Washingtons Coast Voters Favor Taft Amid Pacific Prosperity
A 1908 Washington Oregon California perspective argues Pacific coast voters lean Republican for Taft. It cites local prosperity, protectionism, and skepticism of Bryan's tariff and Asiatic labor planks. Leprosy notes discuss disease origins, transmission, and evolving treatment in colonial contexts.
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Pavifle
Washington
Oregon
California
Sicily
Spain
Australia
Argentina
France
United States
Bryan
Reol
Taft
The Post Ad Offers Widely Follow Readers
Washington readers may keep informed about Capital affairs as they move. The Post offers national delivery with flexible address changes, and invites readers to send orders directly, noting telephone contact.
Emotional Murder and Emotional Insanity in High ProfileCases
The article reviews historical murder trials, praising defense attorney John Graham for pioneering emotional insanity pleas that secured acquittals in landmark cases like Sickles Key and others. It contrasts earlier success with later limits, noting the Thaw case shifted views, and argues for locking away offenders via asylum rather than prolonged trials.
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Daniel E. Sickles
Philip Barton Key
John Graham
New York City
Raham
Graham
King David
Abner
McFarlin
Richardson
Tina
Thaw
Durance
Whaw
Great political changes in American life noted in Kanoas City Journal
The Kanoas City Journal observes a shift in American politics from fierce partisan battles to remarkable calm. It recalls Civil War era foes, Whigs and Democrats, and how party animosity once endangered the republic, now replaced by widespread indifference and equanimity among voters and leaders.
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Kanoas
Republic
Bilow
World's Oldest Lawsuit Ends in Oaxaca Settlement
A three century dispute between Yodocome and Nunwoyer over boundary land in Oaxaca has been settled. The case, featuring land grants from the colonial era and enmity between towns, was reviewed by Porfirio Diaz's father and finally dismissed after extensive conferences and examination of ancient records.
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lGlty of
Mexico
Philadelpha
Feourts
State of
Oaxaca
Yodocome
Nunw‘oyer
Porfirio Diaz
Diaz
Extraordinary San Antonio Mayor Called Nation’s Most Notable
The Baltimore American quotes Capt B B Harcourt praising San Antonio Mayor Bryan Callaghan. The piece highlights his 26 year tenure, education in France, wide open policy views, liberal white support, and a colorful portrayal of voter enthusiasm and local customs amid a broader digression on 17th century Constantinople and Turkish courtesy.
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Baltimore American
San Antonio
United States
Capt
B. B. Harcourt
Alamo City
Bryan Callaghan
France
Montezuma
Woman Falling Down Stairs Ends in Death at Home
Mrs Catherine Malone 62 of South Norwalk Connecticut died after walking in her sleep then pitching head first down a flight of seventeen stairs at her home at 1 am yesterday. Doctors pronounced death after arrival and noted a skull fracture and possible neck injury.
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Rota
New York American
Catherine Malone
South Norwalk Gonn
BR. M. Wolfe
ABYOR
Heir to Baronetcy Fpruper at Death and Royal Ambitions
A long obituary note on John Cakdwell Lees, aristocrat by birth, who dies in a Dover lodging house. It traces his line through Sir Harcourt James Lees and details the precarious fortunes of baronets, with examples of titles held by impoverished heirs. It also recounts Sir Henry Echlin’s move to run a village inn and the fate of related families, plus a vignette on Moy Castle and the Mackintosh line and their historic ties to Jacobite history.
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John Cakdwell Lees
Dover
England
America
Sir Harcourt James Lees
Reat
Marquis of Granby
Germany
Ireland
Tok Tim
Dublin
Black Rod
Diablin
Ofice
Order
Hig
Sir Henry Echlin
Bledion
Buckinghamshire
Seven ‘Stars
Echiin
Sir Henry
London
Geral Aylmer
Donadea
County ‘Kildare
Second Life Guards
Liverpool Police
Court of Exchequer of
Emerald Isle
James
Echlin
Down
Connaughtis
Belfast
Edenderry
County Kildare
Midland Railroad
Bernard Norton
Ann Arbor
Mich
Australagia
New Zealand
Queensland
Victoria
Australian Commonwealth
United States
United Kingdom
Moy
Moy Castle
Prince of Wales
Mackintosh
Atlantic
Legislative Council of
Canada
Maycastle
Prince Charles
Edward Stuart
Culloden
Lord Loudoun
Inverness
Lachlan
James VI
Scotland
Aeneas Mackintosh
George III
Max
Wiliam
David, Bishop
Murray
Hig Bean
Mackintoshes
FonTenor
Cupyzlent
Brentwood Company
Ghostly Visitor Haunts Grent View House on the Hudson
In Grent View near South Nyack New York Herald reports an uncanny ghost sits upright on a sofa in daylight and moves through the Higuvelts home. Mrs Blauvelt and butler Correlus Radcliffe have endured repeated disturbances over the past two months with doors opening and lights turning on. The apparition resembles late Mr Collins, longtime resident and builder of the house, whose ghost is said to haunt the estate now owned by his heirs.
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Reinet
Hiya
Rethhaus
Lungomaster
Kaiser
Berlin
Ag Delat
Voigt
Fromm
Koepenick!4
Dead Sea
Hudson
New York Herald
Grend View
South Nyack
Nothme
J.M. Higuvelt
Blauvetty
Hudson Valley
Blauvett
Cor Relius Radcliffe
John
Collins
Mr. Collins
Divorce in South Dakota is to be decided by upcoming election
The Boston Transcript notes South Dakota faces a referendum on its lax divorce laws. It highlights the Sioux Falls pattern of easy residence and newspaper notice requirements, the six month residency rule tightened to a year, and the revenue motive driving lawyers and hotels despite calls for reform. It also cites a Kansan City Journal report on Japanese workers in Wichita packing plants, noting four of 409 remained after 30 days and arguing Americans’ brains plus the Japanese equal lack of heavy labor capability.
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Boston Transcript
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Kansas City
Doid
Wichita
Johnson
Behind the Scenes in the Boss’s Car Ride
From the New York World a rail of reckless speed shows a driver narrating a joyride with the boss away. The speaker recounts speeding through Baltimore and Shenck, smashing a leaf spring and casing, while promising further daring stunts before the boss returns.
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New York World
Casey's
Baltimore
The Modern Walton and a Aortic Aneurism Note
A humorous tribute to Ike Walton Jr compares his hobbies with a modern name sake and literary imagery. Detroit details report John Galvin's successful electrical treatment for aortic aneurysm at Grace Hospital following a chest injury from a falling plank near Monroe Michigan. The operation used a hollow needle and silver wire with 15 feet of conductor delivering electricity to coagulate blood in the aneurysm and yielded hopeful recovery prospects.
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Detroit Dispatch
New Herald
John Galvin
Detroit
Grace Hospital
Galvin
J. Mary's Academy
Monroe
Mich
HE. L. Obetz
Gnats vanquished by fish in Caribbean tale
Maj Hodder suggests Barbados stay free of malaria because fish called minnows eat gnats at larval stage. Jamaicans Colon people and British Guiana settlers imported gnats to eradicate them. Africans and Italians also use minnows to fight disease and insect sources.
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Rota
Maj. Hodder
Barbados
Antilles
Maj. Hodner
Colon
British Guiana
Africa
Hero miner saved twelve in shaft by steady hand
Sidney Rowland, engineer at Little Oak coal mine in Betleville, stood at his post as a steam lever controlled a descent cage carrying twelve miners. A steam pipe burst and a jet of steam scorched his arm, but his grip kept the cage from dropping to the bottom, sparing all lives. The Springners union credits him with a medal for valor.
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Koepenick
Carlyle
Europe
William Voigt
Voigt
Springners Union
Carnegie Medale
Sidney Rowland
Little Oak Coal Ming
Aonistguté
Rowland
Septembers Elections Predictive Lean Of Vermont and Maine
The Boston Giobs analyzes September presidential election results in Maine and Vermont as indicators of national Republican enthusiasm. It notes historical Maine outcomes, including 1880s and 1900s pluralities, and outlines Vermont trends ranging from 28,503 in 1880s to 33,391 in 1896 and declines in 1900. The piece contends next Tuesday’s Vermont vote will signal resistance to Bryan’s candidacy.
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Boston
Vermont
Maine
Grover Cleveland
Lamer G. Blaine
Benjamin Harrison
Bryan
Views of Visitors In Washington on Cuba and Politics
In Raleigh Gen. Calixto Garcia says Cuba is politically satisfactory under Roosevelt but financially strained as the island faces rising living costs and scarce money. He warns against foreign capital reliance, calls for tariff and reciprocity revision, and opposes yellow fever quarantines as Havana’s sanitation deemed excellent. Also reported: H L Burns praises Mesabe region farming, Minnesota opportunity, and winter work. political opinions from W J Oliver and a Newark G A R party visit to Gettysburg.
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Cubas
Calixto Garcia
Raleigh
Roosevelt
United States
Nature Life Enterprises
Bie
New Jersey
New York
Cuba
Gen. Garcia
Washington
Havana
National Prison Boards
Mansfield
Ohio
War Wright
Mesabe Range
H. L. Burns
Sparta
Minn
St. James
Steel Corporation
Owas
Minnesota
Burns
Taft
Gov. Johnson
William J. Olver
Knoxville
Tenn
Patt
Tennessee
Patterson
Oliver
South Carolina
Sherman
Real Rainstorm Deluge Floods Bohlo Area
The New York Tapune notes a heavy rainstorm at Bohlo lasting 2:20 to 6:30 pm, dumping 7.62 inches in three hours with 4.50 inches in one hour and 1.15 inches in ten minutes. Despite the downpour, workers continued at the ble canal, untroubled by the deluge.
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New York
Bohlo
Ble Canal
Twins of Twinburg puzzle science with name hints
Ywriveburg Correspondences reports Twinsburg Hag reveals a village famed for five sets of twins among about 20 souls. The piece notes a historic name origin tied to the Wheox twins and early settlers, inviting scientific theory without asserting a single explanation.
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Ywriveburg
Columbus Dispatch
Twinsburg
Wheox Twins
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Oklahoma
Crandon
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Chattanooga
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al Lélew
Chicago
Helen Maroney
Corgate
Constantinople
Mike
Walton
The
Chicago Post
Ike Walton, Jr
Virginia
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Gettysburg
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Twinburg
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