Taft Seeks 58 More Delegates to Win Nomination
Special to The New York Times reports Taft has 482 delegates after adding fourteen this week and needs 58 more to reach a majority of 540. Roosevelt trails with 258, while Clark and Underwood gain delegates as conventions proceed in Maryland Washington and other states.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
South
Roosevelt
Wyoming
Tennessee
Maryland
Utah
North Carolina
West Virginia
Montana
Idaho
Minnesota
Florida
California
Caroline
Kansas
Michigan
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Ohio
Baltimore
Clark
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Underwood
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Woodrow Wilson
Glack
Iowa
Champ Clark
Taft Favorability by State in Republican Delegates
Instructed for Taft or favorable to Taft across states with most districts listed. The fragmented text notes complete or near complete delegation counts by state, with many “at large” and district totals, plus references to Roosevelt and other incomplete counts.
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Taft
Alabama
Alaska
Colorado
Finecticut
Cormmplete
Istrict of
Columbia
Georgia
Tivation Ane Hinds
Peensee Eeendiana
Owas
Entucky
Uisiana
Ae As
Tchigan
Mississippi
Jtsouri
Harpshire
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Cnnsylvania
Part
Hilippines
Es Orto Rico
jQode Island
South Carolina
Tenneersee
Seeeerees
Vermont
Virginia
Roosevelt
Jllniors
Indiana
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Assachusetts
Regeneration Experiment Aims at Slum Girls
In St Louis ten girls from the lowest slum district will live one day weekly in a refined West End home under observation. Mrs. Jessie A Cost leads the plan to develop talents, teach basic sewing and garment making, and provide reading instruction to guide each girl toward better lives.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
West End
Women’s Guild
Church of the Holy Communion
Jessie A. Cost
Holy Communion
Liner Course Changes Moved North to Avoid Icebergs
Captains of the Hamburg America Amerika and Cunard Carmania report iceberg sightings on a longer southern route. The new Atlantic crossing path shifts west and east legs, adding sixty miles to the long course for a total of 820 miles. New York and Minnehaha crews informed by wireless. Northward routing favored to dodge frequent ice.
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New York
Europe
Explosion Shatters Bank in Brooklyn Targets Private Banker
Policeman Tyman on fixed post outside Francisco Cali's private bank at 179 Columbia Avenue in Brooklyn was hit by flying glass from an explosion. Cali, who has received Black Hand threats for over two years, says a letter demanded $5000 to be handed to a man in a sombrero who never appeared. Police records show Black Hand letters received for six months ending December 1911. Cali noted no prior sighting of anyone near the building.
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Tyman
Amity Street
Brooklyn
Francisco Cali
Columbia Avenue
Cali
Ismay Receives Warm Welcome After Disaster
In Liverpool on May 11 J Bruce Ismay managing director of White Star Line arrived aboard the Adriatic to a cheering crowd. He walked the gangway with his wife and said he would not speak to the press while noting he had already given a full statement to a commission and would testify before the British Court of Inquiry. He thanked well wishers for their sympathy and support during what he called the greatest trial of his life.
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Liverpool
J. Bruce Ismay
White Star Line
Queenstown
Ismay
Will Prosecute Zelaya in Absentia in Nicaragua
Nicaragua's Congress voted that ex President Jose Zelaya is liable to prosecution for multiple alleged political assassinations and the 1909 killings of Americans Cannon and Grace. Zelaya is believed to be in Belgium and could be tried in his absence under the Latin code, with execution possible only upon return.
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Managua
José Zelaya
Republic
Cannon and Grace
Zelaya
Belgium
Nicaragua
Constituent Assembly
Senor Castrillo
Washington
State Department
National Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Shipping News Arrival Notes and New Booking Office
Latest shipping news lists arrivals of the Hartlepool and Shields on April 18, Craigendoran at Barry on April 23, the City of Montgomery at Savannah on May 8, and announces The Takahostee opening a New York Booking Office at 1,180 Brocaweys in West End New Jersey.
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Hartlepool
Shields
Craigendoran
Barry
City of Montgomery
Savannah
Takahostee
West End
N. J
New York
Strike Spreads Across Hearst Papers Alarms City Readers
In San Francisco, The Examiner's pressmen walked out at 7 30 pm amid a union order led by President Berry in sympathy with Chicago strikers. Atlanta's Evening Georgian also struck, printing only one 12 page edition, while New York Boston and Los Angeles plants were instructed to join the boycott. No disorders reported.
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New York Times
San Francisco
Cal
Examiner
Berry
International Pressmen’s Union
Chicago
W. R. Hearst
New York
Atlanta
Evening Georgian
Fred L. Selly
The
Georgian
Hearst
Boston
Los Angeles
Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Constitution
Seely
George Betry
Chicago Railways Companies
Division Street
Northwestern Avenue
Halsted
West Twelfth Streets
Frank Smith
Maxwell Street
Smith
Madison
Halsted Streets
West Twelfth Street
Kedzie Avenue
Strike Flares Across Hearst Newspapers Chicago Riots
George Betry announces a nationwide pressmen walkout against Hearst publications. Rioting erupts in Chicago areas as newsboys, conductors, and crowds clash with police, with arrests and paper burnings reported at multiple intersections.
Arlington organist killed by trolley car
Edward Downing, organist of First Baptist Church in Arlington New Jersey, was struck by a trolley while crossing Kearny Avenue after practice. He died en route to St Michael's Hospital Newark from a skull fracture and other injuries. He lived at 364 Elm Street and left a widow and three children.
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First Baptist Church
Arlington
N. J
Edward Downing
Elm Street
Kearny Avenue
Kearny Street
Maspeth Man Surrenders After Fatally Shooting Wife
Lawrence Pfeiffer of 18 Linden Street Maspeth limped to Nassau County Jail at Mineola and confessed to shooting his wife who was packing to leave him. He admitted walking twenty miles to surrender. Pfeiffer, a 42 year old printer, said he is sorry. His wife, who had been visiting Newark, is dying at Flushing Hospital. Their 14 year old son Joseph is held as a material witness.
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Nassau County
Mineola
Warden Box
Lawrence Pfeiffer
Linden Street
Maspeth
Kilburn
Pfeiffer
Newark
N. J
Flushing Hospital
Joseph
Dedication of Venice Campanile and Titanic Memorials
Pictorial section lists dedication of the new Venice Campanile and memorial services for Titanic victims in Westminster. Also notes social events, arrivals of ships bodies, and a breadth of society notices, exhibitions, and cultural items in this Sunday issue.
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Venice
Riverside
H. M
Moltke
Battle Almiider
America
Westminster Ral
American Color Society
Washington
Admiral in an Aeroplane Takes Fleet Officer Aboard
About 2,000 sailors from the Georgia and Rhode Island watched Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske fly in a hydro aeroplane from Marblehead to the Georgia and back. Pilot Starling Burgess and passenger Phillips Page accompanied the admiral as the craft skimmed over Salem and Beverly shores. The voyage marks the first time an admiral was taken off and returned to his ship by hydro aeroplane.
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New York Times
Salem
Mass
Georgia
Rhode Island
Salem Harbor
Bradley A. Fiske
Atlantic
Burgess-Curtiss Company
Marblehead
Starling Burgess
Phillips W Page
Mr. Burgess
Page
Admiral Fiske
Burgess
California man Dorr moved to Lynn in murder case
William A. Dorr of Stockton California arrived in Boston escorted by a nurse and two Lynn police inspectors. He was carried from a parlor car in a wheelchair and transported by ambulance to Lynn to face the charge of murdering George E. Marsh a wealthy soap manufacturer from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Boston
William A. Dorr
Stockton
Cal
Pacific Coast
George E. Marsh
Lynn
Mass
Dorr
Richeson Sanity Test in Death Penalty Case
Massachusetts alienists examine Clarence V. T. Richeson at Charles Street Jail to determine insanity ahead of possible death sentence for the Hyannis pupil slayer. Reports from tests include pinprick and memory trials as defense and officials foresee continued evaluation through Wednesday.
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Boston
Clarence V. T. Richeson
Hyannis
Avis Linnell
Charles Street
Richeson
Othr
Richegon
Henry R. Stedman
Taunton Insane Asylum
George T. Tuttle
McLane Insane Hospital
Henry P. Frost
State Insane Hospital
Charlestown State Prison
Charlestown
Bridges
Quinn
William A. Morse
Gov. Foss
Massachusetts
Champ Clark stamp discarded for resemblance to Washington
The Champ Clark campaign postage stamp is banned by the Post Office Department as it too closely resembles the George Washington stamp and could mislead voters. Officials say clerks might mistake the Champ stamp for the real article during rush periods, forcing a redesign.
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New York Times
Washington
Champ Clark
Post Office Department
George Washington
Champers
Hitchcock
Million Dollar Will Shuffles Vanneck Estate to Hospitals
John Torrance Vanneck died in Cannes on February 2 and the Surrogates Court filed his will for probate. New York assets total about 1.2 million dollars with 28 thousand in Canada real estate. He leaves 1 million to his son John Vanneck at 5 West Seventyeth Street and 12 thousand to Minnie Callahan now at Montreal Bank, with income only for the recipients and the rest to be managed by Union Trust Company.
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John Torrance Vanneck
Cannes
France
New York
Montreal
Canada
Vannectk
New York Post-Graduate Hospital
Montreal General Hospital
Minnie Callahan
Paris
Thompson Vanneck
Lord Huntingfield
Peer
Taft Signs Increased Pension Bill Into Law
President Taft signed the Increased Pension bill at the White House before midnight after House and Senate approval. The law provides $35 million in pension increases for the first year and an average of $22 million over the first three years, with Senators McCumber Burnham and Representatives Sherwood Adair Russell and Carl C. Anderson present.
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Washington
Taft
House
Senate
McCumber
Burnham
Sherwood
Adair, Russell
Carl C. Anderson
White House
Princeton
Tornado Kills In Alabama Rips Tuscaloosa It Darkens City
A tornado swept Tuscaloosa killing two Black residents and leaving the city in darkness with difficult communications. Birmingham reports a separate harsh weather night with violent hail and downed trees as a man protects his infant from harm.
Air Mail Starts May 22 for Longest U S Flight
Postmaster General Hitchcock approves the Christmas Aero plane Company to carry 100 pounds of U S mail from New York to Washington by aeroplane on May 22. Paul Peck of Washington will pilot the biplane now shown at the Aeronautical Show. Peck will be sworn in as an aerual mail carrier before the flight. If successful it will be the longest distance the United States mail has ever flown by air.
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New York Times
Washington
Hitchcock
Christmas Aeroplane Company
United States
New York
Paul Peck
Peck
Baseball empties House in May adjournment
Washington May 11 Baseball again brought the House to an early adjournment and blocked passage of a general claims bill. Government employees injured on duty or relatives of those killed would have received payments, but attendance dwindled as the American League game neared. Minority Leader Mann raised a point of no quorum and only a bare two members remained before the House adjourned in desperation.
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Washington
Mann
Lorimer Vote Expected After Senate Committee Reports
The majority and minority on the Lorimer election committee have reached an agreement and will file reports in the Senate on May 20. A joint request for a vote during the session is planned, with the Lorimer supporters aiming for an early June ballot.
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Washington
Lorimer
Illinois
Senate
Lea
Tennessee
Jones
Friends
Pension suspension shuts Garnerville Print Works in Haverstraw
In Haverstraw New York on May 11 a suspension of work at Garnerville Print Works laid off about 800 employees. A workers committee had earlier pressed for higher wages and the management promised a decision today. Strike talk reportedly contributed to the shutdown. The plant is owned by Deering and Milliken of New York, which bought it from the Garner estate. A wage increase had been granted to all workers several months earlier.
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Haverstraw
N. Y
Garnerville Print Works
Deering & Milliken
New York
Garner
Irving National Exchange to absorb Mercantile Bank
National Banks United reports the Irving National Exchange Bank taking over the Mercantile National Bank. Louis E. Pierson will head the merged Irving Mercantile National Bank, to operate at Dey Street and Broadway until Woolworth Building completion. Directors from both banks join the board. capital $400,000 with roughly $40,000,000 in deposits.
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Irving National Exchange Bank
Mercantile National Bank
Louis E. Pierson
Irving Exchange National
Irving-Mercantile National Bank
Mercantile National
Dey Street
Broadway
T “ Woolworth
Historic warship Pensacola burns in San Francisco
The old wooden warship Pensacola, famed for resisting Confederate batteries at New Orleans and Mobile Bay and flying Capt. George Dewey's flag, was set ablaze with toren on tar barrels. Once a training ship at Yerba Buena Island, she cost 500 for build and 1 5 million to repair, sold for 10 000 for copper bolts only. The Pensacola launched in 1862 at Pensacola, Florida.
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San Francisco
Pensacola
New Orleans
Mobile Bay
George Dewey
Mediterranean
Fla
Yerba Buena Island
Subway plan hangs on Board of Estimate vote this Tuesday
Rival bankers and city leaders argue over acceptance of the Interborough proposal for a dual subway system. Borough President McAneny presses for explicit Brooklyn Rapid Transit routes, while Willcox claims city-wide routing suffices. JPMorgan & Co. warn they may withdraw financing if the city delays beyond early next week.
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Interboroughs
Board of Estimate
J. P. Morgan & Co
Interborough
McAneny
Inter Borough
Shonts
Transit Committee
Miller
Cromwell
Public Service Commission
Brooklyn
Willcox
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
MecAneny
East River
Canal Street
Williams
B. v
Col. Williams
Ines
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