Opening Day Decor Lights Up Denver Convention
Denver July 7 the Democratic national convention opened with remarks by Thomas Taggart and prayers by James J Keane. The hall featured vast banners flags portraits of Washington Jefferson and Jackson, electric signs, and draped balconies as streets Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets glowed with red white and blue displays and banners.
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Denver
Thomas Taggart
National Committee
AL Uny
James J. Keane
Wyoming
America
Trey Woodaon
Kentucky
Ae Uy Fulluweg
Committee On Rules
Pheodore A. Bell
California
Urey Woodson
Kou Yety
Edwin Beflon
Washington, D. C
Aerpount atArms
Olin F. Martin
Missouri
George Washington
Washington
Trias Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Seventeenth
Eevery
Hag
Alga
Suttra
James S Sherman of Utica N Y Republican vice presidential nominee
James Schoolcraft Sherman of Utica New York is named on the Republican ticket for vice president. A longtime U.S. representative since 1886 with one break, he heads committees on Indian affairs and interstate and foreign commerce, and has been noted as a possible speaker of the House. His family includes Gen Richard Updike Sherman and elder brother Richard M. Sherman, both local politicians.
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James Schoolcraft Sherman
Utica
N.Y
Nomines
N. Y
National House of Representatives
Republican National Congressional
Jeader
Utica Trust and Deposit Company
Sherman
Utica Academy
Hamilton College
Congress
David B. Henderson
House
Bla
United States Senate
New York
Proien
Richard Updyka Sherman
Richard
Ulier
Oneida County
Mary F. Sherman
Vermont
Cochems Fires Up Delegates At Chicago Convention
Henry F Cochems Milwaukee lawyer and former Wisconsin athlete stirred old guard Republicans in Chicago by arguing for La Follette as president. He claimed conservatism equates stagnation and praised reforms La Follette urged before Roosevelt’s era, highlighting a radical critique of official politics and GOP policy.
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Henry ¥. Cochems
Milwaukee
la Follette
Chicago
Godams
Wisconsin
Cochems
State University of Wisconsin
Harvard
Congress
la Vollette
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Indiana Governor J Frank Hanly a noted temperance crusader
J Frank Hanly long prominent Indiana figure, governor, congressman, and temperance advocate, faced political battles from the Chicago convention to state politics. Born 1848 in Champaign County, his rise from log cabin roots to educator, state senator, and Mason to Methodist church member defined a persistent public career marked by reform efforts and electoral defeats.
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Frank Hanly
Indiana
Lodge
Fairbanks
Chicago
Gov
Hanly
Mle
Ife
Champaign County
Cooe
Sooka
State Senate
Congress
United States
Dhasen
Masonald
Methodist Church
Tim Woodruff Mentioned as Vice Presidential Candidate
Timothy L. Woodruff, ex lieutenant governor of New York, born August 4, 1858 in New Haven, rose from clerk to financier and typewriter magnate. A founder of the Young Republican club, he backed James G Blaine in 1884 and served as park commissioner, later becoming three-term governor before a failed 1900 vice-presidential bid.
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Thuolky L. Wooodink
New York
James 3. Sherman
Chicago
Fim
Sils
Typewritys Manufacturing
Mr. Woodruff
New Haven
Conn
Young Republican Club
Brooklyn
Jamea G Blaine
Blaine
Kinga County
Hidrat
Appen
Tim
Hiv
Tale of a Ghost How It Returned My Friend's Book
Col John L Grubs of Richmond Virginia, a former postmaster, recounts a tale he heard about two bachelor friends, Charlie and Dick, who shared books and evenings together. After Charlie vanishes and is later found drowned, the missing Virginia birds book reappears with him in a later visit, suggesting a spectral return.
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John L. Grubs
Richmond
San Francisco
Charlie
Exeh
Valuielar
Virginia
Wey
Jim
Ick
Charle
Charla
Otek
Ridle
St .Ola
Charlee
Ridio’s
Cambridge Professors Earn Sparse Salaries in England
A report notes that salaries for professors at the University of Cambridge are very low on an international scale, averaging about 2760 dollars annually. The figure highlights financial pressures in academia and contrasts with higher compensation in other nations.
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University of Cambridge
England
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William Jennings Bryan
James S. Sherman
Henry F. Cochems
J. Frank Hanly
Mig Friend
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