Roosevelt Fight Over Temporary Chair In Chicago Convention
Roosevelt supporters plot action to seat contested delegates and block the national committee's temporary roll. Timothy Woodruff defects to Roosevelt while Taft allies pledge loyalty. Battle centers on California and New York delegates and the choice of temporary chairman in Chicago.
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Chicago
National Committee
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Borah
Coliseum
Taft
Rosewater
Senator Root
Root
California
Hiram Johnson
New York
Roosevelt Leaders Issue Stand on Delegates Conflict
Chicago June 16. Amid claims from Taft forces of a “preak” and accusations that Roosevelt would steal delegates, Roosevelt leaders issued a frank statement. They said that regardless of the final delegate roundup, Colonel Roosevelt remains firm in his campaign position.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Taft
Prominent Figures on Chicago Convention Battleground
The article describes artillery experiments directed by Capt. Francis J. Behr using a sighting platform and rapid exposure camera. Negatives were produced at 12,000th of a second intervals, with some images captured before the projectile left the muzzle. Mortar tests used the same device with similar success.
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Chicago
Francis J. Behr
Platform clash as Taft and Roosevelt drafts outlined
Chicago June 16 Taft and Roosevelt platforms in outline for resolutions committee. Roosevelt plan largely prepared by friends led by Garfield Pinchot White while Taft deliberations open with Crane and Hilles in attendance. Both back tariff reform and anti monpoly measures, with Roosevelt favoring broader popular government tools and a stronger conservation stance.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
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Garfield
Gifford Pinchot
William Allen White
Kansas
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Pinchot
Roosevelt Adherents Stand Firm Against Assembly Plan
National committee faces pressure as convention lines are drawn and preparations to quell disturbances are underway. Sergeant at Arms Stone coordinates security while police arrangements for the Coliseum are perfected. The committee hosts a luncheon and baseball outing with no speeches or dissent noted.
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Roosevelt
National Committee
Stone
Fred W. Upham
Lions and the Lambs
Rollers
Siberia to Host Romanoff Jubilee Exposition
An exposition is planned in 19138 at Kha barovsk, Siberia, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanoff reign in Russia.
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Khabarovsk
Romanoff
Russia
Socialist Campaign Opens in Chicago With Debs and Seidel
In Chicago on June 16 the Socialist party launched its campaign with a full ticket. Eugene V. Debs and Emil Seidel addressed crowds at Riverview park. Debs blasted Taft Roosevelt and the two major parties as capitalist machine politics and warned socialism would save the nation from exploitation by corporate interests.
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Socialist Party
Eugene V. Debs
Emil Seidel
United States
Riverview Park
Taft
Roosevelt
Harmon
Bryan
Self photographing shells capture firing sequence
United States army experiments produced a 12 inch projectile that takes its own pictures during flight. Early attempts with gun carriage cameras failed due to recoil and uneven operation. The projectiles now carry a camera linked to the bore to photograph each stage of discharge.
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Chicago Tribune
United States Army
A scattered review of early 20th century events
The article surveys diverse topics from a crab released on England’s east coast traveling 98 miles, 1911 English industrial disputes affecting 665000 workers, to 92 wage disputes tackled by conciliation boards that year. It also notes civic cleanliness efforts in Weir Kansas, hydraulic blasting methods in England, and praise for American railways at the Delhi durbar. Additional items cover world population and gender ratios, Portuguese phosphorescent fish bait, a shepherd dog’s fate, Simmons College co op store start by Margaret Davis, and Taft Roosevelt convention dynamics including delegation loyalties and nominations.
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Dixon’s Claims Stir Taft Delegates From Several States
A Mississippi letter urged Taft to accept the Republican nomination, praising his square deal and party welfare. Hawaii delegates aligned with California to back Roosevelt, signaling a split in early convention maneuvering.
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Republican Party
United States
Hawaii
Taft
California
Roosevelt
Dynamite Blast Kills Three in LA Aqueduct Tunnel
In Los Angeles on June 16 three men died instantly and more than a dozen were injured when six pounds of dynamite exploded prematurely in the Clearwater tunnel of the Los Angeles aqueduct near Saugus, thirty three miles north of the city.
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Oldest Philadelphia Methodist Church Edifice
St George s church on Fourth Street near Vine is the oldest continuously used Methodist church building in Philadelphia. It was dedicated 142 years ago and served as a hospital and later a riding school for the cavalry after British occupation in 1777. Weapons were found around the building in peacetime.
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