Clayton Takes Up the Gavel at Democratic Denver Convention
In Denver July 9 delegates packed the convention hall amid heat and excitement as Clayton, Alabama, takes the gavel after permanent officers are chosen. Rabbi Koch gives opening prayer, crowd cheers, and three girls present bouquets to Clayton before he speaks.
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Denver
Cal
Democratic “inter
James M. Guffey
Patrick McCarven
Bryan
Ollie James
atin] Dahlman
Bell
Emanuel Koch
Seattle
Washington
Betl
Mr Whiston
Pennsylvania
Roger Sullivan
Witnois
McWhiston
national committee
Keli
Senator McCreary
Kentucky
Louis Nixon
New York
John St. Baker
California
Irene
Catherine
Ada Smith
Alabama
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Roosevelt to Chronicle South African Hunt for Scribner's
Theodore Roosevelt signs a contract with Charles Scribner's Sons to write a big game hunting chronicle in South Africa. Scribner's beat rival bidders after two Sagamore Hill visits. The firm plans royalties rather than pay per word, predicting top sellers in the year.
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New York
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
South Africa
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Scribner company
Sagamore Hill
numerou
Scribner's
Awful death rate in Russia prompts plea for action
Representatives from affected districts appealed for government help to halt a smallpox disaster sweeping Russia from the Baltic to Siberia. They warned the death rate in several districts stands at twenty five to thirty percent, blaming poor sanitation and lax enforcement of sanitary measures.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Baltic
Siberia
Russa
Flood Drowns Thousands in Asa Minor Town of Tokal
Constantinople July 9 A news agency report says about one thousand people drowned today in a flood that washed over the town of Tokal along the Irmak River in Asa Minor.
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CONSTANTINOPLE
TOKAL
THESHTLIRMAK
ASA MINOR
Denver Mardi Gras at the Convention Sparks Street Carnival
Denver residents and visitors enjoy a carnival atmosphere at the convention with police confiscating tin horns and other noise makers. A boom for Franklin K. Lane’s vice presidency is playfully dismissed as not native born. Cowboys and cowgirls plus the Holy Jumpers entertain crowds while credential committee members struggle to recuperate after a long session. Reporter Nick Longworth is observed in attendance.
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Denver
Nick Longworth
Col
Franklin K. Lane
Pacific coast
California
Lane
Interstate Commerce commission
Prince Baward Island
committee on credentials
Nick
Chicago Tribune
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bob” Taylor
Tennessee
Preston Will Refuse to Run for President Choice
Reno prison report says Socialist Labor nominee Preston R. will withdraw from candidacy to avoid prejudicing his murder retrial. Convicted five years ago of Anton Siwa’s Goldfield restaurant murder, Preston welcomed the nomination and planned a mail campaign from his cell before his lawyers vetoed it.
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Reno
Nev
ctrlin R. Preston
Socialist Labor party
Preston
Antone Siwa
Goldfield
Believed killed eight workmen in Dayton sewer cave-in
In Dayton Ohio a sewer trench collapse in North Dayton this morning is believed to have killed eight workers. Two bodies, Ignace Cotolosora and Petro Domicello, have been recovered. Rescue crews toil to reach remaining victims as families react in distress at the scene.
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Dayton
Elgi
Ignace Cotolosora
Petro Domicello
Twenty Die as Building Collapse Shocks St. Petersburg
Twenty persons were killed and about twenty more badly injured when a large building under construction collapsed in St. Petersburg. Fifteen bodies were recovered with several more unaccounted for as rescuers worked amid the ruins. the final death toll was uncertain until debris removal is completed.
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St. Petersburg
ats
Massillon State Hospital Exonerated in Abuse Probe
Columbus July 8. The management and attendants at the Massillon state hospital for the insane are exonerated of charges of brutality to patients by the committee of the board of state charities after an investigation ordered by the governor.
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Massillon State Hospital
Colubus
board of state charities
Michael Leffler Claimed By Death At Home
Michael Leffler aged seventy two died at his home three miles south of here at about 7 o clock this morning. Death due to neuralgia of the heart. He leaves a wife and seven children.
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Aosta
Michael Lefer
here
jleaves
Death by Drowning Claimed for Pred Linsley
Misfortune reported from Mobile Alabama details Pred Linsley's drowning while bathing. Relatives in Marion mourn his loss after delayed identification. He was about forty, formerly with Japsley contracting, and son of the late J J Japsley. An earlier notice misidentified the victim. The body had not been recovered at first, but later circumstances pointed to his death.
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Bryan
Bell
Ray TL Martin
NOC
Corte Lingley
Ainsdale
Minois
Pred Linsley
Marion
Linsley
Mobile
Alabama
Lingley
hig
J. J. Japsley
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Long Lost Son Reunited After Decades apart
A note from Los Angeles signed David Hammond reaches Fredericktown authorities seeking his father Gus Hammond and family. The story recalls Civil War veteran Gus Hammond and his son Bain? Hammond who left home, was last heard 25 years ago after a possible accident. Now sixty three or sixty four, the son plans to return to reunite with his ninety one year old father, both hopeful for a joyful reconciliation.
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MGus Hammond
Ba annd
pomethine
Winntil
Torimaster Joyneon
Hammond
Los Angeles
California
Trammond
Rioting and Bloodshed Renewed at Tabriz
Turmoil returns to Tabriz as a food famine triggers a bread riot. Thousands of starving citizens raid bakeries and provisioning houses while horse soldiers and cavalrymen respond with charges. The unrest, fueled by hunger, involves men women and children and raises fears of mass casualties as revolutionary sentiment mounts amid scarce food.
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Mad Mobo
Odessa
dia Tabriz
Kichin Khan
Tabriz
Sheldon Selected to Run National Republican Committee
Washington July 9 The appointment of George R Sheldon as treasurer of the national Republican committee came with an air of mystery. The choice follows discussion over McKinley as treasurer and has Tafts silent approval through Harvard classmate Roosevelt. Vorys to head Ohio campaign will report to Taft, separating Ohio from the national effort. Treasury shows receipts 2 115 143 expenditures 3 510 000.
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Washington
George R. Sheldon
national Republican committee
Representative McKinley
inois
Republican congressional committee
Taft
McKinley
national committee
Sheldon
Cornelius N. Blss
Roosevelt
Harvard
Hietkork
aiuet
Vorys
Oho
Eiltenacock
Ohio
Vorya
Dem congressman Clayton Opens Democratic Conclave Loudly
Representative D D Clayton of Alabama chairs the Democratic national convention and defends party doctrines against Republican claims. He denounces Republican monopoly, tariffs, and trust favoritism, praising Roosevelt and Taft as allied but criticizes current administration failures and campaign propaganda.
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Alabama
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Republican party
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ngue
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Ney H. Martin
Fredericktown Mee
Treasury Statement
Jay
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D. D. CLAYTON
Matt
Kimeen
Mir Roogevel
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