Taft in War Priat Roosevelts Name Used in Ohio Fight
Cincinnati March 3. Charles P Taft editor of the Cincinnati Times Star announces in Tafts name that Foraker's proposition is accepted and the Ohio primary will contest both Foraker and Taft for presidency and senatorship. The statement frames the fight as pro and anti Roosevelt administration, with Foraker and Dick declining comment while Taft supporters press for dual candidacy and political maneuvering.
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Cincinnati
Senator Foraker
Ohio
Foraker
J. R Foraker
Charles P. Fair Proprietor
Cincinnati Times Star
Ar Taft
Tait
Fatt
Roosevelt
Charles P. Taft
TE Burton
Cleveland
Secretays
Tift
Erthern
Taft
Friends of President
Taft party arrives in Panama Isthmus visit begins
Secretary Taft and his party arrived aboard the Mayflower at Colon, met Panama Railroad officials, and proceeded by special train to Panama City. He examined the canal route, stayed at Hotel Tivoli in Ancon, and planned meetings with President Amador and officials to discuss key questions next Tuesday.
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Colon
United States
Charleston
Taft
Sel Landing
Stevens
Gorras
Blerd
Panama
Tivoli
Ancon
Taits
Panama Mar
Teft
Arias
Unon
Amedor
Taft Visit Marked by Civic Arrangements in Panama
A Banonets are arranged for Secretary Tafts inspection of La Bora site as the old town would be flooded by the Corozal Gosa hill dam. He will tour the canal terminal area and bay islands, with a Tebaro sanitarium visit and a reception by President Amador planned next Tuesday.
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Chamber of Commerce
Taft
la Bora
Corozal-Gosa Hill
Canal
Bay of Panama
Tebaro
Amador
Wreck Spectator Dead After Colton Train Disaster
The Sunset Express wreck in Southern Pacific yards Colton Calif leaves twenty two confirmed dead including Italians and migrants. Foreman Patrick Egans died after being found unconscious near the scene. Dozens injured, most moved to Los Angeles. relief trains ferry survivors to hotels.
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Colton
Cal
Myo
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Patrick
Los Angeles
Man Faints From Terror in Murder Trial
Leopold defendant in the Margaret Leslie murder case fainted during cross examination and fell from the witness chair. The court postponed proceedings awaiting his condition. He had previously fainted after a sudden rush from the stand and was declared unable to appear today due to fright and terror. A physician was summoned and adjournment was ordered until Monday.
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Leopold
Chicago
Marat
Leonard Leopold
Margaret Leslie
Fudge Ball
Mondey
Woman Foils A Mob In Indianapolis Prindele Heroic Stand
Mrs Ruth Prindele protected a colored man during a glassworkers mob in Indianapolis on March 30. After William Brown stabbed Ray Rutledge, the mob hurled stones and threats, but Brown fled toward the Prindele home where she barred the door and kept the crowd at bay until police arrived.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ruth Prindele
Glass Works
William Brown
Ray Rutledge
White
Brown
Prindele
Missing Marvin Boy Case Appeals to Pinkerton Aid
Special to The Washington Post reports Dover Del authorities and Pinkerton detectives have stepped up the search for Horace Marvin abducted near Bay Meadows. Secret service operatives rally a countywide effort while local DET Simmons team conducts vigorous ground work and brush burning as a possible distraction. A Burlington, Iowa item notes a four year old boy resembling Marvin is held by Mrs Harmer in a boarding house after being brought by a man and woman posing as kin, then altered plans and vanished.
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Washington Post
Dover del Mar
Pinkerton
Marvin
Secret Service
Kent County
Simmons
Bay Meadows
Horace
Dimato
Dover
Burlington
Iowa
Marvin Lad
Del
Fastine Harmer
South Eighth Street
Jones
Woman artist found dead in New York dining room
Mrs F G Rigby portrait painter was found suffocated by illuminating gas in an East Sixteenth Street furnished room. Authorities believe the death was accidental. Her husband Burnham Rigby, also an artist, died at sea en route to Europe about a month earlier.
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Rigby
New York
F.G Rigby
Chicago mayoral clash sullies headlines with libel suits
In Chicago the mayoral race between Busse and Dunne peaks amid libel suits and cross accusations. Tribunes and Hearst papers clash over school ground leases and alleged shootings, while campaigns push for turnout and predictions place Busse ahead by about 35,000.
Mother Attacks Prisoner at City Hearing
Philadelphia report notes an angry crowd gathered at 11th and Winter Streets as George Rechart, 24, faced magistrate Gallagher over alleged assault on Hille Ethel Levin. The mother of the 10 year old girl demanded vengeance while police escorted Rechart to jail without bail amid sensational testimony and plans for an indictment.
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Spedal
Washington Post
Philadelphia
Gallagher
Winter Street
George Rechart
Hille
Ethel Levin
Levin
Rechart
Dougherty
Robert
Wall Street Losers Astor Goelet and Vanderbilt Hurt by Pool
New York report dated March 31 states three heavy Wall Street losers are John Jacob Astor Robert W Goelet and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Losses from Union Pacific stock ranged between 8 and 9 million dollars for Astor and Goelet while Vanderbilt’s loss nears 2 million after a settlement left him with about 6 million from a prior split. The trio, once allies of Stuyvesant Fish on Illinois Central, shifted to Harriman enabled camp misalignments amid the Laion Pacific speculation revealing a large Astor Vanderbilt Goelet pool.
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Washington Post
New York
Pamie
Wall Street
John Jacob Astor
Robert W Goelet
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Union Pacific
E H Harriman
Col Aster
Mr Goelet
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbult
Grace Wilson
Cornelius
Vanderbilts
Astors
Goelets
Ilinois Central Railroad
Stuyvesant Fish
Mr Fish
H. Harriman
Fish
Harriman
F Ish
Astor-Vanderbilt-Geelet Pool
Bankers and Brokers Tinned in Albany Gambling Raid Case
Special to The Washington Fest reports a New York City raid on Davis & Co pool room at 62 Fulton Street. Bankers brokers and society men allegedly funded bets via checks and phone calls from Albany. Six men arraigned in Tombs Court held for Wednesday hearing. Jerome’s raid linked to immunities of legislators while in session.
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New York
W Davis & Co
Fulton Street
Grand Jury
Albany
Jerome
Almuth C Vandiver
Davis & Co
Vandiver
Grady
Anid
Davis Concern
Benning
Main
Brady
Liebner
Azelina
Senator Brady
District Attorney’s
Tombs Court
Fang
Ulton Street
Davie & Co
Mrs Mc Donald Released From Jail on $50,000 Bond
Mrs Michael C Mc Donald, indicted two days earlier for the murder of artist Webster Guerin in Chicago, was today released from county jail on bonds totaling $50,000. Bondsmen include her husband and Wesley Schiramel Chess.
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Chicago
Liberty
Michael C McDonald
Webster
Guerin
Wesley Schiramel
Easter Lilies Scarce After Bermudian Arrives Empty
New York reports Easter lilies in short supply as the steamer Bermudian returns from Bermuda with only about ten percent of its usual consignment. It carried 260 barrels of lilies instead of the expected 2,000, and shelves faced price hikes as wholesalers raised plant prices by 25 cents, then another 25 cents. The flower shortage left florists disappointed and many passengers, who normally bring lilies ashore, did not. The ship carried 200 cabin passengers, but few lilies were among their belongings.
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Washington Post
New York
Bermuda
Ocean
Murder and death by own action in Virginia couple
Special to The Washington Post reports Mary Henry Fos sier, 23, and his wife, terenigue, were found dead in woods near Peak Mountain. Both were shot. gun lay across the dead woman. Authorities theorize the wife killed her husband and then killed herself. Married last December, she had recently given birth to a child who died. He threatened to leave her, and they quarreled. An inquest will be held.
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Washington Post
Washington, Va
Mary—Henry Fossier
Terenigue
Peak Mountain
Beth
Prominent horseman sued in alienation case
The Washington Post reports that William L Grady of Versailles Kentucky, a famous horse breeder, is named in a $25 000 alienation suit filed in the U S Circuit Court at Covington by Clarence M Thomas an Louisville based accountant The petition asserts Grady wrote love letters to Mrs Thomas and induced her to move to Louisville in 1904 claiming he supplied and maintains her residence The attorneys say a batch of letters allegedly written by Grady to Mrs Thomas contain incriminating statements
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohio
William L Gradéy
Bresder
Versailles
United States Circuit Court of
Covington
Clarence M Thomas
Kentucky
Graday
Thomas
H Smelt & Sons Florists Rail and Train Schedules
The notice lists H Smelt and Sons Florists with offices in Washington New York and Baltimore & Ohio KR routes. It mentions Baltimore and return service every Saturday and Sunday with all trains available except the Royal Limited. City offices at 17 Gst and 9 a. ZVG.
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H. Smelt & Sons
Floriets, ‘Washington and
New York
Baltimore and Return
Baltimore & Ohio
KR. K
Royal Limited
Britain Urges Limits on Armaments at Hague Conference
Britain formalizes request to Russia to include armament limitation in the Hague second conference agenda. U S and allies, including Japan and Italy, back the move. Disarmament talks amid German Austrian Russian exchanges. officials deny threat to quit conference. Britain and America seek Drago Doctrine on prohibiting force to collect debts.
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Great Britain
Russia
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Mintea
Feige
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Germany
Austria
Nicholas
United States
Foreign Office
America
Japan
Italy
State Department
Brother Snow Murder Verdict In Hart County
J Vance Snow shot his brother Columbus Snow in Hartwell Georgia during a quarrel last night. The coroner jury returned a murder verdict against Vance Snow. The Snow family is among the county’s most prominent.
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Vance Snow
Columbus Snow
Drothers
Snow
Swear Off Heavy Taxes Hears New York Tax Rush
Special to The Washington Fest New York March 30 a rush of belated taxpayers closed the personal property assessment books at noon. Harry Payne Whitney swore off his late father Wilkham C Whitney’s personal estate 10 million except 65178 taxable. Dorothy Whitney’s assessment cut to 800, Gertrude Palimey left at 250 000, Harry Whitney 1 75 million, Payne Whitney 750 000. Most reductions were small. Higher totals expected due to a new law taxing property owned by nonresidents.
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Tax Commissioners Office
Hall of Records
Harry Payne Whitney
Wilkham C .Whitney
Dorothy Whitney
Gertrude Palimey
Payne Whitney
Holds Up Railroad Laws in Alabama Court Order
Judge Thomas G Jones of the United States Circuit Court in Montgomery issued a thirty day restraining order delaying enforcement of Alabama railroad rate and regulation laws. The stay targets maximum freight rates, the 212 cent passenger fare, and a bill classifying railroads and goods with rates on 110 items, pending a hearing on a permanent injunction.
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Montgomery
Ala
Mar
Thomas G Jones
United States
Largest human heart ever found autopsy reports weigh four pounds two ounces
New York reports the autopsy of Bambridge O Stafford at Tombs prison reveals the largest human heart on record, weighing four pounds two ounces. Stafford, charged with perjury by Erica and Co of Baltimore over stock valued at 1000, died from lobar pneumonia, cardiac hypertrophy, and chronic nephritis. the heart will be placed in the College of Physicians and Surgeons museum.
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New York
Bambridge O Stafford
Tombs
Stafford
Erica & Co
Baltimore
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Porto Rican sugar planters oppose Peabody railway rate rise
Sugar planters of Puerto Rico protest a proposed increase in rail freight rates urged by James Peabody Chicago railroad expert. They warn higher rates would ruin the sugar industry and have formed a committee to meet with the governor and executive council to set a rate schedule. Also note financing offer from F T Rawhinga on real estate at four and one half percent.
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Peabody
San- Juan
Porto Rico
James Peabody
Chicago
Panic critique by Leslia Shaw at Oswego Society dinner
In New York on March 9 former Treasury Secretary Leslia M. Shaw spoke at the Oswego Society dinner at the Hotel St Denis. He argued the 1907 panic was not entirely negative, noting capacity in freight labor and commerce, while living expenses rose too high and a modest curtailment would benefit the economy.
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New York
Ormer
the Treasury
Leslia M. Shaw
Washington Man Fred Ireland Third in Stenography Contest
In Boston the Eastern Commercial Teachers Association closing feature crowned Miss Nellis B Wood of Boston in stenography and Miss Rose S Jritz of New York in typewriting. Wood scored 25 wpm with 22 errors free, Gehman of Denver took second, and Fred Ireland of Washington ranked third at 35 wpm with 2 errors.
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Washington
Boston
Mar N
Eastern Commercial Teachers’ Association
Nellis B. Wood
Rose S Jritz
New York
Wood
P Gehman
Denver
Colo
Fred Ireland
House of Representatives
Gehman
Ireland
Man offers prizes to boost McPherson County births
Thomas Roseman of McPherson County proposes paying 154 in gold to every baby born and 100 to every couple married to increase population and attract immigrants. He claims the plan will raise family numbers and settle the county. The item also notes Southern Railway’s seasonal service changes and Northwestern life insurance rates offered by Huske & Smith agents.
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North Platte Nebr
Mar
Thomas Roseman
McPherson County
Roseman
Northwestern
Huske & Smith
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