Taft Defends Labor Record On West Tour
Taft defends his labor record amid large Chicago crowd before Railway Men's Independent Taft Clan. He cites injunction cases and labor policy decisions as a judge, contrasts with Bryan, and promotes Roosevelt’s influence. He tours Indiana and Illinois en route to Denver with a large showing from Chicago Cincinnati and Indiana supporters.
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Orchestra Hall
Michigan Avenue
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Bryan
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Mr. Taft
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Arthur
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Cincinnati
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Ind
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Hazelden
Ade
Indiana
Sulu
Great West
Pennsylvania
John Wesley Hill
Metropolitan Temple
New York
J. J. Richardson
Daniel Ramsdel
United States Senate
Gus Karger
Fred W. Carpenter
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Colby Victorious in Essex County Primary Returns
Essex County backed Everett Colby for State Senator by about 1300 votes as direct primaries reshape New Jersey politics. Morgan won Sheriff in Essex, while Osborn and Harrigan gained notable wins. Morris, Hudson, and Cumberland counties shifted against machine candidates, signaling broad cross county backlash against party bosses.
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Raymond
Jersey
New Jersey
Essex County
Everett Colby
Thomas L. Raymond
Colby
William Fellowes Morgan
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Harrigan
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Samuel Wilson
Ralph Schmidt
Excise
George Forman
J. Frank Bock
Essex Democratic
Isaac Shoenthal
James A. Rowe
James J. Kelly
Eugene F. Kinkead
Eugene W. Leake
James A. Hamill
Morris County
Republican
Machine
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John M. Mills
Gov. Fort
South Jersey
Atlantic City
Stoy
Fort
John Martland
Cumberland County
Edward Caspar Stokes
B. Frank Buck
Gloucester County
Avis
Loudenslager
David Baird
Camden
Cooper B. Hatch
William D. Brown
Baird
Burlington County
Mercer County
Philip Freudenmacher
Passaic County
Republicans
Monmouth County
Bishops’ Law
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R. V. Laurence
John Mills
Elias Bertram Mott
Franklin Murphy
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Directoire
Frelinghuysen
Somerset
Murphy
Steamer Manukas to Salvage Aeon Crew at Christmas Island
The Manukas, due at Fanning Island from Vancouver, will proceed to Christmas Island to retrieve the remaining passengers and crew of the wrecked Aeon. Some Aeon crew are at Fanning Island. Aeon captain reports little chance of salvaging the steamer.
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Melbourne
Manukas
Fanning Island
Vancouver
Christmas Island
Aeon
Women’s Christian Temperance Union vows to raid alcoholic sweets
In New York County the twenty one local W C T U members pledge to seek out makers and sellers of sweets with traces of alcohol. They will taste confections and report names to the District Attorney and Police Commissioner. Speakers reference prohibition progress and the German Emperor. The group votes $1,000 for a New York State headquarters and endorses woman suffrage.
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Woman's Christian Temperance, Union
New York County
Esterday
New ‘York County
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Kips Bay Methodist Church
East Thirty-seventh Street
Bonn
New York City
German Catholic Central Verein rejects prohibition solution
The National Convention of the German Catholic Central Verein condemned prohibition as a method to solve drunkenness. It urged Catholics to refrain from treating and accepting drinks and from founding abstinence societies as the best solution.
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Cleveland
Central Verein
Sleeper Adolph Falls to Death at Recreation Pier
Witnesses describe Adolph, a regular at the Third Street and East River pier, leaping into a whirlpool eddy after watching a rat in distress. The group recounts his sudden movement and the manner of his death, noting his prior mood and attempts to help the creature.
Woman plunges over Niagara Falls after entering river
A middle aged woman walked into the Niagara River at Green Island and was swept over the falls. A hat, purse, handkerchief, spectacle case from a Buffalo optician, and gloves were found on the bank. The case bore the name Anna Dugan of 33 East Ferry Street Buffalo. Buffalo residents said Miss Dugan formerly lived there with her sister, but they had moved.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Green Island
Buffalo
Opticians
Anna Dugan
East Ferry Street
Prohibitionists Fill Vacancies for State Ticket
Syracuse Sept. 23 The Prohibition State Executive Committee recommended James Co Crawford of Mount Vernon to replace E T Welch of Chautauqua County as Secretary of State Coleridge A Hart of Brooklyn was nominated for Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals Ten thousand Prohibition meetings will be held in the state.
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Syracuse
Prohibition State Executive Committee
James Co. Crawford
Mount Vernon
E. T. Welch
Chautauqua County
Coleridge A. Hart
Brooklyn
Court of Appeals
Prohibition
Labor Federation endorses Gompers injunction stance
In Rochester on September 23 the Workingmen's Federation of New York, with one dissent, approved Samuel Gompers injunction plank actions at the Republican and Democratic conventions and backed his call to support the Democratic Party. The group sent a wire of solidarity to Gompers and contributed $200 to the AFL. No opposition arose to endorsing the manifesto.
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Rochester
Workingmen’s Federation of
State of
New York
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
New Mansion for B N Duke on Fifth Avenue
Benjamin N Duke of the American Tobacco Company hires architect C P H Gilbert to build a six and a half story mansion at Fifth Avenue and Eighty ninth Street. The 60 by 100 foot plot will feature a classic design and stand among the area’s grand residences. Duke’s neighbors include Henry Phipps Andrew Carnegie James A Burden and Felix Warburg. The site was formerly owned by William B Leeds who died months ago.
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Benjamin N. Duke
American Tobacco Company
C. P. H. Gilbert
Fifth Avenue
Leighty-Ninth Street
Upper
Mr. Duke
Henry Phipps
Andrew Carnegie
James A. Burden
Felix Warburg
Duke
William B. Leeds
Plague Outbreak Reported in Caracas
A Caracas dispatch reports a fresh bubonic plague outbreak in the Venezuelan capital with the disease spreading and several infections among the upper classes noted in letters received from the city.
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Caracas
Willemstad
Caracao
Taft Tide Rises as Bryan Support Slumps in Early East
Republican leaders report growing Taft Sherman sentiment from Maryland New Jersey and Indiana after a busy prep period. Prominent backers from New York Massachusetts and Alabama cite strong Taft prospects with Dickinson era warnings about Bryan. Franklin Murphy Kean and Gist Blair voiced optimism while Coudert announced support for Taft.
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Judge Taft
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Newberry
Taft
Sherman
New Jersey
Franklin Murphy
United States
Kean
Murphy
Maryland
Gist Blair
Sixth Congress District
Blair
Bryin
Democratic State Committee
Haltimore
Charles H. Scott
Montgomery
Ala
Fust
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
West Viginia
New York State
Tragedy in Bushwick Park Ends in Double Shots
Mrs Emma Besland of 1477 DeKalb Avenue Brooklyn is dying from three bullet wounds after George Kienze unknown address fired at her then killed himself. Besland’s husband Charles says no motive is known. The couple had been speaking in Bushwick Park when the shooting began and Kienze fired four times, three into Mrs Besland. He then shot himself.
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Emma Besland
de Kali Avenue
Brooklyn
Bushwick Avenue Hospital
George Lenge
Kienze
Charles Gesland
Tinsland
Mrs. Besland
Pushwick Park
Governor denies report on 1924 Republican platform impact
Lincoln Nebraska September 23 Gov Sheldon denies he will not run for Governor citing the banking guarantee Yank defeat as baseless. He says the report is untrue and groundless.
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Lincoln
Neb
Sheldon
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