Taft Heads Ticket Inches Toward Victory
Taft leads the Republican convention with the choice effectively cinched as delegates shift to back the president. Roosevelt’s supporters weigh a possible third term while vice presidential prospects and committee leadership swirl amid contested delegations and shifting loyalties.
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Oregon Two Thirds Day Prohibition Rises in State
Association reports after June elections Oregon will have 21 dry counties with July enforcement. In 12 counties remaining, 4 to 16 dry precincts exist. Saloons closed rise to about 503 since local option law. prior votes produced eight dry counties and roughly 200 saloons closed.
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Associated Press
Portland
Ore
Oregon
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Starr Prize Is Awarded at Ripon College
Ripon June 11 Christopher Laugesen of Clintonville won the William Starr prize for all around physical improvement with forty candidates judged on size strength symmetry and development toward the normal standard. W Gibson and Clarence Wey also shared prize honors in chemistry while L E Frost of Almond took second. Miss Carrie Nash of Ripon won the Lewis prize in biology and John S. Dexter received the University of Wisconsin fellowship. Some lines note uneven effort among contestants.
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Christopher Laugesen
Clintonville
Wiliam Starr
Clarence Wey
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Carrie Nash
Univversity of Wisconsin Fellowship
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Falls Off Lumber Output In Great Lakes States
The Great Lakes region, a top forest area, shows a 12 percent drop in timber production. Preliminary census figures from 2,100 plus Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota sawmills indicate last year’s cut was about five and a half billion feet. Six million acres in Michigan’s pine barrens are delinquent tax lists, potentially still yielding lumber under proper rules.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
The
Lakes States
Bureau of the. Census
Bureau of
United States
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Great-Lakes
Pine-Barrens
McGovern Announces Senate Candidacy Platform
District Attorney F. E. McGovern outlines his bid for the United States Senate. He argues for an impartial government over organized wealth and calls for tariff revision, protective tariff, railway supervision, and reforms on monopolies and currency as core issues shaping the progressive movement led by La Follette and echoed by Roosevelt.
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Wis
EL McGovern
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Wisconsin
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Theodore Roosevelt
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