Suffragettes Appeal Governors Conference for Ballot Rights
Anna Shaw leads a suffrage appeal at the New Jersey governors conference in Spring Lake. A poll shows Republican governors split between Taft and LaFollette, with Wilson and Hadley as leading Democratic possibilities. The event includes Brannan and Van Winkle urging open public alignment and a prayer to the God of our country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Lake
N. J
Anna Shaw
National Woman‘’s Suffrage Association
Governors
West
J. W. Brannan
Woman’s Political Union
New York
Shaw
Meke
Abraham van Winkle
Newark
New Jersey
Mra
Brannan
Governors’ Conference
Taft
LaFollette
Tower of Pensylvania
Glassock
West Virginia
Willson
Kentucky
Hay
Washington
Pothier
Rhode Island
Aldrich
Nebraska
Fragmentary Weather Reading at Buchanan Optical Co Block
Readable weather notes show a September 14 reading cycle with night and early morning temperatures 68 and 79. The fragment mentions a 12 night and 2 am reading, with unclear data for other hours.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Syndicate Block
Chinese Admiral Honors President at Paramata Meeting
Admiral Ching of the Chinese navy and staff visited President Taft at Paramata this afternoon in a formal call. Taft arose at 6 o'clock to begin work and was considering Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's case, with a decision expected today.
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Beverly
Mass
Ching
Taft
Paramata
Harvey W. Wiley
Mexican ex-secretary Jose Maria Gamboa dies aboard steamer
On the steamer Mexico traveling from Vera Cruz to New York via United Wireless, Jose Maria Gamboa former assistant secretary of State of Mexico and former Mexican minister in Argentina died yesterday. He had been in ill health and sought relief in a cooler climate, with Sept. 14 noted as the date on board.
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Mexico
Vera Cruz
New York
United Wireless
Senor
Jose Maria Gamboa
Bexico
Argentina
Air Speedster Fined for Land Speeding
New York aviator Clarry Atwood, known for aerial speed, was arrested for speeding by car. He admitted clocking 24 miles an hour and was fined $5.
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New York
Clarry Atwood
Wallea
Bloodhounds on assailant's trail in Manitoba case
Winnipeg dated dispatch reports 500 men and a 70 mile cordon along the border seeking Eleanor Gladys Price abducted near Snowflake Manitoba. The Riverside teacher was released after 30 hours of detention as bloodhounds tracked the suspect to five miles from her school but the man, believed to be Henry Wilson of Hannah North Dakota, escaped after a surrounding search.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Eleanor Gladys Price
Miss Price
Henry Wilson
Hannah
N. D
Snowflake
Man
Feeble Mexican War Veterans Disband At Reunion
Evanston Illinois September 14 The formal act of disbanding the Mexican War veterans and the western association of California pioneers occurred at the final reunion at George W Hotchkins home. Members have become few and feeble and will hold no further gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston, Ill
Association of Mexican War Veterans
Western Association of California Pioneers
George W. Hotchkins
British consul orders Americans and Britons to leave Sze-Chuan upper district
Chung-King China Sept 14 British consul temporarily in charge of American interests orders all Americans and British citizens in the upper district of Sze-Chuan province to depart at once for the nearest place of safety as rebellion mounts.
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Chung-King
China
Sze- Chuan
Canada Votes Nominations in Halifax and Across Canada
Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s supporters and opponents mobilize for the general election with 221 MPs, 132 backing Laurier and 87 against. Robert Laird Borden is renominated for one Halifax seat, while Sir Frederick Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s militia minister are renominated in their counties and Queens Shelburne.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
Wilfred T Laurier
Robert Laird Borden
Frederick Borden
Wilfrid Lauriers
Hing’s
Fielding
Queens Shelburne
Water loo rail stations and the unions depot critique
A Waterloo railway reader voices dissatisfaction with local passenger facilities. The writer invites delegation visits to Union depot and laments the crowded, dirty waiting rooms and mismatched stations. He argues railroads favor politicians for a 30000 population station in a town of five thousand, urging action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Union
Wesern
Cedar River
East Side
Great Western Station
Ilinois Central
Thiey
Metro
Dr C C Payne Shoots Wife Then Kills Himself in Kansas
Lawrence Kansas report states Dr C C Payne of Eudora shot and killed his wife Mrs M E Payne and mother in law Mrs M E Smith before taking his own life. The couple had separated and Mrs Payne had moved with her two children to Mrs Rodgers’ home in Lawrence where the incident occurred.
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Lawrence, Kan
C.C. Payne
Eudora
Kan
M. E. Smith
Labor delegates boycott cars at salt lake contrary event
St. Joseph Mo September 14 delegates to the Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway Employes of America boycott city streetcars to protest non recognition. They traveled to Lake Contrary in tally-has where they were hosted at a fish fry and refused to ride the street cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph, Mo
St. Joseph
Beulah Binford Pictures Banned in Des Moines
Des Moines reaches ban on motion pictures featuring Beulah Binford and other figures tied to the Henry Gray Beattie Jr murder trial at Chesterfield Courthouse Virginia. Mayor James R. Hanna announces the prohibition amid ongoing state actions with Governor B. F. Carroll and aides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Beulah Binford
Henry ‘Gray Beattie, Jr
Chesterfield Courthouse
James R. Hanna
Carroll
Taft
B. F. Carroll
Taft to be escorted by publicans in Iowa visit
Plans announced today state that publicans and congressmen will escort President Taft across Iowa when he arrives September 28. The governor will ride in a special car attached to the presidential train.
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Taft
Iowa
Thomas M King Dies Former B&O Vice President
New York reported the death of Thomas M King a former vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He died yesterday at his home in Irvington on the Hudson in his sixty seventh year.
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New York
Thomas M. King
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Mr. King
Irvington-on the-Hudson
Man Wed to Avoid Murder Charge in Chicago
Miss Ethel Blanchard, 22, who attempted suicide after a dispute with Harry White, 23, was released when White agreed to marry her for $1.50. The couple had come from Canton, Ohio, seeking prosperity, but White worked as a waiter. White professed love and said all he had was $1.50 to wed.
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Chicago
Ethel Blanchard
White
Lava flood menaces Castiglione and Francivilla in Etna eruption
In Catania on September 14, about 20 000 residents of Castiglione and Francivilla fled their homes as Mount Etna’s lava stream surged downslope. The main lava front, up to 50 feet high and a third of a mile wide, crossed valleys, disrupted water supplies, and forced peasants to abandon property for higher ground as fissures opened and the flow advanced toward the towns.
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Catania
Sicily
Castiglione
Francivilla
Todsy
Mount Etna
Verancivita
Joint Meeting of Church Societies Reported
The Logan Avenue Evangelical church missionary society met at Mrs. Parsons home in Chau tauqua park for a social afternoon with light refreshments. In the evening the W S and W P M S met at B M Fritzsinger home on Lincoln street with a brief program and a Y P M S business session planning a Hallowe en party.
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Missionary Society of the
Logan Avenue
Parsons
Chautauqua Park
Theodore Peek
Charles Zimmerman
J. G. Walz
Wilt bones to save them from worms in St Joseph
Dr. S F Kessler long time anatomy professor at Ensworth Medical College and member of the city health board wills his bones to the college for posthumous study. He says he would rather his bones be in a glass case than in the earth with worms feeding on them.
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St. Joseph
S. F. Kessler
Ensworth Medical College
Municipal Board of Health
Ressler
Maine Result Still in Doubt
In Portland on September 14 the fate of constitutional prohibition in Maine remained uncertain. Unofficial returns suggested a small Prohibition majority, while two towns reported clerks’ figures that disagreed with the totals sent to the secretary of state.
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Portland
Maine
Aupuata
Nurse's Presence of Mind Rescues Burned Nurse
Sept 14. In Neaver Cole a theater supper at a local hotel caught fire when a chafing dish lamp exploded. Miss Firve Kelly a trained nurse from Burlington, Jaws, suffered severe burns on her arms and body. She called a waiter to smother the flames with a tablecloth, likely saving her life.
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Neaver
Cole
Authoress of America Dies in Bavaria
Elizabeth Rolson Evans, American author born 1882 in Newport New Hampshire, died in Ajibling Upper Bavaria. A daughter of Dr Willard Putnam and Lucia Field, she lived in Europe since 1870. Wife of author Edward Payson Evans, she contributed verse and prose to newspapers and magazines and wrote novels and histories including Laura, an American Girl and A History of Religions.
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Ajibling
Upper Bavaria
Elizabeth Rolson Evans
Newport
Europe
Railroad Men Here Next Week Grading of Line in Eagle Township
Rapid grading work is underway on the Oskaloosa and Waterloo Interurban line in Eagle township with daily earth movement of 1160 to 1500 cubic yards. Officials plan a Chamber of Commerce meeting next week to discuss right of way into Waterloo though no route is set. The survey ends near the old paper mill by the Cedar river, and officials anticipate the project boosting Waterloo’s commerce and access to coal fields in southeastern Iowa.
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C. B. Couch
Oskaloosa & Waterloo Interurban Railway
Sloan
Coons
Omaha
Chamber of Commerce
Wodehouse
Oskaloosa
Eagle Township
Waterloo
Cedar River
Iowa
Mourn The Loss Of Only Child In Porte City
Leona Marine Kappie, 16 months, died after a brief illness in Porte City Iowa on September 14 from cholera infantum. An only child of Guy and wife, the family moved from Walker last January. Funeral services will be held in Walker Sunday at the Christian church. The baby was born June 13 1910.
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Lun Porte City
Leona Marine Kappie
Guy Kappie
Walker
Young aviator Ward resumes coast to coast flight
James Ward, the youthful aviator, resumed his flight toward the Pacific coast from Paterson, New Jersey, at 9 22 this morning. Engine trouble delayed him after landing at Southfield near Tuxedo, with plans to reach Elmira before nightfall as he pursues a $50,000 Hearst prize.
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Maddleton, N
James Ward
Pacific Coast
Ward
Apm
Governors Island
Jersey City
Erie Railroad
Middleton
N. Y
Elmira
Bank clearings and realty transfers for Waterloo week
Waterloo weekly bank clearings ending September 14 1911 totaled 1 301 338 20. Friday through Thursday amounts listed with Monday to Thursday totals. Realty transfers show 59 deeds 63 258 51, 37 mortgages 95 985 08, 255 200 50 chattel mortgages and 1 300 00 bills of sale. Mortgage releases total 68, with 4 776 instruments recorded to date and 5 092 the previous year, a decrease of 316.
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Black Hawk Co Abstract Co
Waterloo
Storm heavily damages Joliet due to severe electrical storm
A severe corex electrical storm hit Joliet from midnight until 7 am causing widespread damage. Dozens of cars and factories were damaged, streetcar service was disrupted, and residences were struck by lightning. Flooding reached several inches with water depths noted along rivers and streets.
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Joliet
Corex
Suai
Lighaning
Cnimetel
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Dr. Anna Shaw
Mrs. Brannan
Conference of Governors
Executives
Follette
Harmon
Wilson
Martin
Dadeas
Borden
Union Depot
Burlington
Illinois Central
Beulah Binford Pictures
Etna
America
Bavaria
J.J. Ward
Fowler
California
Colfax
Cal
Robert G. Fowler
Sierras
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