National Art Department Aim Backed by Universities
A movement to create a national department of fine arts in Washington seeks cabinet status, with an Athens of art and a central gallery. Senator Newlands plans to introduce a bill for $5,000,000, backed by leading universities, architects, and arts groups to oversee public buildings, museums, galleries, and university art education.
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Great National Gallery
Newlands
Washington
Department of Fine Arts
Plana
Athenaeum
Thv
Unites
Aves
Nevada
P Trowbridge
New York
Gabinet
United States
National Department of Fine Arts
Skashington
Mallarias
Department
Ane Arts
Spanish War Minister Dead and Political Shifts
Spanish sources report the death of the war minister and note changes in the government as Gen Lov revokes portfolio from Prime Minister Maura in January. The text mentions Melet, Lena, and a stroke affecting a senior official, with references to Cooperstown and Toledo.
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Premer Maura
Lena
Miniarat
Maura
Jackson Blow
Cooperstown
Toledo
Killed by trolley car in Camden street collision
Two brothers, Pat Vedine and George Ptram, were riding in a buggy when an inbound trolley struck near Federal Street Camden. The elder, about 40, died at once. the younger, 18 or so, suffered severe head injuries and is in critical condition at Cooper Hospital. John From is described among the bystanders.
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Soa
Waanington Row
Pat Vedine
Vaano
Camden
Jenn
Grorge
Ptram
Caoper Hospital
West Palmyra
Ptram Jost
Gil
John Pfrom
Eas
Five Assayers Arrested Over Ore Theft Ring
Police recovered 1500 pounds of stolen ore valued around 50000 dollars after arresting five assayers. The heist involved shipments monitored at multiple sites with ore reportedly loaded for transport to undisclosed buyers. Investigators said the case remains under surveillance and ongoing.
Rockefeller Hides as Extradition Looms Over Chicago Case
Rumors place John D Rockefeller at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown while Chicago authorities press for his appearance in Findlay Ohio. Pittsfield residents claim sightings at a villa, guarded grounds, searchlights, and armed guards. Other reports say Rockefeller may be at his daughter’s home in Pittsfield with investigations ongoing.
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Pocantice Hills
Pittsfield
Ohio
Tarrytown
Pocantlea Hills
John D Rockefeller
Saturn Law
Father Ténnon
Church of the Magdalen
John
Rockefeller
John D Rockefeller, Jr
Cleveland
Pittefield
Pitta
Masa
Joseph Cardiner
William Harrison
Taconic Farm
John D. Rockefeller
Gardner
Onvia Lake
Mr Rockefeller
Prentis
Carl
Hartson
Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Prentice
New York
Pope enters retreat after audience with Ury portrait
Rome reports Pope enters a weeklong retreat and will not receive audiences. The last audience included Mgr Kennedy of the American College and artist A M Ury of New York, who painted a portrait praised by the Pope. The Pope requested Ury autograph photos and a gold medal. The painting will be sent to America.
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Rome
Mgr Kennedy
American College
A. M. Ury
New York
Pope
Vatican
Pius
Ury
Ametice
Baron Rosen at Magnolia In Summer Stay
The Russian Embassy is officially located for the summer at Coolidges Point Magnolia. Baron Rosen the Russian Ambassador arrived by automobile to assume duties. Boat upset and two drownings reported later in Columbus Ohio. A C Thompson and Newton Gavitt of Alton drowned in Big Darby Creek after a boat capsize.
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Maseschuechts
Manchester
Masa
Rucalan
United States
Coolidges Point
Magnolia
Baron Rosen
Columbus
Ohio
A C. Thompson
Newton Gavitt
Alton
Big Darby Creek
Scientific Hell Sermon Highlights Sun as Biblical Punishment
Rev. Zed Copp and a district probation officer argued last night that the sun fulfills biblical hell’s criteria, presenting hell as a scientific necessity. Copp, citing the Parable of Lazarus, claimed Hell is the penitentiary of the universe and not made for man, attainable only through deliberate wrongdoing.
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Hell
Jucil
Zed
Bethany Press Chapel
Satan
Mr. Copp
Lazarus
Heaven
Plan to Stop Begging in Saltille Mexico
Saltille Mexico on June 30 reports a plan to curb beggars by closing aidewalks and public gardens involving a federal commission to investigate. The aim is to compel all able bodied beggars to learn a trade and earn a living, with existing Mexican law restricting begging to certain days.
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Saltille
Mexico
Demurrage Talks Rise With Rail Rivalry In New England
New Haven June 3 negotiations will open between the New York New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine for nullifying or readjusting the per diem demurrage agreement with the American Railway Association. Beginning tomorrow the detentions of foreign cars rise from 25 to 5 cents per day, threatening withdrawal from the association. Demurrage charges now total thousands of hours daily and will double, affecting how cars move through rather than pass through the region amid four days free demurrage in Connecticut.
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New Haven
Conn
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Boston and Maine Corporation
American Railway Association
Boston and Maine
Connecticut
New England
Striking cigar makers reject wage raise trust plan
The Washington rum Havana Jones report says cigar workers refused a percent wage increase offered by the trust, causing factories to plan closure and threat of discharging all remaining workers after a thirty day notice. Corp Green of the Eleventh Infantry is alive after being wounded by a policeman at Holguin in Santiago province. Army officers condemn the policeman's use of a revolver amid drunken trouble, noting Cuban policemen often begin shooting at the onset of conflict. The incident echoes a past Bandago clash with crews from the Cruiser Tacoma in April.
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Washington
Havana
Jones
Corp
Green
Hleventh Infantry
Holguin
Santiago
Paliceman
Bandago
Tacoma
Commissions in Control Organize State Public Service Boards
Albany N Y June. Two new State public service commissions will assume duties tomorrow and organize. The first district or greater New York commission will meet in New York City and the second or up state commission in Albany. The public service commissions law abolishes the State board of railroad commissioners the State commission of gas and electricity the State inspector of gas meters and the New York City board of rapid transit railroad commissioners. Five members each.
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Albany
N. X
Public Service
Greater
New York Commission
New York City
Public Service Commissions
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
State Commission of Gas and Electricity
State
New York City Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners
New
Fiva
Indianans Boost Hughes in Gop Contest Amid Candidacy Fears
An Indianola dispatch claims Hughes supporters fear a split in Indiana GOP as National Chairman Harry New is said to back Hughes as a more available nominee than Fairbanks or Taft. The report notes attempts to detach Watson from the Fairbanks ticket to form a conservative split, with tailbacks opposing the Fairbanks machine.
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Sonelat
Washington
New York
Dlepatch
Indianandlla
Hughes
Fairbanks
Gay Hughes
Iindiana Republicana
Harry New
Parrbanks
Fairbarths
Taft
New
Watson
No voters at election in Beslers France
June 30 report from Beslers France notes the commission to succeed resigned after rioting tied to the May 19 wine growers demonstration. Government ordered municipal elections but a boycott by candidates and veterans led to booths being dismantled after the legal six hours.
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Beslers
France
Vetera
Germany seeks entente with United States amid calls for alliance
Berlin reports indicate Germany is courting reconciliation with the United States amid a tense Japanese American situation. The Kaiser’s diplomacy centers on winning American confidence and easing political loneliness through an entente. Prominent Americans and officials are reportedly urged to support an alliance, with Prof Burgess’s Bonn University appeal highlighted by the German official telegraph agency.
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Washington Post
London
Berlin
The
Daily Mail
Germany
United States
Republic
Americana
Towar
Carnegie
Kiel
Burgess
Bonn University
Prince August Wilhelm
Old Battle Ships Out Atlantic Fleet Stronger
The Indiana and Town were retired from the Atlantic Fleet and replaced by new battleships Vermont and Kansas. The move strengthens the fleet, leaving no armored ship from the Spanish War era in the line, with Iowa possibly reactivated in reserve in the future. The Atlantic Fleet may add a fifth division including Nebraska Mississippi Idaho and Wisconsin within a year.
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Spain
Nebraska
Mississippi
Haha
Wisconsin
Indianana
Vermont
Towa
Atlantis
Texas
Olympia Fies
Annapolia
Massachusetts
Oregon
New York
Brooklyn
Kentucky
Connecticut
Georgia
Atlantic
Idaho
Indiana
Evans
Eblet
Meatne
Missouri
Louisiana
Virginia
Thomas
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Alabama
Davia
Ilinois
Kearsarge
Ohio
Emory
Ver- Sint
Kansas
Minnesota
Cupolas for conductors on Mexican Central trains
The Mexican Central Railroad plans to add cupolas to all baggage cars used on passenger trains between terminals. General Manager Hudson ordered the change to allow conductors to monitor trains while in motion without leaning from windows or platforms. The cars will resemble standard freight cabooses.
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Saltido
Mexico
Mexican Central Railroad
Hudson
Weather gains and Mexican spy capture amid June heat report
The report notes June was the coolest on record in Washington and widespread cool snaps in the Northeast with temperatures near or below seasonal norms. It also reports Mexican troops capturing a man on the Guatemala frontier, Saenz, and tensions along the Gulf coast and Grand Banks. Weather outlook calls for showery conditions in New England and the Mississippi Valley with variable winds and warm southwest temperatures in other regions.
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Dept of Agriculture
Warhington
Washington
New England
Middle Atlantic
Lake Region
United States
Clairidia Vis
Wold Jones
Data Valley
Mortis
Mischseloot Valley
Take
Nortiara Hocky Stoun
Lia Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic States
New Hagland
New York
Misslasipp
Laks
Missiasippi Valley
Warbington
Ohio Valley
Misissippi
Mexico City
Mexico
Tapachule
Guatemala
South Atlantic
Seasion Plana
Ejutherry
West Gulf
Ezequel
Vari Saenz
Guatemal
Elevator accident recall shocks New York reader
A witness from New York recalls a runaway elevator incident in a fourteen story building. The car dropped rapidly with four aboard before a safety device activated. The frightened group, including the conductor, survived but were deeply shaken, narrowly avoiding a worse fate. The tale appears in The Special Rivet Bulletin amid scattered weather and city notices.
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New York
B. H. Lewis
Maxwell
Caine
Washington
Pheta
Harpers Ferry
Outdoor Patriotic Evensong At National Cathedral
Thousands attended a 4 pm outdoor evensong at the National Cathedral of 88 Peter and Paul Mount St Albans. Rev Randolph McKim spoke on patriotism, linking church history with national progress, as a Marine Band played prior to the service led by Chaplain C C Pierce. The event, praised for its beauty, will become an annual pre Independence Day tradition at St Alban's Cathedral site.
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Peter and Paul
Mount St Alban's
Randolph McKimnes
Marine Band
C_C Pierce
J H Dicknelt
Uraiea
St Alban's Church
Muatoiana
Mount Sinai
McKim
St Alban's
George Bratenahl
Hungry thief in sixth avenue store held for trial
A young man arrested Saturday afternoon in a Sixth Avenue department store after a woman spotted him with a copy of a heritage book under his coat was brought to Jefferson Market Court for trial. He claimed to be a Princeton man and gave the name John Simple as a gag. He offered no defense and said he took the book to sell it to buy food. He showed little concern for others involved.
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Washington Post
Cleveland
Ohio
John D Rockefeller
Chicago
W. L David
Rockefeller
Nction
Standard Ol Company
Findlay
David
Rocketfeller
Cook County
Guod
Radical
New York
Sixth Avenue
Jefferson Market Court
Princeton
Polis
John Simple
Fia
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Hwirnlam
William Boring
Berkeley
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Bt Lovin
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Friedenwald
America
Tanneravile
Harry Friedenwald
Federation of American Ziontete
Kaufman Kohler
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati
Zion
Ite
L. Magnes
Temple Hmanu-Bi
Pontiff
4. M. Ury
Res
H. Copp
Weets Bible
Devil
Angela
Gian
Earth
Tower of Greaty
Ulm
Hggn
Chan
Boston
Maine
Commissions IN Control
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Empire
Telegraph Agency
Prof. Burgess
Appeal For Alliance
Burt’s Greater Stores
Arthur Burt
F St
Iowa
Askevilla N Co
Atlanta
Dal
Keosas City
Ark Marquette
Mich
Memphis
New-Orienss
North Platte
Pittsbors
Ural
Gat
Louis
Pau
Vickabarg
Foday
Lansburgh & Bro
7Th St
Victor
Talking Machine Records Nowraig
Sanders & Stayman CO
Randolph McEumn
Peter Grogan
Eye
Christian Xander
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Patriotic Society
Society of the
Confederate Veterans
Sons of Veterans Spanish War Veterans
Loyal Legion
Daughters of the American Revolution
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