Roosevelt Gives One Hundred Dollar Gift for Russian Famine Relief
The President Theodore Roosevelt joins the Russian famine relief effort. He sends a personal one hundred dollar check to the Russian Famine Relief Committee in New York and urges prompt and generous contributions from Americans. The letter stresses urgent aid to Russia amid vast famine and asks support for the committee’s direct forwarding of funds to relief efforts.
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Pepyis
Russia
Russian Famine Relief Committee
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Reef Committee
United States
Tribute to General Grosvenor earns Athens public building
The House passed a 100000 dollar bill authorizing a public building in Athens as a memorial to Gen Grosvenor of Ohio. The measure quickly moved through the Senate before adjournment with broad cross party support. At a planned post adjournment reception, lawmakers will honor the retiring veteran. Immigrant stations also approved for Galveston New Orleans and Charleston.
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Grosvenor
House
Senate
Athenis
Krose
Scott
West Virginia
Committee On
Athens
Pomersy
Eaglar
Allens
Pomeroy
Congress
Gen Grosvenor
Ohio
Genvenor
Galveston
Tex
New Orleana
Charleston
Gilera
Russian protest signed by prominent men calls for action
Representative Bennet of New York reads a petition to Congress denouncing Russian wartime cruelty toward its people. The protest lists abuses from exile and starvation to massacres and torture, urging the United States to protest and seek remedy. Signers include Samuel Greenbaum, Jacob Schiff, Louis Brandeis, Julia Ward Howe, and multiple city leaders.
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Bennet
New York
Congress
New York City
Boston
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Russia
the Hague
Congress of
United States
Justice Samuel Greenbaum
F Fulton Cutting
Edwin R. L. Gould
Samuel L. Cepens
Jacob H. Schiff
A.S. Frissell
Wr. Lythan Abbott
Henry C. Potter
George Kennan
Charles Stewart ,Smith
William L. Schieffelln
Julia Ward
J. Leonard Levy
A. Leo Weil
Clarence Burleigh
William 3. Woods
Pitts- Uke
Fifty-First Congress Ends with Record Spending and Reforms
The Fifty-first Congress closes at noon amid vast appropriations and reforms. Navy ships authorized. army reorganization. pensions for Mexican and Civil War veterans. new allowances for nurses. River and harbor funding totals 88 million. Salaries rise for Cabinet, ministers, VP, Senators, and officials. Immigration, currency, and railroad hour bills advanced. ship subsidy debated. Reed Smoot confirmed as Senator. treaties ratified with Santo Domingo and Morocco. White House authorized to curb atrocities. Brownsville inquiry launched.
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Navy
Army
House of Representatives
Congress
Alfena
Philippine Islands
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reed Smoot
Senate
Utah
Santo Domingo
Morocco
Tawney Estimates Appropriations Near One Billion
Chairman Tawney of the House Appropriations Committees said the current session’s appropriations exceed $500 million. Representative Livingston, the committee’s senior Democrat, estimated near $990 million.
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Tawney
House Committees On
Aittle
Livingston
Cabinet Changes Today In Roosevelt Administration
Three cabinet reshuffles will occur as Ethan A. Hitchcock retires from Interior with James R. Garfield of Ohio to take his place. Leslie M. Shaw hands Treasury to George B. Cortelyou, while George von L. Meyer leads Post Office affairs. New cabinet sworn in by tomorrow morning, Garfield and Cortelyou both in early 40s. Also, Berbert Knox Smith becomes Commissioner of Corporations. House approves printing of 250,000 new edition of the horse disease book.
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Roosevelt
Ethan A. Hitchcock
Interior Department
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Leslie M. Shaw
Town
Treasury
George B. Cortelyou
George von L. Meyer
Massachusetts
Russia
Post Office Department
Onti
Cortelyau
Department of Commerce and Labor
Berbert Knox Smith
Garfield
Socialists Seek Public Ownership Amid Wage Slavery Debate
Mr. J. G. Phelps Stokes and Mrs. Rosa Pastor Stokes spoke in Washington on socialism as a remedy for wage slavery. They argued for public ownership of major industries while condemning charity as worsening poverty, citing machine monopolies and private wealth control. The Economic Educational League hosted a crowded, two-speaker meeting at Masonic Hall with over 660 attendees.
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J. G. Phelps Stokes
Rosa Pastor Stokes
Cleveland
Ohio
New York City
Washington
Masonic Hall
Stokes
Stake
Auspncon
Economic Educational League
Socialist Party of America
Armr
Mir
Mrs. Stokes
Brakes
Jaffe
Lebovitz
E. Street
Florida
Moore Dinner Plans Unique Feast for Colleagues
Congressman J Hampton Moore of Philadelphia hosts a Raleigh Hotel dinner tonight honoring Representative Theodore E Burton chair of the Rivers and Harbors Committee. A speech by Secretary Shaw is anticipated as Moore seeks to wind up his session and promote the Delaware River thirty five foot channel. Notables expected include Speaker Senator Scott Governor Stuart Senators Penrose and Knox Representatives Williams and Grosvenor, Mayor Weaver and many Rivers and Harbors leaders. The Five O Clock Club the Pennsylvania delegation and committee members will attend.
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J. Hampton Moore
Philadelphia
Raleigh Hotel
Theodore E. Burton
Shaw
Moore
Burton
Delaware River
Senator Scott
West Virginia
Stuart
Pennsylvania
Penroys and Knox
John Sharp Willams
Weaver
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George W. Kirchwey
Samuel J. Barrows
Felix Adler
Cyrus J L. Sulzberger
Iswald G. Villard
J. Seay Ward, Jr
Samuel J Barrows
East Fifteenth Street
MR. Grosvenor
Wedderburn
Uncle Sam
District of Columbia
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
J. W. Yerkes
Val
Vane
Treasury Department
John Wedderburn Company
F Street
Washington, D. C
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Lady Clerks
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Semiysavagea
Polar Circle
Red Cross
EB. W. Grove
Hitchcock
Cortelyou
Millionaire Stokes and Wife
Castoria
Infante
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Yale
Inchy
Electric Power
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