Morning Ledger and County News Briefs
A fragmented local column notes election chatter and political slogans such as Throw out the Ring and Remember the Maine. It mentions Wyoming roads, University of Wyoming enrollment, and a Gainesville Georgia sleep record, plus observations on Rawlings passes and Taft invitations amid a GOP revolt.
Farmers Showcase Progress at Wheatland County Fair
The Wheatland county fair highlights the dry farming efforts by local farmers and their agricultural display. The Good Roads Club of Douglas launches a campaign to fund state roads via convict labor, aiming to replicate Colorado's success in Wyoming.
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Birds Flee During Cholera Epidemic Across Regions
The Salt Lake Herald-Republican notes cholera outbreaks in Russia and spread to Prussia and southern Europe. Marine hospital service monitors U S ports to prevent import of the Asiatic scourge as birds reportedly flee afflicted areas, with historical observations of jackdaws and sparrows and other species migrating to escape disease.
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Indians Progressing Under US Government Education Efforts
The Salt Lake HeraldRepublican says the United States government is educating and training American Indians to take up civilized life. Boys learn farming and industrial arts while girls study domestic science. assimilation is expected to advance within generations. It notes Indians appear as ancestors among some senators and cautions about favorable views on Indian wealth when mix with white partners.
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Evolution at Work in Council Bluffs Nonpareil
The article argues it is permissible to claim easy gains from soil, urges timely action to avert hunger, and hints at an inevitable agricultural evolution. It notes the largest wheat crop ever grown as context for discussion of farming progress.
Dramatic Triumph for The Spendthrift at Capitol Ave Theatre
Park Tor presents Himerson Browne’s four act domestic drama The Spendthrift next Monday night with a star cast led by Doris Mitchell as the wife and Lionel Adams as John Storm. The play exposes frivolous domestic extravagance and has drawn record New York success and heavy audience demand.
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Agricultural yields rise as population grows in early U.S. century
The text notes wheat yields from 1900 to 1909 averaging 660 million bushels annually, up 20 percent from 1850–1899. Cotton output also climbs, with 1908 and 1904 at 13.5 million bales, 2 million above the best earlier decade. Population gains outpace urban shift, hinting at bright farming future and exploration of untapped soil potential as America looks to education and Holland as a model.
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Hair Snip Returns From Playwright Incident
A theatergoer snipped a lock of the playwright's hair at the premiere of a new work. During the performance the author sat pale and sad as a woman behind him offered to return the lock she had taken at the start.
Trinity Church Demolishes Tenements in City
Trinity Church, once accused of owning many slum tenements, declares in a recent statement that over the last 18 months it has razed 104 tenements affecting 2,296 occupants and will not own housing in the future. The changes, costing about five million, aim to reform its property holdings across the city.
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Democratic Landslide Foreseen Across the Nation
A New York World poem declares a Democratic landslide on the horizon across the Green Mountain state and New Hampshire. It predicts the insurgents are late, the ground shakes in the West, and the era of trusts and bosses ends as the GOP fades with election day.
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New York Man Wears Hobble Skit Under Arrest
A New York plasterer identified as William Young was stripped at the Alexander Avenue police station after twelve coats six pairs of trousers one waist coat and an unfinished hobble skirt were found on him. Acting Captain McLaughlin said Young confessed to entering a tailor shop at Glover Street on Wednesday.
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Fat man hindered by clothes in street taunt incident
Acting Captain MegsARTIn and Foster taunted a portly man on One Hundred and Thirty Fourth Street and Third Avenue last night. They followed him to the bridge and offered to shelter him from the weather after he explained he wore many clothes because he was ill and afraid of cold.
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Ite
Foster
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Gates announces candidacy for secretary of state
Harry Gates declares his bid for the secretary of state post awaiting the Democratic state convention. He frames the run as subject to the convention's will and seeks party support in the statewide race.
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Gates
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