Taft Sends Troops to Texas to Halt Mexican Revolt
The administration actions aim to crush the Mexican revolt by cutting off rebel supplies. An advance guard reaches the border, with cruisers and transports deployed to Tampico and Guantanamo as President Taft plans Congress support for mobilization. Diaz reportedly healthy despite the crisis.
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Taft
Texas
Boundary
Chester
Tampico
Mexico
Mexico City
Tennessee
North Carolina
Montana
New York
Guantanamo
Cuba
Washington
Portsmouth
Dixie
Philadelphia
Des Moines
Charlestown Navy Yard
Chicago
Georgia
Diaz
Congress
Business Men Have Autonight at New England Show
Thousands of Boston and New England business men attended the ninth annual automobile show of the New England Automobile Dealers Association at Horticultural Hall and Mechanics building. The event drew about 15 000 representatives, with a focus on the large motor truck exhibit that drew crowds along Huntington and Massachusetts avenues.
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Boston
New England
New England Automobile Dealers’ Association
Horticultural Hall
Mechanics’ Building
Huntington
Massachusetts
New England Show Draws Unprecedented Crowds
The exhibit of pleasure cars in the show attracted large crowds while both buildings hosted the event noted as the greatest show in New England and perhaps the United States, rivaling the opening night turnout.
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New England
United States
Red Sox Practice Interrupted by Rain in California
Boston Nationals endure a heavy practice session at Augusta Georgia as rain disrupts games. Packey McFarland receives an offer to fight Matt Wells in London. Billy Nixon defeats Tommy Rawson at Quincy in a noted bout.
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Red Sox
California
Boston Nationals
Augusta
Packey McFarland
Matt Wells
London
Billy Nixon
Tommy Rawson
Quincy
Commission urges bans on marriages for imbeciles and drunks
A Draper era commission reports to the Legislature proposing to restrain feeble minded individuals and prevent marriages of persons deemed mentally unfit or confirmed drunkards. It urges longer notices of marriages and even a ban on detectives marrying, framing the plan as racial improvement with support from state officials. The panel includes Fernald Blackstone Flood Bridges and Scribner, and aims to push parts of the plan into law this year.
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Draper
Congress
Walter E. Fernald
School For
Hollis M. Blackstone
State Farm
Everett Flood
State Hospital
Benjamin F. Bridges
State Prison
Ernest V. Scribner
Worcester Insane Hospital
Explosion At Du Pont Plant Rocks Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin
Three car loads of dynamite exploded at the Du Pont Nemours plant in Pleasant Prairie near Kenosha. A roar and glare were seen for miles and windows were shattered for miles. The number of dead was not immediately known as the village, with 700 residents, suffered extensive damage to homes.
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Kenosha
Wis
du Pont Nemours Company
Pleasant Prairie
Two Soldiers Die in Wreck Near Durant Oklahoma
In Denison Texas dispatches report a fire in the stock car of a troop train on the Missouri Kansas and Texas line near Durant Oklahoma. One car of horses was destroyed and two soldiers killed. The train was the first section of an army Special from Fort Leavenworth to San Antonio.
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Denison
Texas
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Durant
Okla
Fort Leavenworth
San Antonio
Explosion at Glaze mill causes widespread destruction
Reports say houses as far as ten miles away were knocked down by a massive blast. One man, E. S. Thompson, foreman, was killed. Charles Brady and Joseph Flint are badly injured. The plant on 190 acres was wrecked leaving only one magazine intact. Bristol, Wisconsin, reportedly suffered heavy damage. Special trains carried nurses and doctors to aid the injured.
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E. S. Thompson
Charles Brady
Joseph Flint
Bristol
Wis
Kenosha
Explosion Shakes Chicago Area. Wis Plant Hit Near Pleasant Prairie
An explosion at a Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin powder plant caused widespread fear of an earthquake in Chicago from the western suburbs to Lake Michigan. A second blast at the John M. Smyth Co. in Chicago near West Madison and Union streets followed closely, its cause unknown but linked to the first blast.
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Chicago
Ill
Powder Company
Pleasant Prairie
Wis
Lake Michigan
North End
South End
John M. Smyth Company
West Madison
Union Streets
A. M.-Scotch and Clysmia Water Notes
A. M. Scotch and Clysmic Water is listed with 40 A. M. notes and references key naming in the schedule.
Murders of a Day in New England
In Maidstone Vermont Mrs Kate Bean 56 and her 17 year old daughter Nina were shot to death in their farmhouse. Arthur Bean 19 was taken into custody after fleeing with a rifle. Also present was Mrs Bean’s 103 year old father John Sweet who heard the shots but spoke incoherently. Police investigate a possible murder suicide by Mrs Wood in Branford Connecticut.
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Kate Bean
Nina Bean
Maidstone
Christopher Wood
Valdemond
Nina
Arthur Bean
John “Sweet
Boy at the Bean House in Maine Murders
Arthur Bean, a Maine Central section hand, is under arrest after two family deaths in a Maine town. Neighbors R W Taylor and Henry Hanks found Nina Bean and her mother, both shot in a pantry and upstairs room respectively. The motive and weapon remain unclear as investigators search for revolver bullets and piece together the sequence of events.
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Bean
Sem Benton
Maine Central
Young Bean
R. W. Taylor
Henry Hanks
Taylor
Hanks
Nina -3Ean
Mrs. Bean
Beattie
Fire drives twenty tenants from burning hotel on Yarmouth street
Twenty tenants of the Hotel Yar mouth on Yarmouth street were awakened by a blaze after 11 last night and driven from the building in scanty attire. Mrs. Thomas Barlow was carried out unconscious from her first floor apartment as the fire forced residents into the street.
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Hotel
Yarmouth
Yarmouth Street
Thomas Barlow
Firemen rescue as family learns of basement blaze
Mrs Barlow and an infant were carried to safety by Jacob Steinhert of Roxbury after smoke filled a building from hot ashes in the basement. Mr Barlou evacuated another child while Patrolman Sullivan and passersby aided others including Miss Annie Belmont on the third floor. No injuries reported.
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Jacob Steinhert
I. H. Gardner
Annie Belmont
Sullivan
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