Boxing Bouts Highlight Weekend Card In Los Angeles
Abe Attell and Freddie meet in a 15 round clash as the top featherweight and English light and welterweight champions headline a Los Angeles show. Ketchel vs Papke looms in San Francisco as two major middeweight punchers collide. Football closes season as Yale Harvard and Chicago Penn trek to key clashes.
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Los Angeles
Jeffries Athletic Club
Abe Attell
Freddie
England
San. Francisco
Mission Street Arena
Stanley Ketchel
Billey Papke
Jack Gleason
DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills Promoted for Various Ailments
An advertisement endorses DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills as effective for weak backs back ache bladder inflammation rheumatic pains and urinary disorders. It claims antiseptic action and prompt relief urging timely use and noting sale by R F P Billings.
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DeWitt
R. F P. Billings
Riverside Meeting Highlights and Local Social Events
Riverside hosts the sixteenth annual Riverside county teachers institute with addresses by County Superintendent Cree and state university professors. Recitals at the Woman's clubhouse, a Thanksgiving dinner for Riverside youth away from home, and a Sunday song service at the Mission Inn showcased community activity amid local notices and a weather-related irrigation project discussion near Crow Creek with landowners voting on rainfall targets.
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Riverside
Riverside County
Cree
Carnegie for lower tariff on iron and steel
The Ways and Means Committee has instructed Andrew Carnegie to appear this week to share knowledge about the steel industry after his Century magazine declaration that tariff schedules on iron and steel should be reduced. This signals possible production changes in steel and related products.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Century Magazine
Ways and Means Committee
Carnegie
Rain Maker to Bring Moisture to West Side Farmers
Stockton reports farmers on the West Side have hired James Hatfield to produce twelve inches of rain during the 1908 09 season. The move aims to ease long standing drought and boost crop prospects for the coming year.
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Crow Creek
Newman
Stockton
West Side
James Hatfield
Campaign funds reach 1.7 million with major donors named
New York November 24 The Republican campaign fund totaled 1.7 million. Major donations included President Roosevelt 1000 Andrew Carnegie 25000 Pierpont Morgan 25000 Whitelaw Reid 25000 William Nelson Cromwell 25000 Adolphus Busch 5000 Roc Kerens 5000 and W C Dickey 5000. About twenty thousand small contributions completed the fund. The report says mercantile interests largely funded the campaign, not railroads or banks.
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New York
President Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
Pierpont Morgan
Whitelaw Reid
William Nelson Cromwell
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Roc
Kerens
W. C. Dickey
Kansas City
Message Relay Boy Delivers Note to President
At the White House Navy 23 The president received from Garden Leech the silver tube with a YMCA message from Richard C Horse of the international YMCA. The president praised the 200 Washington boys who ran 40 miles from Baltimore in 3 hours 10 minutes and gave Leech a signed photograph after a brief talk.
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Washington, Navy
White House
Garden Leech
New York
Labor Officers Chosen for Coming Year
Denver reports the American Federation of Labor elected officers for the ensuing year led by President Samuel Gompers of Washington D C. Other officers include First vice president James Duncan and Second vice president John Mitchell with additional vice presidents from Denver Philadelphia Boston Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Fraternal delegates named to British and Canadian trades congresses and the convention city for 1909 is Toronto.
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Denver
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Washington
D. C
Janes Duncan
Quincy
Mass
John Mitchell
Springvalley
James O'Connell
Max Morris
Colo
D.a.shayscual
Philadelphia
William Od
Canadian Trades Congress
Jerome Jones
The
Georgia Federation of Labor
Journal of Labor
Toronto
Con
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George Brown
C. A. Kinnigy
Corona, Cal
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Ketchel
Papke
Stanford
California
Yale
Crimson
Tharvard
Michigan
Corona
Stanford Capitan
Stanford University
Mowatt Merrill Mitchell
Cardinal
Varsity
Gans
Joe Gane
Packey McFarland
Tommy Murphy
Gane
Adt
McParland
Battling Nelson
University of Southern California Law School
College of Physicians and Suregeons U
Throop Polytechnic
St. Vincent Academy
New Haven
Starvard
Champagne
Minneapolis
Carlisle
Syracuse
Madixon
Chicago
Wisconsin
Annapolis
Navy
Virginia Polytechnic
Ithaca
Cornellis
Trinity
Iowa City
Kansas
Iowa
Good Fellowship
Riverside Country Club
Whipple
Glenwood
Mission Inn
D. W. Pontius
Mr. Barlow
Miss Miller
Young Men’s Christian Association
Association
C.K. Romedy
Kennedy
R. F. Billings
PLAID
Lars
J. A. Newton
Corona Lumber Company
Trome
Sunset
J. S. Mayfield
L. C. Ackley Milling and Fuel Company
First and
Washburne Streets
R. B. McKinney
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