Democratic convention reconvenes for presidential vote and platform
At the July 9 Democratic convention in Beprer the session reopened at 11 o clock with plans to choose a presidential nominee and adopt a platform. Debates centered on preamble wording and a clash over candidate support between Johnson of Minnesota and Judge Gray of Delaware against William Jennings Bryan.
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Johnson
Minnesota
Gray
DelewWere
Willam Jennings Bryan
Fmee
Coney Island Hotels Burned At Great Loss
A pair of Coney Island hotels were consumed by fire causing a total loss of 150100 dollars. The episode reflects the era's hazard to coastal resort properties amid crowded boardwalk activity and emergency response challenges.
Hitchcock Named Sheldon for Treasurer
Hot Springs Va July 9 Frank H Hitchcock former first assistant post master general and Taft campaign manager was unanimously chosen chairman of the Republican national committee George R Sheldon of New York was elected treasurer The appointment follows a conference with Judge Taft and the executive committee Sheldon is a Harvard classmate of Roosevelt and a longtime financier and leader in New York politics
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Hot Springs
Frank H. Hitchcock
W. H. Taft
Republican Party
Republican National Committee
Taft
National Republican Committee
George R. Sheldon
New York
Arthur L. Vorys
Ohio
Cincinnati
Sheldon
Cornelius N. Bliss
Roosevelt
Harvard
Bliss
Union League Club of
Ont
White House
Nou Fu
Chicago
Peary Heads to Arctic Quest From New York
Commander Robert E. Peary sails for Sydney to join the Roosevelt for the northern ice fields. He will visit Portland before continuing to Sydney and aims to reach the Arctic region by next Monday or Tuesday.
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New York
North Pole
Robert FE. Peary
Sydney
C. B
Roosevelt
Peary
Portland
Famine risk cited in Russia as crops fail
In St. Petersburg on July 9 a ministry of the interior representative told the duma the coming winter may bring famine. He reported two thirds of winter wheat failed in eighteen provinces, the southern district worst off, and two and a half million acres of land unseeded.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Ministry of the Interior
Duma
Fire Sweeps Boston Harbor Front Amid Windy Fire
A brisk northwest wind drove a major fire along a quarter mile of East Poston harbor front in Boston last evening. Property losses near 1.5 million dollars, largely borne by the Boston and Albany railroad. Two persons reported missing.
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Boston
East Poston
Boston & Albany Railroad
Real estate board treasurer shoots self after wife's death
Richard Alexander, treasurer and board member of the New York real estate brokers association, shot himself twice at Dexter Missouri, after brooding over his wife's death two weeks earlier. He likely will die from the wound.
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New York
Richard Alexander
Real Estate Board of Brokers of
Thin City
Himae
Dexter
Mr. Alexander
Despondent Wife of William Wise Ends Life in Warsaw
In Warsaw Indiana on July 9 a 45 year old woman Mrs William Wise ended her life by swallowing arsenic, her despondent state attributed to ill health. Her death appears self inflicted and notes indicate the coping difficulties she faced.
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Warsaw
Ind
William Wise
Democratic Duty Speech Attacks Trusts and Tariffs
Representative Henry D. Clayton of Alabama, as permanent Democratic convention chair, urges a shift from Republican policies, denounces trusts and tariff protection, and calls for constitutional government. He condemns Hoover era tactics, praises labor rights, and presses tariff revision to curb corporate power and restore democracy.
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Henry D. Clayton
Alabama
Republican Party
Thomas Jefferson
Clayton
Roosevelt
Chicago
Repubiicans
Grover Cleveland
Democratic Party
Friends of Tariff
Congress
Department of Justice
Aldrich
Claytor
House
Senate
Harrisburg
Root
New York
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Johneen Will Alge
Mindle
Gol
Pennsylvania
Committee On Credentials
Guffey
Credentials Committee
Richmond P. Hobson
Merrimac
Hobson
Hodgson
Mr. Hobson
United States
Japan
Pacific
William J. Uryan
John A. Johnson
Pork
Nebraske
Judge Parker
Pettigrew
Oth
George Gray
Coney Island
Chicago Exchange
William L. Marshall
Alexander Mackenzie
Army
Rdert Edson
George Eliot Porter
Linn Boyd Porter
Charles Mackay
Brookline
Mass
W. R. McKeen
Union Pacific Railroad Company
McKeen Motor Car Shops
Omaha
Hitchcock
Speaker
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