Beaten leaders may wait till Taft gets back
Washington May 5. Senate battles over the railroad bill feature Dixon and Elkins in a clash sparked by a New York story alleging a deal that dropped sections seven and twelve. Elkins denies collusion while Dixon taunts him. Senate leaders plan to adjourn till Taft returns to rally Republican support. Aldrich faction seeks to press party discipline. The House passes a pivotal amendment on railroad rates by 106 to 77, barring rate restoration without ICC consent.
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Montana
Senator Elkins
Senate
New York
Senator Bacon
Georgia
Elkins
West Virginia
Dixon
Mr. Elkins
Taft
Aldrich
Paynter
Root
House of Congress
Washington
New York Sun
Cincinnati
Ohio
Federal District of Columbia
Republican Party
Mann
Knowland
California
Interstate Commerce Commission
House
Missing Bedford banker sparks family flight and rumors
Bedford Indiana May 5 A Homer Guthrie formerly cashier at Stone City bank is missing. Rumors say risky investments harmed him financially. His wife left their home and moved to Orleans. He is son of Alfred Guthrie of Tunnelton a wealthy Lawrence County family.
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Bedford
Ind
Homer Guthrie
Stone City Bank
Orleans
Alfred Guthrie
Tunnelton
Lawrence County
Owens acquitted in Bedford murder case
Bert Owens was acquitted of murdering George Moss, a former saloon keeper, in Bedford Indiana. Circumstantial evidence pointed to him, including bloodhounds tracing a scent from Moss’s Midway street scene to Owens’ door. Moss lay dead Thanksgiving morning near an iron blood stained axle. Owens proved an alibi.
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Bedford
Ind
Bert Owens
George Moss
Owens
Midway House
Moss
Funeral for James Stubbs in Spiceland Indiana
The funeral of James Stubbs aged 83, father of the late Joseph Stubbs state statistician, was held Thursday at 2 p m in the Friends church Spiceland Indiana. He died at a son Otis A Stubbs home in Lewisville Henry county. Indianapolis relatives attended including A E Butler public printer nephew Mrs Marr Stubbs Moore former state statistician and Dr and Mrs C E Dar.
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Friends Church
Stubbs
Otis A. Stubbs
Lewisville
Henry County
Indianapolis
A. E. Butler
Marr Stubbs Moore
C. E. Dar
Moore
Dar
James Stubbs
Pitched battle feared in Virginia city scene
Fayetteville Virginia May 5. If Albert C Feltz a Baldwin detective superintendent is convicted in the Paymaster Wickes robbery near Thurmond last July a clash between about fifty Baldwins and Hatfield feud members is likely in Fayetteville. Strangers are watched and communications censored as residents fear street travel.
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Fayetteville
Albert C. Feltz
Baldwin
Wickes
New River
Thurmond
City Record births deaths and licenses in local listing
The City Record lists births with parents and addresses, multiple infants noted as girls or boys at various streets. It records deaths with ages and causes such as pulmonary tuberculosis acute nephritis apoplexy organic heart disease and railroad injuries. Also included are marriage licenses and building permits with names, partners, addresses, and values.
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Louis G. Off
N. Warman Avenue
John N. Donovan
N. Bradley Street
Robert Baskerville
W. Twenty Ninth
Aliza T Johnson
E. Washington
Clyde Use
Deaconess Hospital
George H. Fisher
Roosevelt
Young American filibuster freed by mother's plea
George Vice, 23, a filibusterer jailed in Brazil, was freed after his mother Mrs Leonora Vice of Hackensack New Jersey appealed to the United States government. He landed in New York aboard the Vasari after two years imprisonment and prior fighting with filibuster expedition forces.
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New York
George Vice
Babis
Brazil
Leonora Vice
Hackensack
N. J
United States
Vice
Vasari
Tale City
Sebastian Magali
Oura Preto
Davies Gram
Arate Department
Street Improvements Sought for Meridian Georgia and Maryland
The Commercial chub committee on city interests led by Hiram Brown sent a letter to the Board of Public Works and Mayor Shank urging immediate steps to improve Meridian, Georgia and Maryland streets, calling attention to the miserable condition of brick streets in the wholesale district. Mayor Shank was out of his office in the morning.
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Commercial Chub Committee
Hiram Brown
Board of Public Works
Shank
Meridian
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Maryland
At the Dance. Fair Partner. A Witty Exchange
A brief exchange from a scene titled At the Dance features Fair Partner and The Other One discussing waltzing. The quip highlights a playful contrast between interest and action, encapsulating light social theater tones.
Millinery Friday Bargains Offer Broad Selection
Special groups of trimmed hats and sailors priced at 1.45 and 2.95 lead the millinery Friday bargains. Cream and heliotrope hats 30 inches wide go on sale for 34.95, with practical trimmed hats at 2.93 and black dats in various shapes at 2.95. Roll brim sailors in black burnt and white 1.45, untrimmed shapes 1.45, roses 29 cents, foliage 10 cents per bunch. 2nd floor south.
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Hole
Washington Service
Hibb’s
Senator Dixon
Mr. Elkine
Ashiamed
Bacon
Fallinger
New Hampshire
UURY
Indiana
Spiceland
Spiceland, Ind
Joseph Stubbs
Virginia
Baldwins
John and
Mazua Kafoure
Church Street
Qacer
Eva Goldstein
River Avenue
Birren
Agnes Waters
Weghorst
Elwood
Ruth Webb
E. Norwood Street
BE. Edgar and
Louella Dorsett
Schurmann Avenue
Jacob and
Vera McClure
S. Germania Avenue
George and Grate Harriman
N. Hamilton Avenue
William and
Elsie Hurt
Keystone Avenue
Alfred
Gussie Dukett
Alvord Street
Thomas
Victoria Hill
Ringgold Street
Samuel
Laura Meek
Harris Avenue
Frank
Bessie Mase
Illinois Street
Sherley
Myrtle Banks
Hiatt Street
Howard
Withelwire ‘Taylor
Lowell Avenue
Claude and
Caching
Wyttenbach
Sixteenth Street
Patrick
Catherine Dillane
Hoyt Avenue
Otto
Sadie Streif
Douglas Street
Rose Dyer
Eastern Avenirer
L. Rupert
Katherine Elmerick
S. Meridian Street
Bos
Oscdr
Sarah Torian
Talbott Avenue
Boy
Gages
Ruby Smith
City Hospital
Frank Bishop
Ruth B. Shaw
Glenn Curson
Rose Buckley
Russell W. Bou
Bertha King
Walter Wright
Ada Hart
Henry Coers
Martha Moeler
Fred Kellkamp
Freida Lotz
Frank Jeter
N. Bismark
Mueller
E. Tenth
Oo. I. C
Ae Hough
Adams
E. A. Beyer
Capitol
Fred Adelay
Woodawn
Guedethoefer
H. Kingley
Illinois
Son XN. Wimner
Fenneman
Black Hole
Uncle Sam
Dodge
Venice
Famol
Old City
Sun
the Sun
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