Week in polities reports Taft Roosevelt campaign notes
The column surveys 1908 era politics. Taft dined at the White House with Roosevelt and faced reporters about his expected election. Roosevelt eyes labor votes and anti trust issues while Kern halts tours due to a family illness. Prohibitions and party finance debates unfold as Bryan tours Ohio and New York.
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P. Ripley
Santa Fe
Eka
Kans
Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Unitarian Church
Socialist and Independent Party
Hughes
Kern
New York
Bry
Connectt
New Jersey
Standard Oil Company
Roose-velt
Prarie Oil and Gas Company
Oklahoma
Josephus Daniels
Democratic Naonal
North Cara
Naparro
Shaw
Catherine B. Lewis
Buffalo
Knox
Bryan
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
William Jennings Bryan
Ohio
Mahoning
New York Central
Indiana
Sehgitore
DU Hilleryice Commission
J. H. Fordham
Internal Revenue
Orangeburg
S. C
Columbia
Robert A. Stewart
Clarendon County
South Carolina
Louisville
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Republican National Committee
Congressional Committee
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition
Connecticut
Sherman
Elmira
N. Y
Chanler
Gov. Hughes
Good roads theme marks governor elects first Georgia speech
Governor elect Joseph M Brown declares good roads as Georgia’s keynote for the next legislature during his Atlanta public appearance at Good Roads Day. The crowd’s response was favorable as state leaders project road legislation next year.
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Georgia
Govenor-elect
Joseph M. Brown
General Assembly
Atlanta
State Farm
Calvin M. Hitch
George Tumlin
Smith
Levi Copeland
Greene County
Mattie Vinson
Jane Chapman
Wilkes County
Joseph Way
Colonel Hitch
Mr. Tomlin
John G. Copeland
Bremen
Bremen Bottling Works
Bureau of Fisheries
Washington
LaCrosse
Wis
Mr. Burnham
Henry Wilmer
Rome
United States Department of Agriculture
Stateshire
O. T. Harper
Agricultural Department
Galloway
Fannin County
Joel T. Queen
H. Galloway
Union
Green County
Benjamin L. Bryn
J. H. Barnes
Aaron Parks
Johnnie Ethridge
Ty Ty
S. L. Moore
Bulloch County
Prison Commission
Hawkinsville
P. T. Foye
Savannah
Susie Keane
Foye Company
James Daly
Henry MecAlpin
International tensions and events cross Asia and Europe
Widespread unrest and diplomatic moves ripple through Manchuria and China as talks on constitutional development proceed in Pekin and Russia and Japan edge toward fisheries pact. Bulgaria rejects Turkey’s demanded indemnity, while Serb foreign minister Milovanovic visits Berlin to press Belgrade’s claims. In Yokohama a garden party honors US fleet, and Paris notes Balkan conference displeasure.
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Manchuria
Av Edtel
Petin
Pekin
Turkey
Bulgaria
New South Wales
Russia
Japan
Pacific
Sechibaleff Petroleum Goompany
Riesia
London
M. Milovanovicr
Weltrade
Servia
Berlin
Yokohama
Paris
Balkan
Kantac
Korea
Naoum Pacha
Sporting Briefs From Past Times At A Glance
Brighton Beach racetrack sits for sale as typhoid claims the area baying its future. Yale and Harvard facial off in football while Kermit Roosevelt shifts to track. Yales Edward Harris Coy named field captain for the year and Bureh directs from the sidelines. Colin, a yearling colt, sold for 5000 dollars to Estabrook and moving to Denver. Connecticut League batting leader McCabe at .020 with New Britain. Penn end Simon Paules ruled ineligible for summer baseball. Watson of Cornell sidelined by a severe spike injury.
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Brighton Beach
de Mott
Navy
Robert Tu. Burch
Cincinnati
Ohio
Yala
Colin
Lexington
W. W. Fivans
George H. Estabrook
Denver
Harry
Cornell
Simon F. Paules
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Edward Harris Coy
New Haven
Yates
Bureh
How My Boy Went Down
A lament in verse recounting a son ruined not by sword or sea but by drink and temptation. The speaker portrays the boy’s fall from manhood to disgrace through intoxication and sinful pleasures, lamenting lost potential and damaged life. Selected.
A Leap Year Proposal and a Witty Remark
A woman declares the man she marries must be handsome witty cultivated courteous kindly and of high moral character. He counters leap year meaning a potential proposal. The piece notes a young man who can lie despite a college education.
Advertising Pays As It Delivers Results
A Kansas City Journal quote highlights advertising's effectiveness with lines about getting a wife through advertising and the claim that advertising pays. The exchange underscores commerce driven by promotional efforts and the notion that ads yield tangible outcomes for businesses.
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Kansas City Journal
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Georgia Naval Militia
Robert 4B. Colding
Floyd County
Board of County Commissioners
Board of Commissioners
WAI Mastern Notes
Joe Drows
Teepe
Cilicia
Castoria
Bears
the Ullman CO
Chio
NEW Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange
Mass
Papa
Standard Sds Machine Co
S. Broad St
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