City Council forms committee to study city hall site
City Council meeting presided by Mayor Hughes approves exploring purchase of the Court View Hotel for a city hall. A committee of Hackett McCullum Dinelli and City Attorney Haggard will report next meeting on terms of purchase. The body also plans street oiling, grade provision for a new office block, water line and arc lamp extensions, hydrant installation, and arc lamps at key intersections.
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Hughes
Court View
W. P. Hackett
G. D. McCullum
Sil Dinelli
Haggard
Central Station
M. T. McEldowney
Cougirl
McEldowney
Poynterville
Jones
Fourth Ward
Planigary Street
Central
Alabama Streets
L. and E. Railroad
Pendleton Street
Mutual and
Cook Avenue
Garo
Eastern Railroad
Ramsey
Finance Committee
M. D. Tarpy
Farmers Club Meeting Next Saturday at Court House
The Clark County Farmers Club will convene at the court house Saturday afternoon. Prof. Goode of State University Lexington will speak on hog culture and Mr May Goff of Bourbon County on alfalfa cultivation. Prof John L Bosley of City Schools will describe seed corn tests by the city school children. This is billed as the largest program yet.
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Clark County Farmers’ Club
Court House
Goode
State University of Lexington
May Goff
Bourbon County
John L. Bosley
Money and manners in a witty quip about earning
A witty remark notes money would be more enjoyable if spending matched earning. It humorously observes a man looks uglier when stripped to a night shirt, and especially when he removes it.
Death of Newark Justice of the Peace Reveals Turbulent Past
Frank Wilhelm a Newark justice of the peace is found dead with a bullet in his brain. A web of relationships emerges as his wife confesses love for architect Nicholas Sica and police question him. A second woman claims Wilhelm deserted her and two children in New York twelve years earlier.
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Frank Wilhelm
Newark
N. J
Nicholas Sica
Wilhelm
Sica
New York
Zuenndorf
Kansas City
Foundations Started On Meldowney Building Ten
The McEldowney lot on Cleveland avenue is being cleared for the foundation of a new office building. J W Wheeler, the contractor, will begin work next week with a crew. The structure will be fire proof, built of concrete and brick, with only doors and sash in wood.
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McEldowney
Cleveland Avenue
J. W. Wheeler
No Clue in Hold Up Case
Police strive to locate the robbery suspect or suspects who held up and robbed Mr. Stanhope on Washington Street Thursday night with no arrests yet. The force reports no clue to the culprit. A local boy can earn a day’s work in ten minutes instead of half a day. Lectures attended lengthily met expectations in every case.
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Mr. Stanhope
Washington Street
Beauty of Winchester And Will Be One She Will Be Proud Of
A brief note praising the beauty of Winchester and expressing confidence that the work will be something she can be justly proud of.
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Beauty
Winchester
Negro 15 Held to Grand Jury
Joe Davis, colored, arrested Friday on a highway robbery charge was tried in Police Court Saturday and held to await the next Circuit Court after failing to post 300 dollars bond. Davis is alleged to have held up and robbed a white man named Tom Bowers near the Stanhope robbery scene Thursday night.
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Joe Davis
Davis
Tom Bowers
Stanhope
Taft Calls Special Session of Congress for March 15
President Taft issued a call for a special session to convene March 15. The purpose is not stated in the call, but is understood to relate to tariff schedules, in line with his campaign promises.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Witness Held For Perjury in Carmack Murder Trial
Nashville march 6 the state pressed its case in the Carmack murder trial against Colonel D B Cooper Robin Cooper and John D Sharp. It impeached prosecution witnesses and challenged the Coopers presence on Seventh avenue. Attor ney General McCain issued a perjury warrant for S J Binning after he testified Carmack twisted a revolver cylinder.
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Nashville
Tenn
D. B
Robin Cooper
John D. Sharp
United States
E. W. Carmack
J. Binning
Coopers
Seventh Avenue
Carm
Carmack
Patterson
Robin
Brown
Judge Bradford
Colonel Cooper
Cooper
Bradford
Daisy Lee
Paul Davis
McCain
S. J. Binning
Barricaded in Kentucky home threatens officials
John W Thomas Jr fortifies his Shelby county residence in Lexington with two rifles pistols and 13 pounds of ammo and menaces anyone approaching The 60 summoned county guards refused to attack and state troops were requested but the adjutant general refused unless county officials resigned confirming a standoff with authorities
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Lexington
John W Thomas, Jr
Shelby County
Thomas
First Blood for Chicago Defeats Coast League Team 5 to 2
Chicago Americans beat the San Francisco Coast league club 5 to 2 in a March 6 exhibition game. Team No. 1 of the Chicago squad drew a large crowd as the initial 1909 season warmup before the real schedule begins.
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San Francisco
Chicago Americans
Chicago American No 2 defeats Los Angeles in opener 5 to 3
The Chicago American team No. 2 beat the Los Angeles Coast league squad 5 to 3 in the first game of the series on March 6 in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Panic injures six girls at city school fire alarm
Buffalo on March 6 reports six young girls severely bruised in a school panic at St. Stanislaus parochial school after a fire engine roared past a nearby dwelling catching fire. The frantic moment sent students sprawling as the alarm spread through the crowd.
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Buffalo
N. Y
St. Stanislaus Parochial School
Taft Names Cabinet Amid Inaugural Turbulence
Washington reports the Taft administration’s first step as the new president names his cabinet. Senate confirmation and oath of office proceed for Knox, MacVeagh, Dickinson, Wickersham, Hitchcock, Meyer, Ballinger, Wilson, Nagel, and others. An inheritance tax is floated in tariff talks with Ways and Means. A March 15 extra session is planned to focus on tariff revision only. Officials express optimism the session may end before June 1.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
George W. Wickersham
Messrs
Dickinson and
MacVeagh
Ways and Means Committee
Ratt
Congress
White House
Philander C. Knox
Pennsylvania
the Treasury
Franklin MacVeagh
Illinois
Jacob M. Dickinson
Tennessee
New York
Frank H. Hitchcock
Massachusetts
Navy
George von L. Meyer
Interior
Richard A. Ballinger
Agriculture
James Wilson
Iowa
Commerce
Labor
Charles Nagel
Missouri
Elimination of Factionalism Sought by Ohio Republicans
Ohio Republican leaders meet at National League of Republican Clubs in Washington to harmonize between the Ohio Republican league and state administration. Attendees include Arthur I. Vorys Guido Gores A Garford H D Davis and William F. Chambers. The informal gathering aims to end factionalism in Ohio politics.
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Ohio
Dayton Murder Victim Charles Tice Found Dead by Phone
Charles Tice, 42, recently arrived from Clear Springs Maryland, crawled to a telephone in Dayton Ohio on March 6 and told the operator he was seriously ill. Rescuers found him dead beside the instrument when they reached him.
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Dayton
Charles Tice
Clear Springs
Arriv Tice
Three Scalded In Explosion In Wapakoneta
Wapakoneta Ohio March 6 By the bursting of the boiler of a freight engine fireman Elmer Tripp of Elmwood Ohio B F Berry of Lexington Kentucky and J W Leffen of Louisville Kentucky were seriously scalded in the blast
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Wapakoneta
Elmer Tripp
Elmwood, O
B. F. Berry
Lexington, Ky
J. W. Leffen
Louisville Ky
Will Visit Liberia Congress Funds Investigation Commission
Adequate congressional appropriation at closing hours enables the state department to send a Lib eria bound commission of Robert C. Ogden Jacob H Hollander and Booker T Washington to investigate and report on conditions to strengthen the government. Robbers Murder Wealthy Widow Mrs Fanny Hagelgans a wealthy widow living alone on a Morgans station farm near Columbus Ohio was found dead at her home with a bullet wound her probable motive robbery.
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Congress
Washington
State Department
Liberia
Robert C. Ogden
Jacob H. Hollander
Booker T. Washington
Columbus
Fan Ny Hagelgans
Morgans Station
Women groups petition Mrs Taft to ban wine at White House
Columbus and Indianapolis report that all local women’s aid societies and clubs have joined a petition to Mrs. Taft urging her not to serve wine at public entertainments at the White House. The plea reflects reform currents influencing social events at the executive mansion.
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Columbus
Indy
Woman's Aid
Ieties
Woman's Clubs
Taft
White House
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Bean Bros
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W. H. Hodgkin & Co
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Ewer
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Io Parrish & Bradley
George Hi. Fox
Strode’s Drug Store
Dock Pigg
Old Kentucky
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Bedford & Tuttle
J. K. “Allan
Natural Gas Co
Sims
Dunn
N. Wasserboehr
Ls W. Butch
Winchester Ry
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W. T. Fox
J. S. Hayes
Winchester Electric Supply Company
J. H. Hopper
John Harrison
George Adams
George Gatson Neem
Leon Martin
J. H. House
Ewes
J. A. Taylor
R. A. Fluty
Andy Buneh Etrewe Ween Son
H. Bowman Tee
Luke Glaney
Farmers’ Club
Prof. Goode
State University
Mary A. Wilhelm
Cooper- Sharp
First Blood
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