Flooded Louisiana towns struggle as levees fail
Massive floods from the Mississippi race through eighteen parishes in Louisiana. Rescue workers battle rain and rising waters to reach refugees, with dozens of homes swept from rooftops and hundreds more still stranded. Boats, trains, and relief camps operate as officials warn of ongoing danger.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
New Roads
Torras
Ouse
Lettstworth
Torras Torrent
Lettsworth
Batchelor
Pointe Coupee Parish
Batcheler
Ater
Torras Crevesse
Texas and Pacific
Immigration and church aid loom large in Methodist report
The Americanizing and Christianizing of newcomers is a major church problem. The Board of Home Missions requests 623,768 dollars for work among non English speakers. The report says half of U S residents are foreign born or of foreign parentage and cites tenement slums, unhygienic conditions, and sweatshops in major cities like New York.
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Minneapolis
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States
Union
New York
Taft Enters Ohio Primary Fight for Delegates
Athens Ohio May 6 President Taft enters his third primary fight with Ohio forty eight delegates to the Republican national convention to be elected May 21. He will speak in several southern Ohio towns.
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Athens
Taft
Ohio
Murderer Hangs Self in Jail Cell After Sentencing
Julius Christian Son, 60, sentenced to 14 years for the murder of his landlady Irene Watson, hanged himself in his Joliet penitentiary cell using bed sheet strips. The suicide occurred today. he was to be transferred to Joliet tomorrow.
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Chicago
Julius Christianson
State Penitentiary
Irene Watson
800 Men Strike in Mason City
In Mason City Indiana May, six hundred men at brick yard and tile plants walked off work tying up the facilities. They demand higher wages and better pay terms from management.
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Mason City
Waterloo Groups Add National Guard Units in Reorganization
Captain J H Hildebrand of Company B Iowa National Guard is relieved to reorganize Company L in Waterloo within ten days as Mexico tensions prompt possible Iowa regiments to the border. Lieutenant George Weilein to command Company B. three Black Hawk County companies active. both B and L share Waterloo armory space.
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Independence
J. Hildebrand
J. H. Hildebrand
Iowa National Guards
Des Moines
Waterloo
Hildebrand
Mexico
George Weilein
National Guard
Iowa
Iowa Na
Company L
Black Hawk County
M of
Cedar
Fort Dodge
Sioux City
Sixth Street
Taft in Ohio Again Lights Into Teddy Taft in Ohio Again
Nelsonville May 6 The president spoke in Ohio explaining his reason for visiting and accusing Roosevelt of misrepresentations. Taft defended his record praising railroad, savings bank, mine, child labor laws and other achievements while noting imperfect but steady progress.
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Taft
Ohio
Teddy
Postals Savings Bank
Teeviews
Seven Killed in Veterans Train Wreck Near Macon
In Mississippi near Hattiesburg a special train carrying Confederate veterans from Texas to Macon wrecked on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad. Four trainmen and three passengers died and several others were injured.
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New Orleans
May
Texas
Raymen
Macon
New Orleans and Northeastern
Hattiesburg
Miss
Weather report notes thaw and temperatures
The text records yesterday’s temperatures with a 43 degree minimum at 6 am and 79 degrees at 4 pm. It also notes last year’s minimum of 50 degrees and a maximum of 72 degrees.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Syndicate Block
East High Track Meet Highlights Junior Victory
East High held a spring track meet in Lafayette Park Saturday afternoon. Juniors won first place and sophomores took second while Ray Davis earned individual honors.
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East High
Lafayette Park
Ray Davis
Maryland Primary May Decide 16 Republican Delegates
Maryland voters head to the polls today to decide whether Taft or Roosevelt will win the state's 16 Republican national delegates. A Maryland law may delay Democratic delegate outcomes until the state convention if multiple candidates hold votes, while Arkansas Republicans prep for two days of meetings ahead of the Chicago convention.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Feld
Champ Clark
Judson Harmon
Woodrow Wilson
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Roosevelt
Nhp
Chicago
Roosevelt Republican League of Arkansas
Republican State Central Committee
Striker Beaten as Crowds Break in News Strike
Alexander Hickey, 28, a news paper delivery wagon driver, was severely beaten by a crowd after allegedly helping assault an elderly man selling papers. He needed medical care and was jailed on assault charges. Joseph Murray, 41, was stabbed during a street corner dispute over the pressmen strike. Police detained two suspects. Afternoon editions were printed and deliveries resumed under guard.
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Chicago
Alexander Hickey
North Side
Hickey
Joseph Murray
Guan
McCaskill Freed on Appeal After Manslaughter Conviction
Jefferson T McCaskill was released on bond after the district court overruled a new trial motion and waived sentencing time. He must serve up to eight years in a Ft Maison penitentiary with a $1000 fine and costs, bond set at $6000, and appeal to the supreme court filed by Alfred Longley.
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Jefferson T
Caskill
Henry Phillips
Platt
McCaskill
Ft. Maison
Supreme Court
Alfred Longley
McCaski
Sheriff Shores
Pettit
Longley
Texas
Phillips
Predictions favor Clark in Democratic state convention
Walla Walla Washington May 6 delegates to the Democratic state convention favor Speaker Clark over Woodrow Wilson with Clark backers claiming a majority of 75 to 164 of 715 delegates. The race remains unsettled as party leaders gauge support.
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Clark
Walla Walla
Wash
Woodrow Wilson
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