Democrats Aim To Seize Control Of The House
The article analyzes where close races could flip seats in 32 districts and how a Bryan landslide or Taft sentiment could decide party control. It notes 223 Republicans and 166 Democrats with two vacancies, and outlines districts most at risk and the national factors shaping the House outcome.
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Daily Rainbow
Congress
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Bryan
Indiana
Louisiana
House
Missouri
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Ohio
Middle West
Illinois
Kentucky
Taft
Colorado
Denver
Delaware
Connecticut
Idaho
Montana
Utah
South Dakota
Wyoming
Maryland
Oklahoma
Milnois
Nebraska
Iowa
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
New York State
George L. Lilley
House Naval Affairs Committee
Kansas
Cannon
West Virginia
Busy Roosevelt endurance tests train Army officers on Governors Island
Army officers undergo a ninety mile Roosevelt horsemanship test starting at Fort Myer Virginia with daily rides from 6 to 8 am and 4 to 8 pm on Governors Island and Staten Island. Forty officers are named for Fort Myer duties with medical exams before and after the three day ride. The roster lists Cols Patten Whistler Hull Micham Birnie and many others stationed at Governors Island Fort Totten Sandy Hook and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
A. H. McCauley
Governors Island
William S. Patten
Army Building
New York
Garland N. Whistler
Fort Totten
N. Y
John A. Hull
Orin B. Micham
Rogers Birnie
Sandy Hook
N. J
Abiel L. Smith
William H. Comegys
James N. Allison
Henry H. Ludlow
Fort Hamilton
Edwin B.babbitt
Beverly W. Dunn
New York City
Albert C. Blunt
Fort Schuyler
Als
Samuel E
Norfolk
William E. Craighill
Baltimore
Henry C. Newcomer
Pittsburg
Penn
Francis A. Winter
Fort Myer
Charles L. Potter
Tompkinsville
S. I
Edwin P. Brewer
Millard F. Harmon
Adelbert Cronkhite
C. C. Horney
Dover
Tracy C. Dickson
Frederick Perkins
B. W. Atkinson
Philadelphia
Thomas B. Dugan
Fort Slocum
Richmond
P. Davis
Fort Monroe
Herbert Deakyne
Notable Officers Lead 40 Riders In Army Exercise
Major Wendell O Simpson and Major William L Kenly of New York City join Major William H Wilson of Fort Hamilton New York and Major William H Tschappat of Dover New Jersey among forty coast artillery officers. They face a choice between a fifty mile walk or a ninety mile ride but prefer horsemanship to marching. Lieut Col Dunn of the group is the inventor of Dunnite a secret government explosive considered highly destructive by ordnance experts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell O. Simpson
New York City
William L. Kenly
William H. Wilson
Fort Hamilton
NH. x
William H. Tschappat
Dover
N. J
Coast Artillery
Col. Dunn
Ordance
Man Hunt in Trolley Car Seizes $4 Thief Caught
Mrs Lena Schwartz withdrew 250 dollars from a downtown bank and, on a Second Avenue trolley, a laborer in overalls grabbed her hand satchel but escaped only with 4 dollars. Detective Norton tripped the thief at a doorway near the East 104th Street station and the man confessed.
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Lena Schwartz
East 118Th Street
Second Avenue
Ninety-seventh Street
Joseph Tallon
Tallon
100Th Street
First Avenue
Norton
East 104Th Street
Michael ‘Valeria
East 120Th Street
William E Gilmore Returns to Presidency of N P Co
William E Gilmore arrives home from abroad aboard the St Louis of the American line. He denies Edison cable but says Frank L Dyer has taken his place and he will not engage in active work for some time. Gilmore travels with his wife and family. his personal attorney meets him at the pier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Gilmore
National Phonograph Co
St. Louis
Mr. Edison
Mr. Gilmore
Frank L. Dyer
Gilmore
Hurricane nears Florida coast after Turk's island damage
The West Indian hurricane, tracking west toward the Florida Peninsula, was reported by the weather bureau to be approaching the East Coast of Southern Florida. Storm warnings were issued for the entire Florida Peninsula and shipping along the Atlantic Coast and Gulf was advised to seek safe harbors.
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Washington
Florida Peninsula
Turk’s Island
Weather Bureau
Florida
Atlantic Coast
Gulf
East Gulf
Mrs Bertele Arkell Gillam Weds Francis Barbour
At Mrs James Arkell’s Canajoharie home, Bertele Arkell Gillam widow of Bernard Gillam marries Francis Edward Barbour of Rutland Vermont. Barbour, Yale graduate, was a noted college football player in his day.
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Amsterdam
James Arkell
Canajoharie
Bertele Arkell Gillam
Bernard Gillam
Francis Edward Barbour
Rutland
Barbour
Yale
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St. Michigan
Heyet
St. Ohio
Rhode Island
Judge DeArmond
Crumpacker and Landis
Hughes
Fort
Gompers
Lone Horse
Castle William
Officers’ Club
Department of the East
Staten Island
Col. Harris
Deems
Col. Deems
Riley
Col
William P. Duvall
Charles Richard
Francis Winter
Howard H. Baily
Medical Corps
A. Jaeckel & Co
Fifth Avenue
Furriers
Hudson Bay
38Th ST
Brooklyn
Buffalo
Oppenheim
LLINS
34Th Street
Man Hunt
B. A. Gillam
F. E. Barbour
B. Akman & Coo
Glace Kidskin
College Service
Boys’ Furnishings
Persia
Asia Minor
35Th Street
St. Avenue, New York
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