Grace Ulrich Opie Grace not guilty in husband shooting case
In Atlanta on August 8 the jury acquitted Mrs Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace of shooting her husband Eugene Grace. She told how he shot himself during a struggle over money and infidelity claims, and prosecutors failed to prove intent to kill for insurance. The crowd cheered as she praised the jurors.
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Atlanta
Daisy Ulrich
Opie Grace
Grace
Newnan
Eugene Grace
Georgia
New Orleans
Piedmont
Darrow Case Near Jury as Trial Advances
In Los Angeles on August 3, the Darrow jury bribery trial moved forward with W J Ford noting cross examination should finish by day’s end. Defense says Darrow’s redirect will be brief and may rest to permit state rebuttal. DA Fredericks anticipates brief rebuttal and a possible jury verdict next week. Final arguments expected to fill about four days.
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Ford
Los Angeles
Cal
Clarence 8. Darrow
W J. Ford
Darrow
Fredericks
Woman in Montrose Walks With Dead Child
Temporarily demented by the accidental death of her son, Mrs. George Miller grasped the little body and walked the stretcher with it when friends took her to a physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Streta
Montrose
George Miller
Compromise Reached on Wool Tariff Bill and Iron and Steel
Washington August 3. Democratic leaders in both houses agree on a wool tariff compromise aligning with a 29 percent duty on raw wool and 35 percent yarns, with other rates adjusted to 49 percent for fabrics and 82 percent for combed wool. Iron and steel bill final agreement set, aiming about 22 percent average import duty. Cotton revision debate to end at 5 p.m. vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Taft
Underwood
Iron and Steel
Mexican Rebellion Tales From Captain Marston
The Baltimore Star recounts Captain Rodrick J. Marston, known as Don Sailor Jack, detailing a red reign of terror in Mexico. He describes slaughter of Americans and other foreigners, mutilation, bayoneting of children, and destruction of foreign property amid the uprising.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Star
Mexico
Lotus Land
States
Rodrick J. Marston
Aquilles Cordran
Cabrera
Puebla
Women Lead Strike Riot In New York Fur District
Striking fur workers in the Seventh Avenue wholesale district and sympathizers, led by two women, sparked a riot that required two police reserve squads to quell. Ann Techusky attacked a strike breaker grabbing hair. he repelled her with a cane, leaving her unconscious. Several minor injuries reported.
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New York
Seventh Avenue
Ann Techusky
Vocalist Barred From Alabama Church By Injunction
J P Emmet a vocalist was restrained from singing in the First Baptist church of Albertville by an injunction issued at Gadaden Alaska returnable before Chancellor Simson of Decatur. Deacons of the church petitioned for the restraint.
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Court Bara
Chattanooga
Tenn
Gadaden
Alasaya
J. P. Emmet
First Baptist Church
Albertville
Simson
Decatur
Stanley Report Condemns United States Steel Monopoly
The Stanley committee majority denounces the United States Steel corporation as a gigantic monopoly and criticizes its methods after a year of investigation. It accuses J P Morgan and associates of enormous profits, blames E H Gary and others for price and territory control, and indicts Former President Roosevelt for enabling the steel trust. It urges stronger publicity and legal reforms while opposing federal control of corporations as unconstitutional.
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Washington
United States Steel Corporation
Stanley Committee
House
J. P. Morgan
Steel Corporation
E. H. Gary
Steel Trust
Roosevelt
United States
Corporation
United States Court
Carnegie
Gary
Congress
Tennessee Coal Deal
Bureau of Corporations
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Commissioner of Corporations
Taft Receives Formal Nomination Notification
President Taft today received formal nomination notification from the Republican convention, delivering an acceptance speech drafted for campaign use. The notification committee, led by Senator Root, presented the documents in the White House East Room.
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Washington
Taft
Senator Root
White House
Indians of Mexico In Revolt
Sierra Juarez Indians in Oaxaca renew revolt against the government. A large body of warriors is marching toward Ixtlan, about forty miles from Oaxaca City.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Mex
Sierra Juarez
Oaxaca
UN Ixtlan
Eckard for Postmaster Nomination in Vandalla
Washington dispatch reports Frank C. Rickard Eckard named for reappointment as postmaster at Vandalla Til after a two year hold awaiting Senate confirmation. Rickard first served in 1906 and continues in the race for renewal.
Whitey Lewis Captured in Rosenthal Murder Case
New York reports Whitey Lewis, one of the four gunmen in the Herman Rosenthal murder, was arrested in the Catskill mountains and jailed in Kingston. Dago Frank Cirofici confessed, admitting he was part of the murder but not the shooter, naming either Lefty Louie or Whitey Lewis as the triggerman.
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New York
Whitey” Lewis
Herman Rosenthal
Catskill Mountains
Kingston
N. Y
Hughes
Lewis
Fleishmann
Lefty Louie
Gyp
Dago Frank
Cirofici
Metropole
Rosenthal
Harlem
Boise Harris
Dougherty
Frank Moss
Country Life Meeting Opens at De Kalb Illinois
The second annual Illinois Federation for Country Life Progress meeting opened in De Kalb on August 1 and runs through Saturday. The state wide rural life conference gathers farmers ministers teachers and Institute workers with notable speakers including Dr Harvey Wiley Dr Warren Wilson Oliver Wilson Logan Page Edward Ward and William Eckhardt.
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Ilinois Federation On Rural Progress
Harvey W. Wiley
de Kalb
Illinois Federation For Country Life Progress
Warren H. Wilson
New York
Oliver Wilson
National Grange
Edward J. Ward
University of Wisconsin
Logan Waller Page
National Bureau of Public Roads
William D. Hurd
Massachusetts State College of Agriculture
William G. Eckhardt
de Kalb County
Hawley Inheritance Tax Paid on Large Estate
Albany August 1 state comptroller received a check for 166682 dollars as inheritance tax on the Edwin Hawley estate. The net estate was appraised at 6283287 dollars reflecting Hawley's standing financier status.
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Albany
Edwin Hawley
Ten thousand gallon tank kills two in dye house accident
In Philadelphia on August 2 a 10,000 gallon water tank crashed through the dye house of Stead and Miller, upholsterers, killing two men and seriously injuring a ten year old boy.
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Philadelphia
Stead & Miller Company
Buckeye Notes recounts robberies and accidents across Ohio towns
Police captured two gypsy women accused of swindling George Clarke and found bags of gold and jewelry valued at about $20,000 in their wagons. Reports claim estate inventories, killings, manslaughter charges, marriages, storms, and various local incidents across Newark Cincinnati Youngstown Dayton Wooster Upper Sandusky Geneva Springfield Cleveland Ashland Tiffin Mansfield Newark Lima Bucyrus.
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Newark
George Clarke
Cincinnati
Thomas A. Snider
Snider
Youngstown
Ray Zeigler
Youngstown & Southern
Eureka Switch
W. H. Ainsworth
Dayton
Louis F. Bapst
Victor Huthman
West Carrolton
Bapst
Wooster
David Martin
Dalton
Susan Shoup
Martin
Upper Sandusky
G. A. Sawyer
Geneva
A. J. Trunkey
Springfield
Henry Rizzer
A. H. Kunkle
Rizzer
Cleveland
Austin Powder Co
Canal
Denison-Harvard
Newbury & South Shore
Hudson
Ashland
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wean
Tiffin Frederick Cook
Republic
Cook
Jacobs Carson
Mansfield
Adams Express
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Columbus
Isaac White
New Philadelphia
Lima
Bucyrus
Why Cows Stood in Water
In a northern town a lazy man relies on charity and paints landscapes with gaudy colors. An aunt hires him to decorate walls, but she notes he always places cows in water because he never learned to paint hoofs.
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North of
England
al Priddy
Jorvey
Prize Fighter Remarks at School Meet
A speech scene shows a prize fighter bragging about thrashing a boy, with a nervous schoolmaster attempting to respond. The exchange ends with a punch and a quip about not every fortune hunter being a good shot. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is advertised for teething and wind colic at 25 cents a bottle.
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Mrs. Grace Freed
George R. Smith
General Smith
Army
The
Military Academy
Mexican Republic
Stanley
Mrs. Huntington Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
Newport
Mr. Wilson
Whitey’ Lewis
Country Life Meeting
Hawley
Estate
Buckeye
Dean
Illinois
H. H. Davis
Danville
Ill
Doan
Hanover
Haynox
Haynox Co
Main Street
Birmingham
Mich
ALBO
Whittemore Bros. & CO
Albany St
Cambridge
Mass
Weil
Beduce
Doalom
W.F. Young
P.C.F
Temple $T
Chen Water
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