Taft Meets Vorys in Hot Springs Ohio Unity Hopes Rise
In Hot Springs Virginia on August 11 William H Taft held talks with Arthur S L Vorys of Ohio about improving Ohio prospects for the Republican ticket. Vorys reported Ohio’s political situation clearing and predicted strong GOP gains in districts 6 7 9 17 while acknowledging mixed outcomes in others. Senator Elkins stressed eventual resolution and victory margins. Taft planned vote campaign logistics and campaign speaker allocations as he also golfed with John D Rockefeller ally remarks.
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Tribune
Hot Springs
William H. Taft
Arthur SL. Vorys
Ohio
Taft
Senator Elkins
Vorys
Mr. Taft
House
Congress
West Virginia
Buckeye
Foraker
Representative Laning
Laning
Campbell
Southard
Sherwood
Mr. Mechiin
Romulus Johnson
Board of Elections
Johnson
James Joyce
Elkins
West Vic
Scherr
Frank H. Hitchcock
John Hars Hammond
Massachusetts
National League of Republican
John D. Rockefeller
Mr. Rockefeller
Bourne
William Reid Rogers
Ithhmian Canal Commission
Richard Lindley
General Edwards
Betts
Republican Party
Odell
John A. Merritt
Lockport
Genesee, Livingston, Niagara, Orleans
Wyoming
Livingston County
Wadsworth
Horace White
Syracuse
J. Sloat Fassett
Elmira
William Barnes, Jr
Albany
Hughes
Barnes
Cassidy
Sherman Moreland
Chemung
Newman
Taft Buys Blue Grass Grand Prize Plantation Horse
In Lexington on August 11 William H. Taft via an agent purchased a sixteen hand twelve hundred pound Southern plantation horse from Shelby T. Harbison. The horse won first prize at the Blue Grass fair and will be shipped to Taft this week.
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Lexington
William H. Taft
Shelby T. Harbison
Thtt
Highwaymen Rob 15 Relays Near Stirling City
Fifteen Diamond Match Company workers returning from Stirling City were held up by two highwaymen on the road to the Feather River camp. The robbers seized about $400 in cash and nearly equivalent value in valuables and escaped into the night.
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Redding
Cal
Stirling City
Diamond Match Company
Feather River
Match Company
Meriden man dies from injury in Portland baseball game
Hartford August 11 Michael T Maroney of Meriden died early today at St Francis Hospital from injuries suffered in an on field collision while running bases in a Portland game held last Saturday. The accident occurred when he crashed into another player, injuring the abdomen. Heritage Spencer's Toric eyeglasses offered at Maiden Lane.
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Hartford
Conn
Michael T. Maroney
Meriden
St. Francis's Hospital
Portland
Rain Triggered Riot at Polo Grounds Crowd
A heavy downpour at the Polo Grounds reduced a record crowd to a mob after six innings of the first game of a double header. Over thirty thousand attended before rain halted play and a chaotic rush ensued, injuring dozen fainting women who required ambulance help.
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Polo Grounds
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Grandstand
Suburban Cars Crash Near Detroit City Limits
In Detroit an interurban line collision occurred when two heavily loaded cars on the Detroit Ypsilanti Ann Arbor and Jackson route met head on a few miles outside the city tonight.
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Detroit
Detroit, Ypsilanti
Ann Arbor
Troops Guard City Amid Portsmouth Killing Frenzy
Norfolk soldiers move to bolster Portsmouth after police arrest four suspects in the killing of W. S. Winningder, a policeman, as crowds threaten street disorder and jail security tightens. An earlier brutal assault on Mrs. Catherine Powell heightened tensions.
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Norfolk
Portsmouth
W. S. Winningder
Strong
Swanson
Catherine Powell
Winningder
Wyoming Coal Strike Looms in September
Telegraph reports in Omaha indicate Wyoming coal camps will likely be tied up as about twelve thousand miners prepare a September strike. Operators, led by Omaha headquarters including Union Pacific Coal, Central Coal and Coke, Sheridan, Cambria, Hudson, and Kemmerer, refused miners demands and vow to fight to a finish.
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Tribune
Omaha
Wyoming
Union Pacific Coal Company
Central Coal and Coke Company
Sheridan Coal Company
Cambria, Hudson and Kemmerer Companies
Denver
Aerial Transit Co Forms in Hartford as Airship Plan Stirs Doubt
The Eastern Transit Company of Hartford filed with the Secretary of State Aug 11 and cites charter permission for airship navigation though promoters say the clause is a mere safeguard. James W. Knox is president H J Williams secretary and James Lee Loomis treasurer. Authorized capital 50000 with 1000 paid in. Loomis knows little of aims. company possibly a holding vehicle for other transit lines.
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Hartford
Conn
Eastern Transit Company
Boston
James W. Knox
H. J. Williams
Cambridge
James Lee Loomis
Knox
Loomis
Bantam Lake
Boston Possibly Acquires Constitution Frigate
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newberry offered Boston the frigate Constitution to dock in the Charles River and open as a museum of naval warfare. Government space at Charlestown Navy Yard is tight, prompting renewed transfer talks and local historical society involvement.
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Telesh
The
Tribune
Boston
Truman H. Newberry
Constitution
Charles River
United States
Charlestown Navy Yard
Newberry
Historical Society
Wrights Best Flight Longest Of The Series
Wilbur Wright of Dayton Ohio conducted the longest flight of his aero plane trials at Le Mans France. He stayed aloft three minutes and forty four seconds and completed three circuits at about thirty six miles per hour. Spectators numbered about three thousand as Wright dazzled the crowd with controlled ascent and skilled descents.
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le Mans
France
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
Ohio
Wright
Associated Press
Big steel car plant merge to boost Wilmington facility
Wilmington Del Aug 11 It was announced at Harlan Hollingsworth offices that Harlan Hollingsworth and Bethlehem Steel have merged to build in Wilmington a plant for manufacturing steel passenger coaches and all steel freight cars The new company name and capitalization were not announced The Bethlehem Steel president Charles M Schwab and directors visited and approved the merger The Harlem plant will be rebuilt enlarged and the largest car shops in the country erected Eleven to fifteen thousand workers expected to be employed Work will start immediately Bethlehem Steel will supply steel and the local plant will assemble the cars
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Wilmington
Del
Harlan & Hollingsworth Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Company
Charles M. Schwab
Harlem
Byron D Chandler Reported Killed in Boulogne Accident
A Paris rumor claims Byron D Chandler of Boston was killed near Boulogne sur Mer with three others injured. Verification failed. Chandler, 29, son of the late George Byron Chandler, married Grace Stecher in 1896 and owned a North Reading estate. Relatives in Manchester have heard nothing official.
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Paris
Byron D. Chandler
Boston
Mass
Byron Chandler
Manchester
N. H
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur- Mer
George Byron Chandler
Amoskeag National Bank
Grace Estelle Stecher
New York
North Reading
Chandler
Europe
France
Lightning Strikes Fort Riley Camp Flooding Tents
A hard rain at Fort Riley in Junction City Kansas tonight flooded the camp of instruction. Brigadier General John B Kerrs headquarters tent was struck by lightning. Several men were knocked down and one burned as soldiers held to tents to keep them from blowing away.
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Junction City
Kan
Camp of Instruction
Fort Riley
Genera John B. Kerr
Welcome Planned When Fleet Comes Home
Speculation grows on plans for a new Atlantic fleet to escort homeward battleships from Auckland New Zealand due February 22. Rear Admiral Conway H Arnold will command with Iowa as flagship, possibly New Hampshire, gathering Idaho Indiana Mississippi and New Hampshire along with Massachusetts, North Carolina, Montana, Chester Salem Birmingham and other ships for a Hampton Roads parade and winter maneuvers at Guantanamo. Congress may award Sperry the rank of vice admiral after the return voyage.
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Auckland
N. Z
Conway H. Arnold
Naval Examining and Retiring
Iowa
New Hampshire
Idaho
Indiana
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Montana
Chester
Salem
Birmingham
New York
Hampton Roads
Navy Yards
Guantanamo
Congress
Sperry
Nine United States pay checks stolen in Washington
A messenger’s pouch with nine Treasury pay checks totalling near two thousand dollars was stolen outside the Department of Commerce and Labor. The pouch was later found with the checks missing, and authorities identified a black messenger as the suspect. Checks drawn by W. L. Roberts of the Treasury were ordered stopped.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Wilkie
Secret Service
Alexandria
R. F. Troxler
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Riggs National Bank
Treasury Department
Lowry National Bank
Atlanta
J. W. Kerr
American National Bank
Fourth National Bank
Montgomery
Ala
W. L. Roberts
United States
Mother at Baltimore forgives eloping couple
At Baltimore police station, Bessie Edwards’s mother Mrs. Brice Edwards forgives her daughter and Alfred Tillinghast after they elope from Spoenk Long Island. They plan to marry the next day at the police station following a self described ceremony in Speonk. The couple believed a preacher officiated without license or certificate.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Bessie Edwards
Brice Edwards
Long Island
Central Police Station
Mary
Alfred Tillinghast
Spoenk
Union label blocks Taft Bryan lithographs
Chicago dispatch reports ten million Taft campaign pictures and five million Bryan lithographs stalled by contractors unable to place the union label. Open shops explain the issue after Poster Artists' Association membership denial. appeals to Samuel Gompers have not yet resolved the dispute.
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Tribune
Chicago
Taft
Republican Campaign Committee
Bryan
Democratic Organization
Poster Artists’ Association
Federation
Samuel Gompers
Two Women Drown At Cape May In Surf Accident
Cape May August 11 two women Miss Margaret Masterson and Miss Katie Charles both about thirty five employed at the Hotel Cape May were drowned this afternoon after venturing beyond safe depth. The body of Miss Charles was recovered but Miss Masterson’s body has not yet been found.
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Cape May
Margaret Masterson
Katie Charles
Miss Charles
Mastergon
Long Run at Top Speed in Atlantic Cruiser Test
Plans for a high power voyage from Portsmouth New Hampshire to the Azores aim to settle speed comparisons between the Chester turbine cruiser and the Salem with Curtis engines. Commanders prepare the fleet boat for a gruelling cross Atlantic test expected to reveal performance of foreign versus American machinery and may involve Salem and Birmingham on further cruises.
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Chester
Portsmouth
N. H
Azores
Ponta Delgada
San Miguel
Salem
Curtis
Portugal
Henry B. Wilson
A. F. H. Yates
Birmingham
Arms for Revolution in Lisbon Feeds Crisis Rumors
Lisbon reports mounting revolutionary pressure as raids uncover arms. One hundred revolvers and fifty rifles found in Lisbon suburbs. A packing case from Barcelona hid bombs. A sailboat grounded near Lisbon on August 9 and containers with arms from Belgium disappeared ashore. The Securo says thirty anarchists in Portugal are part of a secret society with New York headquarters and European branches.
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Lisbon
Barcelona
Belgium
Securo
Portugal
New York
Lake steamer Titania sinks after collision near Charlotte Harbor
At about 10:30 PM the Titania, a Seabreeze to Charlotte run, was struck by the Kingston as it passed under the bow, flooding the small boat and leaving twenty Titania passengers in the water. All were saved by nearby lifesaving crews and Kingston’s boat. The Titania is owned by Fix Brothers of Buffalo. One woman was rescued through a Kingston window.
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Rochester
Kingston
Charlotte Harpor
Thousand Islands
Titania
Charlotte
Railroads resume work as fall traffic returns
Richmond Va Aug 11 railroad owners in Virginia are hiring hundreds of workers and repairing rolling stock across lines to meet anticipated fall business. Empty cars on Chesapeake and Ohio and Southern lines are being put into operation while yards fill with locomotives and cars awaiting repairs. Similar activity is reported on Atlantic Coast Line Seaboard Air Line at Norfolk Jacksonville and Tampa as crops move in the fall ready to boost traffic.
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Tribune
Richmond
Virginia
Chesapeake & Ohio
Tidewater
Seaboard Air Line
Norfolk
Jacksonville
Tampa
Harriman pushes Union Pacific work revival
Omaha reports E. H. Harriman has spurred activity on the Union Pacific Railroad. The Laramie rolling mills have resumed after a year shutdown. Additional men are hired, double tracking progresses in Nebraska and Wyoming, a North Platte River line is planned, Omaha shops reopen, and extra clerks are at headquarters after a pause last fall.
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Omaha
E. H. Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Laramie
Wyo
Nebraska
Wyoming
North Platte River
Rowing coach falls into river at Connecticut regatta
Vivian Nickalls, coaching the Detroit eight on the Connecticut River for the national regatta, capsized after his shell struck a South End bridge pier. High School crew members rescued him from the water. His boat suffered a two foot bow break but will be repaired before Friday’s races. Nickalls is English and the brother of Guy Nickalls, three time Diamond Sculls winner at Henley.
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Tribune
Springfield
Mass
Detroit
Connecticut River
Vivian Nickalls
South End Bridge
Nickalls
England
Guy Nickalls
Henley
Oklahoma liquor law void by judge ruling
Coalgate Oklahoma August 11 judge H R Wells declared the Billups bill unconstitutional because it covers several subjects in one act, violating the state constitution which requires a single subject per law. The ruling voids the Oklahoma prohibition and liquor dispensary law in a case involving a violation of the law.
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The
Tribune
Coalgate
Okla
H. R. Wells
Leaders weigh Hughes renomination amid sharp GOP rift
At New York state committee HQs in West 39th Street, leaders clash over Governor Hughes renomination as a faction fears losing GOP farmers and team endorsements. They seek a delegate driven choice at the noon meeting and await further talks with Timothy Woodruff.
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Hughes
Republican State Committee
West 39Th Street
Republican Club
Timothy L. Woodruff
Cea
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Speonk
William M. Edwards
Mr. Tuttle
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Arms For Revolution
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