Taft warns Mexico as Taft welcomes delegates to White House
President Taft cautioned Mexico that action against rebels may prompt troops across the border. He, despite a sprain, greeted chemistry delegates in a wheeled chair at the White House. Champ Clark and family left Washington to campaign for Wilson from Bowling Green. Norris of Nebraska vows to block secret hearings in the Shoe Machinery Trust suit.
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Taft
White House
Champ Clark
Washington
Bowling Green
Wilson
Norris
Nebraska
Boston
Shoe Machinery Trust
Taft Defends Panama Canal Policy At Atlantic Convention
Personal President Taft leans on a cane at New London as he defends his Panama Canal signing and warns against extremes in personal ambition. Yoshihito becomes Japan’s emperor and grants first audience to the diplomatic corps. Governor Wilson speaks to 20 000 at Buffalo. Roosevelt delivers speeches in Connecticut and Massachusetts and begins Western Year. Taft plays golf in Beverly despite cold. Mary C Roach widow shipbuilder dies in Chester Pa at 72 after months of illness.
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Taft
New London
Yoshihito
Japan
Wilson
Buffalo
Roosevelt
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Beverly
Mary C. Roach
Chester
Coulon to defend bantam title in Madison Square Garden
Sporting Johnny Coulon holder of the American bantamweight championship will defend his title in a bout with Williams at Madison Square Garden on October 18. Also noted are Mary Miller, an 111 year old girl, swimming four miles in one hour ten minutes in the Hudson River, and Dave Smith, an Australian champion, in a bout with Eddie McGoorty at MSG. Frank L Kramer crowns his career with a world cycling title by winning the Newark Velo drome mile, beating Alfred Grenda and Andrea Perchicotti.
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Johnny Coulon
Williams
Madison Square Garden
Mary Miller
Hudson River
Dave Smith
Australia
Eddie McGoorty
Ashkosh
New York
Frank L. Kramer
America
Newark
Kramer
Alfred Grenda
Andrea Perchicotti
France
Multiple 1900s Headlines Mixed From Framingham to Nicaragua
A carload of second class mail burned in South Framingham Massachusetts. Vermont returns show a Republican Governor candidate leading but short of a majority. Baseball world series to begin October 8 per Ban Johnson. Springfield Missouri blacksmith August Droste allegedly killed by rival Ed Dickens over horse shoeing. York Pennsylvania man George Grenswell shot himself while hunting plover on opening day and died. Utica resident Mrs. Ellen Babcock awarded Mary S. Dickerson estate. Helen Keller to relocate to Schenectady with Major Lunn naming her to welfare board. Glacier crew captures Nicaraguan rebel gunboat. Ex president Estrada disappears from a New York hotel, likely returning to Managua. Juvenile Judge Callan urges mothers to apply birch to unruly children. John Campbell, Pennsylvania Railroad’s oldest engineer, retires after 50 accident-free years.
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South Framingham
Mass
Vermont
Ban Johnson
American League
August Droste
Springfield
Dickens
George Grenswell
York
Ellen Babcock
Utica
Sherman
Mary S. Dickerson
Helen Keller
Wrentham
Maas
Schenectady
Lunn
Board of Public Welfare
United States
Glacier
General Estrada
Nicaragua
New York
Managua
Callan
Washington
John Campbell
Pennsylvania Railroad
Flogging Planned for Riot Prison Fifty Convicts
Fifty convicts who took part in the Michigan prison riot will be flogged. The Jackson penitentiary riot was quelled by militiamen and confirms a harsh disciplinary response. Other items include a Philadelphia police fine for tickling a chin, Vermont voting totals, and a series of deaths, fires, and investigations across the country.
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Michigan
Grace Mason
Kent
Philadelphia
Jackson
Mich
Mixed historical items and incidents across nations
The report lists diverse events: probate in London for Andrew Lang with $64,496 estate. a Cuban sugar factory fire at $200,000 loss. Balkan tensions and Turkish relations. Berlin parade aviation advances. Elba villa sale for $60,000. Mexican earthquake in Guadalajara. Mori removes needle from a child. Salvation Army head Bramwell Booth aiding widows. deadly mushroom poisoning in Posen. Greek officers ordered back from Egypt. Hansa Zeppelin record flight and later damage. Alpin balloon crossing by Spelterini and Console. Manchester council accepts American tram rails bid. Bavarian aviator Steger killed. English and German air incidents. stolen painting in London. fatal rail collision in Calera, Mexico, with Americans among the dead.
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Andrew Lang
London
Maximo Gomez
Cuba
Greece
Bulgaria
Servia
Turkey
Constantinople
Baroness von Eckhardstein
Berlin
el Lewa
Cairo
Egypt
Napoleon
Island
Elba
Camillo Ruspoli
Guadalajara
Mexico
Mori
Breda
Italy
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Posen
Germany
Hamburg
Spelterini
Armando Console
Alps
Interlaken
City’ Council of
Manchester
Eng
Steger
Munich
Stevenage
Domenica Crenpi
Arch Confracternity of Mercy
Calera
State Highways Going To Pieces Suggests Needed Reform
A Trenton report quotes Col Edwin A Stevens State Road Commissioner saying New Jersey roads are deteriorating under an unsuited administration. He calls for state takeover, personal responsibility, tenure, and promotion to reform road management. Also notes a separate crime story and rural carriers meeting updates.
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Trenton
Edwin A. Stevens
Wilson
Stevens
New Jersey
Various Degrees of Envy and Its Causes
The text discusses envy as a blend of grief and anger with its intensity tied to the closeness of the object. It contrasts walking on foot with a great man owning a coach and six and notes envy’s varied symptoms and difficulty in description.
Oysters to be certified for Maurice River grounds inspection
The State Board of Health launches expanded oyster ground inspections with a laboratory yacht at Maurice River Cove. Dr. R. B. FitzRandolph will supervise, while H. W. Warren and E. B. Parsons operate the boat. Oystermen press for health checks and nearly a Legislature approved program backs the effort to ensure a safe, wholesome product.
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State Board of Health
Maurice River Cove
R. B. FitzRandolph
Division of Food and Drugs
State Board
H.W. Warren
E. B. Parsons
Division
Health Board
Dr. Wiley
Te National Pure Food Board
FitzRandolph
County Officials Meet Over Warren Street Bridge Dispute Fails
A three party conference among County Solicitor Kulp Freeholder McCullough and Judge A E Armstrong representing the Public Service Corporation failed to reach an agreement on funding the Warren street bridge dispute Judge Armstrong said the company would not pay toward the bridge or maintenance while County Solicitor Kulp argued the Riverside Traction Company needed county approval to use the bridge McCullough suspected the corporation plans to force tracks onto the bridge and police have been told to resist any such move
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Kulp
McCullough
A. E. Armstrong
Public Service Corporation
Warren Street Bridge
North Jersey
Riverside Traction Company
Camden and Trenton Traction Company
Armstrong
New Jersey Deaf School Hosts Annual Deaf Association Convention
John P. Walker opens the New Jersey Association for the Deaf convention at the School for the Deaf with sign language welcome. Attendees discuss teaching methods, home for the aged deaf, film funds, and social centers, and honor Rowland B. Bloyd with a portrait. A memory event for Dr. Thomas Gallaudet is proposed.
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John P. Walker
School For the Deaf
New Jersey Association For the Deaf
Walker
Porter
Rowland B. Bloyd
Thomas Gallaudet
United States
Hartford
Conn
Plague Quoted in Bernard Mandeville Opinion
Fragmentary quotation notes the disease as common and its signs visible in opinions and judgments among people, attributed to Bernard Mandeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Mandeville
He Meant Business In Sharp Line On Women In Commerce
Dialogue from a fashion column shows Mr. Jinx Baldwin dismissing women from business saying they have no place in commercial life. The exchange sparks surprise and questions about gender roles in the era.
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Mr. Jinx
Bueness
Mr. Jinz—Baldwin
Straus Named After Stampede Nominates New York Governor
Oscar S. Straus of New York was nominated for Governor by acclamation at the Progressive State convention in Syracuse after a dramatic stampede led by John C. Magee. The full ticket includes Davenport for Lieutenant Governor and Call, Kirchway, Alden, Croft, King, Palmiere, among others.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Oscar S. Straus
New York
Cleveland
Turkey
Roosevelt
Commerce and Labor
Straus
Frederick
George Manchester
Prendergast
George Aa. Green
Kings
William A. Chadbourne
Hotchkiss
Chadbourne
Earliest Biblical Romance Linked to Assouan Tale
The ancient Egyptian Nile town of Assouan hosts an early world romance titled Achikar with vizier Achikar and his nephew Nadan. Originating about 600 B C, the tale follows Nadan’s rise and fall, the vizier’s wisdom, and a rich treasure of fables, later reflected in Tobias and the Arabian Nights.
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Assouan
Elephantine
Nile
Achikar
Sinacherib
Asurahhiddin
Nadan
Asim
Orfers
Nabusamach
Achitar
Orient
Nadab
Power Boat Drowns Three in New Jersey Creek
In Paulsboro New Jersey a power boat wake upset a workboat on Mantua Creek killing three men Frederick Krukmaker 49 a widower with two children Joseph Middleton Jr 9 and Frank Scott 32 leaving a widow and child The men were unloading a log when the accident occurred.
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Paulsboro
N.J
Mantua Creek
Frederick Krumaker
Joseph Middleton, Jr
Frank Scott
Miss Florence Markham Resigns As Stage Driver
Stockbridge Massachusetts resident Miss Florence Markham, who drove the stage and delivered the U S mail between Interlaken and Stockbridge since 1889, retires after logging nearly 100000 miles. She endured winter snowdrifts and spring road damage repairs to complete her trips.
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Stockbridge
Mass
Florence
Markham
United States
Interlaken
Hang
Monkey Run Riot Shocks Lancaster Police
A wild monkey escaped its owner John Gormley in Lancaster Pennsylvania prompting a citywide uproar. It raided a grocery, attacked a college student, charged officers, then mauled a cat before a boy lured it into a chicken coop and it was captured.
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Lancaster
John Gormley
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