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July 11, 1901

Items of Interest

It is reported that Postmaster General Smith will shortly issue an order requiring a stricter enforcement of the postal laws regarding second class mail matter.
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July 4, 1901

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The advanced course in naval architecture heretofore pursued by the Naval Academy graduates prior to commission in the construetion corps at some of the leading European institutes, because of the superior facilities afforded, which were not believed to be available at home, is hereafter to be given these young men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where a course of study is to be followed equaling that offered by Greenwich, the Ecole Politechnique, Glasgow and other famous schools in England and France.
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June 27, 1901

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A Manila press dispatch says that Prince Poniatowski, a San Franciscan, has secured from the Sultan of Sulu an absolute concession for fifty years, ending with the year 1950, of the island of Paragua.
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June 6, 1901

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The two Senators from South Carolina, Tillman and McLaurin, engaged in a joint debate recently, and, stung by mutual taunts, they agreed then and there to resign their seats in the United States Senate and go before the people in a campaign for renomination and election.
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May 30, 1901

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Under a court decision confirming the right of a city built on mineral land, to exercise control over the earth below its streets, alleys, and public grounds, the city of Lead-ville, Col.
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May 23, 1901

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General Pearson, formerly an officer in the Boer army, has made an appeal direct to the President in an effort to stop further shipments of horses and mules and munitions of war from American ports to South Africa for the use of the British army.
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April 25, 1901

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A statement setting forth the origin and extent of immigration at the port of Havanna, Cuba, for the last half of the calendar year of 1900 has been made public by the division of insular affairs of the War Department.
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