Republican convention ratifies Coolidge Dawes ticket
The 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland ratified Calvin Coolidge for president and Charles Dawes for vice president. Delegates from across the nation including Alaska and the Philippines debated policies versus leadership, praising the president while noting differing views in Congress.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Alaska
Portof Rico
Canal Zone
Phillippines
Calvin Coolidge
United States
St. Louis
Woodrow Wilson
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Coolidge
Coolidge Dominates Cleveland GOP Convention Atmosphere
The Cleveland gathering leaned into Calvin Coolidge as the party’s guiding force with delegates debating running mates and a La Follette platform clash. Dawes was floated as Coolidge’s running mate while the La Follette wing demanded sweeping reforms including public ownership and direct presidential election. Prominent veterans were scarce on stage, replaced by cabinet members and new faces as Cleveland showcased a modernized GOP.
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Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Manany
Lowden
Arizona
Silas Wright
New York
Chas. G. Dawes
la Follette
Wisconsin
Resolutions Committee
Henry Allen Cooper
LaFallette
Itis
Tyre
Jed McCormick
Wines
Sterr
Jim Preston
Preston
Senate Press Gallery
Washington
William M. Butler
Massachusetts
Senators Lodge
Smoot, Watson and Vihers
Will Hays
Harry M. Daugherty
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
T. Coleman Dupont
Charles D. Hilles
Chicago
Cleveland
Mellon
Weeks
Work
Stone
New
Iowa News Roundup Highlights State Growth and Gridiron
Iowa reports include a new $150000 consolidated high school at Wapello dedicated June 9 and fifty blocks of graveling at Laverne this summer. The fifteenth annual Dairy Cattle congress comes to Waterloo Sept 22–28, while Polk County advances $285000 in hard surfacing for the primary road system. Des Moines coal mining, Drake University summer programs, and a major university gift of 170 acres from the Finkbine brothers are noted alongside statewide school and park improvements and a June 16–22 Kentucky homecoming invitation for Governor Kendall.
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Laverne
Wapello
Waterloo
Iowa Wesleyan College
Muscatine
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Davenport
Iowa Great Lakes Association
Iowa
University of Iowa
Supreme Court
Towa
Kendall
Kentucky
Harrodsburg
Louisville
Des Moine i
Des Moines
Shenandoah
Drake University
E. T. Meredith
Secretary of Agriculture
London
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
John Fletcher College
Oskaloosa
Weather Bureau
J. L. Robinson
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
Polk County
Iowa State Fair Grounds
Gilbert N. Haugen
Worth County
McNary-Haugen Farm
Bill
State Fish and Game Warden
California
Christian Endeavor
Sioux City
L. B. Paul
Piper
W. QO
BE. C G. Finkbine
Brothers
J C Coolidge Declines Cleveland Republican Invite
The article reports J C Coolidge refuses invitations to attend the Republican convention in Cleveland. It notes his farming duties at Carmel and the radio set installed for him, with his wife reading his reply and Coolidge citing too much work at home to travel.
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John C. Coolidge
Cleveland
Rlepublican
Nathan Committee
Coolidge, Sr
Coolidge
Washington
Mercersburg
Druah-bell Speech Sparks Family Confusion
A Boston Tran excerpt captures a garbled exchange marking a dispute over a person named Harold and the relation to Jald, labeled as Harold’s sister, in a fragmentary script. The dialogue hints at mistaken identity or miscommunication within a family.
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Druah-bell
Cell
Jald
Harold
Boston Transcript
Dixie song author Dan Emmett and minstrel origins
An article notes Dan Emmett as the writer of the song Dixie and discusses claims of him being the inventor of minstrelsy. It includes historical asides on minstrel origins and references to minstrel culture across eras and regions.
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Dan Emmett
Emmett
Dixie
Hut
Fox Rhinehardt
Minnie
Willem
Anatole France
Homer
Atlanta Constitution
Absent-Minded Professor Deliberates On Household Tasks
The Itema Absent-Minded Professor, while his wife visits, mulls over chores including feeding the cat and letting the bird out. He wonders what else was requested, seeking memory cues amid domestic errands.
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Itema
Five Simple Rules for Bonus Claims
Washington outlines five rules for veterans applying for the adjusted compensation. Printed blanks will be distributed via newspapers and veterans groups, with no cash payments before March 1, 1925. Fingerprints will identify applicants to guard against fraud.
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Washington
Post Office Department
The
American Legion
War Department
Veterans Bonus Calculation Rules and Age Factor Table
The article explains computing a veteran’s policy maturity value from days at home and abroad, applying a base pay cap of 625 dollars, then multiplying by an age factor from a table. It gives examples with 660 home days plus 60 eliminated, ages 30 and 360 home 100 abroad, and states eligibility up to captain or lieutenant ranks.
British Island Tipping Eastward Says Expert
DC. H. J. Clayton told the Society of Engineers at Burlington House that the Island of Great Britain has tilted eastward several feet over the last 800 years.
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London
Great Britain
DC. H. J. Clayton
Society of Engineers
Burlington House
Catch Shad in Baskets at Lake Prince Dam
In Princess Anne county near Norfolk a large shad run gathers at the dam. Buck shad are being netted or hauled out with baskets and rakes as anglers and motorists bring home bumper catches from the sea run.
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Norfolk
Lake Prince Dam
Princess Anne County
Photographs Transmitted Over Long-Distance Lines
New York report on a demonstration by American Telephone and Telegraph Co experts shows photographs from Cleveland sent to New York in under ten minutes. Five by seven inch images and handwritten messages were transmitted as facsimiles using synchronized cylinders and photo-electric cells with a light valve for varying intensity.
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New York
Cleveland
New York City
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Man 66 Wins Bride in Two Days Wooing
Frances Ray a 66 year old former tanner and farmer from Winchester Massachusetts marries Charlotte Faulkner a Cunard liner stewardess after meeting on a voyage from Liverpool. Ray proposed two days after the ship departed and they plan a quick Congregational ceremony.
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Man
New York
Francia Ray
Winchester
Masa
Ray
Charlotte Faulkner i
Secondelas
Cameronian
Liverpool
Farm in Family Holds 106 Years Near Farmington
Washington county farm lands valued for preservation, owner St. M. Morton states the Morton family has held the land since 1818, eighteen years before Arkansas statehood. The article notes long ownership and references a Norfolk jacket replica of chain-mail hawberk.
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Little Rock
Washington County
St. M. Morton
Farmington
Hig
Mortons
Arkansis
Britain to Build World’s Largest Radio Station Near Rugby
Daily Mail reports Britain plans a vast 960 acre site at Hillmorton near Rugby for a radio station with 10 masts of 820 feet to carry aerials. The plant would directly link to India and Australia, though neither has a station yet powerful enough to reply without relaying signals.
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London
Great Britain
The
Daily Mail
Hillmorton
Rugby
India
Australia
Countries
Do you think young people should be trained for marriage
Jones questions the idea of training youths for marriage while a Cincinnati Enquirer quote from Mr Grouch suggests opposition to sending raw troops into battle, reflecting lingering wartime debates.
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Jones
Mr.’ G@rouch
Cincinnati Enquirer
Cheapened Human Life a Menace
Scriptural reflection on temptations to rash death and personal responsibility. It argues that treating life as expendable rejects God’s sovereignty and ignores accountability, noting Jesus cited it is written to resist temptations. The piece links modern cults and self indulgence to the danger, urging repentance and reliance on Christ.
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Jesus
Devil
Christ
Judas Judas
God
Tower of Babel
Israel
Paul
David
Deeds of Honest Life Build Our Imperishable Treasure
The quote by Willard Brown Thorp extols pure honesty, goodness, and love as lasting jewels. It compares fragile, false things to woodwork burned away, leaving only virtuous actions as enduring wealth in life.
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Willard Brown Thorp
A Delusion of consecration praised by admiration
The Evangelical Visitor notes that many imagine they are set apart by admiring sacrifices they might have made, a belief framed as self aggrandizing illusion rather than true devotion.
Never Lonely They are never alond who are ac companied by noble thoughts
Sir Pillip Sidney offers a concise aphorism on companionship and virtue, noting that being with noble thoughts keeps one from loneliness. The wording reflects a reflective, classical style.
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Alond
Sir Pillip Sidney
Fortunate Man Seeks Free Thinking Religion
Excerpts urge living by truth and courage to explore religion openly. Quotes from Tennyson and Dr Laws stress honest speech, moral living, and the value of holy thoughts in modern life as shared in evangelical writing.
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Dr O. H. Laws
Godlike to pity distress not human
Fragmentary quotation references pity as human and relief as godlike, attributed to H. Mann. The line contrasts human pity with divine relief, noting the boundary between mortal compassion and elevated power.
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H,mann
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By Wright A. Patterson
Theodore FE. Burton
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Gurton
Japan
Lodie
Elinitanio
Missichusetts
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Evi
Chimao
Sroosevelt
Ty Llatant
Suze
Thut
al. L. Burton
University of Michigen
Teres Eee
Chas v. Dawes
Otmrris
Iowa State News
Storm Lake
J.C. Coolidge
Melville Boynton
San Francisco
Bacis
Mexico
Culiacan
Boynton
Mayme Williamson
Army
Marine Corps
Leutenants
Navy
Peter Eens
British Island
England
Civil Aviation Department
Air Ministry
British
Salid Mias Faulkner
Britain
Ouch
Rev
H. Ostrom
D. D
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