Stranger Bobcat Bets Bold Fight At Arkansas City Saloon
In Greenlaw’s saloon Arkansas City, Joe Hassett taunts a stranger with polecat talk. The visitor challenges Hassett to a fight, then wins a swift, hands-on exchange, pinning Hassett and leaving the crowd in uproar. Hassett finally yields, joking that he mistook the stranger for a bobcat.
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Polecats
Old Greenlaw’s
David A. Curtis
Greenlaw
Arkansas City
Joe Hassett
Sam Pearsall
Green
Taint
Basnett
Hassett
Cardin
Joe
Wightline
Bannett
Thethers
Bassett
Hansett
Bassett Theself
Wilson blamed for blocking trade with China by critics
The Republican national committee charges President Wilson with deliberately blocking American trade in China. They say his refusal to provide a written position contradicts state department guidance and undermines the open door policy once championed by John Hay. They also cite alleged overspending by Democratic years versus Republican appropriations and point to small towns with costly federal buildings as examples.
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Washington, D. C
Republican National Committee
Wilson
China
State Department
Hho
New York
Ils
Democratic Party
Washington
Wall Street
Bryan
Knox
John Hay
Sinson
William Phillips
Milrd
United States
Tost
Wilcox
Ile
Clearwater
Fla
Mount Olive
N. C
Hazard
Golf match interrupted by cow on course in Ma
In Lous, Sept 2 Pred Hebring and BW Snowden played for the elaxa 1 championship on the municipal course when a cow wandered onto the hole. The cow halted play as the caddy tried to shoo it away. Hebring then struck and the ball rolled into the cow’s mouth, prompting a chase and a brawl with the animal.
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T. Louis
Hebring
Snowden
Municipal
Army Camps Here 10 Stay Day Recruits
Plattsburg mission notes large turnout as about 13 000 learn basic warfare at the shores of Lake Champlain and ongoing camps total more than 20 900 trained men. The camps reveal growing support for a citizen army system, with many recruits from New York and the Atlantic coast and veterans advancing to non commissioned ranks.
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Plattsburg
Champlain
Ifo
National Guard
Eam
Stas
Plattaburg
Citizen Army
Canpa Wa
Lawrencn Balte
Chicago
Ladington
Mieh
San Franelen
Mattsburg
Angus
Amos Penth
Tadington
San Francsco
Nelihe
Afleers’ Reserve Corps
Atlantic Seaboard
Ios. 1
New York
Heston
Mayor Mitchel
B. Merenee
Yiemnlty
Mitchel
Ste
Gerond
Wood
Henry T. Stimson
Henry Treckenridsn
Belnis
Cain
Fim
Billy Sunday Rouses Crowd With Fiery Sermon At Ocean Grove
Billy Sunday opened a summer campaign in Ocean Grove New Jersey addressing about ten thousand listeners mainly women. He denounced social sins mocked kleptomania and drunkenness and urged muscular Christianity while challenging war and political justice. The fiery preacher urged action and warned against idleness as he paced the platform with heated rhetoric.
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Ocean Grove
N. J
Billy Sunday
Nick
Jilly Sunday
Prince Albert
Daffy
Christ
Jesus Christ
God
Hilly
Fio
Lena
Lincoln Farm Gift to Nation Preserves Birthplace Site
Hodgenville Kentucky Lincoln Farm of 110 acres containing the log cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born will be presented to the nation by the Lincoln Farm Association. A memorial hall and endowment fund accompany the gift with ceremonies led by notable dignitaries, reflecting a national pledge to unity and preservation of the historic site.
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Hodgenville
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Na Hon
Lincoln Farm Association
Nehicting
Baker
Charles Ho Jemphilt
Louisville
Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky
Joseph W. Folk
Misamrt
John B. Cundemnan
Louisvlle
Folk
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
South
Lincoln Farm
Robert J. Collier
New York
Wilson
Lauraville
Henry Watterson
William Marshall Bullitt
The
United States
Thomas Lincoln
Indiana
Illinois
A. W. Dennett
Str. Collier
Hinds
Pecsinis
Jones
Joey
Lurie County
Kentucky
Coltier
Collier
Joseph W. Ent
Clarence H. Mackay
Richard Lloyd Jones
William H. Taft
Seph St. Choate
Sunnie I. Clemens
Cardinal Gildons
Albert Shaw
Willand Travers Jerome
Lyman J. Gage
Ida M. Tar Yell
Charles A. Towne
Lincoln Memorial Hall
Association
Lincoln Cabin
Hodernville
Woinman
Bride dies on wedding trip in Illinois county
In Havana Illinois a bride, Sullie Gildmore Van Auken, died minutes after a wedding conducted by a minister. Her husband James Van Auken carried her from a buggy at her parents home in Kilbourne. A doctor said death occurred earlier than claimed and the cause remains unexplained. The bride was 28.
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Havana
Sullie Gildmore van Auken
James van Auken
Kilbourne
van Auken
Gildmore
Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park Nears Completion
Lincoln memorial project in Potomac Park will be dedicated in about two years with roofing nearing completion this winter. Architect Henry Bacon notes the cornerstone laid February 12, 1915, and cites the use of the largest marble blocks, including an eighteen by six foot central block, as the building will rise to the height of a ten story office building.
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South
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Washington
Potowac Park
Henry Bacon
Lincoln Memorial
Rural postal service expansion under Wille son early 1900s
Washington reports the rural delivery program begun October 1 1908 on three WV routes from Charleston illa and Halltown grew to 42718 carriers over 17200 miles costing 49825000 dollars in 191 Electrical devices linked to a new mirror tech cast ads on its surface hiding faces. A Harvey fined five dollars in Winnipeg for beating a kitten to death.
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Washington
Westmaster
William L. Wileson
West Virginia
Charleston
A. Harvey
Winnipeg
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