Boom for Cummins boosts 1920 ticket talks
Chicago dispatch reports a Cummins boom for vice president in the Taft era race, with Borah backing Iowa’s governor and Allison-Dolliver strains testing loyalty. Other states weigh Fairbanks, Hughes, Sherman, Guild and Kellogg as potential VP choices amid a split Iowa delegation and uncertain New York stance.
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Chicago
Cummings
Iowa
Borah
Idaho
Cummins
Allison-Dolliver
Dolliver
Senate
Allison
Roosevelt
Fairbanks
New York
Hughes
S. P. Sherman
Sherman
Boston
Guild
Massachusetts
Governor Guild
Lodge
Crane
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Taft Forces Victory as Credentials Committee Sides With Taft
In Chicago on June 17 the credentials committee upheld Taft faction wins in Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky and Mississippi while Louisiana settled outside the committee. Pearl White keeps his national committee seat as Taft forces command a strong majority. Allies vow to press their contests to the convention floor amid sharp clashes between delegations. In a separate session the rules committee debated future convention representation for two hours without reaching a decision.
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Chicago
Committee On Credentials
Taft
National Committee
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Louisiana
Pearl White
Committee On Rules and Order
Detroit Lawyer Mary Stuart Coffin Dies After Laudanum Dose
Mrs. Mary Stuart Coffin, the city's only practicing woman attorney, died at St. Mary's hospital from laudanum effects in a suspected personal crisis. She and Phillip M. Coffin practiced law together until a divorce about a year earlier. Despondent over troubles, she was described as of melancholic temperament.
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Detroit
Mary Stuart Coffin
St. Mary's Hospital
Phillip M. Coffin
New York Denies Bubonic Plague on St Thomas Island
Emphatic and thoroughly substantiated denials from St Thomas in the Danish West Indies state there are absolutely no signs of the bubonic plague on the island and there never have been any.
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New York
St. Thomas
Danish West Indies
United States
Woman Leaps to Death at Like Minnetonka Breezy Point
Minneapolis reports Mrs. L. H. Tuthill, 38, wife of a Brook Lyon NY grammar school principal, leaving her brother J. S. Pomeroy’s summer home at Breezy Point and leaping into Lake Minnetonka. She had been visiting for a month and was clad only in a night robe.
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Minneapolis
L. H. Tuthill
Brooklyon
N. Y
J. S. Pomeroy
Security National Bank of
Minnetonka
Twin Waters brothers murdered in Alaska
Horace and Harvey Waters, twins from Clarinda, were killed in Alaska about two months ago. Advices reached their parents in Marshalltown, Iowa, on June 17. The fatal incident remains described in brief no further details were provided.
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Marshalltown
Horace
Harvey Waters
J. M. Waters
Clarinda
Alaska
Child Smothered in Fire at Berlin Neighbor Barn
In Grand Rapids Wisconsin on June 17 Romeo Wehr five year old son of Joseph Wehr a carpenter living in Berlin started a fire in a neighbor's barn while playing with matches and was smothered before rescue.
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Grand Rapids, Wis
Romeo Wehr
Joseph Wehr
Berlin
Sub-Committee Poised To Resolve Injunction Question
In Chicago on June 17 Taft and Roosevelt factions push for a platform injunction plank. The Taft camp claims advantage as Hopkins appoints a pro injunction thirteen to four opposing members. Full committee and convention outcomes remain disputed with Cannon leading opposition. Sub-committee hearings proceed, while postal savings, trusts, and rail planks draw battle lines. Washington pressure grows to back administration positions as new statehood and other items face revision. An ex convict allegedly shoots his wife in New York, condition unknown.
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Chicago
Taft
Toe
Ihiseen
Hopkins
Fli
Cannon
Union League Club
Seretor Hopkins
Postal Savings Bank
Wade Ellis
Senator Long
Philippines
Cuba
Negro and Savings Bank
New Mexico
Arizona
Washington
Roosevelt
Former Sing Sing inmate kills mother in law in Brooklyn
John Blankmeyer, a former inmate of Sing Sing serving time for wife beating, returned home on West One Hundred Ninety Four Street and fatally shot his mother in law Mrs C Meininger and wounded his wife Mrs Edna Blankmeyer when she tried to intervene. Blankmeyer fled and was at large. In Kansas City flood report waters recede with showers offering no new danger while Gloucester MA reports a gas vapor explosion injuring none seriously and a fisherman killed.
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John Blankmeyer
Sing Sing Prison
West One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Street
C. Meininger
Edna Blankmeyer
Blankmeyer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gloucester
Mass
Valentine Leadville
Alert
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George C. Call
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