Roosevelt Camp Ready in East Carroll Parish
Lake Providence La Oct 5 Roosevelt camp in East Carroll parish is prepared for the president and his party. Eleven tents near the Tensas river include spaces for white members, colored guides and servants, kitchens and horses. Camp life includes hunting small game and trout in the river. the site is remote ten miles from a railroad and away from woodman activity. The president gave a brief speech to onlookers.
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Tensas
Reasons for Revoking
Memphis Oct 5 The steamboat Fred Hartweg with the president ordered suspended pilot accompanied the presidential party from Cairo. The vessel pressed the front of the procession crowding other boats from assigned places and kept close to the president. It repeatedly ran alongside and shrieked its whistle during the voyage.
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Memphis
Fred Hartweg
Cairo
Mississippi
Kept pledge and died after court promise
Chicago reports John Gertz, a habitual drinker on parole to Judge McKenzie Cleveland, died of heart disease after repeatedly resisting whisky to honor a pledge not to drink. Parole officer Smirkel delivered a report detailing his struggle and final relapse.
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Chicago
John Gertz
McKenzie Cleveland
Cleveland
Smirkel
Gertz
Vance Collapses With Vertigo At River Convention
John I. Vance of Columbus Ohio, president of the Ohio River Improvement association, collapsed after finishing his speech at the waterways convention in Memphis. He was rushed to an emergency hospital, later reported as serious but then revived and out of immediate danger. The convention planned a continuous session and a banquet followed the day’s addresses.
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Memphis
John I. Vance
Columbus
Ohio River Improvement Association
Vance
Kanavaugh
Resolutions Committee
Orever
Governors Agree On Waterways Improvements In Memo
Memphis dispatch notes governors arriving on the steamer Alton adopted resolutions urging federal action to improve all waterways and support a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf via Des Plaines Illinois and the Mississippi. Cummins’ substitute for upper Mississippi failed 9 to 6. all signers except Cummins.
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Memphis
Alton
Thos Country
Lakes
Gulf
Des Plaines
Illinois
Mississippi Rivers
Panama
Congress of the
United States
Cummins
Upper
Mississippi
Miss Maloney Missing After Birthday Trip to New York
Miss Helen Maloney daughter of Marquis Maloney of Standard Oil fame has vanished from Spring Lake New Jersey on her twenty first birthday. She arrived in New York with a maid for shopping and was separated from her escort. Her family suspects a marriage to Samuel Clarkson a London gentleman who recently visited the Maloney home. Marquis Maloney returned from St Louis to assist in the search as Mrs Maloney questions the wedding link and motives behind the disappearance.
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New York
Helen Maloney
Marquis Maloney
Standard Oil Company
Spring Lake
N. J
Miss Maloney
Narrow Escape for Governor Stuart and Exposition Official
Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania and James town exposition president Harry St George Tucker narrowly escaped serious injury in a runaway on the outside of the exposition grounds in Norfolk Virginia. A carriage carrying Stuart's staff was toppled into a dangerous run and soldiers halted the horses with gun strikes. No one was seriously hurt. The incident occurred on the long deep water pier.
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Norfolk
Stuart
Pennsylvania
Harry St. George Tucker
Exposition
Tucker
Cotton Ginning Totals Decline From Last Year
The census bureau reports 1,569,977 bales ginned from 1907 crop through Sept 25, down from 2,057,285 in 1906 and 2,355,756 in 1905. Active ginneries total 18,152, with 41,356 round bales. Sea Island bases reach 4,240 for 1907 versus 2,689 in 1905 and 11,936 in 1906.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sea Island
Pasture for sale near Bryan with timber and wells
One mile southwest of Bryan, 355 acres fenced, 200 acres cleared, remaining timber. Two houses and several sheds, wind mill, galvanized cistern. Desirable for dairy or cattle and hog operations. Easy terms. Apply J. W. English. Oct. 23.
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Bryan
J. W. English
Dr John Barker wounded by accidental rifle fire
In Clarksville Tennessee Dr John Barker was seriously wounded when a rifle discharged by a boy in a tenement house near the Kentucky line. the bullet pierced the house and struck him in the left side, with recovery expected. In Haileyville Indian Territory a Rock Island switch engine derailed on Bushy creek bridge killing fireman Frank Stewart and injuring others.
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Clarksville
Tenn
John Barker
Kentucky Line
Barker
Haileyville
I. T
Rock Island
Bushy Creek Bridge
Here
Frank Stewart
Thirteen-Year-Old Bride Wins Divorce in Tennessee
Myrtle Ricketts, who claimed she was thirteen when she married Amos Ricketts, a cousin of a penitentiary inmate, was granted a divorce. The ruling hinged on alleged violation of the age of consent law due to misrepresentation of the girl’s age when the license was secured.
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Chattanooga
Myrtle Ricketts
Amos Ricketts
Auy Ricketts
Three Killed in Tennessee Coal Gas Explosion
A gas explosion at No. 7 mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company near Pratt City, Birmingham, killed three men and fatally injured others.
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Birmingham
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Pratt City
Justice Fidson Resigns From Third Court of Civil Appeals
Austin reports Associate Justice Fidson of the Third Court of Civil Appeals has resigned effective immediately. The move creates a vacancy in the state appellate judiciary and prompts a replacement process.
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Austin
Fidson
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Stonecutter Charles White Drops Dead in Dallas
Charles T. White, a stonecutter, collapsed and died in Dallas on October 5. He was known locally for his trade and was found unresponsive while at work.
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Dallas
Charles T. White
Judge Terrell Seriously Ill
Austin reports Hon. A. W. Terrell is seriously ill. The judge’s condition was noted on October 5.
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Terrell Seriously III
Austin
A. W. Terrell
Fire at Foster plantation destroys stock and grain
A fire at the Foster plantation near Shreveport on October 5 burned two horses, twenty seven hogs, and much grain, causing heavy livestock and feed losses.
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Shreveport
Foster Plantation
Here
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C.E Dunlap
M.l.robbins
Gen. Pass
Agent Houston
Texas
J. W. Satts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
Brazos
W.S. Mial
Lake Providence
Action OF Governors
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John Wittman
Merchant Tailo
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CRAIN
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