Chiefs of Third Party Outline Its Platform
The executive committee of the Committee of Forty-eight announces a July 10 launch in Chicago for a new party. La Follette, Governor Lynn, Frank P. Walsh, and Walter F. Clarke are named as potential candidates, with broad support from progressives across Republican and Democratic camps seeking government ownership of transportation and national resources.
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Chicago
Sutor la Follette
Lynnier
Frank P. Walsh
Walter F. Clarke
North H. Hopkins
Cmmitter
Aaid
Johnson Urged to Run as Independent
ORTTAND Ore June 15 More signatures were obtained to petition in Oregon today urging Senator Hiram W Johnson to run as an independent per platform adopted by the convention. W P land attorney said he did not represent any organization and his telegram was in behalf of many supporters of Senator Johnson in the recent Oregon election. Similar petitions are said to be circulating in New York.
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Ore
Oregon
Hiram W. Johnson
Ynenat
Johnson
W. P. Land Attorney
Cator Johnson
New York
Adams
Portland
Petition drive seeks Johnson independent bid for presidency
W P Adams of Portland reported 5000 Oregon signers urged Senator Johnson of California to repudiate the Republican platform and run independently. Johnson did not appear in Washington, resting at his Riverdale home after returning from Chicago, as petitions circulated statewide.
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Oregon
Johnson
California
W. P Adams
Portland
Chicago
Capitol
Riverdale
Michigan Forty-Eighters Demand Recognition
The Michigan branch of the Committee of Forty-eight urged recognition of the present Russian government and proposed a $500 soldier bonus plus release of political prisoners arrested during the war. The state convention in Detroit selected delegates for the Chicago national convention starting July 10 and called for anti injunction in labor disputes, public ownership of transport, and control of national resources.
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Michigan
Committee of Forty-eight
Chicago
Soldier of Garibaldi Dies At Shrine of His Leader
An elderly blind Italian veteran Fileto Greco, once a professor of music and honored by Garibaldi, dies by cyanide in his Lexington Avenue room. A portrait of Garibaldi and three dusted medals remain as witnesses to a life of loyalty and solitude.
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Liberation
Lexington Avenue
Italy
Filoteo Greco
G. Garibaldi
Fileto Greco
Valhalla
Greco
Marie Fuxarino
Republican Club set to ratify convention picks tonight
Members of the Republican Club of the 11th Assembly District meet this evening at 1041 Madison Avenue to ratify Harding and Coolidge nominations. Deputy Attorney General Samuel Berger will preside, with addresses by Chauncey Depew Charles Hilles Charles Whitman and Ogden Mills.
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Republican Club
11Th Assembly
Madison Avenue
Harding
Coolidge
Samuel A. Berger
Chauncey M, Depew
Charles D. Hilles
Charles S. Whitman
Ogden L. Mills
Gresheimer in Asylum Flees Then Is Captured Again
Frederick M. Gresheimer known as Gresham on Broadway fled the Riverdale Sanatorium after May 18, provoking a streetside scene at Broadway and Seventy sixth Street. Patrolmen and prison staff pursued and recaptured him, returning him to the Riverdale facility with Patrick Gregan and Charles Meyer. Gresheimer, earlier jailed for suspicious porch activity, has a history including marriage to Lillian Lorraine, a Chicago real estate career, and prior legal troubles.
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Broadway
Gresham
Riverdale
Seventy-sixth Street
O'Neil
West Sixty Eighth Street
Gresheimer
Lillian Lorraine
Patrick Gregan
Charles Meyer
Riverdale Sanatorum
Levine
Charles Schwab
Vanchugh
Gregan
Mayer
Chicago
Lorraine
San Francisco
Train crash injures eight near Worcester station
Eight people injured when an eastbound Worcester local crashed into the rear of an Albany express near Lake Park, four miles from Worcester. Among the wounded are Martin O'Brien of the St. Louis Police Department and two detectives. The Boston College baseball team was aboard the local.
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Mass
Albany
Boston & Albany
Lake Park
Martin O'Brien
St. Louis
Boston College
Pershing Dodges Politics At Brooklyn Club Dinner
General John J. Pershing, honored at a Brooklyn Club dinner, evaded committing to future business or a Democratic presidential nomination. He reviewed the 23d Infantry, received an ovation from about six thousand attendees, and noted he had not decided on any post military life. Prominent guests included Senator Calder and Jacob A. Livingston with no decision on the Republican convention outcome.
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John J. Pershing
Brooklyn
Pershing
United States
William M. Calder
Jacob A. Livingston
General Pershing
Stars to Aid Salvation Army Athendansant on Waldorf Roof
Stars will lend aid to the Salvation Army Home Service Fund with a 2 pm afternoon reception on the Waldorf Astoria roof. Hosted by Mrs Oliver Iriman and Mrs Stanley Lyman Otis and assisted by Bert Lytell, the event offers admirers of film and legitimate stage a chance to meet celebrities. Attending honorees include Alice Rubens Vera Gordon Madge Kennedy Martha Mansfield Zena Keefe Clara Moore Lillian Roth Rena Risno and Clarence Nordstrum.
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Athendansant
Salvation Army Home Service Fund
Waldorf-Astoria
Mra
Oliver Iriman
Stanley Lyman Otis
Bert Lytell
Moving Picture
Alice Rubens
Vera Gordon
Madge Kennedy
Martha Mansfield
Zena Keefe
Clara Moores
Lillian Roth
Rena Risno
Clarence Nordstrum
Sullivan kills wife then himself after marriage reveal
In New Orleans on June 15 William J. Sullivan Jr aged 20 shot his wife Alice Richter Sullivan 17 then killed himself. The couple had wed in March while she was still in college and Sullivan had announced the marriage about a month earlier.
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New Orleans
William J. Sullivan Jr
Alice Richter Sullivan
Sullivan
Mrs Black Becomes Bride of Major Howard Elliott
South Natick Mass June 16 Major Howard Elliott and Miss Madeline Black both of New York City were married in the Unitarian Church with Rev William D Wilkey officiating Their attendant was Miss Madeline Hines Miss Black a Wellesley College graduate of this year The couple had a wedding breakfast at Natick Inn and plan a West tour before settling in New York City where Elliott is a broker
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Howard Elliott
South Natick
Mass
Major Howard Elliott
Madeline Black
New York
West
New York City
Mr. Elliott
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