President Roosevelt's East Carroll hunting camp ready
Lake Providence La Oct 5 President Roosevelt arrives for a hunting camp setup in East Carroll parish with eleven tents near the Tensas river. Five tents host white party members, two for guides and servants, plus kitchens dining tents and horse tents as work continues before the party’s arrival.
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Lake Providence
Roosevelt
East Carroll Parish
Tensas
Tensas River
Louisiana
Presidnt
Tvents
Roosevelt arrives in Lake Providence crowd lines station
A long distance message reports President Roosevelt and his party arrived in Lake Providence Louisiana this morning. A large crowd from the surrounding area lined up at the railroad station to meet him and Roosevelt delivered a short speech.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Lake Providence
Roosevelt
Warned in a vision veteran captain quits seafaring
New York, Oct 5. Captain August Richter, famed commander of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, has retired after a supernatural warning to give up seafaring following a collision with an iceberg on a voyage from Bremen. His brother Herman left the business two decades ago for a similar reason after his ship Saale struck an iceberg.
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New York
August Richter
Lloyd
Kronzprinz Wilhelm
Richter
R. Nierich
Krenzprinz
Herman
Saale
Grand Banks
Bremen
Kronprinz
Captain Richter
Sea Captain Shifts After Kronprinz Wilhelm Records
Under strain a warning to give up the sea. Captain Richter commands the Kronprinz Wilhelm, a premier North German Lloyd liner that set trans Atlantic records. Retirement triggers crew moves as Captain Polack moves to Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and others shift to Koenigin Luise and Prinzess Alice.
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Richter
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Polack
P. Wetter
H. Bleeker
Koenigin Luise
O. Volger
Alice
Pure Food Laws Not Cause of High Food Prices
Indianapolis Oct 7 H E Barnard state food and drug commissioner says pure food laws have little connection to rising food prices. He argues bread flour cereals and canned goods prices follow market forces, not legislation, noting demand for good butter and fraud issues but no major price impact from food laws.
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Indianapolis
H. E. Barnard
Food and Drug Commissioner
Barnard
Farmer Sues Over Cut Off Annual Pass
Anderson Indiana October seven 1903 Boland sues Big Four Railroad for six thousand dollars damages for failing to deliver an annual pass. He leased a gravel pit to the company in 1903 in exchange for a lifetime pass valued at about 200 dollars per year. He claims damages based on his life expectancy and the pass’s value, raising questions of interstate versus state contract law.
Vance Collapses After Lakes to Gulf Address
John I. Vance of Columbus Ohio, president of the Ohio River Improvement Association, collapsed after finishing a speech at the Lakes to the Gulf waterways convention in Memphis Tennessee. He was taken to a temporary hospital where doctors reported his condition serious but improved. he delivered remarks urging unity and broad support for inland waterways development.
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Memphis
Tenn
John I. Vance
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio River Improvement Association
Vance
Great
Ohio River
the Waterways Association
Congress
Alleghenies
Rockies
Florida
Broward
Chicago
Gulf Waterways Association
New Orleans
Girl Impels Train Wreck Plot by Teen Lover
Rochester Indiana October 8 Miss Iva Wagoner seventeen daughter of a well known minister is under arrest on a charge of trying to wreck a Lake Erie and Western passenger train endangering forty or fifty lives The detectives say the wreck was planned so she could see her sweetheart employed by the railroad who would have responded to the scene of the wreck if it occurred
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Lake Erie
Wagoner
Miss Wagoner
Rochester
Ind
Iva Wagoner
Lake Erie and Western
Beautiful 17 Year Old Frances Staudt Commits Suicide
Union City Ind Oct 7 The community is stunned by the suicide of Frances Staudt 17 found in a barn clutching a Bible with a nearly emptied carbolic acid bottle nearby A note pinned to her dress and a defaced antidote label indicate a deliberate act Her bright promising life included a teaching certificate and a planned trip with her sister via Greenville to Greenup County None of the family has released the contents of her note and no motive is given
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Union City
Ind
Frances Staudt
Ira
Greenville
Frances
Rockefeller Says I Am Trustee of Others Wealth
New York Oct 7 Dr Robert S MacArthur quoted John D Rockefeller as saying he acts as trustee of others property given by God. He explains he is steward of vast interests for widows orphans and the poor and feels duty to God and investors to stay active in Standard Oil’s welfare.
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New York
Roberts. MacArthur
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Explosion at Osaka factory kills many girls
A massive blast at the Takatsuke shell factory in Osaka killed sixty three women and injured over sixty as workers sorted condemned shells. The plant is burning and several boats with explosives are also alight.
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Tokio
Takatsuke Factory
Osaka
Postponed Opening of Kentucky Trotting Meeting
Lexington Kentucky October 8 The opening of the annual Kentucky Trotting Horse Benders senocta ton meeting was postponed for one day due to unspecified reasons. Local officials state the event will resume with revised scheduling.
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Lexington
Senocta Ton
Dismissal Motions in Insurance Indictments Ahead of Oct 16
Five executives from Metropolitan Life New York Life and Mutual Life face indictments in a legislative inquiry. Defense motions seek dismissal or delay, District Attorney Jerome urges quick argument, hearings set for October 14 to 21 in Baltimore and New York.
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New York
Jerome
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
John R. Hegeman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
George W. Perkins
Charles.s. Fairchild
New York Life
Walter R. Gillette
Robert A. Granuls
The
John Hegeman
Mtropolitan Life Insurance Company
Hakodate Fire Leaves 45000 Homeless in Japan
A fire in Hakodate destroyed thirteen thousand buildings, four-fifths of the city, leaving about 45,000 people shelterless. Three hundred residents were reported dead, per the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions observer in Japan.
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Boston
Japan
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Hakodate
Rioting in Calcutta Wounds Many Policemen
Rioting in northern Calcutta continued last evening after a troubled Tuesday night left about forty police wounded. Students and hoodlums gathered on rooftops and streets pelting passersby with bricks, targeting Europeans. No deaths reported but numerous severe injuries.
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Calcutta
Blames President for Famous Cocktail Incident
Baltimore Maryland October 3 The Rev Dr Charles A Jones pastor of Monroe Street Methodist Church accuses President Roosevelt of being responsible for Charles W Fairbanks defeat as lay delegate to the Methodist Episcopal conference He is blunt in a letter to the President noting Fairbanks retirement to private life following a bitter contest and a dispatch from Columbus Indiana details the defeat at the seamen assembly
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Baltimore
Fairbanks
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Roosevelt
Charles A. Jones
Monroe Street Methodist
Jones
Fairbanka
Columbus
Ind
Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mng Seamen Assembly
Washington Tax Doubt Revealed by Fairfax Record
Documentary evidence from Fairfax county Virginia details a 1760 grand jury presentment charging George Washington with not entering taxable property and swearing a false oath. Legal expert explains that the act qualified as tax dodging under colonial law, not perjury, marking Washington as accused by twelve neighbors.
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Washington
Fairfax County
Virginia
George Washington
R. Donahue
Fairfax Herald
Fairfax Courthouse
Captain Donahue
Donahue
Colony of
George William Fairfax
John Carlyle
Daniel French
Robert Bogges
Catesby, Cocke
Townshend Dade
Sybill West
Garrard Alexander
Jemima Minor
William Ramsay
Benjamin Grayson
George Mason
John Plummer
Daniel McCarthy
Abraham Barnes
Walter Oliver
Fairfax
Oliver
House of Burgesses
Fort Wayne Man Taylor Heffner Dies After Illness
Zachary Heffner aged 59 a carbuilder in the Pennsylvania shops died Tuesday evening at his home 2501 Lillie street after an extended illness. A native of Ohio he had lived in Fort Wayne many years and is survived by his widow.
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Zachary. Taylor Heffner
Pennsylvania
Lillie Street
Mr. Heffner
Ohio
Fort Wayne
Oliver Roaenbeck Residing Near Diederich Farm
fragmentary report identifies Oliver Roaenbeck, son of a farmer named Diederich, living near the local farmstead with limited context in the OCR fragment.
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Oliver
Roaenbeck
Diederich
Brutal assault targets wife in Crawfordsville arrest follows
Samuel Coombs an employee of the Water and Light company attacked his wife on North street after a separation and divorce filing. She lies unconscious with serious facial injuries and poor prospects for recovery. Coombs is jailed awaiting outcome of the injuries.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Samuel Coombs
Water and Light Company
North Street
Coombs
Dead Man Mystery Near Cincinnati Seemingly Robbery
The body of a man was found today near the Big Four crossing of the Carthage pike on the city outskirts with two wounds to the left temple and indications of murder and robbery. A tailors union card addressed to J. J. Hocter and letters from unions in Springfield and Montgomery, plus two bank books in the name Ira O. Nance and Harry O. Nance, muddle the victim’s identity as investigators seek motive and suspects.
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Cincinnati
Big Four
Carthage Pike
Tailors’ Union
Springfield
Ohio
J. J. Hocter
Tailors’ Union of
Montgomery
Ala
Ira O. Nance
First National Bank of
Bloomington
Ind
Hart in Auto Wreck in Churubusco
Editor W A Geiger of the Churubusco Truth drove a car into a Pontiac street car at Calhoun and Williams streets. The crash lifted the street car from rails and into the gutter injuring Mrs W C Kelly and shaking Geiger. neither were seriously hurt. Passengers feared worse after prior crash injuries to the Geiger and Kelly couples.
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Calhoun
Williams Streets
W. A. Geiger
Churubusco Truth
W. C. Kelly
West DeWald Street
Geiger
Kelly
Mr. Geiger
Street Car Hits Wagon in City Collision
Sherman Cox sustained three fractured ribs and internal injuries when a street car struck the wagon carrying his family on Broadway and Home avenue. The family, moving to Fairfield farm, was aboard the furniture laden wagon. others escaped unhurt as furniture scattered and wagon wrecked.
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Sherman Cox
Broadway
Home Avenue
Cox
Fairfield
Adams Township Bird and Game Association Elects Officers
The Adams Township Bird and Game Protective Association held its annual meeting at Adams Center on Monday. Officers elected include President Henry J. Hoevel, Vice President C. Jd. Schlaudroff, Secretary John Felger, Treasurer Ernest Pruesse, and Directors J. H. Bueter Fred Meyer and Ed Allgeier. The group now lists 230 members and held an enjoyable smoker after the session.
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Adams Township Bird and Game Protective Association
Adams Center
Henry J. Hoevel
C. Jd. Schlaudroff
John Felger
Ernest Pruesse
J. H. Bueter
Fred Meyer
Ed Allgeier
Surveyors Reach Fort Wayne For Toledo and St. Louis Line
Surveyors for the proposed Toledo and St. Louis electric line reached Fort Wayne's eastern city limits yesterday. They completed the survey through J. H. Bueter's farm and moved westward along the old Wabash and Erie canal route. The path runs via New Haven and joins East Washington street street railway lines.
James Bryant Charged With Wife Desertion In Ohio
James Bryant was arrested in Paulding Ohio on a wife desertion charge. He was held by authorities and later taken back today claiming he was in town seeking work.
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James Bryant
Paulding
Ohio
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