Fifty Shots Across Rio Grande No Arrests Made
In El Paso on August 8 about fifty shots were exchanged between U S soldiers and unidentified Mexican side gunmen. No one was hit and no arrests were made. Fire opened from the Mexican side striking several homes while a sheriff's posse searched brush along the river bed. Residents suspect a rebel ruse to smuggle ammunition across the river.
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Fl Paso
Tex
United States
East
el Paso
C. H. Cole
Mexico
A. D. Martinez
Curtis Williams
Younkers
Pennington
John Howards
Falls 10 its DOOM Charles Campbell Falls In Flight
Australian aviator Chas Lin dey Campbell is killed when his Bristol biplane collapses during a rapid flight from Brooklands to the By Fleet aerodrome in Surrey. Campbell, recently arrived from Australia, held a Royal Aero Club aviator certificate dated June 4 and planned to teach aviation to Australian forces. His body was recovered among the wreckage near the aerodrome.
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By Fleet
Surrey
England
Chas. Lindey Campbell
Brooklands
Campbell
Australia
Royal Aero Club
United Kingdom
Brookland
Culberson Pushes Measure to Bar Corporate Election Money
Washington reports say President Taft’s allies expect the tariff bills to be vetoed. Culberson introduces a new bill banning corporate contributions to elections and capping individual donations at 5000 dollars. Also, there is no change in Thomas Cascaden's hospital condition as of 2 48 PM.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
White House
Culberson
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Presbyterian Hospital
Thomas Cascaden
Maniac George Ballew Terrorizes Town of South Platte
South Platte Colorado August 3 George Ballew 29 believed maniac ran amuck with a doll parrelled shotgun wounding several may be fatally and then set fire to a hotel burning it to the ground He forced the telegraph operator to summon Denver authorities as witnesses Nurses and Sheriff Denis with a Jefferson county posse head for the scene to help.
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South Platte
Colo
George Ballew
T E
Denver
Ballew
Dennis
Jefferson County
Girl writes novel with toes in St Paul millstone story
In St Paul a 24 year old crippled writer Ethie Gladys Virtue born, daughter of J F and Mrs Virtue, 268 Tylehart Street, crafts a multi thousand word novel by typing with a pencil held between her toes after spinal meningitis left her unable to use her arms. She spent three years composing and correcting the work before press time.
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St. Paul
Helen Dale
Ethie Gladys Virtue
J. F. Virtue
Tylehart Street
Suspects Nabbed in New York Rosenthal Murder Case
Camden detectives arrest a man matching the description of Lefty Louis in New York Rosenthal murder. An Auburn, N Y detainment reports a well dressed stranger believed to be Horwitz or Lefty Louis, seized while a companion fled. the man identifies as Doran, a restaurant worker traveling from Oswego to Geneva.
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Camden
N. J
Louis
Rosenthal
New York
Auburn
N. Y
Harry Horwitz
Gib-the
Lefty Louis
New York City
Doran
Oswego
Geneva
New C G W Depot for Mason City
Ground was broken for a new passenger depot in Mason City at the western yards after five years of promises. The project, estimated at about 65,000 dollars, will be built under C B Longard’s supervision with Widell Construction of Mankato as chief contractor. The cement building will measure 264 feet by 52 feet.
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Mason City
Great Western Railway Company
C. B. Longard
Widell Construction Company
Mankato
Minn
Louvre debunks Mona Lisa restoration hope with copy
Paris authorities confirm the painting shown at the British Embassy is only an admirable copy. Louvre director E Pujalet says the original Mona Lisa remains missing since last August, despite an unknown man presenting a supposed restoration lead in London. The man who delivered the copy was arrested as experts review the piece.
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Paris
Louvre Museum
E. Pujalet
Leonardo da Vinci
London
Louvre
Pujalet
Mona Tisa
Temperature Summary for August 8 by Buchanan Optical Co
The entry notes yesterday’s high of 76 degrees at 4 p.m and marks markups by the Buchanan Optical Co. It compares to last year’s August 8 when the daily low was 64 and the high 83 degrees.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Syndicate Block
Writer Emerson in Bohemian row with Taft lookalike
Chicago Aug 3 Willis George Emerson a famed writer and Taft supporter visited a Bohemian restaurant seeking local color for a book and received it firsthand as a rival shouted Teddy while Emerson, mistaken for Taft, performed a speech. A drunken patron squirted wine. Emerson wrestled three bottles from him and dumped tea on the intruder. He later subdued the man and delivered a final wipeout.
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Chicago
Willis George Emerson
Taft
Bohemia
Emerson
Victor
Teddy
Hmerron
Aponkers
National Republican Committee
Gettysburg
Progressives Close Door to Delegates in Chicago Convention
Chicago August 1 provisional national progressive committee met privately as about 20 delegates from Florida Georgia and North Carolina waited to be heard. Flinn remained Republican and California delegation arrived headed by Governor Johnson as Illinois progressives opened in Chicago amid demonstrations and a Roosevelt display.
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Chicago
Provisional National Committee
Progressive Party
Dixon
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Flinn
Wm. Flinn
California
Hiram Johnson
Sinois
Roosevelt
Merriam Hat
Deneen
Walter Clyde Jones
Wilson Will Cmd Campaign Subj Oriented To Issues
Seagit New Jersey August 3 Governor Wilson says he will not engage in personalities in his presidential campaign. He plans a scheduled series of addresses driven by state calls, focusing on campaign topics rather than individuals. He noted that Bryan might speak for him but no formal plan exists.
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Seagit
N. J
Wilson
Bryan
New York Progressive Party Names Leaders at State Convention
Buffalo August 2 the national progressive party at its state convention elected four delegates and four alternates to the national Chicago convention Timothy Woodruff was chosen chairman of the New York delegation the party accepted its incorporated name and adjourned after a three hour session to reconvene in Chicago next Monday morning nominations were to be made for national state congressional and county offices
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Buffalo
National Progressive Party
Laren
Chicago
Timothy Woodruff
New York
UIT HITS PRESS Canes Filed Against Ble Companies Furnishing "Patent Insiders"
Chicago August 3 United States filed an agreed decree in a civil antitrust suit against the Western Newspaper Union and the American Press Association under the Sherman act to curb a alleged plan to influence rural readers. Judge Kenneth Lindin promptly entered the decree after government petition and defenses responses, ending a trade war over boiler plate and ready print for thousands of country papers. The action seeks to curb collusive practices among major suppliers of syndicated content.
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Chicago
Newapaper Union
American Press Association
Department of Justice
United States
Kenneth Lindin
Young elopers intercepted in Midwest chase
Pearl Dunlap aged 16 eloped with Lynn Groff aged 19 from Marshalltown Iowa on Wednesday. After a telegraph chase they were detained at St Joseph Missouri yesterday following a route through Clearmont Maryville and St Joseph. Parents Mr and Mrs Dunlap traveled to St Joseph to retrieve their daughter.
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Marshalltown
Pearl Dunlap
Lynn Groff
St. Joseph
Clearmont
Maryville
Real estate transfers and a Wisconsin visitor noted
Real estate transfers record R N Cowin to Viola R Gray for lots 1 2 3 block 14 railroad addition La Porte City at 150 dollars. Mrs J S Seymour of Waureka Wisconsin arrives in the city this evening for a week long visit with her daughter Mrs Robert Minney of 116 Riehl Street.
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Black Hawk Co. Abstract Co
R.N. Cowin
Viola R. Gray
la Porte City
Seymour
Waureka
Wis
Robert Minney
Riehl St
Lyon Denies Taft Charges Over Texas Delegates
Col. A. Lyon, chairman of the Texas Republican executive committee, released a reply to Taft's statements on the Chicago contests. He admits the Texas count is correct but calls most factual claims about Texas cases incorrect and denies using proxies from federal officeholders to control county delegations.
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Sherman
Tex
Cecil A. Lyon
State
Republican Executive Committee
Taft
Lyon
Texas
Chicago
United States
Col
Parkersburg Inventor Develops Automatic Poultry Feeder
Parkersburg August 38 Special Herman Schultz formerly in the Remsen lumber business now at Parkersburg is the inventor of an automatic self feeder for poultry and a combined oats sprouter and seed corn tester that can test seed from 40 to 100 acres in under three days He has refused several thousand dollars for the invention and has contracted with Gade Bros Manufacturing of Iowa Falls to manufacture on a royalty basis for the patent life They ship 3 to 6 machines daily with an expected annual output of about 46000.
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Parkersburg
Herman Schultz
Remsen
Surgery raises height by sheep thyroid secretion claim
Paris reports Dr. John Murphy of Chicago supports a British surgeon’s claim that a young man’s height rose two inches in two months after thyroid secretion from a sheep. He cites growth glands, pituitary broadening, pancreas diabetes work, and future aims to prevent disease with cooperation of medicine and bacteriology.
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Paris
John
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