Roosevelt inland speech signals progressive push in Indiana
Washington Aug 17 Roosevelt completes Indianapolis oration and shares it with trusted friends. Beveridge drives the radical Indiana line as Taft faces critique of tariff stance and preparation pace. Hitchcock plans a long western trip to gauge effects of Roosevelt tour and report back before a key September cabinet meeting.
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Washington
Theodore ‘Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Roosevelt
Indiana
Beveridge
Senate
Taft
St. Paul
Conservation Congress
Hitchcock
Frank H. Hitchcock
California
Theodore Roosevelt
Beverly
Col. Roosevelt
Ballinger
Hitchbeck
Ohio
Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Oregon
Kansas
Roosevelt up in air as Harmon invites Roosevelt to fly
Boston August 17. Clifford B Harmon, noted aviator, says he believes Colonel Roosevelt will fly with him for a few minutes at the aviation field. Roosevelt is invited to join Doubleday Pate and Co at the corner stone laying of the Country Site in America building in Garden City L I. Flights by Harrison Baldwin and Fairchild are planned for the exercises. A definite acceptance is not expected until Roosevelt reaches the field Friday morning.
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Boston
Mass
Roosevelt
Clifford B. Harmon
Milionaire
United Press
Touraine
Doubleday, Pate and Company
America
Garden City
L. L
Harrison
Baldwin
Fairchild
Moissant Sets New Channel Flight Record With Passenger
John Moissant, a little known Spanish aviator, flew from Calais to Tilmanstone carrying his mechanician Albert, setting a new Channel crossing record. He plans to continue to London, aiming for the Paris to London prize of $25,000, weather permitting.
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Moissent
Londox
Aus
John Moissant
English Channel
Calais
Tilmanstone
Eisat
Dover
Moissant
London
Pares
Albert
London Daily Mail
Issy
Paris
Amiens
Channel
Ilmanstone
French flyer Gerau escapes injury after Versailles crash
At Versailles on Wednesday the monoplane of Gerau mechanician for Santos Dumont hit telephone wires after the motor failed. The aeroplane was wrecked but Gerau escaped with slight injuries.
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Gerau
Santos Dumont
Versailles
Deputies Beat Off Angry Mob in Hinton Jail Arousal
In Hinton West Virginia on August 17 a mob tried to lynch James Dawson a Black man accused of killing Mrs Lottie Ailess and fatally wounding her husband. Deputies beat them back early Wednesday. State militia arrived by train to guard the jail with two more companies on standby in Wayne awaiting orders.
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Hinton
W.a
James Dawson
Lottie Ailess
Quinnimount
Sherif
Glasacock
Wayne
Hereford cattle runaway disrupts Rushville loading night
Eighteen Hereford cattle broke free while being loaded into a car in Rushville Indiana Tuesday night and spent the night in J C Clore's cornfield after a windy hectic chase remembered as a near brigade like charge.
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Rushville
Ind
Nght
J.C. Clore
French tobacco sales fall despite higher prices
Paris reports show a 180000 decrease in duty tobacco sales for ten months compared with July 2009, even as tobacco remains a government monopoly. The postal department, by contrast, records about 500000 more July receipts than in 1909 despite a reduced mail tariff.
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Paris
Nnde
France
Postal Department
Harrison elected Monon president in Chicago meeting
Fairfax Harrison, longtime Southern rails executive and Monon route head, was elected president of the Chicago Indianapolis Louisville rail line at a directors meeting in Chicago. He succeeds Ira G. Rawn who died in Winnetka June 20 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Salary set at 25,000 dollars annually.
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Chicago
Chicago, Indianapolis
Louisville
Rai 3S
Monon
St. Fork
Fairfax Harri Vn
Southern Rails
Ira G. Rawn
Winnetka
Seven Hurt in Streetcar Collision in Dense Fog
Seven persons were seriously injured, with two perhaps fatally, and many others bruised when a streetcar jumped the track on a foggy morning at Ninety-fifth street and Michigan avenue. The wreck happened on a sharp curve and four girls were badly hurt.
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Chicago
Ninety-fifth Street
Michigan Avenue
Bookkeeper Claimed for Large Attachment
Adolph Cabriel a Blatz leather company bookkeeper in New York was ill with typhoid for two weeks. An examination of his books led to an attachment against him for 36 725 issued by Justice Goff of the supreme court amid the illness.
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New York
Adolph Cabriel
Blatz Leather Company
Justice Goff
Supreme Court
Pensions for Alaska Dogs Recommended by General Maus
Brig. Gen. Marton P. Maus, commanding the Department of the Columbia, will urge the War Department to grant pensions for Alaska dogs. Maus, who has just returned from a tour of Alaskan military posts, described the dogs as essential to frontier service and said the proposal deserves careful consideration.
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Portland
Ore
Alaska
War Department
Marton P., Maus
Department of the. Columbia
Maus
President Ledru Montt Dies in Bremen Outbreak
Bremen reports the death of President Ledru Montt who arrived aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Doctors attribute heart failure. no autopsy planned. Mrs Montt is prostrated and under medical care as German officials order full honors for the widow and her party.
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Bremen
Chile
Ledru Montt
City Attorney Probes Track Elevation Bill Disputes
City attorney Merle N A Walker leads an inquiry into railroad company bills tied to track elevation. City Engineer Klausmann forwarded bills for review, initiating a probe into older charges paid long ago. The city may owe a share of the work but a definite percentage has not been set.
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Merle N. A. Walker
Klausmann
Walker
Niece inherits treasures of renowned Philadelphia artist
Edmun Dareh Lewis, a wealthy artist and collector, died Tuesday and left his art collection valued around 500000 dollars to his niece Mrs. Clifford Wheaton Vaughan of New York. The bequest includes a throne once used by Pope Pius IX and another owned by Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Philadelphia
Edmunud Dareh Lewis
Clifford Wheaton Vaughan
New York
Pius IX
Napoleon Bonaparte
Defense aims to prove Vera Prosser emotionally insane
Libby Montana August 17. The defense for Vera Prosser, on trial for shooting her divorced husband Reese Prosser aboard a Great Northern train, plans to show emotional insanity. Expert D A Ghent of Seattle has been brought in to testify to her condition.
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Libby
Mont
Vera Prosser
Reese T. Prosser
Great Northern
D. A. Ghent
Seattle
Presser
Payne Tariff and Patent Law Nourish Trust in Shoes
A Hampton's magazine excerpt by Judson Welliver reveals the shoe machinery trust's hold on tariffs and the patent office. It claims the Winslow design owns about 95 percent of U S shoe makers and describes tariff maneuvers to protect high shoe prices while throttling competition abroad.
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New York
Shoe Machinery Trust
Hampton’s
Judson
Welliver
United States Patent Office
Standard Oil
Beef Trust
Sidney W. Winslow
Aldrich- Payne
Trust
Patent Office
Government
Frankfort
Germany
Elecester
England
Paris
France
Canada
Washington
Patent Office Criticized for Extravagant Practices
The shoe machinery division and patent office in Washington face sharp critique for lavish dinners and entertainment as trust methods. Former examiner Charles A. Mason joined the trust as chief technical expert in patent affairs, highlighting broader calls for reform in the patent office.
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Ent
Shoe Machinery
Patent Office
Washington
Charles A. Mason
Trust
Indiana Health Officers Face Capital Court Flurry
Washington hearing tests the use of benzoate of soda in foods as Curtice Brothers of Rochester and Williams Brothers of Detroit challenge Indiana health officers. Dr. W B Bigelow testifies. Dr. Harvey Wiley to follow. The case centers on whether soda preservative is deleterious and if department experts can testify in their official capacity.
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Sun’s
Washington Service
Hibbs
Washington
Curtice Brothers
Rochester
N. Y
Williams Brothers
Detroit
Indiana
W. B. Bigelow
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W.wiley
Agricultural Department
Rowland Evans
Indianapolis
United States
Anderson
Bingham
Barnard
Wiley
Chancery
Job Barnard
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Department of Agriculture
Eagan
Stanton C. Peele
Dr. Wiley
Department
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