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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
17
Rudolph Spreckels and Patrick Calhoun lead rival factions in bribery prosecutions. Spreckels provides funds while opposing financiers press charges, signaling a high stake battle in city corruption cases.
San Francisco observers debate motives of the graft investigation with charges that Roosevelt and Taft aims drive the probe, while Ruef and Schmitz allies seek to curb rivals. Rudolph Spreckels leads the prosecution effort, denying personal political ends and vowing to reform city governance despite intense pressure from Calhoun and labor-backed opponents.
Miss Alvina Topham, from a prominent Philadelphia family, confessed writing obscene letters that disrupted St Stephan's Methodist Episcopal Church. United States Commissioner Craig held her in 200 bail while postal inspector O'Brien and Pastor Dr. G W Babcock probed the feud among Germantown congregants.
Henry Watterson told Eckstein Norton graduates in Louisville that the South offers the black man more opportunities and fairer chances than the North. He argued regional sympathy and reciprocal bonds support a satisfactory system of living, while admitting past errors in handling emancipation and voting rights.
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