Coolidge Nominated for President by Republican Convention
Calvin Coolidge was nominated on the first ballot at Cleveland with near unanimous support. Charles G. Dawes was chosen as running mate after several other candidates declined, and Dawes was later declared a unanimous choice. The piece notes Coolidge’s character and Dawes’s varied public service, plus commentary on foreign policy and the world court plank.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Calvin Coolidge
Cleveland
Charles G. Dawes
Illinois
Coolidge
LaFollette
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Johnson
South Dakota
Thomas Scott
Frank W. Mondell
Wyoming
Lowden
Borah
Idaho
Hoover
Dawes
Harbord
Curtis
Kansans
Kenyon
Iowa
Hadley
Missouri
Beveridge
Watson
Indiana
Charles G
Hell and
Maria
Ife
Republican Party
Permanent Court of International Justice
United States
League of Nations
League
Coolidge Stands on Regularity and Character at Convention
The convention stressed Republican regularity and personal character as core themes. Theodore E. Burton underscored party regularity while La Follette platform was rejected with evident enthusiasm. Mondell echoed loyalty and responsibility, praising Coolidge and urging dependable party majorities.
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Alvin Coolidge
Theodore E. Burton
Ohio
la Follette
Coolidge
Mondell
Burton
Sherman elected president of General Federation of Women's Clubs
RS JOHN D SHERMAN of Estes Park Colorado was elected president at the Los Angeles convention succeeding Mrs Thomas G Winter of Minneapolis The federation has headquarters in Washington and a nationwide 2 500 000 membership It backed child labor and wildlife acts and forestry measures. Eleanor Margaret Green of New York married Prince Viggo Christian Adolphe George of Schleswig Holstein Sonderbourg Glucksbourg writer notes royal liaison as first American woman to wed a European throne. The nuptial ties connect to the Danish royal house with other royal kinship details and stipulations on succession renunciation.
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Estes Park
Colo
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Los Angeles
Alexandre Millerand
France
Cleveland Municipal Auditorium
United States
Imperial Hotel
Tokyo
Cooldge
Pontius Pilate
Japan
China
Washington
America
Pacific
Hawaiin
Australia
New Zealand
Thomas G. Winter
Minneapolis
General Federation
Upper
Mississippi
Sherman
Iss Eleanor Margaret Green
New York
Viggo Christian Adolphe George
Royal House
Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderbourg-Glucksbourg
Denmark
Valdemar
Viggo
Christian
Alexandra
Great Britain
Lois Fr. Booth
Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
Prince Erik
Prince Viggo
Abram S. Hewitt
Peter Cooper
Robert Green
Virginia
AMA Convention Delegates Debate Gland Transplants And Dieting
Thousands of doctors gathered in Chicago for the American Medical association meeting and heard critiques of gland transplantation as unable to extend life or restore youth. They argued insulin fails to cure diabetes but aids weight loss. Warnings were issued about hair dyes and cosmetics containing mercury arsenic and paraphenylen diamine. Resolutions challenged birth control and alcohol limits under prohibition statutes. Dr William Allen Pusey urged individual responsibility against government overreach and warned of a future population decline threatening production.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
William Allen Pusey
France in constitutional crisis as Millerand quits presidency
After Poincare resignations and Henri Herriot abstention, Frederic Francois-Marsal becomes premier but fails to win support. Millerand resigns, condemning the leftist majority and signaling intent to run as deputy from Mont-Mor-Moselle while France lacks a president.
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Poincare
Eduard Herriot
Frederic Francois-Marsal
Millerand
The
Elysee
France
Renewal of struggle hinted after Rhodes troop landings
The Rhodes operation sparks renewed tension between Turkey and Western Europe as 2000 Italian troops arrive on the island near Asia Minor. An Italian governor vows to exploit Rhodes resources, signaling Mussolini era aims and diplomats calling it a de facto war declaration.
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Turkey
Europe
Smyrna
Rhodes
Asia Minor
Italy
99th Birthday Honors for Billings Woman
Mrs. Catherine McQuane, longtime Billings resident, celebrated her ninety ninth birthday with a reception hosted by her daughter Miss Anna McQuane. The Minneapolis Evening Tribune noted her vitality as she read papers, wrote letters, and made dolls for great grandchildren. She has two other daughters, 27 grandchildren, and 18 great grandchildren.
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Billings
Catherine McQuane
Minneapolis Evening Tribune
McQuane
the Tribune
Daily Papers
Anna McQuane
Carlson
Dawson County
Glendive
Chamber of Commerce
Dawson
Norde Miller
Hamilton
West Fork
Darby
Miller
Etta Maier
Great Falls
Quotations of Interest to Montanans Week Ending June 21
Montana readers get farm price snapshots with Minneapolis grain quotes and Chicago livestock tops. Wheat ranges from No 1 dark northern to hard winter, corn No 2 yellow at mid eighties, flax at 2 42. Livestock tops include cattle 11.10, hogs 7.55, lambs 15.00. Metals list bar silver 67.44 per ounce copper 1 25 per pound lead ???.
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Minneapolis
Montana
Chicago
New York
War Claims Third Son Funeral in Rockville Md
Mrs. W. H. Haviland traveled to Rockville Maryland to attend the funeral of Oscar Lee Harris the third son to die from injuries sustained overseas He was 80 at death from tuberculosis caused by gas exposure in France The article notes two of his brothers also died in the war one in action and another from illness after gas exposure The funeral occurred at Union Cemetery Rockville Maryland
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W. H. Haviland
Rockville
Oscar Lee Harris
Harris
France
Union Cemetery
New Cattle Identification Plan Uses Nose Prints
J C Price of Reed Point proposes nose prints as absolute proof of ownership for cattle. The method, photographed across ages, has the endorsement of the Butte Gen. Bureau of Investigation and the state stock inspector. A copyright application is pending in Washington.
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J. C. Price
Reed Point
Ar. Price
Gerling Bureau of Investigation
Butte
Price
Washington
Stockmen Approve Range Appraisal Method
Musselshell Woolgrowers and South Snowies Stockmen meet with W B Wiley to approve forest service grazing fee appraisal method. Wool market unsettled with low wool prices. lamb crop praised. J O Berk Lennep elected woolgrowers president. other officers named. advisory boards listed. all officers and board from Bercal.
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Forest Service
Musselshell
Woolgrowers’ Association
Martinsdale
I. E. Foster
Harlowton
A. T. van Camp
EB. H. Doyle
R. Labrie
L. M. Holladay
P. J. Moore
Twedot
W. S&s
Montana's 98th Birthday Trail Blazer William Berkin
William Berkin, father of John Berkin of Butte, celebrated his ninety eighth birthday at a Thornton hotel dinner June 17. He crossed the plains in 1864 by prairie schooner and guided the first mule team from Fort Benton to Virginia City. He came to Butte in 1870 and later located the Mountain Chief mine. He has lived at the Oronan Girl mine and remains hale and hearty despite eight decades of active life. He looks forward to his 100th birthday dinner.
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Montana
Wlliam Berkin
John Berkin
Butte
Thornton Hotel
Mr. Berkin
Plains
Prairie Schooner
Fort Benton
Virginia City
Mountain Chief
Continental Divide
Berkin
Oronan Girl Mine
Train Victim Identified as Shannon in Billings Incident
The man struck by westbound train No. 43 near the east bridge at Billings on June 17 was identified as Mr. Shannon by M. M. Moss, stockman. Shannon, 62, had lived in Montana off and on for 37 years and once resided in Dillon. He had worked as a transient laborer across the country and spoke of a brother in Great Falls who once was a rancher and stockman.
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East Bridge
Billings
Shannon
M. M. Moss
Stockman
Montana
Moss
Dillon
Gallatin Valley
Great Falls
Joliet Burglars Loot Stores and Destroy Residence
Joliet residents faced a bold burglary last Monday night as the Talmage Sayer Bell Warness stores were robbed and the Kate Gallagher residence was destroyed. The thieves took fifty dollars in cash before fleeing.
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Joliet
Talmage-Sayer
Bell-Warness
Kate Gallagher
Roundup Flour Mill Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed the flour mill at Roundup on June 18. Firemen arrived after a 1 am alarm but could not save the building. They limited the blaze to the mill by protecting nearby oil tanks. Origin unclear. believed to be spontaneous combustion.
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Roundup
Elk surplus sought for Upper Flathead range
State Game and Fish Warden C A Jakways urges federal officials to release surplus elk from the Bison Range on Flathead Indian Reservation. More than 400 elk have multiplied on 35 sections where grazing limits allow only 200. The move aims to relocate animals to forage-rich areas while protecting the range’s balance.
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Upper Flathead
Montana
Helena
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