Ohio cities vote as reform issue dominates ballot
Ohio voters face a busy ballot on November 2 with four constitutional amendments and a short ballot proposal to appointive state offices including secretary of state and attorney general, plus a liquor shipping restriction. Campaigns hinge on party power in Cincinnati Cleveland and Toledo, with key figures like Hunt Baker Davis and Schr iebers active, while Cox Garfield and others back the reform.
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Henry ™. Hunt
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Whitlock
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Carl Keller
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L. R. Tuadirig
George B. Marshall
Socialister
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Lima
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Hogan
Brennan
United States
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James R. Garfield
Burton
John H. Clarke
New Jersey Legislature Race Shapes Governor Election
Trenton reports Tuesday elections will decide control of both houses. Eight senate seats and the full house are up. Democrats lead in several counties though nominally split. Assembly fate hinges on Essex County. James F. Fielder seeks governorship for Democrats. Edward C. Stokes leads Republicans. Everett Colby as Progressive candidate adds uncertainty.
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Cemerats
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Wseex
James R. Nugent
Assembly
James F. Fielder
A.woodrow Wilson
Republians
Edward C. Stokes
Everett Colby
Kentucky to vote on no revision of tax laws
Kentucky voters will decide on two constitutional amendments on Tuesday. One would revise the tax laws and the other would abolish contract work in prisons and allow convict labor on public roads. A large portion of the Legislature will be chosen, with vigorous local campaigning by Democratic and Progressive candidates for mayor.
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Louisvive
Kentucky
John H. Buschmeyer
Wood F. Axton
White Slave Witness Shot in Spokane Case
Mrs Georg eal, the government’s chief witness in the Mexican Fred white slavery case at Butte, Mont, died in a Spokane hospital from pistol wounds. She said she identified N A Devon, who was arrested, as her attacker in Eureka, Mont, before being taken to Spokane.
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Georgs @eal
Butte
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N. A. Devon
Bureka
Devon
Eureka
Cuticura Sample Offer With Free Book
A dermatology related offer promotes Cuticura ointment with a gentle smear and a wash using Cuticura Soap and hot water. A free 32 page book is included with each sample. Address requests to Cuticura Dept 4 Boston.
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Cuticura
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Four candidates for governor campaign with pride in Boston
Boston November 2 Four candidates for governor Fass Walsh Gardner and Bird press their claims to victory as polls open across many cities Tuesday evening election results likely delayed to late Tuesday night or Wednesday morning Key contest in Third district to fill Wilder seat features Stephen Marshall M Fred OConnell and Calvin Paige with Wilder’s death casting a shadow on results in Fitchburg Clinton and Southbridge areas
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David J. Walsh
A. P. Gardner
Charles S. Bird
Gardner
Walsh
Bird
Mr. Waleh
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Governors Council
Wilder
William H. Wilder
Stephen M.marshall
Clinton
M. Fred O'Connell
Fitchburg
Calvin D. Paige
Southbridge
O'Connell
Marshall
O’conneil
Tammany gloom frames election day and future politics
The piece reports Tammany Hall faces deep gloom as McCall is forecast to win, with insiders predicting Murphy's retirement and a new organization forming on the ruins. A sermon by Rev. John Haynes Holmes condemns Tammany figures as corrupt, calling laboring and respectable classes alike to see the party as a curse to New York.
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Charles F. Murphy
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Unitarian Church of the Messiah
John Haynes Holmes
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Holmes
New York
Malachi
Fears Bay State Defeat in Massachusetts Campaign
Boston November 2. Senator James Hamilton Lewis told a Democratic rally that a Walsh defeat would signal repudiation of President Wilson’s foreign policy. He warned Mexico and the Orient would react, with potential war fears, if Massachusetts rejects the Democratic slate.
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Threat to Sulzer asks protection on Election Day
New York Nov 2 Willam Sulzer the deposed governor and current Progressive candidate for the State assembly faced threats of gunmen and ballot box stuffing as campaigning intensified in the city He denied fear saying the threats might let him testify further about impeachment era matters He urged Mayor Kline Police Commissioner Walde and the district attorney to provide protection and maintain order on election day
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Senate Currency Bill Faces Breakover as Members Head Home
Congress stalls as the Senate banking and currency committee considers the administration currency bill. Many members leave Washington for local elections while the panel hobbles toward a potential report by week’s end. debates over government control of regional banks threaten unity and delay.
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Pennsylvania Votes On 50 Million Bond Issue
Philadelphia report notes two superior court judges chosen under a new nonpartisan system at the fall election. Five constitutional amendments appear, with opposition to a 50 million bond issue for state roads. Fusion efforts in Pittsburgh, Scranton, and city politics feature Meyer Blankenbure backing a council-friendly policy. many local common pleas judges to be elected on nonpartisan ballots.
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Philadelphia
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Meyer Blankenbure
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Scranton
Blair Lee Seen Likely Elected U S Senator
Baltimore observers report Blair Lee has a lead over Republican Thomas Portman in the race to fill the unexpired term of Isidor Rayner. Maryland voters also choose a state comptroller and clerks, with a special Third District election to replace late Rep George Konig.
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Blair Lee
Thomas Porran
Maryland
Isidor Rayner
Court of Appeals
George Konig
Slander suit announced against Gov Foss in Boston
James T Moriarity former Boston Central Labor Union president said a $100000 slander suit would be filed against Governor Foss. The claim centers on a signed statement "EL N Foss" in a Beaton newspaper alleging Moriarity aided a strike by factory workers contracted by the governor.
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Gov. Foss
James T. Moriarity
Boston Central Labor Union
Mother of Three Convicted in Connecticut Murder Plot
Mrs. Beasie J Wakefield of Bristol, mother of three, was found guilty of first degree murder in the killing of her husband William last June. Her paramour James Flew pled guilty to homicide under an ancient statute, and both face sentencing together.
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Beasie J. Wakefield
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Charles G. Gates Buried in New York Funeral
Funeral services for Charles G. Gates were held at Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church after a sudden death on a hunting trip in Wyoming. Burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery beside his father John W. Gates, with many prominent city figures among the mourners and pallbearers from several states.
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Charles G. States
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M. E. Igurton
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Mass
J. W. Lugrenc
Kingsley
Iowa
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Heauman Houston
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Tex
Chicago
Detroit
Davenport
Plot Against Diaz Conspirators Nabbed in Nicaragua
Managua reports public release detailing a conspiracy against President Adolfo Diaz and his cabinet ministers. Several arrests were made Wednesday night after conspirators gathered near the presidential residence intending to attack and kill the president and his officials. The plot was uncovered by chance and the group was captured following a police call.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Adolfo Diaz
Tillman Attacks Blease as Demagogy in Fiery Senate Statement
Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina denounces Governor Blease over the race for the U S Senate, recalling McLaurin’s withdrawal and branding Blease as a demagogue. He credits McLaurin’s patriotism, attacks Blease for stealing the livery of Heaven, and argues Blease is unfit for Washington while urging McLaurin to return to public service.
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Benajmin R. Tillman
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Blast Kills Giant Lizard in Maryland Crevice
Workers blasting old cement kilns near Cumberland Maryland unearthed a four foot iguana like tree lizard not native to the area. Smithsonian official Raymond Armbruster and botanist Edward Harris Jr. identified it as a tropical species and preserved the carcass. It likely had occupied the rock crevice for many years before the blast.
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Washington Post
Cumberland
Raymond Armbruster
Baltimore preacher to quit pulpit for Garrett Institute
The Rev. Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, pastor of Mount Vernon Place M E Church, announced he will leave his Baltimore pastorate next April to join Garrett Biblical Institute Evanston as chair of historical theology after turning down three earlier offers.
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Garrett Institute
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Lynn Harold Hough
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This
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Garrett Biblical Institute
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Hough
Fear Militancy Threatens Congress Over Woman Suffrage
Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York, head of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, attacks Dr. Anna Howard Shaw for threatening boycotts against printers who won t pledge suffrage work. She warns militancy appears in the United States, predicting threats to oust nonconforming lawmakers and likening the tactics to English disturbances before bombings and arson.
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Arthur M. Dodge
United States
England
New York
National Association
Anna Howard Shaw
Dede
Washington
Suffragists Demonstrate Strength in New York Street Parade
In New York on November 2, seven thousand women and 1,500 men joined a pre election march through Brooklyn, led by a Liberty Bell replica. The event featured Mrs Catt and foreign country delegations, with hundreds on horseback, highlighting gains in women’s suffrage across the United States. In Chicago on the same day Mrs Pankhurst defended the dog whip incident against Prime Minister Asquith.
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New York
Brooklyn
United States
Grant Square
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Party
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Dr Charles Richet
Stockholm on November 2 Dr Charles Richet of the French Academy of Medicine received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his research into anaphylaxis His work in physiology and related science is cited as the basis for the award He also worked on a purifier device intended to sterilize air and curb spread of scarlet fever tuberculosis and other diseases
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Stockholm
Charles Richet
Chinese to Inspect Mints Three Representatives Visit Washington
Three Chinese government representatives arrived on the steamship New York for a tour of United States mints. They will visit Washington at the Chinese legation and travel to Philadelphia New Orleans San Francisco and other cities. Delegation includes Shih Chen Hu senior clerk Far T. Bung board of finance and La Tong chief of the criminal department ministry of justice all of Peking.
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Peking
Washington
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United States
New Zealand Called Happiest Land by Mrs Drew
Mrs Anderson Hughes Drew, W T C U delegate, praised New Zealand as the most progressive country asserting woman suffrage has flourished there for twenty years. She cited high voting participation, strong social laws, and credited ballots with improving women as wives mothers and citizens.
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Drew
Anderson Hughes Drew
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Islands
Wilbur Crafts
John J. White
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America
Lord Northcliffe
Mrs. Drew
Lieut Col Henry F Brewerton Dead Civil War Veteran
Lieut Col Henry F Brewerton U S A veteran of the Civil War died at his home aged 15 years after retirement in 1882. He was advanced to lieutenant colonel by act of Congress. Survived by wife and three children. He helped found the Military Service Institute and was a Loyal Legion member. Death noted in Nevada and New York dispatches.
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Henry F. Brewerton
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