Meyer denounces Bryan bank plan in interview
Postmaster General Meyer, while conferring with Judge Taft in Hot Springs Virginia, denounces the Democratic guarantee of national bank defalts as one step toward acolnium. He warns eastern voters fear a foregone Republican win and suggests Vermont’s large majorities be trimmed to energize non voters for September elections.
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Hot Springs
Meyer
Hare
Taft
National Bank
Acolnium
East
Vermont
Bryan
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Forca
Election Debate On Roosevelt Bryan Roiling In 1904 Campaign
In the New England scene Republican leaders plan talks in Boston with Hitchcock and Senator Crane focusing on the Vermont and Maine elections. A separate Wisconsin accident injures seven as a car driven by H R King crashes through a barbed wire fence, King near death.
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Miwaukee, Alg
H. R. King
Save Company of America
Bear, Richfield
Wis
King
Plans for telling Kern in Indianapolis state fair grounds
Indianapolis Aug 24 arrangements committee handling notification meeting for John W Kern Democratic vice presidential nomination will be at the Collossiana at the state fair grounds. National leaders including Bryan Mack Lloyd Bel Bryan and others expected to arrive from Chicago Monday evening. A reception at the Denison hotel precedes a Tuesday program with a band concert luncheon and a 1:20 pm address to formally notify Kern.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John W. Kern
State Fair Grounds
Sandey
William Jennings Bryan
Mack
James T. Lloyd
Theodore 8
Bel
Charles Bryan
National Committee
Chicago
Denison Hotel
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Natonal
Bell
Kern
Denver
Democratic Party
Thomas R. Marshall
Wiliam
Uryao
Fatal Wreck Near Suwanee Georgia On Southern Line
Train 38 known as the Southwestern Limited wrecked four miles north of Suwanee at about three o clock Sunday afternoon. Fireman Mason Watkins of Atlanta was killed. engineer B F Dewberry of Atlanta severely burned. Mail car baggage car and a combination car left the track and rolled down a 16 foot embankment. Mail clerk escaped with minor bruises. Three boys were seen fleeing the scene. Investigation found a bolt placed on the track.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway
Southwestern Limited
Suwanee
Mason Watkins
B. F. Dewberry
Tragedy in Indiana as son kills mother in law
At Laporte Indiana on August 24 William Delph shot Sarah M Meacham 48 in the back after a quarrel in a farm yard near Westville. The killing followed a dispute connected with breaking up a coal combine and involved Edward Meacham and George Meacham. The incident occurred after Mrs Meacham, from Kokomo, had moved to the area the previous June. Albany New York August 24 Attorney General Jackson said he filed actions against several railroad firms and subsidiaries transporting anthracite coal alleging a Donnelly antimonopoly law violation. The claim asserts a state monopoly in New York's hard coal trade and price fixing.
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Laporte
Ind
Edward Meacham
Sarah M. Meacham
Kokomo
Inlaw
Wiliam Delph
Englebert Topper
Westville
Delph
Edward
George Meacham
Mark Highner
Albany
Jackson
New York
Woodmen Attack Seeks Damages Over Brand Injury
Kim John A. Greivel editor of the Golden City Register sues eight Modern Woodmen of America members for 10000 in damages alleging he suffered four broken ribs and other injuries during an attempted branding at a Woodmen initiation on April 10 in Golden City Maryland.
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Woodmen
Golden City
Brand
Kim John A. Greivel
Golden City Register
Modern Woodmen of America
Railway Repair Shops Hit By Large Fire
Norwalk Ohio August 24 The Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad general repair shops were nearly destroyed by fire Sunday causing about 100000 dollars in damage. Four hundred workers were left jobless by the blaze.
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Norwalk
Genera
Wheeling & Lake Fire Railroad
Panama Canal Report Pleases President Roosevelt
A special Panama Isthmus commission report on labor and living conditions, delivered August 6 and made public August 24, praises Col Goethals and the canal management. Roosevelt plans to forward recommendations to Congress, noting improvements in health and productivity. The document urges wage review, eight hour enforcement, a labor secretary, and better compensation for injuries or deaths.
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Roocevelt
James Bronson Reynolds
Samuel B. Donnelly
Henry Beach Needham
Fanama
Yast
Panama
George W. Goethals
Roosevelt
Congress
Col. Goethals
Panama Canal
Canal Zone Ia
Dr. Gorgad
United States
League Baseball Results From Sunday Action
Sunday results across leagues show mixed outcomes with several doubleheaders. Chicago teams split doubleheaders while Cincinnati and Philadelphia posted steady wins. Milwaukee, St Louis and Boston also recorded victories amid varied scores. Central and Three League games featured tight contests and notable shutouts in several matchups.
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Brooklys
Brooklyn
Sindanati
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Louisonten
Sunny
Bacond
St. Lowa
Boston
AM Gan Association
Minneapotie
Tolego
Minneapolis
Eh Paul
Columbia
St. Paud
Counterfeit Money Arrests Tied to NYC Auditor and Dayton Manager
In Detroit on August 24 two men were arrested for passing counterfeit currency. They named Lucien P. F. Tull, auditor for New Amsterdam Gas of New York, and Richard W. Meacham, Dayton, Ohio, state manager for the Na Hotal Cast Register company. In Reno, Nevada, Hazen town near the railroad hub was burned Sunday afternoon, Lore reported losses of about $125,000.
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Detroit
Mich
Lucien P. F. Tull
New Amsterdam Gas Company
New York
Richard W. Meacham
Dayton
Na- Hotal Cast Register Company
Dentroya
Nevada
Reno
Nev
Hazen
Miflee
Miss Parsons Found Dead In Apparent Suicide
Miss Winifred Parsons daughter of late Charles Parsons railroad president was found dead with a bullet wound in her head in her Avenue Tenn apartment Paris on Sunday police classify the death as suicide while friends call it an accident. She had suffered melancholia since the death of her fiancé Emile Maas a Frenchman who died four months earlier. The woman was discovered in bed by a man with a revolver clenched in her right hand.
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Paris
Winifred
Charles Parsons
Rome, Watertown
Great Fire Devastates Stambou District in Constantinople
A Sunday fire in the Stambou quarter, Constantinople, raged for six hours on August 24. A strong wind drove the blaze through the Mohammedan section, destroying 1,600 homes. Stamboul houses mosques mausoleums baths bazaars and government offices within its walls.
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Constantinople
Stambou
Stamboul
Steamer Sinks With Forty Drowned near Bergen
The Folge Fonden, traveling from Bergen to Baugesund on Norway’s west coast, wrecked near Skoveviks and sank in three minutes. Of about 70 passengers, around 40 are feared drowned. fifteen bodies have been recovered and the captain was among the survivors. Also, John R. Harly, a leper, is confined in a tent at an isolated Washington site after arrival ten days ago and disclosure of his condition at Salvation Army lodging.
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Bergen
Norway
Folge Fonden
Baugesund
Skoveviks
Washington
John R. Harly
Early
Salvation Army
Lake Erie grape crop to be large this year
Reports from points across the Lake Erie grape belt indicate the current season will yield an exceptionally large and high quality crop, with heat stress noted as a factor in ripening.
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Lake Erie
Erie
Despair Ends double tragedy in Manitowoc
Harry Goodhhew aged 23, foreman on George Hardgrove’s farm, learned by telephone that his fiancée Mise Mary Hardgrove could not marry him in September and shot himself. Two hours later, Mise Mary died at Holy Family hospital from stomach cancer. Clarke Mills, father of the girl, killed himself with a shotgun.
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Manitowoc
Mise
Mary Hardgrove
Harry Goodhhew
George Hardgrove
Clarke Mills
Miss Hardgrove
Holy Family Hospital
Murderer Caught in Colorado Believed to Be Bradley
After a two year search authorities think John Bradley, once a Chicago contractor, has been located in Bellevue Colorado. Kenosha officials and Colorado officials seek confirmation of his capture for the Clifford Smith murder. Bradley allegedly boasted of the killing on a Kenosha road, where Smith died after five shots. A $200 reward is offered for his arrest.
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Kenosha
John Bradley
Chicago
Clifford Smith
Libertyville
Pfenning
Bellevue
Col
Bradley
Colorado
Ita
Smith
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway
Racine
Berryville
Witout
Fred
Taxable Wealth for Watertown Grows This Year
Watertown reports total assessed value of the city at 64,946,869 for the year, an increase of 121,802 over 1907. Official figures show growth in property values and overall wealth within Watertown.
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Watertown Grove
Watertown
Noted Train Car Misunderstanding at Village Stop
A brakeman tells a self described old woman entering the smoking car that it is the smoking car. She proves her familiarity by lighting a match from her shoe and puffing a few puffs while criticizing a young teller who misidentified the car. She explains she only rides this car when her pipe is out.
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Sol
Good Old Friend Coleridge Quotation Note
A brief literary fragment quotes Coleridge on greatness and goodness as Bot breathers, noting friendship themes without narrative detail.
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Coleridge
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Proclaimed Remedy
The piece extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women's illnesses. It cites testimonials including Mrs Bertha Muff and claims decades of experience with roots and herbs, asserting the product restores health and strength where other doctors failed.
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Erwigate
Indiana
Adi
Lydia
Pinkham
Bertha Muff
N.C. Bt
Louisiana
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