Taft Addresses Sphinx Club on Moral Awakening and Politics
Secretary of War William H Taft spoke at the Waldorf Astoria dinner hosted by the Sphinx Club. He warned that public moral awakening must not fuel radicalism or socialism and urged support for laws protecting workers and enforcing equal justice before the law. Taft contrasted magazine influence with reforms that strengthen government and curb corporate excess.
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Wiliam H. Taft
Sphinx Club
Waldorf-Astoria
Robert Frothingham
Taft
William H. McElroy
Froth
B. J. Ridgeway
Henry W. Taft
Arthur Brisbane
Hart
Lyman
Frank
A. Munsey
William Berri
Col
J. B Macleans
So- Cplied Powder Trust
American Tobacco Company
T. C. du Pont
Charles L. Patterson
T.T. Shelley
C. C. Dula
H.W. Cobb
J. 3S
Frethinngham
United States
Jie
William Herri
Brooklyn
Negroes Absent From Taft Rally In Washington
Special to The New York Times reports disappointment at Taft headquarters as a Negro Baptist Church party is mistaken for a political delegation. Hitchcock orders a retreat to the War Department after scouts confirm the procession was a church outing rather than a political group.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
Frank H. Tlttebeeck
Secretary of War
Palmist
Hitchcock
Union Trust Company
Senator Foraker
Moses
Fifteenth Street
A . Apne
Bureau
War Department
Potomine
Tenement Seek Equal Terms Through Legislation
Fragmentary text discusses housing oppression and landlord power, urging reform to ensure tenants access to the courts and fair treatment. Mentions unavoidable hardship and the need for laws to balance rights between landlord and renter.
Twenty seventh District Republicans nominate delegates to national convention
At Sherman for Roosevelt rally the Twenty-seventh District Republican Convention elected Thomas R. Proctor of Utica and Charles F. Millington of Herkimer as delegates to the Chicago National Convention. A resolution urged backing Governor Hughes for president and Theodore Roosevelt was praised as a leader.
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Brittle Falls
N. Ky
Thomas R. Proctor
Utica
Charles F. Millington
Herkimer
Chicago
Gov. Hughes
J. S. Sherman
Diesel
Hughes
Fairbanks
Taft
Cannon
Theodore Roosevelt
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Twenty-first
Dutchess
Putnam
Columbia
Greene Counties
Louis F. Payn
Robert H. Hunter
Johnson at Bethany College Addresses Swedish Festival
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota spoke at Bethany College in Lindsborg urging a return to less centralization to preserve opportunity. He noted Bethany’s Swedish heritage and praised the community as a major Swedish settlement. In Portland, Oregon election returns show H. M. Cake winning the Republican Senate nomination over Charles W. Fulton.
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Lindsborg
Kan
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Bethany College
Johnson
J . Gov. Johnson
United States
Gary. Johnson
Sweden
Portland
Ore
H. M. Cake
Charles W. Fulton
Dancer Maud Durant Identified as Maud Allen
Information from San Francisco reveals Maud Durant sister of Theodore Durant, the man hanged for the 13 year old Lamont and Minnie Williams murders. A letter to a friend connected to the Polytechnic School confirms her identity as the London Palace Theatre dancer Maud Allen.
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San Francisco
Maud Allen
Denseuse
Palace Theatre
London
Maud Durant
Theodore Durant
Ble Sabind Lamont
Minnie Williams
Polytechnic
Taft Arrives in City to Speak on Tariff and Politics
Secretary of War William H. Taft toured the city staying three to four days. He planned addresses including the Grant memorial window unveiling at Metropolitan Temple and a Laity Conference talk at Carnegie Hall. Taft avoided direct politics while noting a tariff revision may follow election and a commission of experts may study the issue.
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Taft
William H. Taft
Fle
Grant
Metropolitan Temple
Carnegie Hall
West Forty-eighth Street
Roosevelt
Washington
Mr. Taft
Congress
Chicos
Taft Sets $4 Daily Wages for Fort Totten Carpenters
Secretary Taft orders a $4 per day prevailing wage for carpenters at Fort Totten New York where $3 was previously paid. Correspondence with the Brotherhood of Carpenters highlighted pay disparities at Forts Hamilton and Totten and the need for uniform union wage rates on federal work.
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Fort Totten
Sound
Taft
Philip Gibbons
Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Organization
Corona
Quartermaster General
Washington
A. B. Shattuck
U.S. A
Fort
Totten
N. Yaea
Gibbons
Charles M. Beattie
Brotherhood of Carpenters
Beattie
Fort Hamilton
New York Harbor
Carpenters
Government raises carpenters wages at Fort Totten
A War Department memo notes no federal wage controls exist for contractor work. Carpenters at Fort Totten under government direction will have pay increased from three to four dollars a day to match local prevailing rates.
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Fort Totten
William H.taet
Secretars of War
Agassiz Returns from Africa aboard Cedric with family
Prof. Alexander Agassiz, explorer and Harvard curator, arrived in Cambridge from Liverpool aboard the White Star liner Cedric with his son Max and William Woodworth. He described a two month Africa trip to warmer climes for recreation, delivering photographs and specimens and stating he is too old to continue remote explorations.
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Cedric
Liverpool
Alexander Agassiz
Max
William Woodworth
Prof. Agassiz
Africa
Harvard
New England
England
Marseilles
Red Sea
Mombasa
British East Africa
Victoria Nyanza Lakes
Agassiz
Cambridge
Pianist Léo T. Tecktonius Denies Yerkes-Mizner Marital Rumor
Léo T. Tecktonius, a young Western pianist living at 868 West Fifty seventh Street, denied yesterday there is truth to a tale that he was to marry Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner widow of a former London traction promoter and ex wife of Wilson Mizner. He said the only possible ground for the rumor is that Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner took an interest in his work.
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Léo T. Tecktonius
West
Fiftyseventh Street
Yerkes-Mizier
London
Wilson Mizner
Techronius
Opera Series Set for Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Metropolitan Opera Company announces fourteen performances in Brooklyn at the Academy of Music from November to April. Dates are yet to be finalized.
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Metropolitan Opera Company
Brooklyn
Academy of Music
Ech
McCarren Feud Tests Erie Delegation In State Committee Fight
Predictions from the McCarren camp suggest Norman Mack of Erie may refuse to certify the state delegation elected at last week’s tumultuous convention. Sen Hasenflug offers a proxy to McCarren to seat him on the State Committee, while McCarren weighs joining the battle against Conners and Murphy. The upstate leaders prepare to mobilize against tactics they oppose, with decisions pending on attendance and loyalties at the next meeting.
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Norman. E Mack
Erie
William J. Ceyiiers
Ub Bey
Mack
Willis F. Bryan
Conrad Hasenflug
Semitor
McCarren
Hasenflug
Kinss
McCarren Sia
Wael
Hiss
Conners
Murphy
Dt Tre Neptines
Smd
Step
Iken
Seniior McCarren
Teanward
Murphy and Conneys
Amaty
Norman Z. Mite
Che
Sairman
Edward E. Joe
Erie County Demoraitic Geralt
Macken Erie
Sieele
Pearse
Bryans Connerss
Ty Bryas
Fcain
Makina
Bert
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London Music Hall
California
Dent
FRAM
Harvard Scientist
Yerkes
Saks & Company
Copenhagen
Button
Christy
Gibson
Blucher
Oxford
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Chantilly
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