14 Jun 1912
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
1
Theodore Roosevelt in person will head his party's bid as delegates report awake support in California Kentucky and Arizona. The former president travels to Chicago this afternoon to rally friends and press his candidacy amid debates over Taft's frontline delegates and primary outcomes.
The Roosevelt forces gain momentum as New York delegates pivot toward the Roosevelt camp and Taft leaders fear defeat on the first ballot. Senator Poindexter arrives to represent Roosevelt in Washington contests and warns of further battles at the convention.
Advertisers and readers both benefit from The Star advertising pages. Merchants use the paper to announce price reductions new goods and special demonstrations. The Star serves a diverse group of merchants and reports daily circulation over forty thousand copies.
Chicago June 14 The national committee hearings on contesting delegates show a Taft majority among members while Roosevelt delegates receive limited seating. Despite charges of steamroller tactics, many Roosevelt contests are deemed meritless, with only a few strong-arm seatings in California and Kentucky noted.
Reports from Burson Calaveras County say Mrs. Harry McGinn survived being shot twice by her husband who then killed himself. The pair had moved to Stockton after a forced trip to a local dance hall, and she had filed for divorce at San Andreas.
John K B Rogers, condemned to hang for the murder of jewelry salesman Benjamin Goodman on the Barbary Coast in San Francisco, refused to aid investigators and denied knowledge of $1,840 in diamonds from the $6,000 jewelry total.
Outside the Republican National Committee room in Chicago on June 14, a brawl erupted between Oklahoma delegates, pitting a Roosevelt supporter against a Taft supporter. L. G. Disney was punched, and Pat Dore joined, injuring United States Marshal Grant Victor. police intervened as the melee spilled into the crowd.
In Sawtelle California on June 14 Mrs. Sam Prior 76 declares she once believed no man was suitable, then married Sam Prior 74 in their third marriages. The couple wed after a postnuptial statement contrasted with their earlier matrimonial history.
A man in LOB ANG PLES was struck by a loaded one ton truck, two wheels passing over him. He swore at the driver after the incident and brandished a box before witnesses as the situation intensified.
A snippet recalls a marriage lasting from March to October ending in divorce. It notes marital infelicity and separation within a brief period, reflecting a terse domestic chapter. The tone mirrors compact newspaper notices of personal matters.
Complaint filed by Clara B. Johnson alleges husband William A. Johnson abandoned her in October 1911, less than seven months after marriage, with a child. The fragmentary text also includes a separate snatch about nerves and a request for ten dollars, indicating a miscellaneous, unsettled courtroom scene.
Lucille Pearson, a cafe entertainer at Spider Kelly's Bar at Coast resort, swallowed poison in a fit of repugnance to gilded life after reading a letter from old folks at home. She was rushed to a hospital and saved by a stomach pump.
W H Bergh swerves to dodge a mud turtle and crashes his car injuring himself and three friends near Redding California. In Portland a thief steals and then discards a suitcase from Mrs Frank Cotterills residence after peeking inside.
Dr L M Early died in Columbus Ohio from cancer after refusing repeated offers of a million dollars for a cure. Earlier in the era of X rays he had effected many cancer cures but later contracted the disease himself.
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