Taft Plans 13 000 Mile Western and Southern Tour
President Taft departs Beverly Mass for a nationwide journey expected to cover about 13000 miles. The trip includes the Alaska Yukon Exposition in Seattle Yosemite Grand Canyon and a Rio Grande crossing. He will be joined by Cabinet members and travel via a roving White House car.
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Beverly
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Taft
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Dickinson
United States
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Straits of Magellan
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Royal Gorge
Rocky Mountains
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Yosemite Valley
Grand Canyon
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Mexico
Rio Grande
el Paso
Mississippi River
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Went
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Oelock
Massachusetts
Signal Corps
Army
Wright
Wilbur Wright
Charleston
8. C
Mourning Ceremony Scatters Mrs Peyton’s Ashes Across Lake
In Chicago New Jersey a remarkable funeral rite scattered the ashes of Mrs Peyton across the four winds of the earth. Her husband, missing since the Lake Michigan wreck of the excursion steamer Alpe XCursion, is noted as alive and tied to the memory of his wife who had earlier crossed to Michigan to scatter heirlooms on the lake.
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Chicago
Peyton
Mildlake
Lake Michigan
Aid-Lake
Alabama Tightens The Lid Prohibits Statewide Sale
The Carmichael bill providing for state wide prohibition passed the Alabama House by 75 to 19. It forbids sale or manufacture of intoxicants over 0.5 percent alcohol and bans near beer like drinks. Violations carry fines of 50 to 200 dollars and up to six months hard labor.
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Carmichael
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Chancery Court
United States
Taft Urges Good Roads For Virginia Highway Plan
President Taft advocates a national effort to build good roads from Washington to Richmond as part of a broader good roads movement. He praises agricultural benefits, notes automobile interest, and says the Agriculture Secretary will assist with recommendations for Virginia road construction.
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Richmond
Washington, D. C
Taft
Virginia
National Capital
Secretary of Agriculture
Panama Bond Issue Delayed Announcement From Treasury
Washington DC The Treasury Department said no new Panama bonds authorized by Congress in the just adjourned session will be issued before the next Congress meets. The statement cites a potential change to the existing circulation tax as part of the plan. Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh issued the announcement.
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Treasury
MacVeagh
Japanese Strike Off in Honolulu After Labor Walkout Ends
In Honolulu Hawaii the 6000 plus Japanese plantation laborers ended a two month strike that had inflicted heavy losses on local planters. The move ends the labor disruption across the islands.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Taft Signs Payne Tariff Amid Toasts At Capitol
Congress adjourned after revising the tariff. President Taft signed the Payne tariff bill at five minutes after five, with officials present. The scene included light banter about pineapples and a Philippine tariff signature followed by approving remarks. New York reports many steamships tied to the old law faced duty losses estimated at up to 200000 dollars.
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Wilson
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Kentucky
Taliaferro
Florida
Mr. Taft
Fletcher
Goodby
Philippines
House of Representatives
New York City
New York
Custom House
Loeb
Roosevelt Banqueted in Nairobi Honors Roosevelt and Kermit
Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit were the guest of honor at a Nairobi banquet in the British East Africa protectorate. An address of welcome was read and presented to Roosevelt, enclosed in a tusk mounted in silver with a silver chain. American residents gave a tobacco box made from rhinoceros hoof and buffalo head trophies.
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Nairobi
British East Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit
United States
Protectorate
Mr. Roosevelt
Invention Could Paralyze War Engines Say American Officer
An American navy officer at Fort Omaha claims a private electric invention could project a powerful energy column to disable warships. It would shut engines dynamos signaling guns and magazines, potentially killing many and hindering offensive warfare. The device is said to be US property with details guarded.
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London
England
Fort Omaha
United States
Chicago opens first U S school for tubercular children
Chicago establishes a novel school for tubercular children on the Harvard Starvard grounds at Seventh Street and Vincennes Avenue. The board of education provides tents grounds equipment and teaching while the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute supplies food transportation and medical services. The opening includes thirty pupils chosen from many physically sub normal children after careful examination.
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Chicago
United States
Board of Education
Starvard
Seventh Street
Vincennes Avenue
Chicago Tuberculosis Institute
Knights of Columbus Elect Officers at Mobile Session
At the Knights of Columbus twenty seventh annual supreme council meeting in Mobile Alabama officers for the coming term were elected. James A Flaherty of Philadelphia was chosen Supreme Knight with H M Carmody of Grand Rapids deputy supreme knight. Other officers include Daniel J Callaghan national treasurer W J McGinley national secretary J C Pelletier national advocate Dr E W Buckley national physician T J McLaughlin national warden.
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Flaherty
Mobile
Ala
Supreme Council
Knights of Columbus
James A. Flaherty
Philadelphia
H. M. Carmody
Grand Rapids
Mich
Daniel J. Callaghan
Washington
W. J. McGinley
New York City
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Automatic speed control device for automobiles reported
A device invented by Vice Consul H. M. Byington of Bristol can automatically regulate car speed. Described as attached to English machines, it removes the clutch when speed exceeds the set limit. When needed the brake engages to reduce speed just below the limit, then releases and the clutch reengages.
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Byington
Washington, D. C
H. M. Byington
Bristol
Ransom Demanded From Railroad Leader Ends in Arrest
Abrams Eby, mayor in Burkeville bankruptcy, wrote to the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia on July 28 threatening dynamite if $45,000 was not paid. He declared war and said he would meet authorities anywhere, prompting his arrest.
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Philadelphia
Abrams, Eby
Burkeville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wireless links to Saigon and Glace Bay stretch empire
The Eiffel Tower receives signals from Glace Bay across 3250 miles as a new installation aims to reach Saigon in 6800 miles. Canada plans land grants of 160 acres each to 175 veterans from Toronto for service in 1866. Lakes to gulf deep waterway convention dates set for early fall in New Orleans. Taft plans arrival from St Louis on October 1.
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China
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St. Louis
France to tax dogs and auto workers gain pay rise
Late news notes outline a progressive tax on dogs from 30 cents to over $5 per head for large dog owners and wage increases for North Cresvenor Dale cot ton operatives. It covers tariff bill impacts, rail and highway surveys, and a Taft itinerary including Charleston in November.
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France
North Cresvenordale
Conn
Otto Klessig
Great Fall
Mont
Black root disease costs Georgia cotton farmers over a million
State Entomologist K L Worsham warns black root damages Georgia cotton more than boll weevils. He backs a $10 000 appropriation to fund resistant cotton varieties and more field experts to aid farmers statewide, as damage cuts both fiber and seed value.
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Georgia
K. L. Worshem
Heneerson
Irwin
South
Professor Worsham
Big oat crop in Turner exceeds prior records
Ashburn Georgia reports the largest oat crop in the area with Turner County leading. Honorable A B Bussey harvested eighty five and a half bushels per acre from one field and threshed about three thousand bushels total. Farmers expect corn yields of about seventy five bushels per acre and cotton prospects are very strong.
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Ashburn
Georgia
Turner
Bussey
Many Cattle Poisoned in Eldorado Prompt Call to Commissioner Hudson
In Eldorado, Eldorado area cattle suffer a strange disease after hot steaming weather and heavy rains. Dr. P. I. Bahnsen from Americus examined a dying cow and diagnosed poison by fungus on grasses. The infection, likened to smut on corn, causes brain fever and severe itching within four hours and is almost always fatal within a day.
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Hudson
Tifton
Eldorado
T. G. Hudson
Atlanta
Agricultural Department
P. I. Bahnsen
Americus
Lawmakers Debate Tax Act and Intercollegiate Sports
The general tax act moves toward permanent status with modest changes to soft drink syrup and near beer taxes. A house resolution creates a joint inspection subcommittee for county convict camps. An effort to cut state funding for intercollegiate athletics fails, but a ban on using state funds for athletics passes.
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Vinson
Beldwin
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Hall
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