Posey County Democrats Meet to Plan Fall Registration Drive
NEW HARMONY Aug 9 Posey county Democratic candidates and the county central committee met at the request of Mt. Vernon chair man William Espen schied and Poseyville chairwoman Minerva Kale. The chairs outlined work and set plans to secure full voter registration for the fall election. Mt. Vernon speakers included Judge Herdis Clements and R. A. Barker, a state representative.
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New Harmony
Posey County
County Central
Mittee
Williams. Espenschied
Mt. Vernon
Minerva Kale
Poseyville
Herdis Clements
R. A. Barker
Cummings Defends Democrats in Hyde Park Nomination Speech
Homer S. Cummings, in Hyde Park, says the 1918 Republican victories sparked two years of domestic and international chaos. He accuses the GOP of shady compromises and timidity while asserting Democrats will restore U.S. leadership and honor.
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Cummings
America
Republican Party
Nearly Drowns at Brickyard Pond Sunday
Albert Ireland, 14, son of Mrs. John Ireland, nearly drowned at Brickyard Pond near the Southern station in Francisco on Sunday afternoon. Will Peavier plunged in to rescue him after Marion Falls cramps hindered the first attempt. Albert remained unconscious until morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francisco
Albert
John Ireland
Brickyard Pond
Will Peavier
Marion Falls
Debates at Winona Lake Tie to Covenant Vote
Senator Hitchcock faced Jackson Morrow in Winona Lake Indiana as the debate over adopting the league covenant continued. The Republican Party backed Morrow while Hitchcock led the administration’s pro covenant stance. A separate note lists Dr Father Kim Pak as the first Korean woman to earn a medical degree in America in 1900.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Jackson Morrow
Kentucky
United States
Hitchcock
Senate
Morrow
Harry
New
Indiana
Republican Party
America
Father ‘Kim. Pak
Fes
Woman's Medical College of
Baltimore
Governor Cox to Visit Princeton for First District Rally
Governor James M. Cox will spend August 25 in the First Indiana district, with events in Princeton for a major district rally. State Chairman Benjamin Bosse and local Democrats anticipate a large turnout, with detailed committee plans across grounds, parade, music, floats, decorations, and publicity.
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Jimmy Cox
Benjamin Bosse
James M. Cox
Princeton
8. L. Vandeveer
Cox
Evansville
Bosse
Here
Rally Day Committee Notice Calls Full Attendance Tonight
The Rally Day Committee asks all rally committeemen and interested citizens to attend at 7 30 pm in the large court room. Chairmen to ensure full committee turnout. Gov Cox and Mrs Ida McGione Gibson will speak. Sanford Trippet and Mrs John H Hitch sign as chairs urging cooperation to boost Gibson county and the First District.
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Owen V. Agar
W. T. Lee
Big Court Room
Gov. Cox
Ida McGione Gibson
Gibson County
Sanford Trippet
John H. Hitch
Special board of review hearings in Gibson County
The special board of review hearing taxpayer complaints from Gibson County residents continues for ten days at the office of County Auditor W T Roberts.
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Board of Review
Daily Democrat
Gibson County
W.T. Roberts
Corner Stone Dedicated At Gibson Memorial Church
The Gibson Memorial Methodist Episcopal church dedicates its cornerstone in a sunlit outdoor ceremony attended by 400 to 500 residents. District Superintendent J S Ward leads with Rev C E B Flynn assisting. Pastor Horace A Sprague is away seeking health treatment.
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Gibson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
Gibson
J. S. Ward
Evansville
C. E B. Flynn
M. E
Horace A. Sprague
Indianapolis
Flynn
Ward
Gibson Street Memorial
Roosevelt Accepts Democratic Nomination for Vice President
Hyde Park August 9 Franklin D Roosevelt accepts the Democratic nomination for vice president. He argues for national unity and progress at home and abroad, praising Cox as capable to lead, urging a real peace with the League of Nations, and calling for honest campaign conduct.
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League
Hyde Park
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Cox
League of Nations
Boy Survives Second Story Fall At Pullman Hotel
A mother and three children rode into town on the C I I from the north and checked at the Pullman hotel in Hart street. Around 2 pm a two to three year old boy tumbled from a second story window through a screen but escaped injury. A physician declared him apparently unhurt and the mother promised to send word to hotel owner Mrs. Cleveland.
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Princeton
Pullman
North Hart Street
Southern Railroad
Eight-legged pig shown near Oakland County fair plans
Dick Sturgeon of Oakland County keeps a three month old pig with eight feet that walks on all eight limbs and has grown five toes on some feet. The peculiar animal weighs about seventy pounds and eats slop and corn. He will exhibit the freak at county fairs this fall.
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Oakland City
Dick” Sturgeon
Sturgeon
County Faira
Mrs. Dibble and Daughter Return From Huntingburg Visit
Mrs. W. O. Dibble and her daughter Mrs. Arthur Hanna returned home Saturday night after visiting in Huntingburg.
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W. O. Dibble
Arthur Hanna
Huntingburg
Cox plan mobilizes cabinet for 1920 campaign
Washington reports quick mobilization after Cox acceptance speech. Cabinet members Colby Palmer Wilson Baker Daniels McAdoo and Cummings to campaign. White House circles jubilant over Cox as a worthy successor and plans for admin staff to join the effort. Secretary Tamuslty to return from Dayton to coordinate campaign participation.
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Washington
Aus
Cox
Colby
A. Mitchell Palmer
W. B. Wilson
Newton D. Baker
Navy
Daniels
W. G. McAdoo
Cummings
White House
League of Nations
Tamuslty
Dayton
New York
Mrs Jantz Seen Driving Old Horse Around Ripon for Junk
Nearly seventy year old Mrs. Matilda Jantz, reputedly wealthy, is observed in Ripon Wisconsin daily driving an old horse and collecting junk. Reportedly she can lift a stove that would tax the strength of two ordinary men.
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Matilda Jantz
Ripon
Wis
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H.C
Kinney
Persia
Amber
Jimmie Cox
U.S. A
Alva Levys
Alva Levi
N.Y
Homer S. Cummings
Franciscog
Gen. Hitchcock
Gov. Morrow
United Press
Idah Maglone Gibson
E-Town
Idah Gibson
Jimmy
S. L. Vandeveer
E. ©. Watts
Ben Murphy
E. E. Reeves
Charrles Neimeier
R. N. Chappelle
Joseph Barton
Christine Cunningham
W. E. Lee
Katie Youngman
E. S. Robinson
Stella Walker
Eldon Armstrong
Orville Gibson
Roy P. King
Charles Rumer
O. M. Kolb
John Conrad
Charles Heberd
Floyd J. Biggs
Mike McGowan
County Board OF Review
Casper McCrary
Millard W. Steele
W. Elzian Wilkinson
William, Toelle
L. Hosterhage
Byron Sutton
Northwest Side
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
Southwest Side
Miah
Tabernacle
Irene Barr
Democrat
Clara Watkins
Franklin D. Rosevelt
Verdun
Argonne
Shoptaugh’s
J. M. Scantlin
Magazin
Galsky & Bohard
Wilkinson
F. B. Unthank
Mgr
R. P. Moore
White Lbr. Co
Null Bros. Grocery
Main and
Broadway
G. W. Guthrie
Music House
South Side Square
Welborn & Criswell
Oxfords
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