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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
6
Harding nominates the President with delegates backing a firm conservative platform. The nomination speech lauds the President and emphasizes steadfast support from party forces.
Chicago June 23 The split has come as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt withholds his name from the fifteenth Republican national convention directing delegates to stay in the hall but not vote He is urged by followers to lead a third party the progressives The action marks a remarkable turn in Republican history with questions about Roosevelt's impact and the Democrats' next moves in Baltimore Taft forces control the convention but Roosevelt's influence looms as votes test the party's unity.
Taft is described as the twenty seventh president of the United States aged fifty five. The text notes his election year as 18 and a popular vote tally of 7 078 48 with a 1 804 plurality over Bryan. It covers his Cincinnati birth, college and law career, judge appointment in 1892 1900s, governor of the Philippine Islands 1901 04, and secretary of war 1904 6.
United States Senator Elihu Root of New York was elected temporary chairman by 558 to 502 over Governor Francis C. McGovern. The Roosevelt faction pressed a plan to seat 78 Roosevelt delegates on the temporary roll, and the credentials committee handled contested cases after lengthy debate. Subsequent test votes showed Taft gaining strength as credentials discussions continued.
In Chicago on June 23 Warren G. Harding extolled William Howard Taft, arguing the constitutional basis for popular rule and praising Taft as a steadfast leader. He denounced opposition as expediency and urged unity under Taft amid a crucial Republican moment.
A Broadway production lists extensive materials used for costumes. The tally includes threads, chiffons, velvets, furs, trims, beads, jewels, ribbons, and thousands of yards of fabric. It notes 450 workers labored fourteen days to complete the outfits.
The small principality between Switzerland and Vorarlberg plans its own stamps, ending or altering Austro Hungarian postal control. The new issues will remove the reigning prince’s effigy, Prince Joan. Vaduz is the capital. population around 10,604. area 68.8 square miles. The country has a 12 member diet and no public debt.
A village schoolmaster from Moresnet reports being seized by three men who, after throwing a cloak over him, cut his throat and drank blood in a car before he awoke in a ditch near the Prussian border. The doctor notes the wound appears credible, supporting the tale of vampiric assault.
Brick wells mistaken for towers are exposed by the sea at Pliage St. Gabriel near Boulogne France where a hotel and bathing station have been destroyed by the advancing tide.
A Cocdina Ohio woman swallowed a baby pin set with a pearl while dressing a child seven years ago. The pin became lodged in her throat and doctors could not remove it. During a severe coughing spell she coughed up the pin and suffers only minor throat irritation now.
In Columbus Indiana a ten year old girl reaches just 29 inches in height and 28 pounds with a 23 inch waist. At birth she weighed ten pounds. She has never been sick, maintains a good appetite, and plays like other children, while her mother’s waist is 21 inches.
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