Landon Nominated for President by Republican Conv ention
Broad coverage of the 1936 Republican National Convention nominating Gov Alfred M Landon of Kansas for President on the first ballot with 84 out of 3,004 votes and Frank Knox a Chicago candidate also winning a strong showing. The platform advocates economy, repeal of certain social programs, labor reforms, and a balanced budget while opposing U.S. entry into the League of Nations.
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Alfred M Landon
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Willam T. Borah
Odaha
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Frank Knox
Chicago
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Chicago Daily News
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Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Norah
Dandon
America
Tandon
John Taliton
Pont Olce
Schmeling Aims at Louis In Training Camp Battle
The article details Max Schmeling in a training camp near Amanda or Apanotch with confidence wary of Joe Louis. It captures dialogue with a reporter, trainer Max Machon, and plans for Schmeling to face Louis on June 14, assessing boxing form and readiness amid cautious optimism.
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Andy Wallace
Brevity and Brings Fame in Rowdy Sports Gossip
A garbled column mixes boxing, horse racing and soccer lore with notes on managers editors and jockeys. It mentions Eddie Meade leaving California for New York, Nat Flelacher, Eds die Borden racing to the boxing office, and various sports figures tied to backroom bets and club life. The piece riffs on fame, brevity, and old sporting legends.
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Edsdie Borden
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Gant
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Louisiana
Latonia
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Loughlin Lyceum A Cy
John Mutchison
Creenpoint &. C. Sherifete McGuinona
Fordham Baseball Prospects and New Haven Tie
The report highlights Fordham prospects including Babe Young, Andy Palav, Tony De Phillips, Gene Coyle, and Jimmy Sheehan as top juniors eyeing contracts as Fordham’s best since Frankie Felach. It notes a spring break fashion quirk and a separate horse racing dead heat between Rock Tad and Rider recalled by Louie Strube, dating back to 1804.
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Big Timg Club
Babe Young
Yankee
Andy Palav
Gclanta
Tony de Phillips
Gene Coyle
Dedgere
Therm Aye Paley
Tha Tlyare
Rock Tad
Louie Strube
Long Island
Jargent Orchestra at World Peace Jubilee 1872
An historic note recalls the Jargent orchestra at the World Peace Jubilee in Boston 1872 marking Civil War end celebrations. It describes 1689 instruments, 100 firemen, and cannon outside the building operated by an electric button amid Verdi’s April Chorus. It mentions the gag rule debates in Congress 1800s and John Quincy Adams opposing such limits.
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Verdi
Anya Collera
Saylis
Early Northwest Coast contact names noted in 18th century logs
The passage records Native American name Bostoma for Americans and a British form Kinchotsh linked to King George, reflecting early linguistic exchanges as English trading ships reached the Northwest coast near the late 1700s. The fragment highlights how indigenous and English names evolved in first contact periods.
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Northwest
America
Origins of London Name Shift From Llyndin to Londiniam
The Celtic village name Llyndin meant town on the lake. The Romans rendered it Londiniam, adapting the native form to Latin. Later pronunciation shifts produced the modern name London.
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London
Llyndin
Prolific Plant Among Orchids Thrives Worldwide
In Collier's Weekly, Nels Siron Defenbach of Idaho notes a tropical orchid species famed for its astonishing seed production, yielding about 75,400 seeds in a single growing season. The feature highlights the orchid's prolific reproductive capacity and its standing as one of the world’s most productive ornamental plants.
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Sisron
Goucher College Name Origin and Baltimore Ties
A damaged OCR fragment notes Goucher College in Baltimore Maryland named for John Prugklin Goucher and recalls his presidency from 1815 to 1822. It mentions the institution as a women’s college in Baltimore and hints at its historical founding context.
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Women'a College of
Use of tracing paper in early No 1410 copying text
Tracing paper was employed in an early edition identified as No 1410 with a quoted line from Murray's Maglifte Honaryt about copying or revealing an image or object. The fragment notes tracing as a technique and references a literary quotation about creating or duplicating an image.
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Murray
Tower of London Riddle Report
Fragmentary text describes the Tower of London as a prison and place with terms like tolot and towel house. It mentions Gatewood locking every eight and a password known to the Ling, but the fragment ends without a clear event or conclusion.
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Tower of London
Famed Castle In Forest II rises above trees amid 8000 acres
A description of the famed castle Chambord in the German context notes its placement on a rock, its loyal status among forested lands, and its grandeur. It highlights Chambord’s location near a moat, its situating within an 8000 acre forest, and palm palace-like towers visible beyond the woods.
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Germany
Chambord
Plangacka
Voice of the Camel Described in Odd Noises and Behavior
The passage notes camels emit shrill cries when agitated and grunt when urged. Mature camels grow quieter than youngsters while mounting or prodding to speed. The rotting needs on the male camel provoke savage behavior with loud roars and fierce fighting among rivals.
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English Admiral Punster and the Dutch Fire Fight Tale
An OCR fragment recounts Admiral Duncan rallying English forces against Admiral De Winter in 1707. It notes the English stance to keep up a good fire as ships prepared for battle in a period-tinged voice.
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Adam Duncan
Jan de Winter
Cated Hla Ature
Yemen
Wild watermelons loom large in old bureau notes
A fragment from a 19th century plant bureau discusses wild watermelons with no exact weight data. One authority notes in a 15 6 letter that wild watermelons could be so large a man could barely embrace the fruit with outstretched arms.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Highest-Paid Ruler Muzaffar ed Dia Chronicle
Muzaffar ed Dia and her Kiah of Fersla reportedly earned an annual salary of 30,000 in a historic regime. The sum is said to be the highest paid ruler income on record, surpassing the president’s pay in contemporary assessments.
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Maincowne
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Colllera Weekly
Trichinose Painful Disease Trichinox Price
Trichinose is a painful disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork with trichina worms. Infections can be serious and sometimes fatal as larvae move from the digestive tract to the muscles. Trichinox is listed at $49.
Law Gave Inns Monopoly In the Reign of James I
A historic law from Jamea T of Scot forged a hotelier monopoly by forbidding travelers to lodge with friends or kin. More than 60 years ago, Jove keepers enforced this by restricting lodging outside official houses, limiting travel lodging options.
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