Tafts Campaign Costs And Corporate Contributions
Postmaster General Hitchcock testified on Taft era campaign funding, noting 1908 total contributions of 1 655 518 27 with 620 150 handled by state committees. No corporate donations were found, except a returned 20 000 from General Du Pont. Banks contributed 5 000 each. many early large donors named including Taft, Cromwell, Carnegie, Munsey, and Cochran. Tomorrow William F Sheehan of the Democratic committee to testify.
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Washington
Frank H. Hitchcock
Senate
Taft
Albany
N. Y
Republican National Committee
Hitchcock
Congress
DuPont
T. Coleman DuPont
Delaware
Republican Executive Committee
George H. Sheldon
Paynter
General de Pont
General DuPont
Oliver
Roosevelt
Senator Paynter
Charles YP. Taft
William Nelson Cromwell
Larz Andergan
Andrew Carnegie
William Smith Cochran
Frank Munsey
Whitelaw Reid
ML Do. Borden
General Corbin
Tobacco Trust
Steel Corporation
Mr. Cochran
International Harvester Company
McCormicks
George Perkins
Clarence S Funk
Perkins
Army Worm Ravages South Carolina Crops in Anderson County
In Anderson County on July 17, an army worm outbreak was seen in a four acre corn field twelve miles west of Anderson. The pests strip foliage and Paris green has failed to stop them. Officials from Tilmon Agricultural College will arrive tomorrow for a farmers meeting to address stamping out the pest.
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Anderson
D. C
Anderson County
Tlemson Agricultural College
State Editors Honor Beckham at Georgia Weeklies Meet
The Georgia Weekly Press association re elected all officers except second vice president with Turango chosen for 1913. Hon R Beckham of Dublin was elected to the post. LaGrange boosters won the 1913 convention site, and the group plan to send congratulations to President Wilson. The Dublin session closed with music from Miss Ruth Oppenheim and praise for the hospitality. A separate note reports W Rowe, 36, Union Pacific freight inspector, leapt to death from a fifth story hotel window in Wichita Falls.
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Francis W. Clarke
Dubling Ga
Georgia Weekly Press Association
Turango
R. ¥. Beckham
Laurens County Herald
Dublin
Clarence Perr
Cartersville
P. T. McCutcheon
Franklin Newa and
Banner
LaGrange
VitaGrange
Perry
LaGrange Reporter
Lester G. Busen
LaGrange Chamber of Commerce
Much
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
White House
Georgia
W. H. Whaley
Jesup
J. J. Harvard
Hawkinsville
C. W. Morcock
Lawrenceville
H. Hardy
Barnesville
C. McAulliffe
Milledgeville
Ruth Oppenheim
Atanta Einger
First Christian Church of Atlanta
Miss Oppenheim
Garrad-Thiers
Press Association
Association
Wichita Falls
Texas
W. Rowe
Union Pacific Railroad
Rowe
Omaha
Neb
Cure for eczema praised by a Maryland mother
Freeland Maryland mother Mrs Hacy Wright reports her baby suffered long with eczema. After trying three doctors the Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the condition. She notes nightly relief and full recovery with daily use. She endorses Cuticura for pimples and rough skin and mentions free samples and a Skin Book offer.
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Freeland, Md
Hacy Wright
Cuticura
Dept.t. Boston
Southern Lines to Advance Rates in New Tariff
Representatives of thirty nine southern railroads have been in conference over protests to a new freight rate schedule. They adjourn to meet in Washington next week to finalize adjustments before the August 1 tariff becomes effective. Chairman W K Howe said the up rate will boost railroad income but aims to distribute burden and promote traffic.
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Atlantic Caily
MN. J
Southern Railways Classification Committee
Washington
Uniform Classification Committee
United States Commerce Commission
W. K. Howe
Conductor Blamed for Ligonier Valley Disaster
Washington July 17 Chief Inspector Belknap released a report blaming Conductor Kuhn for the Ligonier Valley railroad wreck that killed nineteen and injured twenty eight. He cited no train orders or printed rules, no block signals, and dispatcher verbal or telephone guidance to the engineman, warning that without proper rules such accidents are likely to recur.
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Washington
Kuhn
Ligonier Valley
Pennsylvania
H. W. Belknap
Tech Interstate Commerce Commission
China offers post to Jeremiah Jenks
Peking July 17 Professor Jeremiah Jenks of Columbia University and formerly of Cornell was today offered the post of financial adviser to the Chinese republican government. This marks a step toward reform and shows the cabinet’s desire to employ expert foreign talent. Other advisers are soon to be appointed as talks on a proposed Chinese loan highlighted the need for such expert guidance.
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Peking
Jeremiah Jenks
Columbia University
Cornell
Railroad stops sale of liquors on lines east of Pittsburgh
Philadelphia July 17 The Pennsylvania Railroad has ceased serving intoxicating liquors on its trains east of Pittsburgh. Orders were sent to H G Baker chief of the dining car service at the Pennsylvania terminal New York last Thursday and cars reaching that point were cleared of their stock of alcohol.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
H. G. Baker
Pennsylvania Terminal
New York
Triennial Orange Conference Opens in Glasgow
Glascow Scotland July 17 The triennial conference of the Imperial grand orange council of the world opened. Andrew Weir a New York delegate said there were 100 000 stalwart orange men in America ready to support Ulster financially to wipe out the home rule enemy.
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Orangemen In Council
Glascow
Scotland
Imperial Grand Orange Council of the World
Andrew Weir
New York
Thessemblage
America
Ulster
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