NO JURY EXCUSE FOR ROOSEVELT
Mineola Texas March 4 Colonel Roosevelt was excused from jury duty until Wednesday after declining an exemption while stating he would serve if asked He arrived with an auto and sat through juror selection before being excused to fulfill pressing engagements He plans to serve the ordinary time and will be paid three dollars a day and mileage He said he would obey the court and would stay as long as needed while campaigning preparations noted from Oyster Bay Oklahoma reports indicate strong Roosevelt support with fifty-two of seventy-six counties backing him for the state convention next week
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Mineola
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
la Age
Putnam
Oyster Bay
Rome
Oklahoma
Fat Woman Struggles To Escape Fire In Chicago
Miss Anna Grady, weighing over 200 pounds, trapped on the second floor during a blaze started by a gas stove. Firemen freed her by removing a sash after she became stuck at a window while shouting for help. The alarm brought the first fire company to the scene.
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Chicago
Anna Grady
Misa Grady
Hopelessly in Debt Goddard Takes Life
Tl. B. Goddard a baker of 206 Pulliam street died yesterday morning in Grady hospital ambulance en route for treatment of a self inflicted pistol wound to the heart. His wife and son witnessed the tragedy as the pistol was wrested from him. Mrs. Goddard cites debt of several hundred dollars as the motive. He sold his bakery weeks earlier and the family moved to their current home. He is survived by one son Lory Marton. Funeral plans not set. Body taken to Pooles chapel.
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Pulliam Street
Grady Hospital
Resivente Srs
Goddard
Lory Marton
Poole’s
Lewis Faces Jury On Fraud Charge In St Louis
March 4. In United States District Court Judge Amidson ordered hearings to begin tomorrow in the fraud case against 12 G. Lewis, a University City mayor. Prosecutor described schemes tied to publications and real estate ventures, including notes and preferred stock offerings. The defense and government agreed on the twelfth juror, with jurors urged to give Lewis benefit of doubt.
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Lewis
University City
Woman's National Daily
Woman's Magazine
Woman's Farm Journal
Beautiful Homes
The
Journal of Agriculture
Winner
St. Louis
Lewis Publishing Company
University Heights Realty Company
Development and Investment Company
United States Fiber Stopper Company
American Woman's League
University Heights Realty and Development Company
Amidson
Roosevelt Panic Debate Shapes Convict Labor Bill
In a lively House session Representative Richard W. Austin recalls the Roosevelt Panic of 1907 as the debate over banning convict-made goods from interstate markets heats up. The exchange with Charles H. Bocher and Theron Akin ends with the bill passing amid party jeers and cheers.
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John Corrigan
Washington
House
Richard W. Austin
Tennessce
Austin
Georgia Railroad
Charles H. Bocher
Missouri
Roosevelt
Austin Haively
Theron Akin
New York
Taft
Akin
Mr. Austin
Mr. Akin
Clark
Taft salutes free sugar as Louisiana delegation visits
Washington reports that Mayor Behrman of New Orleans with Senators Foster and Thornton and seven Louisiana House members burst into laughter as Taft shouted I’m for free sugar, are you, my democratic friends He and the delegation exchanged a smile while the visitors aimed to press President Taft to reconsider the national drainage plan in New Orleans next month
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Washington
Martin Behrman
New Orleans
Foster
Thornton
Louisiana
White House
Taft
Lewigiana
Ps Sugar
Aviator Keeps Flight After Fall At Montgomery Meet
Paul Peck, under contract for a six day Borger Aviation Company meet, climbed to fifteen hundred feet this afternoon when a clogged fuel intake valve stopped his motor. He glided to a plowed field, the front wheel struck a hole and the aeroplane somersaulted. Peck was thrown twenty feet but not seriously injured and resumed flying ten minutes later back to Vandiver park where the aviation meet is held.
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Montgomery
Ala
Paul Peck
Borger Aviation Company
Peck
Aeroland
With
Vandiver Park
Woman Dies of Leprosy in Indianapolis Home
Lavina Blackwell, 60, a veteran of wartime service, died at her Indianapolis home on Sunday. The body will be cremated. The obituary notes she contracted the disease from her first husband in New Orleans.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Lavina Blackwell
Packers Lied to Each Other in Packard Trial Testimony
Chicago March 4 Charles B E Barry manager of National Packing Company beer department testified that while superintendent of the New York district from 1907 to 1910 he regularly obtained weekly margins of Armour Swift and Morris business in that market and wired them to Chicago. He said packers in New York Boston and other eastern cities exchanged information and sometimes gave out incorrect figures to deceive competitors. He admitted they sometimes lied to him and he to them in return.
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Chicago
Charles BE. Barry
National Packing Company
New York
Armour, Swift and Morris Businessa
Schwarzachild ‘& Sulzberger Company
Boston
Barry
Coungel
Pierce Butler
Pat Tines
National Packing Company Board Minutes Reflect Attendance
Government Counsel Barton Corneau Teadg the minute in of the weekly meetings of the board of directors of the National Packing Company from February 31 to December 12, 1905, to show the attendance of the ten defendants at the sessions.
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Morris
New York
Hoston
Barton Corneau
National Packing Company
Man claims responsibility for sinking of oil barge
Wilmington dispatch says B F Bates, once a mariner, tells of piloting the Standard Oil tanker City of Everett and its barge 68 when rammed and sunk near Frying Pan Shoals by a British tramp. The Itasca and Standard Oil deny the tale. Bates vanished after breakfast as searches continued.
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Wilmington
N. C
B. EF. Bates
Mariner
Standard Oil
Everett
Bates
United States Revenue
Standard Qi
New York
Sabine Pass
Texas
Ths Marine Service
Mariner Batey
Court delays decision on decree form in appeal case
In Philadelphia a United States Court of Appeals session today postponed its ruling for two weeks or more on a decree form in the ongoing case.
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Philadelphia, Marine
United States Court of
Fight for Negro by Wickersham
Washington March 4 Attorney General Wickersham said he would resign from the American Bar Association if its executive committee ousted William Lewis Jr a negro and an assistant attorney general from membership He said he was fighting not for admission of a negro but against the ABA acting in a way he believes illegal.
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Washington
Wickersham
American Bar Association
Wiliam Jr. Lewis
American Har Association
WOUNDED OFFICER AND FUGITIVE IN KNOXVILLE CAPTURE
Knoxville police attempted to arrest George Cummings at Concord Street on a malicious assault charge. Constable Phink Welsh was shot and Cummings was wounded in return. Both were taken to a local hospital for operations in hopes of saving their eyes.
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Knoxville
George Cummings
Concord
Asahoagtina
Constabla
Phink Welsh
Cummings
Are Bummers Shipped Into Prohi Territory?
Washington March 4. John K. Taylor of Baltimore testifies before the house judiciary committee that bummers are shipped into dry Maryland counties and given liquor to prove prohibition fails. He cites ten of twenty three counties as dry and says liquor interests fight statewide local option. The committee weighs preventing liquor shipments into dry areas from outside the state.
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Washington
Judiciary
John K. Taylor
Balttimore
Society of Friends
Maryland
Taylor
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