Weeds and Loafers at Railway Stations
A reader urges railroads to curb both lazy loafers and aggressive weeds around depots. Traveling salesmen suggest reporting neglected weed patches to railway agents and stationmasters, paired with requests to remove loungers, as a practical path to cleaner grounds and safer stations.
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Louisville
Breeder's Gazette
Chicago
Eve
Iron Horse
Maine
Texas
Washington
Florida
Convicts to Build State Road with Artsy Landscape Plan
Two hundred convicts will be employed in constructing the north and south state road near Oklahoma City Oklahoma. The project emphasizes artistic landscape effects with the Arkansas river and streams providing scenic views. Curves along the creek and Cherokee hills will showcase natural beauty of the country.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Cherokee Hills
Meeting Postponed After Death Of General Huelsen Haeseler
Berlin reports the audience aboard the German battleship Deutschland at Kiel is deferred due to the death of General Count Huelsen Haeseler chief of the military cabinet. The emperor plans to return to Berlin Tuesday and holds a meeting with Chancellor von Buelow amid national mourning. Haeseler died of apoplexy after dinner at Donaueschingen. He served as imperial adjutant for 19 years and was the emperor's constant companion.
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Count Huelsen-Haeseler
Berlin
Count Huelsen- Haeseler
von Buelow
Kiel
Emper
Tuesda
Donauschingen
Missing Art Student Located in Chicago
Edna Clark, an Alameda art student missing since Oct. 27, is found safe in Chicago. A letter to her mother Anita Y. Mack says she is working there under an assumed name, and cites domestic misunderstandings as her reason for leaving. Authorities in Oakland and San Francisco had been seeking her.
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Oakland
Cal
Edna Clark
Alameda
San Francisco
Chicago
Anita Y. Mack
Sugar and Molasses Schedule Opens Tariff Review
The house ways and means committee began consideration of the sugar and molasses tariff schedule this morning. Agricultural products and provisions are set for Wednesday, wood and wood manufactures on Friday, and pulp papers and books on Saturday.
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Washington
House Committee On Ways and Means
Fires gut two Cleveland stores and flood adjoining buildings
A five story Kirby five and ten cent store and a Phillipsborn ladies wear shop on Euclid Avenue were gutted by fire. The Wage man Sons clothiers were flooded and the Guardian Trust bank building suffered smoke damage. Total loss estimated at 200000 with most covered by insurance. Two firemen were slightly hurt.
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Cleveland
F. M. Kirby Company
M. Phillipsborn Company
Euclid Avenue
J. Wageman Sons, Clothiers
Guardian Trust Company
Bryan Will Run For Senate
New York dispatch reports William J. Bryan plans to run for the United States Senate seat held by Senator Burkett. With Burkett's term due to end in two years, Bryan supporters seek to gain control as federal patronage is distributed next year. Republicans mobilize to block Bryan's bid.
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Bryan
Senate
New York
William J. Bryan
United States Senate
Burkett
Mr. Bryan
Congress
Japan's Stance on China After Dowager Empress Death
Tokyo states Japan will not act without consensus of all powers. It will await consultation among interested nations and seek a jointly satisfactory course before any move in Chinese affairs.
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Japan
Tokyo
China
Balloon Race From Los Angeles Fails Due to Conditions
The transcontinental balloon race started from Los Angeles was a disappointment as only the balloon America rose and drifted to the coast where it landed on the beach. The balloon United States did not ascend, following the example.
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Los Angeles
America
United States
Fray Follows Kidnaping in Erie Case
James Seldon aged 52 was stabbed to death during a kidnapping incident near Cambridge Springs. Eugene Hall is charged with the fatal assault as Mrs. Hall allegedly took the child, his stepdaughter, away while Seldon tried to intervene and pursue.
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Erie
James Seldon
Cambridge Springs
Eugene Hall
Movement to repeal Amis racing bill in Hot Springs
Hot Springs Arkansas November II reports a drive to repeal the Amis arts racing law and re establish racing under restrictions. The Business Men's league forms a committee to draft a reestablishment bill for the upcoming legislature amid expected legislative conflict.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Business Men’s League
Taft to Call Special Session After Inauguration
President elect Taft announced a special session of Congress will be convened soon after his March 4 inauguration to address tariff revision. He met with Roosevelt at the White House and then traveled to Cincinnati for family matters, returning via Hot Springs plans altered.
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Washington
Sixty-First Congress
William H. Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Judge Taft
Cincinnati
Taft
Hot Springs
Brooklyn
N. Y
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Death of Mrs Belle Gunness Identified in Fire
Laporte Ind Nov 1 The death of Mrs Belle Gunness is established by Dr I P Norton identifying teeth in the fire ruins and corroborated by rings and other evidence in the Lamphere trial. The case moves toward proving Lamphere set the Gunness house fire and caused the deaths of the woman and her three children.
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Laporte
Ind
Belle Gurness
I. P. Norton
Ray Lamphere
Prosperity Association claims halting attacks on big business
St Louis dated note from National Prosperity Association leader F C Simmons announces completion of work to curb Roosevelt messages and railroads anger. The letter credits reduced muckraking and demagogic talk, noting a healthier public sentiment toward large corporations in the south and southwest.
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St. Louis
F. C. Simmons
National Prosperity Association
Association
Roosevelt
Congress
South
Southwest
Fire Destroys Indiana Reformatory and Jeffersonville Works
In Indiana the state reformatory at Jeffersonville and the Indiana Manufacturing plant suffered a large fire destroying five reformatory buildings and most of the Jeffersonville operation. Loss estimated at 250000 dollars with no deaths. 1300 inmates remained secured, some cheering from cells as firefighters fought the blaze. Railroads in Arkansas ignore three cent passenger rate order. a hearing will determine enforcement and possible prosecutions.
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Louisville
Indiana State Reformatory
Indiana Manufacturing Company
Jeffersonville
Ind
Ohio River
Reformatory
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Railroad Commission
Daughters of the Confederacy reject ban on northern in-laws
In Atlanta on November 1 the United Daughters of the Confederacy voted down a proposition to exclude northern women admitted by marriage to descendants of Confederate veterans from future membership after an animated session at the annual convention.
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Atlanta
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Jealousy Ends in Murder Suicide in Dayton
Austin Turner a blacksmith shot and mortally wounded his wife Minnie in Dayton Ohio amid jealous suspicions she consorted with other men He then fatally shot himself Both were taken to a hospital in an unconscious state.
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Dayton, O
Austin Turner
Minnie
Rev Dr G Brinley Morgan Dies After Auto Crash
News records the death of Rev Dr G Brinley Morgan in New Haven Conn after being struck by an automobile. The report also notes a burglary at Leetonia Ohio where burglars took 100 from B and O ticket office.
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G. Brinley Morgan
New Haven
Conn
Leetonia
Aero Club
United Kingdom
Wright Brothers
Nikolai Khomyarakoff
Duma
Columbus
Russell Sage
Nick Veasey
Coldwater
Miss
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