Primaries and Machine Politics in Nevada Parties Discuss Taft Favor
The Reveille argues young Republicans push for Taft with real intent but face a machine that blocks primaries. It notes Storey County leans Taft and Roosevelt while some local officials back Hughes. The piece calls for state wide primaries in towns with 200+ voters to curb machine control.
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Taft
Ohio Statesman
Wallace
Silver Party
Tonopah
Goldfield
Reno
Storey County
County Central Committee
Winnemucca
Roosevelt
Hughes
L. M. Blakeslee
Republican Party
Harriman
Virginia City
Gold Hill
Reveille
Goldfish Proliferation At Bowers Mansion Springs
Reno dispatch reports Miss Mary Anderson of Bowers Mansion discovered that warm springs at the resort cause rapid goldfish propagation. From six fish four months ago the herd now numbers in the thousands after moving through two temperatures. Initial stock imported by Sandy Bowers in the 1860s dwindled to 12 before the experiment. Anderson plans to stock nearby springs and streams.
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Reno
Mary Anderson
Bowers Mansion
Sandy” Bowers
Comstock
Miss Anderson
Strychnine Plan to Curb Humboldt Valley Field Mice
The United States Department of Agriculture directs two tons of strychnine to be spread over alfalfa fields near Lovelock after trials at Rogers ranch. Phosphorus with grain failed. a mixture of 30 pounds hay to one ounce strychnine solution aims for about 75 percent early mortality and gradual control of the infestation.
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Humboldt Valley
Rogers Ranch
Lovelock
United States Department of Agriculture
Card of Thanks From Kansas Quarantine Comfort and a Prize Winner
A Kansas card of thanks thanks city authorities for two weeks of smallpox quarantine allowing family rest and meals while a cousin escaped town. Judge Lyander Johnson signs the note. Separately, Judge Frank H. Norcross wins a $1000 prize for an essay on Roosevelt serving a second term, in a National Magazine contest.
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Kansas
Lyander Johnson
Frank H. Norcross
Nevada Supreme Court
Joseph Chapple
National Magazine
Boston
Mass
First National Bank of Boston
Jonathan Bourns
Oregon
Ane
Roosevelt
United States
Youngest U S Senator Bryan Dies in Washington
William James Bryan Junior United States Senator from Florida died in Providence Hospital Washington D C on March 22 He had been serving as the youngest member of the Senate and represented Florida in the upper chamber his death leaves a vacancy in the delegation and prompts tributes from colleagues and officials across the state and capital
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William James Bryan
United States
Florida
Providence Hospital
Washington, D. C
Senator Bryan
Election primer on who may vote and suffrage laws
The piece outlines voting eligibility for men and women across states, noting full suffrage for women in Colorado Idaho Utah and Wyoming, partial and school suffrage in many others. It cites the 1882 Chinese naturalization ban and the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing equal voting rights regardless of race or previous status.
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Colorado
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Kansas
Montana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Oregon
Massachusetts
New York
Vermont
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Washington
Arizona
New Jersey
North Dakota
South Dakota
Connecticut
Ohio
United States
Congress
Young Senator Bryan Dies After Five Weeks Ill
Senator Bryan, age 31, succumbed after a five week illness from typhoid fever. He had rallied several times, earning admiration from peers and relatives who hoped for recovery. Appointed December 26 last year by Governor Broward of Florida to fill Senator Mallory’s vacancy, he was among the youngest to serve in the Senate.
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Bryan
Henry Clay
Senate
Broward
Florida
Mallory
McHenry proposes a national bureau of mines in Congress
Representative John G. McHenry of Pennsylvania, serving his first term, introduced a bill to establish a federal bureau of mines and mining. The measure, tied to President Roosevelt's message, would investigate mine accidents, provide relief to victims and families, and create a 1 cent per ton coal tax to fund the relief. It notes a 25 percent rise in 1907 coal mine accidents, excluding December Pennsylvania blazes that killed nearly 700.
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John G. McHenry
Pennsylvania
Congress
Bureau of Mines and Mining
Benton Township
Columbia County
Orangeville Academy
Columbia County National Bank
Orange National Banks
McHenry
Jomn G. M'Renat
Roosevelt
Bureau of Mines and Mining Power
Nevada Northern Ordered to Build Depot at Ely
The Railroad Commission of Nevada orders the Nevada Northern Railroad to begin construction of a freight depot at Ely by May 1 1908 and to complete it within 30 days of that start date. The ruling was issued in Carson City on March 23.
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Carson City
Nevada
Railroad Commission of Nevada
Nevada Northern Railroad
Ely
Nevada Northern
Hedden resigns as Tonopah and Goldfield railroad head
J. F. Hedden, superintendent, resigns effective April 1. New work to connect Nevada & California line to Rawhide starts within a week, expected to finish in about 90 days, covering 25 miles at roughly 16 000 dollars per mile for a total near 400 000. Judge Pike in Reno dodges serious harm after mistaking gasoline for coal oil caused a stove explosion. quick help prevented major injury.
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Nevada & California
Rawhide
Pike
Reno
Abe Hummel Sails for Europe on Lusitania
Abraham H Hummel, a lawyer freed from prison ten months after a Morse divorce conspiracy conviction, sailed today from New York to Europe aboard the steamer Lusitania.
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Abe Hummel
Europe
New York
Abraham H. Hummel
Lusitania
Thornless Cacti In Nevada From Luther Burbank
Mrs. Dr. Virginia Smith submits a note to the Pullen Standard from Luther Burbank, the horticulture expert, about cactus varieties for Nevada. He states none of the varieties tested will endure the climate as well as fig or blue gum, and that a hardy type is being developed but not yet ready. Surbanx Experiment Farms, Santa Rosa, California, is referenced in the reply.
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Virginia Smith
Luther Burbank
Surbanx Experiment Farms
Santa Rosa
Cal
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