Growth of the GOP Chicago conventions through history
A historical overview traces the Republican Party conventions in Chicago from 1860 to 1920. It notes key nominations including Lincoln’s era, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, Harrison, Roosevelt, Hughes, and Harding, highlighting Chicago's rise from outpost to nation’s second city and the 1912 Roosevelt nomination with a long 53 minute demonstration.
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Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
S. Grant
Grant
Roscoe Conkling
New York
Appomattox
Old Exhibition Hall
James A. Garfield
James G. Blaine
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Wisconsin
Robert M. LaFollette
William Howard Taft
Coliseum
Roosevelt
Taft
Baltimore
Auditorium Hotel
Charlies Evans Hughes
Harding
Ohio
Floating Garage on New Liner T 6 Announced in England
The giant liner T. 6 is under construction in England and will feature a substantial garage capable of housing 100 cars.
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England
Hunting Trip Yields Large Buck and Ducks in Palmico County
Four Randolph county men led by Rube Gray Trinity returned from a four day hunt in Palmico county with a 154 pound buck, sixty one ducks, and one goose. The report also notes a magistrate bound over Clyde Patterson for reckless driving in a November 27 incident injuring State Patrolman Jake H. Sechrest. Sechrest, reportedly in a hospital with a broken ankle, appeared in court on crutches.
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Asheboro
Randolph County
Rube Gray Trinity
Stanley Spencer
Charlie Bristow
John Farlow
Sophia
Marvin Lambert
Near High Point
Palmico County
Alumni Banquet Planned in Thomasville
Thomasville reports the alumni annual banquet will be held Wednesday evening December 23 at 7 o'clock. The event gathers former students for reunion and community celebration.
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Thomasville
Hunters Henry Holton and Bill Ellis Return From Pamlico Trip
Henry Holton of this city and Bill Ellis of High Point returned from a midweek hunt in Pamlico County. Holton reported few ducks taken but did kill his first small deer and felt repaid in multiple ways by the trip.
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Henry Holton
Bill Ellis
High Point
Pamlico County
Mr. Holton
Pellagra Deaths Drop Sharply In North Carolina Diet Change Cited
North Carolina reports 643 pellagra deaths in the first eleven months of this year vs 945 in 1930. Dr. John H. Hamilton credits the live-at-home program under Gov. O. Max Gardner for broader diet variety and improved nutrition reducing pellagra and malnutrition nationwide.
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Hamilton
James M. Parrott
State Board of Health
QO. Max Gardner
North Carolina
Dukes Endowment Sends Christmas Checks to 236 North Carolina Ministers
Christmas checks totaling 29000 were mailed to 236 North Carolina superannuated Methodist ministers and families of deceased ministers by Duke University President W P Few. The two conferences each received 14500, supporting 105 and 131 claimants respectively. The trust funds also aid rural church building and maintenance.
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Durham
North Carolina
W. P. Few
Dukeiversity
Duke Endowment
Duke University
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
James B. Duke
Conference Board of Finance
Duke
Parisian admits killing American Wall known as Craig
Paris, Dec 19. Albert Davin, 21, a Frenchman, confessed to the murder of Richard Wall, 31, an American born in Grampian Pennsylvania who also used the names John Craig and John Wall. Wall had been sought in the United States for mail fraud. Police had searched the Seine near Triel bridge for Wall's body without success.
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Paris
Albert Davin
Richard Wall
Grampian
Wall
John Craig
John Wall
United States
Seine
Triel Bridge
Davin
Flashes of Life by Abu Are PRESS The Band Stays
The Panama scene notes a hatband from Dr. Albert Einstein’s Panama hat blowing off during a rock wall walk. A policeman recovered the ribbon but Frau Einstein refuses surrender, insisting the hat and its band remain one gift. In Cleveland, Yaro Novotny’s nightly serenades trigger repeated fire alarms and a brief arrest after three weeks of disturbances.
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Colon
Panama
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Frau Einstein
The Eyes Have It in Tuscumbia Florida
A sixth grade in Tuscumbia uses a desk mounted electric eye that turns on lights when sun fades, claimed to accelerate progress compared to a dimmer room. Separately, licensed amateur radio stations in the United States rose to 22,739 last fiscal year, up about 4,000 from the year before.
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Tuscumbia
Fla
United States
Nine Is Humor and Verses from the Spectator Page
A puzzle page lists clues for horizontal and vertical entries from the Spectator, including humorous terms and common words. It presents a grid style of cross‑reference clues with references to historical figures and general knowledge topics.
Slow sales mark efforts of state to sell licenses
In Raleigh dispatch December 19, only four motor vehicles were licensed for hire in North Carolina during 1932. Safety responsibility act requirements for liability insurance or post bonds led to many applications being denied. Through December, 12,446 new plates were sold versus 18,348 last year. Officials blamed hard times and planned to add clerks, expecting a full year total far short of last year's 342,000.
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En Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
North Carolina
L. C. Harris
Motor Vehicle Bureau
State Department of Revenue
Harris
Funeral Services Today For Head of Gastonia Schools
Funeral services will be held here today for Joseph Wray 58 longtime superintendent of Gastonia city schools who died in a Charlotte hospital after a week with heart trouble. He had taken the Kings Mountain post last year after serving as Gastonia Chamber of Commerce executive secretary. Survived by widow and three children Carolyn Edmund and Joseph Jr.
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Gastonia
N. C
Joseph
Wray
Charlotte
Kings Mountain
Junior colleges lead growth in California two years
A U P report from Sacramento shows California junior colleges have the fastest growth among public two year schools with attendance rising from 173 to 15 120 pupils in the last decade.
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Sacramento
Cal
Mexican woman risky Rio Grande crossing faces jail and deportation
Carmen Lucas, a young Mexican woman, waded the Rio Grande near El Paso in a bid to reach the United States. Judge Duval West ruled she will be deported and must serve two months in jail for immigration law violation.
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San Antonio
Tex
Carmen Lucas
United States
Rio Grande
el Paso
Duval West
Children 10 Come First In Relief
Enterprise Bureau Raleigh reports Mrs. W T Bost, commissioner of public welfare, says during wartime children need protection and advantages. Communities face heavy relief demand this winter and risk sacrificing health education and delinquency programs. She urges preserving welfare services and prevention to avoid future scars from hunger and poverty.
Bear at Watuppa Reservation Sold to Local Worker
John the bear from Watuppa Reservation in Fall River was sold for 15 dollars to Joseph Olaynak, an employee of the Newport Naval Torpedo Station. Olaynak would not say if the bear is for a pet or fur.
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Newport
R. IL
Watuppa Reservation
Fall River
Mass
Joseph Olaynak
Newport Naval Torpedo Station
Olaynak
North Carolina Tax Cuts Highlight Gardner Post Feature
Governor O Max Gardner notes North Carolina reduced property taxes in 1931 while raising other levies, allowing the state to meet expenses and avoid new bonds. The Saturday Evening Post will publish his article under the title One State Cleans House with the author credited.
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Gardner
North Carolina
Saturday Evening Post
General Assembly
United States
Administrator's Notice of Claims for Guilford County Estate
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of a deceased person, the Clerk of the Superior Court of Guilford County is notified that all claims against the estate must be presented by December 1931. Galea Guinn and others are directed to come forward for immediate settlement.
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Superior Court of
Guilford County
Esaoe
Kennedy
Admi
B. Copple
Superior Court
Cy Vues
Reuben T. Jordan
Henry H. Davis
Foreclosure Sale Notice in Guilford County
Notice of foreclosure sale under a deed of trust in Guilford County North Carolina. The trustee will sell on December 24 1931 at 10 00 AM at the Greensboro courthouse for Lot 27 Griffin Park High Point Township per plat Book 5 page 243. Sale conducted by J W Austin trustee and Austin and Turner attorneys.
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State of
North Carolina
Guilford
Guilford County
Greensboro
High Point Township
State of North Carolina
Griffin Park
N. C
Lee
J. W. Austin
Austin & Turner
Attys
Notice of Sale in Guilford County North Carolina
Default on a deed of trust dated November 14 1923 secures debt of M C Welch Nora Welch and M E Welch. As trustee I will sell at the Greensboro court house door at 12 oclock noon on Wednesday January 1932 to highest bidder in cash. The property lies in High Point and is described by metes bounds from M C Welch Nora Welch and M E Welch deeds. The sale is at the request of the costul pres trust and is conducted by A Scales trustee with Brooks Parker Smith Wharton Attorneys.
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Southern Life and Trust Company
Pilot Life Insurance Company
M. C. Welch
Nora Welch
M. E. Welch
Office of the Register of Deeds
Guilford County
Costul Pres Trust
Court House
Greensboro
North Carolina
High Point
North Puree
Towit
C. Welch
Wrennpaw
M. BE. Welch
J. ©. Welch
J. C. Welch
M. E. Tick
M. L
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Windy City
Leonard Wood
Coolidge
Hoover
Butler
Lowden
LaFollette
Wood
Bob Custer
Trigger Lee
Tia
Noah Beery
Cromwell Sally Blane
Jack Holt
Ralph Graves
Buddies of Flight
Submarine, Dirigible
Swell Pictures
STC AD
Breadhurly
Buck Jones
Edw. G. Robinson
H. B. Warner
Marion Marsh
Republican National Committee
Washington
James Francis Burke
Simeon D. Fess
George Deb. Keim
Fess
Quet
Wake Forest College
Lexington
American Legion
Davidson County
A. C. Reid
Wake Forest
M. L. Kesler
Adrian J. Newton
Tepeyac
Mexico City
Pennsylvanian
BY Abu
Are Press
Cleveland
Yaro Novotny
Yaro
Alfred Smith
Germany
Fraulein Hertha Liebman
W. T. Bost
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