Mayans and Cuba City Life Sketches in Colonial Echoes
In Oct Mayans discuss avoiding American intervention amid tensions. Havana fish supply keeps stock alive from sea to market using floating tanks and lantern-lit transfers. A tailor faces civil and criminal questions over scorched trousers and pays a fine. Havana hosts popular Hai Alal sport with high-earning players in a large arena. Cuba’s climate remains mild with rains May–Oct and cool nights. A hotel clerk notes rain affects messenger service and public seating in parks and along the coast.
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Havana
Strange star seen over Santa Fe sparks citywide interest
In Santa Fe on Oct 13 a large luminous object appeared south of town, first spotted by local Indians and Crandall at a school. It shifted from a star-like point to a white electric globe with a halo, visible from the capitol and federal buildings until clouds hid it late evening.
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Santa Fe
N. M
United States School
Frank Crandall
Capitol
Federal
Weather Bureau
Railroads form Southern Fruit Despatch for fast fruit transport
On October 13 in St Louis the Southern Pacific Texas and Pacific and Missouri and Kansas and Texas railroads created the Southern Fruit Despatch to move fruit quickly to Kansas City St Louis and Chicago. Arrival and departure times will be telegraphed to headquarters and trains will have priority over other freight except passenger trains. The Missouri Kansas exfis aims to run Worth to Kansas City, 506 miles in 20 hours, with service starting Monday.
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St. Louis
Southern Pacific
Texas and Pacific
Musouri
Kansas and Texas
Southern Fruit
Kansas City
Chicago
Missouri, Kansas & ‘Exfis
Worth
Banquet Honors Bishop Moore at First Methodist Church
The Brotherhood of St. Paul hosted a banquet at First Methodist Episcopal Church for Bishop Moore presiding over the fifteenth annual Spanish mission conference. Attendees included members of the Brotherhood and G. K. Warren post 5, with the ladies coordinating the meal. Bishop Moore spoke of his Civil War memories and China experiences, praising Rev. Rollins and hinting Rollins’ return to the church.
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First Methodist Episcopal Church
Brotherhood of St. Paul
Bishop Moore
G. K. Warren Post
No. 5
Rollins
Moore
Morrison
Harwood
Hickey
Brotherhood
Ragwell
Peter McCullum
Scotland
China
Far East
Rolling
First Methodist Ayiscopal Church
Converter Explodes at Illinois Steel Plant
Hazardous blast at South Chicago plant injures about twenty workers with two expected to die. Other early reports note ferry collision on the Hudson near Tivoli causing deaths and missing crewmen, with ships Adirondack and Saratoga damaged and passengers evacuated.
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Illinois
Albany
Oct
Hudson River
Adirondack
People’s Line
Saratoga
Citizens’ Line
George L. Horton
Tivoli
New York
River
Troy
Lierent
Accient
Kingston
Tne
Glasco
Telve
Clarence Sherman
Melrose
N. Y
Offer
George Horton
City of
Glasco Dock
Chicago
T+ pols Steel company
Man Held On Theft and Insanity Charges In Vanwert
Renee Columbus and Edward Raker, both 60, jailed in the state penitentiary after prior confinement in an insane ward. Raker showed a pattern of stealing a horse in Van Wert county, receiving short terms, then stealing it again after release and getting a fifteen year sentence.
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Renee Columbus
Dward Raker
Raker
Vanwert County
Damage to cotton seed crop in Tennessee storm
Clarksville Tenn Oct 18 The cotton crop damage in the Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Arkansas Tennessee area includes near total seed loss as seed sprouts in bolls The seed shortage will limit mill buying and planting for next season and degrade cotton quality across the region.
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Tennessee
Clarksville
Tenn
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi Valley
Opinion on Statehood Ballot Printing in New Mexico
Attorney General opines that the statehood ballot may include the constitutional convention delegates alongside county and territorial candidates on the same ballot. The 1906 note notes nonpartisan delegate elections in parts of the territory and election laws restricting cross ballot printing. Continued on page four.
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Territory of
New Mexico
Santa Fe
W. B. Childers
Statehood Committee
Albuquerqe
Congress
Policieu
Act of Congress
White Harvest Wealth Maker of Sunny South
El Paso Texas October 13 All Texas is busy gathering the cotton crop the biggest in the history of the state and labor is scarce elsewhere. Pickers earn up to a dollar per hundred pounds and entire families work in the fields. Texas leads in cotton production and farmers diversify crops to hold back cotton until market conditions improve. Modern farming and new banks empower farmers to finance themselves and control the crop cycle rather than the market controlling them.
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el Paso
Texas
Union
Cotton Growers’ Association
Cleveland
New York
King Cotton
Club Women Hold Interesting Meeting
Albuquerque Woman's club held a program at the Commercial club rooms with three papers on drama The Rise of the drama The Development of the Drama and The Decay of the Drama Mrs Wilton spoke on the Elizabethan age Musical numbers were presented Mrs Felix Baca led by Mrs Le Bar presiding and Mrs Whitcomb led parliamentary tactics next meeting will cover Domestic science English educationality visit New York Oct 13 Alfred Moseley a British educationalist arrives with English teachers to study U S schools
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Albuquerque Woman's Club
Commercial Club
New York
Alfred Moseley
Begfish
America
Ivas
Strawber
le Moet
Magoon assumes all functions of Cuban office in 1906 action
Secretary of War Taft transfers authority to Charles E. Magoon as provisional Cuban governor. Magoon proclaims adherence to Taft policy while invoking the Platt Amendment for U S intervention and governance powers. Taft, Bacon, Funston to sail north later today.
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Magoon
Suba
Cuba
Ubk
Taft
Bernalillo County Court Edges Toward Mixed Verdicts
A twelve man jury awards Jesus Maria Sandoval 5360 from the Bernalillo county assessor’s office after a three hour trial. The court holds Sandoval not entitled to 7500. Separate suit Olive Corcoran wins 2000 for injuries from a tram accident at Gold avenue and Second street. Territorial grand jury finalizes its fourteen page report with nine indictments including misappropriation charges. Condemnation petition filed by Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway against multiple landowners for yard expansion. Criminal docket set for Monday under Judge Abbott. divorce suit filed by Elite Griffith De Woltz against William A. De Wolf.
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Jesus Maria Sandoval
Bernalillo County
George Ws. Albright
Sandoval
Tme
Bernalillo Board of County Commissioners
Albright
Territorial Grand Jury
A. Hubbell
Clancy
Kh. E Twitchell
Santa Fe Railway Company
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
L. U. Albers
Elias
G. Garcia
Antonio Bratina
Manuel §. Garcia
O'Bannon
Juana B. Martinez
O. A. McKinney
Thos. G. Apodaca
Hubbell Not a Candidate Refutes Embezzlement Claims
The grand jury report concerns warrants drawn on school funds in 1903 and 1904 totaling 1519 dollars charged to Hubbell. The district attorney's indictments are deemed political, with Hubbell shown as solvent for the money and the paper contends the accusations lack legitimate basis while urging prosecutors to focus on criminal convictions.
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Hubbell
Clancy
Ume
Otero
Bernalillo
Ahey
Great Ball Game Excitement At Chicago Park
Chicago reports high tension as baseball championship race continues with crowding crowds at West Side Park. Gate closures and outside sellers show enormous public interest while early scoring favors the Nationals and Americans trade runs through the fourth inning. Oakland reports Central California incorporation by Southern Pacific linking Dunbarton Point to San Francisco via Bay Shore cut off for freight and future passenger service.
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Chicago
West Side Park
Murphy
Central California
Oakland
Cal
Southern Pacific
Dunbarton Point
Redwood City
San Mateo
San Francisco
New Bay Shore
Dunbarton Point Bridge
New San Francisco
Bay
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Satay
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Miral
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Dilezards
Ikem
Lstt
Ocenpy
Jean
Rivet & Ucket
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Ocean Front
Muro Castle
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ST. Paul
Hudson
Los Angeles
Stub
Opera House
Bristow
Iowa
Sas Angeles
Brooklyn Avennue
Southern
Eugene Peronar
Marshalltown
Brissow
Odd Fellows In
Dallas
Odd Fellows
United States
Lodge of
Odd Fellowship
Kansas
Harvester Trust
RED Hande
Tennessee Farmer
Topeka
Kas
District Court
International Harvester Company of America
Fred 8. Jackson
International Harvester Company of
New Jersey
Knoxville
Chatburn Mintroth
Mos
White Harvest
Sunny South
Vicksburg
Miss
Europe
Imilly
Olive Corcoran
Albuquerque Traction Company
Gold Avenue
Second Street
Abbott
Elite Griffith de Woltz Haw
Win
A. de Wolf T. FL Phelan
Na- Hous
Realback
Kling
Walsh and Sullivan
Nationals
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