Spokane Phonograph Campaign duel with Taft and Bryan rivals
In Spokane a daylight political showdown featured Frank L. Graham and George W. Leonard using uncanned campaign speeches and phonograph records by Taft Bryan and others. The event drew several hundred spectators as Bryan and Taft supporters clashed in a lively exchange of ideas and songs.
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Spokane
Wash
William Howard Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Frank L. Graham
Missouri
Kansas
George W. Leonard
Upper
New York
Roosevelt
Illinois
Iowa
Northwest
Bryan
Taft
Washington
Graham and
Leonard
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Masonic Temple
Eugene W. Chatin
Chicago
Graham
Political campaign song duel ends with crowd singalong
The scene centers on a heated postwar tariff debate at a Denver convention interlaced with campaign songs. Bryan’s tariff stance clashes with Taft’s critique of imperialism while Leonard and Graham interrupt with musical interludes. The confrontation culminates as voices rise to patriotic tunes and the crowd joins in.
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Graham
Leonard
Taft
Bryan
Murray K. Hill
Bill Bryan
Republican Party
Electric Bitters Help My Feeble Mother Grow Strong
P J Daly of Chicago reports his mother, once very feeble, gains flesh, sleeps better, and grows stronger after using Electric Bitters. He says the tonic quickly remedies stomach liver and kidney issues and notes Lemmon's Pharmacy guarantees the product at 50 cents.
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P. J. Daly
Congress St
Chicago
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Local Notes From Ottumwa and Surroundings
Local items from Ottumwa featuring visits by Ed Young and Henry Long, travels to Appleton City and Libertyville, and social calls. Baseball at LS E ball park with Washington Independents v Wellman tomorrow at 3. Ads note Vienna bakery goods and bicycle and gun repair by J W Cox, with other small notices and pharmacy promotion.
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the Royal
Vienna
J. W. Cox
Airdome
Dr. Sexton
Thomas
Libertyville
Fred Jordon
Keota
Harper
Rosanna Nisle
Nora
Milwaukee
Appleton City
Ed Young
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
S. C. Gardner
Henry Long
Ottumwa
E. W
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Sol Rich & Go
the People’s Clothiers
Edwin Griffith
North Side Square
Washington, Iowa
W. G. Ralston
ST Chester, Iowa
Trnational Arvester Company
Taft and Bryan Records
Eugene V. Debs
State Armory
Debs
Terre Haute
Red
Sage
Lincoln
HK Ewe
Popham
Williams Mfg. CO
Cleveland, C
McElhinney Drug Co
Frey
Dakota
Geo. Peck
Edison
T. H. Chilcote
Iowa Ave
Lemmen
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