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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 cult “Sect of the Crimson God” is investigated by police, and accused of practicing human sacrifices following “repeated disappearances of persons in the region where the sect is active.”

A near fatal brawl between two men for possession of a cigarette is instigated by an argument over who should smoke it.

Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie is credited with founding 1800 public libraries, his donations “aggregating $51,596,963.”

A Polish miner is found slain on the Lackawanna railroad tracks with egregious injuries including a fractured skull, bullet holes in his kidneys, and knife wounds on his face.

An agreement between United Hatters of North America and the manufacturers is reached after a strike that “has closed twenty-two hat factories.”

An ocean pier near Cape May, N. J. is nearly demolished by a barge carrying “210 tons of stone” propelled by the tide “for a distance of two miles” before it struck.

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.