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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
3
The News urges democratic newspapers nationwide to raise funds for campaign purposes for Wm. J. Bryan. Contributions listed opposite the contributors names, with checks to The News Bryan Campaign Fund at Prescott Arkansas. Inquiries and remittance acknowledged promptly upon receipt.
The undersigned consents to act as custodian and depository of The News Bryan Campaign Fund Bank of Prescott T. C. M'Rae Jr cashi er.
Green Hanes, 21, dies in Greene County Texas after a fight with Crow near Center Point as returned players headed home from a baseball game. The assailant, a boy about 15 or 16, faced a preliminary trial. bond set at 750 dollars.
At the annual meeting in St Paul Minnesota President H B Warner announced committee appointments and delivered an address defending the press while condemning the paper trust for imposing its product on newspapers at high prices. He said the press first cried stop thief and spurred public conscience.
Lake Mohonk N Y Aug 20 Rear Admiral Robley D Evans longtime U S Navy commander ends active sea duty at sixty two He expects to stay through October then join the general board in Washington He plans twelve naval articles and reflects on the world cruise of the fleet and U S China policy with cautious views on Japan and war risks.
A formal evening tribute honors Admiral Evans with a duty to maintain a large Navy. Speakers include J Eward Simmons of New York and Dr. Andrew Draper presenting a silver loving cup. A Roosevelt letter is read as part of the ceremony in a Mountain hotel parlor.
The Interstate Commerce Commission refused to extend the response period for railroads in the southeastern and southwestern territories. Edward Baxter of Nashville, chief counsel for the railroads, had requested an additional thirty days to answer the complaints challenging recent rate increases on essential commodities.
A New York woman Mary Lewis developed acute mania after two weeks of chewing tobacco placed in a tooth. Voices and a graphophone drove insomnia until psychiatry diagnosed mania. deprivation of tobacco restored her to near normal. In Chicago, John A. Hainsey known as Captain Dreyfus of the Knights of Pythias, was exonerated after embezzlement allegations and reinstated at the Boston convention.
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