Taft Opens 1912 Campaign Attacks Insurgents in Mass Speech
President Taft launches the 1912 campaign in Hamilton Massachusetts denouncing insurgent Republicans and Democrat leaders who backed tariff revisions. He accuses Underwood Clark La Follette and allies of logrolling and defends a tariff board while pledging to seek revisions after its December report. He praises Massachusetts leaders and appeals to veterans to vote on national values.
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Stricken at the throttle on Newport excursion train
In Willimantic Connecticut on August 26 the engineer of a Central Vermont excursion train carrying thirteen coaches of returning Newport excursionists was unconscious at the throttle for miles from Lebanon to Windham. The fireman halted the train at Windham and revived the engineer who then continued to the destination. It is believed the man fainted from heat before reaching Lebanon.
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Newport
Lebanon
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Midlothian Turnpike
Blankenship
Kermit Roosevelt Ends Hunt With Desert Trophy Trip
Kermit Roosevelt, son of a former president, returned home to Yuma after a two week Sonora desert hunting trip. He left for the East last night with four Mexican sheep trophies.
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Ariz
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Kermit Roosevelt
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Beattie Trial Brings Dramatic Gun Moment to Chesterfield
Chesterfield Court hears dramatic scene as Beattie’s defense fights to keep his links to a revolver from evidence while jurors inspect the car at the scene. Detectives test the exploded shell and bloodstains as eight high school boys recount passing a machine with a woman on the running board.
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Washington Post
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Hare
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Luther L. Soherer
Secret Service
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Harry M. Smith
Paul Beattie
Wea
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Banker's Clerk Identifies Woman as Forger in Check Scam
Miss Mary L. Boas, a 48 year old boarding house keeper of 42 Matreet NW, is jailed on a forged check charge after Albert S. Carter of W. B. Hibbs & Co. identified her as Florence Morse who passed a nil amount check. Police plan further identifications as victims confront her at the house of detention.
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Park Road
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Bibbs & Co
Wreck Wows Rochester With Rail Defect Fatality Toll
A Philadelphia express wreck on the Lehigh Valley line at Canandaigua trestle leaves 27 dead and 70 plus wounded. Officials say a defective rail caused the disaster and the train was not speeding beyond 25 mph. Investigators report no dereliction of duty by officials.
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Manchester
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Hill
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Public Service Commission
Eight Held for Murder in Coatesville Lynching
In Weat Chester Pa on August 24, three men and five youths accused of participating in the mob that burned Zechariah Walker at Coatesville were given hearings and committed to prison without bail on murder riot and incitement charges. Norman Price testified as the principal witness. the lynching narrative was repeated with few new details.
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Panic at Cannonsburg Theater Kills 26 in Stampede
At Morgan opera house Cannonsburg Pennsylvania a fuse blew during a picture show triggering a deadly panic. About 700 spectators in the second floor hall surged into a narrow stairway trapping nearly a thousand people, many women and children. Rescuers pulled bodies and injured from the stairwell as relatives fought to reach victims. Names of the dead and injured are listed, with a note that the incident continued on the third page.
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Cannonsburg
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Canonsburg
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Harry Kelly
Houston
Earl Kelly
Kelly Adolph Butfeleey
Walter Nish
Wolcott
Ites
George K
Paul Mestic
Frank Syberoski
Tony Gledish
Sydney Rittier
Callis Young
Klegs
Murray Hill
Wilbur Lane
Nellie Meckettrick
Gren
Weaveratown
French aviator breaks Michelin cup long distance record
Mourmelon August 26 M Helles a young French aviator today broke the record for a single long distance flight in competition for the Michelin cup He covered 1203 kilometers 746 miles in fifteen hours The previous Michelin cup record was Jules Vedrines last year with 80 kilometers 496 8 miles in 7 hours 56 minutes 36 seconds Helles flew over a measured course and landed at Chalons sur Marne
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Jules Vedrines
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Chalons-sur-Marne
Evansville Youth Confesses Family Murders Over Marriage
William Lee, 22, admitted killing his father Richard, mother, and brother Clarence and setting their Boonville home ablaze to hide the crime. He planned to marry Mina Taylor of Newbury, sought funds for a home, and was soon taken to Jeffersonville reformatory to avert mob violence.
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Richard Lee
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Davis
Lee
Mina Taylor
Newbury
State Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Fron
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Ten Die As Car Carries 33 In Consett Choir Crash
Newcastle reports ten killed near Consett when a large car carrying 33 passengers from the Consett Cooperative Society's choir ran away on a hill brakes failed and it struck a tree. Six of the victims were women. The accident halted a singing contest journey. Victims include members of the choir and the crash occurred on a steep descent.
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