Bill Urged for Publication of Campaign Contributions
Washington May 27 Secretary Taft advised reporters he had not seen any Bryan message on a campaign contributions disclosure bill. He noted a April 30 letter to Senator Burrows endorsing public disclosure of all campaign expenditures and contributions in both state and national politics. Taft said he hoped the bill would pass.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Willam J. Bryan
Bryan
Congress
En. J. Bryan
Tait
White House
War Department
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Ned
Burrows
Committee On Privileges and Elections of
The
Senate
House
William H. Taft
Bryan urges action on campaign publicity measures
In Lincoln Nebraska May 27 William J Bryan received a telegram from Secretary Taft on publicity for campaign contributions. Bryan replied that publication of Tafts letter would weigh toward passage as elections are public affairs and publicity cleans politics. He also asked Senator Culbertson and Representative Williams to obtain copies of his telegrams and Tafts reply to Barrows to seek action on the bill.
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Williams
Culberson
Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
Taft
J. Bryan
Bryan
Culbersoi
Barrows
Bishops Are Chosen by Methodist Conference
Baltimore May 27. The episcopal election of the Methodist Episcopal conference of 1908 is now history. late yesterday the eighth and last bishop was informed, and many delegates breathed sighs of relief.
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Methodist Conference
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Prince Murat Fights Duels With Two in St Petersburg
Prince Napoleon Murat descendant of Bonapartes battles two rival Plen brothers in St Petersburg. Morat, a captain in the chevalier guards, wounded both opponents while sustaining no injuries. The Plen brothers, well known in exclusive circles, were his sequential duel opponents.
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St. Petersburg
Prince Napoleon Murat
Bonaparte
Caroline
Franzer
Bordentown
N. J
Plen
Prince Murat
Chevalier Guards
New Battleship Michigan Launched at Camden Yard
Camden N J May 27 Into the Delaware river there was launched yesterday the great steel hull of the battleship Michigan built by the New York Shipbuilding Co at South Camden. The Michigan, four sister ship to the South Carolina under construction at Cramp yard across the river, is more than 50 percent completed and will be finished in about six years.
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Camden
N. J
Delaware River
Michigan
New York Shipbuilding Co
South Camden
South Carolina
Cramp Ship Yard
Delaware
Flow to Treat Your Husband sermon outlines rules for wives
Rev Dr Z Scudder preached on married life urging wives to curb temper and speech. He warns against autocratic behavior and petty nagging, noting cantankerous wives harm harmony and that such critters wear out their welcome. He advises patience with small domestic annoyances and compares nagging wives to spots on the sun.
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Jersey City
N. J
Z. Scudder
First Congregational Church
Farm for hummingbirds in Central Islip attracts attention
Miss Gwendolin Brooks of Central Park West plans a hummingbird farm in Central Islip L I. She bought land and seeks aviary plans from W Albert Swassey and will sell the birds, quoting commissions already booked. The ruby backed hummingbird, native to South America, migrates here in hot weather to nest and return tropics later.
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New York
Gwendolin Brooks
Central Park West
Central Islip
L. 1
Brooks
W. Albert Swassey
Central
Islip
Miss Brooks
South America
Tropics
Miss. Brooks
London News Plans Defiant English Daily
The Financial News reports a proposed English daily that will defy libel laws by publishing unrestrained comments on any person and discussing court cases regardless of legality. It aims to operate from Belgium or France with no English offices and mail copies to subscribers to evade suppression.
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London
Financeal News
Belgium
France
England
Mill to Mansion Dreams and Comic Snatches in a Local Page
A fragmented snapshot of a readers page with poems and comic items. It includes reflective verses on success and fame, a bank cashiers tale with a school mistress, a playful Jack Frost episode, a mudcat anecdote about gardening mischief, a banana strength quip, and a Nebraska milking joke about a wife away. The items showcase local humor and verse tone with names and places implied.
Sulte 2 Gillespie Building Musson Plane Office 396
The fragment references Sulte 2 in the Gillespie Building and Musson Plane with an office numbered 396 in Atlantia. No further context or events are provided to determine a fuller summary.
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Sulte
Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlantia
No 4 Opera House Block headline
Galls answered from the Office.
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Opera House
Galls
Panama Mosquito Hunter Seeks Disease Vectors and Records
Government a bug hunter collected 88 mosquito species on the Isthmus of Panama three months noting 30 new to science plus seven known, forming the largest locality record. Findings show intensive sanitation work to protect canal workers with oils, drainage, screening, and fumigation reducing disease vectors.
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Washington
Panama
Canal Zone
National Museum
August Busch
Canal Commission
Culebra
Seaman Loses Westward Request at Jim Jeffries Club
United States Navy seaman from the destroyer Whipple, on leave from Philadelphia, asked fighter Jim Jeffries to strike him once in the eye as a souvenir for friends back home. Jeffries refused the unusual request amid a casual encounter at the West Coast venue.
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Los Angeles
Cal
John Lyle
Whipple
Jim
Jeffries
Lyle
Jeff
Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien
Tye
Deer Rescued From River by Rockville Storekeeper
In Harrisburg area Rockville near Harrisburg, Harry Stahler, a country storekeeper, captured a full-grown doe deer that had swum four miles across the river from the Cumberland shore and was beset by dogs. He drove off the dogs and led the deer to his stable. State Game Commissioner Kalofuss arranged for the deer to be sent to Pine Grove State Game Reservation.
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Harrisburg
Harry Stahler
Rockville
Qumbérland
O. Rockville
Stahler
Kalofuss -Wiil
Pine Grove
Mother's Teeth Aid Elopers In Lewiston Abduction Case
In Lewiston Pennsylvania 16 year old Nora Haines elopes with 45 year old John Tressler after a ruse involving a dentist guest at the Haines home. The daughter fled with her fiancé and married. Tressler is arrested for abduction. She produced a marriage certificate in court. He offers to pay the dentist bill.
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Lewiston
John Tressler
Tressler
Justice of the Peace
Nora Haines
Lockport
Haines
Seesawing with a Piano in Allentown Rescue Drama
A piano hoisting in a tall Allentown building nearly toppled as a 14 foot plank and block and tackle raised it from the outside roof more than 100 feet above ground. Horace Schultz and helpers endured ten minutes of peril before an extra man enabled completion. Schultz fainted afterward.
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Allentown
Horace
Schultz Gay
Schultz
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6Th and Poplar Sts
Say
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