Iowa Republicans brace for Taft win amid Cummins fight
Special to The Washington Past Des Moines Iowa Aug 23 says Iowa will back Taft for president while a heated Senate battle over Cummins unfolds. Democrats unite behind Bryan and Haugen counters, farmers back Taft amid anti injunction debates, while labor and railroad workers tilt cautious. County surveys predict Taft victory with a sizable but uncertain Senate outcome.
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Des Moines
Nebraska
Washington
Wien
Cleveland
Towa
Harrison
Tts
Ilinois
Missouri
Lewt Carroll
Frederick White
Carroll
Wlate
Cummins
Walter E Smith
Council Bluffs
Fitzhugh to asylum as 11 year old bride's plea shared
Special to The Washington Post Baltimore Md Aug 23 Rev George Fitzhugh aged rector of St Barnabas Curtis Bay taken to Spring Grove Asylum for the Insane with his 11 year old ward Virginia Frazier returned to Albemarle County Va. Lena Fitzhugh will move from the rectory as the crowd bids farewell. Dr Horton says the patient may be cured, though his mental strain has been severe. Also an Niagara Falls excursion advertised with special train from Baltimore and Washington aboard standard coaches and parlor cars.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
George Kitzhugh
St Barnabas Episcopal Church
Curtis Bay
Lulu
Virginia Frazier
Spring Grove Asylum
Albemarle County
Lena Fitzhugh
Fitzhugh
Spring Grove
Horton Tomeht
The Fitzgerald Subtreasury Theft Arrest in Chicago
Chicago aug 23 the mystery of the 173000 vault heist from the united states subtreasury is tied to george w fitzgerald an ex teller arrested after months of secret service work. investigators say others may be involved, with motive linked to speculative debts and a lavish but steady rise in wealth before his discharge.
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Chicago
United States
George W Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
William Boldenweck
Congress
Treaurer Boldenneck
Herbert Young
Secret Service Agency
Boldenneck
Agalion Fitzgerald
Mr Young
Rogers Park
Young
Offa
Harry C Gane
A Booth & Co
Boldenweck
Col ‘Gano
Gano
Broldenweet
Col Gano
Young Gays
Treasury
Raida
Itta
F C Russell
Russell
Telier
Fitzgeralds
Washington
Thomas Forter
United States Secret Service
Willie
John E Willie
Fitgerald
Sittzgerald
Atm
Pitegerald
Friends Liang
Sie
Snake Bite On Head Takes Life Threatening Toll
William Thompson an 18 year old from 1003 C street southwest was bitten on the head by a snake near Chain Bridge while asleep in a tent on the Virginia side of the Potomac. He was brought to Georgetown University Hospital with his head swollen and was treated with strychnine as antitoxin was deemed ineffective.
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William Thompson
Gemp
Chain Bridge
C Street
Virginia
Potomac River
Georgetown University Hospital
Thompson
Eugene R Wood
H Street
Southern Railway
Georgetown
Woods
Shad
Wood
Hte
Panama Canal Report on Worker Welfare and Progress
The commission’s Panama Canal report highlights housing feeding and health as key to efficiency, notes high worker health and morale, and outlines progress with 2.33 million cubic yards excavated monthly in winter and substantial equipment use. It covers recommendations for simplified wages injury compensation and praises Colonel Goethals’ administration. The president’s letter commends the study and urges prompt implementation where feasible.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
James Bronson Reynolds
Samuel B Donnelly
Henry Bern Needham
Panama
George W Goethals
Fathmian Canal Commission
Col Goethals
Congress
la Boca
Pacific
Cristobal
Caribbean
Taboga
Lifa
Pdzama Canal
Gar
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Goethals
Col. Goethals
Pananm Canal
Isthmian Canal
Canal Enterprise
Department of Sanitation
Department of Municipal Engineering
Building Department
Dradges
New York
Isthmian Canal Commission
Parama
Panama Railroad Company
Thiri
Atlantic City Defies Law and Saloons Stay Busy
Special to The Washington Fuo reports Atlantic City defied state law as saloons and cafes flourished despite a grand jury session and a Supreme Court order for indictments. Gov Fort insisted compliance while reformers gathered evidence of Sunday rum sales. prosecutors operated from Longport and police claimed ignorance of the excise breach.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Supreme Court
Trenchard
Gov Fort
Goldenbure
Grand Jury
Tke
Longport
Woodruff
Lawa
President Praises Col Goethals For Canal Showing
The President expresses satisfaction with Col Goethals and congratulates him on the canal project’s progress. Investigators credit the spirit of good will and loyalty among workers, inspired by the chief engineer’s accessibility, with enabling the United States to achieve what prior administrations failed to accomplish.
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United States
Panama Canal Commission Report Praises Administration
The commission lauds Col Goethals and team for rapid progress on the Isthmus, noting superb sanitation, housing, and health improvements. It highlights morale, eight hour law enforcement, and calls for wage simplification, a labor secretary, and better injury relief while praising government as a model employer.
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Isthmian Canal Commission
É&C
Leperknows Doom and Faith Shape a Life Story Reporter
A man living with leprosy tells a reporter his life and travels, declaring a living death yet vowing not to let fate weigh on him. He cites his wife and child as his greatest concern, and expresses alarm at the numbers he has disclosed.
The Leper of Washington A World War Veteran’s Last Days
John R Barry born in Yancey County North Carolina served as private in the Fifth Infantry. He sailed to Cuba Manila and San Francisco, faced illness and quarantine, returned home to Weaverville then reenlisted, served until 1906, married Miss Settle Larmaur, joined Salvation Army work in New York, later diagnosed as a leper in Washington. He lived in a Salvation Army tent near the crematorium, guarded and isolated, reading a book as sunset bathed the camp.
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Yancey County
North Carolina
Atlanta
Galveston
Florida
Cuba
Santiago
General Hospital
Weaverville
N Cy
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Manila
Rake Son
Vigan
Abra
San Francisco
bin Home
Knoxville
Columbus
Ohio
Vagy
Plattsboro Barracks
Fifth Infantry
Plattsburg
Army
Winchester
Boston
Larmaur
Miss Settle L
Troy
Salvation Army
Granville N. Y
Salvation
Oswego NX
Canton NC
Champion Fiber Works
Canton
Lynn N. Co
Lynn
Washington
Southern Railway
Pennsylvania Avenue
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