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Taft campaign scene with elephant cameo in Philadelphia
Frederick C. Othman recalls a chaotic Taft press conference in Philadelphia with Sen Robert A Taft and Rep Clarence J Brown as a circus caravan of reporters and a Dailey Brothers elephant named Eva disrupt proceedings The portrait mishap and monkeying around capture the hectic pageantry of postwar political campaigning Also notes Peggy Ebeling of Grafton winning a three year nursing scholarship at St Johns Hospital Cleveland with alumnae dinner attendance
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Clarence J. Brown
Sen. Taft
Rep. Brown
Trever
Nps
Littl Eva
Dailey Brothers Circus
Eva
Little Eva
Grafton
Peggy Ebeling
Harry Ebeling
R. D
St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing
Cleveland
St. Johns
Lake ‘Shore Hotel