President Chosen O K Otey Walker Goes Home In A Democratic Style
Special Central Press correspondent for New Castle News recounts attending the Democratic convention in Houston. Otey Walker expresses support for Smith, jokes about patronage, and plans to visit Washington if elected. He reflects on travel home, encounters a Capitol clubroom game, and ends noting uncertainty about catching a train home.
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O. K
Otey Walker
Marshal Otey Walker
Central Press
New Castle News
Houston
Tex
Smith
Washingtton
Clem Shaver
Senator
Smith Nominated Thursday Night By Six Minute Leeway
Houston dispatch reports Al Smith narrowly secured the Democratic presidential nomination after a Friday superstition scare. The announcement came at 11 54 p m Thursday amid beliefs among some women voters that Friday is unlucky. The Wilson campaign previously avoided Thursday action in 1912 for similar reasons.
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International News Service
Houston
Texas
al Smith
Smith
Woodrow Wilson
Resigning Emmanuel Baptist Pastor Rev Emrys Thomas to Leave City
Rev. Emrys Thomas, longtime pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in New Castle, will resign effective the last Sunday in July after a decade of service during which the church cleared its mortgage and grew spiritually and materially. He came from Wales twelve years ago, previously led Green Street Baptist in Edwardsville, Pa, and will preach in Liver pool before returning to Wales. Mrs. Thomas, active in Sunday school, will also depart. The couple plans to return to Wales in August.
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Emrys Thomas
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Thomas
New Castle
Rev
Wales
Green Street
Edwardsville
America
T. C. Edwards
Scranton
Emmanuel Baptish Church
South Jefferson
Reynolds Street
Carmarthen
Amantort
Cardiff University
Myfanwy Williams
Edwin Williams
Hillcrest Avenue
First Baptist Church of
Liverpool
Two Fire Alarms: Small Fire Loss at Shenango Works
Firemen answered two alarms Thursday afternoon within minutes of each other. The first alarm, Box 711 at 2 15 p m, sent crews to the Shenango Works of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co where the rope shed at the west end of the plant had been set on fire accidentally.
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Shenango Works
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
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E. Thomas
Emmanuel Baptist
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