Johnson Wins in Cleveland and Kentucky Goes Republican
Complete election returns show Tom Johnson winning the Cleveland mayoralty by 9,213 over Theodore E. Burton, with Burton the administra tion candidate. Johnson’s victory makes him mayor for the fourth consecutive time, in a campaign split by Roosevelt Taft rivalries and municipal ownership support. The entire Democratic city ticket won.
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Cleveland
Tom Johnson
Theodore E. Burton
Johnson
Burton
Republican Victory in Kentucky Governors Race
Republicans win the Kentucky state ticket led by Augustus F. Wilson for governor by a margin near 10,000. Democrats likely control the legislature on joint ballot. Beckham is favored for U S senator unless plans change, while Samuel W. Singer's faction vows to contest Beckham's election citing temperance stance as party risk.
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Louisville
Agustus F. Wilson
Beckham
United States
Samuel W. Singer
Illinois election drives dry vote sweep across fifteen counties
In Minisig elections held Tuesday, legal option carried in fifteen of twenty counties amid parades by temperance groups and counter rallies. Volunteers and residents served coffee and luncheons at polls while incomplete returns show dry outcomes in Union Cass Wabash Massee Edmonds Williamson Cilboun Dorpy Pulaski Randolph Johnson Edwards Moveau Meni and Pike counties, with a few wet precincts in Perry Pulaski Randolph Morgay and Meni.
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Minisig
Haquor
W. C. Tlul
Woien
Union
Cass
Wabash
Massee
Edmonds
Williamson
Cilboun
Dorpy
Pulaski, Randolph, Johnson, Eydwards
Moveau
Meni and
Pike
Perry, Pulaski, Reandolph
Morgay
Meni Counties
Cincinnati to Be Half Open Mayor Wins Big Margin
Cincinnati results show Leopold Markbreit elected mayor with a plurality exceeding 20,000 over Edward J. Dempsey and Frank L. Pfaff. The overall ticket won by about 10,000, Socialist and Prohibition votes totaling around 1,900, and Markbreit’s majority over all reaching 8,271. Markbreit vows a skif-open town in Volfsblatt.
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Cincinnati, O
Board of Education
Democratic Party
Leopold Markbreit
Edward J. Dempsey
City Party
Frank L. Pfaff
Markbreit
Dempsey
Pratt
the Volfsblatt
Roosevelt Not Surprised By Election Results
Washington reports show Roosevelt’s administration taking the election results with equanimity as mostly local in character and of little impact on national politics. Only Cleveland’s contest drew visible personal interest, while Turtums and the Parsons Hearst alliance drew strong Republican disapproval.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Turtok
Congress
Tdtumans
New York
Parsons
Hearst
Subduing Reds Urgent Troop Move to South Dakota
Omaha orders dispatch of the remaining two squadrons of the Second U.S. Cavalry eight companies to Thumber Butte South Dakota. Company M of the Sixteenth Infantry under Captain Harry F. Dalton will move from Fort Crook to Gettysburg for base supply duties against the Ute revolt. Sioux fear complicating aid to Utes.
Narrowly Escaped Lynch Attempt in Marietta
John Sweeny a 35 year old husband and father of five narrowly escaped a mob at the fair grounds in Marietta Ohio Sunday afternoon after an assault on 14 year old Anna Koon. He was bound with a rope and dragged toward the Muskingum river before police intervened at the station. The girl remains in a precarious condition.
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Marietta
Ohio
John Sweeny
Anna Koon
Sweeney
Fair Grounds
Muskingum
Marietta, O
John Sweeney
Air Grounds
Man and Wife Murdered in Garfield New Jersey
Passute New Jersey reports that Ruf fano and his wife Antainatte were found murdered at their Garfield grocery store on a Saturday night. A neighbor discovered the woman’s body on the walk in front of the store and Ruffano’s body in the kitchen. Both victims were shot in the head with Ruffano killed instantly and the wife crawling along a blood trail to the sidewalk.
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Passute
N. J
Ruffano
Antainatte
Garfield
Attacks on Hindoos Sparkate in Sattle Washington
Mob violence in Sattle Washington targets Hindu residents with two assaults in four hours. Hindu quarters are wrecked as crowds force foreigners to seek shelter in jails and police stations while many Hindus flee by night.
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Jiverett
Bronday
Bombay
Diaz's Cabinet to Be Changed in Mexico City
Mexico City reports forthcoming changes in President Diaz's cabinet with three key ministries to be filled by new men. Supposedly Senor Joaquin Casus is among the expected appointees for foreign affairs colonization industry and war roles.
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Diaz
Mexico City
Mexico
Senor Joaquin CO. Casusus
Boy Under Many Charges in Bardwell Trial
Fulton Ky Howard Lee Stockton 17 in ongoing Bardwell trial charged with attempted murder grand larceny arson and assault and battery. He allegedly tried to kill his uncle and aunt to obtain money to marry.
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Fulton, Ky
Howard Lee Stockton
St Louis Councilman Fined in Court Appearance
St Louis councilman Moe George Co. Linde faced a criminal charge and pleaded guilty in a court near Midge Wilson A. Taylor. He was fined $500 for an offense connected to his official duties.
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St. Louis
Moe -George Co. Linde
Foner
Indielinenc
Chiging
Belorw
Midge Wilson
A. ‘Taylor
Seven Men Blown to Pieces at Railway Camp
Seven men are blown to pieces at a construction camp on the Portland and Seattle railway near Lyle. The incident occurs during construction work, and authorities investigate the blast and cause of the fatal accident. Names of the victims are not provided in the readable text.
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Lyle
Wasi
Portland & Seattle
Train Crash Kills Three In Georgia and Alabama
More than twenty injured as Queen & Crescent fast passenger No 2 collides head on with a freight train one mile south of Morganville Georgia. Engineers Spencer of Birmingham and Elliott of unknown origin among the injured, three dead. Mail, express, and second class coaches burned. all mail and express matter consumed. Officials say speed near seventy miles per hour on exceptionally good track. wreck cause under investigation.
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Birmingham
Ala
Queen & Crescent
Morganville
CB. Spencer
Jon Young
Bud Apperson
Frenson
H. W.elliott, Jr
H. W.elliott, Jr, Freight Engineer, Teg
J. M. Tumlin
Bruses
Willian Walker
Ed Jackso
Expre Messenger
W. A. Emerson
John Street
Narrowly Escaped Lynching in Marietta
In Marietta Ohio John Sweeney a 35 year old married man narrowly escaped lynching by a mob seeking revenge for his alleged assault on Anna Koon a 14 year old girl. Citizens intervened preventing violence as the air pent building and surrounding crowd resisted.
Missouri clergyman promoted to Library of Congress chief
Washington reports Missourian Weptin vutt Bishop of Missouri and former professor at Greeley and Cameron. He succeeds David Tincbeson as superintendent of the Library of Congress reading room. Wishay was Princeton chief cataloguer and referencederice. He graduated from the University of Michigan and the African School of Chassic Studies at Rome.
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Washington
Nitroglycerin Blast Wrecks Plant Near Butler Pa
An explosion at the Petroleum Torpedo Co magazine 16 miles from Butler caused extensive damage. Several people were cut or burned, property losses reach 325000, the factory building and nearby dwellings were demolished and trees were leveled. The cause remains unknown after about 400 quarts of nitroglycerin were present.
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Butler
The
Petroleum Torpedo Co
Stabbing At Boarding House During Quarrel In York
In York Pennsylvania during a quarrel over who would cover the bed Frank Urbany grabbed a knife and stabbed Henry Weber multiple times. Weber is reported in critical condition after the fight at a local boarding house where both men were staying.
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York
Frank Urbany
Henry Weber
Night Watchman fatally harms Black man at Pine Blur commissary
A Black man was struck and fatally hurt by Night Watchman Goers at the Mhiti City Lumber Co. commissary in Pine Blur Arkansas. Police believe the assailant recently attacked several people and robbed others in Newport Arkansas. The victim carried three public safety items.
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Pine Blur
Ark
Mhiti City
Oliver P Temple Dead In Knoxville After Noted Career
Oliver P Temple, 88, died in Knoxville. He began public life in a race against Andrew Johnson for Congress, where Johnson won by a small margin, marking an early chapter in Temple's long career.
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Oliver P. Temple
Knoxville
Senn
Oliver P. ‘Temple
Andrew Johnson
Congress
Johnson
Sunday School on Steps in Illinois Town
In Mount Chapel a Sunday school is held on church steps amid a dispute with church trustees who want the program at a set time. Myra Graham defies the closed doors and continues teaching outside as weather turns chilly. Bloomington reports H L Willey using a homemade device to saw firewood from railroad ties. In Covington Indiana a Robbery case results in prison sentences for Robert Hughey and son Zanoy with William Hughey and Wantars receiving indeterminate and reform school terms.
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Monnis
Myra
Graham
Mount Chapel
Ehurch
Bloomington
H. L. Willey
Kane Eqaily
Ile
Wdehed
Panville
Robert Hughey
Zanoy Hushey
Wantars
Covington
Ind
Hugheys
Michigan City
Hars Weing
Jeffersonville
Beloved Kidney Cure Boasted by Doctor’s Claim
A home herbal mix marketed as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues promises to cleanse and strengthen kidneys, relieve backache and urinary trouble, and improve sleep. At nominal cost, any druggist can supply the ingredients. the prescription dates to October 1906 with wide newspaper pickups.
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Scranton
New York
Thoston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Disinherits Daughter Who Eloped In Morrisonville Will
The late H C Bolin, mayor of Morrisonville, disinherits his daughter tde Bolin after she eloped with an actor. The will leaves $5 to the daughter, while the estate valued at $30,000 is given to the widow for life use, with remainder to relatives excluding the daughter.
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Taylorville
Tde Bolin
Iate
H.C. Bolin
Morrisonville
Galesburg Revival Ends Records Set
Five weeks of revival services led by Rev. William A. Sunday ended in Galesburg with 2,300 converts, the largest total in local revival history. A free-will offering of 5600 was given to Sunday and associates, with Clark Carr among donors.
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Galesburg
William A
Billy
Sunday
Clark Carr
Denmark
College bans courting at Albion urged by Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel driven to desperation by Cupid activity among Southern Illinois Collegiate Institute students in Albion. President Hines issues edict prohibiting courting by students and also applying to faculty.
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Mount Carmel
Cupid
Southern Ilinois Collegiate Institute
Albion
Hines
Grieg as a Schoolboy Pranks and Birch
Grieg recounts school days with late arrivals and wet morning rituals. He describes hiding under a dripping roof to avoid entering class, being sent home to change, and the long journey making it effectively a schoolhouse dispensation. A prank escalates to punishment with the birch.
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Grieg
Veil Cast Aside for Crepe in Early Morning Wedding
Miss Cheistingia Stork of Stonington marries ER Dibbird of Tonkawa Gila in a dawn ceremony. The planned bridal veil was replaced by crepe after Dolburd fell ill with pneumonia a few days earlier.
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Taylorville
Cheistingia Stork
Stonington
Mienrning
Dibbird
Tonkawa
Gila
Dolburd
Baty Fatally Scalded In Household Accident
A child named Matiote-Thy, eight, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ol Prova, suffered severe burns after pulling a boiling bucket from a stove. Despite injuries, doctors report she has some chance of recovery as the family notes ongoing care and concern at home.
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Baty
Matiote
Tragedy Follows Quarrel Ends in Death at Home
A quarrel in town escalated when Wile struck Ebenly in the head with a fence picket, Nelson Healy implicated, and Ebenly died hours later. Earlier, a dispute over a banned group’s affairs preceded the incident. Pekin Prank Snyder, 46, freight conductor on the Santa Fe, was found dead in bed at his home. Death attributed to heart paralysis.
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Nelson Healy
Whith Bach
Ebenly
Pekin Prank Snyder
Santa Fe
Bay Freeport Piano Plant Purchases Hobart Mo Cable
Freeport piano makers Swan and Andersen have acquired Hobart Manufacturing Company parts to extend production capacity. The move aims to bolster piano sidings and gray ment operations at the Freeport facility, signaling expansion in regional piano manufacturing.
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Bay Freeport
Freeport Os
Newan
KH. Swan
A. ML. Andersen
Sid Orgray Manuacturers
Hobart Mo
Rock Falls Editor Retires From Paper
Sterling captain William Paovher, longtime Rock Falls News editor, retires after decades guiding the paper through changing times. He ends his tenure as the publication changes hands and exits editorial work in the Sterling area.
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Rock Falls
Sterling
Willian
Howsparer
Train Fatality Ends Lillehiield Life in Ohin City
A 40 year old man named Lillehiield Gyaminer, once of Ohin City, was instantly killed when struck by a train near Kavaend. Authorities reported the accident immediately halted traffic as investigators began work at the scene.
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Lillehiield
Ohm Gyaminer
Ohin City
Wits Dastiantly
Fay Ae
Kavaend
Bho
Teetotaler Cheers Ship in Its Own Liquor
A party of English travelers in New Zealand toasted the vessel that brought them ashore. One man declined to drink, then drank water and learned he had toasted the ship with the very liquor she floats in. The prank highlighted the ship's celebratory liquor as the toast.
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New Zealand
London
Terms That Seem Strange in Scottish and English Law
The text highlights notable Scots law terms such as sequestration for bankruptcy writer or law agent as solicitor debate for argument assizes as jury delinquent for wrongdoer fatuous person for a foolish public note on terminology in Scotland describing housebreaking with an aggravation for burglary and seller of property as the author of title.
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Scotland
Mutilate Art Treasures In England
Authorities protect England's ancient relics from carvings. A man fined $15 for chipping his name six inches high on a stone in the Druids Circle near Keswick. A slab near the Swanage globe invites visitors to leave names, while Alpine summit lovers leave cards in wine bottles.
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England
Druids
Keswick
Swanage
Unclear note on pig supply and bacon industry
Fragmentary report discusses pigs, bacon trade, and strikes in Belfast. Mentions farmers warned not to kill more pigs until strikes settle and hints at Danish bacon market shifts. Contains numerous garbled terms and unclear entities.
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Belfast
Nerda
Atedh
Pattern Department Order Form Instructions
The note directs sending 10 cents to the Pattern Department of the paper for pattern requests. It asks to address orders, specify size and pattern number, and to write the order on a provided coupon for convenience. The item outlines a simple checkout procedure for readers.
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Pattern Department
Pattern No 5933 House dress with box plaits and buttons
Pattern No 5933 shows a fit and flare dress shaped by five sections with box plaits at the hips and lower skirt, stitched in place and pressed. It uses Loudeloth Pinaia and other seasonable materials, requiring about 5 1/4 yards of 44 inch fabric for a 26 inch waist. Sizes range from 20 to 32 inches. order by pattern number.
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Holland
Lroudeloth
Pinaia
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