Roosevelt Leads Progressive Convention Buzz In Chicago
Chicago August 5 progressives gather at the Coliseum for the first national convention. Col Theodore Roosevelt arrives and plans a confession of faith while Albert Beveridge chairs the opening and fires up the crowd against the old party bosses.
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Congress proposes funds to exterminate predatory wild animals
Representative Mondell of Wyoming introduced a bill to appropriate 200000 to cover the U S share of exterminating predatory wildlife on forest reserves. He targets timber wolves coyotes mountain lions and other killers while insisting the bull moose is not a wild or predatory animal.
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Waterloo Pioneer Thomas Cascaden Dies at 57
Waterloo leader Thomas Cascaden died at Presbyterian Hospital at 9:06 after an appendectomy last week. Born in Southampton Canada on January 3 1869 he moved to Waterloo as a child and built a vast real estate portfolio in Waterloo west. He served as president of the Chamber of Commerce and Waterloo Club and left a lasting mark on the city’s industrial life.
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Man Receives Commission From Dry Town Hoax
In Louisville, Kentucky a mail order whisky firm offered a commission for names of locals to exploit a prohibition town. A humorous man sent the names of a dozen ardent prohibitionists and earned $4.15, then a few dollars more. He concludes the joke is on him as there is not a saloon in sight.
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Wealthy Farmer Jonas Young Dies By Self-Destruction
Jonas Young, a prominent farmer fifteen miles southwest of Webster City Iowa, killed himself with strychnine on a day of despondency. His body was found in a cornfield after an all day search. He threatened suicide previously and leaves a wife and eight children.
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Lie 9 Passed by Uncle Joe
Washington Aug 5 The lie was passed on the floor of the house when former Speaker Cannon denounced as unqualifiedly untrue a charge by Rep Burnett of Alabama that Cannon had deliberately led followers from the chamber to break a quorum and defeat immigration legislation. Cannon twice asked Burnett to retract. There was no outbreak.
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Iowa delegates elect officers in Roosevelt nomination
Iowa delegates chose J. L. Stevens of Boone as chairman and national committeeman. H. E B. Morey of Waverly became treasurer, Carl Lohman of Burlington secretary, Senator J. A. Smith of Orange resolutions, C. J. Moore of Sioux City permanent organization, Samuel Westcott of Keokuk credentials, W. B. Clements of West Union rules. Philo D. Clark of Red Oak was named to second Roosevelt’s nomination.
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Sioux City
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Keokuk
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Red Oak
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Negro Lynched. Mob Pursues Near Hale Station Alabama
Meridan Mississippi reports say one Black man was lynched and another was pursued near Hale Station Alabama about forty miles east of Meridian after the assailants killed a white man named Tutt.
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Wilson Has Experience Complains of Inaccuracies
Governor Woodrow Wilson enters political wirelight with reporters and telemanchers camped near his cottage in Seagirt New Jersey. He praises sincerity of most newspapers but notes misrepresentations and inaccuracies in some reports.
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Army Promotion Nominations Sent to Senate by Taft
Washington August 1 The nomination of Coal F Steever currently in command of troops along the Mexican border to be a brigadier general of the line and that of Col Geo Andrews attached to the department of the east at New York to be adjutant general of the army were sent to the senate today by President Taft.
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Beveridge States Progressive aims and reform program
Albert J. Beveridge, temporary chairman of the progressive national convention in Chisago, declares the movement stands for a noble America, undivided nation, broader liberty, social brotherhood, intelligent cooperation, mutual help, equal rights, and a representative government. He outlines a conservative reform program to tear down wrongs and build what fits today. Continued on page 8.
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French Premier Starts for Russia on State Pilgrimage
Raymond Poincare left Paris for Russia amid official pomp with ministers Briand Delcasse Lebrun and Meilard accompanying him. Journalists, embassy staff, and Paris police officials joined at the station as Franco Russian talks on the naval convention and eastern questions loom.
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Louis Lepine
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Tafts Attend Funeral for Mrs Tafts Father in Cincinnati
President Taft plans to leave Washington for Cincinnati to attend the funeral of John W. Herron Mrs Tafts father who died in Cincinnati after a long illness aged 85 Herron was a prominent Cincinnati attorney and former U S district attorney under Harrison The Tafts expect to return to Washington Thursday morning El Verso Havana 10¢ Cigar
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Taft
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Burglary Suspect Undergoes Brain Operation for Theft Urge
John Howard, a young man from Minneapolis, underwent a brain operation at Asburs hospital to remove a growth believed to trigger his urge to steal. Surgeons Dr. A. H. Parks and Dr. Archa E K Wilcox removed a water cyst and bone, covering the skull with a silver plate. Howard recovered but remains in the custody of the court.
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