Taft Warns Against Reform Demagogues In Campaign Speech
President Taft tours Rochester addressing veterans of the G A R on the 1912 campaign. He denounces reform nostrums and predicts a bloodless struggle, urging support for steady policy against socialism and concentrated wealth. He defends arbitration treaties and Monroe doctrine while praising peaceful national progress.
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Paign
Taft Gn
Great Britain
France
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Beattie Trial Opens With Absent Beulah Binford Witness
Chesterfield Court House Va August 23 The Beattie murder case jury is seated with twelve farmers amid heat and tension. Beulah Binford nicknamed the girl in the case is not expected to testify until later in the week. Uncle Thomas Owen whose home received the body is expected to testify as the first Commonwealth witness tomorrow.
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Richmond
M. W. Narley
Quarryman
Sven
K Wilson
A. L. Fetteroff
Irving Kb. Bass, Jr
Wu OW. Fuqua
WL Burgess
M. B. Purdie
Wancock
Bite
Tawi
Robertson
W. F. Rooks
M. E. Blankenship
Beattie
H. M. Smith, Jr
Lttle
Beulah Binford
Thomas Owen
Seven Year Old Billy Stewart Struck by Golf Club
The seven year old son of Joseph Stewart city electric light chief was struck on the temple by a swinging golf club wielded by a caddie while playing on the Country Club links. He was revived by Dr J W Stewart and sustained a welt but escaped serious injury.
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Ent
Joseph
Stewart
City Electric Light Department
J. W. Stewart
Kept Clean a Year Outing for Hindman Children
A twenty one child TAC party from Hindman Ky settled at Cincinnati for a day outing after a year of daily baths. The trip covered about forty miles from Hindman to Jackson by wagons as a reward for cleanliness.
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the Tribune
Cincinnati
Hindman
Jackson
Insurance report targets industrial and health firms in reform push
Milwaukee August 23 report by the United States insurance commissioners highlights high rates of rejected or scaled claims in industrial health and accident policies. It criticizes practices by 14 companies including Standard Accident Detroit and United States Health and Accident and urges the convention to adopt measures ensuring fair treatment of policyholders, especially those ignorant or poor.
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Insurance Commissioners of the
United States
Standard Accident Insurance
Detroit
Mich
United States Health and Accident Insurance Company
Saginaw
Massachusetts Accident Company
Boston
Tragic Lafayette Accident Involving Local Women
A speeding traction car on the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana line struck a buggy carrying Mrs. Sarah L. Corwin and her sister Mrs. Helen Baker near Lafayette. Both women, aged 68 and 75, were seriously injured and deemed dying or near death at Lafayette Hospital. The car continued to Lafayette after the crash. Both women were longtime prominent Lafayette residents.
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Lafayette
Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Line
Sarah L. Corwin
Helen Baker
Baker
Corwan
Fire on east approach to Eads Bridge threats damage
Immense flames from a burning warehouse in East St Louis endangered the wooden east approach of the Eads Bridge this afternoon. The incident halted traffic briefly while tolls collected beyond 250 dollars were said to cover the bridge damage.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Eads Bridge
St Louis
Mit. Ig
Black Hand Letters Threaten Local Farmer Burwell
John Burwell, a farmer north of town, received a black hand threat demanding five dollars in a red tobacco box. Police and postal officials investigated after Burwell received two more letters, noting the assailants claimed local knowledge and threatening increased harm.
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John Burwell
Burwell
Denby Coleman
Logansport
Mystery Deepens Over Mona Lisa Disappearance in Louvre
Paris reports the Mona Lisa vanished between 7 and 7:30 Monday morning. Sixty detectives and museum staff search all recesses as police admit bafflement. Louvre will close for three days. officials doubt the painting left the building.
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Leonardo de’ Vinci
Louvre
Paris
M. Lepine
Museum Nd
Boston aviator Atwood completes long river flight
Castleton N Y Aug 23 Harry N Atwood finished a 134 mile flight from New York to near Albany landing atop a hill overlooking the Hudson River. He planned two more hops toward New York Sheepshead Bay with a possible Governor's Island circle. The journey aims to push long distance heavier than air flight and advance aviation development.
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Castleton
N. Y
New York
Harry N. Atwood
Tor
Hudson River
Albany
Atwood
Sheepshead Bay
Governor's” Land
Boston
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Chesterfield Court House
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr
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Golf Enthusiast
Billy” Stewart
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Fisher
John Bradfield
Charles Becker
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Federal Casulty Company
Equitable Accident Company
Continental Casulty Company
Hammond
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Chicago
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American Assurance Company
Philadelphia
Phoenix Preferred Accident Company
German Commercial Accident Com
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Rhine ‘Cutt
Kingston
Atwood’s
Fort Plain
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