Weeklong Albuquerque Exposition Opens With Big Events
The second week of Albuquerque's exposition starts with Albuquerque Day as Mayor Lester declares a half-day holiday. Trinidad plays Albuquerque in a close baseball game while a $1000 purse trotting race, Navajo performances, military reviews, and band concerts fill the grounds. Fireworks, the Roosevelt panorama, irrigation displays, and a large livestock show with notable prizes attract crowds. Social events include a Commercial Club ball, Montezuma ball, and a grand costume ball with Carnival night confetti and a traditional fair fight, promising a record of revelry.
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New Mexico
Bear kills infant at Arizona park in deadly rampage
A black bear, raised in captivity, escaped at Elysian Grove near Tucson and charged a crowd. It seized a year old infant in a cart and crushed the child to death before shots and a fusillade finally killed the animal. The bear had recently attacked a boy and caused chaos among visitors.
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Buss Laird
Debs Draws Wild Reception At New York Rail Hub
Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs arrived in Grand Central aboard the red special and sparked a wild scene as police lines buckled under the mob. Debs spoke at the Hippodrome and American theater amid cheering crowds, with large audiences and emotional displays.
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Morning Journal
New York
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Eugene V. Debs
Debs
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Ecape
Hippodrome
American Theater
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Upton Sinclair
Rose Paster Stokes
Charles Sprague Smith
New England
Hughes Silenced by Severe Sore Throat in Chicago
Governor Hughes did not speak at the Orchestra hall meeting in Chicago due to laryngitis. Physicians say he is recovering and expected to speak in La Crosse Wisconsin and St Paul tomorrow after spending the day in his hotel room and meeting Republican leaders.
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Orchestra Hall
la Crosse
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St. Paul
Auditorium Hotel
Battleships Maine and Alabama Sail for Horta Azores
United States battleships Maine and Alabama, arrived September 20, sailed from Gibraltar on October 4 bound for Horta the capital of the Island of Payala in the Azores.
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Alabama
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Azores
Roosevelt 10 Take Stump for Taft in Wide Tour
A Morning Journal report from Fairview claims Theodore Roosevelt plans a six speech whistle stop tour from Atlantic to Pacific to back Taft with a final stop in San Francisco. Bryan shifts Iowa focus to Chicago area with talks via Des Moines Cedar Rapids and allied towns.
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Pacific
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Iowa
Chicago
Des Moines
Tamma
Cedar Rapids
St. Louisa
Kansas
Middle West
Camp Alimning
Gore
St. Joseph
Have
Salvation Army Workers Seized for Street Singing
Los Angeles police arrested fifty Salvation Army workers for violating district street meeting ordinances. They refused bail and were locked in cells after singing and praying during the street event.
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Salvation Army
Cella
Railroad Strike Declared Off In Winnipeg
The Canadian Pacific mechanics strike has been officially declared off in Winnipeg as of October.
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Canadian Pacific
Gas Blast at Pittsburg Plate Glass Plant Fire Loss 400000
A gas explosion at Pittsbore Plate Glass works No 2 in Tarentum suburb caused a fire loss of 400000 and left 500 men unemployed.
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Pittsbore Plate Glass Company
Tarentum
Mormons Declare War on Saloon During Conference
Salt Lake City October 4 15000 Latter Day Saints at the seventy ninth semi annual conference voted unanimously to support prohibition efforts pledging all church members to aid lawmakers in passing laws to close saloons enforce Sunday laws and decrease liquor sales The vote followed President Joseph F Smiths temperance remarks at the tabernacle and overflow meetings.
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Heber J. Grant
Joseph F. Smith
Taft Concludes Hard Campaign Tour In Midwest
Taft plans to close his campaign on November 2 in Youngstown Ohio after a grueling western tour. In Kansas City he spoke at a YMCA event to a packed audience, addressed a large Negro religious gathering, and pressed rest before continuing to Missouri.
Hurricane Rips Manila Bay Grounds Ships and Officers Marooned
A Pacific hurricane swept Manila Bay for twelve hours causing heavy damage ashore and cutting all communications with the shore. The Atlantic battleship fleet rode out the storm with steam up and six vessels moved toward Cavite as officers and crew endured the night ashore and one sailor died.
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Virginia
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Woman and babes victims of mob violence in Kentucky
A mob near Hickman Kentucky killed Dave Walker a Black man, his seven year old daughter, and his baby, fatally wounding the mother holding the infant. Three other children likely died. The male occupant fired when ordered out. the mob torched the cabin and the family perished. The pistol was missing and may have been burned.
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Masquerade of California Woman as Man for 15 Years
Mary Johnson of California, jailed on New York law for wearing men's clothes under the name Frank Woodhull. Aboard the liner New York she passed as a man for fifteen years to earn a living, revealing her identity when immigrants were inspected.
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Wired
New York
Mary Johnson
California
Bile Island
Frank Woodhull
Cleveland Roosevelt letters face scrutiny over genuineness
Morning Journal report pieces together J. W. Kern’s challenge to The New York Times over a Cleveland authorship letter. The item cites cabinet members and Mrs Cleveland as backing the letter’s spurious claim and notes Roosevelt’s published reply to Oklahoma Governor Haskell concerning whisky shipments and interstate commerce.
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Guthrie
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Republican
Thomas W. Lawson Hurt In Carriage Accident
Financier Thomas W Lawson was thrown from his carriage near Selluate and badly injured after the horse kicked him. He was unconscious, treated at a drug store, then moved home to Dreamweld by automobile. His daughter Miss Bunnie Lawson escaped harm. son Arnold Lawson later said the injuries were not serious.
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Macr
Thomas W Lawson
Selluate
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Kie
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Phaeon
Glorious Dougie
Miss Lawson
Dreamwood
Arnold Lawson
Union threatens to tie up trolley line at nine
Pittsburg Kan Oct 4 The union street car men threaten to shut the Joplin Pittburg Railroad line at 9 oclock tomorrow if demands are not met. Forty towns along the line prepare for a crowd opening as the last rail was laid last week. Union officials say the national organization backs a strike if no agreement is reached today. Hitchcock plans conferences in Chicago after leaving New York.
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