Shareholders urged to attend meeting over bank merger plans
A letter to American National Bank shareholders objects to merging with Fifth Third National Bank. It highlights real estate burdens and asks stockholders to attend a 3 PM meeting at the Linton Hotel to decide between three plans including liquidation or sale to another bank.
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Linton Hotel
Fifth-Third National Bank
Third Natonal Bank
Inogigne
Board of Directors
W. B. Gotherman
Fourth National Bank
Davis
F. Linton Hotel
American National Bank
iBank
Gas Appliance Exposition Planned in Chicago
A national Gas Appliance Exposition will run December 7 to 12 at the First Regiment Armory Chicago in joint meetings of the National Commercial Gas Association and the American Gas Institute Officials and engineers from the United States Canada Mexico England and the continent are to attend The event aims to promote closer ties between gas companies and municipalities and to publicize the gas business while exhibitors from nearly every gas appliance maker will present working displays.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
America
Regiment Armory
National Commercial Gas Association
American Gas Institute
United States
Canada
Mexico
England
Continent
Freedom Denied Pouren Extradition Hearing Denied
Judge Holt in New York rejected Jan Janoff Pouren the Russian refugee's bid to skip further hearings on extradition. The decision centered on the Secretary of State certificate issued in a prior step, deemed insufficient to end the process.
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New York
Jan Janoff Pouren
Holt
United States
Russia
Cincinnati Prepares Welcome for Elihu Root Visit
Cincinnati readies a big greeting for Secretary of State Elihu Root with a reception at the Grand Central Station and a 7:30 meet up by Jacb Schmidlapp and Col. Samuel W. Trost. Root will tour the city and speak at the Business Men's Club before a Music Hall rally expected to draw five to ten thousand.
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Taft
Cincinnati
Jacob Schmidlapp
Samuel W. Trost
Mr. Root
Grand Central Station
Linton
Business Men’s Club
Sinton
Country Club
Cincinati
William Howard Taft
Roosevelt
Music Hall
Elihu Root
Kern's Story Declared False in Indiana Campaign Funds Claim
Indianapolis October 27 Fred Sims Secretary of State denies John W Kern's charge of handling 100000 of campaign funds. Sims says he knows nothing of such funds and condemns the tipton story as false, suggesting Democrats push such tales for influence.
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Indianapolis
Tipton
John W. Kern
Fred Sims
Indiana
Not a Dollar Sent There
Fred W. Upham Assistant Treasurer of the Republican campaign fund rejects J W Kern's claim that 109000 was diverted from trusts and sent into Indiana He calls Kern's statement untrue and dismisses it as end of campaign yarn not worth denying He says he does not know Mr Sims and asserts no funds were sent from his side
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Chicago
Fred W. Upham
Republican Campaign Fund
J. W. Kern
Ad Sheen
Indiana
Jxern
Graves Denounces Bryan Over Party History in Speech
John Temple Graves, candidate for Vice President on the Independence ticket, spoke in Atlanta criticizing Bryan and Kern. He said he once trusted Bryan but now condemns him for abandoning Cleveland and betraying the party's mission.
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Atlanta
Bryan
Kern
John Temple Graves
Independence
Grover Cleveland
Denver
Harmon replies on repeal question in Rose county focal option case
Judson Harmon Democratic candidate answers questions about repealing a Rose county focal option law and whether, as president and receiver of railroads, he would push back taxes and penalties into state treasury. The exchange is noted as illuminating in this campaign.
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Rose County
Judson Harmon
Treasury
Greene County Joins the Days in Local Option Vote
Greene County Ohio elected under local option law with a dry plurality of 667. Of 30 precincts nine wet, six in Xenia, wet majority 226. Total ballots 7 657 with 4 162 dry and 3 495 wet. Saloons total 25 in county with 22 in Xenia. Trumbull County goes dry with dry majority near a thousand in local option result.
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Commercial Tribune
Xenia
Greene County
Rose County
Osborne
Osborn
Trumbull County
Warren, O
Dry Counties of
Ohio
Drys
Williams County votes dry nineteen saloons out
Bryan Ohio October 27 nineteen saloons were voted out in Williams County with the drys carrying the county by a 1726 majority. A total of 1045 saloons have been voted out under the new county option law to date.
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Commercial Tribune
Bryan, O
Williams County
Union County Votes Prohibition Again in County Election
Union County approved prohibition by a about 200 majority from 1,500 votes. Over three years of prohibition arrests for drunkenness fell 50 percent and property valuations reportedly rose by 2 million dollars.
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Union
D. C
Union County
Taft Campaign Trail Keeps Pace Through New York State
Taft traversed Poughkeepsie Schenectady Cohoes Troy and Hudson on a rain soggy day. He stressed labor protections and tariff policy highlighting his record and contrasting with Bryan. Large crowds packed theaters as Taft spoke from cars and steps and pressed on to New York for further stops.
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Taft
Poughkeepsie
Collingwood Opera House
Judge Taft
Job Hedges
Hedges
Vassar College
Mr. Bryan
Hudson
Schenectady
Ploxere
American Locomotive Works
Republican Party
Democratic Party
General Electric Works
Philippines
Panama Canal
Jud Harmon Platform Features Humorous Promise
A brief note highlights Jud Harmon's campaign platform described with humor and signature style. It emphasizes a lighthearted, satirical portrayal rather than concrete policy specifics.
Congressmen Laning Sued Over Ohio Trust Bank Collapse
Norwalk Ohio Oct 27 Congressman Jay Ford Laning and former Ohio Trust Company vice president plus other former trustees were sued for 300000 in damages by creditors. A second suit seeks 10421 on a promissory note Laning signed.
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Norwalk
Jay ‘Ford Laning
Ohio Trust Company
Laning
Goethals' Act Sustained in Canal Contract Exoneration
Inspector General Garlington reports that Goethals, chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, was exonerated from charges by President Brothers of Balanced Crane Cable Company. The award for supplying and erecting cableways at Galun is upheld as made in good faith with no misconduct found.
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Washington
Garlington
Army
Goethals
Isthmian Canal Commission
President Brothers
Cincinnati Probe Committee Case Argued in Supreme Court
In Columbus on October 27 the Supreme Court heard the Gayman Probe Committee validity challenge. Theodore Horstman argued for the committee while Judge John H. Doyle and Frank E. Dinsmore defended Cincinnati and Hamilton County officials. A Friday recess follows the election. ruling seems unlikely before then.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Supreme Court
Gayman
Theodore Horstman
John H. Doyle
Toledo
Frank E. Dinsmore
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Bryan Winds Up Fight for Gotham in Democratic Drive
William Jennings Bryan spent a long day in New York addressing laborers and crowds from City Hall steps to Clermont Avenue rink. He attacked Taft and Roosevelt over labor, bank deposits, and trusts, urged new politics, and forecast a future where voters freely guide government before leaving for Schenectady Albany and Troy.
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Wallabout
Market Square
Bryan
Long Island City
Jersey City
New Jersey
New York
College Men’s Democratic Club
Murphy
Harem
Clermont Avenue Rink
Heg
Denver
Taft
President Roosevelt
Chanler
Rink
Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers, “Mr. Gompers
Knox
Gompers
Mr. Knox
Littlefield
Mr. Taft
Mr. Bryan
New York Central
Schenectady
Albany
Troy
Kern Tours Hoosier Towns On Campaign Trail
John W. Kern's second day on a special trolley-car tour through Indiana ended with a large Decatur meeting. He traveled from Indianapolis via Tipton Kokomo Logansport Wabash and Huntington and then to Decatur with speakers including Senator T P Bore Congressman Joseph T Robinson and Rev Sam W Small. Kern was greeted by old friends and hailed as Honest John Kern everywhere.
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Arkansas
Sam W. Small
Atlanta
Kern
John Kern
Mayor Patton Resigns as Manchester Mayor
Hon J N Patton Republican mayor of Manchester resigns after ten months citing petty annoyance in office. He was the first Republican mayor elected here in five years.
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Commercial Tribune
Manchester
J. N. Patton
Waterway to Pay State Is Feasible in Illinois
Engineer Lyman E. Cooley told a City Club luncheon that a proposed Illinois deep waterway could be built in six years and paid from its power earnings within eleven years after. He said a $20,000,000 bond issue voter approval next Tuesday would enable the state to make a strong public investment.
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Chicago
Illinois
Lyman E. Cooley
City Club
Spear Named Probate Judge in Morrow County
Governor Harris announced the appointment of Rolandus C. Spear of Mt. Gilead Morrow County to the Probate Court bench succeeding his brother M W Spear. The appointment takes effect October 3 and follows a nomination for the state senate by tos.
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Rolandus Spear
Morrow County
Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Harris
Rolandus C. Spear
Mt. Gilead
M. W. Spear
Apntee
Efive
Istate Senate
Tos
Harris Is No Friend of Labor In Eaton Wages Debate
In Eaton on May 17 1897 City Council kept street labor pay at 1.35 per day amid scarce funds and relief needs. Governor Andrew L Harris supported a 10 cent raise to that level. 155 men worked 292 street days within two weeks, with mayor R E Lowry and councilmen including J H Poffenberger and A L Harris.
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Commercial Tribune
Eaton
Harris
Andrew L. Harris
Baton Street
Council
North Barron
J. H. Poffenberger
R. E. Lowry
I. N. Sliver
A. L. Harris
J. H. Conger
Jacob Poffenberger
T. M. Waters
George Deem
F. M. Greene
Mr. Deem
Waton
Taft Labor Record Questioned Over Panama Eight Hour Law
P R Fuller of Beaver Falls reveals a letter to President Roosevelt alleging Taft’s labor record is incomplete in his Panama Canal eight hour law stance. The letter cites Taft support for suspending the eight hour rule and references testimony by Shonts Enenson and others before Congress.
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Panama
Pittsburg
P. R. Fuller
Beaver Falls
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Lodge No. 36
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Judge Taft
Fuller
Grace
Taft
Organizations of Labor
Mr. Taft
United States
Panama Canal
House Committee On Appropriations
J. F. Stevens
Isthmian Canal Commission
Enenson
D Ro
Congress
Taft Praised Bryan Denounced At New York Meeting
Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte praised William H. Taft and denounced William J. Bryan at a Commercial Travelers' Sound Money League gathering in New York. He defended Taft's character and criticized Bryan for dropping policies when they lose public support, and warned against a proposed 50 percent production limit as unconstitutional. He also mused about Samuel Gompers possibly becoming Commerce and Labor Secretary if Bryan wins.
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New York
William H. Taft
William J. Bryan
Charles J. Bonaparte
Commercial Travelers’ Sound Money League
Taft
Roosevelt
Bryan
Bonaparte
Gompers
Samuel Gompers
Department of Commerce and Labor
Sherman Campaign Stirs Manhattan With Six Talks on Sound Money
James S. Sherman Republican Vice Presidential nominee crisscrossed Manhattan and the Bronx delivering six speeches after a day in agricultural and manufacturing districts. He arrived from Schenectady and received a chrysanthemum gift symbolizing the gold standard, then urged voters to back an administration that guarantees sound money.
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New York
James S. Sherman
Manhattan
Bronx
Schenectady
Upper West Side
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