Taft Election Prospects Surveyed At Chicago Convention
A staff correspondent outlines five reasons Taft faces electors from White House dictation to labor opposition. Gompers condemns the anti injunction plank as pro injunction with notice to the enjoined, and a note on Indian music versus Wagner and Chopin. Week events include Harvard Yale commencements and national conventions in Denver Milwaukee Columbus Minneapolis Toronto and Boston.
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Indiartapolis News
Chicago
Taft
White House
Wall Street
U. S. Grant
Grand Army
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
National Association of Credit Men
Denver
Travelers’ Protective Association
Milwaukee
United Commercial Travelers
Columbus
American Library Association
Minneapolis
International Association of Factory Inspectors
Toronto
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Boston
Houston Ships Ripe Figs to Chicago Amid Summer Heat
News nuggets report Houston sending ripe figs to Chicago while Gen Luke E Wright succeeds Taft as secretary of war. Heat deaths in Chicago, Emancipation day celebrations, rising Mississippi River levels at St. Louis, and an endowed library gift to Stanford.
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Houston
Chicago
Luke E. Wright of
Tennesee
Taft
War
St. Louis
James L. Stanford
Stanford University
Baseball News and Weather Bulletin From 1908
Pitchers and players from major and minor leagues are noted including Virgil Garvin in Fresno and Owen A. McGrath’s priestly ordination. The Southern league race tightens with New Orleans Montgomery Memphis and Mobile leading. Cleveland batters spark a fifth inning rally while Hinchman clears the bases. Minor league finances waver though improvement is hoped next month. Foster’s Weather Bulletin predicts a major continental disturbance to hit the Pacific coast by the 21st and spread eastward by the 26th.
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Owen A. McGrath
Dartmouth College
New Orleans
Montgomery
Memphis
Mobile
Hinchman
Wood
Kansas City
Schneiberg
Milwaukee
Marquard
Indianapolis
American Association
Hans Lobert
Cincinnati
Jimmy Kane
Pittsburg
Danny Sullivan
Boston Americans
Willie Keller
Giants
Highlanders
Brooklyn Superbas
South America
Greater
New York
Dangerous Pacific storm forecast with widespread tempests
A meteorological bulletin warns of a powerful Pacific storm not a great gale but with unusual force, crossing the Pacific slope and central valleys from late June into July. It predicts extreme weather across the Pacific coast and eastern states, with potential crop damage from drought in the southwest and central west.
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Foster
W. T. Foster
Washington, D. C
Continent
Pacific Coast
Pacific Slope
Great Central Valleys
Eastern States
North Pacific
Drouth
First Bales At Houston Reported By W. D. Cleveland & Sons
W D Cleveland & Sons received three first bales of cotton yesterday from San Diego Alice and Benevides. The bales arrive two days earlier than last year and ahead of every prior year since 1899 with records listed for several years.
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W. D. Cleveland & Sons
San Diego
Alice
Benevides
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