Wilson Hold On Party Will Be Tested In New Jersey
In Newark and Scranton reports, Governor Wilson faces a pivotal primary to name the Democratic U S senator successor to Frank Briggs. William Hughes, backed by Wilson, contests former Senator James Smith Jr. as the party lines tighten across state votes for assembly, senators, and congressmen.
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Newark
N. J
Wilson
New Jersey
United States
Frank 0. Briggs
William Hughes
Paterson
James Smith Jr
Assembly
National Progressive Party
Bryan Attacks Roosevelt in Los Angeles Address Tour
W J Tirvan delivered 12 speeches in Los Angeles over 12 hours unplanned after a breakfast with women Democrats. Bryan blasted Roosevelt on trusts and regulation, criticizing his stance on private monopolies and suggesting Roosevelt should mark dates on issues like eggs.
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Los Angeles
W. J. Tirvan
Maoneses
Trusts
Bryan
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Marines to Be Sent to Ganto Damping Area
Acting Secretary Beckman Winthrop announced after a White House conference with President Taft that 750 United States marines will be dispatched at once. The move follows events near Ganto Damping as Taft’s administration seeks to respond promptly. The private car trip to New York was noted.
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Wilmington
Del
Taft
New York
Beckman Winthrop
United States
Ganto Damping
Texan Geared for Keynote at Irrigation Congress
George Barstow of Barstow Texas will deliver the keynote at the 20th National Irrigation Congress in Salt Lake City September 30 to October 3. Texans Senator Joseph Bailey and C K Evans will speak on cooperative production and marketing of farm products. Topics include water measurement state differences in water laws irrigation finance and funding.
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Salt Lake City
George Barstow
Barstow
Texas
Seventeenth
National Irrigation Congress
Twentieth Congress
Joseph Bailey
C. K K. Evans
Agricultural Extension College Station
George A. Snow
Utah Board of Control
West
Congress
Auto Crash Wrecks Vehicle on South Presa Street
Edward Henry, brother-in-law of J C Shafer owner, drove a car that smashed into a culvert abutment on South Presa just beyond Southern Structural Steel shops. The car was reduced to a scrap heap, with only the wheels remaining intact, though Henry escaped serious injury. Workers hauled the wreck away. owner could not state future plans.
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Edward Henry
J. C. Shafer
South Presa Street
Southern Structural Steel Company
Henry
the Steel Company
Colder Weather Forecast For Oklahoma Tonight
A special weather bulletin predicts much colder conditions in Oklahoma tonight with freezing temperatures expected in the western portion. No other major impacts noted.
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New Orleans
Oklahoma
Weather Outlook for San Antonio and Vicinity
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for unsettled conditions tonight and Wednesday with showers tonight or on Wednesday and cooler air arriving by Wednesday.
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San Antonio
Weather for Tourists Across Major Cities
Observations at 8 am report temperatures from 52 in St Paul to 68 in Washington. Winds vary from southeast to southeast with speeds 6 to 18 miles per hour. Rain and continued cool conditions noted in several cities including Chicago Milwaukee St Louis and Washington.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
San Antonio Lights Distorts On AP Wife Statement
A claimed AP report that the feared wife of the Associated Press editor was carried elsewhere is denied as unfounded. The notice asserts no newspaper but the San Antonio Lights carried the item.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Telegrams debated in Sneed case as evidence
In Amarillo on September 24 the defense sought to compel Western Union to produce telegrams involving A. G. Boyce Jr. from August 1 onward. Prosecution objected, arguing telegrams must prove connection to Sneed. Judge Browning paused action awaiting state decision while witnesses described the crime scene and nearby residence clues.
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Amarillo
Tex
McLean
H. W. Cantril
Western Union Telegraph Company
A. G. Boyce Jr
O'Dell
Boyce
Sneed
Cantrill
Browning
Mr. Cantrill
Senator O'Dell
Burwell
O. Kk. Gilvan
Polk Street
T. B. McKibben
Stenson
Monay
Women’s Wilson Campaign appoints county chairmen
Mrs. Carlos Bee as Fourteenth district chairwoman announces a slate of county organizers across Bexar Kendall Kerr Kerrville Blanco Johnson City Gillespie Fredericksburg Mason Mason Liano Burnet San Saba Mills Coleman McCollouch Brady Comal New Braunfels Brown Brownwood Lampasas and other locales to fundraise and start immediate activities in support of the Wilson Marshall effort.
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Carlos Bee
Wilson
Fourteenth
Wilson-Marshall
Bexar
A. W. Houston
San Antonio
Kendall
August Offer
Waring
Kerr
J. M. Hamilton
Kherrville
Blanco
O. A. Stubbs
Johnson City
Gillespie
Oscar Kraushoff
Fredericksburg
Mason
J. H. White
Liano
M. D. Slater
Burnet
Dayton Moses
San Saba
Leigh Burleson
Mills
Goldthwaite
Coleman
J. K. Baker
McCollouch
E. Shropshire
Brady
Coma
Out of season Chicago crime wave hits city streets
Hold up men and robbers rampage through Chicago for 12 hours. Robbers target residents from north to south and west sides in a large red racing car. Victims include Mr and Mrs Moritz Weickert and Roy Hardin, with assorted cash jewelry and a donkey stolen from A K Carr’s stable. Police puzzled by surge days before fall crime spike.
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Chicago
Moritz Weickert
BE. G. Minnick
Galesburg
Thirty-first Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
Minnick
Samuel Rubin
Rubin
A. K. Carr
Englewood
Carr
Waterways boosters meet in Little Rock
In Little Rock on September 24 delegates open the seventh annual Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways convention. Pittsburgers on the made in Pittsburg train lead attendance while Congressman A. J. Marchfield receives an ovation. First Vice President E. S. Conway presides. President Kavanaugh is absent. Slogans call river regulation rate and price regulation and favor federal control of levees built on scientific lines.
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Little Rock
Ark
Kavanaugh
New Orleans
Mobile
Peoria
Gorgas Missing Talk At Hygiene Congress
Colonel W C Gorgas, famed for making the Panama canal zone habitable, was to address the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography in Washington on September 24 but could not travel after Congress refused travel funds for him and other officers.
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Washington, D. C
W. C. Gorgas
Panama Canal Zone
Fifteenth International Congress
United States Congress
Men in Session Galveston Heads Off Sixth Annual Convention
The National Association of Tithe Men opened its sixth annual convention in Galveston Texas with delegates from across the United States. The three day sessions featured a novel musical program an address by Mayor Lewis Fisher and a response by A J Yarmany of San Francisco. Proposed laws on land titles and uniform abstracts of title were to be discussed.
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Galveston
Tex
National Association of Tithe Men
United States
Lewis Fisher
A. J. Yarmany
San Francisco
Cotton Damaged by Fire at Seguin Compress Plant
Late yesterday afternoon fire struck the Seguin Compress Company plant in Seguin Texas and badly damaged more than forty bales of cotton before flames were checked.
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Seguin
Tex
Seguin Compress Company
Light Want Ads Parade in San Antonio Features Top Medium
Yesterday the Light section flooded two pages and dampened a third with a glowing tribute to Tur Lient and the Light ads. It presents a convincing case that the Light is San Antonio’s best want ad medium.
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San Antonio
Germany's Baron von Bierberstein Dies in Baden
Baron Adolf Marschall von Bierberstein, Germanys leading diplomat and former secretary of state for foreign affairs, died at Baden aged 70 after a short illness. He had been ambassador in London since May and previously led Germanys foreign policy from Constantinople, shaping Turkish relations and commercial treaties.
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Badenweiler
Baden
Germany
Adolf Marschall von Bierberstein
London
Baron Marschal von Bierberstein
Bismarck
Parthe Parame Yuan
Nembfor
Pecophiat
Wintlonne
Turkey
Constantinople
Berlin
German ambassador post linked to Bernstorff as Bieberstein dies
Berlin reports consider Count von Bernstorff as a likely successor in London after the death of Baron Marscal von Bieberstein. Bieberstein's health had prompted retirement talks, and his passing may delay Anglo German understanding negotiations.
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Berlin
Washington
Count von Bernstorff
Baron Marscal von Bieberstein
London
Baron von Biebberstein
Campaign Meeting Called By Republican County Chairman
Republican County Chairman J M Oppenheimer urges all candidates on the county ticket to attend a 4 PM meeting to form a campaign committee for the fall election. The plan targets the courthouse ring and the 930 PM closing plank of the Democratic platform.
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J. M. Oppenheimer
Beethoven Hall
Herff
Russian Confesses to False Murder Claim for $10,000
Jacob Krasno, a Russian resident of Jasper County Iowa, confessed in Denver to falsely admitting murder of Mrs. Mathilda Hermsmeier in Newton Iowa in exchange for a $10,000 reward. He said Simon Krampe promised the money to help Leo Krampe obtain a pardon for the real crime. Authorities traced Krasno from New York to Colorado Springs and then Denver amid doubts about the confession.
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Denver
Colo
Jacob
Krasno
Jasper County
Mathilda Hermsmeier
Newton
Simon Krampe
Leo Krampe
Iowa
New York
Russia
Krampe
Hermsmeier
Colorado Springs
Wives and children sue saloon owners in Chicago
Eight damage suits totaling 85 000 dollars were filed in the circuit court against 30 saloon owners managers and property owners in which the establishments operate. Forty wives and children claim incomes were impaired by their husbands and fathers whose drinking is traced to the saloons. The suits are brought by counsel for the Citizens league of Chicago which enforces the state dram shop act.
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Chicago
Citizens’ League of Chicago
Advocates of Levee System Gather for Convention
Advocates from across the Mississippi valley attended the opening session of the Interstate Levee Association's first annual convention in Memphis Tennessee. The three day gathering aims to map a campaign for greater federal funding to build and maintain an adequate levee system to prevent floods like those last spring.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Interstate Levee Association
Blucher Pleads Guilty in Election Case Settlement
Richard P. Blucher, a wealthy Corpus Christi election clerk and Clark Pease supporter, pleaded guilty in two election cases and was fined 200 dollars and costs in each. The state then moved to dismiss 45 remaining indictments as part of a court compromise.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Blucher
Richard P. Blucher
Clark Pease
Savage
Ranchman pleads warning on out of season dove quail shooting
Arthur J. Vogt of Simmons Road near Macdona appeals to The Light to warn San Antonio hunters violating the open season rule. He reports daily shootings before November 1 and excess daily bag limits, urging deputies be alerted to prosecute violators under state law.
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Arthur J. Vogt
Simmons Road
Macdona
San Antonio
Mr. Vogt
Final day hearings in Rosenthal murder case near Hot Springs
In Hot Springs Arkansas Judge C P F Huff hears the Rosenthal murder case with District Attorney Whitman planning to depart for Memphis en route to New York after today’s final formalities. John W Hart counsel for Poetice Lieutenant Beck er will follow later to Saint Louis then to New York.
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Hot Springs
Ark
C. PF. Huff
Whitman
Memphis
New York
John W. Hart
Poetice
Becker
Rosenthal
St. Lotis
Mormons to Quit Mexico and Abandon Colonies
The Mormon central committee ordered all colonies in Mexico to be abandoned for at least a year due to unsafe conditions in Chihuahua and Sonora. Refugees seek homes in the United States while a stronger government is established.
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Mexico
Mormon Central Committee
Douglas
Ariz
Hachita
N. M
Central Committee
United States
Chihuahua
Sonora
Nichols Taken Prom. Mexican Governor Intervenes
American citizen Nichols, jailed in Tampico, is moved to a hospital under guard after a peremptory demand from Ambassador Henry Wilson. The supreme court judge had ordered reimprisonment, but the governor of Tamaulipas acted to ease a tense situation. Nichols, condemned for killing a Mexican bandit, may see further proceedings leading to release.
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Mexico City
Cane Nichols
Henry Wilson
Guerra
Ofaulipas
Tampico
Nichols
Supreme Court
Am Sador
Wilson
Nolg
Cordova Arrested in El Paso After Train Arrival
Jose Cordova a colonel in the rebel army and chief adviser to General Orosco was arrested in El Paso as he steps from a train. He had been seen in Marta Texas on a neutrality charge tied to Colonel Pasquirozco and linked to the murder case at the Mexican consulate. A protest rose over police treatment of Pasqu al father amid a attempted riot as officials escorted the prisoner through streets from station to jail. Local leaders and professionals offered to testify.
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EL Paso
Tex
Jose Cordova
Orosco
Marta
Texas
Pasquirozco
Pascual
Ee MN
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