Congress Ends Filibuster Strife Over Deficiency Bill
Washington August 26 Congress ended a week of delays by striking state claims from the general deficiency bill after tense earlier attempts to push extra pay for congressional staff. Taft signed the measures as a sparse session closed with applause and cheers from members and families.
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Washington
Congress
Taft
Capitol
Ania
la Follette
Penrose Campaign Fund
Chamberlain
Martin
Swanson
Culberson
House
Gill
Imi
Sunday Mail Ban Looms Over Post Offices
Washington August 26 special report states post offices of first and second class will not deliver mail to the general public on Sundays though special delivery letters still move. Sunday papers will not be delivered. boxes may be accessed until Saturday midnight but no mail is sorted after that. Officials cite delays in government and newspaper delivery and note even the president cannot receive a letter on Sunday without a special delivery stamp.
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John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Post Office
Hitchcock
House
Senate
Congress
Postoffice
United States
Alabama Woman Traps Lammmons in Baltimore
An Alabama woman visiting friends in Baltimore identified John Monroe Lammon s a former Geneva county education chief wanted in Montgomery for embezzling 11 000 in teachers salaries and school funds He escaped a Montgomery jail week earlier and agreed to return Without requisition papers Detectives tracked him to a hotel lobby where he was found and confessed his identity
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Alabama
John Monroe Lammons
Geneva County
Montgomery
Ala
Sammons
Detective Bureau
Lammens
Lamimens
Cockran Named by Progressive Committee for Congress Nomination
The Progressive committee of the First Congressional District designated Cockran as the candidate for the nomination for Congress tonight. Bourke Cockran, a former Democratic congressman, was named amid party actions in the district.
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Kempstead
Bourke Cockran
Progressive Committee of the First Congressional District
Preacher S Wife Leaves After Mower Purchase Tragedy
Calhoun Gumurust reports special term in Garden County Superior Court as Rev J B DeFoore sues for divorce. Evidence shows years of happiness ended when he bought a mowing machine, prompting his wife to leave him with relatives while he remains with the mower. Efforts at reconciliation failed. divorce expected.
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J B DeFoore
Re+ eaca
Garden Counts Superior Court
le Foore
Derhuere
DeFovre
Baby Franz Glimpsed America Before Death Claimed Him
An infant named Franz Sehes aboard Atlantic Inner dying two days from New York sees the Statue of Liberty momentarily as his father lifts him toward the horizon. The ship's surgeon deemed the journey hopeless and the child died content to glimpse America the land of promise.
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Franz Sehes
Atlantic Inner
United States
Land of Promise
Bay
Statue of Liberty
America
Fire Island
Franz
Georgia Democrats Face Three Key Problems At Macon Convention
The Macon convention will focus on the Broyles-Pottle court of appeals tie, a three-way contest for agriculture commissioner with Brown Price and Blalock, and Gilmer county’s long budgeship dispute. Delegates expect a peaceful session, likely nominating Monroe M. Slaton for governor and adopting a pro Woodrow Wilson platform.
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Commissioner of Agriculture
Court of Appeals
Macon
State Court of Appeals
Anay
Woodrow Wilson
Brown
Price
Blalock
Blue Ridge
N A Morris
H L Patterson
Forsyth
Gilmer
Georgia
John M Slaton
Old Feud Stirred Up In Tennessee Politics
Nashville reports a renewed Tennessee Senate race as Judge W McAllster, a former supreme court member who sent Colonel Dun can Cooper to twenty years, announces a candidacy against ex Governor Patterson. Judge Joseph E Jones also plans a run while Senator Newell Sanders declines reelection to back Governor Hooper and Taft, aiming for a legislature supportive of prohibition laws.
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Tenn
W . McAnster
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Duncan Cooper
Henator
Edward Carmack
United States Senate
Mrr
Patterson
Guvernor Patterson
Cooper
Supreme Court
Carmack
Taylor
Dresden
Joseph E Jones
Senate
Jones
Quentin Rankin
Reelfoot Lake
Sanders
Nashille
Newell Sanders
Hooper
Taft
Negro editor quits Roosevelt support in South Carolina visit
W T Andrews of Sumpter SC, a black editor, met with Director Mulvane of the Republican committee in Chicago. He said he backed Roosevelt at the GOP convention, sought a Progressive convention seat, was refused, and will now back Taft’s candidacy.
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Chicago
W T Andrews
Sumpter
Director Mulvane
Republican Committee
Andrews
South Carolina
Taft
Jay Walking Declared a Citywide Disease by Worried Officers
A chaotic neighborhood scene at Five Points and surrounding streets features traffic officers labeling jaywalking a disease. Officers warn that coroners juries may soon blame deaths on jay walkers, as drivers struggle to stop for pedestrians and pedestrians defy crossings amid a chaotic city.
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Five Points
Whitehall
Alabama
Tead
Jay Walking
Mike
Poverty Pinches the Little Ones at School Start
The Associated Charities reports over 150 children aged six to fourteen in the city cannot enter school due to poverty. Families lack clothes, shoes, and books, with autumn ahead and no funds to supply essentials. Secretary Joe Logan urges public aid to prevent the otherwise looming year of idleness.
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Associated Charities
Chiildren
Theahildren
Drunken Rivalry Ends in Fatal Shooting in Kingston
Kingston Ga August 26 Special WwW Griffin a prominent merchant was shot dead at 9 tonight by W J Wooten after a quarrel sparked by a drunken man Penny Bailey shouting religiously. The assailant fled to Cartersville with the sheriff summoned.
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Griffin
J Wooten
Penny Bailey
Trarshal
W. H Griffin
W. Wooten
W Oh Griffin
Wooten
Cartersville
Knife to be used to stop criminal breed
Albany August 26 Governor Pix announced a board of examiners for feeble minded criminals and other detectives. The board aims to prevent procreation of this class and may authorize operations to sterilize inmates in state hospitals prisons reformatories and penal institutions. Members include Dr Charles H Andrews Dr Lemon Thompson and Dr Charles C Duryee.
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Albany
Pix
Charles H. Andrews
Buffalo
Lemon Thompson
Glens Fadl
Charles C. Duryee
Schenec
Georgia Republicans Depose Johnson As O P Chief
Georgia Republican leaders ousted Col Walter H Johnson from the state party chair, naming Henry Lincoln Johnson to lead the campaign. Clark Grier faced sharp criticism as the party moved to rally 75 000 GOP voters in the state while disputes over Taft Roosevelt and Windy City platform debates sparked heated exchanges at the meeting in Atlanta.
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Republican State Central Committee
Walter H Johnson
Atlanta
United States
Georgia
Clark Grier
Dublin
Republicans of
Henry 8S Jackson
Johnson
Mr Grier
T. R
Moosera
Chicago
Taft
Teddy
Henry Lincoln Johnson
Windy City
B. H Pibckett
Fannin County
Penrose Presses For Full Probe Of Roosevelts Backing
Washington August 26 Special A probe by the Clapp Investigating committee will seek records of campaign contributions and ties between John D Archbold George W Ferking Theodore Roosevelt and Congress members from 1900 to present Time of friction within the committee was high with Senator La Follette pressing for action While resistance faded the final action upheld a call for a thorough investigation into political funding and related exchanges amid a heated three day fight
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Washington
Iite
Clapp
Penrose
Con la
Steel Trust
Standard Oil Company
Congress
Roosevelt
Archbold
Europe
Luke
la Follettes
Senate
John D Archbold
George W Ferking
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate of the United States
Weather Prophecy Local Showers Forecast Wednesday
Local weather report notes showers likely on Wednesday with a period of fair conditions. Includes Tuesday local report data on low and high temperatures, mean temperature, normal temperature, and rainfall figures though some values are unreadable in the scan.
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