Convention Opens With Hope for Harmony in Chicago
The Republican and Progressive national conventions opened in Chicago with hopes for peace and a possible end to the feud. Rain fell as delegates gathered, with Warren G. Harding delivering the keynote and urging unity for victory.
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Herald-Star
Chicago
Coliseum
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Hilles
Republican National Committee
Crane
Massachusetts
Borah
Idaho
McKinley
Illinois
Harding
Wilson
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America
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM DISCUSSES ROOSEVELTITES AND ARMED PREPAREDNESS
Chicago June 7 The resolutions committee shows signs of division as members push planks reflecting Roosevelt era demands for strong Navy and military preparedness. Americanism is urged with a direct, immediate emphasis while hyphenated Americanism is subtly acknowledged. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler plans to draft a platform based on New York State lines.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Chicago
Committee
Col. Roosevelt
Smoot
Resolutions Committee
Roosevelt
Nicholas Murray Butler
New York
Tomork
Mittee
New York State
Progressive National convention opens in Chicago
The Progressive National convention begins in Chicago with delegates arriving for a quiet session. Leaders draft a platform emphasizing preparedness and Americanism while Roosevelt’s nomination remains uncertain. George W. Perkins urges a conciliatory approach with Republicans as talks continue.
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Associated Press
Herald-Star
Chicago
Auditorium
Coliseum
Raymond Robins
Col. Roosevelt
George W. Perkins
British Army in Mourning as Kitchener Death Widens Rift
London reports the army seizes on Kitchener’s death with crepe bands and flags at half mast. Meanwhile a push from allies to intern suspected enemy nations draws press attention as the war continues. In Chicago the Progressive national convention adopts a platform urging preparedness and hints Roosevelt would run if Hughes is nominated.
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Chicago
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Penrose
John Timothy Stone
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Associated Press
Herald-Star
London
War Office
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England
Earl
Progressive Party
Raymond Robins
National Committee
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Col
Roosevelt
Justice Hughes
Hughes
Sagamore Hill
Weirton Mill to Add Ten Inch Strip Mill and Jobs
Weirton plant of Philips Sheet and Tin Plate Company will spend over 600000 dollars to add a ten inch strip mill to the existing 16 inch mill. The expansion is expected to boost payroll by about 500 to 600 workers and attract hundreds of new families to the West Virginia mill town. Construction delays have pushed completion of the 16 inch mill to mid August, with plans to accelerate the 10 inch addition.
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Weirton
Philips Sheet & Tin Plate Company
D. M. Weir
Weir
West Virginia
Altho
Seventy Five Graduates Parade In 1916 Class Pageant
Seventy five members of the Kenville high school class staged an imposing pageant in the auditorium decorated with pennants and green lighting. The procession featured gowns with pink corsages and pink rosebuds on coats, while the program included the overture The Girl from Utah, the chorus Summer and Festi Days, and speeches by Juliet Weller Eakin and Clara Marie Brandfass. The class roster lists many graduates and staff, with Roy Traut delivering the invocation.
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Kenville High School
H. S
Abe
Stephen Bueche
Presidreas Ostertag Wilson
John Eugene McCauley
Margaret Creeth Elliott
Valedian
Muriel Isabelle Sindorf
Setorian
Juliet Weller Eakin
Clara Marie Brandfass
Ethel Alban
Esther al
Eugenia Parlette
Donnsons
Charles Pearce
Sara Pittenger
Elwood Poole
Helen Pritchard
Lilllian Ramsey
Grace Robinson
Bertha Rogers
Ernest Rothrock
Marguerite Shamp
Muriel Sindorf
Speer
Edward Starr
Harry Stern
Franke Strobel
Madge Sturgeon
Edward Warren
Howard Welday
Nana Belle Welday
Truxal Whitlinger
Anderson Wilson
Henry Wo
Joseph Dietz
Lillian Kidd
David Daneneberg
Clarence Odell
James
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