Taft Earns Roaring Welcome in West Virginia Campaign Tour
Taft travels across West Virginia from Martinsburg to Parkersburg amid large crowds and staged demonstrations. Special trains enabled broader turnout as Taft visits Cumberland and Clarksburg, praising Republican strength and industry while addressing labor concerns at Rowlesburg. He declines Marietta stop due to fatigue and heads toward Cincinnati for rest.
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Baltimore & Ohio
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Ohio
Louisvill e wild over Bryan
In Louisville crowds packed through a long downtown march to Phoenix Hill Park as William Jennings Bryan spoke to cheering throngs. He warned that Tariff and trust forces aimed to buy the election and urged Democrats to rally to his Kentucky anthem plan.
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New Albany
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iMhoenix
Phoenix Hill Park
Phoenix Hall
Kentucky
Mr. Bryan
Baltimore & Ohio
Newark
Ohio
Hammond
Bryan Campaign Stops Highlight Labor and Banking Policies
The rally emphasizes Democratic planks on labor rights, bank deposit guarantees, and campaign finance publicity. Bryan criticizes Taft for workers and farmers, and Roosevelt’s role. crowds at Lafayette include Purdue students and Civil War veterans. Bryan tours by engine cab with James Cullen, engaging voters on direct Senate election and related issues.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Uis
James Cullen
Manon
Brookston
Ind
Lafayette
New Jersey Sures Taft Victory Says Ex-Gov Stokes
Former New Jersey governor E C Stokes told a Times correspondent that New Jersey will stay in the Republican column. He predicted a large Taft Sherman victory, a united party, and likely re elections for the state’s Republican delegation with at least two new representatives. He estimated the state majority at 25 000 or more.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
E. C. Stokes
New Jersey
IMES
Taft
Sherman
Bryan
Congress
Chicago Voter Registration Sets City Record
Revised figures show 411 120 Chicago residents eligible to vote, up from 403 017 four years ago, an increase of 8 103. The revision is the heaviest registration Chicago has seen and removed 2 791 names from the lists.
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Chicago
Cincinnati Area Chooses Wet Vote By Narrow Margin
In Cincinnati area on October 20, Seneca County voted wet by 1,508 with 28 of 41 precincts voting wet. Wet total reached 6,274 while dry totaled 4,905. Tiffin favored wet by 1,244, Fostoria stayed dry by 61. Fifty-nine saloons and two breweries remain in business.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Seneca County
Tiffin
Fostoria
Tillman on Bryan and New York Pivotal, Says Senator
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman and Mrs. Tillman arrived on the Red Star line Kroon land after a European sojourn. He predicts Bryan's victory and notes New York as pivotal, saying he will not campaign actively but believes Bryan will surprise forecasters.
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Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
McLaurin
Washington
Boston
Bryan
Slot Machine Operators Fined or Jailed in City Case
William McGrath candy shop owner at 441 West Fifty-third Street and Harry Weiss of 204 East Seventy-fourth Street were fined 25 dollars or 10 days in jail for permitting children to use Sullivan Advertising Company slot machines. Justice Olmsted presiding, they were sent to the Tombs and to pay fines today.
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William McGrath
West Fifty-third Street
Harry Weiss
East Seventy-fourth Street
Justice Olmsted
Sullivan
City Officials Hear Plans for Parks and City Beauty
Municipal Club members at the Engineers' Club dinner hear New York architect Frederick S. Lamb urge immediate start on future city development. He says buy parks now for later use and notes public expenditures should fund a comprehensive plan alongside the City Improvement Commission's work.
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New York
Municipal Club
Engineers’ Club
Fortieth Street
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Electus D. Litchfield
A. City
City Improvement Commission
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Mr. Litchfield
New York City
Litchfield
Berneye
City Hall Square
Fifth Avenue
Chelsea
Grand Street
Essere
Williamsburg Bridge
Blackwell's Island
Jamaica Bay
Fine Arts Federation
American Institute of Architects
City Club
Charter Revision Commission
Fred W. Rowe
Brooklyn Central Committee
Brooklyn
Gilbert 7.Iniliott
Brook
Herbert F. Gunnison
Public Library of New York Under Construction Tour
Fifty Municipal Club members toured the New York Public Library site at Fifth Avenue and Forty second Street to view progress. The building is about 65 percent complete and closed to public access for at least three years, with 75 percent of the anticipated cost already spent and interior work underway including marble flooring, book stacks, and ornate carvings.
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Carrere & Hastings
Municipal Club
New York Public Library
Fifth Avenues
Forty-second Street
Indictments Against Hains Brothers Put Off Plea
Capt Peter C Hains Jr and his brother T Jenkins Hains face murder in the first degree charges in Flushing Supreme Court. A motion to inspect Grand Jury minutes delayed pleas as defense argues bias in the panel led by William H Williams. The men were arraigned separately and remanded to await further action.
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Peter C. Hains, Jr
T. Jenkins Hains
Garretson
Flushing
McIntyre
Long Island City
Capt. Hains
Darrin
Gray
Baysile
Wiliam E. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Mr. McIntyre
William H. Williams
Grand Jury
Novel divorce plea fails in Philadelphia suit
Richard V. Mattison Jr. wins a divorce from Agnes Mattison after a long Supreme Court fight. Mrs. Mattison sought a limited divorce for abandonment and cruelty and claimed defense that abandonment by the husband bars later misconduct. Justice Erlanger rejects that claim and sustains the divorce.
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Richard V. Mattison, Jr
Richard V. Mattison
Philadelphia
Agnes €. Mattison
Supreme Court
Erlanger
Mattison
Elanger
Mattisons
Glasgow
Scotland
Charles F. Wainwright
Hotel Breslin
Wainwright
Marriage of Blanche Marks and Arthur G. Hays at the Savoy
Miss Blanche Marks daughter of Samuck Marks of 1644 Lexington Avenue wed Arthur G. Hays son of I M Hays of 200 Riverside Drive last evening at the Hotel Savoy. Rev Dr Stephen Wise officiated with Edith Sanborn as maid of honor and Herbert Dreyfus as best man. Ushers included James P Scheuer Walter Lyn Dr Harold Hays Robert Hays Aldre Stern and Maurice Marks.
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Samuck Marks
Lexington Avenue
Arthur G. Hays
I. M. Hays
Riverside Drive
Hotel Savoy
Stephen Wise
Edith Sanborn
Herbert Dreyfus
James P. Scheuer
Walter Lyn
Harold Hays
Robert Hays
Aldre Stern
Maurice Marks
Supreme Court orders alimony and support for Engelhardt case
Justice Bischoff signed an order directing George S. Engelhardt trading as George W. Engelhardt Publishing Company to pay his wife $150 monthly alimony and $5 counsel fee pending trial of the separation suit. He also must pay $73 monthly for the support of his 18 year old son Henry.
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Supreme Court
Bischoff
George S. Engelhardt
George W. Engelhardt
Mrs Williams and Family Stay at Waldorf Astoria in New York
Mrs William and her husband Mr Williams are spending a few days at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. This is Mrs Williams first visit since the sensational shooting of Charles Roberts at Atlantic City in which she figured.
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S. G. Williams
William S. G. Williams
Baltimore
Waldorf-Astoria
Mrs. Williams
New York
Charles Roberts
Atlantic City
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