Ex Senator France claims primaries ruled by politicians
Chicago dispatch outlines Joseph Irwin France ex senator Maryland who led in many state primaries but argues that delegates must heed voters rather than party bosses. He cites totals from Oregon North Dakota Pennsylvania Illinois and New Jersey as evidence of his claim and calls for binding primary results to delegates.
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Rodney Dutcher
Chicago
Joseph Irwin France
Maryland
Herbert Hoover
France
Hoover
Dr. France
Mr. Hoover
Joe
North Dakota
Key
Oregon
Ilinois
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
West Virginia
Roosevelt
T. R’s
Taft
Bob Russell Hawkins
Illinois
New Jersey
West
Virginia delegates laugh as France wins primaries unopposed
Virginia delegates mocked Dr. France after she won the primaries without opposition, treating her serious pursuit as a joke and highlighting a surprising political stance amid the campaign.
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Virginia
France
Dr. France
Flashes of Life from Global Briefs
AP items from Hamilton Glasgow Los Angeles and Santiago report quirky facts and events. The piece cites a 31 cent shift in human body value since war days and a Glasgow University degree for Helen Keller. It also notes a divorce after a spanking claim and a Chilean streetcar switch as officials celebrate a new socialist government.
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Associated Press
Hamilton
Glasgow
Scotland
Helen Keller
Glasgow University
DIES OF INJURIES IN VARNISH BLAST
Edward Moberly a 40 year old Sewall Paint and Varnish Company employee died from injuries after an explosion and fire wrecked much of the plant. Three others were injured and flames threatened to ignite drums of cotton and toluol in storage. Officials put the loss at over 250000 dollars.
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Kansas City
Edward Moberly
Sewall Paint and Varnish Company
Sanity hearing sought for Thomasson by kin in Missouri
Attorneys for relatives of Hugh W. Thomasson filed with the Missouri Supreme Court a writ of mandamus to force Judge Charles W. Holt camp in St. Louis to conduct a sanity hearing for the elderly millionaire on June 20. P. H. Cullen Taylor R. Young and Stephen Boggiano represent Ela Bolles and Townsend, nearest kin, urging review of a petition filed in October 1931 seeking the hearing.
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Hugh W. Thomasson
Missouri Supreme Court
Charles W. Holtcamp
St. Louis
St Louis
P. H. Cullen
Taylor R. Young
Stephen Boggiano
Ela Bolles
Townsend
Thomason
Bostcamp
Lightning Kills Woman At Boonville Home
Boonville Missouri June 16 Mrs Alvin Kendrick 34 was struck by lightning and killed instantly at her Woolridge area home yesterday afternoon police said the event occurred during a severe thunderstorm and investigation is ongoing with no further details released.
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Boonville
Alvin Kendrick
Woolridge
Science Fights Law For Genius A Telescope Wizard
A noted astronomer and inventor fights regulatory limits to work nights on a telescope project aimed at aiding crime solving while maintaining a daytime research position. The article highlights legal challenges, funding questions, and potential implications for policing tech.
Genius Milish Faces 20 Years For Notorious Crime In St Charles
John E Mellish of St Charles, a renowned amateur astronomer, faces a 20 year sentence for a crime involving his 15 year old daughter. Efforts to allow continued lens making while jailed provoke debate. Mellish stays in county jail nights, free by day, awaiting trial as officials consider confinement plans.
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St. Charles
John E. Milish
Mellish
George D. Carbury
Meilish
Kanee
Geneva
Onde
John E. Mellish
John Newhall
Mrs. Mellish
Nominees of Past and Winners List of party tickets
A historical recap of fifty years of presidential and vice presidential nominees by party with convention sites. The list marks winners with an asterisk and notes conventions in Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Philadelphia and other venues, including names like Garfield Arthur Blaine Logan Hendricks Harrison Morton Cleveland Thurman and others.
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James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Chicago
Winfield S. Hancock
William H. English
Cincinnati
James G. Blaine
John A. Logan
Grover Cleveland
T. A. Hendricks
Benjamin Harrison
Levi P. Morton
Allen G. Thurman
St. Louis
Benjamin Harison
Whitelaw Reid
Minneapolis
Grover
Joplin Man Roughly Treated After Robbery Kidnapping
In Joplin Missouri on June 16 AP reports robbers took about $1000 from E. O. Hunt proprietor of a tire and battery shop, then kidnapped and chloroformed him. He was beaten and dumped in a ditch near Milc Missouri with a leather strap around his neck and legs drawn up, found by a farmer.
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Joplin
E. O. Hunt
Mil
Hunt
Oil Well Driller Killed in Plane Crash
W D Morrison oil well driller from Rio Grande Texas was fatally injured when his airplane crashed in Johnson county after a propeller tore loose at about 500 feet witnesses report he tried to glide to a landing the plane dived Morrison had bought the plane two months earlier at Marshall Missouri and was en route to meet Arch Campbell for a business engagement.
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Mellish
Yorkes Observatory
Kansas City
W. D. Morrison
Rio Grande
Tex
Johnson County
Morrison
Arch Campbell
Marshall
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