EDITORIAL ASSAILS INDIANA REPUBLICANS AT KC CONVENTION
The Indianapolis Times denounces Governor Ed Jackson as the Indianapolis delegate to the Kansas City Republican convention. It accuses party leaders of fraud and fear, calls for a platform endorsing the statute of limitations, and nominates Ed Jackson for Vice President with James Eli Watson.
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Republican Party
James Eli Watson
Kansas City
Watson
Stephenson
Abraham Lincoln
Jackson
Herbert Hoover
Indiana
Arthur Robinson
the Times
Ed Jackson
Silent delegates mute Jackson speech at State convention
The piece denounces Governor Jackson as silenced by Republicans at the State convention. It accuses Senator Watson, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Anti-Saloon League of conspiring to bar him, claiming he would expose bribery tied to a Stephenson payment and Klan ties. It accuses leaders of shielding a confessed graftor and urges legal action.
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Jackson
Watson
Ku Klux Klan
Anti-Saloon League
George W. Coffin
Warren T. McCray
Stephenson
Robinson
Republican Party
President Coolidge vetoes McNary-Haugen bill amid sharp criticism
The president denounces the bill as price fixing and bureaucratic overreach and returns Senate bill 3555 without approval. He argues the plan would raise domestic prices, dump surplus abroad, and enlarge government meddling, while farmers may press for tariff reductions to balance agriculture with other industries.
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Congress
Coolidge
Compass origins in China and its early uses
The article notes that Chinese use of the compass favored south pointing and honor, painted red to mark the south end, with early needle cards and improved suspension. It contrasts Chinese land navigation and building orientation with later ocean use, while Europeans had adopted naval compasses by the thirteenth century.
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Carnegie
Europe
Coolidge Veto Prompts Push to Lower Tariffs Next Year
President Coolidge’s second veto of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill sharpens a drive to cut protective tariffs to reduce living costs for farmers. Backed by farm interests and bankers, the plan contrasts with industrial protection and faces doubtful chances of passage. The farm issue looms at the Kansas City convention with Lowden and Dawes staking their campaigns.
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Republica
McNary-Haugen
New York International
McNary
Lowden
Dawes
Hey
Coolidge
Kansas City
Hoover
Benvenuto Cellini The Renaissance Gunman Artist
Durant surveys Benvenuto Cellini as a fearless artist and brigand whose life blends genius and bloodshed. Born in Florence in 1500, he roamed to Rome, forged masterpieces in silver and gold, and survived duels, palace intrigues, and a papal pardon for murders.
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Sant Angelo
Benvenuto Cellinii
Cardinal Farnese
Apostolic Church
Michelangelo
d'Artagnan
Florence
Rome
Giovan Tasso
Giovan
Cellini
Ben
Langley’s Early Flying Machine and Aerodome Trials
Professor Samuel P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian, built an early motor driven aeroplane that flew in 1896 without a pilot. He later attempted to launch the Langley aerodome in 1903, with two failed trials ending in the Potomac and halted funding. Repairs in 1913 1914 used Curtiss tech to achieve successful flights proving a practical machine.
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Langley
Samuel P. Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Board of Ordinance and Fortification of
United States Army
Congress
Potomac River
Langley Aerodome
Curtiss
Answers to questions on science and history for readers
A newspaper Q and A column explains quicksilver as mercury, notes 1925 US life insurance in force at 90 330 019 policies totaling 50 585 164 140 dollars, records golf drive at 445 yards by E C Bliss, with other trivia about geysers in Yellowstone Park and definitions of proletariat and bourgeoisie.
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United States
E. C. Bliss
Herne Bay
England
James Gullane
Colorado Springs
Colo
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone Park
Amateur Photography Bulletin Offered For Beginners
Times Washington Bureau promotes an amateur photography bulletin guiding beginners through camera types lenses exposure developing printing enlarging and mounting. The notice invites readers to clip a coupon and mail five cents with name address and city for a copy.
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Times Washington Bureau
Avint
Washington
Indianapolis Times
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
Bulletin
United States
Farm Relief as McNary Haugen Emerges as Issue
The piece notes that farm relief through the McNary Haugen bill has become an issue in the campaign. It discusses farmers’ hopes and fears, party loyalty, Hoover’s role, and the lack of a clear, constructive program from candidates. It questions whether the farm bloc will push Hoover aside or stay with the Republicans, and laments the barren state of leadership.
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Kansas City
Hoover
Cooleidge
Middlewest
Iowa
Kansas
New York
New Jersey
Nicholas Murray Butler
Lowden
Columbia University
Borah
Butler
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Indianapolis
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Frank G. Morrison
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Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Newspaper Enterprise Association
BSE
Tpatananie Information Service
Audit Bureau of Circulations
White House
David Dietz
Peregrins
BY Ludwell Denny
Hile
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation
Harry F. Sinclair
Sinclair
Teapot Dome
United States Supreme Court
Fall
Stewart
Senate
Venizelos
Balkans
Saya
Italy
Will Durant
Benvenuto
Benvenuto Cellini
San Gallo
Morgan
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cardinal
Salamanca
Giacomo da Carpi
Ferrara
Daily Thought
J. G. Holland
Frederick M. Kerby
Indiana Spots
Washington Bureau
New York Ave
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