Waco Platform Fight Delays Texas Democratic Convention
Turbulence and partisan feuding mark the Waco Texas convention as the platform committee wrangles over Hogg amendments. Dallas leaders Barry Miller and others pressure for the minority report while Chairman Hicks struggles to maintain order. The session ends with the majority report adopted after a heated roll call.
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Waco
Tex
Platform Committee
Barry Miller
Dallas
Tom Bell
Will Cummins
Hillsboro
Hicks
Texas
Ang
Smith
Hill County
Bailey
Panhandle Hall
A. F. Brigance
Navasota
Farmer Shaw
E. W. Hall
Vernon
Dallas County
John H. Reagan
Raegan
Hatton W. Summers
Bryan Plans Speeches This Month Amid Campaign Push
Indiana report describes William Jennings Bryan leaving the Grand Hotel in Indianapolis after a reception. He outlines two more notification speeches and events including a Grand Army encampment speech and a Labor Day appearance. He cautions reporters about future schedule changes.
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Indianapolis
Wm. J. Bryan
Ina
Bryan
Indiana
Grand Army
National Association of Democratic Clubs
Legal Blanks and Forms Advertising Catalog
The Eagle markets a wide range of legal blanks for sale in small lots with quoted prices and bulk discounts on request. Listings include Deed warranties Chattel Mortgage Crop Mortgage Contract for Sale of Real Estate Power of Attorney Release of Vendor’s Lien and related real estate and contractual forms.
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Eagle
Eagle Office
TIUSA
Memory Fades Prompting Philadelphia Art Club Storyteller to Ditch Notebook
A raconteur from the Philadelphia Art Club explained over a small bottle that memory failings pushed him to use a pocket notebook to jot quick reminders of stories. He admitted sunny days of recall and rougher times when drunken fog ruined notes and he finally abandoned the device.
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Philadelphia Art Club
Smith’s Watchman
Camille barred in London sparks talks of Zaza venture
John Drew notes that Camille has long been forbidden in London by the lord high chamberlain. Mrs. Carter plans to perform Zaza in the English capital, making an intriguing follow up in the metropolis.
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Sapho
John Drew
Camille
London
Lord High Chamberlain
Burial reformer urges coffinless interment in Akron
Rev. A B Church, pastor of the Universalist church in Akron Q, advocates abandoning coffins and hearses. He argues that caskets prolong decomposition and should be replaced by shrouds, with the dead interred directly wrapped.
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A. B. Church
Universalist Church
Akron
Railway Soldiers and the Trans-Caspian Dining Car
A correspondent from an Eastern paper describes Central Asia’s rail system with station masters as officers and noncommissioned staff at smaller posts. The Trans-Caspian dining car runs four days a week as an ordinary third class car with a long center table, candles, and military precedence dictating service order by rank.
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Central Asia
City Directory of Officials and Religious Groups
City officers, county officers, schools board and clergy listed with pastors, Mass times, and meeting nights. Fraternal lodges and orders noted with meeting schedules and officers. Briar entries include J O Chance, J Fountain, Dr J W Howell, Wipprecht, Reed, Rhodes, Myers, James.
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Mooring
T P Boyett
R H Smith
H G Rhodes
H H Jones
C L, Baker
R G Tabor
J W Howell
J Allen Myers
W T James
A M Rhodes
Parker
B Mike
Robin
A M Simms
E L Shettles
Epworth League
Christian
Jewell Howard
Waco
Christian Endeavor
Christian Science
W. R. Rhodes
St. Andrew's Episcopal
Herbert E Bowers
Holy Communion
Navasota
West
Free Communion Baptist
A M Stewart
St Joseph’s Catholic
Father Kolin
San Antonio
Father Guidice
Bryan Cotton Seed Oil Mill
J O Chance
M D Cole
A D McConnico
J Fountain
Bryan Compress
W E Saunders
H C= Robinson
R S Webb
Walter Wipprecht
Brazos
R Johnson
Joe B Reed
Bryan
J. H. Mawhiney
T James
Joe B. Reed
Bryan Lodge
National
Tom A. Searcy
D C DeMaret
Brazos Lodge
D F Dansby
Vulcan
W B Roman
M W
W J
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