Conference of Latter-day Saints
Columbus
Ohio
Oho Conference of the Latter-day Saints
Apost Green
Kirtland
Brigham Young
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