Denver Prepares Opulent Welcome for Democratic Convention
Denver, June 28. Delegates arrive ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Denver plans extensive city decorations with electric lights and bunting, aiming for a festive display by July 4. The convention hall and press accommodations receive careful attention, while party leaders discuss potential chairman selections and the race for the vice presidential nomination.
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Chicago Coliseum
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Denver
Capitol
Bryan May Stay at Home in Approach to Convention
Special to The New York Times from Lincoln Nebraska June 28 The National Committee will decide if William Jennings Bryan will stay home allowing admirers to visit Fairview or travel to lecture from a train rear platform. Bryan has told the committee they may direct his campaign movements. Mayor Brown will take Bryan’s platform wishes to Denver and Willis J Abbott the Democratic National Committee press chief is in Lincoln with Abbott noting Gov Johnson has no chance for the Vice Presidency and affirming Bryan close ties.
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Denver
Col
Bryan
Theodore A. Bell
California
Henry D. Clayton
Alabama
Bell
Republican Resolutions Committee
New York
Morgan J. O’brien
Towne
Minnesota
Judge O’brien
Allan B. Parker
O’brien
William L. Douglas
Bridgechusetts
Archibald McNeill
Bridgeport
Conn
New England
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Illinois
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
John W. Kern
Benjamin F. Shively
New York Times
Lincoln, Neb
National Committee
Fairview
Brown
Lincoln
Mr. Bryan
Willis J. Abbott
Democratic National Committee
Abbott
Gov. Johnson
North Carolina likely to instruct forBryan at Republican? Democratic? convention
Charlotte June 28 The State Democratic Convention faces a noon reassembly with likely an instructed delegation for Bryan to the Denver Convention. Only one earlier effort to name delegates surfaced. Overman backed Glenn by acclamation while Simmons faced opposition due to stance on Kitchin. Simmons appears set to be chosen Monday with the convention expected to instruct for Bryan as pursuit of nomination continues.
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Charlotte
N. C
North Carolina
Denver
Bryan
Overman
Gov
Glenn
Senator Overman
Simmons
Mr. Kitchin
Army Prisoner Bradley Baptized at Governors Island Chapel
Charles Reginald Bradley a soldier serving part of an eighteen month sentence for army law infringement was baptized in the Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion on Governors Island. After a severe prison hospital illness he was converted. Sixty prisoners and friends attended as guards marched them in. Bradley stood in khaki to receive the rite with sponsors and a guiding candle.
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Charles Reginald Bradley
St. Cornelius the Centurion
Governors Island
Smith
Bradley
Taft Plans Hot Springs Summer Move and Taft Loeb Denial
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Taft and family veering from interviewers. Taft visits All Souls Church, rides, and dines at Chevy Chase Club while denying the Loeb chairmanship story. Plans to relocate to Hot Springs at Homestead Hotel with golf and riding as summer recreation before returning to Cincinnati in September.
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New York Times
Washington
Taft
Charles
P. Taft
All Souls’ Unitarian Church
Chevy Chase Club
National Committee
William Loeb, Jr
Loeb
Roosevelt
Tafts
Virginia Mountains
Homestead Hotel
Charlie
Helen
Robert
Homestead
McKinley
Warm Springs
Hot Springs
Clarence R. Edwards
Habit and the Hen in Caldwell Frolic Ends Darkly
In Caldwell New Jersey Hiram Billings recounts a tale of custom shaping a Plymouth Rock hen. After years of duck eggs under the hen she coerces her brood into a pond, but with game chickens replacing ducks she drenches them, drowning all twelve. The owner vows to use only duck and goose eggs henceforth.
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Mrs. Plymouth Rock
Mr. Bene
Plymouth Rock
Tammany Keeps Fourth at Wigwam With Speeches
The Tammany celebration at the Wigwam will proceed as big men travel to Denver for the Fourth. Gov Blanchard of Louisiana and Rep Morris Sheppard of Texas will deliver long talks. Other speakers include Rep Charles Edwards, Rep Timothy Ansberry, and Judge Crain. George Scannell will preside in Cohalan's absence. An entertainment follows in the Wigwam basement. Secretary Smith expects no trouble filling the hall.
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Charles G. Edwards
Georgia
Timothy T. Ansberry
Defiance
Ohio
T. C. T. Crain
Daniel F. Cohalan
Denver
George F. Scannell
Twenty-fifth Assembly
Hotel Savoy
Smith
Policeman Fends Off mob in Bronx tenement fight
Policeman Stevens of the Alexander Avenue Station confronted about a dozen Italians during a fight at 240 East 148th Street in the Bronx. He drew his revolver as the crowd alarmed the street and reserves arrived after two assailants were badly beaten and treated at Lincoln Hospital.
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Alexander Avenue
Bronx
East 148Th Street
Rocco
Sassi
Maria
Stevers
Canado Balzo
Lincoln Hospital
Policeman Dugan Held After Hudson Terminal Shooting
Magistrate at Tombs Court refuses to drop case against Patrolman John Dugan of the Traffic Squad charged with recklessly firing a revolver at Hudson Terminal Building Saturday evening. A worker injured after ducking a head strike near a projection. Foreman Frank Berry pressed the arrest, but faced threats of workplace confinement. Bail posted by James Ganno, a retired fireman, for Dugan’s release.
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John Dugan
Hudson Terminal
Dugan
Frank C. Berry
Berry
James Ganno
Sub-Post Offices Changed In City Reshuffle
Postmaster Morgan orders a grid of sub post offices moved to new sites tomorrow. Locations include No 21 at First Avenue and 114th Street No 23 at Mott and Worth Streets No 146 Madison Street and New Bowery No 159 Thompson and Prince Streets No 1177 Grand and Mott Streets additional stations at 24 Jackson Street Washington and Perry Streets Avenue A and Fourteenth Street Tenth Avenue and Fiftieth Street Eighty fifth Street and Second Avenue Beekman Avenue and 141st Street Prospect Avenue and 151st Street Briggs Avenue and 198th Street and 163 Christopher Street.
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First Avenue
114Th Street
Mott and
Worth Streets
Madison Street
New Bowery
Thompson and Prince Streets
Grand and Mott Streets
Jackson Street
Washington
Fourteenth Street
Tenth Avenue
Fiftieth Street
Eighty-fifth Street
Second Avenue
Beekman Avenue
141St Street
Prospect Avenue
151St Street
Briggs Avenue
198Th Street
Christopher Street
Great Year for Berries at Local Market
The season shows a glut of berries withNew York and New Jersey supplies flooding the market. Southern strawberries are mostly exhausted while New Jersey blackberries fetch 6 to 10 cents a quart and red raspberries 4 to 6 cents a pint. Huckleberries from Pennsylvania and New Jersey sell 10 to 14 cents a quart, gooseberries 10 to 15 cents a quart.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Union seeks wartime wage rise for mechanics at forts
On motion of Engineers' Union 319 the Central Federated Union decided yesterday to send a special delivery letter to Secretary of War Taft urging before his resignation takes effect an order to raise mechanics' wages in forts and arsenals to the local New York prevailing rate and to halt alleged displacement of mechanics by soldiers and laborers.
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Representatives of Engineers’ Union
Central Federated Union
Taft
New York
Root Begins Training at Muldoons for Health Recovery
Elihu Root secretary of state reached William Muldoon s rest sanitarium near White Plains to begin a health regimen of five mile runs medicine ball workouts and boxing. He traveled from Oyster Bay after a Roosevelt meeting and a car delay. Muldoon described Root as in good health and said the routine will include early rising dictation time and afternoon boxing with other patients. Reports that Taft will join are unconfirmed.
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White Plains
N. Y
Elihu Root
William Muldoon
Oyster Bay
Railroad Avenue
Orawaupum
Mr. Root
Secretary Root
Roosevelt
New York
Muldoon
Root
Mr. Muldoon
Unemployed Relief Committee Faces Referendum Vote
At a meeting of the National Committee for the Relief of the Unemployed tensions linger after a Saturday revolt led by Curtis and Cronin. Chairman How announced a referendum on expelling malcontents while letters from donors including Julius Hopp urged new relief efforts. Hopp’s Society promised an entertainment fundraiser, criticizing Republicans and Democrats as aiding bankers.
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National Committee For the Relief of the
Curtis
Cronin
How
Julius Hopp
The
People’s Socialist Stage Society
Clubwomen at Boston Biennial Convention Reception
Boston June 28 The General Federation of Women's Clubs hosts about 3000 members at the ninth biennial convention. Mrs Sarah S Platt Decker gives a quiet Sunday reception at the Vendome Hotel. An organ recital by B L Whelpley precedes a vesper service led by Miss Mary Woolley. Officers are elected tomorrow afternoon as civil service reform dominates weeklong sessions and numerous conferences conclude Wednesday.
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Boston
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Federation
Sarah S. Platt-Decker
Hotel Vendome
B. L. Whelpley
Arlington Street
Symphony Hall
Mary Woolley
Mount Holyoke College
Court frees elevated motorman in Harlem crash case
Magistrate Droege discharged John Holland of 1963 Third Avenue Bronx Park motorman after a Third Avenue elevated collision at 1101st Street Saturday, injuring twenty three, none seriously. Charge of criminal negligence was thrown out.
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Harlem
Droege
John Holland
Third Avenue
Bronx Park
Baby Born in Central Park Near Sev enty-sixth Street
Emma Schultz of Twenty seventh Street and Eighth Avenue gave birth to a boy in Central Park opposite seventy six street near the parks west side yesterday afternoon. She and the infant are at J Hood Wright Hospital and both are reported doing well.
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Park Lawn
Emma Schultz
Twenty-seventh Street
Eighth Avenue
Central Park
Seventy-sixth Street
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Fire damages Murray Street wax works building
Damage of 40000 dollars occurred last night to the cellar and sub cellar of the building at 18 Murray Street occupied by the Will Baumer Company manufacturers of wax candles paraffin goods and ornaments. There was little flame but much smoke and the fire proved stubborn to fight.
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Will & Baumer Company
Powers to wed Comforter in York romance of pardon
York society discusses the expected marriage of Powers, the Kentuckian linked to Gov. Goebel’s assassination, to Miss Eleanor M. Bonham of the Bonham family. Bonham relatives deny the union while Powers declines comment. Bonham's wealth aided his attorneys, with ex Gov Black and a broad petition contributing to his June pardon.
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York
Penn
York Society
Ve Powers
Gov. Goebel
Eleanor M. Bonham
Rebecca Bonham
Bonham
Mr. Powers
Miss Bonham
Kentucky
Gov. Black
New York
Powers
Army officers debate Woodruff remarks on senility reform
Major Woodruff’s comments on senility in the American Army sparked talk in army circles at Pine Camp and The New York Times. General Staff voices support reorganization to promote younger officers, but a British style retirement system is deemed unlikely in the U.S. with little chance of reform.
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New York Times
Washington
Pine Camp
Osler
Woodruff
NEW_ YORK TIMES
Great Britain
Ale murder claim shadows Dr. Wilson death in Philadelphia
Philadelphia on June 28 reports from the family of Dr. W H Wilson who died after drinking unlabeled ale from a bottle bearing a beer company letterhead. They argue the sender planned murder by laced drink, noting Wilson was to host Malta Boat Club members and meet friends after leaving his car at the door.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
W. H. Wilson
Wilson
North Seventh Street
Beer Brewing Company
Frank Bostock
Animal Men
Bostock
Coney Island
Malta Boat Club
Cornwells
Penn
Two Bluejackets Shot in San Francisco Saloon
In a Market Street saloon last night two sailors of the Atlantic battleship fleet were wounded. Philip A. Becker fired, wounding hospital steward H. A. Harris and chief gunner's mate B. J. Harvey. Becker and J. Francis Gunning were arrested. Becker said Gunning had no part.
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San Francisco
Cal
H. A. Harris
Georgia
B. J. Harvey
Connecticut
Philip A. Becker
Illinois
J. Francis Gunning
Brooklyn
Becker
Harris
Harvey
Gunning
Belcher Reconciles With Hilton Christian Church
Rev. Henry F. Belcher of Hilton Christian Church in South Orange New Jersey recalled his resignation announced yesterday and decided to remain pastor after the congregation pledged to address the church’s discouraging conditions. He agreed to stay if improvements were forthcoming.
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Henry F. Belcher
Hilton Christian Church of
South Orange
N. J
Rock Island to the Rockies an Ideal Vacation
An advertisement promotes a Rocky Mountain trip as an ideal vacation. It highlights direct connections with the East via The Rocky Mountain Limited and other test trains. Readers are invited to request Colorado Book-free from K. E. Palmer at 401 Broadway, New York.
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Rockies
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
K. E. Palmer
Broadway
New York
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