Wolgast Offered Large Purse for Packey McFarland Fight
Promoter talks of a $232,500 fight purse for Ad Wolgast versus Packey McFarland on Labor Day. Wolgast weighs options with Sacramento clubs offering $20,000 to fight Rivers. He muses about boxing McFarland now or possibly in San Francisco, fearing the Mexican challenger’s career.
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Los Angeles
Tom Olmy
Ad Wolgast
Packey McFarland
Ad Line
Sacramento
Rivers
Packey
San Francisco
Cubs Defeat Scouts To Win City Championship
The Cubs defeated the Scouts 4 to 3 to claim the city championship after a tense 1 inning battle. Both teams were evenly matched and a rematch would draw strong interest from their supporters.
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Cubs
Results Yesterday National League and Associated Games
Yesterday’s National League results show Batter ies performances with Donnelly Brady Rariden and Harmon Wingo in several matchups. Key games featured Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago and Washington with varied box scores and multiple battery pairings across doubleheaders.
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Rh. H. GB
Tighoay Wits Wessianes
Bre Towle
Cece de
Wsneine Ae Oo
Donnelly, Brady and
Rariden
Harmon
Wingo
Post Office Bill Details Eight Hour Day Proposal
Washington July 9 publishers may choose to mail second class matter at 2 cents a pound or by freight at 1 cent. A tentative draft of the post offices appropriation bill before the Senate committee includes an eight hour day for postal employees with possible extension to ten.
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Washington
Senate Committee
Lorimer’s Final Chance to Save Seat Amid Contested Rivalry
The article recalls Lorimer facing a critical, last-ditch effort to retain his senate seat as rivals press to unseat him. A controversial image depicts Theodore Roosevelt alongside Booker T. Washington at the White House, while Roosevelt’s ally notes a division over dining rooms reflecting broader party tensions.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Booker T. Washington
White House
Mr. Lorimer
Senator Fletcher
Tramps Must Play Ball to Win Liberty
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania thirty tramps arrested by Plymouth borough police are tried by Burgess W D Morris. He orders the men split into two teams to play a full nine inning game on the town commons. The winning squad wins liberty. the losers must pawn a store for two days.
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Wilkesbarre
Plymouth
Burgess W. D. Morris
Taggart Drops Out of Political Office
Thomas Taggart of Indiana resigns from the Democratic National Committee after twelve years. He will take no part in the presidential campaign this year, saying the party is facing its brightest prospect yet and praising Wilson and Marshall as strong choices.
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Washington
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Democratic Naional Committee
Taggart
Indianapolis
Wilson
Marshall
Royalist defeat near Claven as Lisbon news reports clash
Royalists outnumbered republican troops two to one and were defeated near Claven today. Royalists crossed into Spain and fired on government forces during retreat while bombarding Chinves later. The three hour battle ended with royalists in retreat into the mountains as deputies cheered new republican measures.
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Lisbon
Royalleta
Claven
Montalegre
Tristea
Montes
Chinves
Chamber of Deputies
Thirty Deans Mine Disaster Traps 80 Rescue Team
An explosion at Cadeby colliery in Conisbrough England kills thirty miners and injures several others. A second blast collapses galleries, trapping about thirty rescuers. The government inspector and mine manager are reported dead. King George visited nearby pits during his tour.
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Coniabrough
Yorkshire
England
Cadeby
King George
Iowa progressives urged to back Taft in Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa July 9 Governor Carroll told state progressive Republican leaders they must endorse President Taft or face a fight at the party convention. The speech warned of a potential Kenyon defeat by the next legislature if Taft is not supported. Vermont progressives also plan a joint ticket with Roosevelt electors and nominate Harland Howe for governor.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kenyon
Carroll
Taft
Bethel
Vermont
Wallace Batchelder
Roosevelt League
Roosevelt
Harland H. Howe
Camorra Sentences Sixteen Members in Murder Case
In Viterbo Italy the Camorrists murder case yields thirty year terms for Alfano and others named, five year sentences for sixteen criminal association members, twenty years for De Mattis, and shorter terms for Asorittere and Vitozzi with eight discharged. Prisoners protested loudly as verdicts were read.
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Italy
Camorrists
Alfano
API
Salvi
Morea
Cerrato
di Mariti
de Mattis
Asorittere
Vitozzi
Hotel Arrivals and Fractured Ad Libs at Ruck
A long hotel arrivals list features names from Omaha Des Moines Denver and Chicago among others in a crowded ledger. It ends with a quip about a strike, posed by Crusty Patron to a waiter in a brief dialogue.
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J. Anderson
R. Lb. White
H. M. McQuoiln
W. D Clifton
Omaha
BE. Fish
Des Moines
B. Davidson
Islay
Mike Queley
Hanna
N. H. Cohen
St. Joe
Carl Chris‘anton
H. Thompson, Jr
C. R. Boynton
Frank M. Hall
B. B. Tear
H. &. Reniek
C. J. Gavin
Wm. A. Goldler
Horace N. Hawkins
J. A. Smith
J. T. Muray
Alleen Meyer
H. W. Baenson
R. 8. Rahn
B. L. Hoffman
W. E. Goldsborough
John C. Sedwell
Denver
C. P. Arnold
Thos
Fi. Work
Laramie
W. Morrison
Chicago
John Hartsberg
R. L. Knowles
Mra
H. Sadowski
H. B. Green
New York
F. W. Poss
W. D. Stewart
Chugwater
J. Ralph Hall
Wheatland
Wm. M. Fitshugh
Casper
Mia. Chas. L. Hendershot
Child
Waleenburg
W. 8. Wade
Springfitd
F. S. Hawley
St. Louis
F. M. McMahon
Colorado Springs
Crusty
George
Hanson’s Specials On Ice Cream and Cold Drinks
Daily advertisement notes Hanson’s specials on ice cream and cold drinks with Chang as organizer and daily appearances.
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Hanson
Army Reorganization Talks Open at War Department
A series of conferences began at the War Department with senior officers, bureau chiefs, and lawmakers aiming for a pan partisan plan to reorganize the military. Leaders hope Congress may consider broad reform later and let last year’s army appropriation bill stay in force for the current year.
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Washington
Congress
War Department
Offeers
Thaw Plans Divorce from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw, facing freedom from Mattewan, contemplates divorce proceedings against his wife Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Dr. Adolph Meyer testified about Thaw’s claim of sanity and plan to sue for divorce on grounds likely statutory, with unnamed former lawyer and three New York reporters implicated in the action.
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White Plains
Harry K. Thaw
Mattewan
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Pittsburg
Thaw
Adolph Meyer
James Hopkins University
Pittsburgh
New York
Preacher Resigns Amid Rumor Link to Sheriff’s Wife
Cromwell Connecticut July 93. The Rev Arthur Carpenter resigns as pastor of the Cromwell Baptist church amid gossip that tied his name to Mrs Edith Bezu Boardman wife of Sheriff Arthur Hoardmas. The resignation followed reports of long visits to the Boardman residence on Main Street and a village notice calling a vestry meeting to urge reconsideration.
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Cromwell, Conn
Edith Bezu
Boardman
Arthur Howard Hoardmas
Arthur Carpenter
Cromwell Baptist Church
Main Street
Carpenter
Nake
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