Bryan Invades East Platform Notes From Illinois Dems
William Jennings Bryan led the Democratic state convention in Peoria Illinois with multiple speeches. Cannon attacked labor injunctions while praising the tariff and criticizing the proposed changes to Sherman act. Bryan planned a cross east tour Sept 29 traveling in a private car with aides and party officials.
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Florida
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Jennings
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Maryland
Illinois Democratic Platform Endorses Bryan and Stevenson
The Illinois Democratic platform lauds the Denver convention actions and the presidential ticket of Bryan. It extols Stevenson as governor and urges his election as a return to better state methods. The document praises the candidates’ integrity and pledges fidelity to platform commitments.
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Lawrence BR. Stringer
Adlai F. Stevenson
X. EF. Beidler
Ralph Jeffries
John B. Mount
Ross, Hall
Supreme Court
John T. Pickering
Edward Tilden
Chicago
A. L. White
Vermilion County
Isaac Raymond
Denver
Toto
Bryan
Illinois
Stevenson
Adlai FE. Stevenson
Cannon's Talk at Springfield on Injunction Issue
Springfield UL reports on Cannon delivering remarks about the injunction issue. The Sept 10 dispatch highlights his anticipated statements and the political context surrounding the injunction debate.
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Peoria
Springfield
Cannon
Gompers
Protestants seek ban on Catholic Eucharistic processions
Protestant societies petitioned King Edward to ask the Home Office to forbid Sunday processions honoring the blessed sacrament by Roman Catholic groups during Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli’s visit for the nineteenth international eucharistic congress. The king has ignored earlier protests and is unlikely to respond. Protestants warn of potential riots, but RC clergy gathering in London face respectful treatment.
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Edward
Vincent Vannutelli
Doncaster
Home Office
Deaths of Calmet resident and kin after mine incident
Calmet Michigan on September 10 reports the death of Mrs. Thomas Uren a blind 76 year old at the Central mine. Her granddaughter Mabel Morgan died in a lamp explosion a month earlier. Her grandson John Morgan was killed by a shotgun blast while hunting. Two weeks earlier her daughter Mrs. John Morgan died after three days of illness. Another granddaughter died Monday.
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Mich
Thomas Uren
Central Mine
Mabel Morgan
John Morgan
Missing Portland Woman in Paris Disappearance Mystery
Friends and police search Paris for Mrs. H. B. Litt of Portland Oregon who vanished after leaving her hotel on August 24 to visit the American Express company. A fortnight has passed with no trace or sighting.
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Skulls of Three Misses Victims in Wilmington Attack
Pearson Talley aged sixty, temporarily insane, struck his wife with a broadax in bed, splitting her skull. He then attacked his niece, splitting her skull, and fractured the skull of her husband Andrew Johansen. All three victims are hospitalized in a dying condition. Talley is in custody.
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Wilmington
Del
Carrier pigeon found 650 miles off Texas coast
Captain Baker of the Morgan liner El Cod picked up a carrier pigeon exhausted on deck 650 miles off the Texas coast. The bird bore a silver leg band inscribed No. 19 R B, indicating it carried a prior message or identification.
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Galveston
Tex
Baker
Texas
Alberti Downfall Hits Farmers in Bank Scam Losses
Copenhagen dispatch reports the fall of M. Alberti, ex minister of justice, confessing to frauds against Bondestanens Sparkasse. The Danish Farmers Butter Export association alone lost about 1.5 million dollars, with millions more tied to his embezzlement and US gold mine speculation. The finance minister weighs state aid for depositors.
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M. Alberti
Bondestanens Sparkasse
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Danish Farmers’ Butter Export Association
Hains Plays At War In Jail Cell
Captain Peter C. Hains Jr. amuses himself in Queens county jail Long Island City with a pack of playing cards building forts houses and laying battle plans while awaiting trial with his brother T Jenkins Hains for the killing of William E Anuis at the scene unspecified.
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New York
Peter C. Hains, Jr
Queens County
Long Island City
T. Jenkins Hains
William E. Anuis
Miss Maud Summers Urges Kinder Children’s Reading
Miss Maud Summers of Cincinnati urged better literature for children and genuine fun over coarse comic fare at a Playgrounds Association of America conference in New York. Her talk on Story Telling in Playgrounds emphasized spiritual truth and proper motives in children’s picture and story content. Ek 8 S. de Goot spoke in Chicago on developing playground ideas as part of the South Park system.
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Maud Summers
Cincinnati
Playgrounds Association of America
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South Park
Plague Case Reported In Los Angeles Boy Attacked By Squirrel
A boy named Mulholland contracted bubonic plague after handling a sick squirrel in a park. Physicians confirmed bubonic plague and noted park squirrels were infected. Officials believe there will be no further spread of disease.
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Cal
Mulholland
Hunter in Evansville dies aiming at rabbit
Evansville Indiana September 10 James Clements raised his gun to shoot a rabbit near the city and suddenly collapsed dying apparently from heart disease.
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Evansville
Ind
James Clements
Marrying Off in Washington Ind This Week
Washington Ind Sept 10 Green berry Patterson aged 71 and Betsy Horton aged 70 were married here Monday. Jerome Reese aged 67 and Miss Mary Crowe aged 21 wed Sunday.
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Ind
Greenberry Patterson
Betsy Horton
Jerome Reese
Mary Crowe
Power of Imagination by E F Benson Aims at Illusion
A doctor treated a patient with morphia for sleep then stopped. After two sleepless nights the third night he gave plain water and the patient slept, waking with a morphine mouth, illustrating imagination’s powerful effect on perception.
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E. F. Benson
A Comprehensive Repentance in Harper's Weekly
A brief excerpt recalls remorse for unintended actions and the intention to change. The speaker reflects on ignorance ofmisalignment with another's feelings and vows never to repeat the act.
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Harper's Weekly
Revengeful Old Vet Fatally Shoots Civil War Veteran
William F. Driesman aged sixty five shot and fatally wounded Captain George W. Reep in Marton Indiana in front of about a hundred people. He claimed he waited eight years to carry out the act saying Reep reprimanded him during the Civil War. Driesman served in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry Company B and joked about taking Jeff Davis.
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Auto thief suspect arrested over stolen Chicago car
In Traverse City Michigan William Tesnow of Chicago was arrested after arriving with a car matching a Chicago theft. Tesnow said he bought the auto from a visitor for 25 dollars and believed it was stolen. The car is valued at 900 dollars. In Topeka Kansas Mrs Sallie Rutherford aged 113 died. Born in 1795 in Middleton Kentucky she never had a week of sickness. She moved to Topeka forty three years ago.
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M. Alberti
Boye
Traverse City
Mich
Chicago
William Tesnow
Tesnow
Topeka
Kas
Sallie Rutherford
Middleton
Adam and Eve quip headlines Kansas City Times item
A playful Kansas City Times blurb notes that Adam never drove a balky horse on a railroad track and Eve never wore a back-buttoned waist, reflecting a light, humorous regional feature.
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Chicago Market Report 1908 Hog and Cattle Prices
Estimated receipts for today show 16000 hogs with strong market despite light hog numbers yesterday. Cattle receipts near 7000 with western cattle included and sheep 24000, weaker in current trade. Prices range across hogs from 640 to 715 for various grades and cattle and sheep at mixed, steady or weak values.
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Texas
John A Babcock with North Americans Commission Company
John A Babcock of the North Americans Commission Company Chicago Illinois invites readers to contact him for any time and promises a square deal, signaling reliable service and straightforward terms.
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North Americans Commission Company
Deadlock on Iowa Senate election persists after primary changes
Washington reports from Des Moines show no break in the deadlock over the U S Senate selection. Governor Cummins gains with Speaker Kendall absent, and a des Moines communication notes possible adjournment. The state legislature passed an amendment to the primary law enabling a separate party ticket at the November general election to determine the party candidate.
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Des Moines
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Kendall
the Journal
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U. S. Senate
Misplaced Monuments Reflect On Statues And Time
The Fortnightly Review essay by Mr Joan Lane muses on statues' fleeting dignity and enduring neglect. It lampoons soot, weathering, and a sparrow family nesting under a great statesman's elbow, contrasting bronze shine with timeless human indifference.
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Joan Lane
Cholera spreads to Irkutsk and Volga region peak
In a September report from St. Petersburg the Asiatic cholera spreads into Siberia with Irkutsk added to the danger zone while the Volga region shows the plague at its climax.
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