Prohibition Ticket Nominated At Columbus Convention
The Prohibition national convention in Columbus Ohio nominated Eugene W Chafin of Wisconsin for president and A S Watkins of Ohio for vice president after three ballots. The platform calls for nationwide prohibition of alcoholic liquor and direct election of senators along with strict enforcement of laws and moral reform.
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Prohibition
Eugene W. Chafin
Illinois
A. S. Watkins
Ohio
Columbus
Chafin
Tuaf
Daniel R. Sheen
Peoria
New York
Indiana
Wisconsin
Chatin
William B. Palmore
St. Louis
Prohibition Party
Chicago
Waukesha County
National Committee
Committee On
Prohibition Party of the
United States
Congress
District of Columbia
Equitable
Permanent Tariff Commission
Post Office Department
Windstorm Reveals Hosiery Embroidery Of Lincoln Girls
A Lincoln windstorm blew skirts and stockings, revealing embroidery of great men on the hosiery. One girl showed Washington Bryan and Taft designs and said the other young women were taking up the idea.
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Lincoln
Fairview
Washington
Bryan
Taft
Hungarian Nobles Shoot Themselves in Budapest Scandal
In Budapest two aristocrats attempt suicide within moments of each other. Baron Josef Banehigy killed himself in his father's presence after a rebuke for dissipation. Count Cartzay, a noted city figure, shot himself while begging his mother for more money and is said to be dying.
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Buda-Pesth
Josef Banehigy
Count Cartzay
Inventor Claims Weather Control Device Demonstrated
Danville New Loudoun Special John Norcross a 68 year old farmer of Alton Illinois says he has built a weather machine to influence the state of the weather and produce a desired condition. The device resembles wireless telegraphy and uses high voltage from accumulators and a large induction coil projected from a 150 foot mast to the atmosphere.
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Danville
John Norcross
Alton
Norcross
White girl’s tragedy hides race scandal in Chicago
In Chicago a beauty named Lilian Watkins, a light skinned mulatto, secretly passed as white. She killed herself after a man she loved married a white woman, then died by suicide weeks later. Her mother, Ida Watkins, recalls the social fatalism of passing and its heartbreak.
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Chicago
Lilian Beatrice Watkins
Washington Park
North Side
Thomas F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Gwendolyn Reese
Ida Watkins
Forest Avenue
Lillian
Two Wives Elope With One Man Sparks Police Inquiry
Pittsburg report says Harry Minor and Willard Craucher appeal to police claiming their wives ran off with the same man an agent for a shoe polish brand. Both men hold the belief their spouses eloped with this single individual.
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Pittsburg
Harry Minor
Willard Craucher
Bell Telephone Company
Miracle rescue at Wisconsin Dells cliff plunge
Mrs. Della Wagner of this city was saved from death when she leaped from an accelerating car into the arms of Y. B. Jones of Chicago. The vehicle crashed into a tree stump and hung over a 160 foot precipice at the Dells of the Wisconsin.
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Nick O
Milwaukee
Y. B. Jones
Chicago
Della Wagner
Dells
Wisconsin
Darr mine disaster prompts $950000 suit against Pittsburg Coal Company
In Pittsburgh Pennsylvania special suits for damages aggregating $950000 have been filed in the United States Circuit Court against the Pittsburg Coal Company. The action follows the Darr mine disaster of December 19 1907 in which nearly 300 men were killed.
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Pittsburg
United States
Pittsburg Coal Company
Darr
Britain to Buy Brazilian Battle Ships
The Daily Express claims it has definite information that Great Britain will purchase the three Brazilian battle ships currently under construction in England.
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Sly John Bull
London
The
Daily Express
Great Britain
England
Rich Vienna woman slain. fiancé of daughter suspected
Police tie motive to robbery and jealousy in a sensational New York case. Mrs Ottilie Eberhard of Vienna and her daughter were attacked near Rochelle Park on the Susquehanna and Western line. The daughter survived after bullet wounds, naming cousin August Eberhard as the prime suspect in a plot involving multiple attackers and possible robbery.
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Ottillie Eberhard
Vienna
Austria
August Eberhard
August
Jersey
Eberhard
Ernest Held
Held
Captain McCrea Dead at 57 in Brooklyn Navy Hospital
Captain Henry McCrea of the United States Navy died Sunday at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn from Brights disease. A veteran born in Logansport Indiana in 1869 he served from Annapolis since 1866 and commanded the Machias in Haytian waters. His body will be taken to Washington for services at Covenant Presbyterian Church before burial in Arlington Cemetery.
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New York
Henry McCrea
United States Navy
Georgia
Pacific Coast
Bright
Naval Hospital
Brooklyn
McCrea
Logansport
Ind
Annapolis
Haytian
Killick
Cape Haytian
Hayti
Washington
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
Arlington Cemetery
Egg shaped vessel sails from Bergen to London
A fourteen foot long egg shaped boat named Uraed carried three men on a voyage from Bergen Norway to the Thames in London. Invented by Capt. Bude a Norwegian the vessel relies on a small lug sail and is claimed to be unsinkable.
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London
Bergen
Norway
North Sea
Bude
Thames
White House Needs $1000 Weekly for Repairs
The official view of Colonel C. S. Bramwell, Army Engineer in charge, states the White House will require about $1,000 per week during the next fiscal year to keep the president's residence habitable.
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Washington, Special
C. S. Bramwell
White House
Corn prices in Shalbyville set postwar peak at 75 cents
In Shalbyville Indiana a special market report notes the best white corn brought 75 cents a bushel, the highest local price since the Civil War, indicating strong demand and market strength in the area.
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Big Corp
Shalbyville
Ind
Taft Says National Republican Committee Accept No Corporate Donations
Taft declares the national Republican committee will not accept corporate contributions. He cites New York campaign finance publicity law and the federal prohibition on corporate donations for presidential and other federal elections. He asserts full compliance with both laws, regardless of challenges to their validity.
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Hot Springs
National Republican Committee
W. H. Taft
Republican Party
Taft
New York State
Family perishes as train strikes King car near Columbia City
Charles Sherman King of Ft Wayne with Mrs King, their two daughters, a daughter friend and chauffeur die when the Manhattan Limited at sixty miles an hour hits their automobile near Columbia City Indiana as they head to Lake Wawasee. The driver rushed across tracks after a freight train and could not avoid the collision. The crash leaves six dead with gruesome injuries and a scene assisting crew to recover bodies. King aimed to beat the trip time between Columbia City and Lake Wawasee by an hour.
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Columbia City
Ind
Charles Sherman King
Ft. Wayne
Timmis
Severy
King
Lake Wawasee
Abruzzi Wedding in October to be Held at Turin
The Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Katharine Elkins plan a Turin ceremony in early October with the royal wedding details clarified after doubts raised by a Roman newspaper. The duke will leave the Regina Elena in September and Washington trips are halted until the marriage. Improvements at the Cisterna Palace and lavish Racconigi guest arrangements are under way, with over $20,000 spent on new furniture.
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Rome
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Turin
Washington
Cisterna Palace
Racconigi
Inventor Builds Engine Regulator To Cap Speed
Leonardo Perez of Ocampo Mexico claims a device attached to car engines can limit speed to a police regulated rate. The machine adjusts gasoline flow to cap acceleration, with law enforcement as the sole regulator.
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Cuidad Jaarez
Mexico
Leonardo Perez
Ocampo
Rains Check Maine Forest Fires Amid Large Loss
Special showers in Portland Maine have halted the wildfires burning through Maine woods for two weeks. Authorities estimate the damage at about 500000 dollars with losses expected to climb as full assessments come in.
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Portland
Maine Woods
Sultan Faces Revolution in Constantinople Clash
It is rumored that 7,000 Turkish soldiers in the Monastir district are in open revolt and that 32,000 troops have been ordered to the scene of the outbreak in Constantinople.
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Sultan
Constantinople
Monastir
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Spurns Corporation Coin
Mr. Taft
Anid
Grash
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Colden Rule Rheumatic Remedy CO
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Emblem Bicycles
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Erie Co
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Diner's Digester Company
Des Moines
Iowa
U. S
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
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Heinzelman Bros. Carriage CO
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