Old People Sing At Morristown Diapason Meeting
More than 2500 people attended the Diapason Singers class annual meeting in Morristown Indiana with C C Curtis of Jaws as leader. The event filled the M E church and surrounding grounds as residents from Morristown and Hanover township gathered for old songs and hymns in the diapason style. Morristown officers were re elected: Theophilus Hargrove president Alonzo Meyers vice president Mrs Clarence Rock secretary treasurer.
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Shelbyville
Morristown
Hanover Township
Shelby County
M. E
C. C. Curtis
Jaws
B. Morris
John Porter
Acton
Old Missouri Harmony Singers
The
Diapason Society
Theophilus Hargrove
Greenfield
Alonzo Meyers
Clarence Rock
Ninety-year-old Wilson H. Daniels Celebrates Birthday
Jasper May 29 Wilson H. Daniels author of Sixty Years of Steamboating and a well known figure in southern Indiana marked his ninetieth birthday at Judge John L. Bretz’s home. He remains mentally sharp and recalls river life from the Mississippi and Ohio where he spent over sixty years as pilot and captain of large southern river boats.
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Jasper
Wilson H. Daniels
Indiana
John L. Bretz
Daniels
Mississippi
Ohio
Heir to Canadian Estates Sentenced in Indiana Court
In St Joseph circuit court Otto Buck Churchill admitted frauds in selling western lands and was sentenced to the insane ward at Michigan City prison. He claimed adoption by Spencer Churchill and heirship to Canadian estates after conviction. He said he had been imprisoned twice before. In Terre Haute Mrs Frederick W Packard of Chicago, former Humane Society president, tried to buy a crepid horse for 2 dollars to have it shot. a crowd seized the animal, returned it to the owner, and the owner disappeared with horse and money while she was jeered.
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South Bend
Otto Buck Churchill
Michigan City
St. Joseph
Churchill
Spencer Churchill
Canada
Terre Haute
Frederick W. Packard
Chicago
The
Humane Society
Worms First Parcel Post Delicacy Sent by Telegraph
The Terre Haute post office reports handling the first parcel post grub worms sent to Uncle Sam. Mrs. Stark Neal of Farmersburg found the worms and shipped them to her husband’s mother in Terre Haute, a chicken raiser, via telegraph request. Other items note an argument over wallpaper mail to Chicago, a Socialist editor killed near Mishawaka, a postoffice safe blown at Frankton, a 14 year old jailed horse thief in Marion, and a three year old struck by a truck in Fort Wayne with fatal injuries.
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Terre Haute
Better Babies Contest at Rush County Fair
Rushville May 29 A better babies contest for 12 to 24 month olds will be held under the Parent Teachers Association and the Rushville Club Improvement and Social Service Association. Contestants are scored on 116 points with bronze medals for champion boy and girl. Diplomas for top scorers and certificates for all scored babies. Examination at Graham school a week before the fair. Medals awarded at the fair with child welfare talks and a national mothers' congress exhibit on health.
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Rushville
Rush County
Parent- Teachers’ Association
Rushville Club Improvement and Social Service Association
Graham School
National Mothers’ Congress
Wounded Man in Six Shots Incident at Shelbyville
Bascou Green fired six shots at Thomas Van Gordon in Shelbyville on May 29. Only one bullet struck Van Gordon, shattering the bone in his right arm. Green claims a rude remark about Mrs. Green provoked the attack. He was arrested on a shooting with intent to kill charge and released on $200 bond.
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Shelbyville
Bascou Green
Thomas van Gordon
van Gordon
Green
Indiana in Brief reports various local incidents
Indiana brief items note Osktown parsing Ellard Sodorf as a strang er body. Osktown and Hartford City accidents. a fatal shooting in Evansville. a cleanup proclamation for Shelbyville. reform school placement in Greencastle. a divorce suit in Columbus. a runaway injury in South Bend. Pythian Sisters meeting in Rushville. a missing woman found near Carrollton. a color bar assault in Sullivan. Deming buys First Baptist church property in Terre Haute for a new hotel project.
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Peru
William McCardle
Kokomo
Ellard Sodorf
Raymond Shepard
Hartford City
John Williams, Jr
Shelbyville
Frank E. Henson
Dudley Easley
Linton
J. C. Overman
Spencer
Overman
First Baptist Church
Sullivan
Connle Fishback
Fairbanks
Evansville
J. W. Chappell
Akin-Erskin Milling Company
Planters
Chicago
Henry Schoelch
Greencastle
Reform School
Plainfield
Roy Ragan
Evansyilte
Harry Breetz
Indianapolis
Ball Park
Columbus
Elizabeth Nolting
Frederick Nolting
Nolting
South Bend
Moise Dumont
Dumont
Rushville
Pythian Sisters Lodges
Fayette
Franklin
Ripley
Union
Decatur
Rush
Vasta Temple
Connersville
Lafayette
Margaret Hill
Toganeport
Wabash River
Carrollton Bridge
Carroll County
Chester Towsey
Leander Lee
Towsey
Lee
Terre Haute
Deman Deming
Sixth
Cherry Streets
Oite
W.A. Cochrane
Labor and Alaska Plans Shape Wilson Era Policy
Washington reports show labor leaders seek broader Sherman Act exemptions via the Clayton bill, while President Wilson resists stronger anti trust protections. Separate items advance in Alaska rail survey by civilian engineers and a cavalry officer, amid Interior Lane conservation drives for coal and oil leasing and other natural resource bills.
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George Clinton
Washington
Clayton
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Wilson
Taft
House Judiciary Committee
Congress
Alaska
Engineer Corps
Army
Edes
Lane
Mears
War Garrison
Interior Lane
War Department
United States Army
Goethals
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Bering
Matanuska
Interior
House Committee On Public Lands
House
Quest to recover Lutine treasure fuels sea prize chase
Report on ambitious salvage efforts to recover the Lutine treasure, sunk with the British warship in 1799 off Holland. The operation used sandpumps, a giant sieve, and dredging to expose 80 feet of the wreck, but a storm halted work and left the fortune still submerged.
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Holland
London
Lloyd's
Dubbed Wife a Shrew in Panic Separation Suit
A Pennsylvania man William L Lauscher seeks separation after claiming his wife insulted him and pulled bedding away during an altercation. He alleges she forced him from bed and greeted him with harsh words and a raised voice in their home.
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New Pa Aman
William L. Lauscher
Cunnis
Abatra
Race
Glayds Ann Tested By Cooking School Goad
Mr Cumroz recalls sending Glayds Ann to cooking school to distract her from piano. The plan succeeded and now they aim to shift her to study political economy eighty to keep her mind off cooking.
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Glayds Ann
Mr. Cumroz
Washington Star
Good Reason and Dumb Animata Talk Back
Humorous exchanges about preference and spelling race through a collage of ad copy and witticisms. An advertisement touts Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills for 75 years and invites readers to request a sample, while snippets joke about landlords promises and vanity.
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Wright
New York
Remarkable health recovery story from Shamrock Missouri
Mrs. Jos Ham describes severe health troubles including falling inflammation and congestion and female weaknesses. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier she reports being able to work full days sleep well and enjoy life again. She urges others to seek the companys confidential advice.
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Shamrock, Mo
Lydia E. Pinkham
Jos Ham
Box
Shamrock
Missouri
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Rush County Fair
Indiana News
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Panama Canal
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