Theodore Roosevelt Inauguration Parade and Ball
Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as president amid bright sun and a vast crowd on Pennsylvania Avenue. The day features a grand procession with cadets, Indians, cowboys, and governors, a brief open air inaugural address, and a lavish Pension Building ball that ends Washington’s memorable inaugural ceremony.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Johnson
Grant
Sherman
West Point End
Ola Point Comfort
Norfolk
Newport News
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co
New York
Boston
Bee
Diace
Uncle Sam
Pension
Artidiia
Washington
Pennsyllvania Avenue
Court of Honor
White House
Altowether
Roosevelt
Inauguration Edition of The Washington Post
The Washington Post offers a six part fifty six page edition with Vice President Fairbanks portrait and Thomas Jefferson's Bible plates. Five cents postage will be refunded to readers on paper. The edition is authorized by Congress and now exhausted.
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Washington, Post
Fairbanks
Thomas
Jeferson
Congress
Post
Efferson
Post Business Office
Gift Ring Holds Lincoln Hair for Roosevelt Inauguration
A gold seal ring given by Secretary Hay to President Roosevelt during his inauguration contains a glass case with a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair. Roosevelt said he would wear the ring and value it highly. The ring features a design similar to his other ring worn on the little finger of the same left hand.
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Lincoln
Roosevelt
John Day
Abraham Lincoln
Senate
Hay
Mr. Roosevelt
Smoke Bill Vetoed By President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt refused to sign a bill amending the smoke law despite House and Senate approval. The measure would have allowed two minute smoke emissions up to twenty minutes daily as an experimental one year. Senator Gallinger pressed the case at the Capitol while West pledged strict enforcement of the current law amid business interests’ objections.
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Roosevelt
House
Senate
Capitol
Gallinger
District of Columbia
Urgi
West
Inaugural Week Highlights and Society Pages
A dense index page lists Inauguration ceremonies and parades at the Capitol the preceding day. It notes hospital stories, a deputy governor’s inauguration, awards, and a long run of sections including editorial pieces, social events, fashion notes, theater, and a pictorial souvenir with portraits of presidents.
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Capitol
Fairbanks
Army
Congress
Uncle Joe
Czat
Germany
Stanford
Greene and
Gaynor
Arkansas City
Quintus Oakes
Roosevelt
White House
Charcot Party Reaches Argentine Port After Antarctic Voyage
Antarctic explorers report wintering at Wandel Iland under favorable conditions. They claim solving the Bismarck Strait, passing through it, reaching Alexander I land despite Joe blocking landing. The vessel ran aground with a serious leak but the voyage continued, mapping the Palmer archipelago coast. All are well.
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Argentine
Dr. Charcot
Wandel Iland
Bismarck Strait
Alexander I Land
Palmer Archipelago
Married in Sleeping Car by Washington Bridegroom
A marriage occurred overnight on March 4 in a sleeping car after the Alabama and Vicksburg train from Jackson arrived at the union station. The groom described himself as S St Clair Southerland of Washington DC, an electrical engineer, and his bride was Mrs. Marguerite Reber of Jackson Mississippi. Two witnesses were pressed into service and Rev J J Jongen performed the ceremony.
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Memphis
Tenn
Washington
Alabama
Union
Staton
Vicksburg
Marguerite Reber
Jackson
J. J. Jongen
First Presbyterian Church
Shot in Defense of Honor in Passaic Village
Passaic New Jersey March 4 Antoinette Tollo an Italian woman shot and killed Joseph Santo in Kingsland seven miles from Passaic The Tollo and Santo families were neighbors and had been friendly Santo was married with three children and Tollo had a four year old boy and a two year old girl She fired five shots at Santo’s head saying she acted in defense of her honor then was taken to Hackensack jail.
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Passaic
N. J
Antoinette Toho
Joseph Santo
Kingsland
Tollo
Santo
Santa
Mission from Pope Sends Auxiliary Bishop to Washington
Right Rev. B. Broderick auxiliary bishop of Havana arrived in New York from Havana to begin a confidential mission to the United States. He will proceed to Washington to urge greater offerings of Peter's peace amid tensions between France and the Holy See. Dispatches from Rome note some dissatisfaction with the mission.
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New York
B. Broderick
Havana
Pius X
Washington
Broderick
Peter
United States
France
Holy See
Rome
Bribery at Albany in New York City gas case
The Hivening World accuses a Democratic State senator of paying Republican colleagues 2500 dollars each to oppose bills reducing gas prices in New York City. It also claims two more senators are negotiating for bribe money amid ongoing legislative measures.
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New York
Hivening World Today
State
Senate
New York City
Fire devastates Brookland suburb in Columbia
A fire at Brookland across the Congaree River destroys extensive property in a half mile by several blocks area. About 126 houses burn, including the Methodist Church and mill workers' homes, with insurance nearly non existent and the town lacking a fire department. Meanwhile rail service notes include the Seaboard Florida Limited daily from Washington at 6 25 p m to St Augustine arriving 10 10 p m next day and adjusted occupancy for the Philadelphia New York sleeper train.
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Columbia
Seaboard Florida Limited
Washington
St. Augustine
Pinehurst
Southern Pines
Camden
Southern
Jouthere
Palm Limited
Florida
Aiken
Augusta
Southern Railway
Warner urged for Missouri senatorial bid in Congress
March 4 Topeka Kans The house adopted a concurrent resolution urging Missouri Republicans to use all honorable means to elect Maj William Warner United States Senator to succeed Cockrell. The measure says his election would honor Missouri and reflect national regard. Chilean cabinet to resign amid internal dissensions. Palm Limited offer with Royal Blue service, fast connections to Philadelphia New York and Boston, fares and timings listed.
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Evens
OpunliCham
Topeka
Kan
House
Missouri
Maj
Willam Warner
United States
Cockrell
Japanese Drive Northeast to Mukden Front in War News
Reports from St Petersburg and Mukden describe Japanese forces pressing toward the Russian center and attempting to outflank. Russian detachment fighting hard as trains carry wounded northward. losses mount with estimates around seventy thousand total.
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Oyama
Marshal Ooyama
Mukden
Kuropatkin
Associated Press
Quama
Europatkin
Sakhotun
Linzlatun
Kurovatkin
Sinmintin
Kuroki
Binmintin
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Supreme Court of the United States
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MR. Hay
Charcot Party
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Santiago de Chile
Royal Blue
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