21 Aug 1908
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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily News
Location
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
1
Former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson addresses the Roosevelt era questions, urging Democratic unity. He criticizes the party’s division and pledges to lead a nationwide campaign with national committee support and a strong stance for governors and state campaigns.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Chicago and an event at Adlabapolla with a candidate or proclamation. Details are unreadable. no clear names, dates, or outcomes are present to specify a single news item.
OCR reads show garbled quotes about an 1804 campaign in New York and Cincinnati. The text mentions a judge, planning, and a tote of numbers, with unclear references to people, dates, and actions.
In Chicago around August, white and Black dock laborers on the Lehigh Valley wharfs clashed over racial antagonism. Five injured as fights escalated with knives and clubs. police restored order after warnings of gunfire. A large crowd gathered as officers dispersed the mob and restrained participants.
The Lusitania, with turbine engines and Mauretania, completed a record transatlantic crossing in four days eighteen hours and forty minutes, beating prior marks by over three hours. The short course distinction followed earlier long‑route performances, as ships returned to the shorter voyage for fall and winter. Also noted were Turkish envoy Kinzin Bey’s reception in Washington and the close of the Fifteenth International Congress of Orientalists in Copenhagen with plans for a 1911 Athens meeting.
A Polander named Branney Nezzka shot his wife in the Your Brothers' saloon on Pittatop's main street, killing her as she carried a year old baby. Police say three shots fired left her in a pool of blood. Nezzka confessed before the city mayor.
The yacht Chicago won the Lipton cup in the Nan pipots Athletic club races in Chicago. A conference was held in Binghamton New York by the Christian Missionary Alliance of Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania led by Captain Charles. An elderly man from Algonac Michigan died at home. A marriage license was issued for George Fitzhugh aged sixty seven to Lulu Frasier aged ten. Archbishop Falcople, a Franciscan delegate in Washington, accepted an invitation to dedicate a new Franciscan seminary at Cater kul on September 17. A stray tip references Jamaica.
Washington says Panama electors in the provinces have chosen Obaldia by unanimous electoral vote and the electoral college will meet September 30 to declare the result. Reports note calm conditions and no excitement, with cabinet plans potentially drawn from the Conservative and Liberal parties.
Washington report notes no official wedding date yet for Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Dietrich and Herbert Knox Smith, the commissioner of corporations. Dietrich, daughter of former Senator Dietrich of Nebraska, has been prominent in social circles of her father’s service era.
Fragmentary OCR indicates a political event with Cuban women taking part in a campaign during an election. Details on location and exact participants remain unclear due to garbled text.
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