Japanese Ambassador Aoki to be recalled after dispute
Tokyo signals recall of Viscount Aoki as Baron Kaneko expected to replace him. Reports say new ambassador may push to undo immigration exclusion and urge naturalization for Japanese in the United States. Washington treats recall as likely, linking it to Progressive party strength and San Francisco school crisis.
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Baron Kaneko
Tokyo
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Aok
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Ito
United States
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Mikado
Nippon
Calm stance urged in Japan US question resolution
Tokyo leaders of the Constitutional party urged calmness and prudent handling of the American question. They favored trusting both governments for a peaceful factory solution, insisting the close friendship with the United States remains. In New York, the Japanese Press Association pledged to ignore war rumors and promote peaceful diplomacy.
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Howa
America
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Washington
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War Possible, Says Miles at Bunker Hill Day
Special to The Washington Post Lieut. Gen. Nelson A Miles warned Boston listeners at the Bunker Hill Day celebration that a foreign war was possible with either European or Asiatic powers. He predicted early losses, including potential city losses on the coast and possibly the Philippines and the Sandwich Islands, but maintained the republic would endure and that the eventual struggle would be a slap by an infant on a giant.
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Nelson A. Miles
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Honolulu Defenses Doubled Post Capacity Ordered
Orders from the quartermaster general at Washington require doubling the capacity of the army post near Honolulu and the construction of two general storehouses with offices in Honolulu.
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Quartermaster General
Washington
Would Save Santa Claus Says Missouri Actress
Miss Phoebe W. Couzins, former U S marshal in St Louis, warns President Roosevelt may abolish Santa Claus via a nature faker. She criticizes his stance on family planning and laments his interference in domestic policy, urging club women to influence governance.
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St. Louis
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Roosevelt
Santa Claus
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United States
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Animal Lfe
Missouri Club
Adams Express Board Declares 200 Percent Dividend
The Adams Express Company board plans a 200 percent extra dividend of 24,000 in collateral trust bonds bearing interest for forty years. Securities totaling 24,000,000 are pledged as collateral, with the plan echoing a 1898 move but on double scale. Transfers to Standard Trust Company under a dated deed of trust.
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Washington Post
New York
Adams Express Company
Mércantile Trust Company
Standard’ Trust Company
Duchess Loses Diamonds as Roxburghe Dowager Leaves
A fragmentary report from London dated June 11 states the Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe, while boarding at Kings Cross station, left her car unattended and her diamonds missing in what appears to be a special cabis case event. The note mentions Washington Post coverage but details are incomplete.
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Wedding crash in Rock Creek Park injures party
Miss Maud Vera Hanna and Capt. Horace Fairfax Browne narrowly escape death when a touring car veers off a Rock Creek Park embankment. Mrs Beulah Jacobs suffers severe burns and possible blindness from gasoline explosion. Chauffeur and Miss Hanna’s chaperon hospitalized. wedding not delayed per Browne.
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Cincinnati
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London
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Georgetown University Hospital
Normandie Hotel
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William A. Slater
Washington
Victoria
Service Sons
Couple to Travel After Wedding to England and India
After the ceremony the couple will travel extensively through the summer and fall. They will go to England for the winter and eventually sail for India where the captain's regiment is stationed.
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Normandie Hotel
England
India
Three Midshipmen Bodies Found After Minnesota Launch Disaster
The bodies of Midshipmen P. H. Field W. H. Stevenson and F. P. Holcomb were recovered from Chesapeake Bay. Disfigured by bruises and burns, Holcomb may have been struck by a steel cable during the launch accident. Additional remains of four drowned crewmen were later found as searchers, now at half mast nationwide, continue to scour the waters for missing men.
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Virginia
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Potomac
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New York Police Seek Mysterious Combatants
In a fragmentary report from New York, police pursue unknown assailants after a garbled and graphic scene described along Fifth Avenue. The incomplete note alleges blood and a-threat atmosphere, with unclear attribution to a specific group or date.
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New York
Poli
President May Be Right About Wolves and Humans
Tom Dean an Olentangy Park zoo keeper entered a wolf cage to prove Roosevelt correct that wolves do not attack humans. The wolf lunged and Dean was badly mauled, then hospitalized. He had previously supported Roosevelt’s view, now questioning his own humanity.
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Roosevelt
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Dr. Long
Bees Descend On Lexington Street Market Crowd Reacts
In Lexington street a swarm of bees attached to an awning halted traffic and drew a large crowd. Police advised on capture methods before a stallkeeper freed most bees with a ladder and bare hands. A merchant stirred remaining insects with a long pole as the crowd watched. Source notes the origin of the bees is unknown.
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Tyne
Lexington
Howard
Léxington
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Yale freshman Woolsey Scholarship to be decided by lot
Yale announces at Battell Chapel that the Woolsey Scholarship for the freshman year will be determined by a lottery between Robert Alphonso Taft of Washington and Samuel Michael Cohen of Hartford. Taft, secretary’s son, already holds the Hugh Chamberlain Greek prize. the outcome will honor one of two top scholars.
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New Haven
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Battell Chapel
Woolsey
Hurk
Robert Alphonso
Taft
Washington
Samuel Michael Cohen
Hartford
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Hugh Chamberlain
Gas explosion injures two men in building basement
A basement gas explosion severely burned John McGuigan and James Nugent, who were rushed to the hospital after the incident. The blast occurred in the building’s street area, prompting emergency responders to secure the scene. Further details on cause and injuries were not immediately available.
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West support for Roosevelt urged by Cummins in June talk
Special to The Washington Post. June 11. Gov A B Cummins of Town says the entire West backs President Roosevelt for reelection and Pennsylvania Senator Knox will forfeit momentum. He predicts Roosevelt's renomination and a campaign focused on corporate regulation over tariff revision. He notes Knox’s qualifications but says public demand favors Roosevelt, who must be the party nominee. He warns against lenient tariffs and urges revision and reduction to aid sellers while addressing open competition.
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House
Soeas Jonger
Poison Hope and Forger's Arrest in Brownsville Case
A man identified as John Williams, claiming Brownsville ties, swallowed poison in Atlanta after presenting forged pay documents to the Department of the Gulf. Officers pursuing the forger who had tainted months of government payrolls stopped him at arrival. he reportedly said he wished death. The incident followed prior armed actions and a failed paymaster scam.
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Bankhead Appointed to Alabama Senate Vacancy
In Birmingham this morning former Congressman John Bankhead was named to fill the U S Senate seat from Alabama following the death of Senator John T. Morgan. The appointment lasts until the legislature meets in July. Governor confirms the action amid primary considerations.
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Attempt to Kill Guerin Blamed on American Attacker
London reports an American man, said to be of good family, tried to shoot Edward Guerin the bank robber. Guerin was wounded in the foot during a Saturday night ambush as a cab passed. The woman with the assailant is May Churchill alias Chicago May. the man named Charles Smith is held and linked to a prior Clerkenwell burglary case.
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London
Edward Guerin
Devil's Island
Guerin
May Churchill
Chicago
May
America
Charles Smith
Clerkenwell
Smiths Letters Photograph Also Evidence Infractions Of Family Saga
New Orleans reports Mrs. Sarah Ann Smith Dutreche, claiming to be James Henry Smith's daughter, shows letters written by Smith to her mother admitting a marriage and asking about the baby. A 1667 England address appears in one letter, while a Galveston ceremony is cited for the marriage, with estate disputes looming in Grange County.
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James Henry Smith
Washington Post
New Orleans
James Henry
England
William Street
Bushelsyie Jane
Ageealietes
Flynne
Patrick Flynn
William A. Flynn
Smith
Dutreche
St. Anne Street
Alice Smith
Manchester
Aldwick
United States
New York
Herman
Leroy
Tate
Rght Towiey
Wall Street
Grange County
Houston
Soldier 103, Veteran Sauls Dies in Missouri
Joplin Missouri June 17 Thomas E Sauls a sergeant who fought in the Seminole Mexican and Civil Wars and a Missouri pioneer in lead and zinc industry died today aged 103 Born in North Carolina Sauls fought across three wars and helped develop Missouri mining towns leaving a long record in regional industry.
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Wan
Missouri
Joplin
Thomas E Sauls
Day
North Carolin
Turmoil in Russia and Black Sea Mutinies Unfold
Reports from St. Petersburg, Sebastopol, and Odessa detail political manipulation in parliament drawing lines that favor landowners, with peasant voters reduced sharply. Separately, the Black Sea fleet mutiny aimed to bombard Odessa, leading to arrests, ship disarmament, and detentions as crews faced discipline.
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Black Sea
Jime
Odessa Bay
Tsertsinsky
Rostislav
Sebastopol
Chattanooga Healer Charlee H Smith Dead at Sunday
Charlee H Smith a leading Christian Science healer in Chattanooga Tennessee died Sunday after a prolonged illness. A local dentist refused to admit her condition as ill and she treated herself until a physician was finally summoned hours before death. The case may prompt local authorities to review medical neglect questions.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Charlee H. Smith
Hus
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Bomb found in coal delivery at Cleveland mill
A dynamite charge large enough to wreck two buildings was discovered in a coal load bound for an East End Knitting mill in Cleveland. Police investigated whether the blast was an attempt to destroy the mill or the mine supplying the coal. About 500 girls work at the plant and operations paused after the scare.
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Clevelands
Ohio
East End
Wife of James Weardell Shot at West Twenty Atth Street
New York report from June 17 states Leasure Weardell a nineteen year old wife was shot in the head at their home on West Twenty Atth Street. The husband, James Weardell, aged six years her senior, notified police claiming his wife killed herself in a state of despair after a quarrel and agreed plan earlier.
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West Twenty Atth Streets
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