Negro Soldiers Discharged in Roosevelts Plan Watched
Fort Reno Okla Nov 23 The discharge of Twenty fifth Infantry continues with another half company out leaving a full company elsewhere. Three companies will go to Chicago Philadelphia and New York to tell their side. Citizens groups will clothe feed and aid the veterans and provide employment.
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Fort Reno
Okla
Roosevelt
New York
United States Army
Chicago
Philadelphia
Taft Says Congress Can Investigate Any Matter
Secretary Taft joked that Congress can investigate, noting he has seen Congress probe everything he handled. He said he had not considered any action by Congress on discharging the Brownsville negro troops ordered from the service after the shooting incident in Brownsville Texas.
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Congress
Washington
Taft
Brownsville
Tex
Negro Soldier Fined After Fast Driving Incident
In El Reno Oklahoma on Thursday a negro soldier caused trouble by driving intoxicated and whipping his horse until it ran away. He paid a fine for fast driving and the report notes many other negroes are leaving quietly with discharge not completing until next Tuesday.
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el Reno
Okla
Montgomery to segregate street cars by race
Montgomery authorities order separate street cars for whites and Negroes starting immediately. The traction company has enough cars to split service, using every other car for a different race, despite strong opposition from Mayor Teague.
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Montgomery
Ala
Traction Company
Teague
Frisco Fire Destroys Whittier Co and Barber Paving Plants
Fire in San Francisco destroyed the Whittier Co burn Oil plant and the Barber As phalt Paving works at Seventh and Hooper streets. Loss estimated at 500000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iwesanw Welfre
San Francisco
Whittier Coburn Oil Company
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
Seventh and
Hooper Streets
Henderson Route Bridge Over Salt River Carries Away
The bridge over Salt River at West Point Kentucky on the Henderson Route was washed away by high water. It connected Louisville Evansville and St. Louis and had just been completed at a cost of $100000.
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Salt River
Louisville
West Point
Evansville
St. Louis
Vessel Lost With All Aboard on Red Island Reef
A vessel believed to be the bark Magda was wrecked on Red Island reef with fourteen crew members lost. Reports from Quebec dated November 23. A Black man found in a Paris Texas boxcar says he was robbed and beaten in Dallas three days earlier and left in the car.
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Ned
Quebec
Paris
Tex
Dallas
New York Man Claims Divine Mission In Arson Case
Walter Finney, 23, told police he acted on a Lord commanded mission to cleanse by fire. He confessed to setting a tenement fire on West Seventeenth Street and was linked to multiple recent blazes in the Upper West Side, though he denied some early reports.
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York
Walter BE. Finey
Twenty-third Street
Eighth Avenue
Finney
Upper West Side
Seventeenth Street
Twentythird Street
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Streets
West Seventeenth
West Seventeenth Street
Allway
Montgomery Trains Halted by Jim Crow Law Cars
Montgomery Alabama November 23. The Montgomery Traction company refused to obey the new Jim Crow law causing every car to be stopped and many employees arrested. General Manager Raglan among those detained as crowds filled the streets. The city court granted an injunction after an hour, allowing traffic to resume.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Traction Company
Raglan
Beside His Beloved. James Wilson Reinterred After 108 Years
In Philadelphia on November 23 a notable gathering including a cabinet member, supreme court justices, and the Pennsylvania governor attended the reinterment of James Wilson. His remains, buried in a North Carolina graveyard for 108 years, were placed beside his wife at Christchurch burial ground after Protestant Episcopal rites.
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James Wilson
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Christchurch
Protestant Episcopal Church
Virginia 2 cent passenger rate ruled unconstitutional
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals under Judge Cardwell reverses the state corporation commission finding upholding the 2 cent 500 mile passenger rate. The test case challenges a rail fare set by the legislature as violating the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Virginia
Washington
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Cardwell
State Corporation Commission
United States
Vanderbilt Victorious Over Carlisle Eleven 4 to 6
Nashville reports Vanderbilt defeated Carlisle Indian at home with a late first half field goal by Bob Blake from the seventeen yard line. The lone score for Vanderbilt came as the Carlisle offense held the rest of the game. Also note British Gunboat Robin stranded near Hongkong on November 23.
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Vanderbilt
Nashville
Carlisle Indian University
Bob Blake
Hongkong
Robin
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Bank of
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U. S
H.O. Boatwright
H.o.boatwright
Vic-Pres
J. W. Howell
L. McInnis
Guy M. Bryan
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Roma
W. C. Davis
Brazos County
Grand Opera House
Archie L. Shepard
Joe Natus
Smith Building
City National Bank
J. B. Hines
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