Taft and Bourne Meet Amid Election Talk and Golf
Senator Bourne arrived before midnight and said his visit held no political meaning. He argued the current RNC setup and Southern delegations ease a president’s choice of successor and warned Taft to avoid seeking re election. He spoke on inheritance of office influencing the next campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Taft
Jonathan Bourne
Judge Taft
Taft
Bourne
Republican National Committee
Sudge Tait
Notification plans for Taft's Cincinnati event outlined
Senator William Warner announced the July 25 notification program for William H. Taft in Cincinnati. Activities include cannon salutes, flag raising at Charles P. Taft’s lawn, an official notification with a Taft speech, a luncheon, auto ride, balloon release, dinner, fireworks, and continuous band music hosted by the Taft circle.
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Nahant
Mass
William Warner
Kansas City
William H. Taft
Cincinnati
Warner
Charles P. Taft
Werner
Taft
Country Club
Loudenslager Candidate Seen for GOP Committee Chair
Washington July 18 reports name Henry C Loudenslager of New Jersey as favored for Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee to replace retiring Sherman. Tawney is out of contention due to reelection fights and tariff revision concerns. Loudenslager is free of those objections and trusted for executive ability.
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New York Times
Washington
Henry C. Loudenslager
New Jersey
Republican Congressional Committee
Representative Sherman
Representative Tawney
Congress
Appropriations Committee
House
Loudenslager
Payn S Foe Holds Dutchess District Convention
Ex Judge Phillips remains dominant in Dutchess County Republican politics as Myron Smith is renominated for Assembly without opposition. The Phillips Smith ticket opposes Payn and Hunter backed plans for the First District with Landon urging harmony. A unanimous resolution endorsed Hamilton Fish for Congress and opposed McMillan’s renomination.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
Phillips
Assembly
Matteawan
Myron Smith
Smith
Louis
Payn
Robert Hunter
Francis G. Landon
Dutchess
Payn-Hunter
Warren Supports Taft Despite Imperialism Stance
Winslow Warren former Collector of the Port of Boston and a Cleveland ally declares support for Taft in the campaign. He questions Bryan’s imperialism issue and notes possible Supreme Court vacancies in four years. He cites Taft’s experience and judgment as better for appointing judges.
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New York Times
Boston
Sucoe Court
Ir. Bryan
Mr. Taft
Postum A Doctor Credits Coffee Substitute For Health Gain
A Washington physician testifies that switching from coffee to Postum cured periodic headaches and sleeplessness, reduced irritability, and led to a 20 pound weight gain. He notes better memory, steadier hands, and improved mood, praising the drink as nourishment with phosphates and albumens. He cites wife and sister as corroborating examples and references a Postum company promotion.
Reward of Toilers Is Bryans Theme In Nebraska
In Lincoln Bryan urges delegates from Frémont Normal School to compare producer rewards with incomes of those aided by government. He argues for a divine law of reward and a government more responsive to the people. Farnsworth says Democrats push negro votes in the Middle West to counter Taft. Bryan may speak on the negro question and La Follette to appear Aug 12 in Nebraska.
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New York Times
Lincoln, Neb
Frémont
Neb
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Denver
Democratic Party
Don Farnsworth
Chicago
Middle West
Taft
Fairview
Ollie James
Mr. James
Mr. Farnsworth
Frank H. Hitchcock
Farnsworth
Lise
Democratic National Committee
Republican State Central Committee
Hitchcock
Roosevelt
Nebraska
Hayward
la Follette
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Mr. Bryan
Johnson
Gompers
Hearst
Central Labor Union of
Lincoln
Ten Years' Work Wiped Out In Fire At Hempstead Store
Samuel Risnicke hardwood merchant loses ten years of earnings when a fire wrecks his Duck town store. Insurance was not renewed due to rising rates, a blue flame stove exploded, igniting sixty gallons of oil. Mrs Risnicke and five children escaped as flames spread. she suffered burns to arm and face.
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New York Times
Hempstead
N. Y
Samuel Risnicke
Ducktown
New York
Treadwell Elders
Quiet Strikes as Militia Reinforce Alabama Mines
Reports from the Birmingham district say miners on strike remain quiet while three militia companies stay at Blossburg for a day or two. A gatling gun and 10 000 rounds arrive, another militia company is ready, strikebreakers are moved to mines, and arrests are sent for safekeeping. The Tennessee Coal labor head expects recovery for Major Dodge, a Black man shot at Republic dies, and deputies are blamed for the trouble amid possible lawsuits.
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Birmingham
Ala
Blossburg
Major Dodge
Tennessee Coal Company
Jefferson
Republic
Higdon
Comer
Montgomery
Bibb” Graves
W. R. Farley
Alabama
National Board of the
United Mine Workers
Mystery of Annie Hayes Byers Stirs Atlantic City
A Pittsburgh heiress and aunt of golfer Byers, Mrs. Annie Hayes Byers, vanished after leaving a Reading Railway Station train. Her unclaimed baggage contains valuable jewelry and clothing. Police pursue none of the abduction theories, considering she may have chosen another seashore resort or delaying notice for personal reasons.
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Atlantic City
N._J
Annie Hayes Byers
Pittsburg
Byers
Reading Railway Station
George Morgan
Boys Steal Ice Cream From City Factory
Policeman Fisher found Max Rothberg's ice cream factory door at 230 Centre Street open and three boys inside. Frank Tucillo, 10, of 203 Mott Street. Edward Degilio, 8, of 172 Mulberry Street. Gerard Eubach, 31, of 166 Mulberry Street, confessed to the caper after being led to Mulberry Street Station. Police note other recent neighborhood thefts including a hardware shop and a fruit stand.
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Policeman Fisher
Max Rothberg
Centre Street
Mulberry Street
Frank Tucillo
Mott Street
Edward Degilio
Canned Bryan Oratory Speeches Heard in Newark
Democratic candidate Bryan sent six campaign speech records due to travel limits. Titled Swollen Fortunes The Labor Question The Tariff Question The Railroad Question The Trust Question and An Ideal Republic the records were played to a large audience at the Eleventh Ward Democratic Club and praised as a great success.
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Bryan
Newark
Eleventh Ward
Democratic Club
Hearst Returns from Europe to Attend Chicago Convention
William Randolph Hearst sailed from Liverpool on the Cunard liner Lucania and is due in this city next Saturday He plans to attend the Independence Party National Convention in Chicago on Monday July 7 It is thought he may cut the opening session.
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Hearst
Europe
William Randolph
Cunard
Lucania
Liverpool
Independence Party
Chicago
Merritt Named Manager for Bronx Valley Sewer Project
Mack Paving and Construction Company of Philadelphia appoints Freeman H. Merritt of White Plains as general manager for the Bronx Valley Sewer section excluding the Yonkers tunnel. The $2,250,000 project aims to start immediately and be fully operational by August 1.
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Mack Paving and Construction Company
Philadelphia
Bronx Valley
Freeman H. Merritt
White Plains
Yonkers
Merritt
State Capital at Saranac Next Week
Albany dispatch reports Gov. Hughes will conduct most executive business from Saranac next week while on vacation. Secretary Robert H. Fuller plans to join the Governor’s party, and several pending matters are expected to be disposed of during the stay at the resort.
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Saranac
Albany
Executive Chamber
Hughes
Robert H. Fuller
Wisconsin's La Follette Factor in Taft's Wisconsin Win
Wisconsin faces a pivotal choice as La Follette's support or opposition could tilt the state toward Taft or keep it in doubt. The piece outlines La Follette's party loyalty, potential campaigns, and fights among Republican factions in Milwaukee and beyond, with the Democratic path seen as linked to these tensions. It notes possible outcomes for governor races, congressional seats, and the 1912 contest, stressing La Follette's influence on party unity and future strategy.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Wis
Senator la Follette
Taft
Wisconsin
la Follette
Chicago
Senate
la Folette
Murphy
Joe Babcock
Minor
David S
Rose
Kern Visits Kokomo At Old Home In Indiana
Democratic vice presidential candidate John W. Kern traveled to Kokomo Indiana today to revisit his old home and neighbors. He was greeted by a large reception committee and given a rousing reception before delivering a brief address.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John W. Kern
Kokomo
Five Balloons Begin Endurance Race From Lexington Park
Five balloons started from Lexington Park in a St Paul endurance flight. The King Edward and four others carried one or two crew. The balloons drifted southeast toward Chicago with reports of landings near Hampton Owatonna and West Concord Minnesota while Pommern and Chicago fate remained unknown.
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New York Times
ST. Paul
Minn
Lexington Park
King Edward
Montreal
Canada
Bennett
L. M. Scott
P. S. Hudson
H. P. Wild
United States
Minneapolis
A. P. Mueller
William Shephard
St. Louis
Julian Thomas
Chicago
C. A. Coey
C. L. Baumbaugh
Mississippi River
Government Weather Bureau
Atlantic States
Rae River
Mystic Shriners
Dr. Thomas
L. N. Scott
Hampton
America
Owatonna
West Concord
Tragedy at Putnam Avenue: Daughter Hangs Self After Loss
Mrs E C Macclinchey and her two daughters found Laura Macclinchey dead by hanging in a wardrobe at 741 Putnam Avenue. Laura, grieving the death of her father the real estate operator four years earlier and frustrated in her piano teaching career, reportedly endured deep sorrow and locked doors before taking her life.
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E. C. Macclinchey
Daughers
Macclinchey
Williamsburg
Putnam Avenue
Laura I. Macelinchey
Laura
Mrs. Macclinchey
G. E. Reed
Mrs
Woman Struck by Express at Seabright Crossing
At Seabright New Jersey at the Central Railroad crossing near the Peninsular House an express train struck Mary Maloney an 85 year old hotel servant. She was thrown twenty feet into the air and unconscious before being taken to Monmouth Memorial Hospital in a dying condition. The crossing lacks gates or a flagman and has caused prior near misses.
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New York Times
Seabright
N. J
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Peninsular House
Mary Maloney
Octagon
Monmouth Memorial Hospital
Plan to deny Saxe and Page in New York Senate reshuffle
Republican bosses plan to drop Senator Alfred R. Page and Senator Martin Saxe in New York to pave the way for Alexander Brough in the Eighteenth and to rebuild party harmony. The move aims to punish Hughes loyalists and bolster the bosses’ reform rollback amid Chicago talks and Sherman's nomination.
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Pnkins
Gov. Hughes
Alfred R. Page
Martin Saxe
Herbert Parsons
New York County Republican Committee
Saxe
TIMES
Parsons
Hughes
Pic
Fifteenth Assembly
Fighteenth
Fifteenth
Alexander Brough
Seventeenth Assembly
Brough
Abraham Gruber
Page
Senate
James S. Sherman
New York
Chicago
Showers Miss the Town Despite Local Forecast
The forecasted showers and cooler air spared New York City while northern areas and parts of New England saw the weather change. Cooler conditions are expected today with fair skies, light winds, and reduced humidity. A heat related brain hemorrhage case at Fordham Hospital is reported as critical involving William O'Neill Jr. and his father William O'Neill of the Bronx as they headed to a Baychester camp.
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Pennsylvania
New England
New York City
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Bronx
Fordham Hospital
William O'Neill
Brown Place
Baychester
Hiam O'Neill, Jr
O'Neill
Prominent Hampshire County Citizen Shot Dead in Ambush
John W. Chapman a leading Hampshire County West Virginia figure was shot from ambush in Slanesville while in front of his store. The assailant fired from bushes about fifty feet away and fled. Chapman, 63, veteran of the Confederate Army, present at Gen. Lee's surrender, may have been killed over an old feud.
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Cumberland
John W. Chapman
Hampshire County
West Va
Slanesville
Chapman
Gen
Lee
Cansler Campaigning Daily for Railroad Commission Seat
James Cansler, nicknamed Tirza, presents himself as the man of the present and future, now appearing daily except Sunday to urge voters in a county to elect him to the Railroad Commission. Supporters say he will likely win, while others remain unsure.
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New York Times
Columbia
Hm” Cansler
Tirza
York
South Carolina
Jim
State Railroad 1
Moses
Walt Whitman
Union County
Benjamin Ryan Tillman
Sage of
Palmetto
Railroad
Bryan
Tillman
South
James Cansler
Lork € O
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Ven
Vidi
Vidt
Cansler
Railroad Commission
Ward's Chauffeur Trapped in Pelham Manor Auto Trap
Joseph Dregeler, chauffeur for William L. Ward, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was captured in a shore road speed trap in Pelham Manor. Ward’s auto, traveling about 32 mph, was halted by a flag signal. Dregeler awaited court next Monday. Ward expressed regret over the chauffeur exceeding the limit.
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Joseph Dregeler
William L. Ward
Republican National Committees
Shore Road
Pelham Manor
Ward
Garman
Marks
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