Roosevelt Yell Dominates Day Two At Republican Convention
At Chicago Coliseum on June 18 the Roosevelt cheer erupts for forty five minutes as delegates react to Lodge led proceedings. The credentials report favors Taft, placing about seven hundred delegates in his column, with allies accepting the result and paving the path to the nomination.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Coliseum
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Committee On Credentials
Taft
Toto
Fulton
Oregon
National Committee
Bookwalter
Indiana
Nent
Purrows
Senator Lodge
Queen of Actresses Praises Peruna Remedy
A 1900s advertisement extols Peruna as benefiting nerves by aiding digestion. It quotes Mrs J C Jamison of Watsonville California praising the remedy after years of indigestion and nervous dyspepsia, claiming improved strength and cure after long use. It condemns nervines and sleep aids as harmful.
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Peru
J.C. Jamison
Marchant Street
Watsonville
Cal
Perana
Lodge Praises President as 14,000 Roar at Rally
The scene shows Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge addressing a convention as 14,000 delegates erupt in support, shouting Four four four years more and waving banners. The crowd swells into chaotic enthusiasm while Hitchcock predicts Roosevelt cheers will turn to Taft tomorrow.
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Massachusetts
Lodge
New England
Market Quotations Indianapolis Grain and Livestock Summary
Summary of regional grain and livestock prices with bids from Indianapolis Cincinnati and Chicago markets. Wheat corn oats and live stock values listed for No 2 red No 2 mixed etc with receipts totals and notes on market tone and demand.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
Platform Adopts Injunction Plank in Labor Controversy
Chicago June 18 The platform committee finalized the platform and the convention opened after a morning session to discuss principles and candidates. A sub committee added a labor injunction plank while rejecting Arizona and New Mexico statehood. A Roosevelt Taft friendly sub committee member warned against forcing Taft to run on an unpopular platform.
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Chicago
Arizona
New Mexico
Taft
Committee On
Convention
Roosevelt
Georstary Taft
Cleveland
Henry Jackson
Indianapolis
Harry 8
New
Captain New
Annex
Jackson
National
National Committee
Be Sure Remains Zealous Amid Injunction Debate
Washington telegrams quoted by both president and secretary of war urged backing the injunction plank with caution toward extremes among manufacturers and laboring men. The convention debated wording and made essential changes to platform declarations, though not in core essentials from the Washington draft.
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Washington
Roosevelt and Taft Monitor Chicago Convention Wire to White House
Direct telegraph circuits connect the Chicago Republican national convention to the White House and Secretary Taft. A long distance line and private operators relay every floor move to Washington in near real time.
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White House
Taft
Chicago
Washington
Vendetta Extraordinary in New Orleans Tragedy
In New Orleans a Black Hand scene at the Giacona wine shop residence ends with four blackmailers dead or wounded and their victims unscathed. Pietro Giacona and his son Carrada allegedly lured the men to dine and shoot after a tense refusal to cooperate. Police seek full details as a wounded assailant recounts a stray shot near Giacona’s house.
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New Orleans
General Beauregard
Pietro Giacona
South
Giacona
Carrada
Giaconas
Ciacona
Chicago Anti-Vice Crusade Opens Amid Indictments
Chicago moves to curb liquor sales as grand jury returns indictments against twenty five to thirty keepers. Each proprietor faces two charges for illegal sale and disorderly house. Evidence gathered by Law and Order League detectives. Denver convention hall capacity set at 16,000 seats.
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Chicago
Law and Order League
Democratic Committee
Denver
Indiana's Distinction Youngest and oldest delegates named
Indiana supplies the youngest and oldest delegates to the Chicago convention. Rudolph Leeds of Richmond, not yet twenty-two and a newspaper editor, is the youth, while W. R. McKeen of Terre Haute is nearly eighty and a longtime Republican. McKeen backs Taft. Leeds has never voted.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Chicago
Rudolph Leeds
Richmond
William BR. Leeds
New York
Daniel G. Reid
W. R. McKeen
Terre Haute
McKeen
Philadelphia
Garfield
McKeon
Taft
Postmaster General Meyer seals Italy postal convention
Postmaster General Meyer announces a concluded postal accord with Italy. A minor earthquake shivered Ogdensburg New York on Tuesday afternoon. The Russian Duma approved the government bill for Siberian railway double tracking. The British House of Commons passed the second reading of the old age pensions bill without opposition. The sixth annual gathering of the National Lumber Manufacturers Associations convened in Minneapolis. Kansas City area endures firmer conditions with further potential damage anticipated.
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Italy
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Duma
Siberian
House of Commons
National
Lumber Manufacturers’ Associations
Seasion
Minneapolis
Kansas City
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Julia Marlowe
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Ohio
Marcus Shoup
Frank H. Hitchcock
East Buffalo
Plank
Committee On Resolutions
William Wh, Taft
Ayer
Arer.Co
Hoosier State
Harry New
William B. Stone
Maryland
Ed. Thayer
Elmer Dever
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