Anglo Saxon Unity Talk at Albany Banquet
Taft and Earl Grey attend a University Club banquet in Albany to discuss Anglo Saxon unity and world peace. Taft praises Cecil Rhodes and American Canadian ties while warning of tariff conflict and urging cooperation among English speaking peoples.
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Tait
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Oxford
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Fraternities Peace Agents Claim They Prevented War
Secretary Dickinson argues fraternities like Sigma Alpha Epsilon helped avert Civil War at Founders Day banquet at the Shoreham. He praised the order’s vigor since 1861 and urged members to uphold its high standards. Attendees included J G Capers, Benjamin F Mian, Clarence W Stowell, and William Brantley Jr with guests like Maj Frank B Cheatham and Judge Charles B Howry.
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Knox
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Capers
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Mian
Clarence W Stowell
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Fred @ More
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Cheatham
Charles B Howry
Court of Claims
Stawes Sisson and
Flood
Chapel on His Train Tours Mexican Pacific Coast
Arthur Stilwell, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway, travels with a chapel-equipped private car attached to his special train. He and directors, officers, and English stockholders plan a tour of the road from Kansas City to Topolobampo Bay, Mexico, with Rear Admiral Sir Percy Beattie and Provident Charles G. Glover among the English guests for the inspection trip.
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Kansas City
Methcm Ant Ohient Ballaid Company
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Topolobampo Bay
Pacific
Mexico
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Rovel Britwhness
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Rough Riders Plan Greeting at Roosevelt Celebration
About 450 Rough Riders who served under Col Roosevelt will travel to New York from Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico to welcome the ex president back from Africa. They ride in uniform with horses, some mounts from the Spanish American War, forming a parade feature. A trophy collection will be presented, including a gun and saddle believed to be 6 months overdue for the colonel.
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Galveston
Tex
Col Roosevelt
New York
Okahoma Arizona
New Feviey
Africa
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Fifty Fishing Boats Sunk Off Japan Coast in Storm
Tokyo reports a severe coastal storm that has sunk not fewer than fifty fishing boats and resulted in multiple drownings. The tally includes at least 809 fishermen listed as missing or dead as rescue operations continue along the shoreline. Meanwhile the Baltimore and Return Baltimore at Ohio railroad service announces weekend run schedules with limited service on Ri routes.
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Japan
Tokyo
Speaker Cannon Attacks Insurgent Republicans at Dinner
At a Liberty Republican Association dinner, Speaker Cannon lambasted insurgents who voted against ousting Fim, decrying uplight magazines and cowardly Congress members. He warned that Republicans no longer hold a Senate majority, defended party lineage, and criticized attempts to disrupt party unity.
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Hlinda Republican Association
Cannon
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Titmai Republican Association
Rigt House
Senate
Lax
Dinner honors a statesman in the United States
More than 200 members attended a dinner where speakers praised a great man of the day. Representatives Thistlewood and Prince spoke briefly on the present crisis in the Republican organization in the House. John Cavershaw served as toastmaster as the event featured many women among the attendees.
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Prince
Republican
John Cavershaw
NAMED FOR LEGAL REFORM Alton B Parker Announces the Committee on Procedure
Alton B Parker named the Committee on Procedure for legal reform in procedure. The group includes Ralph W Breckenridge of Omaha and several noted lawyers from New York Newport City Silim Chowdier Howpebke Seat roladieon Wis Seldau P Spencer Stephen H Alten Kansas Charles Jewett Allany Taomax Whattan Norfolk va Stephan Grocery Chicago Viclard Lansburs Wilmington Del Amasa W Eaton Providence Lawrence Caspar Hutdscilie Ala Arenry Wedett New Haven Conn George Turner Spokane WA Aad WoT Metatyre Geurgia.
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Committee On Procedure
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Washington
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American Bar Association
Ralph W
Breckenridge
Omaha
Nebr Morgan J" Obren
Newport City
Sililam
John i
Ladieon
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Seldau
Spencer
Stephen H Alten
Strike 15 Near End Penrose In Conference
A long afternoon conference in Senator Penrose's office discussed a plan to reinstate 401 strikers, place unreinstated workers on the extra list, and raise wages to 71 cents an hour with gradual annual increases. The plan awaits approval from the committee of ten and the involvement of State Senator Laurence Wolf and transit leaders. Meanwhile Kensington districts saw car attacks and a dynamited vehicle as crowds clashed with police after a Labor Lyceum Hall mass meeting headlined by Debs and Pratt. No injuries reported and eight arrests were made. Chicago firemen negotiations paused with no breakaway.
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Exera
Glenn
Penrose
Ted
United States
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Mahon
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Kruger
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Committee of Ten
Laurence Wolf
Rapid Transit
Atlanta
Jensington
Labor Lyceum Hall
Sixth and
Brown Streets
Eugene W Debs
C O Pratt
Ais
Chicago
Lee Fairchild Dead Amid Financial Struggles at 87
New York figures reveal poet and humorist Lee Fairchild, former president of the Pleiades Club, died penniless at a city hospital from pneumonia. He moved to the city in 1898 from the West and was a familiar Republican campaign figure, with noted fame on the Pacific coast. An obituary from Kansas City notes W Pritchett, 87, died at home near Independence, Missouri, after work as an astronomer and Royal Astronomical Society membership for Jupiter discoveries. Details include Carnegie Foundation ties and recent travel routes via Baltimore.
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R Arcnnd
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Sears
Fairchild
Thorsdey
Thi City
Pacific Coast
Tiwan
Pleiades Club
Kansas City
Pritchett
Independence, Mo
Royah Astronemical Society of
England
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Carnegie Foundation
Cadets Punish Silence at Annapolis Midshipmen Hop
About 509 midshipmen at the Naval Academy at Annapolis faced a sweeping punishment after a disruptive eve of the midshipmen hop. Superintendent Bowyer declared a period of “silence” restricting all talk meals and visits, confining most cadets to the grounds and suspending privileges. The action followed chaotic scenes as cadets and female guests attempted orderly access, with several officers named in the discipline push and a planned First Class Club formation postponed.
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Oval Academy
Annapolis Naa
Bowyer
Academy
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Naval Academy
Buwyer
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Bertholt
Rich Aero Cup Gone In Flight Across Atlantic
James Gordon Bennett Trophy disappearance shocks Aero Club president Corulaint Field Bishop as officials confirm the costly international balloon cup did not arrive on the Oceanic last Wednesday. No explanation yet for its loss, though officials insist it could not have vanished mid voyage. The trophy, offered by James Gordon Bennett in 1906, honors long distance balloon races.
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Corulaint
The
Aero Club
Atlantic
Jams Gordon Bennett
Blaze on Manhattan Bridge Fire Crews Battle Above River
Firemen faced a perilous climb to battle a blaze on the Manhattan Bridge above the East River. They dragged hoses from a warwork vantage and fought the fire after it started in a pile of chemically treated wooden ties dropped by a worker.
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New York
New Manhattan
Living Chain of Courage At Brooklyn Fire
A large fire at a modern five story apartment on President Street Brooklyn destroyed Ludlow mansion near Henry Street. Mason Point Military Cadets formed a volunteer company and aided in evacuations saving an aged couple and at least seven tenants. Police and firemen rescued over a dozen others amid thick smoke while a looter was suspected of starting the blaze.
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Thor
Blaze
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Accite Ny Formad
Ludlow
Martin Deprat
Intary Academy
Edmund
A Acien
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Ender
Carr Dorn
Willem Hamburg
Kalan
Les Tian
Hamburg
Mary
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George
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Amai
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Four Prisoners Confess to Town Arson in Huntingdon
Abe Keed John Earle Harry Crum and Carleton Gates confessed to jointly torching a church a planing mill plants residences and another church in Huntingdon pa causing 161000 in damage. Mayor R W Jacobs and Chief Bathurst reported they will be formally charged with arson next week after the quartet appeared individually to confess. The town, terrorized by recent incendiarism, feels relief at the admissions.
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John Earle
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R W Jacobs
Tte
Samuels Again Convicted Slayer Receives Same Sentence
Sheriff William Flanagan’s death in Draper Oct 1908 is revisited as Dany fle Va Mar 19 W P Samuels is again sentenced to the same term as in December 1909, under Virginia law, with the verdict matching the prior trial. A Wisconsin Republican Club smoker drew attendees including some congressmen. speeches, stories, songs, and a Labrador Hudson Bay trip talk filled the event.
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Badger State
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Leith
Labrador
Hudson Bay
Stinging defeat as Norris Resolution reshapes House rules
Amid wild scenes in the House the Norris resolution evolving a new rules committee and eliminating the Speaker was defeated by 7 votes. The plan shifted to a ten member Republican and four Democrat committee, with the Speaker barred from membership, signaling vindication for Speaker Cannon and a pledge to consider his fate by motion to vacate. The vote underscored factional divides and preserved Cannon’s influence while signaling a costly battle for control of procedure.
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Slough
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Shi
Rites Committee
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