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The week of July 6th 1912

Important invents from this week.

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Table of context:

1. The old fashioned convention2. The new world

3. The Baltimore Buckler Thorne

4. Mr. Roosevelt's opportunity5. Tightening the Civic purse

strings6. America’s Olympic Argonauts7. Mrs. Murphy Capitalist 8. A Motor picnic abroad9. The young Lawyer talks

politics10. Advertisement 2

The old fashion convention*At the time of the writing of the this article the Democratic National Convention was

going on. – “It is beyond any question that a real convention is proceeding at Baltimore. That the delegates are

there to choose a candidate for president, and that they’re working faithfully on the job.”

*Roosevelt against Bryan both representing the bull moose party.

The Bills Discounted 48 percent

It’s set on the second page of the newspaper, to attract people. Advertising “No Rim Cut Tires.”

The New World

• The New World Idea– “There is nowadays a spreading of an idea which

has been lurking in the world for at least 2 thousand years. –We have lived in a civilization reared upon the theory that each man is a separate unit who has accomplished the whole duty of man if he takes care of himself and his family, and possibly here and there 1 or 2 others that appeal to him…”

Convention snap shots

The Baltimore Buckler Throne

*After the Baltimore convention is over: Describing the scenes as it ends, and the inside of the convention hall.

“It was different inside the hall much different. There occurred a series of scenes as wild as any enacted in recent American Political history.”

Mr. Roosevelt’s opportunity

• The opportunities of Roosevelt after the turn out of the convention.

- “If He has Courage and Principles than this is the favorable time for him to render A Great Public Service.”

Tightening the Civic purse strings

• Henry Clay’s Tax meeting committee in Philadelphia

- “He wanted the city ran just like a business concern. He discovered that, while the Bullitt Bill was carefully drawn to act as a sort of civic cash register, the law was failing in this purpose because its provision were being dodged or absolutely ignored.”

America’s Olympic Argonauts

*1912 Olympics

Mrs. Murphy Capitalist

• Mrs. Murphy the wash lady and capitalism - “ Mrs. Murphy was right not only about her

being an out-and-out capitalist, but also in regarding herself as one that the country could not get along with out.”

A Motor Picnic Abroad

• Stories about a trip through France• “Among the many charms of motoring in

France one must assuredly include the casual picnics the almost foreseen lunches and after noon teas in the shadow of a beech wood carpeted with violets….”

The young lawyer talks politics• United States Supreme courts decision and

Edward S. Martin’s opinion…• “Yesterday the United States Supreme court

decided something thus by four to three. Justices 1, 3, 5, protested vigorously…

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