Vanished Man Finds Himself in California Farm
George Blair Garrison, missing from Kansas City since January 4, resurfaced as A H Gresham on a San Diego chicken ranch. He had expressed to a Topeka man that he owed 813.50 for souvenirs, and his wife identified him from handwriting. He had been beaten last June by gamblers he accused of robbing a youth.
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Topeka
George Blair Garrison
Kansas City
A. H. Gresham
Fred Jo. Judson
San Diego
San Pasqual Valley
Cal
Gresham Carrison
George Larrison
Clarrison
Gresham
Garrison
Parrison
Los Angeles
W. TS. Swan
Harrison
Garden City
Tle
Agricultural Department
Iansas City
Woman on Tracks Ends Life in Ohio Train Incident
Early Saturday morning Mrs. James Comstock of Sunbury Ohio, about 60, ill, leapt before a south bound passenger train on the Cleveland Akron and Columbus line. Her head was severed and carried 340 miles along the line before discovery as the engine returned toward Columbus.
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James Comstock
Sunbury
Columbus
Ohio
Cleveland
Akron
Fire wipes out fortune of Dayton herb doctor
Fifty five year old James T. Stewart of Dayton Ohio was admitted to the county infirmary after a fire destroyed his herbhouse and its contents. Stewart had stored two years of herbs which a Chicago medicine company had optioned for 1500 dollars. The blaze Friday night left him penniless.
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County Infirmary
James T. Stewart
Dayton
Ohio
Stewart
Chicago Medicine Company
Tornado Causes Major Damage in Washington County
Estimated damage exceeds $500000 across Washington county Pennsylvania from a tornado. In oil fields near Washington, tanks at Standard Oil Company facilities and Manufacturers Light and Power entities were overturned, spreading destruction to adjacent crops.
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Washington County
Standard Oil Company
Manufacturers
Light and
Feat Company
Washington
Three Dead Fifteen Entombed In Ellsworth Mine Blast
An explosion at Ellsworth mine No. 1 in Monongahela City I A occurred as the day shift ended. Three miners died two were fatally burned and fifteen others were entombed then rescued. cause is not known.
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Ellsworth Mine No. 1
Monongahela
I.a
Tragic Falls In New York Tenement Incident
Henry Rothstein leaped from a fifth story tenement in New York intending self harm and fell onto passerby Mrs. Jennie Levy. Levy suffered a fractured skull and injuries from the impact while Rothstein sustained a broken leg and internal injuries.
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Henry Rothstein
New York
Jennie Levy
Rothstein
Motorcycle crash claims Reading man in Wilkesbarre race
Theodore Shultz of Reading Pa was killed when his motorcycle hit a fence while speeding around a Wilkesbarre track at sixty five mph. Joseph Price of Wilkesbarre was seriously injured as a follower. Eleven black men were lynched in Sabine County Texas after two white men were murdered, with both sides arming for a possible race war.
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Wilkesbarre
I.a
Theodore Shultz
Reading
Joseph If. Price
Sabine County
Texas
Ambassador Kinship Tie Crowns Secret Royal Wedding
English royals including Queen Alexandra attended the wedding of Jean Reid daughter of Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Hubert Reid on a royal Tuesday ceremony with other members of the royal family.
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Edward
Alexandra
Jean. Reid
Whitelaw, Reid
Hubert
Taft Nominated for President by Republicans at National Convention
Ohioan William Howard Taft wins the Republican nomination on the first ballot at the national convention as platform adopts and speeches favor other favorite sons. Roosevelt La Follette Foraker Fairbanks and others received votes in the roll call amid ceremony.
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Hendy Cabot Lodge
John Wesley Hill
Metropolitan Temple
New York
Albert J. Hopkins
Illinois
Committee On
Roosevelt
Gov. Wanly
Indiana
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Lodge
Ninois
H. 5
Boutell
Joseph G. Cannon
House of Representatives
Fairbanks
Hughes
Burton
Ohio
William Howard Watt
Knox
Chicago 1904 Republican Convention Opens With Roaring Start
At the 1904 Republican Convention in Chicago the gavel fell as 980 delegates filled the Coliseum. Senator Julius C Burrows nominated as temporary chairman and Theodore Roosevelt received massive cheers for a non renomination stance. The opening session featured keynotes, credentials battles, and a parade of marching clubs amid intense heat and fanfare.
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Harry S. New
National Committee
Coliseum
Muldoon
Julius C. Burrows
Michigan
Coliseum Ward
United States
White House
National Party
Committee On Credentials
Charles A. Bookwalter
Indianapolis
Credentials Committee
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Lodge Nominated Taft as Delegates Rally in Oregon Convention
Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, named permanent chairman and Taft received 702 of 978 votes in a bustling Republican gathering. The Oregon credentials report was delayed as the convention organized with brief remarks from Henry Baker and James Conner, amid calls for unity and a unanimous nomination.
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Fulton
Oregon
Burrows
William O. Waters
Chicago
Henry Baker
Minnesota
James D. Conner
Indiana
San
Baker
Conner
Committee On Permanent Organization
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Senator Lodge
Platform at a Glance Roosevelt Policies and Party Aims
The platform outlines Rooseveltian justice and fair play, pledging continuance of Roosevelt policies. It calls for statute-based injunctive rules, expanded federal labor support, tariff revision, flexible economic policy, stronger federal supervision of interstate trusts, a large inland waterways plan, readiness of the armed forces, better roads guidance, and equal justice for all regardless of race. It contrasts democracy and republicanism as vacillation versus strength.
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Roosevelt
Republican Party
LMG Taray
Repulican Party
Congress
Great Lakes
Agricultural Department
Sherman Nominated for Vice President at Republican Convention
New York Congressman James S. Sherman won the vice presidency nomination on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention after four days of sessions. New York’s 78 votes helped propel Sherman with the support of other states, including efforts to unify behind him as the convention adjourned.
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Chicago
Janes S. Sherman
New York
Timothy Woodruff
Joe" Cannon
We National Crouse
Sherman
Itenry Cabot Lodge
Coliseum
Punnitie Tate
William I. .Patt
Congressiiuinu Dames
New York State
Empire State
Dalliver
Cumins
Towa
Yates
Lad
Free Lunch Room Opens for East Side School Children
A special committee for relief to East Side school children opens a free lunch room funded by public donations. Admission is by 5 cent tickets sold at the door to prevent stigma. City schools Superintendent Maxwell supports public school meals at public expense while charity workers urge work opportunities for the poor.
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New York
Maxwell
Central Federated Union
Brewers Back Reform Effort In Milwaukee Meeting
United States Brewers Association closes its Milwaukee gathering with a platform urging temperance as balanced reform. It says brewers will cooperate to improve retail trade and saloons, rejecting claims of political aims to protect disorderly venues.
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United States Brewers’ Association
Milwaukee
Steel Trust Edges Toward Price Cut
About fifty steel manufacturers met in New York and announced a coordinated reduction in finished steel prices. Chairman Gary stated billets would drop from 28 to 27 dollars per ton and structural iron from 1.70 to 1.00 per hundred, with other products falling similarly. Iron ore prices were cut by 50 cents per ton.
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Steel Trust
New York
Gary
The
Buffalo Yacht Clubhouse at Point Abino Burns
Fire sweeps the Buffalo Yacht Club clubhouse at Point Abino causing about $7000 in losses. A labor paper is planned for organized workers in Lexington Frankfort and Covington Kentucky. Mrs Caroline Campbell of East ninety street New York intervenes in a knife attack between her son and her husband Cornelius.
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Buffalo Yacht Club
Point Abino
Buffalo
Lexington
Frankfort
Covington
Caroline Campbell
East
Ninetieth Street
New York
Cornelius
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