20 Jun 1912
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
1
Special police doubt whether the man arrested as Wealey Edwards is the Virginia desperado tied to the Carroll county courthouse sheeting at Hillsville. He will be held pending Hillsville officers, while the prisoner denies being Edwards and claims a Hathley surname and may be from West Virginia.
A sprawling survey of Republican politics notes Roosevelts camp in Chicago riding gains with Alabama delegates. It details Negro delegates questions about a possible bolt, Taft rivals worries, and plans to sway Southern votes including Arkansas and Alabama. The piece cites Dixon and McKinley, and mentions Brownsville fair being kept out of campaign talk.
South and Northern Negro delegates at the Republican National Convention show signs of wavering between Taft and Roosevelt. Taft leaders seek to keep delegates in line with persuasion and entertainment, while Roosevelt supporters push to sway the black belt delegates amid a wave of campaign noise.
Richmond special reports longtime Danville photographer Anthony H. Hunt known as Mr Blunt dies by suicide in Halifax County at age about sixty seven. A Confederate veteran born in Franklin County he left Danville twenty years ago and traveled Virginia. He married Jane Womack of Clover and survived by several grown children. Funeral held Friday at Baptist Church burial in the churchyard. town grieves his loss amid widespread sympathy for family.
In New York a mother pleads for the return of her twin boys Gottfried and Frank after a relative by marriage took them for boarding on a woman’s ad hoc arrangement. The mother, Mrs G Selfinger, vanished, leaving the Children’s Society unable to place the boys. Local police involvement followed as the case gained attention.
National Roosevelt committee leaders accuse Republican elites of fraud and decency violations in a scathing letter to the National Committee. The document warns of consequences if actions are not reversed and calls for fair, honest conduct within the party.
National committeemen head to Baltimore for preconvention maneuvering. Former Judge Martin J. Wade of Iowa City warns of West vs East nomination dynamics while Governor Burke of North Dakota looms as a potential rival. Harmon boosters fall for a prank as a fake telegram signals Governor Harmon’s arrival, triggering a bonafide rush to Union Station.
A New Haven obituary honors a respected citizen who rose from struggle. It recalls his early days when he worked hard without tracking every detail, noting his role in founding families and helping to build strong cities states and nations.
A puzzling passage discusses work without clocks, interest driving thrift, and memory. It contrasts those who toil without timing with the sense of time as wings, noting personal gain and reminiscence amid labor. The text reads as fragmented Musings on labor and perception.
Philadelphia reports a remarkable operation at Medico-Chirurgian Hospital where Ben Harris, once blind for seven years, regained partial sight. A donor eye from a patient with a punctured eye was grafted onto Harris, who was kept in darkness for eight days before regaining limited vision from the operated eye.
Harris remains in the hospital awaiting a second patient who must lose an eye. Surgeons anticipate operating on the second eye to restore near normal vision, and Harris is expected to see about as well as ever after the procedures.
A boy entered Otto Bochert’s Bogota New Jersey shop and found no one to serve him. He rallied others for free candy, grabbing most stock and stuffing it in pockets. Police traced the Bocherts as they deserted storefront and home, with a stove burning and no clear motive beyond returning to Germany.
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