Hughes rallies Niagara crowds in anti gambling drive
Governor Hughes drew vast crowds in North Tonawanda and Niagara Falls as he campaigned against racetrack gambling in the 47th Senate District. He pressed voters to rebuke political bosses, claim independence from manipulation, and back Wallace if the public’s mandates are honored.
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Tribune
Niagara Falls
Hughes
Senate
William C. Wallace
Niagara County
North Tonawands
Niagara Club
Mr.Wallace
Geo
Albany
Buffalo
International Theatre
Wallace
Churchill Re-Elected Leader in Dundee Poll Stand
Winston Spencer Churchill wins the Dundee seat in a week of campaigning marked by trade and industry woes. George Baxter rises to second as Liberal margin narrows. labour and tariff reform issues dominate. Protests by suffragists and calls to calm crowds contrast with sugar duty remission aiding Dundee jam interests.
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Dundee
Winston Spencer Churchill
Bocord of Trade
House of Commons
George Baxter
Stuart
Scrymgeour
Churchill
Board of Trade
Mr. Churchill
Minister Refuses 15000 Bequest For Faith Change
The Rev. Henry Dawson of Canton Illinois says he will refuse a 15000 bequest from cousin Alice Booth of New Haven Connecticut if acceptance required convert to Roman Catholicism He cites religious conviction and loyalty to the Anglican church and vows to pursue union of Christendom in God’s way not man’s He has served St Peters Episcopal Church for a year is married with one child.
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Tribune
Canton
Ill
Henry Dawson
Alice Booth
New Haven
Conn
Mr. Dawson
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Theatres Open Today Amid Appellate Ruling On Sunday Shows
Theaters announce Sunday concerts will continue despite appellate division ruling against managers injunctions. Keith & Proctor and Hammerstein confirm performances proceed with no acrobats and no film showings today. Vaudeville venues unlikely to close, police have not issued new directives.
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Robert Irwin
Keith & Proctor’s Theatres
William Hammerstein
Moving Picture
Floral Boat Confederate Tribute on James River
A small boat banked with flowers and bearing a Confederate flag was set adrift on the James River this afternoon by the Junior Oakwood Memorial Association to honor Southern naval heroics on Memorial Day.
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Tribune
Richmond
James River
Junior
Oakwood Memorial Association
Bryan’s Eastward Campaign Schedule Announced
William J. Bryan departed Lincoln for an extended eastern tour. He plans appearances in Washington on May 12 to 14, Baltimore on May 19, and Hagerstown, Maryland on May 2, with further stops likely as part of the trip.
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Lincoln, Neb
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Washington
Baltimore
Hagerstown
May Not Raise Jersey Resort Rates
It was reported today that due to strong public protest and a likely appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commission the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads will postpone an increase in passenger rates on the New Jersey roads until fall.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Reading
New Jersey
Pennewill to be Governor in Delaware Ticket
Republican State Chair Coleman Du Pont announced that Sussex will nominate for Governor this year and New Castle County will gain a seat in Congress. Ex-State Senator S. S. Pennewill of Greenwood is slated for Governor and ex-Postmaster William H. Heald of Wilmington for Congress, with Congressman Burton not renominated. The plan preserves regional balance in nominations.
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Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Coleman du Pont
Sussex
New Castle County
Congress
S. S. Pennewill
Greenwood
William H. Heald
Burton
Parade Day Thanks to Police But Ends In Anecdotes
A citywide police parade drew thousands as officers in uniform marched along Fifth Avenue. Officials including Mayor McClellan and Cardinal Logue attended the reviewing stand, while visitors like Mark Twain in disguise mingled among the spectators. The event celebrated the force amid light rain and public cheers for the officers and their families.
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Pat
Max
John
Steve
Pater Familias
Fifth
Hole
Avenue
Police Department
Richmond
Bronx
Queens
Tenth Avenue
Allisions
Katie
Aloysius
Jawn
Worth Monument
McClellan
Cardinal Logue
All Ireland
Michael Quinn
Armagh
Farley
P. J. Hayes
Archdiocese of
New York
McGowan
Board of Aldermen
Metz
Bingham
Hamiter Seats Arkansas Governor in Unscheduled Oath
Allen D. Hamiter, Speaker of the Arkansas House, took the oath as governor in Little Rock May 9. He will serve until acting Governor Pindall returns from Washington to attend the governors conference. Hamiter, invited by no one, may confront Pindall's appointees and plans to act until John S. Little’s term ends.
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Little Rock
Ark
Allen D. Hamiter
Arkansas House of Representatives
X. C. Pindail
State Senate
Washington
Hamiter
Pindall
John S. Little
Paul Little
Death ends a bride’s future for Williams in suicide
Isaac I. Williams, 31, an insurance broker, killed himself in his West 73rd Street room hours before his wedding to Miss Mary Arnold. He had recently faced financial pressures, had been a cotton broker, then bonded and insured, and planned to marry at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The maid found him with a revolver beside him after a telephone call announced by a caller. The coroner ruled it a suicide and noted the fiancé’s engagement was announced last Sunday.
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Isaac I. Williams
West 73A Street
Mary Arnold
H. L. Arnold
West 113Th Street
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
Williams
William le Stowell
Charlotte Watkins
Stowell
White
West 68Th Street
Acritelis
Weston
Mr. Arnold
Arnold
Dr. Stowell
Mr. Willams
Mr. Williams
Death by Own Action Shocks New Rochelle Manufacturer
Theodore Ranstoos, scales maker of 165 Franklin Avenue New Rochelle, died yesterday by his own hand at home while his wife and four children waited for luncheon. He returned at noon in good spirits, greeted family, then went to his room and a shot was heard. He was reportedly in good health with no known trouble.
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Theodore Ranstoos
Franklin Avenue
New Rochelle
Mr. Ranstoos
Teacher Drowned in Cayuga Lake Near Cascadilla
Ithaca New York May 9. Thomas D Bergen a Cascadilla Preparatory School teacher of French drowned in Fall Creek entrance of Cayuga Lake when a canoe with student T D Amoroun overturned in a swift current. Amoroun was rescued. Bergen, Harvard graduate, aged thirty, was to become an Cornell instructor next fall.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Thomas D. Bergen
Cascadilla
Fall Creek
Cayuga Lake
Cornell
Harvard
Miner Seeks Right to Curse Company Executive
An Indianapolis miner fired for cursing Crawford Coal Company officials appealed his case via the district board of miners and operators, which split on the decision. The matter has been taken to President Lewis of the United Mine Workers for review.
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The
Tribune
Indianapolis
Crawford Coal Company
District Board of Miners and Operators
Lewis
United Mine Workers
New Skin Remedy Promoted by Free Samples and Centers
New York May 9 dispensers of poslam the new cure for eczema rely on experimental samples mailed free by the Emergency Laboratories No 32 West 5th Street New York City A 50 cent package of possum is sold at Riker's Hegeman and other druggists in New York and Brooklyn for minor skin troubles including pimples blackheads rash setter herpes and more
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New York
West Sth Street
New York City
Riker’s
Hegeman’s
Brooklyn
Minute Men to Patrol Indiana Fireland Counties
Governor Hanly orders sheriffs to swear in five hundred deputies as minute men to patrol Ohio River counties and break up night rider bands. Militia officers to be ready to answer sheriff calls at any moment.
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Ribune
Indianapolis
Hanly
Ohio River
Delegates to the Chicago Convention Poll Tightened
Delegates elected through May 3 show Taft leading with 418 of 104 delegates chosen this week, 68 for Knox, 59 for Hughes, 46 for Cannon, 32 for Fairbanks, 25 for La Follette, 2 for Foraker and 180 uncommitted as 830 of 980 total delegates have now been named across states Alabama Connecticut Kentucky New Jersey and others. Taft's majority grows as conventions nominate and instruct delegates amid varying factional alignments and unresolved ballots.
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Chicago
Tribune
Republican National Committee
Mr. Taft
Taft
Fort
F E. R. Ackerman
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Hughes
Edgar T. Brackett
New York
Arkansas
W. B. Shipper
Scipio Jones
Kentucky
Knox
Cannon
Fairbanks
le Follette
Foraker
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Marion County
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Acton
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Charles Kerr
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Winchester
James A. Wallace
Estill County
A. N. Cisco
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London
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Middlesbore
T. P. Combes
Casey County
Trenton
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John Kean
Frank 0. Briggs
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David Baird
Camden
H.C. Loudenslager
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R. E. Hand
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