Taft Defeat Predicted Amid House Debates Over Delegates
Nebraskas Norris accuses Roosevelt faction of fraud and theft of delegates while Mondell defends Taft convention actions. Heated exchanges erupt as Norris and Mondell clash over primary loyalties, Washington primaries, and the Baltimore convention aftermath. Republicans split with Democratic cheers for Norris amid calls for order and questions of honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mandell
Wyoming
Taft
Norris
Nebraska
Warburton
Waskinston Republican
Humphrey
Washington
RoopuhHan
Norres
oNauels
Mondell
Becau
Thanprires
Mio Norcia
Me Mondell
Jado
Indiana
St Ats
Murphy
Patt
Hohaw
Prirons
Roosevelt
Wall
Chlis
Baltimore
Nan
Died McCormick and McCormick Memoriam Note
DIED July 22 1922 at Oak Hill Cemetery Thuredas. JOHN R MCCORMICK died July 25 1911. Memorial notices recall the deceased and mention children and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick
Mites J Rpenick
Chapel, Oak Hill Cemetery
Thuredas
Widow of Murdered Gambler Denies Role in Rosenthal Case
Wry Vallon a professional gambler and associate of men hostile to Herman Rosenthal denies involvement in the New York murder. He says he slept during the crime but rode in Bridgey Weber’s car the night Rosenthal was slain. Vallon is held as a material witness as detectives pursue the gambling angle and connect with police. Mrs Rosenthal has provided facts to the district attorney likely to aid the investigation, with Lieut Becker continuing to figure in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wry Vallon
Herman Rosenthal
New York
Tenderloin
Rosenthal
Lieut. Becker
Police Department
Agron J Levy
Bhapiro and
Libby
Levy
Louis Aversi
Becker
Col
Henry 8
Webber
Sam Paul
Roosevelt and Mondell Clash Over Delegates at Chicago
Mondell denies Roosevelt managers fraud claims and urges that contests were often prearranged or fictional. He accuses Roosevelt supporters of piracy and third party schemes while defending the Republican convention as honest and fair to the party and the nation.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Mondell
Wilson
Norris
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
Credentials Committee
Mondeill
White House
Col. Roosevelt
Water Power Fight Again In Congress Omnibus Bill
The House interstate and foreign commerce committee reported an omnibus bill granting water power rights. Ten bills include dams across navigable streams in Tennessee, Montana, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. Representatives Rainey and Foster of Illinois lead opposition, saying the measures are obnoxious to the public interest.
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House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Tennessee
Montana
Missouri
Iowa
Ilinois
Rainey
Foster
Finois
Mr. Rainey
J Pierpont Morgan Returns Home From Europe Trip
J Pierpont Morgan arrived in New York aboard the steamship Olympic after seven months abroad in eastern and southern Europe and North Africa. Also aboard were playwright Charles Klein and shooter J R Graham, noted for Olympic games events.
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Europe
North Africa
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Olympic
North
Africa
Charles Klein
J. R Graham
NO HELP FOR T. R. MEN IN CONGRESS CAMPAIGNS
Republican congressional committee adopts a resolution to avoid separate headquarters in New York and Chicago, directing representation by Chairman McKinley at national headquarters. Roosevelt third-party backers receive no party support for campaigns this year. A second resolution calls for state Republican congressional committees to aid the main committee in backing nominees to restore GOP majorities in Congress.
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Col. Roosevelt
Republican Congressional Committee
McKinley
New York
Chicago
National Committee
Taft
Roosevelt
Congressional Committee
Ny Ony Party
McKiniey
Moore
Pennsylvania
Republican National Committee
Molore
Grand Jury Probes Rosenthal Case and Witnesses
The article reports continued grand jury activity in the Rosenthal gambling murder case. Detectives Becker Riley and Costizan may testify as voluntary witnesses, with possible questions about phone calls the night of the shooting. Writs are handled in the supreme court, while observers note a possible “blind” use of the gray automobile. Police circulate photos nationwide for suspects.
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Becker, Riley
Costizan
Lieut. Becker
Mr. Whitman
Jack Rose
Webber
Rose, Shapiro
Libby
Women in New Party Support Suffrage Leaders
New York July 24. State Chairman Hotchkiss said women suffragists will be represented on committees of the national progressive party in New York. Harriet Stanton Blatch and Mrs Keller urged cooperation, with plans for a suffrage plank. Hotchkiss noted Roosevelt's support and potential appointments for suffragists. Also William P. Luck resigned as New Orleans customs appraiser to join Roosevelt forces and pursue business.
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New York
National Progressive Party
William H. Hotchkiss
Third Party
Hotchkiss
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Keller
Women's Suffrage Party
Woman’s Suffrage Party
Progressive Party
Mr. Hotchkiss
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
William P. Luck
New Orleans
Luck
Col
MacVeagh
LICENSED TO MARRY OBSCURE NAMES AND PAIRS
A clipped list of marriage licenses includes multiple pairs with ages and officiants, listing individuals such as Josiah L Harrison and Ida B Chapman, Ralph L Sweet and Edith J Dern, and others connected to various locales and religious ministers. The fragmentary record names several couples and officiants, indicating a registry of pending nuptials with limited context.
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Josiah L Harrison
Ida B Chapman
R.L Fults
Ralph L Sweet
Edith J. Dern
John A. David Bhapiree
Gertrude Brook
Agnor M. Becker
Graunton
Ivy G. Few
Edward Stanley
Dom K. Normingaki
Ray Fran T Benoa
Garano Gervel
Buffalo
Maris Geovannette
M.J. Kennedy
Walter K Evans
Emma M. Coyward
LE Purdum
Harold J Nachtsa
Aktrine E. Martin
Edward
Hale Hyman Bhenkro
Sarah Ettiin
Wilson Works on Speech At Sea Girt
Governor Wilson paused his acceptance speech writing in Seagirt New Jersey to sign papers and letters brought by his secretary. He said the speech would be finished after the secretary returned and expected to return to Seagirt by Saturday for meetings with several friends.
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Searltt
N. J
Nly
Wilson
Seagirt
Roosevelt Loyalists Leap to Iowa Progressives
Des Moines and Oklahoma City reports recount a July 4 Iowa progressive party convention endorsing Roosevelt and backing primaries, popular vote for postmasters, and initiative measures. Oklahoma progressives launch a third party with delegates to Chicago, naming Priestly and McDonald, while Alabama sends two delegations to the Chicago event.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Chicago
John L. Stevens
Boone
Republican Committee
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Col
Charles Talmage
Boston
Baltimore
Washington
Oklahoma
Colonel Roosevelts Day Off at Oyster Bay
Roosevelt took a day of rest at Oyster Bay before finishing his Chicago convention speech. He rose with the sun and kept a steady pace with library reading, a 12 mile row, horseback riding, and tennis sets. He also read the StanleyVestigating committee report to reference corporate control in his August 5 Chicago remarks. Bull Moose neighbors adopted the nickname after his approval yesterday.
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Oyster Bay
Col Roosevelt
Chicago
Stanley Investigating Committee
Oppose a Third Party in Maryland Roosevelt Meeting
In Baltimore tonight Roosevelt movement leaders debated a plan to place Col Roosevelt on the ballot as an independent Republican in Maryland and back regular Republican candidates except Taft. No vote settled the proposition as delegates and alternates to the national convention were chosen and Chicago was left to decide unsettled questions. Col Baward C Carrington urged unity among Maryland Republicans.
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Roosevelt
Baltimore
Maryland
Col. Roosevelt
Chicago
Taft
Baward C. Carrington
Taft to Confer on Ohio Campaign at White House
President Taft will meet with Ohio Republican leaders at the White House to discuss the state campaign and decide the next chairman of the Republican State executive committee. Secretary Thompson Senator Burton and Ohio Republican members of Congress will attend. Longworth will be absent.
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Burton
Congress
White House
Taft
Ohio
Republica State Executive Committee
Thompson
Nicholas Longworth
Washington
First Wilson Rally Opens New Headquarters in DC
The Wilson and Marshall Democratic Association of the District of Columbia held the first mass campaign meeting last evening at the Southern building. Speakers included Rep. Thomas Heflin and Mr Connell, praising the Democratic majority and the Wilson visit to Seagirt. Over 200 local Democrats planned a July 1 trip on a special B&O train to Seagirt, New Jersey, with rooms extended to visiting Democratic groups in Washington.
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Wilson and Marshall Democratic Association
District of Columbia
Charles A. Douglas
Thomas M. Heflin
Alabama
House of Representatives
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Sachara Gw.vonnell
New York
Seaght
Champ Clark
Congress
Connell
Arizona
New Mexico
D. A. Russell
Missouri
House
Seagirt
Henry Davis
Prince George County
Wilson and Marshall
Democratic Club
Reads of Brother's Death and a Peerage Note
Senator Tillman of South Carolina received a relic account of his brother Thomas Tillman killed in the Mexican War from Ohio state senator Crites. The same batch included Civil War era papers related to Maj. Richard Rice. The Daily Telegraph reports Augustine Birrell may be elevated to peerage with H L Samuel succeeding as Ireland secretary.
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Senator Tillman
South Carolina
D. Crites
Buda
Ohio
Pendleton Messenger
Thomas Tillman
Senator Crites
Maj
Richard Rice
Senator Tilman
Augustine Birrell
London
The
Daily Telegraph
Ireland
H. L. Samuel
Movements of Ocean Steamers
Saived from Hamburg to New York and Bremen Ehronprins Walbhaim entries noted. Mauretans sailing to Liverpool and Majestic to New York from Southampton. Cherbourg to New York on Kremprinzessin Goethe listed. Lizard Nieuw Amsterdam from New York for ?
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New York
Hamburg
Bremen
Ehronprins Walbhaim
Mauretans
Liverpool
Southampton
Majestic
Cherbourg
Kremprinzessin
Goethe
Lizard—Nieuw
Amsterdam
Hunt for Dorcas Snodgrass Deepens in Martinsburg
Relatives and friends of Dorcas Snodgrass in Martinsburg West Virginia state she was once engaged to Dr Norman Smith. Virginia Snodgrass says the engagement was broken but hints the missing woman may still have cared for him. Family notes Dorcas came from a prominent Berkeley County lineage and had enjoyed elite social standing despite financial reverses.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Dorcas Ijams Snodgrass
Norman Smith
Young Physician Accused in Baltimore Grand Jury Case
Baltimore physicians Dr Claude Stonecipher faces grand jury indictment on alleged misconduct with a young girl. The Society for the Prevention of Vice says he acted improperly toward between six and one hundred girls under sixteen at his Fulton Avenue office. The society protects the victim’s identity as the inquiry broadens.
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Baltimore
Claude Stonecipher
Rogues’ Gallery
Stonecipher
So Ielety For
Phyal
Bia
Fulton Avenue
Tragic runaway ends life of Baltimore socialite Miss Frances Carey
Miss Frances King Carey, prominent Baltimore society figure and Bryn Mawr graduate, died from injuries after a horse runaway near Emmitsburg while trying to comfort her frightened cousin Miriam Thomas. The incident occurred at Monterey, Pa. on Monday as she and Thomas traveled from Baltimore.
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Baltimore
Frances King Carey
James Carey
Park Avenue
Diag
Monterey
Emmiteburg
Miss Carey
Blue Ridge Summit
Francie T. King
Francia King Carey
Morris Carey
Bryn Mawr College
Johns Hopking Medical School
Rockefeller Heir's Daughter Ill in Sanitarium Near New York
A Chicago dispatch reports Mrs Harold F McCormick wife of the Chicago industrialist is in a sanitarium near New York. The McCormicks and their three children with Mrs Cyrus H McCormick were en route to Europe but delayed after Mrs McCormick fell ill. John D Rockefeller Jr and Mrs McCormick’s brother traveled to the bedside and the Rockefeller family gathered at Pocantico Hills after a visit.
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Harold F. McCormick
New York
Harold F. MceCormick
Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
McCormick
Cyrus H. McCormick
Europe
Bequest to Booker Washington in Ellen Collins Will
Ellen Collins died July 8 and probate filed today. The will directs more than $180,000 in bequests to friends, including a gift of 5,000 to Booker Washington and his wife Margaret ML of Tuskegee Alabama.
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Booker Washington
New York
Ellen Collins
Margaret ML
Tuakegee
Ala
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Frank Geier's Sons
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N. W
Frank A
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Pronew
Theop Clements Remeant
James T. Clements
Pramat
FiMdent
Wisconsin
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Mer
J WM Lee
Tuubaln
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Pourternth ST
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Chapel
Sergeon
R@ CAIN
Sam
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Harry Vallon
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J. P. Morgan Home
Eaton Wine Bay
Ricre
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Justice Giegerich
Supreme Court
Bridgie’ Webber
Webber the
Weak Link
Women IN New Party
Hotchkian
R. Harris & CO
the Jewelers
Seventh
T.R
Oklahoma City
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Way
George c. Priestly
Republican Committeerman
A.L. McDonald
el Reno
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Birmingham
Colonel
Roosvelt
W. F. Frederick Piano Co
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Brother
Tillman
Toins
Schmidt
Dr. Smith
Society For Prevention of Vice
Frances Carey
John D’s Daughter III
Ua Ae Tobacco
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