Camp Now Hive of Soldiers in Trim for Work
Indiana Militia will join regulars at Ft. Benjamin Harrison as five regiments gather for duty. Camp grows west of Big Four tracks with mess shacks and tar paper screens. Troops from Sixth cavalry and Twenty-sixth infantry arrive. engineers, hospital corps, and bakers mobilize. Headquarters and roads prepared, dust controlled, telegraph lines strung, and supplies rail-served for the camp setup.
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Benjamin Harrison
Big Four
Indiana Union Traction Company
Indiana
Indianailitiamen
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Indianapolis
Camp Perry
Ft. Wayne
Ft. Brady
Mich
Hospital Corps
Ft. Leavenworth
Pipes
Leavenworth
Engineer Corps
Carroll B. Hodges
Hodges
Washington
Col. McComb
Maj. Root
Col. Simpson
Col. Moss
Sixth Cavalry
Joseph B. Baer
Terth Infantry
Ft. Harrison
E. L. D. Breckenridge
Post Office Ready for Fort Soldiers Maneuvers
Fort Benjamin Harrison switches to wartime posture as Indianapolis opens a field postoffice during September maneuvers. Two clerks operate a tent station delivering mail and selling money orders and postal supplies. Last year soldiers and visitors sent thousands of cards and letters, and the office expects heavier mail this season.
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Fort
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Treated 15 friends with stolen money at theater
A 13 year old boy paid for fifteen admissions at a moving picture show with stolen money after robbing Ben Gibson's store on Station Street. Detectives Lancaster and Morgan found the burglar had $7, admitted under questioning that he financed the spree and set others up.
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Gibson
Taft Insurgents Rebuff Taft In Wisconsin Rift
Reports from La Crosse Wisconsin say Republican leaders blame Taft for failing to unite regulars and insurgents as Cummins, Dolliver, Borah and Clapp campaign for La Follette. Cummins denounces broken platform pledges and urges a broad tariff commission to study schedules and push tariff readjustment for the public.
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Washington
la Crosse
Wis
Republican Party
Taft
Senator Cummins
Iowa
la Follette
Cummins
House
Senate
Congress
Dolliver
Borah
Clapp
Wisconsin
Kilbourne
Portage
Sheboygan
Two Rivers
Nantinec
Credit Due Insurgents in Progressive Legislation
Congressman George W. Norris of Nebraska credits insurgents for the last session's progressive laws and warns that the Cannon Aldrich machine aims to defeat the lawmakers who enabled the president's claims. The Aug. 30 remark follows Taft's Beverly statement.
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Norris
McCook
Neb
Taft
Beverly
George W. Norris
Nebraska
House
Senate
Congress
Cannon- Aldrich
Sherman Extols Tariffs at Zinc Mines Speech
Five thousand mine workers gathered at Joplin Missouri to hear Vice President Sherman praise the zinc schedule of the Payne Ulrich tariff law. The speech was delivered at the brink of a large shaft near one of the American Lead and Zinc Company mines.
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Joflin
Sherman
American Leat and Zinc Company
Mob fires on troops in Bilboa clashes
In Bilboa Spain on August 30 mobs attacked troops deployed to keep order. Strikers clashed with soldiers and several people joined the confrontations amid ongoing disturbances.
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Bilboa
Spain
Weather forecast fragment shows rain and cooler temperatures
The fragment indicates showers on Wednesday and a cooler spell tonight with local forecasts mentioning sun and general temperature notes, but details are incomplete and unclear.
Bryan in Denison hotel staged scene hints Indiana trip
The article portrays William J. Bryan's Denison visit with Thomas Taggart and William J. Bryan in a theatrical demonstration. Bryan declines fixed dates, says he promised many campaigns but will not discuss exact schedules, while Indiana campaign hopes linger amid party intrigue.
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Bryan
Indiana
Mr. Bryan
Klaw-Erlanger Syndicate
Shuberts
Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart
Stokes Jackson
William J. Bryan
Denison
Taggart
Sherman
New York
Edgar Perkins
Livingston
Georgia
Cannon
U. S. Jackson
Taggart Democratic Committee
Myron King
Girls Found Drinking at Jacob Loy’s Place
Two young women aged 17 and 22 drank seltzer water at Jacob Loy’s saloon 18 South Delaware Street. Officers Bledsoe and Merz observed the incident and placed both under arrest.
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Jacob Loy
South
Delaware Street
Bledsoe
Merz
Noett
Oldest Indiana educator near death at Earlham home
Walter G. Carpenter, born January 1 1811, longtime educator and founder of Earlham college, lies unconscious at his West Richmond home after sixty hours. A signer of Indiana’s early Republican movement, he raised enrollment from 70 to nearly 300 at Earlham and mentored generations at the Friends' church. His daughter Elizabeth married Daniel Marmon of Nordyke Marmon.
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Richmond
Ind
Walter G. Carpenter
Indiana
The
Friends’ Church of America
West Richmond
Earlham College
Elizabeth
Daniel W. Marmon
Nordyke & Marmon Company
Indianapolis
Surgeon Hurled From Motorcycle After Collision
Dr G R Hayes assistant police surgeon suffered a broken leg Tuesday in a crash with a car driven by H L Archey of Archey Atkins auto mobile Co. 1412 North Alabama street. Hayes was riding a motorcycle at about thirty mph when the throttle locked and he struck the car broadside at Delaware and Fifteenth. He was thrown twenty feet onto the street and taken to Methodist Hospital.
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G. R. Hayes
H. L. Archey
Archey-Atkins Automobile Company
North Alabama Street
Hayes
Methodist Hospital
Archey
Oscar Queisser
Oscar Queisser, Former Secretary To Supt. Hyland
Dr.Hayes
Sixteenth and
Tilmots Streets
Delaware Street
Fifteenth Street
Dr. Hayes
Archer
Sidelined council members clash over open saloon probe
A city council public health and welfare committee debates after hours saloon openings. Councilman Copeland lets the centrally located office be used for meetings though not a member. McCarthy Owen claim key information, while Blumberg Stilz demand full facts before signing any report. Next meeting delayed by a holiday.
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Blumberg
Stilz
City “Council
Arthy
Owen
Stitz
Copeland
McCarthy
Rhimberg
John
Shank
MacCarthy
Kansas GOP backs Roosevelt conservation policy platform
The Kansas Republican Party council on Aug 20 adopted a platform urging congressmen to back national resource measures in line with Roosevelt, opposing the old state rights doctrine. Insurgents control the councils and a revision of the Payne Aldrich tariff is demanded. Dolley was re-elected state committee chairman.
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Topeka
Kas
Roosevelt
Kansas Republican Party Council
Dolley
Republican State Committee
Dol
Fear Forest Fire On Shelby Street
West forest fires have raised fears among Shelby Street residents about a sixteen acre weed covered tract at the street’s end. The city board of health was asked to cut the weeds. Deputy Sheriff Robert R. Sloan said he supported action and residents fear a large blaze near their homes.
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Shelby Street
City Board of Health
Robert R. Sloan
Mr. Stoar
Mob in Huntington Seeks Lynching Two Black Suspects
Riot police and militia faced a 6000 strong mob demanding lynching of Thomas Wayne and Charles Clayborn, accused of murder. Martial law, machine gun reinforcements, and a special grand jury were ordered as 50 plus were hurt and 57 arrested. Wayne confessed to murder of Mrs Ailiff and wounding her husband, while Clayburne is charged in the death of Charles Withrow.
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Thomas Wayne
Charles Clayborn
Harshmarger
Wayne
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Clayburne
Charles Withrow
Chesapeake and Ohio
Huntington
Quinnimont
Rev Chapman Weds In Providence R I
Miss Mabel Cornelia Moulton married Rev J Wilbur Chapman the noted evangelist in Providence Rhode Island. The couple met in Warsaw Indiana last February and the wedding follows Chapmans recent world tour.
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J. Wilbur Chapman
Mabel Cornelia Moulton
Providence
R. I
Winona Lake
Warsaw
Ind
New York
Steam Pipe Explosion Injures Six at Detroit Auto Plant
Six men were scalded in an steam pipe explosion at the E M F automobile plant in Detroit on Monday. One man was probably fatally injured, two seriously, and three others only painfully though not fatally. The incident occurred after a break in pipes and damp conditions in the work area.
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Detroit
Mich
Tiag
Pueblo Welcomes Roosevelt In Elaborate Colorado Visit
Col Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Pueblo for the dedication of the Y M A building and receives a warm reception as crowds line streets adorned with flags. He criticizes the Hitchcock plan for Arizona and New Mexico constitutions, urges easy amendments, and praises forest service work. He then travels to Osawatomie Kansas to address national issues.
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Hitchcock
Stansevelt
Pueblo
New Mexico
Arizona
Theodore Roosevelt
Osawatomie
Kas
Denver
Roosevelt
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