Prohibitionists Nominate Chafin Watkins at Columbus Convention
The Prohibition national convention in Columbus Ohio nominates Eugene W Chafin for president and A S Watkins for vice president after three ballots. The ticket includes state governor candidates Chafin in Illinois and Watkins in Ohio and a platform calling for nationwide prohibition and electoral reforms.
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Prohibition
Eugene W. Chafin
Illinois
A. S. Watkins
Ohio
Columbus
Chafin
Daniel R. Sheen
Peoria
New York
Indiana
Wisconsin
William B. Palmore
St. Louis
Prohibition Party
Chicago
Waukesha County
Ilinois
Windstorm exposes hosiery embroidery of great men
A Lincoln windstorm uncovered a fad among local girls as images of Washington Bryan and Taft appeared on their hosiery. One girl admitted that all the girls were taking up the idea as skirts were blown and stockings revealed the pictures.
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Lincoln
Fairview
Washington
Bryan
Taft
Hungarian Nobles Face Sudden Deaths in Pest
In Buda Pesth a sensational double tragedy unfolds as a nobleman shoots himself in his father’s presence after a dispute and another prominent figure shoots himself while pleading for money, signaling turmoil among Hungary’s elite.
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Buda-Pesth
Josef Banehigy
C&t Carlzay
See City
Inventor Claims Weather Control Machine From Alton Farmer
Danville reports John Norcross of Alton proposes a weather altering device to end crop damage from storms. He describes a high voltage setup with accumulators and a 150 foot mast projecting current to the atmosphere, claiming it can produce a desired weather state.
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Danville
John Norcross
Alton
Norcross
Tragic tale of Lillian Watkins and Kennedy in Chicago race secret
The Chicago story centers on Lillian Beatrice Watkins, a light skinned mulatto who passed as white and died by suicide after a romance with Thomas F. Kennedy who later wed a white girl. Kennedy killed himself in Washington Park weeks after marrying, amid a race driven tragedy affecting many. Mrs. Ida Watkins recalls the mother's sacrifice to let her daughter pass as white.
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Chicago
Lillian Beatrice Watkins
Washington Park
North Side
Thomas F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Gwendolyn Reese
Ida Watkins
Forest Avenue
Lillian
Two Wives Eloped With Same Man In Pittsburg Case
Harry Minor and Willard Craucher Bell Telephone officials appeal to police after suspecting both of their wives ran off with a single man. They believe the partner is an agent for a certain shoe polish brand.
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Pittsburg
Harry Minor
Willard Craucher
Bell Telephone Company
Della Wagner Saved From 160 Foot Wisconsin Cliff Leap
A man leaped from a fast moving car into the arms of Y B Jones of Chicago to save Mrs Della Wagner of Milwaukee from being hurled to death over a 160 foot precipice at the Dells of Wisconsin. The car struck a tree stump and hung over the cliff.
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Milwaukee
Y. B. Jones
Chicago
Della Wagner
Wisconsin
Lawsuit seeks $950000 in Darr mine disaster case
Special suits have been filed in the United States Circuit Court against the Pittsburg Coal Company seeking damages totaling 950000 for the Darr mine disaster of December 19 1907 in which nearly 300 men lost their lives.
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Pittsburg
United States
Pittsburg Coal Company
Darr
Britain to Buy Brazilian Battle Ships
The Daily Express reports definite information that Great Britain will purchase the three Brazilian battle ships under construction in England.
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Sly John Bull
London
The
Daily Express
Great Britain
England
Norwegian captain debuts unsinkable lug sail ship Uraed
Capt. Bude, a Norwegian inventor, sailed the eye shaped Uraed from Bergen to London across the North Sea. The vessel relies on a small lug sail and claims to be unsinkable, navigating the Thames under the captain’s command.
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Ee Ie
Bergen
Norway
North Sea
London
Capt
Bude
Thames
Taft Rules Out Corporate Campaign Funds
The national Republican committee will refuse corporate contributions, said W H Taft in Hot Springs Virginia. He added the law in New York requiring campaign disclosure will be followed and federal limits on corporate gifts to presidential elections will be observed regardless of any challenges.
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National Committee
Committee On
Prohibition Party of the
United States
Columbus
Ohio
Congress
District of Columbia
Tariff Commission
Post Office Department
Hot Springs
National Republican Committee
W. H. Taft
Republican Party
Taft
New York State
Autograph Kills SIA Train Near Columbia City
A Pennsylvania Manhattan Limited at sixty miles per hour struck an automobile carrying Charles Sherman King and six others near Columbia City Indiana. All six occupants were instantly killed including Mrs King and the chauffeur Tim mis. The crash occurred as King aimed to beat the two and a half hour trip to Lake Wawasee.
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Columbia City
Ind
Charles Sherman King
Ft. Wayne
Wabash County
Timmis
Limited
Abruzzi Wedding Planned for October in Turin
The Duke of the Abruzzi will marry Miss Katharine Elkins in early October at Turin. A semi official note confirms the wedding after a Roma newspaper cast doubt. The duke sails from the Regina Elena on September 30 and guests at Racconigi are being prepared lavishly with over $20,000 spent on new furniture.
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Rome
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Turin
Washington
Cisterna Palace
Racconigi
White House Requires $1000 Weekly for Preservation
The Army Engineer in charge of the White House Colonel C S Bramwell says the official view is that the nation must spend one thousand dollars per week in the next fiscal year to keep the president’s home habitable.
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Washington, Special
C. S. Bramwell
White House
Get Big Corn Prices in Sha byville Ind
Local market reports show best white corn at 75 cents a bushel the highest price paid here since the Civil War. Farmers note rising demand and tighter supplies as shy buyers seek grain for winter needs.
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Byville
Ind
Invention Aims to Limit Car Speed for Police Regulation
Leonardo Perez of Ocampo, Cuidad Juárez, has designed a device to attach to a car engine that regulates gasoline flow to cap speed under police control. The machine would prevent vehicles from exceeding the limit, with enforcement by authorities.
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Cuidad Jaarez
Mexico
Leonardo Perez
Ocampo
Rains Stop Maine Woods Fires With Heavy Showers
Special showers in Portland Maine have halted the wildfires devastating Maine woods over the past two weeks. Officials estimate damages from the fires may reach five hundred thousand dollars though the exact loss is not yet set.
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Portland
Maine Woods
Sultan Faces Revolution in Constantinople Turmoil
Reports from Constantinople say 7,000 Turkish soldiers in Monastir district have revolted and 32,000 troops have been ordered to the outbreak scene. Emergency measures and military movements dominate the capital as authorities confront growing instability.
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Sultan
Constantinople
Itis
Monastir
Balloon rage fails as Chicago wins short endurance race
Balloons launched from St Paul to set a world endurance record. Chicago’s balloon, the largest in the field, landed near Blooming Prairie seventy three miles south of St Paul claiming victory in a close race. Pommern, the German craft, landed at War Saw Minnesota after a 52 mile flight, failing to beat international distances.
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St. Paul
Minn
Chicago
Blooming Prairie
C. A. Coey
Windy City
St. Louis
Asbury Park
N. J
Warsaw
Northfield
Lotus IL
Memphis
Ohio
Pommern
L’isle de France
America
Abercron
Anjou
United States
Alice Sings Tammany at National Park Visit
In Denver the Tammany delegation recounts meeting Alice Roosevelt Longworth in Yellowstone. Mrs Longworth led her group in song, took up her husband’s cane, and paraded the Tam many crowd while singing Tammany around the stages amid cheers.
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Denver
Colo
Yellowstone Park
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
National Park
Sultan Abdul Hamid Confronts Possible Christian Princess Marriage
In Constantinople Abdul Hamid faces health decline and political strain as advisers warn his son’s planned marriage to a Christian princess could spark a revolt. He has resisted meddling in his son’s choices but now admits deep uncertainty about the course ahead.
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Constantinople
Abdul Hamid
Swindler Sells Fraudulent Money Making Machine in Altoona
In Altoona Pennsylvania a wealthy merchant was swindled by a man offering a device to print banknotes of all denominations. The buyer reportedly paid $100 toward a $1,500 machine before realizing the scam.
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Altoona
Carriers Seek Higher Pay and Government Support
The Rural Letter Carriers' Association executive board met in Indianapolis to push for higher pay for carriers required to carry locked pouches to post office stations. They also discussed asking the government to supply horses and rigs.
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Indianapolis
Ind
The
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association of the United States
Burglar Forces Car to Speed Through Irving Park Ride
A burglar held a revolver to the motorman on an Irving Park boulevard car and forced a near mile long high speed run to escape a pursuing private watchman. He escaped with sealskins and furs valued at about $1,000.
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Chicago
Irving Park Boulevard
Attorney sues New York Central for $1 million in Chicago
William Armstrong, an attorney, files a $1,000,000 suit in Chicago alleging services rendered for the New York Central Railway. The case centers on disputed charges and contract claims against the railway.
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Chicago
William Armstrong
New York Central Railway
Reputation of Daughter in Irvin Carter Case
At the Irvin Carter preliminary hearing in Huntsville Missouri Mrs. T J Carter testified she sacrificed her sixteen year old daughter Peulab to save her son. She described discovering the affair between Peulab and Thomas J Bagby and that her daughter confessed. Her brother George Harris counseled death for Bagby and a night watch was set until the act was done.
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Huntsville
T. J. Carter
Peulab
Irvin Carter
Thomas J. Bagby
Alia Executed for Murder of Denver Priest
Guiseppe Alia, condemned for killing Father Leo Leinrichs at St. Elizabeth's church in Denver, was taken to the death trap Wednesday and paid the extreme penalty. He shouted Italian slogans and maledictions toward the Romani priesthood, sparking Catholic world anxiety about a possible priest murder plot.
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Canon City
Colo
Italy
Guiseppe Alia
Leo [Leinrichs
St. Elizabeth’s Church
Denver
Aviation funds urged by War Department leaders
Brig. Gen James Aten chief signal officer and the board of ordinance and fortifications will ask Congress next winter to appropriate $1,000 for aeronautics. The push follows public interest in Ft Meyer balloon tests and advances by other nations.
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Washington, Special
James Aten
Board of Ordinance and Fortifications of
The
War Department
Bs Congress
Leeds Leaves Million to Son
Paris reports the will of William B. Leeds who died in New York June 23 is with attorney Lewis C. Ledyard in Europe. The will reportedly disinherits his first wife. Rudolph Leeds of Richmond Indiana, a son by the first wife, is said to receive one million dollars.
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Leeds
New York
Paris
William B. Leeds
Lewis C. Ledyard
Europe
Rudolph Leeds
Richmond
Ind
Plow Unearths Skeleton and Rare Coins in Indiana Field
In New Albany Indiana special news a farmer named William Johnson near Fredonia in Crawford county uncovered a human skeleton while plowing along a river bank. An almost wholly decayed purse beside the bones held seventy nine two dollar and fifty cent gold coins.
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New Albany
Ind
William Johnson
Fredonia
Crawford County
Salted calf misadventure at New York farm
A Woodbury farmer hired a boy to salt a calf in the pasture. The lad rubbed salt over the animal, drawing curious Colts who licked the salt from the hair and nearly tore off the hide in a wild chase.
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New York
Woodbury
Runaway Incident Claims Miss Dupree in Columbus
Miss Elizabeth Dupree aged 38 dies from injuries after her horse panicked at a Democratic National Chairman Thomas Taggart tour car in Columbus Indiana. The horse bolted and threw Miss Dupree and her mother Mary Dupree against an iron fence.
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Columbus
Ind
Elizabeth Dupree
Thomas Taggart
Farmers to Unite Against Thrashers in Oklahoma
In Okadache Oklahoma farmers plan a united stand against the Thrashers Trust. A farmers union may form as wheat growers consider returning to the old flail if thrashers keep their charge at ten cents per bushel. Farmers would provide all required resources.
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Okadache
Okla
Thrashers’ Trust
Oklahoma
Pittsburg Man Follows Sister to Grave by Suicide
William A. Moffit of Sistersville West Virginia, grieving over his sister’s death by suicide, drank the remaining poison from the bottle and died hours later in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburg
William A. Moffit
Sistersville
W. Va
Will forbids heir racing stable and keeps estate terms
The will of F. and P. Stow, who died May 17, disposes of 1,751,700 dollars. It directs the son and heir not to keep or run racehorses within twenty one years of the testator's death, or the heir loses his interest, except for an annuity of 2,500 dollars.
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London
F. & P. Stow
No Canned Talk for Teddy in Oyster Bay
President Roosevelt refuses a speaking engagement with a receiver of a talking machine. The offer aimed at producing public sale records but was declined in Oyster Bay New York.
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Teddy
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
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