Taft Addresses Cincinnati Club on Honest Business
President Elect Taft addressed the Cincinnati Commercial Club, urging legal, honest enterprise and a firm government stance against dishonest methods. He spoke of lines of legality, pledged back of legitimate business, and noted his campaign challenges and plans for prudent governance amid prosperity.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Commercial Club
Taft
Mr. Taft
Bryan
Lincoln
Bill
Anner
United States
Philippines
McKibley
Hicago
St. Luis
Kansas City
Leader Doubts Local Option Repeal by New Indiana Legislature
Superintendent N C Shirey of the Indiana Anti Saloon League says the county local option law will likely survive the next general assembly. He notes some Democratic reps favoring the measure and predicts no repeal, with Governor elect Marshall possibly supporting temperance goals.
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N. C. Shirey
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
General Assembly
Mr. Shirey
House
Senate
Marshall
Filipino editors in jail on charge of libel
Manila reports say the manager and editor of El Remacimiento along with other editors were arrested on criminal libel charges filed by Commissioner Dean Worcester who accuses the paper of libelous attacks on his character. Also noted: education board orders no leniency for strikers and expulsion. Commissioner Schuster undergoes appendicitis surgery. cholera cases in the city decline to about two daily.
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Manila
el Remaccimiento
Dean C. Worcester
Philippine Commission
Worcester
Islands
Educational Board
W. Morgan Schuster
Health Department
Board Grants Gilbert License for Saloon on Calhoun
The board of commissioners approved Harry Gilbert’s license to run a saloon on South Calhoun Street after a secret evidence hearing. Members opposed the liquor trade but felt they could not act without open court testimony. They urged public witnesses to come forward so bad operators can be removed.
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Board of Commissioners
Harry Gilbert
South Calhoun Street
Bent
Gilbert
New York Sees Its First Snow of the Season
New York reports its first snowfall of the season as night falls. The unusual early event coats streets and rooftops with a light layer. Weather officials note cold air masses and predict continued unsettled conditions in the region.
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New York
Roosevelt May Receive a Toga
Washington observers discuss the possibility that President Roosevelt might become Senator Platt’s successor in New York. They cite his own statements about the Taft presidency easing any hesitation and note that his absence on a hunting trip could smooth a potential senatorial campaign.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Platt
Senate
Taft
White House
Mr. Taft
New York
Branning Wins Wayne Township Trustee Seat
Henry E. Branning Democrat holds a 1031 vote plurality over Republican Charles A. Graham for Wayne township trustee. Total votes: Branning 7552, Graham 6251. other candidates include Owen B. Pierson 106 and Frank Jenorschke 428. John A. Bushman Democrat defeats John W. Holmes Republican for Wayne assessor by 1915. Bushman 7695, Holmes 5780, Rahey 157, Shoup 426. Fifteen of twenty township trustees are Democrats, with one tie. Listed winners include Wayne H F Branning, Washington Edgar Meyer, Springfield H B Roller, St. Joseph Michael Costello, Perry Charles Roy, Madison Amasa Shaffer, Monroe Edmund Johnson, Marion Homer Brown, Maumee August Breneke, Milan Henry Bruick, Lake John Solon, Jefferson Frank B Lewcent, Rock River Horace McDuffie, Cedar Creek George Daily, Adel Herman Fenker, and Mélvin Borden as Republican.
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Henry E. Branning
Charles A. Graham
Wayne Township
Mranning
Graham
Owen B. Pierson
Frank Jenorschke
John A. Bushman
John W.holmes
Bushman
Holmes
Rahey
Shoup
Wayne
H. F. Branning
Washington
Edgar Meyer
Springfeld
H. B. Roller
St. Joseph
Michael Costello
Perry
Charles Roy
Madison
Amasa
Shaffer
Monroe
Edmund Johnson
Marlon
Homer Brown
Maumee
August Breneke
Milan
Henry Bruick
Lake
John Solon
Jefferson
Frank BH. Lewcent
River
Horace McDuffie
Cedar Creek
George Daily
Adel Herman Fenker
Charles” Cochedem
Mélvin Borden
Deing
Death of Mrs Angeline Monroe Reported in Cass Street Area
Mrs Angeline Monroe, widow of John Mann, of Cass Street, was reported dead in Ind last. The short obituary notes her residence and family ties, reflecting a local death notice with sparse details.
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John*Mann
Cass Street
Gompers Heads to Denver for AFL Meeting
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, travels from Washington to Denver where the AFL’s twenty eighth annual convention begins. He says he is not seeking re election but will stay in the ranks, defending his labor stance amid recent criticism and rumors of a cabinet post.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Denver
Post Today
Gompers
Republican Party
Labor
Amoy Welcomes Navy as Fleet Departs Harbor
The second section of the American battleship fleet under Rear Admiral Emery leaves Amoy for Olongapo after a lavish Chinese welcome. The reception reportedly cost over one million dollars, with crowds cheering as the ships saluted and fired salutes near the harbor.
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Amoy
Emery
Armoy
Government of China
Olongapo
Sperry
Fei
Ying
Australia
Morse Faces Fifteen Year Term In Prison At Tombs
Charles W. Morse promoter banker facing a fifteen year prison term in the Tombs after a narcotic panic era conviction for false entries and misapplication of bank funds. Alfred H. Curtis, co defendant, was sentenced with suspended terms. Morse seeks bail via writ of error as Curtis shows no confinement.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Alfred H. Curtis
National Bank of North America
Morse
United States
Stimson
Lacombe
Hough
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Curtis
Mrs. Morse
Judge Hough
Mrs. Curtis
Federal
Wire
Knickerbocker Trust Company Loan
Horse
Bowdoin College
Charley
American Ice Company
Tammany
Maine
Bank of New Amsterdam
Garfield National Bank
Financial
Clearing House
American Ice Securities
Consolidated Steamship Company
Coastwise Steamship Companies
Morse String
Fourteenth Street Bank
Mercantile National
Garfield Safe Deposit Company
New Amsterdam Safe Deposit Company
New York Mortgage and Security Company
New York Produce Exchange Bank
The
Title Insurance Company
van Norden Safe Deposit Company
van Norden Trust Company
Dodge-Morse
Mrs. Dodge
Charles F. Dodge
Pullman
Hummel
GOTH AND FRANK WILL NOT CLASH
Paris reports a diplomatic thaw as Germany signals willingness to accept France’s arbitration proposal over the Casa Blanca incident. Berlin, Paris tone softened with mutual regrets and a push for settling through arbitration. Austria-Hungary and Italy reportedly urged prudent action.
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Paris
France
Germany
Casa Blanca
Herr von Schoen
Prince von Radolin
Paror
Austria
Foreign Office
Francé
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Berlin
Fewest October Deaths Reported in County
In October there were eighteen deaths outside Fort Wayne per the county board of health secretary M. VanBuskirk. This marks the lowest monthly death toll of the year. The report also records fifty births, with cases including one diphtheria, fifteen typhoid fever, one scarlet fever, one smallpox, and one measles.
New Smallpox Quarantine At 742 Taylor Street
City health authorities quarantine 742 Taylor Street after Christ Foster at the address contracts smallpox. The same house housed a patient held at the isolation hospital weeks earlier. Obed Meyer, Bluffton farmer, dies of typhoid malaria.
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Taylor Street
Christ Foster
Obed Meyer
Egat
Bluffton
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Dean Worcester
BOARD
Africa
Branning
Trustees
Angeline Monroe
American Federation
Frao
Banker Curtis
McNearney
Goth
Frank
Casablanca
Fort Wayne
Jacobs Music House
Cient
Mason & Hamlin
Kranich
Bach
Krakauer
Shoninger
Melville Clark
Waugh
Keller
Smith & Barnes
Willard
Hadder
Clarendon
Jacobs
Old Square
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