Gorgeous Parade Delights Governors In St Louis Dedication Week
Visiting governors and officials praised the parade as a vivid, orderly display of civic pride through a long boulevard procession. Crowds cheered divisions from high schools to labor groups, with diplomats and dignitaries on the reviewing stand, amid a week of public spectacles and notable absences due to a death in Illinois.
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St. Louis
Harry Hawes
Missouri
Turners
Swedish National Society
Oklahoma
Zack Mulhall
John Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Francis
Governors Dockery
Peabody
Colorado
Odell
New York
Vansant
Minnesota
Mickey
Nebraska
Heard
Louisiana
Hanna
Fairbanks
Thomas
North Carolina
John B. Thurston
Coy
Yates
Ilinois
God Roads Convention Parade in St Louis Draws Two Thousand Delegates
Proceedings of the International Good Roads Convention in St Louis report a parade with two thousand delegates. Marchers wore medals uniforms and yellow sashes while army officers aided Grand Marshal Col E J Spencer and staff. City officials including Joseph W Folk received hearty applause as divisions competed for credit in a spirited coordinated procession.
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E. J. Spencer
St. Louis
Corbin
Marine Band
Spencer
Col. Batdor
Joseph W. Folk
John W. Noble
President Roosevelt at Sharon Springs Methodist Church
President Roosevelt attended a Sunday service at a small Methodist church in Sharon Springs Kansas. He sat with two girls in the aisle, shared a hymn book, and spoke with locals after the service. An admirer presented him a two-week-old badger, to be kept in Washington. Local pastors joined the service and a horseback excursion followed.
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Sharon Springs
Kas
Roosevelt
William Carter
Kansas City
Burton
Long
Butler
Columbia College
Warren
Wyoming
Civil Service
Foulke
Washington
Missouri Building Corner Stone Layed At Exposition
Grand Lodge of Missouri laid the corner stone for the Missouri building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on May 2 1908. Alexander M Dockery Governor and Kuhn Grand Master spoke as plans for a monument on the site were outlined with the building described as the finest state house at the fair and the Washington gavel used in ceremonies.
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Louist Chase “Exposition
Missouri
Grand Lodge A. We & A
We, Kuhn
Washington
George Lee
Maxonte Lodge
Capitol
Iowa
Oklahoma Territory
Corner Stone Laying at Missouri Building in World’s Fair
The Missouri building corner stone was laid at 4 p m on Saturday at the World’s Fair grounds near the government building. The ceremony included invocations by the grand lodge chaplain and remarks by Gov. A M Dockery, M T Davis, David R Francis, Joseph W Folk, with W F Kuhn laying the stone.
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Nelson A. Miles
W.S. P. Shields
Pennsylvania
Samuel Haul
Washington
Hogg
Texas
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
R. Stone
New York
R. H. Jesse
Missouri University
Carter Harrison
Chicago
W. P. Hepburn
Iowa
Indiana
Indianapoli
Miles
St. Louis
Missouri
Government
Forest Park
the Chaplin
The
Grand Lodge of Missouri, A, FL & A
The Dog and His Sark in Brooklyn Tale
Ex District Attorney James D. Ridgeway and ex Judge Finnerty walk to Coney Island court when a dog from Deacon Overton's barn erupts barking. Ridgeway flees, breathless, asking if barking dogs bite, while Finnerty quips about the old law as the dog continues barking nearby.
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James D. Ridgeway
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Finnerty
Deacon Overton
Ridgway
Jim
Judge Finnerty
N. ¥. Times
Hearing On San Francisco Heat and Dumb Asylum Incident
M H De Young of San Francisco described witnesses using finger signals in an investigation of an accident at a heat and dumb asylum. The hearing concluded with testimonies and the record noted a final statement.
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M. H. de Young
San Francisco
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Bharkoff
Russia
Isaac 8. Taylor
W. I. Kulin
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A. F
A. M. Benediction
Carthage
Carthage Stone Co
Alexander M. Dockery
Llent
Tow
William Jennings, Bryan
Gov
Hoge
Odeon
L. D. Kingsland
Samuel J. Niccolls
Second Presbyterian Church
W.H. Moore
Association
Bella Wells
A. M. Dockery
D. R. Francis
Moore
Martin Dodge
Department of Agriculture
A. C. Larimer
South Carolina
J. B. Kille- Drew
Nashville
Tenn
G. 8. Earle
James Hogg
Philippines
Gov. Hogg
Jesse
Wn. J. Bryan
Roy Stone
J. B. Killebrew
Tennessee
Wright Smith
Alabama
C. GC. Bell
A. Duke
Arkansas
H. H. Rice
Maine
W. C. Hutchinson
Montana
Adolph Levi
California
H. H. Hyatt
D. W. Welch
BR. J. Wilson
Wisconsin
C. P Shaw
Virginia
R. J. Davison
Michigan
O. BR. Bowser
A. V. Hastman
C. W. Mitchell
M. O. Eldredge
District of Columbia
H. G. McFike
Filings
C. C. Reed
A. L. Preaton
W. BE. Hinngold
Mississippi
W. H. French
J. C. van Palt
Kentucky
M. P. Beebe
South Dakota
FP. A. Wiggins
Oregon
Samuel Hill
James G. Halleck
M. A. Banning
Ohio
J. W. Abbott
George BE. Rowe
J. M. Head
G. FR. Farnham
Matt Hall
Y. ¢. Yancey
D. E. Moulin
W. O. Hutchinson
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J. W. Bates
G. Hutchinson
B. Smith, Jr
George T. Baker
C. C. Stokes
John Dymond
John H. Brooks
Charles T. Harrison
I. B., Brink
Imois
Charles Hunter
James W. Stewart
J. . Todd
J. W. Norman
J. C. van Pelt
Geo. ©. Knoeher
T. C. Henry
Frank Z. Wilcox
W. L. Dickinson
Massachusetts
F. A. Wiggins
H. A. Heath
Kansas
United States
Duluth
Gov. A. B. Cummins
Lafe Young
Dr. Welch
Henry Horner, Jr
W. J. Cooley
John H. Bright
President Roosevelt
Andrew Pattulo
Canada
M. C. Butler
Y. J. Warren
Boston
Charles Th. Lane
H. J. Waters
George C. Powers
I~nois Central Railroad
Waters
Laine
Lane
Madison County
Ala
Wiliam J. Bryan
W. H. Moore
R. W. Richardson
Omaha
C. H. Hurtlg
Committee On Legislafan
Fie
Golden Gate
Ryan
National
Internatonal Good Roads Association
City of
Ene
Pereny
National Organization of the Good Roads’ Association
United States Department of Agriculture
Congress
Congress of the
National Good Roads Association
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Thomas Jefferson
Cumberland
M. T. Davis
Missouri Commission
David R. Francis
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co
W. ,F. Kuhn
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