Democrats Roar at Chicago Convention In 1940
The Chicago convention selected Franklin D Roosevelt for president and John N Garner for vice president after a long series of speeches and protests. A two thirds rule dominated proceedings with contests from Louisiana and Minnesota resolved in Roosevelt favored outcomes. The wet plank narrowly passed amid noisy demonstrations.
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Ritchie
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Garner
Dallas
White
Traylor
Byrd
Reed
Murray
Baker
John Garner
Cox
John N. Garner
Chicago
Raskob
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
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Barkey
Louisiana
Minnesota
Walsh Va
Shouse
Huey Long
Barkley
Ralph C. O'Neil
Kansas
Walsh
F. Burns
South Carolina
John W. Davis
Wild Duck Chase Ends In Hilarious Dinner Twist
A bachelor hosts a dinner party in India and asks the cook to prepare wild duck. The cook can’t find a wild bird in the market and instead buys a tame duck, chasing it around the yard to make it wild, creating a comic scene after the host returns from work.
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India
Gone to the Dogs Phrase Origins in Urban History
The article notes ancient unsanitary streets allowed wolf like dogs to roam as scavengers and disposers of garbage. It explains the expression gone to the dogs marked outcasts and infamy reflecting a cultural view of dogs as lower brutes.
Temperature Variations Across Short Distances Noted
Weather observers report still nights bring as much as 10 degree shifts in close spaces with frost risk. Frost damages may occur on ground or low land when readings at higher ground show above freezing. Experts say the ideal recording height is five to six feet.
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United States Weather Bureau
God shuts his eyes say young girl to bishop
After evensong, a bishop rests in a country parson's garden with the parson's daughter. She asks, “What makes it get dark?” He invites her to answer, and she declares, “God shuts his eyes.” This line appears in a Boston Transcript item.
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Boston Transcript
Poetry Found To Be True Insect Attraction Study
A German testing suggests butterflies are drawn to color rather than scent even on artificial roses. Insects landed on both paper and real blooms among garden flora, supporting the idea that color drives attraction more than odor.
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Testa
Germany
Judges Selected for Midland Empire Fair 1982
Billings Montana. Judges for most departments at the 1982 Midland Empire Fair to be held in Billings September 5 to 9 have been named by the fair board. D. A. Jay and J. R. Dice will judge beef and dairy cattle. F. C. Cooper handles swine. Charles A. Greenfield will judge poultry. E. Co Isaac will judge horticulture with MSU staff to award in agriculture and floral divisions. Nora Hulbush and G. A. Roosevelt chosen for home economics and cooking. O. A. Sipple will judge honey. Other judges for sheep wool and fine arts to be announced within two weeks. Light frost noted in northwest Wyoming on July 4.
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Billings
Board of Fair Commissioners
D. A. Jay
Buffalo
Wyoming
Jay
Yellowstone Registered Livestock Association
J. R. Dice
Department of Dairy Husbandry
North Dakota Agricultural College
Fargo
Holstein- Friesian Association of America
F. C. Cooper
Willow Creek
Montana
Cooper
Charles A. Greenfield
Butte
Montara
Biontana
American Poultry Association
E. Co Isaac
Montana State College
Bozeman
Clyde McKee
J. E. Norton
Montana Branch Experiment Station
Dan E. Langohr
Nora Hulbush
Montana Extension Service
G. A. Roosevelt
Jack Clark
McLeod
G. E. Sands
F. A. Nelson
State College
O. A. Sipple
Gold Fever Draws Prospectors to New York Area
White Horse New York June 24 gold fever spreads to the Finlay son river region and its tributaries near Francis lake northeast of here. Prospectors arrive by airplane with a two ton truck and overland gear. Reports say good paying gravel and unclaimed claims, plus rumors of a rich strike in Carmack district, boost local excitement.
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White Horse
N. Y
Finlayson River
Francis Lake
Vancouver
B. C
White River
Carmack
Here
Klondike
Ninety Cyclists Start Twenty Sixth Tour of France
Ninety cyclists begin the twenty sixth annual bicycle tour of France on Wednesday joining five national teams and fifty individual riders for a grueling 2725 mile route through valleys and mountains ending July 31.
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Paris
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