Prohibition Drive Gathers Steam in Colorado Politics
Denver reports demand for a constitutional amendment to install prohibition as church and civic groups condemn lax enforcement. talks of a Denver winter convention urge both major parties to insert a prohibition plank, paving the way for a statewide vote within two years. Meanwhile stories of Hill’s repeated prison terms unfold with claims of a Tennessee woman and an Arkansas wife seeking support.
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Courze
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Republican
Seventeenth General Assembly
United States
New York
Colorado
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Lulu Hill
Pueblo
Emma Dumas
Arkansas
Dumas
Shawnee
Okklahoma
Hill Seeks Pardons On Promise To Support Wife
Pat Hill plans to petition the state board of pardons for an unconditional pardon. His Pueblo attorney R A Crossman will testify Hill will support his wife after release from the penitentiary. The previous trouble stemmed from caring for others' wives at his own expense.
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Hill
Denver
Pat Hill
Board of Pardons
R. A. Crossman
Pueblo
Democrats Nominate Tom Johnson by Acclamation
Cleveland Ohio September 24 Mayor Tom L Johnson was nominated for a fourth term by acclamation at the Democratic city convention to oppose Republican nominee Congressman Burton. The platform urged a three cent street car fare.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Tom L. Johnson
Burton
What Will Roosevelt Do With Oklahoma Statehood
A Guthrie Democrat argues Roosevelt and Congress will face strong pressure from temperance groups to uphold Oklahoma’s liquor-prohibition constitution. He says national temperance organizations across counties and states will rally in Washington, making defeat of statehood unlikely.
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Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Okla
Congress
United States
Washington
Prohibition probe finds uninsured property in Kansas City Kansas
Guthrie Oklahoma September 23 The committee that studied commercial conditions in Kansas after prohibition measured towns and cities in the new state and found property values uninsured due to enforcement of the prohibitory law in Kansas City Kansas There was probably more hostility
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Guthrie
Kansas
Kansas City
Oklahoma City Leaders Back Prohibition in Statewide Drive
Oklahoma City officials and business leaders report Kansas City Kansas shows no injury from enforcement of prohibition and even improvements in real estate and banking. The Oklahoma anti saloon league expects statewide prohibition to be enforceable at statehood with a legislative lobby to push compatible laws. Brewery interests say they will await court rulings before observing any prohibition law.
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Kansas City
Kansas
E. C. Innwiddie
Oklahoma Anti-Saloon League
League
H. Y. Thompson
Borah Indictment Opens in Boise Timber Conspiracy Case
Court room packed as United States grand jury indicts Senator William E. Borah and twelve co defendants for conspiracy to defraud the government of Boise county timber lands. The indictment says 108 Boise residents filed timber claims and false statements to transfer lands through three men to Barber Lumber Company.
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United States Grand Jury
William E. Borah
Boise County
Barber Lumber Company
Idaho
Senator Borah
Buick
Frank Steunenberg
John Doe
United States
Edward Whitson
Trial in crowded court over West Miners indictments
Judge Whitson opens hearings as thirteen men face indictments in a case linked to the Western Federation of Miners. Pleas in abatement allege district attorney misconduct including grand jury arguments and room violations. Senator Borah, elected to the Senate this year, faces undecided pleas impacting his case. Buick under orders from Washington testified about the indictment and evidence.
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Senator Borah
John Doe
Richard Doe
Whitson
United States
Ruick
Old Grand Jury
Buick
Washington
Congress
Dubois
Yankee Sky Skipper Wins International Balloon Race
Lieut. Frank P. Lahm, a 28 year old American officer, piloted the United States balloon to victory in the cross channel race reported in McClure's. Sixteen balloons from seven nations started for the Gordon-Bennett cup. twelve reached sea, five abandoned, Lahm finishing 33 miles ahead of rivals after 22 hours aloft.
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Cleveland Moffat
Cross Channel
McClure
Frank P. Lahm
United States
Miners Die in 700 Foot Cable Disaster at Negaunee
Four teenage miners were killed instantly and three others injured when the cage cable snapped at the Rolling Mill mine in Negaunee near Marquette. The men had finished work and were riding the cage out of the shaft when the failure hurled them 700 feet to the bottom.
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Marquette, Mich
Negaunee
Oil magnates named as sureties on Standard Oil bonds
In Chicago Judge Grosscup said he would accept John D. Rockefeller William Rockefeller John D Archbold and Henry M Flagler as sureties on two bonds for Standard Oil of Indiana. Bonds amount to 4 million and 2 million dollars with two sureties each to back potential superseders before error proceedings.
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Chicago
Grosscup
United States Circuit Court
John D. Rockefeller
Wm. Rockefeller
John D. Archbold
Henry M Flagler
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Landis
Ginger Bread Recipe From October Woman's Home Companion
The article provides a gingerbread recipe using butter water molasses egg flour soda salt and ginger with optional cinnamon and cloves. It notes baking times and methods including individual tins and a shallow pan. It also begins a social observation about mothers searching for a boy's hat from childhood to old age.
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Oe October Woman's Home Companon
Street Talk Reflections on Manners and Mischief
A collage of gossipy quips on gender roles aging and social behavior. It riffs on backbiting garlic breath fortunes and fashion while tossing observations about compliments patience and self perception with sly humor and old fashioned flavor.
Duck hunting as sport and public talk
A reflective piece notes that most critique arises from speaking to faces rather than backs and mocks self styled reformers who pursue improvement out of disdain for the world. It remarks that duck hunting is sport but warns against boastful voices in the crowd after a kill.
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