President Roosevelts Peace Efforts Move Toward Russia Japan Talks
Count Cassini and Kogoro Takahira confer with President Roosevelt in Washington as Russia and Japan accept his call for peace talks. Officials say plenipotentiaries will meet to negotiate terms at a mutually agreed place and time. Washington remains possible but not yet settled.
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Kogoro Takahira
Rueaia
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United States
Tokyo
Griscom
Presidents Note To Russia And Japan Sent
Washington June 10 A note identical in text authorized by the president was forwarded to the governments of Russia and Japan by the secretary.
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Japan
Washington
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Boston Steamship Co Wins War Dept Transport Bid
Washington reports no San Francisco company bid on Pacific transport to the Philippines for the new fiscal year. The Boston Steamship Company, Seattle, is the lowest bidder and likely to receive substantial contracts as Coast lines did not bid. General Humphrey corrected earlier assumptions about coast lines being too busy to bid.
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War Department
Philippines
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Pacific Coast Company
Coast Lines
San Francisco Company
Justice to Get Doctor's Degree
Pullman June 13 Mark A Fuller ton of the supreme bench of the state of Washington is to be given the degree of doctor of laws by Washington State College on commencement the supreme bench of the state in 1898. He is now serving on his second term of six years.
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Mark A. Fullerton
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State of Washington
Washington State College
Blethen Buys Everett Record At Receiver Sale
The Evening Record in Everett reports A. J. Blethen of Seattle bought the paper for 4600 dollars at a receiver’s sale. The court will review the sale on June 17 for confirmation and the new owner will assume control immediately.
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Cleveland letter on Equitable trust duties urges honesty
Former President Grover Cleveland publicly backs his acceptance of the Equitable trusteeship but warns lax trust standards threaten insurers. He calls for restoring American honesty and condemns personal use of trust property as theft. Nine policyholders join Browne suit seeking a receiver for Equitable Life surplus.
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Cleveland
Thomas F. Ryan
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Grover Cleveland
United States
J. Wilcox Browne
Baltimore
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Morton in Control of Equitable Affairs
Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton becomes head of the Equitable Life Assurance Society with Grover Cleveland and George Westinghouse joining the board of trustees. Justice Morgan J. O'Brien also accepts. August Belmont and Brayton Ives approve Morton as board chairman who will assume duties after his Navy tenure ends. Cleveland cites a public duty to improve conditions in life insurance affairs.
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Lewis Family Day at Lewis and Clark Exposition
Portland invites about 12000 Lewises nationwide to attend Lewis Family day on August 12. Local group expects around 5000 Lewises to visit on August 13 for a program of specials and music. A committee will decorate Merriwether Lewis’s grave in Tennessee after the convention.
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Tennessee
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eS z Smott U Graduating Class
The class of 31 graduates this year compared with 24 last year. The senior class for next year is projected to be about 75 students.
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Moscow Legends Stir Rumors Ahead of Emperors Assembly
The St Petersburg municipality plans to send a deputation to Moscow to deliver an all-Russian semstvo congress address to the emperor. Moscow protests regime changes and urges immediate convocation of a national assembly. Count Hayden leads the delegation aiming for swift reception as liberals push for reform.
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St. Petersburg
Naanssp
Semstvo
Russia
National Good Roads Convention Planned at Portland
Portland Oregon June 12 The National Good Roads Association will hold its convention at the Lewis and Clark Exposition June 31 to 24 about a thousand delegates are expected Speakers include President H W Moore Hon Martin Dodge M W Richards James W Abbott and others The event features a road exhibit and discussions on scientific ethical and economic aspects of road building and national highway policy
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National Good Roads Association
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Martin Dodge
Department of Agriculture
M. W. Richards
Southern Railway
James W. Abbott
Government Road Division
Exposition
Milwaukee Grand Jury to Probe City Graft This Month
Milwaukee watchers expect the new grand jury to focus on graft in city and county government. Five officials who confessed to graft will face questioning once the jurors begin on June 22, with the scope depending on what those men disclosed about their holdings.
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Wis
Grand Jury
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Grand
Steal a Day to Rediscover Boyhood Joys
A reflective piece urges overworked urban men to reclaim a single day of childhood freedom. The narrator imagines fleeing at 4 a.m. to fish, eat rustic meals, and enjoy simple nature joys with a son, away from business and worry, in a Cincinnati Post excerpt.
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Cure for hen sitting uses ticking egg decoy
A Chicago Chronicle correspondent from Lesueur Minnesota reports a "sure cure" for hens that sit on eggs or inanimate objects. A cheap ticking watch placed in a white egg shaped case makes the hen nervous and eventually she abandons the nest, breaking the incubation fever for good. The device supposedly ends the habit in a few hours.
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