Emperor Matsuhito Dies After Prolonged Illness
Tokyo July 23 30 1926 Elder statesmen and Prince Yoshi Hito at the bedside as Emperor Matsuhito dies after diabetes fueled debility. The elder statesmen anticipate Yoshi Hito will assume supreme authority with a coronation planned for next year. The Mikado, 121st in the dynasty, helped lead Japan to victory in wars with China and Russia.
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Tokyo
Japan
Matsuhito
Imperial Palace
Yoshi Hito
Mikado
Katsura
St. Petersburg
Ita
Baseball Battle Begins Tomorrow in Tri-State Showdown
The Walla Walla Bears and Pendleton Buckaroos ready for a decisive two game series at Hound-up Park. Pendleton adds ace Joe Berger after Boise trip while Osborne recovers. First pitch scheduled for 3 30 PM with Washington leading the league race.
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Walla Walla
Boise
Gimlin
Irriwators
Pendletonians
Buckaroves
Joe Berger
Pendleton
Berger
Seattle
Hoquiam
Washington State League
Osborne
Huckaroees
Fastest Riders Set for Three Day Motorcycle Meet
New York July 28 The Motor Home Stadium at Brighton Beach Park opened today for a three day motorcycle meet attracting the fastest amateur and professional riders in the country. Officials estimate machines may reach speeds near 100 miles an hour on the steeply banked bowel shaped track.
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New York
Brighton Beach Park
Ti la
Chicago Women’s Championship Opens At Exmoor Club
The Chicago women’s championship golf tournament began today at Exmoor Country Club. The field includes expert players and the event doubles as a social occasion in Chicago.
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Chicago
Exmoor Country Club
Heiress Dorcas Snodgrass Identified in Catskill Creek Find
In Catskill New York on July twenty ninth a body found in Catskill Creek was positively identified as Miss Dorcas Snodgrass the missing heiress. The name Snodgrass appeared on an undergarment and a sister Mrs James Crider confirmed the description as fitting. Physicians say the body was in the water four days.
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Catskill
N. Y
Dorcas Snodgrass
New York
Snodgrass
Catskirl Creek
James Crider
Race War Sparks in Plainville Georgia
Sunday violence left several dead and many wounded as armed Black residents seized control of Plainville, outnumbering Whites two to one. Tensions rose as Whites attacked a railroad section house where Black survivors took refuge. five Black men died in the ensuing clashes and two wounded Blacks were killed near the tracks. State troops may be needed to quell the disturbance.
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Plainville
Orozco Cabinet Headed From Los Angeles Sidelining Mexico
United States secret service reports that General Orozco’s cabinet has established headquarters in Los Angeles and advises the Mexican rebel forces from the American side. Rebels plan to abandon Chihuahua and focus on Sonora. Edict drives Americans to leave or join rebels. about 600 Americans, mainly women and children, flee Pearson Casas Grandes Colonia Dublan and Juarez with 500 more expected and 2000 more to follow as arrangements allow.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Coneralrozco
United States Secret Service
Chihuahua
Sonora
el Paso
Pearson
Casas Grandes
Collonia Dublan
Juarez
Judge Archbald admits acts but denies corruption claims
Washington July 29 Judge Robert W Archbald answers the Impeachment charges in the Senate admitting many acts but denying corruption. He says no case was made by the House and asserts all acts were innocent though connected to coal deals railroad dealings and letters to officers. He cites friendship and denies improper motive or pecuniary gain.
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Washington
Robert W. Archbald
Commerce Court
Senate
House of Representatives
Archbald
Erie Railroad
New York
Scranton
Edward J Williams
Williams
William F. Boland
Bruce
Louisville & Nashville Railrad
Fred Warnke
Reading Railroad
Warnke
Rigel Wins Wager By Quick Fire Eating Stunt
Shamokin Pennsylvania July 29 John Rigel won a wager by consuming five quarto of pea nutes and 30 glasses of beer in 57 minutes then to prove the feat he ate a huge sandwich. He had recently eaten a peck of apples including skins and seeds.
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Shamokin
John Rigel
Kansas City Balloon Wins National Elimination Race
The Kansas City II appears to have won the national elimination race started Saturday in Kansas City. The balloon Uncle Sam, from Kansas City, landed near the Bull Run battlefield in Manassas Virginia after traveling about 40 miles.
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Kansas City
Uncle Sam
Kansas City II
Manassas
Virginia
Bull Run
Wilson's Progressive Speech Highlights Reforms
Governor Wilson completes acceptance speech in Wilson, July 245. It is described as strongly progressive, advocating a revenue tariff, heavy taxes on luxuries, a single presidential term, personal guilt for Sherman Act violators, direct primaries, and a stringent national corrupt practices act.
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Ben Girt
Wilson
King of Spain Attends Court Hearing Over Fortunes
In St Gaudens France on July 29 the king of Spain appeared in a local court drawing crowds. The case concerns a fortune once left to him by Igo Laplone ex mayor of Gazarth Haude Geronne. Saplene’s sisters seek to annul the will declaring their brother insane and the king opposes the claim attending in person.
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Spain
St. Gaudens
France
Igo Laplone
Gazarth
Haute-Geronne
Alfonso
Saplene
Blues Leave Field to Victorious Reds
Gate City Washington July 20 blues retreat as reds gain full control in Puget Sound invasion. Participants head home today with reds in command and no obstruction noted.
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BLUES
REDS
Gate City
Wash
Puget Sound
Milnes Calls for Billiard Tables in All Homes
Rev. Frank J. Milnes in farewell sermon defends billiards as a progressive religious expression urging a table in every US home. He cites Beecher and Tennyson to defend games, denounces prudery, urges embryology in schooling, and announces his resignation as union services unite Presbyterian and Baptist pastors amid his departure from Pendleton.
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Milnes
United States
Frank J. Milnes
The
Presbyterian Church
Pendleton Commercial Association
Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
America
Lord Tennyson
England
Tok Foor
Christ Church
Cash
Baptist Church
Paul
Jesus
Big Newspaper Conference Opens at Madison
A national newspaper conference began in Madison Wisconsin focused on modern journalism ideals trends and conditions It features leaders such as Melville S Stone William J Bryan William Allen White Norman Haygood Charles H Grasty and Fremont Alder The six sessions will include two prominent journalists addressing the question Are Newspaper and Magazine Writers Free to Tell the Truth if not why not and what can be done about it
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Madison
Wis
Tolay
University of Wisconsin
Melville S. Stone
Associated Press
William J. Bryan
William Allen White
Norman Haygood
Collier's Weekly
Charles H Grasty
Baltimore Sun
Fremont Alder
Impetus to Dairy Business in Willamette Valley
West Stayton Oregon July 29 The Willamette Valley Irrigated Land company has boosted the dairy industry by offering settlers on irrigated tracts a fund to purchase all cattle they can feed. Repayment is made in monthly installments out of cream checks.
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West Stayton, Or
Hairpin Production in Europe Mostly Outsourced
Very little hairpin manufacture occurs in France as most supply relies on England and Germany. The observation highlights France's limited role in a broader European accessory market dominated by two neighboring powers.
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France
England
Germany
Taft pleases minority with home steel findings pamphlet
Washington July 29 President Taft appears closer to the minority views on the home steel investigations as a pamphlet labeled A Resume by a Competent Person suggests. Hilles is said to have prepared it and it advocates federal incorporation and supervision of interstate corporate activity as cited in the minority report.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Home Steel
White House
Hilles
Congress
Gardner
Danforth, Sterling and Young
United States Steel earnings expected to fall
New York reports that US Steel will publish quarterly net earnings for the quarter ending June 20 tomorrow. Analysts expect little if any surplus over common stock dividends, with an estimated reduction in net earnings on a free step schedule of about 40 million dollars per year.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Stowaways Jump Overboard From Hokuto Maru
In Portland on July 2, two stowaways stabbed the chief engineer and leaped from the Japanese steamer Hokuto Maru at the Willamette River mouth. Captain N. Nishikawa reported they were probably drowned.
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Portland
Willamette River
N. Nishikawa
International Lawn Bowling Tour begins in Buffalo
The annual tournament of the International Lawn Bowling Association opened in Buffalo with the International Trophy Frontier Cup and Scotch Doubles Cup as top prizes. Thirty greens are prepared, ensuring all events run within a week. The course is praised as among the finest in the country.
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Buffalo
International Lawn Bwling Association
Imperial court allows place names in beer brands
The imperial supreme court at Leipsig ruled that using place names in beer trade names to indicate character or type and place of manufacture is lawful. The decision followed a suit by Pilsener Brewery against Deutsche Hierbrauerei-Skets-Gesellschaft of Hadleberg over selling a beer as Radleberger Pilsener.
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Leipsig
Germany
Imperial Supreme Court
Pilsener Briuerein
Deutsche Hierbrauerei-Skteln-Gesselschaft
Hadleberg
Saxony
Radleberger Pilsener
West Covers 450 Miles in Western Governors Ride
Governor West travels 450 miles aboard horseback from Salem to Boise for the western governors meeting. He passes Vale and is met at Caldwell by Idaho Governor Hawley. They will ride to Frolle next day, continuing toward Nyssa and the gathering.
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Yale, Or
West
Salem
Boise
Vale
Nyssa
Caldwell
Hawley
Idaho
Frolee
Judge Dillon Withdraws as Ohio Gubernatorial Nominee
Mackinac Island July 29 Judge Dillon of Columbus Ohio withdraws as the Republican gubernatorial nominee citing Roosevelt followers plan to run a separate ticket in the field. The move aims to unite the party but signals a split in Ohio politics.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
Judge Dillon
Columbus
Ohio
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Denounces Chicago Fraud in Taft Nomination
Oyster Bay July 29 Colonel Roosevelt attacked a White House and Republican National Committee defense of Taft’s Chicago convention actions. He said theft by Taft lieutenants swayed the nomination, arguing honest delegates would have produced a large Taft defeat and calling the Chicago incident the brazenest fraud since Boss Tweed in New York.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
White Hose
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Foot
Texas
Nicholas Murray Butler
Washington
Taft
Boss Tweed
New York
Court Excuses Juror Leavitt in Narrow Trial
In Los Angeles on July 24 Dr. Isaac Sallan testified Juror Leavitt suffered from appendicitis and should be excused. Judge Hutton excused Leavitt, with alternate J. M. Blakesley taking the regular box. The defense moved for copies of all letters and telegrams in prosecution possession before Darrow testifies. the court took the matter under advisement.
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Los Angeles
Isaac Sallan
Leavitt
Hutton
J. M. Blakesley
Rogers
Darrow
Few Dock Workers Return to Work After Strike
London reports a 10 week dock strike with only few men returning to work as unions vote on accepting leaders orders. Indications suggest most will stay out until their demands are met.
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London
London Vote Sets Stage for Dockworkers Strike
London reports show workers across unions in the docks voting by referendum against surrender, with overwhelming support to continue the strike. The action sustains the ongoing labor dispute as July progresses.
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London
Races at Cleveland Grand Circuit Meeting July 29
Over two hundred stake nominations were filed for events at Randall Beach Park where the grand circuit meeting runs through August 3. The Tavern Stake leads with 108 entries. other offerings include Forest City 2:06 pace for $2000, Edwards 2:22 pace for $3000, and multiple trot stakes such as Fasig 2:03 and Ohio 2:19 with substantial values, all for free-for-all pacing or trotting.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Randall
Tavern Stake
Forest City
Edwards
Tavern
Bridge Collapse Drowns 21 in Bentz Germany
Twenty one bodies of flood victims were recovered after the bridge collapse at Bentz Germany. Several others are missing as rescue efforts continue.
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Bentz
Germany
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