Political campaign notes from a turbulent 1912 landscape
President Taft embraces the budget system while Roosevelt and Wilson launch energetic tours. Roosevelt visits Nebraska and Omaha. Bryan questions his ambition in Montana. Wilson backs a Wilson Republican league as battles over living costs heat the race. Indiana and Ohio campaigns surge amid denouncements in Mitchell and St Joseph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
South Dakota
Champ Clark
Kentucky
Johnson
Taggart
Indiana
Roosevelt
Omaha
Denver
Bryan
Stozeman
Montana
Wilson
Wilson Republican League
Columbus
Woodrow Wilson
Beveridge
Ohio
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln
Nebraska
Mitchell
S. C
Chicago
Thomas R Marshall
Missouri
St. Joseph
Governors and campaigns shadow October in multiple states
Governor Wilson plans a Omaha afternoon speech on October bth while Mexico pits its government against rebels. In Evansville Indiana a meeting site is chosen as George Underwood, an aviator, dies from injuries after a Calloa Missouri exhibition crash. Mary Leigh the suffragette is released from an Irish prison for ill health after force feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Omaha
Evansville
Ind
George Underwood
Calloa
Mary Leigh
Mexico
Madero
Moore
J. Adam Bede
Minnesota
John Harlan
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Arizona
Taft
Tucson
Cornelius N. Bliss
Republican National Committee
Woodrow Willson
Roosevelt
Minneapolis
St Paul
Treasury Department
Jack Johnson
Pittsburgh
Roosevelt Accuses Wilson of Being a Novice
A roundup of political and social items notes Colonel Roosevelt accusing Governor Wilson of inexperience, prohibition candidate Eugene Chaffin’s Delaware tour, and Wilson’s remarks on trusts. Other items include grain shipments to Mexico, pesticide concerns in Jamaica Bay, and a monument stone laid in Belgium. Additional reports cover naval and diplomatic assignments, health congresses in Washington, and regional economic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Wilson
Southwest
Mexico
Glasscock
West Virginia
Eugene Chaffin
Prohibition
Delaware
Helen Pierce Gray
Washington
Indian Office
New York Press
Henry JL. Einstein
Frank A. Munsey
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
United States
American Geological Society
San Francisco
Nicaragua
San Jose
Costa Rica
Victor Ilugo
Wateroo
Belgium
Jamaica Bay
Long Island
Potomac River
Secretary of Agriculture
James Shipton
Coast Artillery Corps
Angel Island
Cal
Buenos Ayres
Minneapolis
Weldon B. Cooke
Oakland
Chicago
Berlin
Bittner
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas R Marshall
Indiana
Russia
Tucson
Ariz
Casa Grande
MacVeagh
Richman
Charles O. Berry
National League of Postmasters
Berry
Marriage Bargains in Irish Peasant Life
George A Birmingham notes that peasant marriages in Ireland hinge on barter with livestock and goods. A cottage tale shows a bride exchange of a chest of drawers for a sheep a yearling bullock and a bride, the groom asking which girl was meant before agreeing. The anecdote illustrates pragmatic unions and unexpected happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Birmingham
Ireland
Treating Pimples and Blackheads with Cuticura
An old advertising feature promotes Cuticura Ointment for pimples and blackheads. Apply lightly to affected areas, wash off after five minutes, then bathe with Cuticura Soap to prevent inflammation and clogged pores. Free samples and a Skin Book offer are advertised from Cuticura, Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Forced to Work Harvest Wager Turns Nightmarish
A Edwards county farmer, short on labor, drove to Kinsley to hire a man. He forced the stranger into his car and ferried him to the farm. After a week of hard labor the man learned the distance he had been driven was only a mile from town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards County
Kinsley
Kansas City Journal
Rhine Museum planned for Koblenz bridge site
A Rhine Museum is to be founded at Koblenz if plans proceed, featuring charts pictures models and diagrams on the river’s physical and economic history. Koblenz has already provided a site for the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koblenz
How Jopps Lost His Position and the Adulterated Bluing
A condensed ad style passage explains how Jopps failed to keep a good post by losing his head on a key occasion. It references water in bluing as adulteration and claims Glass and water create a costly blue liquid. The Red Cross Ball Blue ad promises whiter clothes and cheerful hearted wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jopps
Catarrh Cure via Cole’s Carbon Salve Promoted
An advertisement claims Cole’s Carbon salve cures catarah and is the most effective remedy sold by druggists. The note lists prices 25 and We and ends with a street line about a banana peel inviting sitting on the sidewalk.
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Cole
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Cook & Sons
Grand
Excelsior
Pincan
Corso
Lewis
Winslow
CaesaEh
Samuel Pitcher
Winkrgreen Tver
Bears
the Centaur Company
New Yor
Parker
Rbalsam
Heer Oe
Paxton Cor
Hayden Brothers
Lilly White
Phoebe Primm
Stempa
Pwwika
Faultless Starch CO
Kansas City
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