Giant Wadlow Dies at 22 After Foot Infection
Alton Illinois obituary notes Robert Wadlow the world’s tallest man at eight feet four inches and 491 pounds died at 22 from complications after a foot infection. He rose from a farm near Alton born February 22 1918 and lived a life on tours despite his size.
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Manistee
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Robert Wadlow
Alton
Ill
Robert Pershing Wadlow
Harold F. Wadlow
Wadlow
Alton High School
Shurtleff College
High School
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Roosevelt Delegate at Democratic Convention Provides Silent Insight
Elliott Roosevelt of Fort Worth acts as a Texas delegate at the Democratic national convention and declines to comment on his father’s renomination. The Texas delegation vows to vote as a unit for Vice President Garner while others debate platform positions and past presidential spouses attend.
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Roosevelt
Elliott Roosevelt
Fort Worth
Elliott
Texas
Garner
Ly Elliott
Songs for Delegates at Chicago Convention
The Democratic national committee staged an entertainment blitz with 150 tunes and an Indian soprano to amuse delegates in a pink Lake Michigan hotel suite. Barron noted unsolicited songs come from across the country and some are inappropriate until decisions are made.
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Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Carter T. Barron
Washington
Mobley Lushanya
Barron
Lake Michigan
Ivy
White House
Allo
Franklin D
Roosevelt
Willkie Plans Rest and Conference Week in Colorado
Wendell L. Willkie will spend a week in rest and possible talks with Republican leaders in Colorado Springs after a brief appearance at a fish fry in Almont. He vowed that the America you know must be preserved at all hazards and dedicated himself to that cause.
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Colorado
Springs
Colo
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Almont
America
Women at Chicago push for 50-50 representation at convention
The article notes Josephine Roche and Frances Perkins among leaders of the Democratic women’s advisory platform committee backing the Roosevelt program. It recalls Perkins’s 20 years ago factory visit with Rob Wagner and Al Smith, and mentions Rep. Caroline O Day and Emily Blair active in gender parity efforts. Fort Riley and Sherman Field contracts are briefly listed.
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Chicago
Josephine, Roche
Denver
New York
Roosevelt
Washington
the Treasury
Labor
Frances Perkins
National
Emily Newell Blair
Missouri
Paul V. McNutt
Caroline ‘O’day
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodring Presses Non-Intervention plank at Democratic gathering
Former Secretary of War Harry Woodring signals a push for a non intervention policy plank at the Chicago convention. He urges a U S stance of non intervention in both political and military matters of the old world. Woodring heads Kansas delegates pledged to Roosevelt and voices support from party leaders as arrangements for the delegation are announced.
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Harry H. Woodring
Henry L. Stimson
Kansas
United States
Chicago
Harry Woodring
Oodring
Roosevelt
Woodring
Resolutions Committee
Guy T. ‘Helvering
Internal Revenue ‘S
Lynn Brodrick
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Kanae
William Drennan
Kansas City
Harold W. Goodwin
Wellington
Helen Houston
Wichita
Orelle Bauersfield
Topeka
Jules Lee Goodrich
Parsons
Randolph ‘Carpenter
Marion
H. F. Sutton
St. John
Joseph A. Franklin
Roy Omer
Salina
Matt Guilfoyle
Leigh Warner
Cimarron
T. W. Roche
Arkansas City
Democratic delegates discuss farm program plank at resolutions meeting
Carpenter asserts the Democratic party proud of its agricultural record and vows to defend the farm program. Vesencky notes a need to consider the program amid ongoing party debates as the resolutions committee advances the forward-looking farm plank.
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Resolutions Committee
Democratic Party
Carpenter
Publican convention backs new deal farm program
The convention has largely endorsed the present farm plan saying it will run better than the Democrats. It now falls to the Democratic convention to adopt a renewal farm program if it wants to retain Midwestern Republicans who voted Democratic in the last two elections.
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Publican Convention
One Killed Seven Hurt in U.S. 166 Crash Near Coffeyville
Coffeyville Kansas July 15 Mrs Roy E Bell Coffeyville was killed and seven others injured in a collision on U S highway 166 four miles west. Bell a station manager at an oil company suffered a chin gash his daughter Beverly Joan broke a collar bone. Five occupants of the other car were injured one escaped unhurt. Co F Fesler Chautauqua county engineer suffered a scalp wound Mrs Fesler fractured right ankle and left leg Philip Cox head injuries Charles Stewart a scalp wound and Mrs Chester Mills a leg fracture.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Roy E. Bell
Bell
Oil Company
Beverly Joan
Ore
Co. &. Fesser
Chautauqua
Fire at Hutchinson Destroys Garage and Residence
A Hutchinson Kansas blaze destroyed a garage and a residence and damaged a filling station and nearby buildings. Over 300 barrels of oil threatened adjacent property as firefighters battled the flames and three men were overcome by smoke.
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Hutchinson
Kan
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