Roosevelt Arrives in Chicago as Progressive Convention Opens
Roosevelt travels to Chicago aboard an 18 hour train from New York and is greeted by delegates as the Progressives prepare for their convention. Key figures include Governor Johnson and Colonel Parker while debates center on Roosevelt's stance and potential ticket arrangements.
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Hiram W. Johnson
California
Johnson
Colonel Parker
New Orleans
Roosevelt
Chicago
New York
Dixon
Montana
Provisional National Committee
Beveridge
Art Institute
Michigan Avenue
West Virginia
Dawson Montana
Idaho
Nebraska
West
Doherty
Dorchester
George Mayo
Foxcroft
Mayo
Detroit
Matthew Hale
Illinois Central Station
Congress Hotel
Hiram Johnson
Faneuil Hall
Roosevelt Ultimatum on Progressive Party Platform
Roosevelt declares the Progressive party must accept his doctrines to be its standard bearer. He will present his confession of faith to Chicago delegates drafting the platform and will not accept nomination unless the platform gains his approval. He warns his views may be labeled socialism or anarchy, but insists they reflect his beliefs. He heads to Chicago to state his position and seek the presidential nomination.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Oyster Bay
New York
New Party
National Progressive Party
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Women Capture Six Delegate Spots At Convention
Massachusetts delegates include Elizabeth Towne Helen Cooke Eleanor Garrison and Grace Johnson with six seats decided at a Chicago conference. Other male delegates J L Larson W L Towne H P Haines to join. Party gathers at LaSalle Hotel to organize with Frank A Morrill likely leader.
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Massachusetts
Park
Dorchester
Congress Hotel
Elizabeth Towne
Holyoke
Richard Washburn Child
Cohasset
Helen Temple Cooke
Wellesley
Eleanor Garrison
Boston
Grace A. Johnson
Cambridge
Alice Carpenter
Brookline
Faneuil Hall
Towne
Miss Garrison
Miss Cooke
Dana Hall
Child
Richard W. Child
J. L. Larson
Quincy
W. L. Towne
H. P. Haines
Malden
New England
LaSalle Hotel
Frank A. Morrill
Norwood
Night Before Doings in Bull Moose Hotels
Chicago date dispatch reports Southern negroes barred from the Bull Moose party criticizing Roosevelt’s Lincoln comparisons. Delegates and business leaders, including Cecil Lyon and Franicis J. Heney anecdotes, fill the scene with hotel chatter and boisterous pre convention humor.
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Bull Moose
Chicago
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
McCall Announces Candidacy for U S Senator Seat
Congressman Samuel W McCall declares his bid to succeed Winthrop Murray Crane in the Massachusetts Senate and calls for direct election of senators endorsing ratification of the constitutional amendment. He says no candidate will be backed by him for legislative nominations and warns against intrusions by aspirants.
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Samuel W. McCall
United States
Winthrop Murray Crane
McCall
W. Murray Crane
Senate
Massachusetts
National House of Representatives
Committee On Ways and Means
United States Senate
Weeks
Draper
Bull Moose
Taft
Roosevelt
John P. Leahy
Douglas
Fitzgerald
Colonel Roosevelt
Wild Bill Flinn and Heney loom large at Chicago convention
Wild Bill Flinn threatens to bite Assistant Police Chief Schnettler if provoked as he helps run the scene with Roosevelt's support. Francis J. Heney remains in Chicago ready to recount his actions toward Abe Ruef, interrupted at the Republican gathering by time limits.
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Schnettler
Roosevelt
Francis J. Heney
Chicago
Abe Ruef
Notification for Wilson Nomination at Sea Girt Delayed
Senator-elect Ollie M. James of Kentucky announced changes to the notification plan for Woodrow Wilson. The ceremony will start at 3 PM Wednesday to allow a luncheon for 52 committee Democrats. The party meets in New York, trains to Sea Girt, with governors and several Congress members expected.
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Washington
Ollie M. James
Kentucky
Woodrow Wilson
Sea Girt
Wilson
James
New York
Congress
Mr. James
Pope Pius Receives 238000 GIFI Inheritance
Rome Aug 4 Local newspapers report the Pope will receive a legacy of one million marks equivalent to 238000 dollars from the estate of the late Cardinal Anthony Hubert Fischer of Cologne. The bequest is reported as part of German church annuities and charitable provisions.
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Rome
Anthony Hubert Fischer
Cologne
Auto Hits Aged Newton Lumber Dealer In Salisbury
Alvah W. Sargent a 71 year old Newton N H lumber dealer was knocked down and seriously injured by a car driven by John P. Lane of Everett at Salisbury square near 10 45 in Newburyport. Sargent suffered internal injuries face and head wounds and severe facial burn from exhaust Lane said the accident was unavoidable and Sargent leaped into the highway thinking an electric car was coming. Lane drove to Homeopathic Hospital Newburyport and then to Salisbury police. Hospital reports say Sargent in dangerous condition but expected to recover.
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Newburyport
Alvah W. Sargent
Newton
N. H
John P. Lane
Bakers Row
Everett
Salisbury
Homeopathic
Lane
Salisbury Square
Sargent
Auto Crash Injures Driver in Pittsfield
In Pittsfield Aug 4 a collision near the city injured Thomas McLeod who was thrown from a car driven by Arthur O'Brien after a barbed wire fence plunge. Mr and Mrs Harry Ogden Bates Jr of Morristown N J escaped serious injury. Bates did not press charges. O'Brien says he had 40000 miles without an accident prior to the crash.
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Pittsfield
Harry Ogden Bates, Jr
Morristown
N. J
Lenox
Dalton
Bates
Thomas McLeod
Winthrop Murray Crane
Arthur O'Brien
O’brien
Auto Hills Girl of 3 Struck and Killed in Street
Doris Virginia Clark aged three, daughter of Mr and Mrs David H Clark of 10 Lowell street, was struck and killed by Eugene J Kempton of Haverhill a clothing dealer at the corner of Summer and Lowell streets in Lynn. Kempton surrendered to police and was held on 3000 bond. Police attributed the death to children playing in the street.
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Lynn
Doris Virginia Clark
David H. Clark
Lowell Street
Eugene J. Kempton
Haverhill
Summer
Lowell Streets
Kempton
Clark
Doris Clark
Clinic for Study of Cerebral Meningitis Opens in Vienna
The Wiener Staatsblatt reports the opening of a clinic for cerebral meningitis in Vienna under Dr. Berthold Beer. Funded as a Harriman memorial by BE. Harriman’s friends, the clinic will allow American doctors to conduct research and may lead to a similar U.S. clinic.
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Vienna
Wiener Estrablatt
Berthold Beer
Harriman
BE. H. Harriman
United States
Titanic Memorial Fete to Aid Washington Arch Effort
Gloucester hosts a lawn fete at Lookout Hill on Aug. 23 to raise funds for a Titanic memorial arch in Washington. Notables including Mrs Taft and many prominent women support the cause. admission is $5. Edith Wynne Matthison and other arts figures perform.
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North Shore
Lookout Hill
John Hays Hammond
United States
Taft
White House
Montserrat
Hammond
Washington
Edith Wynne Matthison
Charles Rann Kennedy
William K. Harcourt
Harcourt
Alice Fisher
William Howard Taft
Eugene N. Foss
Gordon Abbott
R. L. Agassiz
J. Bryce Allan
Oliver Ames
Larz Anderson
Reed Anthony
Cecelia Beaux
Prescott Bigelow
Parkman Blake
William J. Boardman
Robert S. Bradley
Maria H. Bray
G. B. Chandler
Winthrop Murray Crane
John S. Curtis
George H. Crocker
Clara Curtis
Robert Fulton Cutting
Walter D. Denegre
William F. Draper
R. D. Evans
J. Sloat Fassett
H. Reginald Fitz
Henry Clay Frick
Augustus P. Gardner
John L. Gardner
T. Harrison Garrett
Wallace Goodrich
David S. Greenough
John Greenough
Henry Ll. Higginson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Miss Hunt
James Marsh Jackson
Claude Kilpatrick
Maynard Ladd
Dorchester Girls Gear Up For Beach Swimming Meet
Dorchester district will see its top girl swimmers compete today at Tenean Beach under Municipal A A auspices. Maurice R. Smith will oversee events starting at 2 15 pm across three classes with 100 plus entries including Winnie Conley Gertrude Gibson Nellie Cummings Grace Conley Dorothy Belknap Rose Lakeman Winnie Hill Nellie Hurley Mollie Rauschal. A rescue occurred yesterday when two young girls tangled while swimming. Smith helped them to shore and they were unharmed.
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Dorchester
Tenean Beach
Municipal A. A
Maurice R. Smith
Winnie Conley
Gertrude
Marion Gibson
Nellie Cummings
Grace Conley
Dorothy Belknap
Rose Lakeman
Winnie Hill
Nellie Hurley
Mollie Rauschal
Gertrude Gibson
Rescue Cows and Hay Help Quincy's Fire Fight
Quincy firemen rescued 10 cows from the stable of K A Lavero at 28 25 Smith street then hauled out 10 tons of hay to extinguish a fire causing 500 dollars damage. A false alarm diverted units from Box 482 a mile away. an auto seen near the box may lead to an arrest today.
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Quincy Fire Department
K. A. Lavero
Smith Street
Quincy
Motor boat wreck kills three on Delaware River
Three men from Bristol Pennsylvania were drowned when their motor boat was struck by the freight steamer John W Garrett near Burlington New Jersey. Survivors say George Tyler Jr. of Burlington was thrown from the craft and rescued by the ship’s crew.
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Philadelphia
John W. Garrett
Delaware River
Burlington
N. J
Robert Heatherington
George Vandine
John Scudder
Bristol
Penn
George Tyler, Jr
Airplane crosses Channel in storm. lands damaged
An aeroplane with a pilot and two passengers crossed from Douai to Ashford in a storm. The craft collided with a tree on landing, its wings smashed, but all aboard escaped injury.
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London
English Channel
Douai
Ashford
Kent
Officer Lyons Rescues Child From Jamaica Pond
Officer Lyons of the Jamaica Plain station dives into Jamaica Pond to save 8 year old Katherine Noonan who slipped from a pier near Chestnut Avenue. The Brookline girl, trapped underwater, was pulled free and revived by the officer.
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Katherine Noonan
Jamaica Pond
Officer Lyons
Jamaica Plain
Brookline Avenue
Brookline
Chestnut Avenue
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