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Engaged. Frances Orren Lowden, third daughter of former Governor of Illinois Frank O. Lowden, of Oregon, Ill., to John B. Drake, Jr., kin of Tracy C. Drake, Chicago hotel...
...noise that rivaled that of previous years, for the first time since the convention started, General Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois, was nominated tonight as the Republican candidate for vice-president. The third ballot saw a landslide of votes to the financier's faction after Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois had refused the nomination that was tendered to him on the second ballot...
...next ballot, however, saw Governor Lowden coming to the fore. Despite, his repeated assurances that he was not a candidate, the delegates flocked to his banner, and amid riotous applause, his nomination was announced. Uncertainty as to his acceptance was still so strong, however, that a recess was declared during which Chairman F. W. Mondell of Wyoming, communicated with the ex-governor of Illinois...
When the convention reassembled, Chairman Mondell read a telegram from Governor Lowden, announcing the latter's profound appreciation of the honor, but reiterating his former statements as to his candidature...
...Holy Father, receiving one Florence Lowden in special audience, said: "I once blessed the name of the Pullman people when I was traveling in Poland as a papal nuncio." Miss Lowden is the eldest daughter of former Governor Lowden and granddaughter of the late Mr. Pullman, all Protestants...