Bryan Tide Continues As DNC Convenes In Denver
At the Denver Democratic National Convention the second session opened with all seats filled. Henry Clayton of Alabama was named permanent chairman as factions and delegates from Nebraska New York Illinois Virginia and Delaware lined the floor. The Bryan movement grew stronger with a rising push for George Gray as vice president while labor leaders led by Samuel Gompers pressed for platform injunctive planks and a reform agenda.
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Denver
Bell
C. F. Reisner
Committee On Permanent Organization
Henry Clayton
Alabama
Clayton
Nebraska
Sons of the West
Dahlman
Bryan
New York
C. F. Murphy
Judge Parker
Colonel Gufey
Pennsylvania
James Kerr
Guffey
Ilinois
Roger Bulligan
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Daniel
Virginia
Towne
Sulzer
New ‘York
Swanson
Nevada
Dickerson
Newlands
Kentucky
Mc ‘Creary
Missouri
Stone
Dockery
Champ Clark
Idaho
Dubois
Hertfeld
Minnesota
Johnson
Delaware
Alice Longworth
Ruth Bry
Léavitt
Viscount de Chambrun
France
M. Krupensky
Russia
Hon. H. F. Charteres
England
Argentina
Greece
Belgium
Chile
George Gray
Resolutions Committee
Samuel Gompers
Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
Chicago
Gompers Supcke
Grass Culture for a Good Lawn and Landscape
The article outlines lawn preparation and care for a handsome lawn. It stresses grading to drain surface water, slope away from the house, and deep plowing to remove stones. It recommends manure or bone meal as humus help, and seeding mixes of Kentucky bluegrass with white clover or redtop variants. It advises liberal, even seeding and reseeding any thin patches.
Brussels Sprouts How to Grow and Harvest At Home
Easy to raise in a typical garden. Brussels sprouts form many small edible beads along the stem, two inches wide at most. Sow in open ground early, transplant at three inches high, space rows 24 to 30 inches apart, and water well after moving. Remove crowding leaves as beads form, leave top leaves, and store in pits or cold frames for winter use. When boiled with cream they taste good.
Growing Rhubarb and Alfalfa Advice for Farmers
Column offering practical farming tips on rhubarb cultivation with Idunaeus variety, harvesting, spacing, and economical yield estimates. It also covers spraying potato vines, timing, and moisture needs for alfalfa, stressing drainage, dry soils, and the proverb alfalfa will not grow with wet feet.
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W. J. Green
Rail line bribery case ends in $7000 fine
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad pleaded guilty to rebating in a U S district court. Judge Bethea imposed a $7000 fine after the government proved a $50 000 bonus paid to Garden City Sugar and Land Co of Garden City Kansas was a rebate. The scheme involved payments tied to freight and did not affect legitimate industry bonuses.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Bethea
United States District Court
Edwin W. Sims
Garden City Sugar and Land Company
Garde City
Res
Garden City
Sugar and Lahd Company
Bac
Interstate Commerce and Elkins
Fatal Trip for Explorer Erichsen and Companions
A telegram from the Denmark Greenland expedition reports Danish explorer Erichsen and two companions died in a northeast Greenland snowstorm after drifting on an ice floe. Provisions exhausted, they failed to reach land as the fog cleared. An Esquimaux messenger delivered the news in a dying state.
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Erichsen
Denmark
Greenland
Copenhagen
Esquimaux
Baldwin Sights Enemy In Five Mile Military Balloon Flight
Captain Baldwin piloted a United States Army balloon from Fort Mayer for a nearly five mile test flight. The airship rose to 200 feet, reached twelve miles per hour outbound, then returned leeward as Curtis opened the throttle and wind shifted to seven miles per hour. No pitching occurred during the ascent and travel.
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Captain Baldwin
Fort Mayer
United States Army
Baldwin
Curtis
Two Die In Auto Wreck Near Sylvania Ohio
An auto plunged over a steep embankment near Sylvania Ohio killing Charles W Poplemann a Cleveland merchant tailor and Father George Vahey pastor of Columbkille parish Cleveland instantly. Mrs Charles W Poplemann her daughter Florence and FC Dietzel a Cleveland dentist escaped injury. The car landed bottom side up. Poplemann died within a minute. Vahey died instantly.
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Sylvania
Charles W. Paplemann
Cleveland
George Vahey
Columbkills Parish
Charles W. Poplemann
Florence
Dietzel
Kansas Official Is Arrested For Malfeasance In Office
Wyandotte county assistant attorney W Trickett was arrested at his Kansas City Kansas home on a state warrant charging malfeasance in office. The complaint alleges he accepted fees and settled cases before defendants were arraigned. Trickett, noted for fighting liquor sales, denies the charges saying liquor interests back the move to remove him.
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W. Trickett
Wyandotte County
Kansas City
Kan
Trickett
Aquor
Mquor
Roosevelt Statement Acknowledges Responsibility for Brownsville Order
President Roosevelt declares he bears full responsibility for issuing and not suspending the discharge order for the Twenty-fifth Infantry battalion tied to the Brownsville Texas riot. He cites General Henry C. Corbin as saying Taft bore no blame and confirms Corbin’s account of events.
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Corbin
Brownsville
Taft
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Thaw Bankruptcy Petition Filed in Pittsburg Court
Harry K. Thaw of Pittsburg filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in a United States court in Pittsburg. Receiver Roger O'Mara was named. Assets listed at 128 012.88 with liabilities of 453 140.43. Loans amount to 191 500 from his mother. Disputed claims include several doctors lawyers and others across New York and New Jersey.
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United States Court of
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
Dutchess County
Roger O'Mara
Pittaburg
Thaw
William Thaw
John B. Gleason
New York
Hartridge & Peabody
Wagner
Binghamton
N. Y
Jellitfe
Jones
Morristown
N. J
Martin Littleton
Hamilton
Want Half Million Fund Discussed at Fairview
The Democratic campaign funding question dominated discussions at Fairview. Officials believe at least 900000 is needed to cover campaign expenses, with large gifts from various sources possible, but the bulk should come from the masses. Bryan conferred with Senator A F Pattigrew and Governor C N Haskell on finances.
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Fairview
Denver
Bryan
A. FP. Pattigrew
South Dakota
C. N. Haskell
Democratic National Committee
Jewelers Meet Next at Omaha in Jewelers Expo
The American Association of Retail Jewelers closed its Cincinnati convention with a unanimous vote opposing state inspection of trainmen watches. It endorsed the Oklahoma Jewelers Association’s push for a fixed minimum selling price on all jewelry and noted watches are affected. Omaha will host the next annual meeting. In Brooklyn a rejected suitor killed Mrs. B Hood at her home and wounded her year and a half old daughter before fatally wounding himself.
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Jewelers
Omaha
American Association of Retail Jewelers
Cincinnati
Oklahoma Retail Jewelers’ Association
Osteopaths End Session Sets Minneapolis Convention Date
The seventh annual National Osteopathy association session closes in Kirksville with Minneapolis chosen for the next convention on August 13 and Dr. T. L. Ray of Fort Worth Texas elected president while Dr. H. L. Hiles of Auburn New York is reelected secretary. The five day session ends as reports show no settlement in the Canadian Pacific strike and 224 more workers joining the walkout amid a prolonged labor dispute.
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Minneapolis
T. L. Ray
Fort Worth
Tex
H. L. Hiles
Auburn
N. Y
National Osteopathy Association
Kirksville
Canadian Pacific
Editorial Flings and Eruptions Across Pages
A collection of cherry picked quotes from multiple papers. The Columbus Journal advocates popular weather forecaster elections. Mount Etna erupts again drawing attention amid urban satire. The Chicago Fest notes misprints and speed limits. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch mocks fast cars and surprised drivers. The Washington Star jokes about aliases and incognito travel. The Providence Tribune ponders Ifa mind and funeral delays.
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Columbus
Mount Etna
Chicago
Xilla
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washington Star
Providence Tribune
London News Clippings on Dredger and Rail Traffic
English Etchings reports London with 81 daily papers and 376 periodicals. A mammoth dredger for Liverpool’s port is 478 feet long and can lift 10 000 tons of sand in fifty minutes. London peak hours are 8 to 9 am and around 6 30 pm with tens of thousands entering or leaving daily. Tintern Abbey ruins in Monmouthshire are being restored and excavations search for further structures.
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London
Liverpool
Tinternabbey
Monmouthshire
New York City: Post Office Receipts Rise and City Waterways
The New York Herald notes daily post office receipts of 54 270 dollars as the New York City open hours continue. It adds that six month coal burned totals 20 385 000 tons while the city boasts more water and rowing clubs than Venice and draws daily milk from up to 400 miles away and products from 86 000 farms to meet daily needs.
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Manhattan
New York City
New York
World’s finest central Iowa calendar line featured
An ornate calendar line displaying many imported pieces in central Iowa draws attention. A White Family from Mount Vernon Missouri endorses Warner’s White Wine of Tar for illnesses, claiming it cured their children’s measles cough and the wife’s sleep problems.
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The
Iowa
L. A. Dunlap
Mount Vernon
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Crowes
Talk
Gray
Brussels
Santa Fe
Kansas Sugar and Land Company
Explorer
Mylius Erichsen
Kansas
Roosevelt
Roger ‘O'Mara
Frudden Lumber Co
C. E. Frudden
Manacen
Ackley
Sararrers
Andrew Rath
Ackley, JA
J. A. Miller
GEO. E
Sheerer
Gceoar Falls
Andrew Hath
Iudden Tumber Co
Dick Beving
Wellsburg
John Martens
Bakker
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