Grand Army Men Parade Before Judge Taft in Toledo
Grand Army veterans marched through Toledo in the 42nd annual review parade with bands and crowds. Taft, Foraker, Harris and Whit Jock watched from the reviewing stand as a 3,000-child human flag and floral salutes greeted the veterans. Foraker and Taft exchanged a handshake amid cheers, the parade lasting four hours and ending at 2:50.
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Grand Army
Taft
Toledo
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
7Th Regiment
Grant
Sherman
William H. Taft
Harris
Foraker
Brand Whit Jock
Burton
Senator Foraker
Aga A
Bill
H Ello
Foreclosure Begun On Pittsburg Wabash Terminal Co
Foreclosure proceedings on the Pittsburg Wabash Terminal Railway Company and its first mortgage property were filed in federal court by the Mercantile Trust Company of New York. The action targets first mortgage bonds and the securing property.
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Mercantile Trust Company
Pittsburg
Pittsburg-Wabash
Vermont primaries show Prouty plurality and Dem gains
Complete returns place Prouty ahead in the governor race with about a 29 000 plurality as Vermont elects a Democratic senator for the first time in years. Democratic leaders in New York praise the unexpectedly strong Vermont showing despite no national campaign or funding.
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White River Junction
Hoon
Prouty
Burke
Senate
Backus
Independence League
Campbell
Dunbar
Bell
Porter
New York
Mack
National Democratic Committee
Vermont
Moncey
Republican National Committee
Riots In Springfield Prompt Warrant On Ralph Burton
After deadly riots in Springfield Illinois shocks rise state officials say Mrs Hallam swore the man she identified as her attacker was innocent. Earl Hallam swore out a warrant for Ralph Burton son of Scott Burton who was lynched. Burton remains missing as indictments increase against suspects in the August violence.
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Ralph Burton
Scott Burton
Springfield
Ill
George Richardson
Earl Hallam
Hatch
Richardson
Bloomington
Justice of the Peace Weaver
Charles Burton
Burton
Werner
Wellington
Kan
Ralph Bustemer
Ernest
Slim) Humphrey
William Dunnigan
Edward Ferris
Loper
William
Fuzzy) Phillips
Alvin D. Irwin
Captain Holmes
John Brown
Ronnie Middendorf
Roosevelt Second Term league seeks votes in September appeal
Chicago September 2. The Roosevelt Second Term league chaired by F L Bilger and secretary H Johns Jr calls for local leagues nationwide to promote Theodore Roosevelt for president and Joseph W Folk for vice president. It urges organization across 46 states and lists states Illinois Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Indiana Missouri New York.
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Chicago
F. L. Bilger
H. Johns, Jr
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Governor Falk
Folk
Union
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
H. Jahns
P. S
Gompers Opens Campaign for Bryan Support
Samuel Gompers opened his campaign for the Democratic national ticket in Fort Worth Texas appealing to unionism and urging every man to vote for Bryan, defending labor interests and addressing all political affiliations.
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Bryan
Fort Worth
Texas
Samuel Sompars
Ten Die In Sloop Disaster Off Deer Isle Farewell Cruise
A 35 foot pleasure sloop capsized in a sudden Penobscot bay squall near Deer Isle Maine. Ten people perished nine women and one man all educators. Only two survived including Captain Samuel Haskell and Professor Edwin Crawley. Bodies recovered were Miss Lutie Kellogg and Mr Evans.
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Deer Isle
Maine
Penobscot Bay
Alice Torro
Washington
D.C
Elpanor Torro
Evelyn Kellogg
Baltimore
Lutie Kellogg
Elizabeth Evans
Mount Holyoke
Mass
Lucy Crawley
Philadelphia
Jason C. Hutchins
Bangor
Edwin S. Crawley
University of Pennsylvania
Harry B. Evans
Samuel Haskell
Mr. Evans
Hutchins
Governors to Confer in Washington on Conservation Resources
Washington Sept 2 a call will be issued this week for a joint conference of governors of the states and the national conservation resources commission to be held in Washington on December 8. The meeting aims to discuss statewide resource management and conservation programs.
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Washington
National Conservation of Resources Commission
Germany breaks up concert of powers with declaration
President Roosevelt appointed a commission to meet December 1 before a broader conference with governors including Hoggatt of Alaska and Hawaii. The commission will present facts and representations on resources across states as part of a coordinated effort.
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Germany
Algeciras
Roosevelt
Hoggatt
Alaska
Hawaii
Germany Seeks Immediate Moroccan Recognition Blinds Paris
Paris reports Germany has demanded immediate recognition of Mulai Hafid as sultan of Morocco in a move seen as a brutal shift from the Algeciras framework. Officials fear bad, wide reaching consequences as Germany asserts a special position in Fez via Dr Massell.
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Mulai Hafid
Paris
Germany
Morocco
Algeciras
Foreign Office
Fez
Massell
Tan Sier
Forest fires threaten Calaveras big tree grove
Telephonic reports say the forest fire that started yesterday near Sonora is under control but in Murphys the fire has reached the Calaveras big tree grove, with the Mother of the Forest sequoia burning through the night.
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Sonora
Cal
Big Trees
Big Tree Grove
Stockton
Murphys
Calaveras County
Calaveras Big Tree
Taft Warns Against Overconfidence in Party
Middle Bass Ohio September 2 Judge Taft said before leaving for Toledo to review the Grand Army parade and attend a Lincoln club reception that if he spoke at all he should share thoughts on political organization and warn of danger from overconfidence by party members. He plans to return here once Toledo duties are fulfilled.
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Middle Bass
Ohio
Toledo
Lipcoln Club
Taft
Lincoln Club
Grant defeats Aitken to reach Irish Open final
American golfer D. Grant beat Scottish star Aitken in the third round of the Irish open at New Castile Newcastle. Aitken, long regarded as a likely champion, was defeated on this day as Grant advanced in the tournament.
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D. Grant
New Castile
Newcastle
Aitken
Army Scandal Trial Ordered By President Emphasized
Washington reports a general court martial to convene at Fort Wayne Michigan on September 29 for the trial of officers as directed by the president. Major General Frederick D. Grant will head the court with a high rank roster including one major general six brigadiers and six colonels.
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Washington
Fort Wayne
Mich
Frederick D. Grant
War Department
Four Sailors Die From Fumes On British Bark Puritan
Four seamen suffocated in the fore peak of the British bark Puritan anchored at President Roads due to fumes from burning pitch and oakum. A fifth sailor was partly overcome. one man, William Roberts, injured. Fire caused slight damage. believed due to spontaneous combustion. Captain F W Chapman commands the Puritan.
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Boston
President Roads
Harry E. Olsen
Carl Morsen
Peterson Becks
George Sunblade
William Roberts
Puritan
F. W.chapman
Hughes Is The Man Says Roosevelt
Oyster Bay N Y September 2 The political conference at Saga more Hill centered on New York gubernatorial nomination. President Roosevelt stated it was essential Republicans renominate Hughes but he refused to dictate the convention’s actions.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Sagamore Hill
New York State
Roosevelt
Hughes
New York
Bank Dynamited Canal Goes Dry in Illinois
Joliet Illinois Sept 2 unknown persons dynamited the Illinois and Michigan Canal at Channahon twelve miles southwest of Joliet creating a hundred foot breach. The canal is flooded from Joliet to Channahon boats stranded fish cover the bottom and factories closed. Several hundred workers are unemployed amid a bridge dispute between canal commissioners and the villages of Channahon and Troy.
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Joliet
Channahon
Canal Commissioners
Channahon and
Troy
Public debt up by five million in August
Washington reports the monthly public debt at Aug 31 1908 totaling 963,886,588 after cash exclusion, up 5,076,765 for the month. The recap shows interest bearing debt 897,503,990 non interest debt 402,405,110 and 1,308,776,726 in certificates and notes offset by cash. August receipts 45,294,372 expenditures 49,202,500.
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Washington
Treasury
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J. B. Foraker
B.C
National Association of Ex- Prisoners of War
Harry White
Pennsylvania
J. F. Holliger
L. D. Hobbs
Kansas
J. M. Ferguson
Keokuk
J. D. Walker
Salt Lake City
Utah
Wabash
Phile Porter
Republican Party
William Jennings Bryan
Gompers
Ifire
Scot
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