Lowden boom faces opposition as convention nears
Cleveland dispatch reports growing opposition to the Lowden vice presidential bid while party committee work continues on contest seating. The National League of Women Voters arrives led by Julia Latroth to push platform planks including world court entry and welfare aims. Ralph Beaver Strassburger arrives aiming to attach a beer and light wine plank to sway eastern states.
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Cleveland
Lowden
Illinois
Coolidge
National Committee
Tennessee
Texas
Creager
E. H. R. Green
Terrell
Hetty Green
Georgia
E. S. Richardson
Marshallville
A. L. Felton
Henry Lincoln Johnson
Negro National Committee
National Cemetery
Andersonville
Richardson
Americus
Robertson
Johnson
Felton
Eigth
Harry Beck
Dallas
Arkansas
Scipio A. Jones
Remmel
Wallace Townsend
National League of Women Voters
Julia Lathrop
Federal Children's Bureau
Ralph Beaver Strassburger
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Estern States
Mrs Compton Injured In Princeton Car Accident
Mrs Luther M Compton of Princeton was badly injured when her car struck a guard rail on East Princeton avenue and rolled onto its side in the roadside ditch. She was accompanied by another Princeton woman who escaped injury. Her left hand was badly mangled.
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Compton
Luther M. Compton
Princeton
Princeton Avenue
Woman Severely Injured In Elevator Incident
A woman sustained deep lacerations with a finger severed and others nearly cut off in an elevator accident. She was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital where doctors provided immediate treatment and hoped to save the remaining injured fingers.
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St. Luke's Hospital
Senate pressed to finish work on bridge bills and oil report
In the final hours Congress faces action on bridge bills and similar measures while the Senate contemplates the majority oil committee report on naval bases. The deficiency bill with reclamation relief rider and routine matters dominate the Senate night session as the House also works through private bills and routine reports.
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Senate
House
Prohibition Party Nominates Faris and Brehm for Presidency
The Prohibition party adopted its platform and nominated a national ticket in Columbus. H. P. Faris of Missouri was named for president with Miss Marie C. Brehm of California as candidate for vice president after Dr. A. P. Gouthey was briefly nominated and then withdrawn. The convention also elected Dr. D. Leith Colvin and others to procedural leadership as tensions and withdrawals marked the session.
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Prohibition Party
A. P. Gouthey
Seattle
Wash
Evangelist
H. P. Faris
Clinton
Marie C. Brehm
Long Beach
California
Brehm
Dr. Gouthey
Alfred L. Moody
Waterloo
Indiana
Gouthey
Mr. Faris
William F. Varney
New York
Presbyterian Church
Aaron S. Watkins
Ohio
Pennsylvania Progressives Back La Follette for President
Progressive party delegates from Pennsylvania were instructed to vote for Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin for president if his name remains on the ballot at the national convention of the Progressive Political Action group in Cleveland on July 4. The convention also approved a resolution praising Progressive senators and congressmen for Teapot Dome exposures and DOJ investigations.
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Progressive Party
Pennsylvania
LaFollette
Wisconsin
National Convention For
Progressive
Cleveland
Teapot Dome
Department of Justice
Returns Lacking in Ten Counties
West Virginia returns drag in May 27 primaries as counties miss tally for Republican and Democratic delegates. Secretary of State seeks supreme court writ. ten counties including Barbour Berkeley Caledoun Hampshire Mingo Preston Raleigh Randolph Webster and Wirt remain incomplete.
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Hancock County
Houston G. Young
Attorney General’s Office
Supreme Court
Barbour
Berkeley
Caledoun
Hampshire
Mingo
Presto Raleigh
Rendolph Webster
Wirt
Associated Press
Une
Juliag Hearne
Wheeling
Charles J. Schuck
J. H. Brewster
Weston
A. Powell
Harrisville
M. Edeward Hereman
Spencer
Samuel A. Simmons
York
Monongatia
Mason
Pritt
Day
Perrin
Hearne
Schuck
Barker
Wyckoff
Otto
Obrien
Simmons
Hiesman
Weissenberger
Kitt
McDermitt
Laing
Hines
Ferguson
Charles Dice
Lewisburg
Randolph Bias
Williamson
Dice
Howard Sutherland
W. E B. Glasscock
A. B. White
J. H. Gaines
Joan Marshall
Parkersburg
Boyd Jarrell
Huntington
Sutherland
Glasscock
White
Gaines
Jarrell
Marshall
Bias
Miller
Kirk
Board
Blake
Hepburn
Peadro
Gadd
Buster
Parson
Guinn
Viquensney
Bayard
Ewing
Handlan
Lowe
Brown
Hendricks
Sandridge
Spears
Thompson
Frank G. Bland
Clarksburg
Louis A. Johnson
Clarksbur
Johnson
Bland
Haymond
Bell
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W. G. Peterkin
Peterkin
Robert Wilson
Bailey
Prunty
Don Chafin
Logan
Luther H
Clarke Kyle
B. Kemp Littlepage
W. A. MacCorkle
Pension amendment to aid Spanish American War veterans killed
Washington June 6 The Dial amendment to the omnibus pension bill increasing pensions for Spanish American War veterans was eliminated in conference. Conferees said President Coolidge expressed unwavering opposition to the provision.
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Dial
Coolige
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