Printing Office Contract Suspected of Bid Manipulation
Washington July 22 A potential probe targets the government printing office over union influence on policy. Officials are accused of failing to submit required estimates for engraving and printing money order blanks and of bias toward private bidders, with calls to use private lithography or bureau printing.
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Washington
Government Printing Office
Public Service
Roosevelt
Post Office
Wynne
Paul Herman
Congress
Post Office Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Act of Congress
Johnson
Bureau of Engraving
Boy dies after golf ball strike in Houghton
Walter Corbeille a year-old spectator in Houghton Michigan was struck in the temple by a golf ball driven by 15-year-old John Lapierre from about 50 feet. Corbeille died three hours later after the accident at the golf grounds.
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Houghton, Mich
Jug
Walter Corbeille
Houghton
John Lapierre
Corbeille
Devery's Big Claims in Mayor Bid Across New York
Former chief Devery predicts 40 000 votes in Greater New York with 50 000 to bet himself and 100 wager from a city hall bet. aims to win Tammany strongholds and boroughs including Coney Island and Rockaway while planning a nationwide tour by automobile.
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New York
Devery
Greater
Tammany
Assembly
Letson
Sullivan
Fourteenth Street
New York County
Brooklyn
Williamsburgh
Long Island City
Rockaway
Coney Island
Shamrocks Race Off Sandy Hook in 15 Mile Beat
In a stiff sea breeze at Sandy Hook the Shamrocks sailed a 15 mile beat to windward then return. Shamrock III finished at 11 15, eight seconds ahead of Shamrock II. New London notes Shamrock III, Shamrock I, and Shamrock L in a separate 37 mile Newport run where Reliance led Constitution by four seconds and Columbia by thirty one seconds.
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New York
Shamrocks
Sandy Hook
Shamrock III
Shamrock
New London
New York and
Eastern Yacht Clubs
Newport
Reliance
Constitution
Columbia
Shamrock Sti
Shamrock L
Platt Names Aldrich for Vice President Nominee
The World reports Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island as Senator Thomas C. Platt's VP nominee, chosen Sunday night at the Oriental hotel in Manhattan Beach. Platt also names Chicago as convention city and notes he previously backed Roosevelt for second place in 1900, while denying ill will toward Aldrich and praising him as a strong candidate as Governor Yates exits.
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New Yorker
Rhode Island
New York
United States
Aldrich
Thomas C. Platt
Oriental Hotel
Manhattan Beach
Senator Platt
Chicago
Roosevelt
Platt
Yates
Markets Report From Sioux City and Midwest Hoofed Markets
Sioux City stock and hog markets on July 21 with receipts and price ranges across regions including Sioux City Chicago South Omaha Kansas City and Minneapolis. Cattle hogs and sheep show steady or mixed trends with bids for native and western steers cows and feeders, calves, and lambs listed alongside grain and provisions prices from Chicago and Minneapolis cash markets.
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Bioux City
Sioux City
Chicago
South Omaha
Kansas City
Northwestern
Sac
Timothy
Mesq Park
Litje
Foreign Trade Breaks Records in 1908 Totals
The United States posted record foreign trade for the fiscal year 1908 with total imports and exports reaching $2,445,610,417. Imports surpassed $1 billion for the first time, at $1,025,619,127, while exports reached $1,419,991,290. Compared with 1901, both imports and exports rose, with imports up 18.4 percent and exports up 67.5 percent over the decade.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Statistics
Battle for Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela
July 19 fighting began at dawn between government forces and Revolutionists over Ciudad Bolivar. By 7 am government troops captured the cemetery after heavy losses, and by 11 am streets near the government building were seized. Five Venezuelan warships shelled the city, corpses and wounded flooded government HQ, and a block near the building fell to storm at 2 pm as officials planned further advance with General Rivas and General Gomez awaiting signals. Over 200 revolutionaries lay dead in the streets.
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Ciudad Bolivar
Seledad
Venezuela
Associated Press
Rivas
Gomez
Miraflores
New Orleans District Attorney Gurley is murdered
New Orleans on July 22 District Attorney J Ward Gurley was killed in his office by Clarence Lyon a cotton roller. Lyon then shot himself fatally. The incident left the city in shock as investigators began to piece together motive and sequence of events.
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Gurley
New Orleans
J. Ward Gurley
Clarence Lyon
Lyon
Nome Hotel Burns Kills Pittsburg Millionaire
Seattle July 22 The Times reports the Golden Gate hotel Nome burned July 5 causing three deaths including HB Hayes a Pittsburg millionaire pipe contractor. Property loss totals 1000000.
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Hayes
Pittsburg
Seattle
the Times
Golden Gate
Nome
HB. Hayes
How I Fared On The Road In Welsh Borders
Geoffrey Heathcote recounts a perilous ride from Knighton toward Rhayader in Radnorshire. After a rough, unfrequented path and an attempted ambush by a masked party, he aids two Welsh countryside girls who defend themselves with knives and guns. He guides them toward Rhayader, staying wary of continues threats while praising the daring countrywomen.
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Knighton
Radnor
Rhayader
Radnorshire
Butley Croft
Worcester
Shrewsbury
Whitesock
Bawk
Siami
Night at Rhayader Inn and a Welsh guide quest
The narrator arrives at an inn in Rhayader seeks a private room and a guide to Nant-y-Bryn. He learns the saddler Rees Price can speak English and may lead to the mountains. A party of English drovers arrives as night falls, while a note ends with a plan to seek the guide after supper. The page also previews a New York Herald piece on Five Points demolition and Mulberry Bend park extensions.
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Rhayader
Whitesock
Nant-y-Bryn
Arthur Vaughan
Rees Price
New York Herald
New York
Five Points
Mulberry Bend Park
Baxter Street
Worth
Park
Mulberry
Worth Street
Baxter
Jimmy” Oliver
Paradise Park
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Angle Sam’s Print Shop Gomes Next
Grain Markets
Minneapolis
Minn
Nome Hotel
Burns
Geoffrey Heathcote, Esq
John Finnimore
Renoren
Re & Mabush
Eeretnald
Maxim Gorky
Kishinev
Gorky
Upet
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