Week's Important News Notes
The Ohio First district election shifted as Nicholas Longworth lost to Stanley Bowdle by 97 votes, per Hamilton County board. Democratic National Committee chair William F. McCombs begins a month of rest in South Carolina after election night. California unofficial returns show Roosevelt ahead by 45 electoral votes, pending official tally.
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Hamilton County
Board of Elections
Nicholas Longworth
Theodore Roosevelt
Ohio
Stanley Bowdle
William F. McCombs
New York
Democratic National Committee
South Carolina
California
Roosevelt
Wilgon
Taft Accepts McClung Resignation as U S Treasurer
President Taft accepted Lee McClung’s voluntary resignation as treasurer of the United States. Carmi Thompson is expected to succeed him. The piece also notes treaties with Russia, appointments in the Interior Department, and various political and violent events shaping early Taft administration coverage.
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Taft
Lee McClung
United States
McClung
Carmi Thompson
Secretary of the Interior
Pisher
David White
United States Geological Survey
Waldemar Lindgren
Geological Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Balkan War Signals Shifts in European Diplomacy
Report from St Petersburg says Russia will not back Servia’s Adriatic port demands while Constantinople says Turkey has cleared the air with Bulgaria direct. Britain announces James Bryce resignation and Cecil Spring-Rice as his successor. Austria issues a short ultimatum to Servia as Italian and Austrian envoys press Belgrade and Pagitch refuses.
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Servia
Adriatic
Constantinople
Turkey
Bulgaria
British
Foreign Office
James Bryce
Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
Mir
Austria
Europe
Italy
Belgrade
Pagitch
Uskub
Peter
Notable thread magnate Clark dies in Newark home
Personal William Campbell Clark president of Clark Thread Works dies from blood clotting in the internal ducts at his Newark residence. James McCree resigns as Pennsylvania Railroad president to Jan 1. Samuel Rea elected successor after serving as vice president for years. William Vincent Astor to turn twenty one this week gaining control of a 100 million estate. Farmers National Congress delegates in New Orleans discuss merger into United States Country Life Association. John L Wilson owner of Seattle Post Intelligencer dies in Washington hotel from angina pectoris after a short illness.
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The
Clark Thread Works
Newark
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James MccCree
Pennsylvania Railroad
Samuel Rea
Rea
William Vincent Astor
Farmers’ National Congress
New Orleans
United States Country Life Association
John L. Wilson
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Washington, D. C
Addison
Ky ‘Sanders
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Ploaser Newpaper
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John Lochhead
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Sioux City
Elyle 1
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Council Bluffs
Edward Oldfield
McPherson
Lillian Dunn
Central Exchange
Vegemen
Alburneit Bank
Cltizens
Lone State College
Ames
A. Walden
Madison Walden
Corydon
Walden
A. C. Morley
Logan
Morley
Mary Bussler
John J. Bussler
Perry
First Avenue
Milwaukee Railroad
William J. Gillman
Des Moines
Boone
Anamosa
Creston
Winterset
Board of Trustees
Central Presbyterian Church of Nevada
James Mullin
Catnsville
Rock Island
Prairie City
Martin Bickings
Cumberland
Clayton Webster
Waterloo
J. BE
Andrew
Decatur County
Laon
Layton
Channes City
Thomas Berdamore
Lea Sehermerhorn
Jacob Kenigsburg
Shenandoah
Foreign Count de Romanones to form new cabinet
King Alfonso selects Alvaro de Romanones, president of the Spanish chamber of deputies, to form a new cabinet after the assassination of Premier Canalejas. The count will reinstate all Canalejas ministers as part of the reshuffle.
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Chamber of Deputies
Alfonso
Canalejap
Canalejag
Iowa State F News highlights and local incidents
A mishmash of Iowa items recounts bear cubs kept near Nevada, dynamite soil trials in Wapello, and a Burlington police case with a Chicago solicitor. The roundup also covers hospital donations in Cedar Falls, a Mason City roadmaster shift, rail derailments with no injuries, weddings, deaths, fires in Sioux City, and various local notices across towns like Ottumwa, Creston, and Ames.
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California
Gene Parker
Nevada
Meat Man
W. B. Creath
Ottumwa
Wapello County
Burlington
William Lloyd
Chicago
Lloyd
Hem
Joseph Sartori
Cedar Fallahan
Joseph F. Sartori
Los Angeles
Michael McFadden
Mason City
Northwestern
Luke Flynn
Arizona
Polic
Sheriff's Corps
Cramblin& Poling
Fletcher's
M. Martens
Creston
A. A. Bontrager
Waterloo
Tracey Andarson
Maxon City
Vetucla
Masonic Order
Pierre
Howard Wayne Anderson
G. Anderson
United States Naval Academy
Rockwell City
H. Rundgren
Po- Nce
Clinton
Leclaire
J. W. Edwards
Town Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
Wilson to call extra session and vacation in Bermuda
President elect Wilson announces intent to convene an extra Congress by April 15 to honor party pledges and remove tariff uncertainty. He will spend four weeks in Bermuda with Mrs. Wilson and daughters, keeping location secret to avoid political intrusion and enjoy a true vacation.
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Congress
Woodrow Wilson
New York
Wilson
Democratic Party
Bermudia
Bermudian
Quebec Steamship Company
West Tenth Street
North River
Jessie
Eleanor Wilson
Margaret Wilson
Rescue 7 Buried in Mine in Frisco Utah
A party of seven seven including two girls was trapped for about twenty hours after a cave in at the Horn silver mine. Rescuers drove a tunnel through rock as dust filled the shaft chamber. At 1 45 p m Friday the group was reached and brought to the surface exhausted but uninjured.
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Frisco
Utah
Horn
Danny Alexander
Hazel Alexander
David Banks
Harold Robinson
James Riley
John White
Riley
Hauptmann Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Stockholm November 18 Gerhart Hauptmann the German author and dramatist was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature at a ceremony in Stockholm on Friday.
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Hauptman
Stockholm
Sweden
Gerhart Hauptmann
Woman Chooses Death In Denver Hotel Room
An unidentified woman in Denver’s Olympia hotel chloroformed herself to death on Friday while clutching a Nell Brinkley drawing titled Somebody's Sweetheart. The incident occurred in a private hotel room and investigators are per the report. The case highlights a personal crisis with tragic finality.
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Denver
Colo
Nell Brinkley
Olympia Hotel
Man Tried to Shoot Prosecutor in Marietta Court
Benn Hall attempted to shoot Senator Clint Graham the prosecuting attorney in the criminal court room after the jury returned a verdict finding Hall guilty of the killing of J. A. Parka.
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Marietta
Okla
Benn Hall
Clint Graham
Criminal Court
Hall
J. A. Parka
Blind Banker Max Admits $2 Million Misuse in Paris
Augustin Max, the so called blind banker of Paris, surrendered to police and confessed to misappropriating about $2 million from clients. He earned fame as a blind financier before his downfall.
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Paris
France
Augustin Max
Westwood Woman Builds Home and Leads Farm Club
Miss Frances Lyon of Westwood Nes stands as New Hagland’s sole woman with a home she built herself. She belongs to a club of 40 members with $1,000 in property and about 70 acres of near Westwood, each member owning one acre and shared land rented for larger farming ventures.
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Frances Lyon
Westwood
New Hagland
Miss Lyons
Fashion Notes at Ritz Tea Praise for pannier skirt
Lady Duff Gordon praises pannier skirts at a Ritz Carlton tea saying they are graceful and popular. She jokes with a crusty old fellow about a pannier gown, recounting a tale of a husband who mocks his wife’s attire and her witty reply about his own hat.
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Duff Gordon
Ritz-Carlton
Louis Selze
George
Not New Daisy Comments on Waistcoat Embarrasses Frank
Daisy remarks on Frank's waistcoat as new while Frank claims it isn't. Daisy notes she hasn't seen it before and hints his brother never visited, revealing a social misunderstanding.
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Daisy
Frank
No Medicine But Change of Food Gave Relief
A shopper’s letter extols Grape-Nuts and Postum as cures for stomach distress from overeating starchy and greasy foods. The writer, a Wash. woman, details relief within weeks and lasting health after switching to the cereal and cream breakfast. Read The Road to Wellville. there are genuine letters appearing periodically.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Ady
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