Floyd County Buys Toll Road Quarry with Profit Hopes
Floyd County officials expect profits after purchasing the New Albany and Corydon toll road and quarry property. Twenty one acres of land are part of the quarry with a road contractor delivering 52 000 yards of rock at seven cents per yard total 4 640 dollars. Borings suggest one acre yields that amount and the remaining twenty acres could exceed 75 000 dollars in value if similarly productive. The toll road cost 15 000 dollars and the quarry 10 000 dollars. the road has been taken over by the state highway commission as part of the state system.
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New Albany
Ind
Board of County Commissioners of
Floyd County
New Albany and
Corydon
Contin Ter
State Highway Commission
Washington, DP. C
Lan
United States Civil Service Commission
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Civil Service Commission
Mrs Fr Dubach Noted Pioneer Sister of Han nibal Resident Dies
Mrs. Fr. Dubach of Hannibal Missouri died Sunday night at eleven at her home. She was the daughter of F. L. and Zelhe Grisard of Vevay and widow of FP I Dubach. The last of her immediate family, her only son George G.'s death four years ago, she was a noble Christian woman beloved by many. Vevay Enterprise obituary notes her loss.
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AP. Dufouris
Fr. Dubach
Hannibal
F. l. and
Zelhe
Grisard
Vevay
Dubach
George G
Nomination of James M Cox Ends a Notable Contest
The 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco ends on the forty fourth ballot as James M Cox of Ohio captures the presidential nomination while Franklin D. Roosevelt is chosen for vice president. Edward W. Pickard reports the scene and the tense balloting amid party factions and rivalries.
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James M. Cox
Ohio
James Middleton Cox
Franklin DD. Roosevelt
New York
Taten
Haa
Contry
Cay
Moe Tecboo
Sats
Momiier
Aes
Beim Co
William GoMeNdoo
Palmer Ne
Arizona
Oklahoma
Robert I. Owen
C. H. Lanebaugh
Owen
G. Cherry
South Dakota
James W. Gerard
John S Crosby
Homer S Cummings
Cummings
Hitcchcock
Nebraska
Shalenberger
Mlorila
Pennsylvania
Palmer
John Hi Bigelow
Ahien
Labor Party
Hitteg
Cox
Simon M. Johnson
Coxites
Bedlam
Pat Harrison
Misakaippi
Harrison
Bourke Cochran
al Smith
Smith
Democratic Convention Ends In Confident Nomination Battle
The 1912 Democratic National Convention adjourned after eight days of ballots and debates with James M. Cox declared the nominee amid intense floor clashes. Delegates, many exhausted and spent by travel expenses, faced platform fights over the League of Nations, Prohibition, and wartime policies, while William Jennings Bryan pressed for reservations to the peace treaty.
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Prohibition
League of Nations
Ireland
Chicago
Wilson
Civic Auditorium
Comepy
Washington
Felesham
Cimmings
Gardner
Missouri
Georgia
Palmer
Hoke Smith
Tom Watson
James Reed
Reed
Joseph T. Shannon
Reading
Burris Jenkins
Kansas City
William G. McAdoo
McAdoo
Charles F. X. O’brien
New Jersey
Edward S. Edwards
Edwards
Senator Simmons
North Carolina
Carter Glase
Virginia
John W. Davis
West Virginia
Francis B. Harrison
Philippines
William Jennings
Bryan
Mr. Glasa
Mer
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Flo
Bourke Cookran
Cockran
ROE IK
Committee
Trish
Carter Glass
William Jennings Bryan
Glass
Republican
Senate
Robinson
George Miss
Bessie Dwser
Manilla
Harrison
San Francisco
Golden Gate City
Rocky Mountains
California
Democratic Platform Emphasizes Labor Rights and International Sympathy
The platform pledges strict economy and laws to curb profiteers, endorses woman suffrage, child protection, and veteran aid, backs tariff for revenue, and favors farm loans and labor rights. It praises flood control, inland waterways, and federal trade oversight while endorsing self determination for Ireland and sympathy for nations reshaping government.
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Republican Party
Pernielova
Republican Congress
Democratic Party
McAdoo
Congress
Merchand Marine
Sdeper
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Democratic Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Americana
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F. L. Dubach
Madison
Hannibal, Mo
Mabel Lawson
Hester
Lester
Paul
Naomi Connelly
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edward W. Pickard
San Vratefece
Hes Tenporary
Planer
Nectiomal
Merc Wireaner
Saad
Aloe
Evifeos
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Cumminge
Georgian C. Ormsby
Oakland
Woodrow Wilson
Cox Boys Noise Makers
Ryan
Peter Wreoen
Nees
Bevan
Arvan
League of Nationa
Tri-h Republic
EL L Doheny
Ed Bryans
Viva Voce
Glase
Colspole
Jeneth
Owens
S. Marshall
Davis
Meredith
Ciemings
Simmons
Gerard
Trichcock
Knox
United States
Waseh
Montana
Enttra Dade
Weares
Sadler
Federa Reserve
Agriculture and Labor
Hag
Warried Bureau Fe
Railways and Roadways
Burleson Indorsed
Burleson
China
Czecho-Slovakia
Finland
Poland
Alaska
Porto Rico
Hawaii
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