Vice Presidential Booms Start in Houston and Arkansas
In Houston on June 25 a movement formed to back Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas as Democratic vice presidential nominee with Robinson slated as convention chair. Also in Houston a separate push urged former Wyoming Governor Nellie Taylor Ross for vice president, with Wyoming politicians backing her bid and lobbyists in hotel lobbies promoting the idea.
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Houston
Tex
U. P
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Cara*way
Robinson
Promanent
Nellie Taylor Ross
Wyoming
National Thought on War, Patents, and Finance
A column surveys postwar Germany and American attitudes. It criticizes electrocution in the capital, extols invention and the patent system, and notes Wall Street sentiment, bank robberies, and farmer politics. It argues concentrated thinking as wealth, laments gallows replaced by electric chair, and calls Democrats to harness oil and farm issues.
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National Capital
Washington
Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Franklin
Germany
Patrolman Investigates Sunday Sheffield Car Crash
Patrolman Howard McJunkin probes a two-vehicle collision in Sheffield on Sunday afternoon. Arthur Beckman of Meadville and Earl Weber of Bradford drove the autos. no injuries reported though vehicles suffered heavy damage.
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Howard McJunkin
The
Highway Patrol Today
Sheffield
Arthur T. Beckman
Meadville
Earl P. Weber
Bradford
Oil City
Harold Hutchinson
OU Creek
Tyronville
J. E. Howard
Cleveland
Stoneboro Lake
Licenses Revoked and Prohibited Names Announced
The department of highways today announced the revocation of 69 automobile drivers licenses and the addition of 85 names to the prohibitory list. Forty four revocations and 18 blacklists were caused by intoxication.
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Department of Highways
Parker Cramer and Hassell Plan July Rockford to Stockholm Hop
Parker D. Cramer formerly of Clarion and Warren is conducting test flights with H. J. Hassell of Rockford. The pair prepare a two hop trans oceanic flight in July using a machine powered by a single Wright whirlwind motor.
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Parker D. Cramer
Clarion
Warren
H. J. Hassell
Rockford
Stockholm
Arrested in Starbrick man jailed for intoxicated driving
John Zerbe of Starbrick was arrested Sunday near Russell and charged with operating an automobile while intoxicated. He was committed to the county jail Monday by Justice Clarke E. Nelson for contempt to post bail. Patrolman McJunkin of the highway patrol made the arrest. Another man with Zerbe was taken into custody and later released after paying a fine for being drunk.
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John Zerbe
Starbrick
Russell
Clarke E. Nelson
McJunkin
Highway Patrol
Zerbe
Nominating As Seesaw Between Wet and Dry in 1920 Race
The speaker mocks political strategizing as the party frets over vice presidential picks and platform planks. He notes temptations to nominate a wet or dry VP, or one with unclear leanings, while ridiculing straddle moves and predicting comedy at the convention. He cites Coolidge Hoover dynamics and Tammany Hall as context.
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Smith
Death Valley
Coolidge
Capitol
Hoover
Tammany Hall
Political fights frame 1928 dry campaign moves in Kansas City
Amid renewed calls to save the Democratic party from prodded nullification and Tammany influence, factions align behind Senator Reed of Missouri as a potential stand against repeal. Dry women hold prayer meetings while farm groups draft platform planks supporting a farm aid strategy and export financing to swing the 1928 election.
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James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
Wuatson
Kansas City
Houston
Chester Gray
Farm Bureau Federation
United Press
Caraway
Arkansas
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Smith
Woodrow Wilson
Convention Confronts Vice Presidential and Inflation Planks
Debates at the convention center on a vice presidential pick and the impact of inflation loom. Delegates include Wilson supporters with Mrs. Alfred E Smith in attendance. Rival boomlets target Senator Robinson of Arkansas and Nellie Taylor Ross. Labor planks call for coal industry price controls and inflation limits, while a constitutional equality plank advances by Sue White of Jackson, Tennessee.
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Vention Hell
Wilson
Alfred E Smith
Nellie Taylor Ross
Wyoming
William President
American Fi of Labor
National Woman's Ir
Misa Sue White
Jacksess, Tenn
I will not be responsible for any bills other than those contracted by myself.
Person states clearly they will bear no responsibility for debts except those they personally contract. No additional details or context are provided.
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William R. Travers
Newport Harbor
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Page
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Toledo
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J. E. Jordan
Warren General Hospital
Second Avenue
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Lester Murthett
Central Avenue
Jordan
Black
A. R. Black
W. W. Marks
Metzger-Wright’s
C. Emerson Metzger
Clayton Fracker
Titusville
Mr. Mark
Warren American Legion Post
Erie
William Paris
Jack Koepp
Louie Smith
Emerson Metzger
Walter Johnson
Gene Caldwell
Struble
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Wagner Repair Shop
Fourth Avenue
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George C. Rickards
Owl City
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Mount Gretna
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Henderson
Oi City
Forest de Fere
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Harry H. Jefferson
Ritchie
Haehn
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Roberts
Hayes
Frank Kustanba
Limberfost
Clarke EB. Nelson
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McNaught Syndicate
Warren Tribune
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Cayenne
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Duncan Phyfe
Sk Serene
C. F. Larson
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