Indiana Democrats in Indianapolis Gear Up for Convention
Leaders and 1747 delegates gather at the Denison hotel to shape the platform. Key topics include endorsing a U S Senate candidate, Taggart versus anti-Taggart strategies, and temperance policy. Governor Marshall is temporary chair and could influence the senatorial plan.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Denison Hotel
United States
Indiana
Thomas R. Marshall
Marshall
Beveridge
Thomas Taggart
Hendricks
Turpie
Robert J. Aley
Bloomington
Lake Charles Rebuilds Firmly After Major Fire
Amid a million dollar blaze in Lake Charles on Saturday business resumes quickly. City officials move operations to new venues, the Lake Charles Railway provides steady service, and Catholic donors raise nearly $20,000 for a church and school. Insurance estimates place total damage near 1.9 million as merchants offer credit and plan fireproof rebuilding.
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Lake Charles
Judge Overton
The
Elks
Haskell
Watkins
Broad Street
Reid
J. W. Bardiner
Calcasieu Bank
Lake Charles Railway, Light and Water Works Company
C. B. Richard
Venus to sail from New Orleans with arms for Madrid allies
The Department of Commerce and Labor ordered the New Orleans customs collector to allow the steamer Venus to sail for Nicaragua carrying arms and ammunition for the Madrid Government.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
New Orleans
Nicaragua
Madrid
Women Politicians Surprise Old Timers in Washington
Washington April 26 Congress and cabinet members are surprised by the feminine members of the National Suffrage Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Rumor says Mrs Matthew T Scott DAR president general may face slander action over remarks about Agnes Gerald clerk. Gerald and insistent DAR officers are said to be seeking legal redress as rivals among the Daughters press a war path. Delegates enjoyed private and public entertainments including Mrs Benjamin Johnson hosting Kentucky delegates.
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Washington
Cabinet
Congress
Daughters of the American Revolution
National Suffrage Association
E Daughters
Matthew T. Scott
Agnes Gerald
Benjamin Johnson
Johnson
Kentucky
An Unloved Stepchild Apellation Tied to South
Governor Comer assigns a disputed designation to the southern region, stirring local debate over the appellation and its political implications in the area.
Talks Out In Meeting on Government Aiding Cotton Speculators
Mobile Alabama April 26 Governor Comer assails the Federal Government over the bull cotton deal. He notes the attorney general seeks to arrest citizens challenging speculative cliques on New York exchanges. He claims government bias favors northern speculators while the South suffers poverty and neglect.
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Mobile
Ala
Comer
Alabama
United States
New York
Coer
Judge E B Talbot Dies In Plaquemine
A Plaquemine report notes the death of Judge E B Talbot, longtime Iberville parish official. He served as district attorney for four years and district judge for twenty years, later acting as attorney for the Pontchartrain levee board and superintendent of education. He was the oldest Mason in Iberville parish and will be buried tomorrow.
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E. B. Talbot
New Orleans
Plaquemine
Pontchartrain
Prince of Monaco Barred From Rome Visit by Vatican
Rome breaks with Monaco over Prince's planned April arrival and lecture on Oceanography. The Holy See calls the prince's role as ruler and scientist inseparable and protests moves that would insult papal dignity while warning Catholic rulers to respect church rights.
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Rome
Monaco
Vatican
Holy See
Principality of
Postale
Interest grows at Monday night union meeting
A large Monday night gathering at the tent drew broad interest as union members discussed new rates and upcoming actions. The event highlighted ongoing concerns about wages and benefits among attendees from various departments.
Is It Well With Thee Sermon At Thacker Meeting
Dr Thacker preached from II Kings 4 26 focusing on the Shunammite woman who built a chamber for the prophet. Key lessons urged righteous company and urgent earnestness in spiritual distress as the large tent meeting and Mrs Fisher’s piano and singing drew praise from a crowd.
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Thacker
Elisha
New York Vows Dry Sunday. Police Guard Broadway
On April 26 Mayor Gaynor declared a dry Sunday in New York with six hundred special policemen deployed. Broadway was quiet for hours while venues along the Tenderloin showed heavy security, and men with legitimate thirsts went to Hoboken. By midnight sixty liquor violations were arrested across Greater New York.
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New York
Gaynor
Broadway
Thirty-fifth Street
Twenty-third Street
Forty-second Street
Hoboken
Earnest faith and prayer for healing and eternal hope
The sermon urges immediate action and deep prayer to restore the ill, stressing Christ’s personal touch over proxy rites. It asks the question is it well with loved ones and eternity, noting death comes to all and faith anchors Christians to a blessed afterlife with biblical references.
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Elisha
Thacker
Court defines concubinage law narrow to full blooded negroes
New Orleans April 26 In a Supreme Court ruling Justices Provosty Nicholls and Land dissent the concubinage act applies only to full blooded negroes and their white concubines not to mulatto quadroons or octoroons. The decision narrows prosecutions to blacks and whites who cohabit and notes the term colored would include mixed races.
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New Orleans
Supreme Court
Provosty
Nicholls
Land
Octave
Josephine Treadway
Criminal District Court of
Orleans Parish
Edward von Buelow
Louisiana
United States
Pacific
Kodak’s Largest Line in Monroe
Allen's Pharmacy Ltd advertises Kodak products as the largest line in Monroe. The notice highlights a broad selection of camera and film items offered by the local retailer.
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Kodaks
Monroe
Allen’s Pharmacy, Ltd
Police Land Highway Men Disguised As White Men
A historical report describes a band of highwaymen who operated in disguise as white men. They carried out a series of bold robberies and attacks across rural areas, causing fear and prompting local authorities to tighten patrols and search for suspects.
Cotton Prices Soared as Traders Buy Futures
New Orleans on April 26 reports a running clash between officers and negro highwaymen. Alfred Smith was killed and his brother Ollie captured after a trap set by Chief O Conner and Chief Reynolds. Police engaged patrolmen Roy and Jackson in the street car robbery spree.
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New Orleans
Alfred Smith
Ollie Smith
O’connor
Reynolds
Roy
Jackson
Cotton Prices Soar Amid Devastating Southern Weather
In New Orleans on April 26, cotton futures surged with October up 50 points from Saturday, a half cent per pound. Traders, farmers, and planters flooded the floor to hedge losses and secure seed, as frost and snow devastate young cotton across the belt. Seed demand spiked to as high as 150 dollars a ton, the record high, while germination and planting prospects worsened with continued cold.
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New Orleans
South
Deputation of Frenchmen Seeks Roosevelt Peace Help
A French Parliamentary group visiting Paris at the American Embassy thanked Mr Roosevelt for his international peace interventions. Also dated April 25 26 reports severe weather in Choudrant with high winds and a freeze killing crops and damaging gardens including watermelons cantaloupes beans and potatoes.
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Colonel Roosevelt
Paris
Roosevelt
Choudrant
Confederate Veterans Reunion Opens in Mobile Alabama
The twentieth annual reunion of United Confederate Veterans began at Monro Park auditorium in Mobile with Maj. Gen. George P. Harrison presiding. The crowd overflowed as ceremonies featured invocations, music, welcomes by Governor Comer and state leaders, and remarks by Gen. Clement A. Evans. An afternoon program included the memorial address by L. B. McFarland.
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Mobile
Ala
Monroe Park
Fir Union
United Confedere Veterans
George P. Harrison
Alabama
Confederate Veterans
D. Linn Cave
United Gana Federate
Comer
Mayas Lyons
Clarence J. Owens
The
United of Confederate Veterans
Jacob D. B
Clement A. Evans
L. B. McFarland
Memphis
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