Taft Confident of Victory After Nebraska Tour
Taft completes Nebraska leg of tour declaring broad support in Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and Nebraska. He cites enthusiastic crowds reports Lincoln Beatrice Wymore Falls City and Omaha as proof of labor support and predicts a Republican win on November 3.
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Giants Lose One Of Two Games In Run For Pennant
New York clings to first place as UBS win and Giants slip into a precarious hold. Matty leads the surge with steady hitting and timely play to keep the pennant race within reach.
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Giants Must Sweep Remaining Games to Take Pennant
The stirring National League race tightens as the Giants trail Chicago and Pittsburgh by two games. New York has five games left two against Philadelphia and three against Boston and must win all to clinch the title. Chicago and Pittsburgh each have doubleheaders and Pittsburgh faces St Louis and Chicago. If Cubs and Pirates win every game and the Giants win all five, a three way tie is possible after a protested New York-Chicago game is excluded.
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Giants Lose Second Game After Beating Quakers
In a Philadelphia double header, the Giants won the first game 5 to 3 behind Mathewson but lost the second 6 to 2 with Caveleski strong for the Quakers. The result keeps the Cubs and Pirates two games behind New York as pennant chances hinge on upcoming games with Boston.
Election Law Changes Promoted by County Republican Leader
President Parsons urged Republicans to register on the first day and explained amendments to curb fraudulent registrations. The new rules require either signing the registry list or answering detailed questions about name, parentage, occupation, employment, residence, marital status, and prior address. Voters must repeat answers when voting, with no prompts or review of prior responses.
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Tammany
John F Brice Arrested in Boston on Drunkenness Charge
John Francis Brice son of the late Senator Calvin Brice was arrested in Boston on a drunkenness charge and locked up after a struggle with three policemen. Police found over $100,000 in cash and negotiable notes payable to Brice in his pockets. Registration for this year’s elections is set for October 5 6 10 and 12 with voting days noted.
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Boston
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Calvin Brice
Newport
New York
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Posses Formed to Attack Zimmerman Thomas Outlaw Camp
Governor Swanson orders Buckingham County official Edoward R. Hubard to deputize eighty men and deploy them in twenty man squads to strike the Zimmerman Thomas outlaw stronghold near Arvonia. Expectation of fighting grows as officers move in. Journalists in Arvonia face expulsion under threat of shooting for reporting plans and movements.
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Buckingham County
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Arvonia
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Brothers reunite after decades as fortune travels
In Philadelphia a missing Klondike fortune finder, Edward McAdams, returns to locate his brother John McAdams after twenty years. The reunion ends with Edward funding the education of his young nephew and niece and giving lavish gifts to relatives. A West Philadelphia hotel scene precedes the discovery and the surprise fortune.
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Chanler Denounces Conners In New York Governor Bid
At Rokeby estate near Poughkeepsie Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, the Democratic nominee for Governor, accuses State Chairman William J. Conners of betraying a confidence by outlining party policy. He says he will follow the people’s will and enforces laws. Norman Mack and Alton B. Parker attend. Governor Hughes campaigns in New York City counties outlining his record and aims for re election.
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Man Who Paid Funeral Bill Ends Life In Central Park
Ernest Girard saloon owner at 159 Ninth Avenue killed himself in a Central Park brush, after signing a 125 dollar check to cover funeral expenses. A note in his pocket cited chronic illness. Three well dressed men then visited an undertaker in Eighth Avenue claiming prior dinner with Girard at the Plaza.
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Sand weakness found under State Education Building site
Albany reports a large vein of soft sand beneath and nearly parallel to the proposed entrance line of the new State Education Building near the Capitol. Prof John H Cook notes the vein explains the Capitol staircase sagging two years ago and warns removal from under the site is advisable with a stronger substitute soil planned.
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State Education
State Capitol
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Capitol
Six Excursionists Die In Ohio Train Collision
Six boys were killed at Sugar Ridge Ohio when a Toledo and Ohio Central passenger excursion train from Bowling Green to Toledo was struck from the rear by a freight train. The crash occurred around 6 o clock with several injured. Unclear whether a flagman warned the freight. Separately in Scappoose Oregon a logging train ran away, jumped the track, killing five and injuring eight.
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Vanderbilt Arrested for Excessive Speed in Fall River
Reginald C. Van derbilt was nabbed in an automobile trap in Fall River on charges of speeding at about fifty miles per hour. He rode with a chauffeur en route from Newport to Brockton to watch horses judged at the state fair. He was released on his recognizance to appear for trial next Tuesday morning.
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Fall River
Mass
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Marsh in Kissena Park Unearths Fifteen Acre Morass
Eugene Winship of the Queens Health Department reports fifteen acres of morass in Kissena Park, contradicting earlier claims of only two to three acres. The area floods from a stream, leaving soft black muds that complicate drainage. the city paid about 7 200 an acre for the land.
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Queens Health Department
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