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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1908
Page
22
The article reports Democratic leaders urging Bryan supporters to donate for the campaign. It notes reactions from Eastern Republicans and Southern operatives, with emphasis on Bryan's stance on negro votes, the platform injunction, and anticipated impact on key states like Illinois Ohio and Louisiana. It mentions party figures such as James and debates over disenfranchisement, campaign strategy, and expected fundraising efforts.
President taft visits Bath County Virginia for a dedication of a new courthouse. He hails the judiciary and warns against unlimited power while praising free government. He greets locals, notes campaign energy, and discusses labor and publicity issues with fellow officials and supporters.
Information from the Navy Department confirms the death of Louis G Jacobser acting assistant surgeon 1st Class at Kings Daughters Hospital in Portsmouth Virginia. A native of Elia Wis he was appointed to the rank on January 3, 1903.
Prohibition national leaders announce Eugene W Chafin and Aaron S Watkins will tour the campaign. Chafin plans a July 21 rally in Evanston Michigan and a Pacific coast to New England route. Watkins will speak August 5 at Sylvan Dell Pars and travel from Ohio through the South and West to California before returning to Chicago.
Special to The Washington Post reports 2 year old Claude Wallen, a tailor from Roanoke, Va, found dead in his boarding house room in Norfolk. A pistol lay nearby and a bullet entered his temple, head in a pool of blood. Coroner Eight to conduct inquest. No note of self harm. Room rented by coroner without opening.
Exiled Guatemalans and Salvadoran émigrés in Mexico City allege President Cabrera funded the Roosevelt campaign to secure U S backing. They contest Prowe’s claims, cite Albany’s Pacific port visit, and warn of U S influence over Central American politics. Reports conflict on the donation amount, with figures ranging from 5000 to 10000 dollars.
A new law in Louisiana, effective today, makes it a four dollar misdemeanor to drink any intoxicating liquor on passenger trains or coaches, closets, vestibules, or platforms except during illness. The act also extends to stimulants taken with meals, and trainmen are vested with police authority to enforce it.
London July The king and queen received a large group of bishops including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Wissowon at Buckingham Palace. The bishops presented an address and the king graciously returned the gesture with cordial handshakes. The ceremony followed the Pin Abela Congress farewell audience and featured Archbishop Eaterbury reading the address.
A reader letter from Battle Creek Michigan describes how Grape Nuts and Jersey cream rebuilt a student’s health after overwork and poor food. The author, now a junior in college, credits improved vision and strength to the cereal and its nourishment, noting a strong desire to study and achieve an AM degree next year.
Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, offered no statements on political matters. He said any approval of the wet convention work would appear in the August American Federationist. Unions allied with the federation condemn his stance as he faces pressure over endorsing Bryan.
In New York City Socialist Labor party circles, Stokes and his brother in law Robert Hunter are set to run in separate contests. Stokes seeks the Assembly in the Ninth district while Hunter aims for Congress in the Tenth district, with Rose Pastor Stokes promising to campaign. The pair spend summers in Connecticut as organizers push mass meetings and cart campaigns led by Mrs Stokes under the campaign committee.
Government balloon experiments at Tort Omaha may be postponed to next spring due to an unfinished big balloon house and need for extra machinery for the hydrogen gas plant. Capt CF Chandle, in charge of the signal station, is pushing work amid gas inflation difficulties. Eleut FC Lahm, who won the balloon in England in 1906, is expected to participate in experiments.
Boston backers plan a passenger and freight airship service within eighteen months. The American Aerial Navigation Company, formed by Whipple Sears and Ogden, aims to manufacture and operate dirigible balloons across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with initial tests on small airships carrying the operator and a few passengers.
City Detective Richard Welly reports to the American representative of the international opium commission that opium use in Pittsburgh is confined largely to thieves gamblers immoral women physicians and ministers. The study claims about a percent of physicians are addicted, while Dr Lawrence Litchfield rejects the notion that five percent of Pittsburgh physicians are opium eaters, noting professionals are more prone than laborers but the claims seem exaggerated.
Mrs Taabena Warner widow of Dr John Warner, winner of a suit to set aside an ante nuptial contract, today received 190000 as the first distribution payment. A 4000 transfer went to daughter Minnie Warner Mettle, while a similar distribution to Arabela Warner Bell was postponed as she returns from a Western tour. A recent Supreme Court ruling involving Vespas'an Warner, pensions commissioner, affirmed the lower court, increasing the widow's total by about 250 90.
Florence Schenck, horsewoman, claims on arrival at New York that she is wife of C H E Wilson, manager of Vanderblit stable. Wilson declines to confirm or deny. Mrs Gibbons supports the claim, stating marriage occurred in Paddington on May 8. The ship Minnehaha carried both Wilson and Schenck, and they departed with questions unresolved.
President Roosevelt spent the day at Sagamore Hill finalizing a speech for delivery before the general naval board at Newport War College. He plans to board the Mayflower yacht late tomorrow and return to Sagamore Hill for Thursday breakfast while Secretary Loeb dismisses rumors of a naval board shake up.
Mrs Gussie Benson driven by ill health and fear for her two young children took her family to the East River and perished with them. Their bodies were recovered near the ferryboat, and authorities believe she leapt from a ferry with the two children. The family had lived on a South Dakota farm before returning to New York City.
Lieut Guy Burr died in Manila on July 20 from wounds suffered July 16 during an assault on Outlaws at Cota on Mindanao. Burr and Lieut Whitney commanded a detachment of constabulary at Costa where Uyan outlaw resistance occurred. fourteen outlaws were killed and two captured.
Dr Miles Nerine touted to soothe nerves and restore energy. Testimony claims an eighteen year old girl stopped fits after two months of use. Springfield Mass buyer notes first bottle failed then benefited, with money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co.
The Dog Owners Association invites members and friends to a meeting Friday July 24 at 8 pm in the Brentano building at Twelfth and F streets northwest courtesy of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. President Edward Glare urges unity for the defense of dogs rights and property. Bring loyalty and 1776 spirit.
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