Royal voyage saga and equator crossing amid ocean peril
A damaged dispatch describes a naval voyage toward Panama and Pernambuco with honorary certificates for President and Mrs Rooss, the Royal recognition of a distant presence, and the crew enduring a cross equator initiation. Reports detail ship maneuvers, near collision, and a ducking tank ceremony while weather and supply issues affected the fleet’s progress and morale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rooss
Panama
O der
Rio de Janeiro: A City Beautiful and Modern Harbor View
A fragmented description extols Rio de Janeiro as a beautiful, progressive city with a grand bay harbor, Promontories and granite hills, the Avenida Central stretching a mile and a half through the heart of the city. The piece compares it to Paris and Chicago, noting a cost of 506 and plans for electric lighting, stone piers, and customs for pedestrians along a bustling waterfront.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay of
Gran Mountains
Monarua
Cis
Rio de Janera
Avenida Central
Champs Fistes
Paris
Unter den Tinton
Bertin
New York
Chicago
South
Rio de Janeiro Cityscape and Prosperity Portrait
Describes decorative gas lamps, bold Avenida boulevards, and scenic piers surrounding a modern urban core. Highlights include the National Corral House, Monroe Palace, parks on surrounding mountains, and a waterworks powered city with trams. Brazilian trade in 1966 and Rio’s status as a thriving port are noted alongside health and sanitation advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tito de Janeira
North America
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
United Buttes
Brazils
Tito Janeiro
Tropic of Capricorn
Petrapolis
Rio Janeiro
Washington
Trouble with Pernambuco Sailors Sparks Police clash
Dispatches from Pernambuco report torpedo boat sailors arriving January 10 sparked a row on shore in Jeayé with police intervention. Many sailors suffered slight injuries and twenty were arrested for drunkenness. Forward Gray fell from a ladder into the sea and drowned.
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Tio de Janeiro
Pernambuco
Cone
Gray
Lawrence
Wireless phones fail aboard battleship fleet
An electrician serving with Ehans' fleet reports wireless communication to be practically useless at sea. Connections between ships are unreliable and choked with static, forcing the fleet to abandon wireless voice in favor of wireless telegraphy. The War Department reportedly holds only cautious hope that the system may be perfected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
Ti Ja
Wath Ehans
War Department
Mrs Gibb Shot Near Heart After Accidental Discharge
Mrs Frank Gibb, a Warrenton Hunt Club member from Cedar Run Farm Calverton Virginia, was operated on at Providence Hospital after a bullet entered near the heart passed through the liver and exited the back. Doctors say outcome uncertain for 24 hours though condition improving.
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Frank 6
Gibb
Warrenton Hunt Club
Cedar Run Farm
Calverton
Providence Hospital
Moorning
James Kerr
Kk Street
W Mathias
Warrenton
Stephen Hornberger
Catlett
Charles Martin
Flushing
Ernest Foster
William By, Coates
Helen Wheelwright
Washington
City
Boston Broker Held En Route to Trial on Larceny Charge
Ernest D Blackwell a Boston broker and contractor aged forty was arrested in Jacksonville Florida on a larceny charge. He is jailed at the Second precinct poll station and will be sent to Boston with Detective James A Dennesy to face charges of stealing 152 dollars worth of bonds and notes from Ernest A Merrow a Boston broker. Blackwell denies the allegations and is described as a wealthy man with a wife and two children.
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Jessiha
Voss
Mar
Port of
Stan
Rte
Sir EE OM Jachoo Jeerna
Sven
Spim
Perna Face
Imente
Cape Freie
Pernambuco
Tienes
Greiner
Rerike
Jacksonville
Boston
Ernest D Blackwell
Fla
Second Precinct
James A. Dennesy
Dennesy
Blackwell
Ernest A. Merrow
Accused Thief Jefferson McCoy Arrested in Washington
Jefferson McCoy, a colored man shot in the back at Petersburg while resisting arrest, was brought to Washington by Detective Berman Hein and locked up at the First precinct. He faces arraignment in Police Court and admits working for Miss Mary Coster but denies stealing her silver spoons, claiming he bought them for 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson McCoy
Petersburg
Mary Coster
K Street
Washington
Central Office
Berman Hein
First Precinct
McCoy
Peck
Miss Coster
Gunshot Injury At Six Street Incident Affects Washington
Charles Washington, a colored man, was shot in the back by an unidentified white assailant late Saturday night near Sixth Street and G Street Northwest. He was taken to Divergence Hospital in critical condition, with Dr. White likely to operate. Washington could not identify the shooter. The incident occurred as a disturbance at a saloon, while Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church began a jubilee week with German embassy attendance and Kaiser's Bible gift announced for next Sunday.
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Charles Washington
Nouthwent
Washington
Concordia Evangelical
Lutheran Church
Twentieth
G Streets
Paul A Menzel
Baroness von Sernberg
Kaiser
Oscar Guthe
Richmond
Washington Suengerband
Marine Band
Harry M Stone
G O Frye
Lee Sanford
L M Kruger
Hansanderson
Menzel
William Hatz
Baltimore
Berman
George Balle
Western ‘Presbyterian Church
Cay
Lena Browning
Concordia
Bern
Glock
John Schick
Gustav Reitz
Martin Kratt
Louis II Schneider
Ttev
Johannes, Mueller
Ernest Drewitz
Edifhee
Burglar Disturbs Sleep At 24 Eleventh Street Southwest
Early yesterday morning Jonn W Averine awoke to a strange noise at his bedroom door and found a negro burglar inside the house. The intruder fled down the stairs when confronted, leaving the residence ransacked and several minor articles missing along with $1 in change.
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Jonn W Averine
Eleventh Street
Peace lecture urges higher patriotism amid war costs
Edwin D Mead spoke on The Higher Patriotism at St Pauls Episcopal Church, with former Senator William K Chandler introducing him. Chandler warned against dream of endless peace and cited war expenditures, while Mead urged patriotism as a constructive force guiding nations toward gradual disarmament and shared human fate. Incendiary fire devastates Fulton village business district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin D Mead
St Pauls Episcopal Church
William K. Chandler
Mr Mead
Candler
Unis
Uese
Chenier
United States
Chandler
Mr. Mead
Tolstoi
Europe
Washington
Northwest Corner Bank Adverts Capital and Interest Rates
In bold display the bank touts 84,000,000 capital and surplus with 2 percent interest on checking accounts. The northwest corner at Fifteenth and Pennsylvana Avenue hosts Charles J. Bell as president.
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Fifteenth and
Pennsylvana Avenue
Charles J. Bell
Two Rich Children Learn They Inherit Large Fortune
The Washington Post reports that Louis Gordony Hammersley and his sister Katherina, heirs to about 100 million dollars, were surprised by news of their inheritance after learning of it from a newspaper. They attended a concert at the Newsboys Lodging House on New Chambers Street alongside family members and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Newsboys
New Chambers Street
J’ Hooker Hammersley
Louis Gordony Hammersley
Gfteen
Katherina
Louis& Hammersley
Carnegie Defends Schools in Letter to Chicago Critic
A published copy of Andrew Carnegie’s letter to Richard T Crane of Chicago defends technical education and argues the schools will flourish without sensational praise. Carnegie cites examples of educated mechanics and notes past efforts sending youths to Troy, Boston, and other cities for training. He links education to successful business and mentions upcoming revival services led by religious figures in Washington.
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Speetal
Washington
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Richard T Crane
Chicago
Carnegie
Crane
Raloknow
Sp m. Chanle
Bumlo
Carinnall
Ohio
Cheyenne
Wyo
Davenport
Colo
Des Moinet
Iowa
Oalveston
W.new Tark
Infant Found in Vestibule Near 918 H Street NW
Olgie King reports discovering a white female infant in a blanket in the vestibule of 918 H Street Northwest early yesterday. The baby cried loudly as Mr King prepared to leave, then he carried the bundle inside and handed the infant to Mrs. Rraney the District nurse for care.
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al Yentibule
H Street
Olgie King
Negro highwayman caught after purse snatching spree
David Windsor a nineteen year old colored man of 287 F street NW is jailed at the Second precinct police station. He admits robbing two women including Miss Tacie Fawkes on Fifteenth Street NW and a purse snatching at Fourteenth and L streets. Police tie him to two earlier robberies and note a previous reform school sentence. Also included are weather notes from the Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau detailing a Texas storm system moving to New York and accompanying precipitation and temperature shifts across the eastern U.S.
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David Windsor
F Street Northwest
Second Precinct
Miss Tacie Fawkes
Fifteenth Street Northwest
Windgord
Miss Fawkes
Windsor
Fourteenth
L Streets
Letitia Tyler
L Street North West
Reform School
Iiusttution
Dept of Agriculture, Weather Bureau
Washington DC
Texas
New York
Buffalo
Mississippi
Middle Atlantic
Miseltaippi Valley
Tennessee
Ued
Winconsix
Lower Michigan
Timois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New England
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Petition to reduce Pullman sleeping car rates filed
George S Loftus of St Paul leads Minnesota Shippers Association in a request to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The petition alleges unjust and excessive rates under the Hepburn act, claims that railroads own stock in the sleeping car company, and seeks lower berth charges and equalized upper and lower rates. It cites 7 009 000 annual revenue on 125 000 000 capitalization and 30 000 000 actual paid-in capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman Sleeping Car Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
George 8. Loftus
St. Paul
Minnesota Shippers’ Association
Sleeping
Robbery near White House leaves John Ballard beaten
John Ballard of Fifteenth street northwest reported being robbed in Lafay ette Square in front of the White House by four negroes early yesterday morning The assailants took 17 cents and a pocket knife and beat Ballard leaving him semi conscious as he walked home from work He went to the Third precinct station house yesterday afternoon to seek police help for the attack.
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Lafayette Square
White House
John Ballard
Fifteenth Street
Third Precinct
Ballard
Bishop Fire Brigade Quells Third Floor House Blaze
Bishop Henry G Satterlee and Policeman O H Coffin of the Second precinct led a small rescue party of servants to extinguish a fire on the third floor of the Bishop's residence at 1497 Massachusetts Avenue. Curtains and upholstery were damaged, with an estimated loss of twenty dollars. The blaze was discovered by Policeman Coffin during rounds at 10:45, who rang the bell as the Bishop joined the effort. It is believed a windblown curtain fell onto a study lamp, igniting the fire.
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Henry G Satterlee
Episcopal Church
O H Coffin
Massashustte Avenue
O'Cleck
Menelik Says He Is Sorry Over Abyssinian Incident
Rome reports a note from Italy's Addis Ababa minister to King Menelik protesting the Lugh incident and demanding reparation. Menelik expressed sorrow, denied knowledge of the act, and ordered withdrawal of Abyssinians from Lugh and other towns, preserving the status quo.
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Italy
Rome
Mar Ciccadicola
Addis Abeba
Foreign Office
Menelik
Lugh
Menélik
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Listis
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Emery
Seine
Tee Sevort
Sue Tran
Mya Ba Armural
Charles Mf Denerea
Pte
Rio
Nheweps
Via
Rig
Avonléa
Monroe Palace
Beta- Inga Brneath
Coremania
Atlantic
Cf Ulden
Flushing, L. 1
Husband
Keer Gald
Virginia
Migg Elizabeth Martin
Long Island
Concordia Luthern
Negro
van Sternburg
Nose
Man
Mr. Chandler
Fulton
Wood
American Security and Trust Company
Union Revival Services
Oscen
Lansburgh & Bro
Seventh Street
Peter Grogan
St. Bet. H and I Sts
Mr. Loftus
Pullman Car Company
Wilk
Bishop
Satterlee
Weber
Opera
Marcella Sembrich
Caruso
Nattie Weber
Metropolitan Opera Company
Dkmand
F Street
Christian Xander
Martins
Howe
Evn
Belmont
Heryr
14Th Street
Ij. J. Georges & Son
Ave
Berkeley
F St. NW. W
Egular
Wilson & Mayers
George Burklin
XP Street Northwest
Kiten
Burklin
We Ren
M S Hughes
Schwartz & Pelzman
St. N. W
Wits
Tereses
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