Gorton Cortelyou Pleased With Outlook On Campaign
Republican National Chairman Cortelyou arrived from the West and met President Roosevelt after visiting Canton. He discussed opening the Chicago headquarters and Western campaign observations but declined to speak for publication on campaign details. He will later travel to New York to finalize campaign duties and committee compositions.
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Cortelyou
West
Canton
Ohio
Mrs McKinley
Roosevelt
Chicago
Cartaiyou
Cartelyou
National Executive Committee
Haructer
Washington
New York
Scott
West Viesinet
Notice on Free Marriage and Death Insertion Across Newspapers
Notices in The Washington Post will, upon application, appear simultaneously at no extra charge in multiple morning papers including New York Times Baltimore Herald Boston Globe Buffalo Courier Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Record-Herald Philadelphia Public Ledger Pittsburg Dispatch Providence Journal Rochester Herald St Louis Republic and more.
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NEW York Times
Baltimore Herald
Boston Globe
Buffalo Courier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic
Ese Standard
EER Press
Eapglis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Licensed to Marry and Obituaries from August 1904 notices
Local marriage licenses list several Bristow and Herndon couples headed to tied unions in 1904. Additional entries note a William Browning of New York dying at seventy, with funeral plans, plus numerous Virginia and Washington notices of names, residences, and dates. Interments and addresses appear amid family notices and condolences.
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Havewell Wall
Thousand Islands
William
Browning
New York
St. Bartholomew's Church
Madison Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Greenwood Cemetery
Riverdale
Har
Street Northwest
Virginia
Georgy M
William Brin
Torie
Hasteings
Baward
Allington
Williams
Turd Street
Georges
Eliza Wille
Vintent de Paul's Jr
In Memoriam Remembrance List Amid Obituary Notices
In loving remembrance for John and other deceased individuals. The list includes names such as Bonasentate, Campbell, Clifford, Davis, Dean, Ford, Haas, Haydon, Huhe, Johnson, Jones, Kenpey, Kyle, Marshel, Mahoney, Rogers, Thomas and others with ages and addresses, reflecting a memorial section.
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Little Sisters
Qatavio Campbell
Edwin A. Clifford
Yale St
Isaac Newton Davis
Sibley
Providence
Thomas Ford
Asyl
Jota Blair Haas
Q St. Ow
Charles Haydon
Hosp
Catherine Huhe
R St
Lucy F Johnson
Patterson At
Mary D. Jones
Mary J Kenpey
U St
Jine W Kyle
John Marshel
Mary Mahoney
Asyi
Charles Rogers
Ava
Nathan Thomas
Browns
Campaign planning noted before Cortelyou departs
The passage describes a forthcoming conference with the President and discussions with party leaders on campaign matters, mentioning an unrestricted possible membership number and a potential thirty men in the group. Cortelyou will meet in New York and hold talks with officials prior to his departure.
Jackson Renominated by Acclamation at Md Republican Rally
Ocean City Aug 4 Representa tive William Jackson was renominated by acclamation by the First District Republican convention There were no negroes in any of the delegations and only four in the audience The convention was called to order at 1 20 p m by Adlai P Barnes State central committee chair for Worcester County Henry M McCullough was named temporary and permanent chairman He urged credit to all legislators for the Republican fight and praised Roosevelt and Congress for laborers Jackson was nominated by Elmer H Walton His private secretary and A L Dryden spoke for him Robert R Walker was chosen presidential elector candidate in place of Isaac A Barber.
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Washington Post
Ocean City
William Jackson
Adlai P. Barnes
State Central Committee
Worcester County
Henry M. McCullough
Cecil County
William R. Reese
Somerset
Jackson
Elmer H. Walton
Wicomico County
A. L. Dryden
Republican State Central Committee
Robert R. Walker
Easton
Isaac A. Barber
John T. McGraw
Guyandotte
E. H. Fitch
Fitch
Census Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
M. D. Helmick
Pleasant County
Joseph Rosier
Marion County
Helmick
Lawrence A. Raumann
Wheeling
John J. Carniff
Raymann
Ohio County
Carniff
West Virginia
Anton Raymann
Robert 8. Carr
Charleston
Kanawha County
Bob
George W. Cargill
McGraw
Judge Parker
Davis
R. F. Kidd
Parker
Esopus
Davia
Resolutions Committee
John J. Davis
H W. Dent
Supreme Court of Appeals
Dent
Democrats
Henry E Gilmer
Greenbrier
Col. R. P. Chew
Jefferson
Lewis Bennett
Weston
Nominated Leaders in Multiple Congressional Primaries
In Democratic primaries across districts in Tennessee and Indiana several nominees were chosen. Finis Garrett won in the Ninth over Rice A. Pierce. Thetas W. Sims led the Eighth race over J. W. Lewis. Republican Judge Edward Higbe was nominated by acclamation in the First district of Missouri. Clyde Jones secured the Democrat nomination in Indiana Ninth. Judge M. L. F. Smyser was named by Republicans in Ohio Seventeenth.
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Finis Garrett
Rice A. Pierce
Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
Thetas W. Sims
J. W. Lewis
Frankfort
Ind
Clyde Jones
Crawfordsville
New Philadelphia
Ohio
M. L. F. Smyser
Wooster
Kansas fusion ticket fields full state slate
Democrats and Populists of Kansas announce a fused ticket for governor and other offices. DAVID M. DALE heads the ticket with M A Householder as lieutenant governor and JOHN H CURRAN as secretary of state. Other nominees include JOHN T LITTLE and H ALLEN for supreme court, THOMAS M DOWAN treasurer, MARTIN R HOWARD superintendent, W W WELLS attorney general, and F H CHASE railroad commissioner with J W Robinson the Republican choice for the aligned side.
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Topeka
Kans
David M. Dale
M. A. Householder
Johnn H. Curran
Supreme Court
John T. Little
H. Allen
Nicholson
Council Grove
Treasuran
Thomas M. Dowan
W. FH. McDonald
Publi
Martin R. Howard
W. W. Wells
John Stowell
Brady
F. H. Chase
J. W. Robinson
Representative Hall
Judge Waterbury
Emporia
Albert Griffin
Manhattan
Death of Capt. R. H. Davis in Richmond Home
Capt R H Davis formerly conductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and a prominent Mason died at the Soldiers Home in Richmond after leaving his home a month ago for care. He passed away yesterday and was buried here today. He served in the Confederate army and was a leading local business figure. He leaves two children.
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Washington
Clifton Forge
R. H. Davis
Richmond
Davis
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Third Ballot Ratifies West Virginia Democratic Platform
The gathering denounces Republican excesses in state government and calls for voter reform and honest elections. It endorses a constitutional convention for a new state constitution, supports tax equality, and stresses cooperation of capital and labor while promising to promote white supremacist policy in a discussed Lily White plank. The convention names John Cornwall and Bennett for governor as ballots unfold amid factional battles.
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Billy
Democratic Party
George E. Byrne
Kanawha
Lily White
West Virginia Democrats Name Cornwell for Governor
The Kanawha County convention showed Cornwell gaining strength as Thompson weakened. A tumult followed as Cornwell supporters rallied, and votes shifted to Cornwell, 658 to 258 for Thompson. John B. White urged unanimous support, and Cornwell rode to the platform amid cheers. The slate included William G. Peterkin for secretary of state, and William L. Mansfield for auditor, with Hosea Oxley declining to run.
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Bennett
Cornwell
Thompson
Hampshire
John B. White
United
Kanawha
Cabell
Greenbrier
William G. Peterkin
Andrew Jackson Wilkinson
Grafton
Stuart Walker
Martinsburg
Peterkin
Wiliam L. Mansfield
Wayne
B. H. Oxley
Washington
Mansfield
West Virginia tax bills shaped by committee actions
West Virginia legislature closes a three day adjournment amid deaths and a Democratic convention. Tax measures undergo revision by the Finance Committee including the general Meenge tax proposal and a new tax commissioner bill. Opponents fear proposed increases for saloons and breweries may be misaligned with the session call and threaten passage.
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Trumbo
Parkersburg
Committee On Taxation and Finance
Wellington may be invited to speeches in Baltimore
Special to The Washington Post from Baltimore Maryland August 4 Former Senator Wellington likely to be invited by Baltimore Republican leaders to address a Roosevelt and Fairbanks ratification meeting and possibly campaign in the state He remains a force in Western Maryland and has contributed to campaigns in the past He has not supported national politics since 1900 when he condemned McKinley’s imperial policy
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Washington P
Baltimore
Wellington
Fairbanks
Maryland
Broadway Institute
Bryan
McKinley
Campaign opening set for two Virginias rally in Richmond
The Washington Post reports enthusiastic plans for a August 17 notification meeting at Old White Springs to name Henry Davis as Democratic vice presidential candidate. Col. Joseph Button leads trip logistics. John Sharp Williams and John Goode expected to speak, with hundreds of Democrats traveling from across Virginia and Georgia for the event and related speeches.
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Washipaton
Richmond
Old White Springs
Henry
Davis
Virginias
Joseph Button
State Senate
United States
Old White
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Springs
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
John Goode
Georgia
Annexation Costs and Conflicts Highlight Hawaii Talk
Governor G C Carter of Hawaii criticizes annexation under U S rule noting non suited laws restrict land leases hindering agriculture and harbor dredging. He cites lost traffic and argues international revenue to the U S grows despite local costs. He mentions over 6 250 000 paid to the U S Treasury and total annexation cost at 4 000. Also, Judge D P Verner commits suicide in Greenville S C a leading state figure dies by his own hand.
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Sacramento
Cal
G. C. Carter
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Congress
Uncle Sam
Woman credits Dr. Pierce remedies for maternity pain
Mrs. Wesley Guy of Kemptville Ontario testifies to pain from chronic invalidism after childbirth. She describes relief using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and warns against substitutes, noting the product contains no alcohol or opiates and is recommended for stomach and bowel regulation with Pleasant Pellets.
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Wesley Guy
Kemptville
Ont
Bors
Erce
Yierce
Philippine Day at Exposition Sets Theme for August Observance
National Confectioners' Association pushes a national pure food law with subordinate groups urged to lobby Congress. Roosevelt family tours the World's Fair, with plans announced for August Philippines Day featuring Taft, Dewey, Chaffee, Merritt and Otis. Officers elected for confectionery groups and next meeting set for Put-in-Bay.
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National Confectioners’ Jobbers’ Association
Exposition
St. Louis
Theodore, Jr
Kermit
Roosevelt
Phillip Roosevelt
Alexander Russell
Washington
Pennsylvania
New York
Philippine Islands
United States
Taft
Admiral Dewey
Chaffee
Wesley Merritt
Otis
National
D. L. Morgan
Scranton
Confectioners’ Association
House of Representatives
Lyons Hanged for Murder in Paterson Jail
John Lyons was executed by hanging for the murder of John Christian, a silk mill night watchman in Paterson four years ago. Lyons sought a habeas corpus delay via Judge Pitney but no ruling was received. Allen, jailed for thirty years for his role, remains in prison.
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Paterson
N. J
John Lyons
John Christian
Lyons
William Allen
Pitney
Morristown
Firat
Justice Pitney
Suspect Cleared in Portage Hold-Up Case
Johnstown Pa August 4 Gaetaino Giampoli identified yesterday as a highwayman in the Hays killing and Campbell wounding was virtually cleared today. He worked for the Columbia Plate Glass Co Blairsville until Saturday noon and is under investigation. Pittsburgh August 4 Suspects under surveillance since Wednesday are thought not linked to the Payslmaster Campbell hold-up.</s>
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Portage
Johnstown
Gaetaino Giampoli
Altoona
Campbell
Hays
Columbia Plate Glass Company
Biairaville
Pittsbuts
Lmaster Campbell
Italan
Auto Collides With Train In Harrisburg Ohio
An automobile owned by R B Scott of Baltimore Maryland collided with a fast express on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton line at Harrisburg Ohio. Four men were in the car including EK B Wasson of Baltimore and Gus Behrens of Baltimore. Behrens driving was severely bruised. others injured as the car was demolished after striking the train tender. Separately eight Bt Laws Terminal Association operators at St Louis declined to handle Missouri Kansas and Texas business in sympathy with a strike, quitting work after brief warning.
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Toledo
Ohio
R. B. Scott
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Harrisburg
EK. B. Wasson
Gus Behrens
Charles Benner
Cleveland
Charles S. Scott
Cadiz
Lngine
Behrens
St. Louis
Bt ‘Laws Terminal Association
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Russians on Last Line at Port Arthur
Aug 4 dispatches from Niuchwang and Tokyo report Russian forces driven back to their final defenses around Port Arthur as Japanese artillery and 350 guns tighten the siege. Public expectation centers on a decisive assault and the fleet’s fate, with authorities seeking to minimize casualties during the assault under imperial guidance.
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Niuchwang
Port Arthur
Tokyo
Togo
Retreat Part of Plan German Report on Liaoyang
Berlin reports that German correspondents describe the Russian withdrawal as a preconcerted move to concentrate near Liaoyang for a major battle. The Japanese advance is seen as facilitating Russian concentration rather than exposing weakness.
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Lord Times
Washington Pits
Berlin
Liaoyang
Reopens Fiscal Campaign By Chamberlain In Nottinghamshire
London August 4 Joseph Chamberlain reopened the fiscal campaign addressing ten to twelve thousand in Welbeck Abbey riding school near Worksop. He argued grandfatherly misery stemmed from lack of employment not grain price and urged policy to boost employment and wages. He proposed import duties to favor agriculture and manufacturing including 50 cent per quarter on most grains, 5 percent on meat dairy products eggs and produce.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Welbeck Abbey
Duke of Portland
Worksop
Nottinghamshire
Relief Expedition Fails to Reach America on Frithjof
The Zeigler relief expedition aboard the Frithjof arrived at Varda Norway on July 3 while returning from the north. Ice and fog prevented progress toward America, and the Frithjof plans another voyage north with coal for the America. The America departed Trondhjem bound for Franz Josef Land on June 23, 1903.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Zeigler
Varda
Norway
Frithjof
America
Trondhjem
Franz Josef Land
Alaskan Boundary Survey Two Commissioners Head North
In Vancouver on Aug 4 two boundary commissioners from Canada and the United States traveled toward the North to inspect survey parties marking the Alaska Canada boundary. American commissioner is G H Titman of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Canadian representative is Prof W F King, chief astronomer. They will stay about two months. completion awaits next season.
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Vancouver
BH. C
Canada
Alaska
United States
G. H. Titman
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
W. F. King
North
Montana forest fires threaten towns and ranches
Kahispeil Montana Aug 4 Fourteen fires scorch the region along the Great Northern Railroad isolating Woaltefish and Columbia Falls cutting off telephones and destroying churches homes and crops. A new blaze near Dayton Creek threatens pine timber as forest supervisors battle the flames. Smoke veils sunlight as residents flee and await rain or reinforcements.
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Kahispeil
Mont
Great Northern
Woaltefish
Columbia Falls
Whitefish
Dayton Creek
Haines
Here
Seven drown when fishing tender capsizes near Annapoli Bar
Halifax Aug 4 seven of eight aboard a small tender from a stranded yacht drowned while attempting shore at Annapoli Bar near Bear Island. Only Vedito of Bear River survived. Victims include George Leach 46 manager at Nasonville Rhode Island. Capt Charles Hersey Digby. Mrs Vedito 30 Digby. Mrs O'Reilly 40 New York woman. her 13 year old son and a daughter. Name of the eighth victim not learned tonight.
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Halifax
Vedito
Bear River
George Leach
Nasonville
R. I
Charles Hersey
Digby
Veidito
O'Reilly
New York
Annapoli Bar
Bear Island
Death notices and obituaries across multiple cities
A series of obituaries and death notices dated Aug 4 from Washington Cann Asbury Park Columbus New London Sydney and Berlin report the deaths of notable figures. Highlights include Dr Orlando Brown brigadier general and physician aged 77, Edward Van Buren Hoes mining promoter aged 55, former Wis consin Gov James T Lewis at 83, landscape painter Robert Grannell Minor in Waterford aged 65, Sir George Richard Dibbs former premier of New South Wales, and pianist Ernest Jedlizka noted for American familiarity.
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Washington, Cann
Orlando Brown
United States Army
Litchfield County
Eighteenth
Massachusetts Volunteers
Newport News
James River
Twenty-fourth Regiment
United States Colored Troops
Thomas, Howard
Swayne
Bureau of Refuge and Freedom
Asbury Park
N. J
Edward . van Buren Hoes
Martin van Buren
United States
New London
Conn
Robert Grannell Minor
America
Europe
Waterford
New York City
Sydney
New South Wales
George Richard Dibbs
Berlin
Ernest Jedlizka
Jie
Torpedo Boat Sortie From Port Arthur Failures
Russian flotilla sorties from Port Arthur driven back by Japanese warships near harbor entrance. Reports also note ocean liner movements with arrivals at New York and Hamburg routes, including Patricix and Deutschland departures and arrivals aboard several liners.
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Port Arthur
Tokyo
New York
Patricix
Hamburg
Deutschland
Plymouth
Cherbourg
la Champagne
Havre
Liverpool
Avrania
Graf Woeldersas
Dover
Queenstows
Majestic
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Outlook
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Della Shaffer
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Charles H. Toulson
Mary S. Wayman
George Mayer
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Herndon
Nathaniel Live
Spout Spring
Margaret
Hancu K Willian L. Webb
Ill
Elizabeth Yeatman Johnston
Jesse Juan
Corn Dent
Clinton S. Dean
Anna BD. Long
Richester
Qiner Shu
Taton
John
Health Office Record
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W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Joseph Gawler
Pa. Ave
R. F. Harvey
John R. Wright
Tenth Street
Ae William Lee
Liveryn Connection
Pensylvania
George P. Zarhorst
Eemer
Capitol St
Newepaper Halhive
St. Joseph
Hannibal, Mo
Edward Higbe
Lancaster
Schuyler County
Kansas Fusion
Holt
Houston
Tex
Ine Holt
Eighth Congressional District
John M. Pinckney
Charlotte
N. C
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Wilkes County
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Indianapolis
Charles W. Fairbanks
Union, County
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Unionville Center
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R. A. Davis
First Pagh
Henry A. Davia
Republican Party
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Elkins
Dailey
Tokalo Wine Co
14Th St
West Virginia Legislature
Gov. Carter
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D. P. Verner
Greenville County
E. O. Reed
L. A. Bernhard
J. L. Swart
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N. Dasweetary
D. E. Alearn
Pittsburg
J. Martin Miller
Philadelphia
National Confectionery Salesman Association
E. G. Staley
Herbert A. Dodge
James A. Greaves
William C. Bidlock
William BR. Moffitt
W. E. Barker
W. H. McDowell
International Apple Shippers’ Convention
John T. Stimason
R. J. Graham
Belleville
Ontario
C. H. Weaver
Bellevite
A. Warren Patch
Boston
W. L. Wagner
Put-in-Bay
Dave Wolf
Oxfords
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Chamberlain
Alaskan Boundary Survey
Montana
Nova Scotia
Columbus
James T Lewis
Wisconaln
Newspaper
Dhf Hlyes
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