Volume 14 , Issue 20

100 Years Ago Today - 14 May 1912

Last week the Library of congress, Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers was down for maintenance, but thank goodness they are back up this week. Here are some headlines we found on the front page of The Washington Times, dated Washington, Tuesday evening, May 14, 1912: "Testimony As Produced At Excise Hearing," Spectators At Meat Hearing Prevent Fight," "Colonel, With Taft In Wake, Talks To Ohio," and a cartoon by Robert Carter entitled, "I am being hit below the belt."

The cartoon featuring Primary School, Uncle Sam holding Taft over his knee and switching Taft with a switch made up with states, such as Washington, Illinois, Oregon, Maine, Texas, pennsylvania, Nebraska, Maryland, Minnesota, W. Virginia, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri.

Colonel, With Taft In Wake, Talks To Ohio -- There were crowds greeting both aspirants in President's State with seven towns hearing the two candidates. Roosevelt Made a strong impression in campaign through Mahoning Valley. It was also reported the Maryland convention favored Roosevelt. It stated, "In Baltimore today the Republican State convention adopted resolutions favoring Theodore Roosevelt, and selected sixteen delegates to Chicago, the majority of whom are for the former President. The convention was the scene of a spirited fight, but the delegates for Roosevelt were in the majority, and only agreed to divide the delegation in the hope of bringing about harmony.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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