Grand Naval Display To Be Reviewed By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt will review a grand naval pageant off Oyster Bay on Labor Day September 3. Rear Admiral Evans will command twelve battleships including Rhode Island New Jersey Virginia Georgia Maine and others with Admiral Davis as second in command. Admiral Dewey may attend from the reviewing stand aboard the Mayflower or Dolphin as the Dominican crisis may recall the latter.
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Hare
Long Island Sound
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Newberry
Bonaparte
Dewey
Dolphin
Asg
Santo Do Ting
Robley D. Evans
Atlantic
C. H. Davis
United States
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Virginia
Georgia
Maine
Evans
Kentucky
Missouri
Alabama
Timor
Indiana
Iowa
West Virginia
Colorado
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Agmairal Brownson
Dominican
Brownson
Asiatic Station
Quo
Wisconsin
Bremerton Navy Yard
Sisti
Army Engineers to Take Early Saturday Holidays
The War Department ordered half-holidays for over 900 Army Engineer Department workers this summer. President directed the policy at Cra ter Bax, with dissemination through military channels. Similar orders have applied to Government Printing Office employees and navy yards.
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Engineer Department of the Army
War Department
Crater_ Bax
Navy Yards
Tribute to Rices Memory In State Honor for Gen Rice
Brig Gen Edmund Rice US Army who died at his Wakefield home last Friday will lie in state in the Hall of Flags at the Statehouse from 3 to 7 p m tomorrow Mass representatives and senators will accord the tribute normally reserved for governors. Rice commanded three Massachusetts regiments in three wars and will be honored accordingly. Funeral services will be held at 1 oclock at the home.
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Massachusetts
Ton
Edmund Rice
U.S
Wakefield
Statehouse
Massachus
United States Senate
Rice
Gen
Rica
Army Orders From a 1908 Military Dispatch
Special Orders and movements list officers and units with dates, noting promotions, detachments, and assignments. Naval movements include ships arriving at various ports, and orders for officers to duty locations. The War Department telegram from Manila reports the transport Thomas sailing July 21 with a contingent including the insane aboard.
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Thomas
War Department
Gen. Wood
Manila
Toomas
Disposition of Marines Stricken by Malaria on Columbia
The Marines sick with malaria aboard the Columbia worry navy officers. Leaders want to remove men to stations they held before the Panama voyage, but surgeons object to sending men to Annapolis and Norfolk to avoid spreading fever. Thirty-nine sick have reached Boston Navy Yard Hospital. others may be sent to New London or New York if space allows. Northern points are not feared as spread sites.
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Columbia
Navy
Maine Corps
Athmus
Panama
Atmapolis
Norfolk
Becaus
Boston Navy Yard
New London
New York
Consuls to Advance Trade in Abyssinia Post
Frank R. Mowrer, newly appointed consul general at Abyssinfa, prepared at the State Department for sailing to his post. Plans to boost United States trade in Abyssinia discussed with Robert P. Skinner and William W. Masterson summoned to Washington to join Mowrer for full consideration.
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Frank R. Mowrer
Abyesinfa
State Department
United States
Robert P. Skinner
Marseilles
Tcatramental
Menelix
Abyssinia
William W. Masterson
Aden
Arabia
Washington
Mr. Mowrer
Navy Orders Enforce Eight Hour Law on Public Works
Acting Secretary Newberry directs eleven bureau chiefs, the Marine Corps commander, and the Naval Academy superintendent to ensure compliance with the eight hour act. Inspectors must report laborers working over eight hours on government projects, with findings to be forwarded to the Department of Justice. District Attorney Baker probes Piney Branch Bridge violations after workers show nine and a half hours daily with a split noon break.
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Newberry
Navy
Naval Academy
District of Columbia
Central Labor Union
Roosevelt
Baker
Piney
Commissioner of Labor
Department of Justice
Navy Department
Marine Corps
Naval
Department
Secretary of War
Watts
Newbery
Genefalal
Hell Department
Uncle Sam Plans Favored Nation Status With Spain Tariff
Report cites unofficial cables that the United States and Spain near a trade pact placing the U S on Spain's favored nation rate with a 25 percent cut in certain duties on brandies vermouth champagnes still wines and arts. Cotton remains the major export though benefits are limited by existing policies.
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Uncle Sam
Spain
Collier
United States
Witch
Pan American Congress Opens in Rio with Enthusiastic Crowd
The Pan American Congress held its first session in the St. Louis pavilion in Rio de Janeiro. It began at 8 pm with Joaquin Nabuco named permanent president. Delegates and crowds praised U.S. and Mexican mediation in Central American pacification and adjourned until tomorrow.
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Brazil
Rio Janeiro
St. Louis
Joaquim Nabuco
United States
Mexico
Central America
Interstate Commerce Commission urges block system to prevent rail accidents
The Interstate Commerce Commission bulletin for January through March reports 18 296 rail casualties. 17 170 injured and 1 124 killed. Total damages reach 2 924 795 dollars. The worst accident involved 34 deaths and 24 injuries due to sleep in the telegraph operator’s station and failure of train dispatching. 289 collisions and 167 derailments affected passenger trains. Eighty four employees were killed in coupling and uncoupling. A Louisville visitor, Robert H Woods, who has been named postmaster, was in Washington to study the local post office details.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Rairoada
Weather blamed for bombardment of campers at Fort Monroe
Col Potts of U S A reports to the War Department that an unprecedented set of calm, smooth-water conditions caused shells from Fort Monroe to ricochet onto Willoughby Point summer campers in Hampton Roads. He says the shells were spent and posed no danger, pledging such an incident won’t recur.
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Col. Potts
U.S. A
Ackil
War Department
Fort Monroe
Willoughby Point
Hampton Roads
Col Potts
Inci
Col
Potts
Colonil
Pure Food Men Organize Under Federal Commission
Dr H W Wiley elected president and James L Gerry secretary lead a new federal panel to draft enforcement rules for the pure food law. G D North represents Commerce and Labor as hearings are planned in New York City with public notices to follow.
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Dr. Wiley
J. L. Gerry
North
Department of Commerce and Labor
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
H. W. Wiley
James L. Gerry
Division of Customs
the Treasury
G. D. North
New York
Ciy
Pergona
Commission
Clerks Demand Saturday Schedule Change on Rail Line
Government clerks along the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway complain they lose a summer Saturday half holiday benefit as trains are not shifted. They report they must wait for the 3 p.m. departure rather than leave at 2 p.m. Rail officials have not adjusted the schedule. The Baltimore and Ohio line is said to have already adapted its Saturday timetable for department clerks on its line.
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Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway
Baltimore and Ohio
Hhey Say
American held in Mexico seeks State help for son
Percy Weadon of New York asks Secretary Root for aid to free his eighteen year old son jailed in Mexico after a reckless cab ride killed a street child. The cab driver and passenger were fined about 200, wiping out the youth’s travel funds, with papers sent to Ambassador Thompson for assistance.
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Percy Weadon
State Department
New York
Mrene
Mexico
Mr. Weadon
Root
United States
Weaden
Thompson
Treatise Issued On Hay Fever Cure By Austrian Dispensary
A new treatise on hay fever offers prevention and cure for sneezing eyes and fever. The Austrian remedy Ascaten reportedly benefited thousands with many fully cured. full information and free expert advice are available from the Austrian Dispensary at 33 West Twenty-Mile Street New York City.
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Ascaten
West Twenty-Mile Street
New York City
Shaw Ends Warnele Among Treasury Men
Secretary Shaw debunks a longtime personnel committee in the Treasury Department and asserts promotions should favor efficiency over length of service. The circular says committee is advisory and bureau heads’ recommendations will usually prevail. It condemns differing pay for identical work as improper and calls for minimizing such excesses.
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Shaw
Treasury Department
Department
Desguss
Guade
Dalment
Bolivians Take To Portable Bath Tubs In Fad
Consular reports from the Department of Commerce and Labor describe Bolivians embracing a portable rubber bath tub as a social novelty. Soap and soda water fountains follow, with ice and luxury items fueling rising prices and new fortunes in one district.
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Deppartment of Commerce and Labor
Bolivia
Thas
Ohl Washington
An. Ices Trust
Lees
Dolly Madison Poetic Dedication Unearthed in Facsimile
Appleton's Magazine reveals a facsimile of a Dolly Madison sonnet addressed to Lafayette dated April 35 188. The dedicatory verse praises freedom and justice, recalling Madison's lineage and public spirit. The poem celebrates champions of liberty and Europe’s admiration for her support of emancipation and republican ideals.
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Dolly
Madi_ son
Appleton's
Lafayette
Madison
France
Fsat
Europe
High Finance From the Catholic Standard and Times
Burroughs asks for a loan saying lend me a fiver. Markley replies if you had your own money you wouldn’t borrow, noting that borrowing from friends lets him save his own money. The exchange highlights personal finance dilemmas in casual dialogue.
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Catholic Standard and. Times
Burroughs
Markley
Licorice root as fuel saves Italian steamer in bay
The Italian steamer Alberta Treves from Mediterranean ports anchored in New York Harbor after exhausting fuel due to poor coal. With a full cargo from Almetia Spain, adverse seas slowed speed. ten bales of licorice root were hoisted from the hold to the freight room to conserve fuel, allowing the ship to reach anchorage in the lower bay. Tugs towed her to the city later that afternoon.
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New York
Alberta Treves
Mediterranean
Asia
Minor
Almetia
Spain
Anchorage
Stage Robber Gideon Sentenced In Idaho Mail Heist
The Spokane division notes the arrest and conviction of John V Gideon alias Jack Gideon for a stagecoach holdup on the Warren Idaho route. He received hard labor in McNeils Island and was the fourth convict in ten years. The robbery involved two packages of gold bullion valued at 660.10 each and occurred July 7, 1908 near Resort Idaho.
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Tolaho
United States
Spokane
John V. ‘Gideon
Jack Gideon
Warren
Idaho
Iandaho 18
Itc
Gideon
Miescow
McNeils Island
Wash
Gidedla
I@ano
Rideon
Resort
Maho
Galden-Rule Mining Company
Résort
Golden Rule -Mining Company
Ménintaiks
Serogs
Mountaina
Jby
Frank Pane
Ontario
Rope
Pope
Hudp
Quake River
Popa
Golden’ Rute
Toreehding
Pape
Tdaha
Ipey Pc
Ohtara
Drege
Curious Document Tells of Executions 380 Years Ago
A VOCABULARY of items for burning Cranmer Ridley and Latimer lists wood fagots turze tapots carriage laborers and tools with sums paid. The bills document the funeral pile costs and the grim day of martyrdom in 1553 as found in a Strype manuscript.
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Cranmer
Latimer
Oxford University
Ridley
A Wrens Tale Of A Baltimore Oriole Nest
A hazy account describes a Baltimore oriole nest hung in a tree with an oriole cradle and a wren inside. The piece ponders wrens swaying to sleep in a hanging nest, noting the unusual, safer location and the potential early fledging of young wrens from such a cradle.
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Wron
Baltimore
Wren House
Red Hollow
CURED BY CUTICURA IN FIVE WEEKS
A testimonial from Thomas M. Rossiter of East Orange New Jersey claims a severe eczema covered his face head neck and body and resisted hospital care. After five weeks using Cuticura Soap and Ointment he reports a complete cure and endorses the treatment for similar skin conditions.
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Sinca
Thomas M. Rossiter
Prospect Street
Mar
East Orange
N. J
Asia
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Bacle Sam
ARMY
Walton Goodwin
Federleff
Artlers
Harry ¢. Whltins
Ititiers
Uth
Thomas F. Dwyer
Amery Cyrps
Richard C. Marshall
Thirteenth Cavalry
Robert B. Powers
Cavary
Mami Military Instiate
Germantewst
Ohto
St Cauch
Ronuntus F. Welton
Isree Yoked
Romulay F. Watton
Tenneseee
wNiekamauen Pack
Ga. Anenet Ltds
Brainerd Taylor
Arles Corps
Wakefeld
Mazz
Vommending Ofi Eighty-ninth Company
Goast’ Artilery
Eugland Milky Rise Associaton
cTicers
Fort Assinvihaine
Sfont
cAcrrs
Fanesa
Brooklyn
Boston
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Salem
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Lyne
Laos
EB. F. Eckhardt
Freakiln
Navy Yard
Lugton J. M. Moore
Pasmaster I Hatter
Pwsearch
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Company I
Signal Corps
Annapolis
C. L.A
Piney Branch
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Madrid
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Congress
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Robert H. Woods
Woods
Louisvlle
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RIVEL
Imperial Band
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Maud
Scentetorium
Arch—Hilo
Luna
George Washinegton
Friendship Fire
IND
Shadow
Columbia Vehi Theater
Guy Standing
ST John Mason
Columbia Theater Co
American League Park
ST. le
DUIS
Tamsus
New Willard Hotel
Ci Lake
U. S. Marine Band
Shige
St. A. W
Ugeien
BGG
Terme
Inason
Nettle Holland Boyd
John Boyd
Brown
To & Young
Alline
Aitrees McGraw
Nelson Refrigerator Co
A. W
B. B. Earnshaw & Bro
Ninth Street N
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