Cabinet personnel is latest issue in campaign
Washington dispatch reports Republicans plan to attack the Wilson cabinet by casting a proposed Hughes administration as reshaping the official family. Names like Roosevelt Lodge Root Bourne Borah Cummins are floated but not authorized. Democrats counter with plans to keep Frank L. Lane and outline potential changes in the Wilson-era team.
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Parker R. Anderson
Washikton
Hughes
Wilson
Democratic Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay Statesman
Unwder Hughes
New England
Henry Cabot Lodge
New York
Elihu Root
Jonathan Bourne
Borah
Idaho
Department of the Interior
Cummins
Iowa
Wilson to pick advisers and cabinet after war ends
The passage notes W. Wilson may select his own advisers without party limits. It recalls William Jennings Bryan influencing the first cabinet and cites Underwood as a former majority leader now in the senate. It suggests Wilson will rely on personal judgment for future appointments postwar.
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Car W. Underwood
Alabama
House
Senate
Wilson
New England
Middle West
New York
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Navy Department
Europe
Schwaben Redoubt Taken by Ulster Men in French Campaign
British forces report capturing Schwaben Redoubt beyond Thiepval as Ulster troops led a charge on July 1. The ridge stood as a fortress of German industry and defense, with heavy shelling preceding the infantry advance. British waves moved up the slope under constant artillery fire, breaching dugouts and driving German defenders from their positions.
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Schwaben
Thiepval
Vileen
Schwaben Redoubt
Prejudice Shifts Over Clogs In Wartime London
London observers note a social shift as war costs push the poor toward clogs formerly shunned as a stigma. Despite scarcity of boots, clogs rise in use, with shops promoting wooden soles and factories supplying mainly rural, colonial, and French markets amid German capture trade.
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London
Exton
Mountain Democrats Fear Soldier Voter Absence in District Ten
Asheville reporters note Buncombe Haywood and Rutherford Democrats worry after Chief Justice Clark says North Carolina troops cannot vote out of state. About 600 soldiers from Asheville and surrounding areas will be away November 7, potentially costing the Democratic ticket in a district swing.
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Asheville
Buncombe, Haywood
Rutherford
Walter Clark
North Carolina
Tenth
Waynesville
Canton
First Regiment Infantry
Rutherfordton
Madison County
Britt
National Guard
Weaver
Guard
Simmonds of Charlotte Dies by Own Action in Home
Lat L Simmonds 43 prominent Charlotte resident died by self-inflicted gunshot at 11 20 pm at his East Avenue home. Wife heard the shot and found him with a smoking pistol in his hand and a hole in his right temple. He had two years of poor health and periods of despondency but no one suspected suicide. Born in New York City he came to Charlotte as a young man and worked in real estate and for several firms. He leaves a wife Mrs Forest McGhee Parlin and two children Joe Simmonds and Master Joe Simmonds of Charlotte.
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Charlotte
Nat L. Simmonds
Citien
East Avenue
Mr. Simmonds
New York City
City Point
Greensboro
Forest McGhee
Parlin, J
Joe Simmonds
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Rame
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Carlisle
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Missouri
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Jellico
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Arctic Ice & Coal Co
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France
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Miss Clara Boyd
New York Life Insurance
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High Point
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Mellichampe Printing Co
Hamilton ST
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South Main St
Max Rones
Woods
Mann Drug Co
Carolina & Yadkin River
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Steene
High Rock
S, Wes
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Savings Department
High Point, N.C
Elwood Cox
C. M. Hauser
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E. S. Wall
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