Voter Apathy Cited Across Nation With Election Near
Washington reports say apathy due to lack of passes and reduced railroad rates dampened turnout. Campaign enders Hughes Hearst Roosevelt Bryan Cannon Fairbanks noted. statewide races in Massachusetts New York and Ohio drew late pushes. Voters faced weather and uncertainty as results loom with GOP fusion opposition in Plattsmouth Nebraska and battles in Boston for governor Moran vs Guild.
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Cincinnati
Root
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White House
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Plattmouth
Neb
Cannon
Dan‘ville
Fairbanks
Solid South
Missouri
Tennessee
Montana
Socialist Party
San Francisco
Massachusetts
Boston
Guild
Moran
Boldly Enter Bank Robbers Hold Up Ladd Bank
Two masked men robbed the Farmers and Miners bank of Ladd Illinois on Monday afternoon taking about 7000 dollars in currency. They used revolvers to threaten assistant cashier J J Hurley and bound him before fleeing in a hired livery rig from Peru. A running gun battle followed as they fled toward La Salle.
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Ladd
Peru
la Salle
Labor Deep in Hearst Support Seen in Upstate Centers
A noon statement from Independence League headquarters says early reports from upstate manufacturing centers Buffalo Rochester Syracuse Utica Albany Watertown Ogdensburg and Oswego show an enormous labor vote for Hearst and solid labor backing.
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New York
Independence League
Hearst
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Utica
Albany
Watertown
Ogdensburg
Oswego
Texas Railroad Commission Aims to Cut Sleeping Car Fare
Austin November 6 The Texas railroad commission proposes to regulate and reduce sleeping car fares by taking jurisdiction over the service first. A hearing is set for November 27 to limit Texas sleeping car service unless the commission authorizes its discontinuance and to add any required service, plus reduce current charges by 20 percent to $1.60 from $2.00.
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Texas Railroad Commission
Austin
Texas
Fort Worth Sold West Main Street Property for 165000
Fort Worth on November 6 reports the Fort Worth Improvement and Realty Company of Vermont sold all West Main Street properties between Fifth and Sixth to C. A. O Keefe for 165000. The parcel includes a two story building 100 by 100 feet and a three story structure.
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Fort Worth
Main Street
Fifth and Sixth
Negro girl shot at home in Paris results in amputation
Minnie Williams, a black girl in Paris Texas, was shot through an open window while sitting on an organ stool. Her right knee was shattered and her limb amputated. Stepfather Bud Ford posted bond of 1500 dollars. No outbreak reported. At Fort Bliss El Paso there is no outbreak as the Twenty fifth Infantry remains stationed.
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Paris
Tex
Minnie Williams
Bud Ford
el Paso
Fort Bliss
Here
Twenty-fifth Infantry Infantry
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U. S
First National Bank
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Guy M. Bryan, JR
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