Taft Campaign Tour Sets Tone in Hot Springs Speech
Weat Virginia reports Taft’s Hot Springs address will mark his first major salvo since acceptance remarks. He will answer Bryan’s “Shall the people rule?” query and argue Republican anti trust efforts contrast with Democratic moves. Taft enjoys campaigning, though long rail tours are grueling. Local officials say West Virginia is secure for Taft. a Cincinnati rally leader criticizes Poraker, while horse market chatter swirls around Gen Edwards’ sought campaign mount.
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Taft
Bryan
South
Watt
Cincinnati
New York
Indiana
Rhode Island
Iam
Vermont
Issours
West Virginia
William S. Edwards
Charleston
W Va
Virginia
Baltimore
Maryland
Virgina
Fraud in Campaign Buttons Raise Brooklyn Fraud Ring
Thousands of Democratic campaign buttons from 1896 and 1900 were sold to Brooklyn shopkeepers, bringing in about 5000 dollars. The emblems feature Bryan with Sewell and Bryan with Stevenson, but lack captions clarifying the portraits, allowing mis identification by shopkeepers and hinting at a fraud scheme detected by police.
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New York
Brooklyn
Bryan
Sewell
Stevenson
iKern
Offer Big Horses for Taft Campaign
General Clarshre I Ward, in charge of insular affairs, receives daily letters from horse owners offering mounts for William H. Taft. The letters stem from a widely printed story that Ward has been commissioned to purchase horses for the Republican presidential candidate.
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Edwards
Clarshe IL Eiwards
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Insular Affairs
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Iidwards
Marriage and Death Notices Across Newspapers
Notice text describes how marriage and death notices in The Washington Post may appear in multiple morning papers without extra charges, listing newspapers such as Cincinnati Enquirer Pittsburg District Boston Globe Providence Journal Buffalo Courier Herald St Louis Republic Plain Dealer and others.
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Ergulier
Pittsburg
Boston
Globe
Providence Journal
Buffalo Center
Er Herale
Herall
St. Louis Republic
Ad Plain Dealer
Flower Press
Work Times
Ienerpista Post Standard
Barrett Funeral Acknowledges Dies in Daingerfield
Barrett died August 1 after brief illness at Providence Hose House. She was in her seventeenth year. Funeral from residence on Four and a Half Street Southwest Friday. Interment Congressional Cemetery. Local Baltimore notices indicate numerous funeral directors listed with addresses and contact numbers.
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al Providence Hose
Puneral
Santtwest
Congressional Cemetery
Baltimore
Advises Support Of Taft In Racial Politics
The National Christian Congress Association urged colored voters to back the Taft ticket and Republican nominees, arguing unity within the party and citing Lincoln era gains. President Rev RB Robinson led the address at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church with delegates from 36 states.
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National Christian Congress Association
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Garfield
McKinley
Republican Party
Brownsville
United States Congress
Wm. J. Bryan
White House
Benman, Vardaman
Jeff Davis
Arkansas
South
Southland
North
Association
R. D. Robinson
James Tillery
Tlarcy
J.” Williams
T Mobinson
MES
Eva J. Mouser
Bryan committee splits over daily paper plan
The Bryan committee of 100 in Bryan, led by s. Field, held a lively meeting to form working subcommittees but debates rose over a proposed daily paper to back the Democratic ticket. Lloyd T. McGill proposed the plan, and it passed by a large majority amid tensions over loyalties and a potential split ticket involving George W. Yellott and Talbott. Annapolis officers are reassigned to the Asiatic squadron and Potts of St. Louis dies in Frederick City Hospital at 43.
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Bryan
S. Field
Lance
Lloyd T. McGillir
McGill
George W. Yeltatt
Baltimore County
Talbott
Yellott
Charles Fendall
George D. Potts
Washington Prat
Trefferick
George Dunlap Potts
St. Louis
Frederick City, Hospital
Bright
Richard Potts
Injunction Sought Over Arlington School Project in Alexandria
Arlington County school trustees and contractors Morris and Schuring face a circuit court injunction filed by James B. Clemente, county superintendent of public schools, alleging construction on Fort Myer Heights uses obsolete plans and omits required bids. Hearing set for Monday at 10 a.m. before Judge J. B. T. Thornton. The suit also notes Morris’s board membership blocks his bid and claims indemnification by Crandal Mackey, with the bond set at 6000 dollars.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Bartet
Alexandria
Arlington
Alexandria County
John F. Morris
H. Schuring
Alexandria ‘County
James BR. Clemente
Fort Myer , Heights
J. B. T. Thornton
William H. Palmer
Sherif Howard Field
Thornton
Mr. Clements
State Board of Education
Morris
Crandal Mackey
Commonwealth
Morris and Schuring
Clements
Preacher in Melon Trade Involved in Assault Case
Special to The Washington Post reports Rev. S. M. Shipman, the minister beaten by Mr. Carew, remains at Hurlock and does not preach while pending church authorities hearing. He helps with cantaloupe buyers and odd jobs around the station, bearing head wounds and declines to discuss guilt, contemplating a switch to farming.
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Washington Post
S. M. Shipman
Carew
Hurlock
Oscar Hurst
Shipman
Boy kills father in Edgecomb county tragedy
Tarboro North Carolina reports a family murder attempt where Logan James vowed to kill his family. His 15 year old son shot him during the crisis, an ox attack by another child occurred, and the coroner declared the boy who fired as likely jailed after today’s inquest.
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Logan James
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Burglars Loot House Near Keedysville
Two masked men forced entry into the home of Jacob P. Blank, a bed ridden paralytic, in Keedysville area. They struck Mrs. Blank, searched a locked desk, and escaped with $4, two $100 bills and $60 in gold after Birdie Griffith, 18, jumped from a second story window to raise the alarm. Local tracks point toward Eakle's Mills.
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Hagerstown
Jacob P. Blank
Keedysville
Held for wife desertion in Richmond arrest to York
Richmond officer detains George B Billet on wife desertion charge and plans his return to York Pa. He allegedly left his wife to elope with Miss Mabel Zortman. Billet is brother of a Portsmouth baseball team member. The case emerged after a letter from the Pennsylvanian relative.
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Washington Post
Richmond
George B. Billet
York
Billet
Portsmouth
Pennsylvania
Mabel Zortman
Hillet
Louise Hobbs Marries After Lord Douglas Desertion
Miss Louise Hobbs, former wife of the claimed bigamist Lord Reginald Douglas, wed Hubert Halloway after a whirlwind courtship. Douglas deserted her in Mexico, and she returned to Virginia with a baby born in Texas. She resumed Hobbs name after divorce. The piece notes Douglas’s alleged prior marriages and disappearance. Also reports Allan Valentine’s son shot accidentally at Powhatan county and Lawrence Groner’s nomination for Congress at Norfolk with Roosevelt-leaning resolutions.
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Louise’ Hobbs
Reginald Douglas
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Halloway
Lamberts Point
Lord Douglas
Louise Hobbs
Portsmouth
Douglas
Wrante
California
Mite Hood
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Memorials to be unveiled at Cedar Mountain
Culpeper Virginia August 20 A granite and bronze marker will be unveiled in the national cemetery to honor officers and soldiers who fell at Cedar Mountain August 9 1862 during a reunion of Confederate veterans under A P His Camp No and Culpeper Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy. The ceremony will include Sons of Veterans and survivors of the Seventh Ohio infantry, a monument to Col Charles T Crittenden of the Thirteenth Virginia infantry, Culpeper minute men and a Charlottesville brass band with a picnic dinner for several thousand attendees.
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Milk Trust Hearing Postponed One Day in Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission trial on September 7 in Chicago for several milk price and shipping cases against Beatrice Creamery, Fairmont Creamery, Blue Valley Creamery and others. Complaints accuse Illinois Central, Michigan Central and Pacific Express of unjust discriminatory rates and failure to issue return bills of lading for empty cream pails.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Fairmont Creamery Company
Hindis Central
Blue-Valley Creamery Company
Michigan Central
Fairmont Creamery Com
Pacific Express Company
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Health Office Record Deaths Harv y W Jobson and Others
Health Office records list multiple deaths with sparse details. Names include Harvey W Jobson aged 67 and others connected to Sherman Avenue and Providence, McLean or similar institutions. Hospital mentions appear with emergency and government facilities, ages range in 28 to 67, with locations and wards partially noted.
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Tin
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Tohnson
Myrtle
Given
Hmergensy Hospital
Naltie
A. Hayden
Wiliam
Lied
Washington
Arghum
Pabigmta Johnson
St. Sy
Thoms Butler
Ingane
Berryville Horse Show Ends With Tragedy and Thrills
Berryville Va August 2 marks the final day of the Berryville barge show where riders pluckily recovered after George Page was thrown and finished third. The event featured many classes from heavy draft to green hunters and the death of C B Clapp’s blue ribbon stallion Hiawatha cast a pall, yet riders and spectators enjoyed the gentle morning shower and cool weather as horses dazzled in Ladies Park Saddle and qualified hunters events.
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Hiawathe
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Claus
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Richard Hoi
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Norfolk police arrest suspect in docked Henderson case
Norfolk Va ag report says the arrested man in Henderson not Strong but a double of the Portsmouth murder victim Police Officer Winningder. Chief Tynen and Detective Broughton return from Portsmouth. Special grand jury and term planned for Oscar Perry alias Henry Smith trial on assault of Mrs Catherine Powell.
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Express agent arrested in Covington Virginia
Special to The Washington Fest reports T. M. Radford assistant agent for the Adams Express Company was arrested by Special Agent J. I. Scherer of the transportation department on a charge of stealing 400 dollars from the company. Nearly all the money was recovered. Radford did not feel in danger and made no attempt to flee.
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T. M. Radford
Adams Express Company
J. 1. Scherer
Transportation Department
Typhoid linked to Henrietta Howison in Richmond
Health officers in Richmond and the county dispute typhoid totals as they investigate Henrietta Howison, a colored servant alleged to have spread typhoid in several households over nearly two years. The case follows a similar historic report in Manhattan and triggers tensions over epidemic data and city county cooperation.
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Richmond
Henrietta Howison
Health Department
Lucy Smith
New York
Manhattan Island
Board of Supervisors
Walter H. Grant
Grant
Wife shoots husband in Finney fatality near Honaker
Special to The Washington Port reports a fatal shooting at Finney near Honaker. Edward Cook argued with his wife and threatened her with a knife. The wife fired pointblank with a shotgun, wounding Cook fatally in the face. Several Cook family members have been shot or killed in recent years, including his brother Henry who served time in the state penitentiary for murder and was killed nearby in Buchanan County.
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Honaker
Finney
Edward Cook
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Henry
State Penitentiary
Buchanan County
School chief to resign Anne Arundel post to take West
Reports from Annapolis state that Prof Harry B R Wallis, over two years head of Anne Arundel public schools, will resign soon and seek a position in the West. Neither Wallis nor school board President Melvin would confirm the rumor, noting his prior roles at Annapolis High School and as an alumnus of Dickinson College.
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Harry BR. Wallis
Anne Arundel
West
Wallis
Melvin
Dickingen College
Annapolis High School
Murder Charge Signals Return of Samuel Johnson to Virginia
Harrisburg reports Gov Swan son of Virginia issued a requisition for the return to Virginia of Samuel Johnson a colored man arrested in Philadelphia for the July 2 murder of Rhoads Watson. Johnson was moved to Philadelphia after the incident and faces a Virginia murder charge.
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Stuart Loday
Swanson
Virginia
Samuel Johnson
Philadelphia
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