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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
2
The article ruminates on how men judge women's dress fit. It notes husbands praise a new dress with smiles and praise pattern, while scowling when faced with dissatisfaction. It concludes that women often misjudge men's suit fit. a wife’s fashion advice can be hazardous.
The passage extols spring as a unique, evanescent season marked by a sequence of signs. It describes southern breezes melting snow, bluebirds, unfolding streams, pussy willows, frogs, and a fresh verdant robe over a landscape. It highlights blossoms, lilacs, dogwood, Judas tree, orchards, and blankets of dandelions.
The Boston Globe notes a growing trend of affluent individuals joining public or semi public life. It suggests wealthier citizens increasingly accept social responsibility and favor public duty over leisure activities like polo or golf.
Taft secured the presidential nomination on the first ballot at 9:25 p.m. with 561 votes while Roosevelt received 107 and La Follette 41. Cummins 17 and 343 voting none. James S. Sherman was named as vice president.
During the call of the states for nom inations many delegates carried out their primary instructions and voted for the colonel, despite other preferences. The scene shows varying obedience to directives and signals a split in support within the convention.
Roosevelt faction revealed a split as delegates from Illinois Missouri Idaho and others refused to heed a valedictory request to withdraw. Col Roosevelt maintained influence over several states while many delegates aimed for an independent nomination later. The platform vote showed 666 in affirmative while 343 Roosevelt delegates stayed silent.
President Taft spent Saturday at usual leisure with his sons Robert and Charles. He issued a statement calling the Chicago convention more than a prelude to a general election, saying it ends a pre-convention campaign and marks a crisis threatening Republican institutions. He hailed the victory as preventing a serious menace.
In Utica New York Vice-President Sherman says he is honored by the Republican national convention for renomination to the vice presidency. He notes no prior renomination for this office in 75 years and states he had hoped to retire but will continue service when party leaders request it.
A typewritten request bearing a forged President Taft signature was used by a con man to swindle over twenty convention visitors on the last day in Chicago.
A fragment notes, whenever the wrong young man visits, the girl tells another friend that she believed he would not leave. The line marks repeated unwanted attention and social discomfort in courtship.
Gertie grows furious and tears up a love poem titled Lines on Mabel's Face written for her. The tale hints at romantic friction and a volatile confrontation over a sentimental gesture.
Duncan Fletcher condemns a Jacksonville orange grower who failed due to ignorance. He compares the man to a tramp, saying the offender faults others while lacking knowledge of orange farming and industry. The speech portrays a sharp critique of perceived incompetence.
A customer asks for sausage price per pound. The butcher claims the price rose to twenty five cents. The customer counters Schmidt's sells at twenty cents but is told he is out of them. The butcher then says if he were out he would also charge twenty cents.
A farmer and his plowman fetching sand at St Andrews were behind target on a rifle range when a stray bullet struck the plowman in the leg. The farmer, having seen the danger, cried to the volunteers to stop, noting it could have hit the horse.
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