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Newspaper
The Joliet Daily Republican
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1908
Page
3
Chicago on June 15 begins to buzz as state delegations and marching clubs fill hotels and streets for the national convention. Delegations from Oregon Pennsylvania Hawaii New Jersey Maine and more march into the city while Taft and Fairbanks forces shape platform work in private rooms.
Wade Ellis figures prominently as Ohio attorney general hosting the Taft platform at the convention. The committee faces a long fight over revisions with Ellis and Roosevelt and Taft informed of progress. A plank on liberal court injunctions in labor disputes is contentious and unlikely to change without Taft's consent.
Milwaukee June 15 a monument to Schiller and Goethe was unveiled at Washington Park before a large crowd. The gift funded by Milwaukee German citizens. Christian Steger presented the gift and Mayor Rose accepted for the city. A 4000 voice mass chorus sang German anthems and The Star Spangled Banner. The statue replicates the Weimar tribute with Goethe presenting a laurel wreath to Schiller.
Blind Tom Thomas Wiggins, famed pianist and slave born near Columbus Georgia about 1850, died in Hoboken New Jersey where he had lived in retirement on charity. Burial certificate gives his real name Thomas Wiggins though he used a different surname as his stage name.
The June Midland magazine marks its second year with features on night riders and tobacco war in Kentucky, Emma Sansom, Gilbert Neal, and stories by Nesbit and Cowan. It highlights George Randolph Chester's John Sterne Master, Mayor Tom Johnson, and a Boyish lineup including Bred in the Bone and The Open House.
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