04 Oct 1909
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1909
Page
1
A veteran at a Taft meeting is fatally injured after being trampled in the crowd. An accompanying GAR escort member helps control the scene as another executive lays the cornerstone of Universalist Church and preaches tolerance, calling for religion and morality to shape modern civilization.
The speaker argues the corporate tax is a stop toward federal investigation and control of all corporations. He says once supervision is established, targeted investigations would follow and condemns using federal measures to suppress boycotts. He links the tax to possible expansion of federal oversight and notes related political items and public events nearby.
The President stressed steps toward proper corporate tax control and outlined using a foreign tariff board to build a glossary for the tariff law. He defended boycotts as illegal, urged suppression, and spoke on church unity, noting support for moral uplift and loyalty to country across Catholic and Protestant congregations.
Mrs H R Rea wife of a Pittsburg steel magnate and niece of Senator Oliver was robbed of diamonds valued up to 40000, though the Rea family claims the loss was about 15000. Detectives point to a recent burglary after a Sewickley Heights home reception and note the jewels were missing from cases in Mrs Rea’s dressing room.
Special to The Washington ros Boston October 2 Carl August Nackay eight years old of Somerville shot and killed himself on the doorstep of the undertaking shop of C A Talvery in Roxbury this morning The body was found with an unaddressed letter explaining inability to work and pleading to notify his wife who is nervous and partially paralyzed The note references losing his house and land and a recent move
Chicago alienation suit reveals Mrs Marshall Clark alleging her husband Jackson H Dorsey and Antoinette Gazziami Gazanni? shaped a love triangle. Clark, called Prof Nible, says he married Clark in 1908 after divorce from a Chicago spouse. He defends his actions while Mrs Clark recounts pursuit by Gazziami and a Los Angeles hotel conflict. She seeks $150000 for alienation of affections, claiming cruelty and failed divorce proceedings.
Edgar W Mix of Columbus Ohio is the lone American entrant in the Gordon Bennett Cup balloon race in Johannesthal Switzerland. More than 260000 spectators watched seventeen balloons launch in clear skies as contenders hoped to cover the longest distance, with Mix optimistic about a long endurance test as a southwestern wind favored Russia over the sea.
Spectators cheered as Latham nearly fell but recovered to lead a dramatic long distance event. Rougier with a Voisin plane claimed the top prize totaling 15,008 dollars, with Latham and Farman earning second and third in a crowded field that drew Princes August Wilhelm and Oscar, plus ambassadors and Orville Wright.
In St Johns Newfoundland the Adventurer steamer brings news of a starving Eskimo who killed and ate his child after cannibalism driven famine. Neighbors then attacked him, he shot several assailants, and fled into the wilderness. his fate remains unknown.
Dr David Jeyne Hill, successor to Charlemagne Tower, arrives in Berlin for his first visit since appointment. He and Mrs Hill insist Germany seeks prosperity and will avoid war with England, while planning to stay mainly at their Rochester NY home during the trip.
The Duchess de Chaulnes arrives in New York aboard the George Washington with her son Herzog Duke de Chaulnes and Mrs Theodore Shonts. The party includes Miss Marguerite Shonts and Mrs Shonts plans a Virginia and Alabama winter, with the duchess visiting Daphnne near Mobile and New York thereafter.
In Amesbury Massachusetts two youths, Joseph Manehan age two and his 17 year old brother Frederick, drowned while posing for photographs in a canoe on Lake Gardner. They could not swim and capsized in view of a friend preparing to shoot the scene.
Muskogee Oklahoma dispatch reports several thousand fullblood Cherokees facing starvation due to a severe drought. Superintendent John D. Botte notes the hardship as families lack money for food and clothing, affecting children from attending school. Auction of La Fet Hotel furnishings announced afterward.
Chicago dispatch recounts Joseph G Cannon denying risk to his Speaker post amid New York political pressure. He cites possible “political exigencies” and disputes Parsons statement while recalling committee assignments and party dynamics shaping the fight.
In a heated exchange, Timothy Woodruif questions the extent of a critic’s claim and demands specific names. The conversation drifts to Congressman Littauer from Gloversville, NY, with insinuations about potential targeting, but the speaker deflects the question.
A U S Army recruiting officer Lieut W Bard aged years, at his boarding house in Mars Oct, died by his own action. He left notes asking his father Dr W C Bald of Beaumont Tex to be notified. The note ended with Here goes misapent life May God forgive me.
Dr Frederick A Cook addressed nearly all major U S newspapers at a National Press Club reception. He signed a pen and ink sketch of the North Pole and his guest register, then spoke of meeting journalists in Copenhagen. A District reception will precede a trip to Baltimore.
Boston Oct 3 Judge Henry Dewey declared himself a theocreti candidate for governor and spoke twelve hours with brief intermission on the Boston Common. The crowd grew from a few to hundreds, while police monitored the session and reporters noted Dewey’s courtroom past and posts as mayoral candidate.
Dr Frederick A Cook drew thousands at Washington’s Union Station and a public audience at the National Theater. The explorer, amid cheers, defended his Arctic voyage and honored Eskimo companions while detailing perilous journeys and scientific claims, as a national tribute swelled behind him.
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