Harding's Surprise Rally Spurs Balloting at Chicago Convention
The Chicago convention entered a long balloting day as Senator Harding of Ohio surged on the eighth ballot with 133 votes, while General Wood trailed in second and Lowden rose to 308 on the final tally before a 4 p.m. recess. Delegates faced a tense session amid hot weather and shifting loyalties as talks of a Harding bloc circulated.
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Lodge
Orfe
Wood
General Wood
Lowden
Harding
Pennsylvania
Hiram Johnson
Michigan
Johnson
Ing
Coliseum
Cancue
New York
Sousa
Chirmah Lodge
Republican delegates renew bid for presidential nomination
At the Coliseum in Chicago delegates to the stalled Republican convention began another ballot attempt to nominate a presidential candidate. The day opened with anticipation of an early ballot.
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Hugh Baillie
United Press
Coliseum
Chicago
Gompers Denounces Republican Platform Denies Labor Demands
President Samuel Gompers denounces the Republican party in a special A L of L report in Montreal. He accuses the GOP platform of opposing labor and seeks to mobilize four million workers to oppose the party and its presidential candidate. He highlights silent labor pledges on association and collective bargaining.
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Ralph H. Couch
United Press
Montreal
Que
Samuel Gompers
Republican Party
Gompers
Gomper
San Francisco
Gomperé
Republic
Labor
Banks to Close Thursday Afternoons in Athens
The banks of Athens will close at noon on Thursday each week starting June 17 until September 9. The Bank of Athens N. B. Aesoc. The Athens National Bank and Security Savings Bank 12 2.
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Banks of Athens
Bank of Athens N. B. Aesoc
Athens National Bank and Security Savings Bank
Alienists to be Called in Amesville Murder Case
Prosecutor Bartels issues subpoenas for ten eminent alienists to testify before the grand jury next week on the sanity of Ross Howard charged with murdering his father and mother near Amesville. Experts from Athens Columbus Toledo offer opinions to decide if he is insane and committed to Lima State Hospital or held for trial. Howard shows remorse for his mother’s death but not for his father.
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Bartels
Ross Howard
Amesville
Ohio
C. S. McDougal
J. L. Henry
Athens
Berry
Athens State Hospital
O. 0. Fordyce
Toledo
Pritchard
State Hospital For Insane At
Columbus
Goddard
Heand
Department of Juvenile Research
Deuschle
J. M. Howard
Amenville
Lewis Howard
Moe
Eadallion
Ward
Howard
Lima State Hospital
Record Navy Enlisted Men Enter Annapolis
One hundred eighty-one enlisted men of the navy and marine corps passed the entrance examination for the Naval Academy, a record. Ten were marines and the rest navy. The previous high was 63 in 1918. Washington date June 12.
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Washington
Navy and
Marine Corps
Naval Academy
Navy Department
Naval Service
Two Die in Canton Auto Crash Fire Collision
Mercedes Burrell age 19 of Malvern and Guy annum age 24 of Minerva were killed when their car burned after striking a Wheeling and Lake Erie train at a crossing near Canton.
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Canton
Mercedes Burrell
Malvern
Guy Annum
Minerva
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Missing boy located in Cleveland
Della Klinger reports a child matching Blakeley Coughlin, 13 months, was brought to her Norristown rooming house by a man. She telegraphed the mother, confirming the infant appears in good health as police widen a city hunt with surrounding towns to assist.
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Cleveland
Della Klinger
Blakeley Coughlin
Norristown
Coughlin
Smith
1916 Republican Convention Balloting Fragment
Balloting shows Hughes Weeks Roosevelt La Follette and DuPont with scattered tallies. The clipped OCR lists percentages and vote counts across ballots, reflecting a fragmented early convention tally.
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Hughes
Bee Ea ‘Roosevelt
la Follette
DuPont
Curfew Law Enforced In Omaha With Nightly Warnings
The curfew law is to take effect immediately. At 9 PM every evening, moving picture theatres will flash a warning and a factory whistle will blow to alert children under 18 that it is time to be in bed.
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Omaha
Moving Picture Theatres
Explosion at mine store kills many in Lower Hungary
A Vienna dispatch reports a dynamite store explosion at a mine in Lower Hungary causing heavy loss of life. About 170 bodies were recovered with at least 20 more feared dead. the incident involves the Roumanian state railway.
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Londos
Lower
Hungary
Vienna
Embargo on Coal Car Shipments to Lake Erie Ports
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an embargo on coal car load shipments to Lake Erie ports for water trans shipment effective June 13. H M Griggs of the Ore and Coal Exchange Cleveland was named agent to issue permits and oversee pooled consignment movements under his direction.
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Washington
Lake Erie
Interstate Commerce Commission
H. M. Griggs
Ore and Coal Exchange
Cleveland
Griggs
Harding 15 N T Rage for Re-election
Senator Harding files declaration for re election at 11 58 PM in Columbus with George B Harrig of Cleveland as filer He faces five opponents J P Walser Frank Willis R M Wanamaker Macy Walcutt and Walter F Brown Names of two Smiths enter race for Secretary of State including Harry C Smith and Harold G Smith Protests possible over name similarity
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Columbus
Harding
Secretary of State
George B. Harrig
Cleveland
Harris
Chicago
J. P. Walser
Akron
Frank 8. Willis
Delaware
R. M. Wanamaker
Macy Walcutt
Fairfield County
Walter F. Brown
Toledo
Friends of
Harvey C. Smith
Charles Q. Hildebrandt
Wilminston
Previous Republican conventions and nominated candidates
Summary of historical party conventions listing sites from 1856 to 1916 and the nominees chosen. It includes Philadelphia Chicago Baltimore Cincinnati Minneapolis St Louis and names such as Abraham Lincoln Ulysses Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James G Blaine Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Charles E Hughes James A Garfield.
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Place
Philadelphia
Chicago
Baltimore
Cincinnati
MinneapolIs
St.” Louis
John C. Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
Grant
Rutherford
B. Hayes
James G. Blaine
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
William H. Taft
William
H. Taft
James A. Garfield
Benjamin
Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles E. Hughes
Seven Navy crew drown as squall sinks Eagle boat
Seven members of Eagle boat No. 25 crew including three officers and four seamen are feared dead after the vessel capsized in a squall on the Ngotla river near Wilmington Delaware. The steamer Thomas Clyde rescued 46 and four others. one man swam ashore after drilling a hole in the boat. Navy ships rushed to the scene to aid in rescue efforts.
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Eagle Boat
Wilmington
Del
United States Navy
Ngotla
Toy
Thomas Clyde
Independence Call Out
Hog Island
Navy Department
League Island
Cape May
Naming the Republican Candidate In a Chicago Coliseum
Chicago June 12 The great business of naming the Republican candidate for president unfolds in a vast Coliseum where under heavy air a ballot is taken. Delegates and gallery spectators react as states announce votes for Hiram W. Johnson and William Lowden while Robert M. La Follette faces hisses and boos. The decision for the nation's nominee rests with a thousand men inside the arena.
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Chicago
Sprostesa
Pyil Modi
Oes
California
Lodge
Lowden
la Follette
Wisconsin
Robert M. la Follette
Coliseum
Farmland Jail Moves to Edge of Town
Winchester Indiana report says Farmland city jail, in service over 50 years, has been relocated to the outskirts and is now used for storage, leaving the town without a local jail for the first time.
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Winchester
Ind
Taxis at Your Service and Red Men Memorial Meeting
Taxis operate from six a.m. to ten p.m. offering rides anywhere and can be reached at Taxi Court House Station, phone 19. All Red Men are invited to meet at Wigwam on Sunday June 18 at one o’clock for memorial services with Dring Gnntada HUWETS W. D. Tucker Sachem listed.
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Taxi Court
Wigwam
Dring Gnntada
Captain Lewis A Myrick Dies in Colorado Ranch
Mrs C H Welch received a wire announcing the death of Captain Lewis A Myrick at his Boque Colorado home after weeks of heart trouble. He was known as a Muskingum river man when boats plied the Ohio from Zanesville to Marietta and later served as a ranger in lumber lands. He settled on a Colorado ranch and cultivated fruit and alfalfa. Eleven years ago he married Olive Wilson of Heng. Mrs Welch, sister of Mrs Myrick, plans a visit in two weeks and will depart immediately.
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C. H. Welch
Lewis A. Myrick
Boque
Col
Captain Myrick
Muskingum
Zanesville
Marietta
Colorado
Ohio
Olive Wilson
AtHeng
Welch
Myrick
Myricks
Mercy Hospital Nurses Home Construction Begins
At Hamilton June 12 work started on a $75,000 nurses home at Mercy Hospital funded by a loan to be repaid from future gifts. The three story reconstruction on N Second St will include a lecture room, teaching lab, gym and baths, six double dorm rooms per floor, and a roof garden, modeled after Cincinnati hospitals.
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Hamilton
Mercy Hospital
Sisters of Mercy
War Chest
Owens
N. Second St
Cincinnati General Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
Baby found in basket after car stops at orphans home
An automobile halted briefly before the Bartholomew County Orphans Home in Columbus Indiana and sped away. A infant girl several days old was later discovered abandoned in a basket on a porch nearby.
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Columbus
Ind
Bartholomew County Orphans Home
Senators plan to send aid to Ohio candidate
Chicago June 12 The senatorial group plans a bid to seize control of the Republican national convention and back Warren G Harding for president. Johnson Borah and other leaders push a drive to win delegates from New England and the Mid West while Wood and Lowden vie for support amid a deadlock.
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Ohio
Harold DP
Jacobs
United Press
Chicago
Warren G. Harding
William Borah
Hiram Johnson
Wood
Lowden
White House
Johnnson
Johnson
Blackstone
Cabal
Harding
New
Smoot
Watson
Middlewest
Old Guard
Matron and Coed Return After Nighttime Missing Hunt
Mrs. Jennie Odell matron of Lindley Hall dormitory and Margaret Higby disappeared after returning from a girls hike. A search party led by Sheriff Parker located them near the Mulligan farm around 2 to 3:30 this morning. They had mistaken directions and hid from passing cars before being brought back to town.
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Jennie Odell
Lindley Hall
Margaret Higby
McKee
Sheriff Parker
Athens
Mulligan Farm
Dean Voigt
Odell
Clarks Chapel
Night death Probe Focuses on Elwell Case
New York June 12. Police seek several women who had keys to the home of Joseph Bowne Elwell, noted International Whist authority and turf figure, after a bullet wound left him dying. Police discount robbery and self inflicted death theories as they search for motive. A pistol was not found. money and jewelry lay on the bed. Elwell's movements night of his death included a party. he returned home about 2 A M. His father E L El denied losses on tracks and said his wife had lived apart since 1916.
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New York
Joseph Bowne Elwell
International Whist Authority
New Rhodes
Elwell
Elw
E. L. el
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