Delegates Race Shapes Taft Backs in 1908 Convention
Convention reports show Taft leading with instructed delegates across multiple states. The tally notes contested seats in Tennessee Rhode Island and Illinois with efforts to seat Brownlow Oliver and Cannon allies. Officials expect a record number of instructed delegates and numerous contests at the Republican national convention.
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Wasuncox, M
Taft
Tennessee
Brownlow-Oliver
Rhode Island
Cannon
Illinois
Mexico
Virginia
Kansas
Friends of the War Secretary
Mississippi
Michigan
Fordney
National Republican Committee
New England
Indiana
Fairbanks
Cannon Vegela
Maryland
Porto Rico
Oklahoma
Missouri
Philip
Enmessee
Florida
Feirbanks
Cetty
South Car
Elm Ridge Golfers Face Wind in Blind Bogey Match
Elm Ridge players battled gale force winds yesterday in a blind bogey match. Thirty seven participants started play with many delaying decisions as the high wind pushed scores above one hundred. first and second places hinge on top scores while third honors go to the low scorer.
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Elm Ridge Links
Bomb Threats and Explosive Attack Near Anoos New York
Report describes Black Hand threats to blow up San Lograsso home west of enter Anoos. Dynamite exploded under the house causing damage and throwing residents from bed. A separate land sale notes Kerr estate tract in Kansas City Kansas sold for 2500 per acre by Howard realty.
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City
Kaa
Eighteenth Street
Washington Avenue
Kansas City
Kas
Howard
Accusations Against Police Judge Kyle Debunked
A reader questions Democratic speakers about Judge Harry G. Kyle and his term as police court administrator. The letter asks for figures on a supposed $60,000 fund for a Black man named Smith, the fines assessed during Kyle’s term, cash collections versus the prior administration, and the total amount in question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry G. Kyle
Smith
Independence Water Declared Impure and Requiring Purification
Professor M A Barber of the University of Kansas examined Independence water supplied by the Independence Water Company. He states the water is unsafe and residents have a right to better quality water, urging immediate improvements to purification.
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Independence
M. A. Barber
University of Kansas
Rosedale
Barber
Independence Examiner
Independence Water Company
Bonds and fines rise in two years under Judge Kyle
An examination of police court records shows bonds signed by men named Smith total $465 in two years under Judge Kyle. Fines assessed reached $380,128 with cash collected at $134,321, up by $57,059 from the predecessor. County court seeks opinion on paying County Home work from the general revenue fund after two such payments.
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Kyle
Smith
Charles W. German
General Revenue Fund
George J. Dodd
General Revenue
Independence Faces Franchise Forfeiture Over Muddy Service
The Independence city council ordered legal adviser C. C. Madison to pursue forfeiture of the utility franchise unless service improves. A switch engine collided with a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy dining car at Cameron Junction, Missouri, injuring waiter John Herington and two other staff members who were treated in Kansas City.
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Independence
Independence City Council
C. C. Madison
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Cameron Junction
John Herington
Kansas City
Funeral for Harry Grenberg Held at Elmwood Cemetery
Funeral services for Harry Grenberg, messenger boy, who died from a revolver wound inflicted Thursday night by Joseph H. Quinlan, will be held at 2 30 this afternoon at the home 1827 Oak Street. Interment will be in Elmwood cemetery.
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Harry Grenberg
Joseph H. Quinlan
Oak Street
Elmwood Cemetery
Army Officers Ordered to Promotion Boards
The army issued orders designating Second Lieutenants Crase Marley Walter Merrill Potter Pfeil and Hutchinson to report to promotion boards at Fort Riley Fort Leavenworth for examination. Captain Gardiner is relieved from hospital duty and will join his station. First Lieutenant Hickox is detailed for recruiting in Lexington Kentucky starting May 1 replacing Hershler who will join his troop. Hershler is granted two months leave.
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Washington
Fred Crase
Third Field Artillery
James Marley
Walter Marley
Walter Merrill
First Field Artillery
Waldo Potter
Harry Pfeil
Fifth Field Artillery
Fort Riley
Archibald Hutchinson
Third Infantry
Fort Leavenworth
Roger Gardiner
Coast Artillery Corps
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
Alfred Hickox
Thirteenth Infantry
Lexington
Frederick Hershler
Fourth Cavalry
Tragedy in Sandusky Rooms Ends in Double Death
In Sandusky on March 28 E J Glendenning a 45 year old traveling salesman for a Cleveland cloak firm and Mrs Katherine Hughes a 40 year old dressmaker were found dead in her apartment. Police say Mrs Hughes killed Glendenning then died by suicide. a revolver lay between them. Glendenning's widow and two children survive.
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Hughes
Wreid Cloak Company
Death of Joseph Cotlantey of 642 Lucile Avenue Armourdale
Joseph Cotlantey aged 75 died yesterday at his home 642 Lucile avenue Armourdale. A pioneer resident of Armourdale who lived there 38 years, he had lived alone since his wife’s death twenty years ago. Funeral services will be held at his niece Mrs. Jacob Frisch 640 Miami avenue at 2 this afternoon. Burial in Oak Grove cemetery. A Beatrice Ned Man Dies Suddenly Beatrice New March 28 A F Thorn man proprietor of the Chicago Hide house here died suddenly at his home in this city tonight of heart trouble. He was 48, leaves a widow and three children.
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Joseph Cotlantey
Lucile Avenue
Armourdale
Jacob Frisch
Miami Avenue
Oak Grove Cemetery
Beatrice
Ned
Beatrice, New
A. F. Thoman
Chicago
Explosion at Hanna coal mine may kill twenty one
An explosion in No 1 mine of Union Pacific Coal at Hanna Wyoming today trapped Mine Superintendent Briggs and twenty miners. It is unclear if anyone escaped. The Hanna site is the same mine that suffered a deadly dust explosion in 1903 killing nearly 200.
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Hanna
Wyo
Union Pacific Coal Company
Briggs
Archbishop Ireland Declares Marriage Sacrament Amid Divorce Debate
Archbishop John Ireland of St Paul issues a diocesan letter in response to Pope Pius X encyclical on divorce. He affirms Christian marriage as a sacrament indissoluble by human law and warns divorce harms children, the home, and civil society.
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St. Pau
John Ireland
St. Paul
Pius X
Preparations Underway for Visitors to Independence Conference
A large tent is being erected on the Reorganized Latter Day Saints church lawn in Independence to house visitors and delegates for the annual conference. A permanent dining hall was added two years ago at the rear of the church to feed the crowds attending the gathering.
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Latter Day Saints’ Church
Independence
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