Seattle Star urged benefit show for Deputy Sheriff Scott widow
A reader proposes the Seattle Star host a fundraising benefit for Mrs. Scott, widow of Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott, by featuring Seattle’s beauty contest winners in a Ziegfeld style show to raise money for the fund. The letter advocates using local talent to generate funds and offers to buy tickets.
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Remembering a Nation’s Fight Two Years Ago
A reflective essay recalls the world war period two years past, praising unity, sacrifice, and patriotism. It contrasts past courage with present forgetfulness, urging charity and common purpose, citing battles such as Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood and echoes of Pindar.
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Harding Dominates as Balloting Ends Ninth Session at Convention
At Chicago's Coliseum the convention recessed after eight ballots as Warren G. Harding of Ohio surged, Wood and Lowden battled for second, Johnson faded and Pennsylvania's delegation stayed with their governor. Harding's strength rose from 61 to 123 by the eighth ballot.
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Lodge
New York
Atarms
Warren G Harding An Ohio Politician and Publisher
Warren G Harding born in Blooming Grove Ohio is portrayed as a farmer turned printer who took over the Marion Star in 1884. He rose from local politics to state senate lieutenant governor and later United States senator, championing preparedness and serving on the foreign relations committee. He married Florence Kling in 1881 and had no children, with deep ties to business, publishing, and the Baptist church.
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Ballot totals show Lowden leading after seven ballots
The tally lists Wood 299 Lowden 307 Johnson 87 Harding 133 percent Coolidge 29 Butler 2 Hoover 5 Poindexter 15 Sproul 75 percent Knox 1 La Follette 24 Lenroot 1 Kellogg 1 Du Pont 3 with multiple state results and percent figures for a first seven ballots page. A wild Wyoming switch to Harding is noted as a scene.
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New York
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Butler
Coolidge
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Texas
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Harding Second With Local Men
CHICAGO June 12 The Washington delegation agreed to stay with PoI If released he will gain a majority The drift toward the fifth suggests Harding Coolidge for vice president.
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Harding Again in Senatorial Race
Senator Harding files declaration of candidacy at the secretary of state office at 11:58 last night in Columbus Ohio to seek reelection.
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Secretary of State
Explosion at Hungarian mine tower kills many
A dynamite store explosion at a Hungarian mine tower killed one person and left seventy bodies recovered, with reports filed from Vienna noting the high death toll.
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Vienna
GOP Ballots by Year Show Few Parties Over Three Now
A historical tally lists GOP nomination ballots by year from 1860 to 1916. It notes rare over three ballots, citing Hayes on seven in 1876 Garfield on thirty six in 1880 Blaine on four in 1884 Harrison on eight in 1888 and other entries including Lincoln 1860 McKinley 1896 Roosevelt 1904 and Taft 1908.
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W. A. Wheeler
James A. Garfield
C. A. Arthur
James G. Blaine
John A. Logan
Benjamin Harrison
Levi P. Morton
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Whitelaw Reid
St. Louis
William McKinley
G. A. Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodor Rosevelt
C. W. Fairbanks
W. H. Taft
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