Taft Starts 13,000 Mile Western South Tour
President Taft leaves Boston on a long tour West and South aboard the New York Central Express. He waves to crowds, travels with Colonel Butt and top aides, and begins with a Chicago stop planned for tomorrow followed by Milwaukee La Crosse Winona and other cities.
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Boston
Mass
Taft
Colonel Butt
Secret Service
Chicago
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Winona
Taft visit to Chicago includes parade and ball game
President Taft arrives by Lake Shore train at 11 30 A M and joins a 150000 pupil parade. He lunches at the Commercial Hotel, visits the Art Institute, attends a National League game at West Side park, dines at Congress Hotel, and speaks at Orchestra hall before departing by 3 A.M. Taft also sends a birthday telegram to President Diaz of Mexico.
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Chicago
Taft
Lake Shore
Garfield Boulevard
Commercial Club
Commercial Hotel
Art Institute
Hamilton Club
West Side Ball Park
New York
National League
Congress Hotel
Orchestra Hall
American Bankers’ Association
Milwaukee
Torpedo Boats Head to St Louis to Meet Taft
The torpedo boats McDonough Thornton Tingey and Wilkes left New Orleans today bound for St Louis where they will meet President Taft.
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New Orleans
McDonough, Thornton, Tingey
Wilkes
St. Louis
Taft
Governor to Greet Him in Albany Arrival
Albany reporters state Governor Hughes will greet President Taft on his arrival at 3 45 this afternoon in Albany New York Chief Humphrey of the New York Central detective force and two other detectives accompany the presidential party as far as Buffalo
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Boston
Taft
Albany
New York Central
N. Y
Hughes
Humphrey
Buffalo
William J. Conners
Democratic State Committee of
New York
Saratoga
Conners
Buffalo Courier
The
Buffalo Enquirer
Erie County
Riot at Yeomen convention disrupts opening session
At the National Convention of the Yeomen of America in Springfield on Sept 15 women delegates struck men with umbrellas during a seating dispute over delegates claiming unissued lodge charters. The clash ended with order restored and no serious injuries reported.
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Springfield
The
Yeomen of America
Strike at Car Works In McKees Rocks Sparks Household Grievance
Pittsburg Sept 15 A new strike at the Pressed Steel Car works McKees Rocks involves about three thousand foreigners who refuse to work unless bosses and sub bosses are discharged Forty deputy sheriffs remain on duty Many Americans return to work but several hundred quit noting the absence of foreigners
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Pittsburg
McKees Rocks
Eagles boost in Omaha at grand aerial convention
The elev enth annual convention of the Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles is in session in Omaha Nebraska with upward of 1500 delegates and many visitors. Attendees come from nearly every state and several Canadian provinces. The three day sessions will cover reports officer elections and by law changes while the annual convention parade highlights the program.
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Omaha
Neb
Grand Aerie
Order of Eagles
Diaz Celebrated On His 79th Birthday In Mexico City
President Porfirio Diaz received officials and private citizens at the National Palace on his 79th birthday. Army officers, the American Colony Society committee, and the diplomatic corps attended ceremonies. The day ends with Diaz ringing the independence bell marking Mexico's Independence Day celebrations.
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City of
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
National Palace
American Colony Society
Bannock County 1909 tax levy set at 2.45 percent
Bannock County commissioners fixed the 1909 tax levy at 2.45, up from 2.25 last year due to higher state taxes and greater current expense needs. The levy allocates funds to county schools current expense interest court house and jail bond redemption road and bridge and other items with an estimated county valuation around 5.61 million dollars and possible adjustments from credits and delinquents.
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Bannock County
Board of County Commissioners
ORO Amor Rnis
Aioe Sc Tiaten Sy Caei
Court House
Sasl Dormne
Orme Slibishan-Den
Harriman Tomb Sealed With Concrete in Arden
Middletown N Y Sept 15 Having blasted a tomb out of solid rock at Arden for the body of E B Harriman the grave is locked to all the world by closing the sepulchre with a massive mound of concrete reinforced with three irons of steel.
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Middletown
N. Y
Arden
EB. H. Harriman
Lieutenant Sutton Suicide Theory Supported by Autopsy
Autopsy findings in Washington indicate Lieutenant Sutton likely shot himself. The surgeon notes a skull wound with powder traces and facial bruise from close-range gas, while facial bruise remains only on skin. The report leans toward accidental or crisis-driven self-inflicted death, with no inconsistencies found.
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Washington
Sutton
Bankers Meeting in Chicago Focuses on Trusts and Clearings
In Chicago on September 15 the Trust company section and clearing house section of the American Bankers association met instead of the main convention. An open discussion on the financial problems facing trust companies and clearing houses dominated the session. The clearing house section heard the secretary’s report on a campaign advocating appointing clearing house examiners.
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Chicago
Trust Company
American Bankers’ Association
Cadets Dropped From Annapolis Rolls By Taft
Four cadets at the Annapolis Naval academy are dropped from the rolls by direction of President Taft for inaptitude. Named are M. Dunnell Jr of New York L. E. Fagan of Philadelphia L. E. Taylor of Wheeling and C. M. Fleet of Larimore North Dakota.
Secretary Ballinger Improves After Bronchitis
Secretary Ballinger, pending bronchitis, shows marked improvement and continues official duties from his apartments as of today in Ballinger Washington.
Johnson Under Knife
Rochester Minnesota September 15 Governor John A Johnson underwent surgery for abdominal adhesion and a small hernia stemming from a prior appendicitis operation.
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Johnson
Rochester
Minn
John A. Johnson
Sultan Abdul Hamid Writes History of His Reign
Constantinople reports that the deposed sultan Abdul Hamid is composing a history of his reign. Newspapers note the project as he reflects on his 34 year rule.
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Constantinople
Abdul Hamid
Pocatello Day Highlights Blackfoot Fair
Blackfoot hosts Pocatello Day at the Southeastern Idaho fair with a special Gate City train bringing 100 visitors and the band. Afternoon races are described as the best of the fair week, with top quality exhibitions in agriculture stock and racing. The show features the guideless trotter “College Maid.” The Poratello special train departs at 7 30 this evening for the return trip.
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Blackfoot
Pocatello
Southeastern Idaho
Gate City
Idaho
Poratello
Bankers Visit Steel Town Before Taft Address
The two sections of the American Bankers Association met in Chicago for their annual convention with no general session that day. In the afternoon bankers and their ladies toured Gary Indiana to inspect the Indiana Steel Company industrial center. Tomorrow night President Taft will be the guest of honor at the convention hall.
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Chicago
American Bankers’ Association
General Association
Lake Michigan
Gary
Indiana
Mammoth
Indiana Steel Company
Taft
Zeppelin III Lands Passengers After Farnkfort Flight
The airship Zeppelin III landed in Mannheim Germany today with all passengers safe after a flight from Frankfort. Prince August William congratulated Orville Wright on his recent Berlin aeroplane flight and Wright plans to return to Berlin next week for further flights.
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Manneheim
Germany
Farnkfort
Prince August William
Orville Wright
Berlin
Wright
Portland Flouring Mills Plant Burns on Pacific Coast
Fire swept the Portland Flouring Mills plant on September 15 burning through one of the coast’s largest facilities. The mill exports substantial flour shipments to the Orient and officials fear total destruction of the plant.
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Portland
Ove
Portland Flouring Mills Company
Pacific Coast
Orient
Jury Frees Mexican in Idaho Larceny Case
The district court freed Frank Acosta after a jury found him not guilty of grand larceny relating to a five dollar bill taken from a Bannock Indian in a Walled City apartment on June 3. The trial followed a separate shoplifting case of John Stewart from Minneapolis, with Stewart’s associate Marble to be tried next. Judge Budge also granted a divorce decree for Prudie Geriche from Frank Geriche, citing years of abuse after their Ogden marriage in 1907.
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State of
Idaho
Frank Acosta
Acosta
John Stewart
Minneapolis
McCammon Investment Company
Stewart
Marble
Isham Dodson
Frank Warer
A. W. Fisher
Edward Phillips
Christian Burfuss
Willard Hubbard
C. S. Gray
Dell R. Lish
J. A. Tolman
John Williams
Martin Olson
Charles Potter
Budge
Prudie Geriche
Frank Geriche
Lucky Men at Drawing at Arco Land Office
In Arco Idaho the Big Lost River Irrigation company kept its filing office open until midnight as men eager to secure choice selections at the land drawing crowded in. Officials expect about three quarters of the 80 000 acres to be disposed of by noon with filings continuing in the Powell tract where prime land may spur the rise of a new town.
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Arco
Big
Lost River Irrigation Company
Powell Tract
National Colored Baptist Convention Opens in Columbus
The National Colored Baptist convention opened in Columbus on September 15 drawing nearly seven thousand participants. Rev. Z. L. Thomas of Columbus presided and delivered the annual address. Men will meet at Goodale auditorium and women at Second Baptist church during the six day event.
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Columbus
National Colored Baptist Convention
Z. L. Thomas
Goodale Auditorium
Second Baptist Church
Pittsburgh financier plans vast Snake river reservoir near Pocatello
Frank H. Buhl visiting Idaho with Major Fred R. Reed to discuss the mammoth dam above American Falls and a storage reservoir to irrigate six hundred thousand acres in Owyhee county. Projects include enlarging the Southside canal and tying floodwaters to Boise region while facing impacts on Bannock and Lemhi lands and Fort Hall.
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Frank H. Buhl
Idaho
Pocatello
Boise
Pittsburg
Fred R. Reed
Milner
Buhl
Minidoka
4. H. Hays
Twin Falls
J. B. Perrine
Kuhn-Bubl
Mammoth
American Falls
America
Snake River
Portneuf
Bannock Creek
Bruneau
Owyhee County
State Board of Land Commissioners
Department of the Interior
Southside
Blackfoot
Bannock
Gate City
Tilden
Aberdeen
Rexburg Man Dies by Self Inflicted Gunshot
Louis McCulloch a 22 year old Weston Idaho resident shot himself in his Rexburg Idaho home near Justice Knapp's residence. An inquest ruled death by pistol shot self inflicted during a temporary insanity fit. The body was taken to Rexburg for instructions from his parents in Weston.
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Rexburg
Idaho
Louis McCulloch
Weston
Justice Knapp
Hibbard
Bertie Larsen
Justice of the Peace
J. R. Young
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