Roosevelt in Control of Texas Republican Factions
In Worth Texas on May 27 the Republican state executive committee reopened the Roosevelt Taft fight. Roosevelt supporters led by Cecil A. Lyon expect Roosevelt to prevail at the state convention, while Taft forces led by H F MacGregor plan further challenges before the national body. Contests from 17 counties were ruled regular and sent to four subcommittees for report at 4 pm amid hotel access disputes over negro delegates.
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Worth
Tex
Reublican State Executive Committee
Roosevelt
Taft
Texas
Cecil A. Lyon
MacGregor
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Republican Executive Committee
Westbrook
Sevral
Chamber of Commerce
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London Dock Strike Proceeds Quietly Amidary Precautions
London dock workers strike continues with police protecting meat and provisions removal from steamers. Detachments guard landing wharves as retailers use cabs to move meat and vegetables to Covent Garden shops. Union officials limit picketing while workers heed calls to join the strike amid tense market activity.
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Transport Works Union
Stomach X Ray Film Shown At Homeopathic Reunion
A novelty in moving pictures will premiere before the New York Homeopathic College Alumni Association at Memorial Day May 30. The film shows the stomach digesting and absorbing food, captured by Dr. Lewis Gregory Cole. Attending alumnus Dr. George R. Bowen will represent San Antonio. Homeopathic physicians travel nationwide for the commencement events linked to the reunion.
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New York Homeopathic College
Lewis Gregory Cole
San Antonio
George R. Bowen
Orozco Plans to Make Stand at Bachimba
On Tekantec Saturday the clash is described as barbaric with several people killed and bodies burned. The town was sacked, the railway station and other buildings burned. The band moved to Teya where the municipal president was killed and shops plundered. A Turk leading the Indians is said to have lost everything in the last revolution.
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Mexico City Students Parade Mark Diaz Regime Anniversary
Several hundred students and volunteers marched through Mexico City in a demonstration for the federal army celebrating the first anniversary of the Diaz regime's end. Business houses closed, while hoodlums later roamed the streets causing noise but no damage.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Federa Army
Rebels Seize Dynamite and Establish Headquarters
May 27 dispatches report Mexican revolutionists setting up headquarters at Jimenez. Part of a dynamite shipment once intended for mines in Chihuahua, exempted by President Taft, has been seized by rebels and moved south.
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Washington
Jimenez
State Department
Taft
Chihuahua
Deserter Drowned In Rio Grande Near Laredo
The body of Francisco Gomez a Mexican corporal who tried to desert by swimming the Rio Grande from Nuevo Laredo was found on the Texas side. His companion swam across and escaped. An inquest was held by Justice Idar and Mexican authorities were notified.
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Darrow Jury Bribery Trial Set to Resume in L A
Los Angeles May 27 The Clarence Darrow jury bribery case resumes at 1 80 oclock this afternoon with George N Lockwood expected to rejoin the stand for the continuation of his direct testimony about an alleged attempt to bribe him as a prospective juror in the McNamara trial.
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Los Angeles
Clarence
Darrow
Chicago
George N. Lockwood
McNamara
Page Case Goes to Trial in Congress Libel Case
Washington May 27 The New York linen merchant Henry W A Page indicted for criminal libels over pamphlets attacking Representative Henry D Clayton and other House judiciary committee members was placed on trial. Thirty two congressmen have been subpoenaed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Henry W. A. Page
New York
Henry D. Clayton
House Judiciary Committee
House
Congress
Pan American Society Hosts First Dinner in New York
Ambassadors and ministers from nearly all twenty Latin American republics met in New York as the Pan American union governing board prepared for tonight’s first formal dinner of the Pan American society in the United States.
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Katy to Lay Double Tracks Near Waco
Roadmaster M. Tannehill and a large crew began work to double track from Waco ten miles south on the Katy to relieve long standing congestion. Equipment will reach Here this afternoon and grading for terminals and shops will start tomorrow.
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Katy
Associated Press
Waco
Tex
M. Tannehill
Corpus Christi Summer Normal Opens With 300 Expected
Corpus Christi Texas May 27 all is in readiness for the opening of the Corpus Christi summer normal. The normal will open Monday June 3 for a nine weeks term with G C Hallmark principal of the Browns ville public schools as conductor. Letters received from all points over the state indicate that the attendance this year will exceed 300. The sessions will be held at the high school build-
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Tex
G. C. Hallmark
Brownsville
Democrats Divided Over Platform In Houston Caucuses
Prominent Wilson men dominate two groups as delegates and floor leaders are chosen in Houston today. Cato Sells is the likely national committeeman, with R. M. Johnston not to be renominated. Eighteen of 31 state executive members attend, with contests at Lavaca El Paso Fannin and Oval counties as Harmon and Clark factions seek influence, pending Wilson caucus results.
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Delegates Leave for State Conventions From Bexar County
Delegates and supporters from Bexar County head to the state Democratic and Republican conventions in Houston and Fort Worth. In Houston the Democratic delegation will back Judson Harmon’s national convention delegates. In Fort Worth two rival sets vie for seats as Taft and Roosevelt factions lead the competing groups. The executive committee, chaired by Cecil Lyon, will determine seating.
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Travis county delegation solid for Wilson at Houston
AUSTIN Texas May 27 A number of the Travis county delegation for the state democratic convention at Houston left last night and others left today. The delegation is practically solid for Wilson. James Berger chairman of the Travis county executive committee says Travis county had only eight votes in the state convention but selected seventy eight to represent the county. About twenty five are expected to attend. Several state officials and politicians will be at Houston during the convention.
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Texas Power and Light files 13 million capital charter
Capitalized at 13 million dollars the Texas Power and Light company headquartered in Dallas filed its charter with the secretary of state. The purpose clause lists generating manufacturing transporting and selling gas electric current and power. All capital stock is subscribed and 50 percent is paid in.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Texas Power and Light Company
Dallas
Secretary of State
Texas Power & Light to Build $18 Million Plant at Waco
The Texas Power and Light Company filed articles of incorporation in Austin and will locate the plant at Waco. Director W. J. Neale said the project aims to boost interurbans in the black belt and supply towns lacking electric light plants within a 75 mile radius. Transmission rings will extend south to Temple and beyond.
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Associated Press
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Fire destroys main A and M College building at College Station
A Texarkana fire dawned at 2 am destroying the Texas A and M College main building erected in 1876 costing about 100000. Three stories high the blaze ruined the building and library with priceless books. President Milner says college work will continue.
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College Station
Tex
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Milner
A.and M. College
A and M Commencement Sees June Exercises and Talks
The A and M College begins senior examinations today and will finish finals as students await diplomas. Commencement runs June 9 to 11 with Rev Peter Gray Sears of Houston delivering the sermon and Dr Edgar Odell Lovett of Houston giving the commencement address. The final ball is June 11 and the board of directors will meet during commencement, staying through June 12 for business.
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Peter Gray Sears
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Guadalajara Shaken by Heavy Earthquake Shock
The city endured a 10 15 pm quake described as the heaviest of a seismic period. Cornices broke, walls cracked, thousands fled to parks and gardens. A lighter second shock followed about twenty minutes later as tremors continued over two weeks. Panic returned among residents.
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Guadalajara
Mex
Mexico City
Maine Pennant Gifted to Grand Army Hall Memorial
The pennant from the battleship Maine, 84 feet long, was presented to the Grand Army Hall Memorial association by the United Spanish War Veterans in Memorial Hall Chicago after being recovered by George C. Mages who received it from a sailor following the Maine disaster.
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Associated Press
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Ill
Maine
Memorial Hall
Grand Army Hall Memorial Association
United Spanish War Veterans
George C. Mages
Mages
Florida
City Planners Open Fourth National Conference
Prominent planners from across the United States and Canada gathered in Boston for the opening of the fourth national city planning conference. Architects sociologists economists horticulturists clergymen transit experts and civic officials join three days of sessions. An automobile tour today showcased Boston park and waterway systems.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
United States
Canada
New Braunfels Awards Bid for City Projects
New Braunfels city council selects Midland Engineering and Construction of Fort Scott Kansas for a pumping station at the river head and the street lighting system. Work to begin once materials arrive. future water supply will come from Crystal Springs feeding the Comal.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Midland Engineering and Construction Company
Fort Scott
Kan
Crystal Springs
Comal
Three Tramps Killed While Beating Freight Trains
Three men believed to be freight train hoppers were killed in Chicago after being crushed by a viaduct fender and on the tracks near Niles Center. One body carried a Typographical Union No. 23 card bearing the name Daniel Westerberg.
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Associat Press
Chicago
Niles Center
Typographical Union No. 23
Daniel Westerberg
Taft Roosevelt Campaign Winds Down In New Jersey Primary
Taft and Roosevelt push final day of campaigning in New Jersey as 28 delegates prepare to vote. Roosevelt closes at Princeton after stops in central state towns while Taft routes along Atlantic Coast ending in Atlantic City. Governor Wilson hosts torchlight event in Princeton ahead of polls opening tomorrow.
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Taft
Roosevelt
New Jersey
New York
Princeton
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South Dakota
Princeton Inn
Hibben
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Atlantic City
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Woodrow. Wilson Club
Majority Not Instructed in North Carolina Delegates
Raleigh May 27 Returns from democratic county conventions show Gov Woodrow Wilson will have more instructed delegates than Oscar Underwood in the state convention on June 6 but the vast majority of delegates are uninstructed Only about 40 of 100 counties instructed their delegates for presidential candidates Champ Clark and Governor Harmon also had strength signaling a move to avoid any instructions for a candidate
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Raleigh
N. C
Woodrow Wilson
Oscar Underwood
Champ Clark
Harmon
District of Columbia Primary Sets Delegates Amid Faction Fight
Washington votes today to choose 66 delegates to the district democratic convention. Two Champ Clark ticket options are on the ballot due to a split between Edwin Newman and Walter J. Costello. Polls open at 3 and close at 8.
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Associated Press
Washington
Champ Clark
Edwin Newman
Walter J. Costello
Paralyzed Stroke Fatal Claims Mo bile Frohsian Leader
Ferdinand Meyer age 66 secretary of the Mobile Frohsian Singing Society died from a paralytic stroke here last night after arranging the final concert for the Southern Saengerfest meeting. He was a prominent figure in the society and well known across the region.
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Ad Men in Luncheon by San Antonio Advertisers
The San Antonio Advertisers' association plans a noon luncheon tomorrow at the Travis club, their first meeting since the convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America. A large attendance is hoped as committees report on recent entertainment and other matters for local advertising men. A 60 cent plate is charged. The Travis club invitation was accepted at the May 14 St. Anthony hotel meeting.
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Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Energy for Everyday Workers
A brochure style testimonial notes that a clear brain and healthy body are essential for success. Businessmen teachers students and other workers claim Hood's Sarsaparilla boosts appetite and strength and makes daily tasks easier by overcoming fatigue.
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Taft Assures Cuba Invasion Not Intended
President Gomez announces Cuba’s government plans to crush rebels in Oriente with 3000 troops and 9000 rifles issued to loyal citizens. He appeals to the United States as a friend, insisting Washington’s gunboat and naval concentrations aim to protect American property, not to interfere with Cuba’s independence.
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Nipe Bay
Key West
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Cuba
Dock Strike Ends in Havana Amid National Crisis
The lighter men and port laborers' strike ends as President Gomez tells strikers to cease agitation while the country faces a crisis. No new news from Oriente province. no indication of insurrection elsewhere on the island.
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Oriente
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Solace Prepared to Sail From Brooklyn Navy Yard
The hospital ship Solace is being prepared for service in Cuban waters. Built as a fighting ship in the Spanish American War, it will sail from Brooklyn at 7 o clock this evening for Key West.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
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Cuban
Key West
Ad Men Visit Houston for City Welcome Tour
National advertising men, about 1000 strong, arrived in Houston by four special trains. They were welcomed by city leaders including Mayor H Baldwin Rice and Joe H Eagle. The visit featured tours, a banquet, theatre access, and a boat trip to the San Jacinto battlefield.
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Houston
Tex
National
H. Baldwin Rice
Joe H. Eagle
Chamber of Commerce
San Jacinto
Parole Board to Review 200 Prisoner Applications
Woods asks parole in Leavenworth Kansas as Chairman Ladaw plans to convene the federal prisons parole board this week. Among 200 applicants are ten bankers from the so called bankers colony including Emerich Cochran Marker Osborne Woods Grrahowski Billingsley Allen and Cook across several states.
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Leavenworth
Kas
Ladaw
Bankers’ Colony
Paul M. P. Emerich
C. F. Cochran
Aex
R. Marker
Indianapolis
G. H. Osborne
Columbus
Will F. Woods
San Antonio
Tex
Jesse Grrahowski
Pittsburg
C. BE. Billingsley
Guthrie
W. R. Allen
EB. E. Cook
Paris
Corpus Business Men Confer on Ship Service
W A Guyton president of the Texas Coast Line company visits Corpus Christi to meet Commercial club directors about placing the steamer between Corpus Christi and Galveston to ship the big cotton crop. Directors will consider resuming the service by June 15.
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Corpus Christi
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