A Human Candidate for Governor Cox Seeks Personal Politics
A tribute to James M. Cox as a humane presidential hopeful who centers on individual lives over mass measures. The piece highlights his Ohio reforms, emphasis on home life, education, pardons, Americanization, arbitration, and a record of peaceful labor relations, urging focus on character and everyday humanity.
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Re Overnor
James M. Cox
Washington
Jefferson
Republic
United States
Lincoln
Roosevelt
John Hay
Wilson
Cox
Ohio
Ohio Workmen Compensation Law Draws Connecticut Echo
The piece notes Ohio's state fund for workers compensation reduces private insurer roles, quoting Hartford Democrat William Bro Smith who criticizes Governor Cox’s compulsory plan. It questions agents’ interests versus public welfare and urges civic conscience over profit.
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Ohio
Connecticut
William Bro Smith
Hartford
Courant
Cox
Gox
Bro Smith
Wild use of money before convention
The testimony outlined corruption and unequal punishment of white men attacking black girls, noting $9,000 from Illinois and $5,000 to $5,000 payments for Georgia votes. The speaker claimed spending $7,000 to $8,000 of personal funds with $4,000 from others, and described campaign spending patterns amid wealth and political maneuvering.
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Johnson Fs
Lowdon
New Haven Road Bonds in Show as Deficit Grows
New Haven Railroad reports May operation income at 19616 against 567416 for May 1916 amid traffic jams from switchmen strike and freight congestion. Five months to May show gross 6348765 ahead 16.4 percent but operating deficit 4172863 erases gains, with government losses projected. June outlook cited as improving with reduced foreign car backlog. Washington reports July 8 a July 10 meeting in Chicago of 16 railroad labor groups to consider the wage award from the railroad labor board, with a possible referendum among 1200 union committee members if accepted.
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New Haven
New England
Railroad Administration
Boston
Washington
Chicago
Railroad Labor Board
Obituary notices and a Poltava anniversary note
Obituaries for Catherine A. Steppe, John Doyle, Margaret Fagan, and M. W. Seaman recount funeral details, church services, and burial plans from local residences and St. Michael's cemetery. A separate brief reflects on Modern Russia's Poltava victory on July 8, 1709, detailing Peter the Great's decisive battle against Charles XII and its historical significance.
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M. W. Seaman
Brooklyn
Walker and Banks
Fairfield Avenue
Hal T. Kearns
Universalist Church
Lakeview Cemetery
Russia
Poltava
Peter the Great
Charles XII
Sweden
Russian Empire
Charles
Treshhers
Slight Hope Of Ratification In Louisiana House
Baton Rouge July 8 Reading in the Louisiana House last night of a telegram from Governor Cox of Ohio urging ratification brought no action on the ratification resolution. The Cox telegram was sent with a Looney telegram urging ratification. Rep Dupre called the Looney telegram an insult to the intelligence of every member. Leaders say ratification has slight hope as adjournment is tonight.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Cox
Ohio
Looney
Dupre
Amia
Professor Goodell Dies 32 Years Yale Greek Chair
New Haven July 8 Following a brief illness the death of Thomas Dwight Goodell PhD 1877 Lampson Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Yale occurred this morning at his home. He served Yale for 32 years becoming senior Greek professor after 1909 and led the American Philological Association in 1911 1912. He taught in Hartford public schools after graduation and earned his Yale PhD in 1884. He traveled in Greece as a Yale emissary in 1904 5 and focused on archaeology. He is survived by his wife Julia Harriet Andros of Rockville married May 9 1878.
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New Haven
Thomas Dwight Goodell
Lampson
Yale University
Goodell
Yale
Hartford Public High School
Bernadette Perrin
Thomas D. Seymour
American Philological Association
American School of Classical Studies
Athens
Greece
Mass Meeting Intended To Tackle Metal Workers
Tomorrow night a mass meeting of metal workers is planned to address union conflicts. The piece notes Spanish laborers in the city, about 2500 now with 10 to 25 more arriving daily, seeking shorter hours and higher wages after joining Lodge No 30. Housing is overcrowded, prompting sanitation concerns. State Street housing was ordered cleaned by Health Officer William Hoon after inspector Dunbar found filthy conditions. other nearby houses reportedly remain in poor condition.
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Wrothers
Lodge No. 30
State Street
William H.oon
Dunbar
Sanitation Division
Place On
Board of Health
Hood
Lother
Deportation drive seeks harsher policies overseas
The article notes efforts to speed deportations of undesirables, with open hostilities blocking trans shipments via Hango Finland, and talks with Estonia on allowing aliens heading to Russia to land at Reval for overland travel. Martens deportation hearings were postponed to July 14 at labor department request.
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Hango
Finland
Soviet Russia
Russia
Reval
Esthonia
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens
United States
Labor Department
Hardwick
Martens
San Francisco
Milford lodge votes extra reward for murderer of member
Look Back Fifty Years notes Wopewage lodge No. 14 S O O F Milford adds 500 to town reward for the killer of Mr Fenn, a lodge member. Also mentions Hibernians picnic at Frye’s Grove next Monday and Steuben Lodge officers installed with names and positions. Includes ad for Hawley Co window screen, a stray bay cow, and Dr C E Sanford moving to 87 Beaver Street.
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Wopewage Lodge
Milford
Fenn
Order of Hibernans
Frye’s Grove
Steuben Lodge
N. G
Antoine Aubel
Bernard Klein
Moses Klein
W. Anholtz
W. Gibner
T. Hawley & Co
Water Street
W. W. Harral
Main Street
C. E. Sanford
Beaver Street
Bennett
Preparations for Revolution Reported in Brunswick
Berlin dispatch says radical leaders plan a general strike by week end and a new revolutionary community arranged a large mass meeting within a day or two to decide on drastic action.
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London
Berlin
Brunswick
Office Girl Interview Raises Nervous Suspicion
A business man interviews applicants for a job and eyes a fair young woman in a flimsy silk blouse with gaudy jewelry. He asks if she was carefully brought up and she replies in a polite, witty manner about coming up in the elevator.
Dress Skirts and Crepe Drawers for Women
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R. F. Moore
Schmidts
William Chew
Theresa O'Brien
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Thomas Fahy
James Maher
James McKenna
Joseph O'Connor
Thomas Ward
St. Michel's Cemetery
J. A. 8. Sullivan
M. W. Seamr
John Doyle
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Philip Germain
Charles Harding
John O'Connor
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Richard Fagan
Coleman Street
John Supple
Thomas Ormond
William J. Seery
D.C. Quilty
M. Cyrillus
Order of Mercy
South Norwalk
Augustine
St. Augustine's Church
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St. Michael’s Cemetery
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Munnehold Furniture
Black Rock Ave
J. Nicolaisen & Bro
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Beardsley Park
Naugatuck Valley Ice Co
Ford Motor
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M. J. Peshko
Crescent Ave
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Palmer Motor Sales
Bank St
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Hollister Aves
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Metal Workers Mass Meeting
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Wille
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