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At Music Hall in Chicago, Eugene Chafin accepts his presidential nomination from the Prohibition party and delivers a speech that receives enthusiastic applause.

After being named the next President of the United States, William H. Taft delivers a speech to the North Carolina Society of New York at Hotel Astor. The Planet says it is “one of the most remarkable that he has as yet delivered, and all things…

A new daylight savings bill is introduced by Representative Peters, which “provides the arrangement of time shall be known as universal time.”

President Taft is the “central figure” in the service commemoration for the Gettysburg fighting of June and July 1863, where his daughter will “unveil the monument” for the soldiers.

President Roosevelt warns Japan that America will have to intervene if they cannot enforce their new labor policies.

An "amendment to the naval bill" is passed allowing for half of the Navy to be placed in the Pacific Coast.

“Governor Elect” Simeon Pennewill is sworn into office by his brother, who used an ancient Latin Bible.

An American consul, Arthur S. Cheney, and his wife die in the midst of an “earthquake disaster”.

Dutch population eagerly awaits the coronation of their new queen, an effort that has “twice before” failed to happen.

Boyd Conyers of Monroe, Georgia, a black soldier involved in Brownsville, speaks up about new evidence in the Brownsville affair and President Roosevelt’s lies, told to prove them guilty.