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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
1
A witty survey notes humorous ironies about letters, science, and public life. It cites the Vienna Academy of Sciences spending $9000 on uranium ore for radium and claims locomotor ataxia may be curable. It mentions Zeppelin funds, Africa adventures, French warship disasters, and curfew rules in a western town.
A Gotham ex-multimillionaire and Wall Street king, after two fortunes won and lost, now works for a salary. In New York a husband sues for divorce claiming cruel and inhuman treatment over steak choices. Cambridge honors a Russian Jew in this year’s senior wranglership and places Selig Brodetsky alongside Ibbotson for the mathematics blue.
The Postal Progress League secretary imagines a time when rural delivery brings electric power for machines, freight and passenger transport, and telegraph and telephone service to the “man at the sources.” Stranger dreams have come true.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company mechanics in Pittsburgh yards have equipped 17 locomotives with hose and pumping gear to serve as fire engines. A signaling system is in place to call these engines when needed.
Richard Croker notes that two thirds of visitors come from America and support both hotels and street life in Egypt. He observes Egyptians beg for money, stating that even newborns seem to ask for back sheesh and that Egyptians constantly seek money.
The term vaudeville derives from Val de Vire ballads in Normandy tied to Oliver Basselin. These ballads, among similar songs, shaped early vaudeville entertainment from ballad origins to comic and variety sketches. The fragment hints at vaudeville’s evolution including feats and acts and mentions Johnny Hayes and a marathon winter in the pages.
Early morning returns show William H. Taft of Ohio elected president with 306 votes and thirteen doubtful. Hughes re-elected governor of New York by about 76,000. Taft carries New York City by about 11,000 plurality, first Republican NY city vote since 1896. Bryan carries Nebraska, Nevada, Montana, and the Solid South including Missouri. Democrats gain several midwestern governorships. Taft leads Roosevelt in several states.
Illinois results show Taft winning the state by about 170000 votes while Governor candidate Charles S. Deneen leads Adlai Stevenson by roughly 100000. Debs well behind 1904 totals with around forty thousand. Cook County hurts Deneen with strong anti Deneen sentiment in Chicago. Congressional winners include Republicans Snapp Fuller Lowden McKingey Prince Graff Sterling Cannon McKinley Rodenberg Chapman Thistlewood and N B Thistlewood. Democrats Rainey Graham Foster win in several districts.
Reno reports Roosevelt carried the state again with a majority for Bryan. The Tuesday vote shows a plurality of about 3,008 in Nevada. Local details note Roosevelt’s persistent lead and Bryan’s margin over his opponent.
Missouri voters split the electoral votes for Bryan and Kern with a Democratic plurality under 30,000. William S. Cowherd won the governorship in a clear Democratic victory over Herbert S. Hadley, while Republicans dispute the loss. Senate races between Stone and Folk remain undecided. Kerens leads the Republican primary. Democrats strengthen their grip in Congress with more seats in St Louis districts and across Missouri.
Ohio voters backed the Democratic state ticket by about 16,000, despite giving Taft and Sherman the national electoral votes. Analysts cite disaffection, black dissatisfaction, labor’s Bryan endorsement, and GOP internal troubles as factors that reduced the Roosevelt plurality from four years ago.
Indiana results show Taft carrying the state by about 12 000 with four Democratic and nine Republican congressmen elected and a legislature that will choose a Democratic senator.
In Guthrie Oklahoma the Democratic party maintains loyalty with Bryan leading by about 25 to 1. Five members of Congress are re-elected, four Democrats and one Republican, continuing party control.
New York State swings to Taft with close results in Manhattan and the Bronx signaling a near tie with Bryan. Hughes leads state wide by an estimated 125000 to 180000 outside New York City, Chanler achieving about 75000 in plurality. Chanler’s city lead estimated around 65000, yielding Hughes an overall approx 50000 plurality.
Nebraska voters swung to the Democrats with Bryan leading by about 10,000 statewide and Shallenberger narrowly ahead for governor. Lincoln saw a dramatic Bryan gain including a 837 margin, and Lancaster County near 700. Omaha turnout also surprised, with precincts showing Democratic strength. If trend holds, Bryan wins by roughly 8,000 beyond Lincoln and Omaha, and Shallenberger would win governor by a similar margin.
Des Moines reports incomplete returns showing Taft ahead in Iowa by a plurality between 40,000 and 50,000, a marked drop from Roosevelt’s 158,000 and four years earlier, yet only a slight decline from normal tallies.
Returns at the Republican state headquarters from 70 of 146 Denver precincts report 6,108 straight Republican votes for national and state tickets, 5,770 for Democrats, with 17,540 scratched ballots. The figures reflect early tallies in the city’s election.
Meager reports indicate Taft carried Idaho by about 20,000 with the entire Republican state ticket likely elected Brady ahead by 8,000 in the governor race. The legislature remains in doubt as results trend in.
Philadelphia predicts Taft will carry Pennsylvania by 350000 with a Republican legislature by 115 on joint ballot ensuring Senator Penrose's re election. Democrats likely to lose three congressmen in the Eleventh Sixteenth and Tenth districts as Philadelphia may give Taft a 125000 plurality.
Boston reports Taft sweeping victory with about 115000 plurality, beating Roosevelt by 23000. Eben Draper elected governor by roughly 65000 plurality, showing losses in some areas. Entire Republican state ticket victorious and congressional delegation unchanged.
Helena precincts report Taft with 925 votes and Bryan 822. Halt of Butte adds Taft 3 462 and Bryan 3 745. Democrats claim Bryan will carry the state.
In Austin Texas officials estimate total Texas ballots at under 300000 with Bryan carrying the state by about 150000 more votes than Taft.
Jackson reports a 75,000 advantage for Bryan and a high turnout driven by a Democratic appeal to voters. Republicans mobilized, with Taft attracting more votes than Roosevelt in the previous election, yet the Democratic margin remained sizable.
Fire early Wednesday damaged the old mail room at Union Station, spreading to the train sheds and risking total loss. No injuries were reported as passengers and staff fled the glare and noise, while Frisco and Wabash trains were moved to safety. Fire crews battled flames with hoses pumping water through the midway. The mail room’s second floor housed carpenters and repair shops, with damage totaling yet to be assessed. Origin believed spontaneous combustion.
After days of relentless effort to shield Pine Bluff Arkansas river banks, begun last Saturday, the recently completed fascines halted further crumbling near the courthouse. Property valued at 30 000 to 75 000 had already given way as the current battered the south bank. Dr J J Caldwell secretary of the Board of Trade telegraphed Congressman Joe T Robinson to visit and seek congressional funds to protect the river front, a project estimated at 100 000.
A Republican demonstration with a band, about several hundred strong, moved toward Democratic headquarters on South Main Street Tulsa. The march was blocked by a large crowd that snatched flags and trampled props, sparking a general row but police and onlookers kept the scene from turning into full riot.
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