Democratic State Convention Nominates State Officials
In Charlotte the Democratic State Convention nominated Walter Clark for Chief Justice, Platt Walker and William Allen for Associate Justices, Henry C. Brown and William Tk. Lee for Corporation Commissioners, and Allen over Manning for Superior Court Justice. Senator Overman attacked Republicans and urged reform, tariff revision, and enforcement of anti trust and railroad rate laws.
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Charlotte
N. C
Harmony
Seasion
Supreme Court
Walter Clark
Raleigh
Platt D. Walker
William R. Allen
Goldsboro
Henry C. Brown
William Tk. Lee
Waynesville
Superior Court
Allen
James S. Manning
Durham
Kitchin
Connor
Manning
Supreme Bench
Western Counties
Republican Party
American is badly treated in Nicaragua
Washington D C Special Consul Olivares reports William Pittman, an American seized near Bluefields, held in a four by five foot cell in Managua prison. Pittman says he was unfed since July and depended on charity until the consul protested to Dr Madriz, who then promised better treatment. Pittman’s relatives live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Washington, D. C
Specil
William Pittman
Madriz
Bluefields
Managua
Nicara Fuad
Olivares
State Department
Pittmin
Pittman
Cambridge
Mass
Greytown
Pittman Transfer Sought Amid Anti American Tensions in Nicaragua
The United States reports Pittman will be moved to a larger cleaner cell with a sleeping couch and food while no definite action by Madriz authorities is decided. Consul Olivares says anti American sentiment in western Nicaragua is rising daily as he presses Madriz for fair treatment and warns of accountability. British and German subjects ask Managua for protection. locals note their consuls are Nicarguan merchants.
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Pittman
Olivares
United States
Madriz
Matagalpa
Consul Olivares
State Department
Nicaragua
Knox
Managua
Baby in Court Laughs as Parents Are Tried
In New York six month old David Rubin attended his parents arson trial at the Court of General Sessions. Charles Rubin and Rebecca Rubin seek to collect $400 insurance by allegedly burning their home at 2 Jefferson Street. The six month old sat with his mother and drew smiles from jurors and witnesses as the trial proceeded under Judge Foster. The case will continue today.
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New York
David Rubin
Charles Rubin
Rebecca
David
Foster
Jefferson Street
Baby Rubin
Adams
Steamer Mongolia Goes Aground Again
The Pacific Mail Company liner Mongolia ran ashore at Shimizu Japan while en route from San Francisco with a full passenger list. Lloyds reports indicate passengers are not in grave danger though details are scarce.
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London
Pacific Mail Company
Mongolia
Pacific
Lloyds
Yokohama
Hickner
Shimizu
Japan
San Francisco
Park Agnew Dies in Alexandria Virginia Politician and Businessman
Park Agnew longtime Republican leader and business figure died yesterday afternoon in Alexandria at 63. He served as State chairman of the Republican party for six years and held posts including postmaster of Alexandria and collector of internal revenue. Survived by wife three daughters and a son, the funeral is set for 6 p.m. tomorrow from his home.
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Richmond
Park Agnew
Alexandria
Agnew
Republican Party
Maryland
John P. Agnew
Harrison
W. H. F. Lee
Congress
J. K. Agnew Coal Company
Washington
Bromlaw Brick Company
the Marine Railway Shipbuilding Coal Company
A Hospitality Hint From Home Companions June Issue
A guest distant from home is greeted with souvenir postcards of the town ready for addressing and mailing. The host stamps them and leaves them in the guest room to be sent back, avoiding shopping duties for the visitor.
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Woman's Home Companion
Mayor Gaynor Acts to End All Night Gaiety in New York
Mayor Gaynor revokes all night licenses for about forty venues from saloons to gilded cafes citing improper issuance and orders police to close by 1 AM. He plans to inspect seventy five other licenses, reshaping the licensing process as the new excise law shifts control from police to the License Bureau. The move underscores tension over night commerce and the end of feared protection arrangements.
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New York
Gaynor
Baker
Lobster Palace
Police
U. K
State Excise Commissioner
Bureau of Licenses
State Board of Health session opens in Richmond
The State Board of Health met in session with Dr. Rawley W. Martin presiding. Dr. Williams described operations at the Catawba Sanatorium and noted growing demand for space, improvements, and successful tuberculosis treatment as the board discussed county health boards and future appointments.
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Richmond
State Board of Health
Rawley W. Martin
Williams
Catawba Sanatorium
Stuatorium
Cyre
Williame
Bersinse
Catawba
Willams
Splenaoa
W. Hobson
M. D
Newport News
Stanley H. Graves
M.D. Norfolk
J. Fisher
M.D. Midlothian
O. C. Wright
Jarratta
Lewis
Harvie
Danville
R. W. Martin
Lynchburg
T. C. Firebaugh
Harrisonburg
W. M. Smith
Alexandria
Reid White
M.D
Lexington
George Ben Johnston
Explosion destroys East Everett Fireworks plant in Massachusetts
A terrible explosion at the East Everett Fireworks Company plant in Everett Massachusetts today left eight to twelve feared dead. Later checks show several missing and the loss pegged at fifteen thousand dollars.
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Everett
Mass
East Everett Fireworks Company
Back Pain Relief Claim From 1902 Advertisement
Mrs Chloe Page of 610 Pitt Street Alexandria Virginia reports severe back pain swelling in feet and ankles and stomach issues but says she has had no return for five years after using Deans Kidney Pills. The ad promotes pills at 50 cents a box or by mail from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Chloe Page
Pitt St
Alexandria
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Jeff May Meet Johnson Again in Nevada Fight Plan
Tex Rickard says one good Jeffries fight remains and aims to arrange a return match with Johnson for Thanksgiving Day in Reno Nevada. He has not yet spoken with Jeffries and plans a hunting trip with Jeffries Kipper and himself to discuss terms if the mood is right.
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Angeles
Cal
Tex Rickard
Los Angeles
Jim Jeffries
Rickard
Jeffries
Johnson
Kipper
Nevada
Reno
Sam
Bonaparte's American Sweetheart Wedding
Social pages recount the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Elizabeth Patterson in Baltimore two and a half years after the death of Old Mortality. The couple's attire is described in lavish detail, noting Bonaparte's white powdered hair and diamond buckles, Elizabeth's diaphanous muslin gown, and glowing congratulations from contemporaries.
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Bonaparte
Baltimore
Jerome Bonaparte
Elizabeth Patterson
Directory Beau Monde
Charles Winslow Hall
Natonal
Thosertous Barbers of Long Ago and Notable Figures
A fragmented retrospective traces barbers to wealth and status in England. It cites Richard Arkwright and Day and Martin, plus figures like Jeremy Taylor, John Keats, William Winstanley, Belzoni, and Turner, noting barber lineages of Tenterden and St Leonard and literary mentions of barbers in Nations Magazine commentary.
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Richard Arkwright
Preston
Nuir
England
Martin
Charles
Aid Martin
Jeremy Taylor
Cambridge
Down
I Conner
Arbershop
John Kativ
William Winstanley
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Pastua
Italy
Belzoni
Sadler's Wells
Egypt
Padua
Timbuctoo
Benin
Baron Tenterden
Canterbury
Lord St. Leonard
Ireland
Joseph Mallord Willian Turner
Yolen
Charles Winslow Hall
the Nations
May revive fight game in California
San Francisco report says Colma promoter James Corroth announced he has signed former lightweight champion Coffror AnnOoUnced and welterweight contender P'wWen Moran for a twenty round bout in August. Proposal aims for a California venue but permit issues in the city likely block staging in the near term.
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San Francisco
Cal
California
James Corfroth
Colma
Coffror
Ad Woteast
Tiehrovedett Champlog
P'wWen Moran
Ancuat
Caffroth
Shatters First Link in Chain of Rowawors Trial
New York report notes a nine year old marriage ended by an interlocutory divorce decree for Mrs. Maynard after a Yale era romance with Frank EF Maynard Cloped, with Roger A. Pryor serving as referee. The couple has one daughter, but the image of past unions remains unresolved.
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New York
Frank
Maynard
Mies
Frances Marie Lines
Yale
Justice Glarhoff
Roger A. Pryor
Maynards
Maynard and Yale Romance Ended in Family Ties
The report details Maynard's elopement with Miss Lines to Holy Trinity Church after a Yale banquet, amid parental opposition. It notes his 1901 Yale junior status, a later wedding aided by Noble Crouse Klock of Syracuse, and subsequent marriages within the extended circle as the scandal unfolded.
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Maynard
Yale
Yale Club
Mra
Mayna Maynard
Young Maynard
Miss Lines
Holy Trinity Church
Father Considine
Miss Tenney
Klock
Beatrice Bruner Godfrey Linked to Jay Gould Claim
Davenport girl Beatrice Von Bruner Godfrey, once a Davenport belle, is said by her mother to be engaged to Jay Gould son of George Gould. Beatrice studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music and gained fame from a romantic marriage with Arthur W. Godfrey. Parental opposition led to separation and divorce. Gould family members are in Europe. no confirmation obtained.
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Jay Gould
West Davenport
Beatrice Blanche Bruner Godfrey
Davenport
Arthur W. Godfrey
Back Bay
Boston
George Ould
A. Bruner
Youngg
Venport
Anna
Gould
Europe
George Gould
Kingsdown Gould
Tillman’s European Tales From London Fog Ride
Senator Tillman’s London trip yields humorous misreadings from a fog bound bus ride. A Parsee in a red fez and other passengers appear as phantoms as the driver riffs in mock Latin about spirits. The vignette, from Joe Mitchell Chapple’s Affairs at Washington in National Magazine August.
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Europe
Tillman
London
Echolard
Parsee
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Washington
National
Listening to the Man Who Knows in Congress Weeks Interview
A speech by Representative Weeks recounts his entry to Congress and how mastery of a single subject wins attention. He recalls asking to speak five minutes on Annapolis hazing and his naval training drew respect, proving exact knowledge commands attention in the House. Weeks, born in New Hampshire, is described as a strong, hard‑working figure in the New England delegation.
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Weeks
Congress
Annapolis
Io Ros
Naval Academy
Mr. Weeks
House of Representatives
Representative Weeks
New Hampshire
New England
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Waenington
Why Working-Girls Marry from the Mills Tale
Florence Lucas Sanville in Harper's debunks the motive of marriage for escape from toil in Pennsylvania silk mills. A fifteen year old learns workers often wed at seventeen to leave mill life, a trend parents sometimes foster. The piece critiques social pressures and warns against urging early marriage.
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June Harper's
Florence Lucas Sanville
Philadelphia Consummers’ League
Pennsylvania
Miss Sanville
Interstate Commerce Commission Suspends Beef Tariff Delay Ends
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced no suspension of the new tariff on cattle and dressed beef between Chicago and New York. Rates set at 33 and 50 cents per hundred pounds, an increase of 6 cents, become effective August 1, 1910. Railroads and packers are notified of the decision.
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Washington
D. C
Iynerstate Commerce
Chicago
New York
Gift ideas for women include jewelry and stylish accessories
The article lists a range of gifts such as rings watches brooches belts hatpins and birthstone pendants plus elegant French jewelry and pearls. It suggests practical fashion items like belts belts pins opera glasses gloves silk stockings and parasols and emphasizes matching gifts to taste and circumstance. It also offers fashion notes on hems coats and a chiffon wrap with decorative edging, plus recipes and household tips for hands and light meals.
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Luzianne Coffee
Tylor Co
Carolina Democrats
Overman
Virginia
Sgt
Phiology
Angat
Mearl Clas
New York City
Great White Way
Jeff
Senator Tillman
Tari
Woman’s Department
Léon
Tanner Paint & Oil Co
Dr. David
Commonwealth Bank
Ninth St
Richmond, Var
East Broad Street
Wallerstein Produce Co
Sydnor & Hundley Ing
Broad Street
Richmond, TX
Rem Ca
Ceaters
Louisville
Lee
A. Sabel & Sons
S'S
Dewiko
Seat Direc Xanthine CO
Stichmené
Cirealers
Mount Elliott Springs
Alleghanties
C. &Co. Ry
H. & Erichelberger
Nez
Mt Elliott, Ya
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