Hoover Victory Dominates 1928 News Record
Edward W. Pickard notes Hoover’s sweeping 1928 presidential win, Smith as rival, and prosperity despite farmer troubles. Kellogg Pact to outlaw war gains global签署. German reparations and world court questions loom. Nationalists win in China. Hirohito crowned in Japan. Latin America calmer except Nicaragua.
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Edward W. Pickard
Merbert Hoover
United States
Clovver
al Smith
New York
Paris
League of Nations
Coolidge
Far East
China
Japan
Hirohito
Latin America
Nicaragua
Early Pan American confere nce and League of Nations era
President Coolidge attended the Pan American conference in Havana to address delegates and defend US interests as debates over political questions and tariff barriers caused resignations. The session produced calls for arbitration, outlawing aggressive war, and codification of international law, while multilateral diplomacy faced mixed reactions.
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Earty
Coolidge
Havana
Cuba
United States
Charles Evans Flughes
Mexico
Union
Argentina
Hughes
Pueyrredon
Washington
Nicaragua
America
Bolivia
Paraguay
Gran Chaco
League of Nations
France
Kellogg
Hoover
President Coolidge
Senate
Boulder Dam
Wisconsin
John
Eastern
Florence Trumbull
Connecticut
The
American Legion
San Antonio
Texas
Paul V. McNutt
United Spanish War Veterans
Grand Army of the Republic
Denver
John Reese
Global Powers See Shifts as 1920s Rise Accelerates
A broad survey notes Britain moves to ease unemployment by channeling workers to Canada and Australia, while women win the vote. France posts a postwar recovery, Italy tightens control under Mussolini, and Hitler era dynamics begin to bud in Europe. In the Americas, elections unfold in Mexico, Cuba, Honduras, and Argentina with notable leadership changes.
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Great Britain
Canada
Australia
Dominions
Church of England
Churchill
J. Fl. Whitley
Capt
BE. A. Fitzroy
Metropolitan Police
Lord Byng
George
Prince of Wales
Duke of Gloucester
Africa
Germany
Washington
Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Grand Council
Romania
Bratiano
Juliu Maniu
Ahmed Zogu
Albania
Russia
International General Electric Company of
New York
Japan
Chang Tse-lin
Peking
Mukden
Nanking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Peiping
United States
China
France
Alviro Obregon
Mexico
Toral
Concepcion
National Assembly
Calles
Emilio Portes Gil
Nicaragua
Sandino
Frank McCoy
Diaz
Jose Maria Moncada
Adolfo Benard
Vincente Colindres
Honduras
Machado
Cuba
Hipolito Irigayen
Argentina
Don Florencio Arosemena
Panama
Jose Guggiari
Paraguay
Industrial Prosperity and Labor Strife in 1923 Summary
The piece notes booming stock markets and rising security values, coal miners settling summer strikes, UMWA leaving the Jacksonville wage scale in July, stable anthracite conditions, bankers and auto firms expanding, western trainmen threatening strikes but receiving a 60 percent wage increase after a federal board intervention, and the AFL's New Orleans 1923 convention opposing job displacement by machinery.
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America
United Mine Workers of America
Jacksonville
Mercers
Coolidge
American Federation of Labor
New Orleans
Public Interest Centers on Selecting Next Press Leader
Citizens focus on the process of choosing their upcoming press leadership. The article notes heightened public attention and debate surrounding the selection. It frames the event as a defining moment for national media direction and governance.
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United States
Hoover Wins Republican Nomination and Smith Secures Democratic Ticket
The 1928 campaign overview shows Hoover chosen on the Republican ticket with Curtis as running mate and Lowden pressuring for farm relief. Smith wins the Democratic nod with Robinson as his vice president candidate. Voter turnout soars as Hoover carries 40 states and 444 electoral votes, while Smith secures 8 states. The period features legislative battles on mood centers, farm relief, and Boulder Canyon dam, plus a post election goodwill tour by Hoover.
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Herbert Hoover
al Smith
New York
G. Oo. P
Kansas City
Hoover
Frank 0. Lowden
Tsilinegis
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Lowden
Resolutions Committee
Curtis
Robert C. Work
Houston
Texas
Smith
Joe Robinson
Arkansas
John J. Raskob
General Motors Corporation
Robinson
Wilson
Florida
Maryland
New Mexico
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Franklin Roosevelt
Congress
Representative Berger
Wisconsin
Oscar de Priest
Ilinois
San Pedro
Calif
Centro
Coolidge
Boulder Canyon
California
House
Senate
Lindbergh Year in Review 1928 Aeronautics Milestones
The article surveys major aviation feats and tragedies in 1928 including Bert Hinkler’s solo Australia flight, the first nonstop Atlantic crossings, Arctic explorations, the Graf Zeppelin voyage, and the Italia disaster. It notes Lindbergh’s Woodrow Wilson medal, Congressional Medal of Honor, and later roles with air transport, plus the Wright brothers anniversary and Harmon medal ceremony.
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Charles Lindbergh
Caribbean Sea
Woodrow Wilson
President Coolidge
Mexico
Ambassador Morrow
Miss Morrow
Bert Hinkler
Soto
England
Australia
Koehl
von Huenefeld
Germany
Fitzmaurice
Ireland
Dublin
Atlantic
Greenly Island
Straits of
Belle Isle
G. H. Wilkins
Carl B. Eilson
Arctic
Point Barrow
Spitzbergen
Oakland
Calif
Hawaii
Fiji Islands
Rome
Brazil
Amelia Earhart
New Foundland
Wales
Art Goebel
Los Angeles
New York
Tucker
Collyer
Arizona
Friedrichshafen
Lakehurst
N. J
Italia
Nobile
Italy
Roald Amundsen
Walter Hinchcliffe
Elsie Mackay
Carranza
Mexico City
New Jersey
C. T. Courtney
Azores
America
Paris
Hassell and
Cramer
Rockford
Ill
Cochrane
Ont
Stockholm
Greenland
Mount Evans
Com
H. C. MacDonald
Newfoundland
English Channel
Wright Brothers
Washington
Orville Wright
Harmon
International League of Aviators
Disasters Toll in 1628 and Tropical Storm in Florida
A tropical storm in September killed 2 200 in southern Florida and caused wide property damage after ravaging the Antilles. Notable events include the Vestris sinking off the Virginia capes with 111 lives lost. Other listed disasters span January to July with drownings, explosions, mine collapses, landslides, and quakes across the world.
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United States
Florida
Antilles
Porto Rico
Vestris
Virginia Capes
Perilous Maritime and Natural Disasters Hit 1918 Calendar
In August a Italian submarine sank after a collision with 27 sailors drowned. In September a Madrid theater fire killed about 120. In October a French submarine was sunk by a steamer with 43 lost. November saw floods in Missouri and Kansas and storms along Europe’s Atlantic coast and the Black Sea, many lives lost. In December an earthquake in the south wrecked towns and killed about 200.
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Madrid
Spain
Missouri
Kansas
Atlantic
Europe
Black Sea
Fern
Notable deaths list by month names in 1920s compiled
The necrology enumerates well known figures who died in each month from January to December. Included are actors, authors, politicians, explorers, and military leaders such as Vicente Blasco Ibanez Earl Haig John Dooley Toward the end the list mentions Ezra Meeker Henry A Haugen and Alice Longfellow among others.
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Lofe Fuller
Emily Stevens
Dorothy Donnelly
Marvin Hughitt
Thomas Lardy
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Louis Post
Talcott Williams
Arthur Clarke
Fr. H. Stead
Earl Haig
J. M. de Robeck
G. W. Goethals
Panama Canals
Victor Blue
Andrew MacLeish
E. L. Ryerson
William du Ont
Hugo Hamilton
Earl of Warwick
Herbert Asquith
Earl of Oxford
Prince Charles Lichnowsky
Armando Diaz
Kiddie Foy
E. B. Butler
Chicago
James L. Ford
William W. Crane
Nora Bayes
Rodman Wanamaker
J. W. Packard
W. N. Ferris
Michigan
Frank B. Willis
Ohio
W. C. Sproul
Pennsylvania
Viscount Cave
Gustav Ader
Switzerland
Chauncey M. Depew
J. A. Gallivan
Boston
Martin B. Madden
Stanley J. Weyman
R. C. Carton
Charles Sims
England
Singer Brown
John A. Dix
New York
E. M. Statler
Floyd Bennett
Archbishop Mora Gy del Rio
Mexico
Peter Wrangel
W. H. Sanborn
St. Paul
William D. Haywood
L W. W
Moscow
Holbrook Blinn
Robert B. Mantell
Leo Ditrichstein
John Dooley
Avery Hopwood
John D. Work
California
Adam C., Cliffe
Sycamore, Ill
E. T. Meredith
G. E B. Chamberlain
Oregon
H. R. Rathbone
Illinois
Ellen Terry
D. C. Davies
Field Museum
Giovanni Giolitti
George Colvin
University of Louisville
W. M. Folger
D. C. Westerhaver
Cleveland
T. B. Walker
Minneapolis
Viscount Haldane
Emile Fayolle
Mary Garrett Hay
Maurice Bokanowski
G. F. Winslow
J. C. Hartzell
Cincinnati
Urban Shocker
Lincoln Eyre
Roy K. Moulton
R. F. Outcault
W. N. Bixby
E. A. Stilwell
Sir Horace Darwin
C. W. Barron
Wall Street Journal
George Beban
Larry Lemon
A. I. Seested
Kansas City Star
W. J. Flynn
U. S. Secret Service
Benjamin Strong
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Robert Lansing
George Barr McCutcheon
Frances Newman
R. A. Torrey
Frank Dicksee
Marie
Russia
F. R. McQuigg
American Legion
Frank Crane
Eliza Scidmore
T. ©. Chamberlin
University of Chicago
John Harding
Alarding
W. A. Oldfield
Arkansas
G. H. Jones
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Thomas F. Ryan
F. F. Fletcher
Baron Jacques
Scheer
Jutland
Henry A. Haugen
Lord Tennyson
Castoria: A Safe Remedy for Babies and Young Children
Castoria is described as a comforting remedy for fretful babies and colic with gentle drops to soothe distress. The text emphasizes it as a vegetable product that is safe for the youngest infant and useful in emergencies for constipation cold pains and other discomforts, even advising mothers to keep an extra unopened bottle. It notes effectiveness for older children and mentions a book that accompanies Castoria.
Maine woman knits 126 mittens at age eighty
Not content with knitting 80 pairs annually for 45 years Mrs Rosamond C Deering of Portland Maine proves in her eightieth year that age does not slow her. She raises her tally to 126 pairs of mittens in a single year according to the Indianapolis News.
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Rosamond C. Deering
Portland
Maine
Indianapolis News
Five Hour Cold Remedy Promises Quick Relief
A Texas advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as a five hour cure for colds and grippe. The pleasant tasting tablets are claimed to bring complete relief and are marketed with strong authority.
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Grippe
Pape
Adv
Dare to Stand Alone Quote by Channing
The quotation urges individual conviction over crowd approval and emphasizes strength in truth when few voices support it. It echoes the idea that moral clarity grows with personal resolve, not with public validation.
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Channing
Old Folks Say Dr Caldwell Was Right
The piece praises Dr Caldwell to treat constipation with Syrup Pepsin a mild herbal laxative. It highlights roots senna and pepsin the safe gentle remedy ideal for elderly people and children and notes bottles last months and are available at drug stores or by mail from Monticello Illinois for a free trial.
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Caldwell
Medical College
Dr. Caldwell
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Cosmo Lang
York
Earl of Birkenhead
India
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James McNeill
Irish Free State
New South Wales
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Aeronautics
Umek Sea
West Frankfort
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Mass
Hollinger
Timmins
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Greece
Peru
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Oklahoma
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Philippines
Western Newspaper Union
Castoria
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Lincoln
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