G O P Leaders Seek Change as Convention Looms
Chicago dispatches describe uncertainty and restraint among GOP leaders and a wary push to reshape the convention contest two days before the Republican and progressive gatherings. Delegates, alternates, and insiders assess Hughes Roosevelt and Wilson, while plans to trigger a break unfold amid cautious maneuvering in hotel lobbies and corridors. Illinois Governor Philipp, ill with appendicitis, remains out of danger after surgery and was expected to attend the Chicago convention.
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Chicago
Colliseum
Wilson
Roosevelt
Hughes
Milwaukee
Emmanuel L. Philipp
Wisconsin
Philipp
Mail seized by British as Noordam halted at Falmouth
A Hague dispatch reports the Noordam was forced to leave mail at Falmouth by British authorities after arriving Rotterdam from New York on May 28. In New York, police shifts are restructured with earlier start times, doubling patrols after 6 pm, plus new detective bureau assignments and school traffic duty. The plan includes a permanent traffic squad, nine detectives, and captain oversight. A fatal train wreck at Packard, Iowa, last Friday is expected to yield 425 deaths.
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Berlin
Hague
Noordam
Rotterdam
New York
Falmouth
J. H. Redgate
Detective
Department
F. M. Holbrook
T. F. Maione
J. J. Flynn
George Washburn
J. J. Seery
J. J. Gerrity
J. F. Curry
F. L. Feeley
Martin Kane
Luke G. Petruschell
Charles A. Wheeler
W. R. Wolff
Edward Cassidy
Carl Henkel
Terry Rogers
Thomas Zehnder
Martin J. Kelly
Robert Hoffman
Rock Island
Packard
Iowa
Moose Lodge Initiates 1200 as Bridgeport Plans Home
Bridgeport Loyal Order of Moose Lodge No. 289 expands to 5,000 with 1,200 new initiates at the Casino on State Street. Dictator Charles L. Dennis eyes a Main Street property for a Moose home after the June state convention. Moose Heart, Illinois, hosts 1,000 acres and future workshops as 10,000 members expected by January 1. A state convention parade, field day, and carnival are planned with 10,000 in line and a 17th parade finale on Fairfield avenue.
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Bridgeport Lodge
Order of Moose
Charles L. Dennis
Main Street
Dennis
Bridgeport
State Street
Houlihan
John E. Fitzgerald
Yonkers Lodge
Charles Penze
James. J. Davis
Maggie
Moose
Moose Heart
Ill
Loyal Order of Moose
Charles R. James
William Flint
Frea H. Helbig
James
C. G. Clifford
Yellowstone National Park
Roy
Henry W. Mace
Order
Philadelphia Lodge
John Ryan
Fairfield Avenue
West End
Bridgeport Firms to Send Employees to Military Camp
Reports from the Bridgeport Manufacturers’ Association state at least 23 local men will be sent to the Plattsburg military training camp. Bridgeport Brass Co American Chain Co and Warner Brothers Co will contribute six men each. General Gavira Carranza commander of the northern border zone plans to personally lead actions against bandits along the border.
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Manufacturers’ Association
Plattsburg
Bridgeport Brass Co
American Chain Co
Warner Brothers Co
Gabriel Gavira
Carranza
Nothing unusual about May findings by observer Jennings
Observer William Jennings reports May showed 11 clear days, 15 partly cloudy, five cloudy. Rain totaled 3.26 inches, with 1.44 inches on May 17. Nineteen light frosts, four thunderstorms, max temp 85 on May 25, min 40 on May 19, mean 59.5, daily range 32 on May 2. A later note cites a three degree variation on June 23.
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May
William Jennings
Co-Operative Meteorological Observer
United States Weather Bureau
Irish Relief Day Designated by Catholic Leaders
Next Saturday is set as Irish Relief Day across the United States by Cardinals Gibbons Farley and O Connell and Dr Thomas Addis Emmett. Campaigns will raise funds for Irish relief, especially in Dublin, with tag days run by women of Irish benevolent and fraternal groups in many cities.
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United States
Cardinals Gibbons, Farley
O’connell
Thomas Addis Emmett
Ireland
Dublin
June Devotions in All Catholic Churches
Special devotions to the Sacred Heart will be held in all Catholic churches during June. A circular from Bishop John J. Nilan of Hartford explains how indulgences may be gained. Governor Whitman of New York left Albany for Chicago to attend the Republican Convention as one of New York State’s four delegates-at-large.
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John J. Nilan
Hartford
Whitman
New York
Albany
Chicago
New York State
Indian Fighters Finally Recognized by Act of Congress
Washington reports Congress has granted recognition to the nation’s Indian fighters by adding about 5,000 names to pension rolls and funding roughly $1,000,000 annually. The measure honors veterans who fought across the trans-Missouri west from 1865 to 1891, including campaigns against Sioux, Cheyennes, Apaches, and Utes, with notable leaders named such as Sherman Sheridan Custer Forsyth Miles Baldwin and others.
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Washington
Congress
Estern Plains
Senate Pensions Committee
Austerlitz
trans-Missouri
Beecher's Island
Army of the Potomac
Forsyth
Roman Nose
Sherman
Sheridan
Custer
Howard
Miles
Baldwin
War Department
United States
Oregon
Idaho
California
Nevada
Kansas
Colorado
Indian Territory
Modoc
Stratford Inn Keeper Fined After Raid Moves to New York
Special to The Farmer Stratford June 5 Prosecuting Attorney Morehouse urged a $50 fine and costs for Stratford Inn keeper Mrs J Dudley Stafford who ran the Stratford Inn raided by state police. Others in the raid faced smaller fines and bonds forfeited by sleeping patrons. Several named individuals gave Boston and New York as addresses and a judge postponed parts of the case. Fire of unknown origin caused $750000 damage to goods on a San Francisco concrete pier.
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Stratford
Ivan L. Morehouse
J. Dudley Stafford
Stratford Inn
Howard M. Curtis
Morehouse
Charles Bennett
New York
Alice Burns
Elizabeth Carey
Ethel Seeea Iney
John K. Lothrope
John C
James Hillegas
George F. Lewis
Lewis
Florence Sherman
Eringe
Port
Stratford Woman's Suffrace Association
San Francisco
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Wolff’s Shirt Shop
Sale
Wolff
Wolff’s Shirt Shops
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Waterbury
Jennings
ACT OF Congress
Arizona
Texas
New Mexico
Utah
South Dakota
Esther Lawrence
Alter Machinists’ Club
Machinists’ Club
Cannon Street
Seth Low
Broad Brook Farm
Mt. Kisco
N. Y
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