Taft Campaign Tour Draws Big Crowds in Dakota Stops
Aberbeen S Dak Sept 29 Taft spoke from near the station to a large crowd with a busy itinerary including Mellette Redfield Wolsey Mitchell Tripp Yankton Vermillion and a Sioux City rally. Fargo N D Sept 29 taft crowds filled Grand Forks and Fargo meetings with multiple speeches and a torchlight procession. Visitors came from 450 miles for taft events as he discussed labor tariff and Roosevelt politics.
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Aberdeen
S. Dak
Taft
Mellette
Redfield
Wolsey
Mitchell
Tripp
Yankton
Vermillion
Sioux City
Fargo
N. Dak
Minnesota
North Dakota
Grand Forks
N. D
Hughes Addresses Michigan Leaders
Detroit scene as the Republican state convention adopts a platform and nominates candidates for statewide offices following the primary results. Governor Hughes of New York delivers opening remarks praising Roosevelt and the President while addressing party issues and future judicial appointments.
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Detroit
Mich
Hughes
New York
Roosevelt
South Bend
Ind
Bryan
United States Supreme Court
Taft
Janitor Dies as Ten Tons Coal Buries Furnace Door
In Waterloo on September 29 Jens Jensen janitor of the Hawthorne school building was found dead crowded against the furnace door after a wall gave way allowing ten tons of coal to flood the room. The body was discovered at 5 30 PM, believed killed three or four hours earlier. He leaves a family.
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Waterloo
Hawthorne School
Jens Jensen
Bryan asks Lincoln Democrats to remove lithographs
Lincoln Nebraska September 29 William J Bryan requests the democrats of Lincoln remove lithographs of himself from store and residence windows during Tafts visit on Wednesday.
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Lincoln, Neb
William J. Bryan
Democrats of
Lincoln
Taft
Watkins Predicts Prohibition Vote Surge This Fall
Des Moines reports Aaron S. Watkins candidate for vice president on the prohibition ticket believes his party will garner three times as many votes this fall as last year, aiming for about three quarters of a million. He contrasted Bryan and Taft as both opposed to prohibition and of little interest to his platform.
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Des Moines
Aaron S. Watkins
Prohibition
Knoxville
Watkins
Bryan
Taft
Farmers' and Merchants' Central Iowa Telephone Merger
The Farmers' and Merchants' big merger of the Central Iowa tele phones was granted a charter by the state today. The capital stock is $250,000. This includes all the mutual lines of Central Iowa.
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Des Moines
Farmers’ and Merchants
Central Iowa Telephones
Iowa
Tuberculosis Congress Sessions and Bankers Meeting Highlights
Washington D C September 29 Tuberculosis Congress devoted morning to section one discussions with experts from abroad on channels infection latent infection predisposition and heredity Irrigation Congress opens in Albuquerque with about fifteen hundred delegates and welcome addresses Bankers meeting in Denver focuses on trust company section Savings bank section adopts Herrick resolution opposing taxation or linkage to national banking system praising conservatism stability and depositor protection Resulting resolution passed after debate led by Myron Herrick
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Washington, D. C
International Congress On Tuberculosis
Irrigation Congress
Albuquerque
N. M
National Irrigation Congress
Frank Goudy
Denver
Colo
American Bankers Annual Convention
Trust Company
Association
Score Guaranty Plan
Savings Bank
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
American Bankers’ Association
United States
Sherman Makes Lying Tour of Illinois Towns
Republican vice presidential nominee James Sherman began a trolley campaign through Illinois with stops including Watseka and Chicago Orchestra Hall. Congressman Longworth and Senator Smith spoke as Sherman urged party loyalty and re election of Taft, praising Republican policies and prosperity.
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Chicago
Ill
Illinois
James S. Sherman
Watseka
Sherman
Nicholas Longworth
James Schoolcraft Sherman
New York
William H. Taft
Taft
America
Longworth
William Alden Smith
Roosevelt
Orchestra Hall
Hamilton Club
Marquis Eaton
London Elects Sir George Truscott Lord Mayor
London announces Sir George Truscott's election as Lord Mayor in succession to Sir John Charles Bell with the ceremony upcoming in the city.
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London
Eng
George Truscott
John Charles Bell
Bandits Rob State Bank In Ladysmith Heist
Bandits blast open the State Bank safe in Ladysmith Wisconsin taking about three thousand dollars. They shoot a night policeman in the arm and fire at the Baker hotel to deter residents from emerging.
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Ladysmith
Wis
State Bank
Baker Hotel
Great Lakes dredge Gladiator burns at moorings
Detroit reported that twelve men including two U S government inspectors escaped death as the dredge Gladiator the largest on the Great Lakes burned at its moorings. The vessel valued at one hundred thousand dollars.
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Detroit
Mich
Great Lakes
Probe letter from grave sparks DA inquiry in New York
New York District Attorney Jerome said he would investigate the sale to a New York newspaper of an article on campaign issues that purports to have been signed by the late ex President Cleveland.
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New York
N. Y
Jerome
Cleveland
Pittsburg Opens 150th Birthday with Ceremonial Salutes
Pittsburg marked its 150th birthday at 2 a.m. with salutes from mills factories railroads and steamboats and heralds riding the streets blowing trumpets. The Daughters of the American Revolution dedicated a tablet to George Washington at Fort Duquesne block house. Mayor Guthrie and Samuel Harden Church delivered addresses.
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Pittsburg
Daughters of the American
George Washington
Block House
Fort Duquesne
Guthrie
Samuel Harden Church
Denials Highlight Today’s News Features
In New York Senator Bailey of Texas denied plans to resign from the senate or end his career. In Chicago the Guthrie telegram about J B Doolin resigning as assistant treasurer of the Democratic National Committee was denied at the Democratic headquarters.
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New York
N. Y
Bailey
Texas
Senate
Chicago
Ill
Guthrie
J. B. Doolin
Democratic National Committee
Democratic
Well Known Lawyer Curtiss Found Dead in Des Moines Room
William QO Curtiss a prominent Iowa lawyer long active in title and lands questions was found dead in his Des Moines room in the Trostel block. The 74 year old widowless recluse likely died Saturday night and had been unseen since then. Curtiss who never married amassed substantial wealth after forty years in Des Moines. He had served as private secretary to Thomas F. Withrow and later to Thomas S. Wright.
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Des Moines
William QO. Curtiss
Iowa
Trostel
Curtiss
Thomas F. Withrow
Iown
Thomas S. Wright
Brower Loses Diphtheria Case Against Saloon Keeper
Garrett Brower, plaintiff, claimed his son suffered diphtheria after drinking at Nicholas Baker's saloon. The court directed verdict for Baker, removing the case from the jury, and Brower was denied the $1,000 damages he sought.
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Iowa City
Garrett Brower
Nicholas Baker
Baker
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Eight-Hour Telegraphers Law Unconstitutional
The Wisconsin Supreme Court declared the eight-hour railroad telegraphers law enacted last session unconstitutional, finding it conflicts with the federal Constitution. Madison date Sept 29. The decision cancels the state requirement for telegraphers' hours.
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Madison
Wis
Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Holmes Rule for Teacher Two Confess to Des Moines Robbery
Mrs Blanche Snook school principal turned detective and handed five boys to the police two confessed to the Dimminee Hardware store burglary Sunday night. The theft involved prying through a brick wall and taking weapons valued at $200. Two of the gang are sons of Policeman Beliczi.
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Des Moines
Blanche Snook
Dimminee
Beliczi
WATERLOO LOSES HUGHES IN IOWA STOP
Charles W. Lyon reports Governor Hughes can only spend brief moments in Iowa on his way west and will skip Waterloo. Hughes speaks in St. Paul on October 5 and Omaha on October 6. Auditor Carroll and Attorney General Byers will speak at Mount Ayr on September 30.
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New York
Des Moines
Charles W. Lyon
Hughes
Iowa
Sioux City
Waterloo
St. Paul
Omaha
Lyon
Carroll
Byers
Mount Ayr
Des Moines War on White Slave Trust Grows
Des Moines transcripts describe a rising problem of street sex workers as police and the grand jury press a case against an alleged white slave trust. A curfew proposal and detention-home debate surface as officials plan indictments next Friday.
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Des Moines
Grand Jury
White Slave Trust
Bryan Visits Rock Island Tonight In Iowa Campaign Tour
William Jennings Bryan travels through Iowa pausing for a Rock Island ball park rally on democratic day with A E Stevenson and S O Monnett among speakers. Roosevelt may reply to Bryan later today after Tripp visit and a later Ottumwa rally featured Dale Woods.
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Davenport
William Jennings Bryan
Iowa
Rock Island, Jr
Rock Island
A. E. Stevenson
Illinois
S. O. Monnett
Ohio
Standard Oil-Haskell
Ball Park
Yankton
S. C
Roosevelt
Bryan
Tripp
Woods
Ottumwa
Dale Woods
New York
Haskell
Oklahoma
Democratic Campaign Committee
More Fruit of the Big Stick Noted in 1908 Prosecutions
A letter to President Roosevelt from John H. Marble of the Interstate Commerce Commission details indictments this year of ten railroads and five shipping firms for rebates. Several traffic officials are noted as convicted for giving or receiving rebates, with the 1908 prosecutions referenced in President Roosevelt’s reply to Bryan.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
John H. Marble
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bryan
Weather Update for Midwest States
Fair and warmer tonight and Wednesday across Iowa and Illinois. Increasing cloudiness expected in Wisconsin Wednesday. Sunrise 5 44 a m sunset 6 25 p m moonset 7 59 p m.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
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