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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
6
Altonet in Maine reports a narrow GOP win with Bert MM Ferald of Poland elected governor over Obadiak Gardner. Republican plurality shrinks to under 10,000, four congressmen elected, Charles P. Hatch wins state auditor. Local issues and Prohibition enforcement dominated the campaign as turnout rises to about 140,600 with results pending from small towns.
Secretary of State Root presided as temporary chair at the start of the Republican state convention in Saratoga New York. Delegates heard Root praise Hughes and the state administration while anti Hughes factions pressed for Root to allow his name as nominee.
Rochester Sept 15 The Democratic state convention struggles to nominate a candidate for governor with Lt Gov Chanler urged by State Chairman Cauiels and Justice James W. Gerard of New York City seen as Murphy backed. Upstate delegates favor Chanler while Tammany Hall adheres to Murphy led bloc. Justice Gerard has long been active in New York City Democratic circles and was elected last fall to the supreme court bench.
The Denver convention formed a platform denouncing Governor Hughes administration and endorsing William J. Bryan. It features labor and injunctions, bank deposit guarantees, and broad approval of the Bryan candidacy. The platform was discussed in conference and practically agreed upon during today’s session.
Nebraskan criticizes Roosevelt's letter praising Taft as irrelevant and lacking concrete positions. Bryan argues Taft must prove his plans and labor policy through actions, highlighting antitrust stance and jury trial issues in labor disputes.
Bryan questions Taft's independence from Roosevelt while criticizing Taft's trust record and tariff clarity. He argues the president's endorsement adds little without concrete public commitments and urges explicit statements on what Taft would do beyond endorsement.
Cincinnati September 15 William Howard Taft defends his record and speeches as simple indications of his political position and challenges Bryan to examine his own record amid Perry Roosevelt letter controversy.
A Boston meeting proposed a post election conference of New England governors and state officials with business, agricultural and civic leaders to plan joint action. Topics include forest and waterway preservation, fish protection, road improvement, public health laws and tuberculosis control in dairy products.
The piece argues Bryan’s candidacy lacks clear stances on silver, anti imperialism, and railroad regulation, while praising Roosevelt policies and warning that Bryan would undermine labor wages with a 50 cent dollar proposal and favor government ownership. It echoes a 1900 political smear aimed at mobilizing Republican voters.
Joe Wright, serving fifteen years, and George Clegg, a life sentence, escaped from Chester penitentiary by prying bars and slipping into a skiff on the Mississippi River. Wright, convicted of murder, had prior shoots at a detective in St. Charles, Missouri, and a 1904 killing in Illinois. Clegg's alias is George Fitzgerald. a jury in Springfield, Ill., prepares to try Joe James for Ballard murder with self defense claimed.
John Tate thirty died by self inflicted gunshot at the Danville waterworks station after fearing job loss and upcoming marriage to Minnie Engel of the city. Tate had prepared to start housekeeping and Miss Engel lies prostrate with uncertain recovery.
Bloomington Ul Sept 15 E M Vail of Henry county reports curing rheumatism and other ailments through fasting after two weeks without food. He states symptoms vanished and credits abstention from eating for relief, with ongoing testimonials of fasting efficacy.
In Sycamore on September 1 Mrs WH Mam Culver, 70, set fire to her clothing with a lone gun nearby. Her screams drew help but she died within minutes from burns.
John Kaspacas, while demonstrating strength at the corner of fifty-ninth street and Wentworth avenue in Chicago, dropped a fifty pound dumbbell on his nose injuring it and fracturing the nose bone in front of about 100 spectators.
Chicago quotes show wheat corn and oats ranges with sept and may contracts, while lard and hog markets move slightly. East Buffalo live stock reports list cattle hogs and sheep prices with steady to strong tones. A stray dialogue about a flower motif on a billhead follows the market items.
Freeport residents praise Doan's Ointment as a reliable cure for piles eczema and itching. M M Mayer of 351 Homer Street says eight years after initial cure he remains free of eczema after using two boxes from Hummert's drug store. Sold by all dealers price six cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
A Freeport Hardware Company ad touts STOVINK as a stove finish that will stay black on red hot iron without rubbing off. One coat provides a non shiny black coat lasting 8 to 60 days, with a 25 cent bottle guarantee.
Four persons are known dead and twenty six injured after two passenger coaches rolled down an embankment on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad two miles south of Clarkesdale. The list includes Mrs Virgie Grahim of Glendora and Miss Amherll Russell of Anding among the dead, with several seriously injured survivors.
Sven Anders Fled in the explorer who began in 1906 from Chinese Turkestan toward Tibet has arrived in Simla. He will be guest of Lord Minto for ten days before returning to his Stockholm home.
A humorous fragment depicts a man noting his wife, a connoisseur of antiques, fills the house with old items while marital tensions surface with references to his mother-in-law Puck.
A brief cartoonish exchange plays on the idea of perpetual spring for the Acrobat and a never-ending season. The Baltimore American caption contrasts regular seasons with a humorous twist.
A courtroom exchange shows the judge asking if the prisoner has anything to offer before sentencing, the prisoner replies he had ten dollars but his lawyer took it. The line comes from Browning’s era depiction of a brief prison term.
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