Insurgent Parties Define U.S. Political Splits Across History
The piece traces insurgent movements in U.S. politics from the Peace party (1812–15) through the Know-Nothing and Liberal Republican eras to the 1912 Progressive split. It notes key figures and parties, including Lemke’s era, with leaders like Roosevelt, Greeley, and Bryan shaping factional campaigns.
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Union Party
William Lemke
North Dakota
Peace Party
New England
People’s Party
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
Adams
Liberty Party
Free Soil Party
Republica Party
Know-Nothing Party
America
Constitutional Party
Douglas Democrats
Breckenridge Democrats
Republican
Horace Greeley
Greeley
Straight Out
Democratic Party
Charles O’conor
Benjamin F. Butler
Massachusetts
Bolters
Blaine
Cleveland
Senator Teller
Colorado
Republican Party
William J. Bryan
John M. Palmer
Ilinois
Simon B. Buckner
Kentucky
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
Salem Witches Parade of 1888 Campaign Torchlight Colors
The Salem Witches, a militia style group in 1888, wore Mother Hubbard dresses with Harrison and Morton imagery and red white blue striped skirts. They carried broom torches and formed alliances with Haverhill’s Brother Jonathans, escorting each other in procession during campaign torches across Massachusetts.
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Salem
Harrison
Massachusetts
Salem Witches
Mother Hubbard
Morton
Salem Witcheg
Haverhill
Mass
Western Newspaper Union
1789 law bars treasury officials from trade or business
The new law prohibits the secretary of the treasury from engaging in trade or profit making enterprises during incumbency and imposes a $3,000 fine, dismissal, and permanent ineligibility for federal office. The treasurer of the United States and the register of the treasury face identical restrictions.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Treasurer of
The
United States
Register of the Treasury
Waun the garden man who becomes a made man
Waun, a light 90-pound worker, builds a garden business after earning villagers’ trust. He expands with hired help, moves to China to marry, then returns to a police-reporting narrator and gambles away his earnings before resuming garden work. He smiles and says, Too much good.
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James J. Montague
Waun
China
Ketchum
Night Watch
Takum Chance
Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
Congeniality and harmony in shared home spaces
The piece discusses how family members often clash over preferred rooms and spaces, even amid affection. It urges tact and humor to smooth tensions, notes loneliness when apart, and emphasizes the value of companionship and togetherness in maintaining harmony.
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Well Syndicate
WNU
Origins of voting traced from Latin suffragium to ballots
A compact history notes voting beginnings with Latin vo tum meaning a solemn promise, early clamor and clash of shields as suffragium, and ancient Rome. It also mentions Greek practices of hand signals and pebble ballots shaping later elector practices.
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Rome
Greece
Hollywood Headlines and Rumors Stir Interest Across Screen
Gossip notes say Clark Gable’s ex-wife may wed a East Coast socialite while Elton Thomas’s Marco Polo novel hints at a Gary Cooper project under a Douglas Fairbanks pen name. Merle Oberon and David Niven romance continues as Florence Eldridge leaves film for stage. Bette Davis fights a Warner Bros England ruling. Jack Benny seeks a new script writer for improved radio programs.
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Clark Gable
Elton Thomas
Marco Polo
Gary Cooper
Douglas Fairbanks
Merle Oberon
David Niven
Florence Eldridge
Fredric March
Queen Elizabeth
Bette Davis
Warner Brothers
England
Bette
Jack Benny
Western Newspaper Union
Supreme Court Defines Pedestrian Rights at Lighted Crossings
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania defines pedestrian rights at intersections with traffic signals. If a light changes after a pedestrian starts to cross, motorists and street cars must yield the right of way to complete the crossing.
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Wimbledon Entrance Echoes Kipling Quote on Court
At Wimbledon players enter the center court to a Kipling line from If suggesting equanimity before triumph and disaster. The moment blends sport with a literary nod as fans watch the procession unfold on the famed lawn court.
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Wimbledon
England
Kipling
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Simone
Jean Arthur
Joel McCrea
Columbia
Jeanette MacDonald
Gene Raymond
Manon Lescaut
Phillips Lord
Frank Black
Edgar Guest
Welcome Valley
Margaret Sullavan
New York
Hollywood
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Ene
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General Foods
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