Roosevelt accepts Democrat vice presidential nomination in Texas speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt formally accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination at Hyde Park New York urging a peace treaty with a league of nations as a practical solution to peace He defended constitutional supremacy and called for im- provements in education immigration and child protection. In Marion Ohio Senator Harding sent a greeting to Texas Republicans predicting a new era if the South unites behind the GOP and noted preparations for further conferences and possible speaking engagements.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
League of Nations
Roosevelt
Marion
Texas
Harding
South
F. W. Scoby
Dallas
Southland
Hays
Harry S. Dougherty
Ponzi vows not to pay debts as bank clash escalates
Charles Ponzi, restrained from payment by bank regulators, declares he will not pay notes due Tuesday and predicts a run on his company. He says Hanover Trust cannot honor his accounts without approval and claims sole knowledge of his assets and method. The defiant stance follows bankruptcy actions and state inquiry into his international coupon dealings.
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Boston
Charles Ponzi
International Postal Exchange
State Bank Commission
Hanover Trust Company
Ponzi
J. W. Allen
Allen
Charlie Ponzi
Henry Grammer of Roping Fame Faces Murder Charge
Henry Grammer once a world champion roper was charged with the murder of farm hand Jim Berry west of Pawhusker Oklahoma Saturday night. Grammer is in the county jail and known in Cheyenne for championship roping at Frontier Days events. His last appearance here was last year.
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Henry Grammer
Pawhusker
Okla
Jim Berry
Here
Grammer
Grammar
Cheyenne
Largest corn and potato crops forecast to top prior records
The Agriculture Department forecast an unprecedented 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn for August 1 and a potato yield exceeding 400,000,000 bushels. July showed gains in most corn states except Illinois, keeping hopes for record crops in 1912 and 1917-level yields alive, though August remains critical.
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United States
NEW
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Denver Tramway strike ends as workers offer unconditional return
Denver moves toward full street car service after strikers propose to return unconditionally. A three-man union delegation informed GM Frederick W. Hild that strikers are ready to resume work, while cars run with strikebreakers under federal patrols and 106 cars operate on seventeen lines. Seven riot deaths are recorded, with Major General Leonard Wood praising restraint by tramway workers.
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Denver
Denver Tramway Company
Frederick W. Hild
Hild
Leonard A. Kemmer
Leonard Wood
C. B. Bailoy
Tramway Employes Union
Wood
Fairbanks Pickford Trip Through Cheyenne Missed
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were expected in Cheyenne on the Overland Limited but did not appear or reveal themselves. The couple had been delayed by a missed Chicago train and remained unseen during the Cheyenne stop, despite public anticipation.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Cheyenne
Overland Limited
Doug
Pickford
Mary
Chicago
Omaha
Armed Quartet Robs New York Chicago Express at Englewood
Four armed men held up the New York Chicago day express near Englewood station in suburban Chicago. A dining car steward resisting one bandit was shot in the jaw. The robbers boarded at Englewood, took money and valuables, delayed the train about thirty minutes, and escaped on foot. Heavily wounded steward sent to a local hospital.
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Chicago
Englewood
Aerial Mail Service Heads Set Up in Cheyenne
J A Jordan and Dunphy visit Wales Field as hangars rise for the Omaha to Salt Lake City aerial mail route. An office depot will be built fifty feet south of the hangars with $5 000 in supplies arriving this week. Twenty jobs may open as the project progresses with plans to start operations the first week of September.
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Omaha - Cheyenne - Salt Lake Division
J. A. Jordan
United States
Mr. Dunphy
Omaha
Salt Lake City
Cheyenne
Allison
Wiffler
Chamber of Com
Merce
Hersig
Wales Flying Field
Cheyanne
Salt Lake
Dunphy
All Japanese in Slav Town Put to Sword
Reuters dispatch from Vladivostok reports the Japanese residents of Oknotsk a Siberian port have been massacred and the town burned, as the government receives advices.
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London
Reuter
Vladivodok
Oknotsk
Siberia
Sea of Oknotsk
Ostermann Dies In Car Crash On Lincoln Highway Mission
H C Ostermann vice president and field secretary of the Lincoln Highway association died in a car crash while en route to Cheyenne on official business He had recently married and was traveling with his bride in Iowa when heavy rain and bad roads caused his car to skid and overturn The crash occurred at night during his westward journey and he had earlier visited the Tribune office and Plains hotel in Cheyenne
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William C. Deming
H.C. Ostermann
Lincoln Highway Association
Cheyenne
New York
San Francisco
Ostermann
Tada d Amar
Tribune
Plains
West Point Official Arrested For Whiskey Still
West Point Nebraska August 9 Fred Snyder assistant city marshal water commissioner and justice of the peace was arrested Monday afternoon on charges of possessing a whiskey still and gear including mash. The still was found in a water plant room and Snyder allegedly assaulted Sheriff Sexton during the arrest. He was arraigned before County Judge Dowald and will have a hearing Friday.
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West Point
Neb
Fred Snyder
Sexton
Snyder
Dowald
Hythe Conference Ends With Agreement on Polish Aid
The Hythe meeting between Lloyd George and Millerand concluded with a pact to aid Poland against Bolshevik threats. Britain to reimpose the Russia blockade and supply munitions while France shifts toward milder action. Aid to Poland waits on Minsk talks outcomes.
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Hythe
England
Associated Press
Meanss
Poland
Lloyd George
Millerand
Russia
M. Millerand
Minsk
Bi Mier
Europe
Refiners Turn Out Low Grade Gas Amid Rising Demand
Washington August 9 The Bureau of Mines reports refiners have pushed to meet surging motor gasoline demand by pushing deeper into crude oil and producing higher boiling point materials as gasoline. Domestic consumption for the first five months of 1920 rises 26 percent from last year, totaling 1,418,584,063 gallons versus 1,217,879,694 gallons in 1919, an increase of 290,654,414 gallons.
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Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Revolver Duel Wounds Motorman and Pedestrian in Chicago
On Monday a street car duel between a policeman and a bandit left two men wounded in Chicago. Motorman Frank Powel and pedestrian William Barrett were struck, Barrett possibly fatally, as the robber escaped into darkness after backing from the car.
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Chicago
Frank Powel
William Barrett
Wreck Causes Unusual Congestion in Cheyenne Yards
A wreck on the Salt Lake route Monday morning disrupted service for hours, with fourteen east and westbound passenger trains in Cheyenne yards between 7:30 and 11:30 PM. Switchmen and car tenders worked constantly as trains 10 4 3 20 and others were delayed while Denver trains 105 and 109 were kept on schedule.
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Salt Lake
Overland Limited
Denver
Chéyenne
Number 5
Los Angeles
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Chicago Express
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