Progressive convention names Roosevelt for president at Chicago
National Progressive convention in Chicago adjourned sine die after naming Theodore Roosevelt as presidential nominee and Hiram W. Johnson as vice president. The platform urged political industrial agrarian, commercial and social conservation and tariff reform. The event featured barred negro delegations, and Albert J. Beveridge delivered the keynote.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Hiram W. John
Roosevelt
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
National Progressive Party
Worlds
Mississippi
National Committee
Frank H. Funk
Bloomington
Illinois
Bribery trial and notable 1912 incidents across cities
The report chronicles a bribery trial in Los Angeles where Rogers avoided jail by a writ of habeas corpus, a West Chester lawyer Cornwell’s death by self act, Illinois plans for a new state hospital near Alton, a deadly Portland explosion, a fatal Fargo shooting, Sherman antitrust finance filings in Boston, a Trenton stock decree canceling shares, predictions of a large Lake Ontario apple yield, Kansas City school medical exams, Taft mourning in Cincinnati, and congressional moves on the La Follette Underwood tariff and impeachment cases with Seattle judge Hanford and Judge Archbold proceedings.
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John Little
Scandia
Adel
Des Moines
Thare
C. A. Wilson
Baxter State Bank
Quarry
Wilson
James Stewart
LeGrand
Glattly
Ditmars & Ayres
Mount Pleasant
Edgeren
Harvey Hilsabeck
Marshalltown
Bert Haughtélin
Panora
Lute Crouse
W. L. Baughn
Harlan
Aquor
Estharvilla
Iowa
Minnesota
Emmetsburg
Jackson
Fairmount
Minn
Earl Hamstreet
Clear Lake
Northwestern
Roland Tonner
Vail
Dunlap
Roland
David Toner
David Toner, Is An Old Resident of ‘Vail
Malcom
Central Holiness University
Oskaloora
Shorty” Harding
Rock Island
Eldon
D. Harding
Guthrie County
Dairy and Fond
Jones
Lincoln
R. M. Weeks
Dawson
N. M
George Rettenmaier
Dubuque
Mississippi River. the Body Was Recovered. the Pilot Mound Sayings Bank
Y L. Moore
J. H. Herman
Iowa City
John S. Rombach
Whittemore
Milwaukee
Bankers Gather in St Paul for State Conference
Prominent bankers from 31 states attend the second annual conference of the committee on agricultural development and education of the state bankers association at St Paul. Ira Haworth called the grandfather of the Republican party in Dinos dies in a Kansas City hospital. Theodore P. Shonta resigns Toledo St Louis and Western presidency to focus on New York traction issues. Mrs O A F Belmont shocks Newport society by announcing a public auction sale of her land and mansion to be subdivided into lots.
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St. Paul
Committee On Agricultural Development and Education of
State Bankers’ Association
Eee
Ira Haworth
Dinos
Lincoln
Kansas City
Theodore P. Shonta
Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad
New York
O. A. F. Belmont
Newport
Muscatine builds new coal handling loading station
State notes report construction at Muscatine of a $30,000 unloading station by Automatic Coal Handling Co near the Mississippi. Materials will be lifted from barges directly to freight cars, with Muscatine Land Co. handling the land side.
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Muscatine
Automatic Coal Handling Company
Mississippi River
Mussatine Land Company By
Knoxville
Marion County
Des Moinesiver
B. Murphy
Vinton
Denver
Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias
Murphy
Grand Lodge of Iowa
Eagle Lodge
Creston
R. E. Rogers
Boone
W. CO. McArthur
United States District Court
Southern District
Iowa
Billa Stain
Ottumwa
Southern
Stain
Clara C. Peterson
Haitian Haiti Halti Palace Explosion Kills Leconte
Aug 10 Port at Prince Halti the palace explosion and fire destroy the wooden palace killing President Cincinnatus Leconte and hundreds. His family escaped. Rebels from Haitian Halti captured Daijabon San Domingo after a fourteen hour battle with 200 wounded. US gunboat Petroalatus at Puerto Plata.
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Prince, Halti
Cincinnatus Leconte
Republic
Lecorte
Chamber
Senate
National Assembly
Washington
United States
Petral Fg
Puerto Plata
650 Men Entombed In Lorraine Mine Disaster
A German mine near Gerthe in the Lorraine mountains suffered a firedamp explosion that trapped about 650 men. By night more than 103 had been killed with two score bodies recovered. Rescue parties, including experts from Courrieres, could not enter the gallery due to flames and gas as wives waited at the pithead for news.
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Bochum
Germany
Lorraine Mt Im
Gerthe
Courrieres
Lens
Bovern
Four Hundred Society Faces Gambling Probe in Rosenthal
In Rosenthal Graft New York on August 10 detective William J Byrne began a thorough inquiry into gaming and disorderly venues in the vice district. Financed by a committee of leading citizens the investigation names prominent men and women as owners of property used for illicit activities in the underworld.
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Rosenthal Graft
New York
William J. Byrne
Burns
Sugar Concern to Dissolve in San Francisco
The Western Sugar Refining company sought court approval to dissolve on Thursday. Petitioners include John D. Spreckels W H Hannam and W J Brobeck. In South Bend Indiana Dr Andrew Morrissey C S C was re elected provincial of the order of the Holy Cross for the United States for a six year term with headquarters at Notre Dame.
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United States District Court
Boston
Gilmore Electric Company
General Electric Company of
Lynn
San Francisco
Cal
Western Sugar Refining Company
Superior Court
John D. Spreckels
W. H. Hannam
W. J. Brobeck
Morrissey
Egg losses exceed 45 million dollars yearly in U S
Washington reports that more than 45 million dollars is lost annually by American egg producers and dealers due to improper handling, according to department of agriculture experts.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Of the Bird Kind in a Gay Pa Aviary Hospital
A quirky snippet asks what an aviar hospital is calling itself a hospital for birds. The dialogue presents playful mishearing and a line about aviar or avian care set within a whimsical, era-tinged exchange.
Miss Vivian’s Engagments Stir Society Rumor Mill
The article notes Miss Vivian’s many engagements during a short period on the marriage market. She tells her father she has acquired a new object of affection, prompting his reply that she may be as happy with him as with the next.
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Vivian
Proof Enough Dialogue Delivers Cheery Honeymoon Anecdote
Ds and Mra argue in a playful exchange about a honeymoon incident. Mra recalls her spouse broke two teeth while eating biscuits, and he now soaks them in hot tea for thirty minutes to ease the pain.
Coffee or Postum Change Tale From One Kansas Family
A Kansas man claims switching from coffee to Postum cured his stomach trouble headaches and poor circulation. He says he weighed 116 pounds at 23 and improved after adopting Postum with his family noting better health. Readers are invited to read the Postum promotional letter and the Road to Wellville booklet.
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Teala
Pontum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Forty-seventh General Assembly
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Mra
Wrest Are
Mrs. Love—Yeu
Fred
Cook
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