Great Chicago in Convention Time on State Street
Chicago crowds flood State Street and Michigan Avenue on the eve of the great convention. More than 60 000 visitors pack the loop as autos parade with campaign buttons and lithographs. Delegations march with umbrellas and fedoras while vendors profit from tin horns and merchandise.
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Chicago
Rip van Winkle
Caskills
State Street
Irving
Schneider
Coliseum
United States
van Buren
Lake Streets
Loop District
Michigan Avenue
Knox
State
Monroe
Senator Alison Active in Republican Party
U S Senator William B Alison of Iowa a longtime national Republican leader will take active part in the forthcoming national convention.
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Republican Party
U. S
William B. Alison
Iowa
Richmond Mayor to Attend Meeting in Laporte
Mayor R. Schillinger will leave Monday for Laporte to attend the Municipal League of Indiana annual gathering. He will discuss municipal ownership of electric light and gas plants. The conference runs Tuesday to Thursday with commemorative addresses and a smoker at Bluffside Beach Pine Lake.
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Schillinger
Laporte
Municipal League of
Indiana
J. T. McNary
Logansport
Bluffside Beach
Pine Lake
Root Juice Promises Health Benefits in County
Local chatter centers on who will be president and the Root Juice remedy. Citizens praise its cures for stomach and digestive issues, claiming it soothes nerves, improves appetite, digestion, and overall vitality, with A. G. Luken & Co's drug store promoting the product.
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Rembdy
A. G. Luken & Co
Roosevelt Stampede Fades as Taft Support Remains Strong
Chicago June 17 The Roosevelt stampede outlook dims as the Bourne bureau distributes literature without impact. A rumor of Senator Borah backing Roosevelt proved false and Senator Hemenway stated there is no probability of a Roosevelt stampede. Borah supports Taft.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Borah
Idaho
Taft
Hemenway
Busy Politicians Stage Show Drowns Common Folk in Lobby
In Chicago on June 17 delegates and party workers crowd the Auditorium Annex lobby as politicians preside over the GOP drumbeat. Bill Jones, a public speaker with echoes of Conkling and Ingersoll, works the crowd with a tariff refrain and a blown line that ends with a single expletive as ladies listen. A New York delegate and others drift through the lobby while a band moves up Michigan Avenue, the scene capturing the relentless bustle of political maneuvering.
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State Street
Michigan Avenue
Congress Hotels
Congress Street
Grant Park
Boulevard
Lake Front
Chicago
Bill Jones
Bill
Republic
Ingersoll
Conklin
Conkling
Art Sueatey
Uncle Joe Cannon
Auditorium Annex
The
Marie’s in the Cold Ground Delights Cannon HQ Crowd
In front of Uncle Joe Cannon's headquarters a song titled Marie's in the Cold, Cold Ground drew attentive, amused listeners. The moment, tied to the occasion and surroundings, left the crowd more engaged than others, though there was no political angle to the incident.
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Uncle Joe Cannon
Foster
Marie
Cannon
Reward Planned for Belle Gunness Capture in Indiana
Laporte Indiana June 17 a reward of five thousand dollars is being offered for the capture of Mrs Belle Gunness with ten citizens signing fifty dollar notes as the fund’s nucleus The note reads payable upon capture and signers are liable only if she is found The bodies of Mrs Gunness and her children are to be moved from Cutler Morgue to Chicago on Thursday Mrs Gunness sister Mrs Larson will take them to her home for church services and burial in Forest Hill cemetery The will requests burial there written the day before the fire destroyed her home A Breeches Bible dating 1583 was restored to Coddington church near Chester England after being stolen in 1678
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Laporte
Ind
Belle Gunness
Darrow & Worden
Fraud Charged Against Officers in Life Securities Case
Chicago June 17 A receiver for Central Life Securities Company a 2 500 000 Maine corporation was filed in Circuit Court by five stockholders alleging officers diverted 1 000 from stock sales and misapplied funds. Plaintiffs P J ONeill Siegel Hess S Grabenheimer J Eichman F J Rappel Jr and OO J Frances name defendants A T Rhodus W L Sherrill and H H Scully officers and managers and W Potter state superintendent of insurance. Also noted a London chapel Kingsway Hall deemed unsafe prompting funds to rebuild. Also reports rifles ammunition and a dispatch box found concealed in Zululand.
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Chicago
Central Life Securities Company
Maine
Securities Company
P. J. O'Neill
Siegel Hess
5. Grabenheimer
J. Eichman
F. J. Rappel, Jr
OO. J. Frances
T. Rhodus
W. L. Sherrill
H. H. Scully
W. Potter
One Method to Stop Indigestion with Kodol Digestive Aid
An advertisement asserts pepsin alone cannot digest all foods and promotes Kodol as a complete in liquid form remedy. It claims Kodol digests all foods fully, allowing the stomach rest and full nourishment, with a guaranteed money back offer for the first dollar bottle.
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State Street the Center
Paris
Richmond
Municipal League of Indiana
Panamas
New York
Hughes
Senator Lodge
Crane
Yok
Wade Ellis
James W. van Cleave
Ellis
Ohio
van Cleave
National Association of Manufacturers
Coddington
Chester
Ter
England
Great Queen Street Chapel
L Kingsway Hall
London
Zululand
E. C. DeWitt & Co
Irvin Reed & Son
C. C
Cole
Columbus
Columbia
Empire
B. P. S. Paints
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