Taft denies Butt Rome trip amid political charges
President Taft answers critics over his aide Major Archibald Butt traveling to Rome for political gain. The week notes a Socialist convention opening in Minneapolis, Chicago Typographical union votes to avoid strike, and a Senate direct election amendment advancing. Foreign reports include Mexican forces defeating rebels near Torreón and Cuatro Ciénegas, plus a fatal monoplane crash at Brooklands killing Victor Mason and E V Fisher.
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Taft
Archibald W. Butt
Rome
Minneapolis
Chicago Typographical Union
Victor L. Mason
E. V. Fisher
Brooklands
England
Cuatro Ciencias
Judge Seeligson rules no need for city books
Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Duncan dies at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Gov. Colquitt travels on a campaign swing as Panhandle counsel for the powder trust and the government reach a dissolution agreement.
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Dyest
Arthur W. Seeligson
Fifty-seventh District Court
Josep W. Duncan
Texas
Fort Samouston
Colquitt
Tom Roul
Panhandle
Powder Trust
Poor Lenses Are Expensive Keep Your Glasses Ground To Order
Hertzberg Jewelry Co advertises custom fitting of glasses with lenses ground to order for maximum accuracy. An optician personally does the work, ensuring precise results.
Knights plan $100000 clubhouse in San Antonio State
The Knights of Columbus announce a $100,000 clubhouse project for San Antonio State. Good rainfall is reported across Southwest Texas as the Master Bakers' Association opens its Austin convention. Primary elections in California show Roosevelt and Clark-Cre vasse leading. In Hymelia levee near New Orleans, large areas flood. The Clayton anti-injunction bill passes the House with all Democrats voting yes. US attorneys begin testimony on the sugar trust dissolution. Two motor bandit gang members in Paris are killed in a dynamite attack on their refuge. King Frederick VIII of Denmark dies suddenly in Hamburg.
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Knights of Columbus
San Antonio
Texas
Master Bakers’ Association
Austin
California
Roosevelt
Clark
Hymelia
Railroad terminal readiness strain at Kavane
Interstate commerce commission blames railroad for engine explosion in the Southern Pacific yard at San Antonio. Floyd Allen, member of the gang tied to Carroll county court house murders, is convicted of murder and faces the electric chair. Taft friends pledge to stay in the presidential race as Torreon, Mex is menaced by rebel leader Campa and a federal column marches toward Juarez.
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Floyd Allen
Carroll County Court House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific
San Antonio
Taft
Torreon
Mex
Campa
Federal
Juarez
Dr Ferdinand Herff Sr Pioneer San Antonio Physician Dies
Local obituary notes the death of Dr Ferdinand Herff Sr a pioneer San Antonio physician at age 91. A separate item reports three killed in an election row in San Diego and Governor Colquitt ending his Panhandle campaign. A ship named Dom Super-dreadnaught and the Texas launch at Newport News are also mentioned in brief notices.
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Ferdinand Herff Sr
San Antonio
San Diego
Colquitt
Panhandle
Texas
Newport News
Julius Caesar Quip by Little Binks Highlighted in Humorous Exchange
A comic exchange features Little Binks declaring fearlessness of woman suffrage while comparing himself to Julius Caesar at home. Wiggles retorts with a jab, noting few are as dead-set as Julius Caesar.
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Little Binks
Julius Caesar
Binks
Wiggles
Harper's Weekly
Interment of General Duncan to Washington
On May 15 1912 the body of General Duncan was shipped to Washington for interment. A crevasse at Hymelia Louisiana left 100000 homeless. Trial of Clarence Darrow began in Los Angeles. Train robbers halted a passenger train near Hattiesburg Mississippi with loot rumored between 35000 and 250000. Roosevelt claimed as Republican nominee with over 500 votes. Mississippi Democratic convention advised for Underwood. Christian X proclaimed king of Denmark.
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Duncan
Washington
Hymelia
Clarence
Darrow
McNamara Brothers
Los Angeles
Cal
Hattiesburg
Miss
Rob Sare
Roosevelt
Mississippi
Underwood
Christian X
Denmark
Texas Press Association Holds 33rd Convention at Temple
A summary of state political and civic events appears from a Philadelphia to Temple convention. Delegates from domestic Iowa and Montana are instructed for national candidates. The note mentions Roosevelt forces defeated, Foss Massachusetts interfering with sentence, and Rev Richeson condemned to electrocution for murder.
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Texas Press Association
Temple
Domestic
Iowa
Champ Clark
United States
Great Egg Harbor
Roosevelt
Montana
Taft
Foss
Massachusetts
A harmless way to darken the hair remedy ad
An advertisement touts Sage and Sulphur as a natural hair darkener and conditioner. It promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur from W. C. Kalteyer and Seths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a cure for gray hair dandruff and itchy scalp with a refund guarantee if not as represented.
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Yeth Chemical Company of
New York
Seth
Wyeth
W. C. Kalteyer
Remarkable Will of Eccentric Baltimore Millionaire
The estate of Ross R Winans valued between 2.5 and 10 million passed to friends and relatives excluding his only living child and grandchildren. A March codicil left 500000 to Dorothy Bateman of Newport Rhode Island. The will also named trusts for the son and listed various unrestricted legacies to siblings and friends.
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Ross Revillon Winans
Baltimore
New York Herald
Dorothy Bateman
Newport
R. I
Bleak House
Batemans
Russia
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Nicholas
Winans
Thomas Winans
Ross R. Winans
Goun M. Hutton
Legation
Ludland
Richmond
Neva Whistler
Whistler
Mr. Winans
Paris
St. Paul Street
St. Paul
Ote
Ross W. Whistler
Julia Revillon
Thomas D. Whistler
Joseph 8. Whistler
New York
London
Destruction of Paper Money Explored by German Printers
The Kansas City Journal notes the difficulty in destroying bank notes and describes German imperial printers switching from burning boiling and pulping to a dry grinding method using a forty horsepower mill. The process yields a powderlike form that passes through a sieve into a collection chamber for packing and disposal.
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Imperial
Kansas City Journal
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