Drift of the Ohio Taft Foraker fight ends in political lassitude
Columbus dispatch notes a slow drift in the Foraker and Taft campaigns for Ohio delegation to the national convention. It cites warm weather, vacations, and reduced activity as leaders show little progress, with Kentucky endorsements failing to solidify support and no clear path forward for Ohio.
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Commercial Tripuem Bureau
QuiLook Burnpine
Columbeus
OXI
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Foraker-Taft
Ohio
Taft
Foraker
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Exposition Party Set for July Journey Through Historic South
The Jamestown party plans a July 11 tour via the Chesapeake & Ohio Road from Cincinnati to Jamestown. They will pass through Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, visiting Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs and towns like Huntington and Covington, highlighting regional wealth, scenery, and historic associations from colonial to Civil War eras.
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Chesapeake & Ohio Road
Cincinnati
Jamestown
Old Dominion
Middle West
Blue Grass
Ohio
Kentucky
Huntington
W. Va
South
West Virginia
Charleston
Greenbrier
Old South
New South
National Watering Place
Alleghany
Virginia
Points of Interest Along the Chesapeake and Ohio Line
The Commercial Tribune Jamestown Party tour passes Charlottesville Gordonsville and Richmond with historic sites at Monticello Madison’s University of Virginia and Old Point Comfort. Norfolk Portsmouth Newport News Hampton Williamsburg Jamestown Yorktown and Fortress Monroe figure as major stops amid naval and colonial landmarks along Hampton Roads.
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Commercial Tribune
Jamestown
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Monroe
Charlottesville
United States
James Madison
University
Jefferson
Gordonsville
Richmond
Old Dominion
John Smith
James River
Blue Ridge Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Hollywood
President Monroe
St. John’s Church
Patrick Henry
Stonewall Jackson
Confederate Museum
America
Williamsburg
College of William and Mary
Jamestown Island
House of Burgesses
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Newport News
Hampton
Old Point Comfort
Hampton Roads
Exposition Grounds
St. Paul’s
Lord Dunmore
Norfolk Academy
United States Naval Hospital
Nelson House
Ware Creek
Railroads Look Up Says M B Ingalls
Former Big Four president M B Ingalls reports railroads are looking up as managers accept Roosevelt era regulation with less fear. He notes rail firms now face a healthier business outlook and that a general slowdown may occur but won’t hurt rail traffic given current overcapacity.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
M. B. Ingalls
Big Four
Roosevelt
Ingalls
George Ingall
Harriman
Rairoads
Man Killed and Two Women Shot on Westbound Train
Denver dispatch reports Carl V. Topp of St Paul killed on a Chicago Rock Island and Pacific train No 5 while Italian barber John Bells shot Mrs Morris Olsen and Mrs Harry Blakesley near Goodland Kansas. Bells overpowered by Denver worker and passengers. Bells and companion jailed at Goodland.
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Commercial Tribune
Denver
Col
Chicago, Rock Island & ‘Pacific
Dresden
Selden
Kansas
Carl V. Topp
St. Paul
Mian
Mra Morris Olsen
Marshall, Mian
John Bells
Mrs. Olsen
Charles A. Gilliat
Griffin Wheel Company
D. R. Slawson
Pueblo
Gilliat
Bells
Billy
Slawson
Goodland
Kan
Patsy Leganbraci
San Francisco
Salvadorean Imprisonment Triggers U S Inquiry
The State Department cabled the American Minister in San Salvador to seek reasons for the imprisonment of George and Edward Moissant, American citizens with long Salvadoran ties. Reports say they originate from California, run a bank stake, plantations, and large ventures, amid claims of involvement in the Acajutla revolt and a forced loan dispute. If naturalized, citizenship loss could follow under recent law.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
State Department Today
San Salvador
Merry
George
Edward Moissant
Moissants
Califonn
Central America
Salvador
Acajutla
America
Abolition of Old Three-Cent Rate to Begin July 1
Railroads across the United States will cut passenger fares to two cents per mile and abolish the three-cent rate starting July 1. A secret Chicago meeting of Western and transcontinental railroad presidents yielded the decision amid pressure from public opinion and antirailroad legislation. Presidents B. L. Winchell and A. J. Earling reportedly attended but declined to discuss the report.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
United States
B. L. Winchell
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
A. J. Earling
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Rockefellers In Runaway Near Tarrytown
Mrs John D Rockefeller Jr and her son John D Rockefeller III were thrown from a pony cart in Tarrytown after a hedge-fence incident frightened the pony. Both escaped injury while the coachman suffered bad bruises.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
John D. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
Funston Objects to Sneers of Mob Parade
General Frederick Funston objected to troops marching in San Francisco for the Fourth of July parade saying he was loath to parade his men where they would be sneered at and jeered by an unwhipped mob. A special committee led by Supervisor O Neil was appointed to consider a reply.
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Taft
Foraker
Jackson County
Malcome Karshner
Karshner
Robert F. Wolfe
Wolfe
Senate
Charles L. Kurtz
Ohio
Mr. Kurtz
Matthew Stanley Quay
Pennsylvania
Kurtz
Charles Dick
Commercial Tribune
San Francisco
United States
Frederick Funston
Funston
O’neil
Philip O’neil Ryan
Samuel Adelstein
Samoa Rains Cause Landslide Dooms Barracks Loss
News from Pago Pago reports heavy Samoa rains caused a landslide damaging the American naval barracks. One man, Sergeant Weines, was killed in the disaster near Auckland N.8 W. on June 22.
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Auckland
Samoa
Pago Pago
Weines
Identity confirmed of Rock Island train shooting victim
In St Paul and Minneapolis investigations the man shot on a Rock Island passenger train is identified as Carl V. Topp, a tailor formerly at 681 East Third Street in St Paul. He recently sold his shop and planned to move his tailoring business to San Francisco, leaving St Paul last Thursday afternoon for the West.
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Boston
San Francisco
Chicago
Beiling
Commercial Tribune
St, Paul
Minn
Minneapolis
Rock Island
Carl. V. Topp
Third Street
West
Plan to Transform Sinai Temple Into Neighborhood Center
Special Dispatch from Chicago June 22 describes Dr. Emil G. Hirsch of Sinai Temple proposing to abandon the existing Indiana Avenue temple and relocate to Grand Boulevard and Forty-sixth Street. The plan envisions a new building costing 250000 to 300000 dollars and multi activity neighborhood services centered on the temple idea as a tribute to Hirsch’s more than 25 years of rabbinic service.
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Chicago
Emil G. Hirsch
Sinai Temple
America
Indiana Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Grand Boulevard
Forty-sixth Street
Hirsch
Lisbon Rioters Arrested After Franco Return
In Lisbon on June 22 two people killed by police during a political demonstration against Premier Franco. They were buried at night to avoid further manifestations. Police clashed with crowds, several wounded, and many arrests followed, prisoners sent to the Caxias fortress.
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Lisbon
Franco
Oporto
Oan
Caxias
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