Democrats Endorse Harmony Platform at Nebraska Convention
Democrats of Nebraska solid for a harmony program at the state convention in Columbus, pledging support for Wilson era policies and endorsing a public warehouse law. The session adjourned after selecting resolutions and officers, with W. H. Thompson praising harmony and naming officers for the state central committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corey
W. H Thompson
Grand Island
Berty Sprague
York
P. L. Hal
Lincoln
State Central Committee
E. C. Kembie
Thompson
Leo Matthews
Nebraska
W. H. Thompson
Harmony
Wilson
Biryan Hitchcock
Lobeck
Maguire
Stephens
G. F. Williams
Rothieitner
Columbus
Hall
Charles Bryan
Democratic Party
Woodrow Wilson
Bryan
Jackson
Tae Renton
Se Sonetous
Seswee
Republican Convention Endorses Primary Law Revision Debate
At the Nebraska Republican state convention a committee urged repeal of the direct primary for higher offices but the convention rejected it. Instead they recommended legislative study of amendments to improve the primary law. The platform reaffirms Republican ideals, praises past state leaders, supports Wilson and Bryan, and calls for farm, highway, irrigation, and tax reforms along with a public warehouse system.
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Lincoln
Republican Resolutions Committee
Taft
C. H. Aldrich
Searle
Omaha
Nebraska
H. M. Bushnell
Republican Party
Colombia
Panama Canal Zone
The Prohibitionists at Lincoln Convention Fight Weak Numbers
The Nebraska prohibition state convention adjourned after a calm session. It mourned the death of A G Wolfenbarger a longtime reader and leader, and elected Mrs Frances Heald to fill the vacancy. The platform pledges abolition of alcohol manufacture and sale endorses 1912 plank for woman suffrage and strict enforcement of anti drunkenness laws while backing good roads and jury reform.
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Lincoln
Neb
Smeil
John Barneycorn
A. G. Wolfenbarger
Wolfenbarger
Frances Heald
Osceola
Progressives at Lincoln Convention Attack Major Parties
The Nebraska Progressive party delegates condemn Republicans and Democrats for nonprogressive leadership and adopt a platform backing woman suffrage, recall provisions, initiative and referendum, public ownership of utilities, and national prohibition. They call for a nonpartisan trade commission, a nonpartisan tariff panel, municipal home rule, and reforms in court and labor laws while endorsing Roosevelt and provincial primaries. In Chicago, Reynolds and Shedd dispute business downturn as political rhetoric before a federal inquiry into industrial relations.
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Lincoln
Neb
Progressive Party
F. Carrick
State Railway Commission
Theodore Roosevelt
Eeme
Colom
Bian Treaty
National Civil Service
Chicago
Ill
United States
George M Reynolds
Continental and Commercial National Bank
John Shedd
Marshall Field & Co
Federal Commission On Industrial Relations
Nebraska News Snippets From Hastings to Red Cloud
A collection of brief Nebraska items notes thefts of beer in Hastings, fall festivals in Fremont Harvard and college districts, fish stocking at lakes Thayer Curtis, a fatal train collision near Fremont, core shortages delaying threshers at Howe, a Lincoln obituary, county road work near Auburn, new organ installation in Columbus cost above 3000, horse fatalities near Fremont and Cedar Bluffs, ex mayor William Fried’s death, exceptional corn height on Thompson Farm near College View, Beatrice principal Marie Lamberti, Lancaster auto values, Ras Rasmussen found dead at Grand Island, Seward postmaster George Thomas commission, Cedar Bluffs oat yield record, Webster County courthouse ceremony in Red Cloud.
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Fremont
Curtis
State Fish Commissioners
Elkhorn River
Harvard
Howe
Louis Mugford
Capital Beach
Lincoln
Grand Island
George Thomas
Seward
John Winslow
Cedar Biaffa
Webster County Court House
Red Cloud Thure
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Florence Woman
Mrs P W Lanseng of Florence South Dakota credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing months of monthly pains backache and headaches after using three bottles she could work again The ad touts the remedy as a standard treatment for female ailments including displacements inflammation and irregularities and claims to have restored the health of thousands of women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Dakota
Lydia E. Pinkham
P. W. Lanseng
South Dakota
Populists Endorse Woman Suffrage and Jury Reforms
Hastings Neb March state convention declares support for constitutional amendment granting Nebraska women suffrage and for five sixths verdicts in civil and criminal cases below felonies. Party also backs reducing legislature to fifteen senators and forty five representatives and favors joint committee of the whole for salary bills.
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Hastings
Neb
Nebraska
Senate
House
Kerosene for the Hands Care Guide
Kerosene will clean hands better after getting them dirty. Wash hands in kerosene then tepid water, use soap and hot water, finish with lemon juice rose water or glycerine to soften and sanitize.
Child Cured of Eczema by Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Mrs G reports her daughter's eczema began as a red sore on the neck and face then spread to other areas causing severe itching and sleep loss. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment she stopped after half the purchase and the child was cured.
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Box
Holland, Mich
Man in Office Granted License to Loaf at Public Expense
A public official is accused of receiving a license or privilege to avoid personal costs while the public funds cover the associated expenses. The situation raises questions about accountability and use of government resources.
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Solid For Harmony
Proceedings
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Columbus, Neb
Democrats of Ne
Braska
A. J. Weaver
Falls City
William J. Bryan
Hitchcock
Morehead
Old Line Pattern
Prohibitionists
THE
Progressives
Roosevelt
S OF
Thayer
Populists
Carter
Wollot Eee Caliente
Pade
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