Taft Votes in Cincinnati and Lincoln Statue Unveiling in Frankfort
President Taft traveled to Cincinnati to vote at 2008 Madison road Ward 2 Precinct M amid a camera battery and curious onlookers. He marked all nine ballots, then returned to his brother’s home. Meanwhile Frankfort prepares for Taft’s Lincoln statue unveiling at the state capitol rotunda with former slaves invited to a balcony section. Robert Tincoln cannot attend.
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Taft
Hot Springs
Madison Road
Hin
Frankfort
Abraham Lincoln
Kentucky
James B. Speed
Louisville
Robert T. Tincoln
Lincoln Memorial Hall
Maine Retains Constitutional Prohibition After Corrections
Augusta Maine Gov Plaisted and his council late last night decided to accept corrections in the vote from four towns in the September special election. The revision changes the initial official returns and confirms Maine’s repeal result remains in place.
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Maine
Gov_ Plaisted
Six Cars Of Fast Train Derailed At Arcadia
Six cars of Iron Mountain northbound train No 6 were derailed at Arcadia due to a broken rail. Three Pullmans fell off, the coach overturned, and passengers were freed by cutting a hole in the roof. Train Auditor D J Hutchins of St Louis was likely fatally injured. others suffered minor injuries.
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Trenton
Iron Mountain
Arcadia
D. J. Hutchins
St. Louis
Fifty Year Old The Crusted Theft Moves Conscience
Fairfield Nov 7. Eate Coop receives a letter from Rev William Whitlock now in California recalling a watermelon theft from Mr Cook's father nearly 50 years ago. The minister says the act weighed on his conscience and asks Coop to name a price for settlement. The theft occurred when Whitlock was 12.
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Eate Coop
William Whitlock
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Mr. Cook
New York Voting Today in State and City Contests
New York voters streamed to polls as heavy city participation met lighter upstate turnout. Rain across the state slowed roads and could impact turnout while Democrats seek to maintain Assembly control and influence the next national convention.
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Fink to Open Restaurant at Jefferson Street Site
W Tr Fink, longtime operator of a boarding house at Fifth and Jefferson, has leased 712 Jefferson Street and will soon open a restaurant. He has also leased the second floor rooms in the Pickett building nearby to operate a rooming house in connection with the new restaurant.
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Jefferson Streets
McCormick House
Jefferson Street
Mr. Fink
Pickett
Location of the Trouble in Missionary Collection Day
A church note recalls Brother Hardesty missing services last Sunday due to a cold that settled in his feet. The incident is linked to the church's missionary collection day at the local Chicago Tribune church community.
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Hardesty
Chicago Tribune
Governor Carroll Becomes Cupid For Matrimonial Bu reau
Des Moines reports that Governor B F Carroll is being asked to expand his matrimonial bureau to work with the municipal bureau run by Lytton secretary to Mayor Hanna. Letters arrive from across the country as winter nears seeking soul mates with widows welcome as maids and a Grand Rapids writer urging a second launch of the governor’s matchmaking bark. C Nye, Carroll’s private secretary, backs letting Lytton act as matchmaker for all comers.
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B. F. Carroll
Lytton
James R. Hanna
Towa
Grand Rapids
Mich
C. Nye
Carroll
Mr. Lytton
Wheat tariff fuels dealer's refusal amid bin bust trade
A.J. Lichstein, a top cash wheat holder, sold 100000 bushels of No.2 red winter to millers at 5 12 cents under May option, rejecting a 5200000 bid and signaling volatility as government probes traders for cornering wheat. James Templeton condemned Taft’s policies amid market uncertainty. Treasury clarifies tariffs allowing drawback on imported wheat milled for export, aiding Northwest flour manufacturers.
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A._ J. Lichstein
United States
Lichstein
Templeton
Taft
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Millers
James Templeton
Assassination of Wu Lu Cheng Shocks Nanking Crisis
Across Peking and Nanking revolutionary tremors spread as General Wu Lu Cheng, governor appointee of Chast province, was killed by Manchu forces in his tent. A viceroy in Nanking committed suicide amid panic as royalists hold Peking and calls for a republic rise led by Wu Tingfang.
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Shikla Chuang
Wu Lu Cheng
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Board of Ceremony
Lormally
Yuri Shi Kai
Jinan Fu
Yun Nan
Joan
Manchuria
Russo-Asiatic Bank
Shikia Chuang
Tus
Shanghai
China
Wu Ting Fang
United States
Associated Press Today
John Smith Dies Patriarch of Mormons at 79
John Smith, longtime presiding patriarch of the Mormon church and nephew of founder Joseph Smith, died after a three day pneumonia illness at age 79. Born in Kirkland Ohio, he moved west at 18 with the handcart party via Nauvoo, Illinois, the area of a fatal attack on his father and uncle the prior year. He was the sixth patriarch and the church’s only hereditary office holder.
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Morman Church
Joseph Smith
Kirkland
Nauvoo
Smith
Dangerous fire on steamer North Point in Liverpool
A dangerous fire broke out today on the Norfolk and Worth American Steamship company's steamer North Point which arrived Nov 1 from Savannah with a cargo of cotton. The incident occurred in Liverpool and involved cargo including San Felice and Boligar.
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Norfolk and Worth American Steamship Company
North Point
Savannah
Judge Bars Out Social Subjects In McSwain Murder Trial
Judge Burdwell orders removal of defense protest evidence while Morton faces jury, with Darrow challenging his capacity. Assistant DA contends Morton reads the Appeal to Reason. defense seeks to show Merton’s bias. Indianapolis dispatch notes related federal case and book seizure in a separate on going matter.
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Tye Roctters
McSwimari
Burdwell
Teeig Basutaer
Heurel
Pees
Eon
George Wilberton
Chen
Gein
Merton
Morton
Darrow
Taksimin McKee
Indianapolis
Anderson
Vaulted States District Court
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
United States
Ten Surveyors Reach Thy Grit for New Rail Line
Ten surveyors arrived in the city to mark the extension of the Chicago, Anamosa & Northern railway from Quasqueton to Waterloo. They travel by team under T. S. Johnson. If built next season, the line would enter east of the Cedar River, sparing a bridge. Competition heats as Independence, Shady Grove, Jubilee, and nearby towns bid to host the line, with the Commercial club of Independence aiming to secure it.
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Quasqueton
Lmits
Waterloo
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Einters
Tts
Independence
Wansie
Shady Grove
Jubilee
Tno
Arthur Pearson and the price of ambition in newspapers
The London Express owner Arthur Pearson, once poor and driven, rose by trial at Tit-Bits, built Pearson's Weekly to great wealth, but ruined health and a wrecked constitution followed. He earned vast income yet pays with chronic fatigue and sniffer habit.
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Lincoln Journal
Arthur Pearson
Aet
The
London Express
Tit-Bits
Pearson
America
Pearson's Weekly
Albia votes for 75006 high school building
Albia Louisiana voters approved a special election result to fund a new high school building cost of 75 006 dollars. The measure passed yesterday, enabling construction at the Albia site.
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Albia
Vermilya13 in Jail as Exhumation Sows Clues
Mrs Louise Vermilya 13 remains jailed in the county hospital pending next hearing for murder and alleged poisonings. Authorities exhumed her son Frank Brinkamp's body at Waldheim cemetery while chemists test Richard Smith for poison as prosecutors target a November grand jury. The case follows an extraordinary court session at her bedside and her silence persists.
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Nev
Louise Veriifign
Arthur Bigonetta
Burnham
Vermilya
Cthera
Buckholz
May Inhiume
Hoffman
Frank, Brinkamp
Chicago Police Department
Municipal Court
Walker
Joseph Burress
Criminal Court
Arthur Bisonette
Frank Hrinkamp
Waldheim
Polson
Richard Smith
East Twenty-ninth Street
Thomas Flynn
Temperature data and event notice for the week
The report notes the prior night's minimum temperature at 9 p.m. of 42 degrees. It also advertises a November 8 reserve night featuring the Bostonia Orchestra at First M. E. Church with tickets priced at 50 cents, available from Miller's or Schaneman's Drug Stores.
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Nigat
Bostonia Orchestra
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All Star
Miller's
Schaneman's Drug Stores
Schaneman’s
Licensed to Wed in Waterloo at City Registry
William R. Donaldson and E Grace Perrin of Waterloo seek a marriage license. The notice lists both parties and their residence, with a simple filing detail indicating the license request proceeding in local civic records. The item reflects a routine legal action of license issuance.
Duncomb Citizen Buried Alive in Home Fire
Duncomb on Nov 7 Nele Prossett a 70 year old prominent town citizen was buried to death last night in his home. Fire officials suppose death due to carbon monoxide or smoke from the blaze and investigators work to determine exact cause.
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Nele Prossett
I Town
Bia
Dee
Prossett
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