Boomers Busy as Washington Campaign Offices Multiply
Washington is abuzz as seven presidential campaigns in the capital launch extensive operations. The piece notes expansive office space, heavy publicity, and the shift from Congress to campaign headquarters for information and strategy, with focus on Taft Roosevelt Harmon and others. It also covers Japan’s envoy arrival and reflections on recall of judges, plus Miscellaneous notes on etiquette at embassies and public service debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Clinton
Washington
Democrat
Repub Mann
Ias
Taft
Clark
Harmon
Roosevelt
Wilson
Underwood
la Follette
Afty
Post Office Department
Ita
Saldon
Idind
Boomera
Congress
States
Hyergons
Japaniewa
Viscount C. Ohinda
Japan
United States
de Pauw University
Indiana
Albert J. Beveridge
San Francisco
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate
Charles Swayne
Florida
House
Swayne
Platt
Connecticut
United States Senate
Revenue Cutter Service
Revenue Cutter
Heroam
Navy
Army
Virginia Outlaw Gang Captured After Courthouse Murders
In Hillaville Virginia Sidna and Floyd Allen two leaders of the Virginia outlaw gang that killed three county officials are in custody after a mountain siege. Sidna Allen’s wife was shot dead, Miss Nancy Ayres died in the courthouse firefight, and the band sought escape toward North Carolina as detectives arrive to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Desperado
Stain
Hillaville
Sidna
Floyd Allen
Carroll County
Massie
Foster
Webb
Sidna Allen
Nancy Ayres
North Carolina
Allen
Williams
Manaia
Victor
Cabell Strickland
Byrd Marion
Fowler
Kane
Wordell
Goad
Staples
Mann
Mount Airy
Allen Band
Sugar Tariff Removed by House Vote
Washington reports the House passed a Democratic bill to abolish sugar import tariffs by 198 to 103. If enacted, sugar prices would fall about 1 cent a pound, saving households roughly 116 million dollars yearly while offsetting 53 million dollars in revenue with a proposed income tax on earnings over 5 thousand dollars.
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House
Washington
House of Representatives
Dr H W Wiley resigns from Agriculture Bureau post
Dr Harvey W Wiley announces his resignation as chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture. He says in his note to Secretary Wilson that six years of reform have left the food and drug act principles paralyzed and the environment hospitable to opposition to administration.
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Washington
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Attell Sues Buckley for $20,000 Damages
San Francisco Abe Attell ex featherweight champion sues Jim Buckley for 20000 damages. He alleges Buckley offered Harlem fighter Tommy Murphy 4000 to throw the Murphy Attell bout. The suit targets purported bribery related to the recent fight.
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Attell
Buckley
San Francisco
Abe Attell
Jim Buckley
Harlem
Tommy Murphy
Murphy
Murphy-Attell
Rehearing Sought in Washington Patent Case
The Supreme Court will be asked to rehear the patent monopoly case once the necessary application can be drawn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Fragmented ad copy and quips from old catalog style notices
A collage of product pitches, quotes, and tips from a historic ad page. It includes claims for remedies, household goods, a clothing/millinery pitch, a job prospect, and assorted witticisms. Names like A W Cole & Co and Walker Co-operative appear amid various promotional lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.&h. Walker
Pittsburgh
Multain Milles
Caatomere Hoy
Walker Co-operative Club
Florida land sales lure buyers with rail stopovers
An 80 page booklet-backed ad promotes Hilliard Florida pecan and fruit farms near Jacksonville. It offers 10 or 20 acre choices, railroad fare rebates, Chicago Title guarantee, and a Chicago address for Cornwell Farm Land Co. The notice also includes stray promotional lines about women's ideas and health potions.
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Florida
Sea Hilliard
Hilliard
Jacksonville
Mianlasippi River
Chicago Title & Trust Co
Capitol
State Agricultural Department
Morida
Hillard
Cornwall Farm Land CO
First
Nat'l Bank Bldg
Chicago
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Seven Campaign Headquarters
Rey
H. W. Wiley
Matt
Garfield
Cole
Sears
Vuggiste
Morfree Simpla
A. W. Cole & Co
Black River
Win
Alien
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Heaven
Lizzie White
Memphis Tenn
R. Vi Pierce
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Sloan
Jura Tuomas
Jackson Cal
Spohn
Manufacturord Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
Neosho Commercial Club
Neosho, Mo
Canadian Farm Lands
Western
Canada
Mcintyre
Winnipeg
Pansat
Brown
Jouni
Brown & Som
Boston
Mhas
Western Canada Farm
Povwrice
Spe Aoreen
Feseraon
Raphan
Tania
Mik Jeers
Ore
Asc 'End Tome PN
Write Wright
Hugulle Avenue
Ene
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Leod
Nore
Alsin
Rte Raina
Ssewan An Aiperta
Homestead
Bre
Retineau
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