Indiana Democrats Indorse Bryan At State Convention
The Indiana Democratic State Convention endorsed William Jennings Bryan for president in 1908 and selected a full state ticket by acclamation, with James F. Cook as Treasurer and Walter J. Lotz as Attorney General among others. The event featured dramatic applause as the Bryan resolution passed.
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James F. Cook
John Isenbarger
Marion Batley
Walter J. Lotz
Supreme Court
Bert New
Edward Garrett
Mist District
Eugene A. Hly
Public Instruction
Rob't J. Aley
Statistician
David N. Curry
Richard Erwin
Indianapolis
William Jennings Bryan
Indiana
Wm. J. Bryan
Benjamin P. Shively
South Bend
Congress
Ehasromin
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel L. Ralston
Lebanon
Willian Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Packers Reply to Roosevelt Charges At Congress
Chicago packers respond to Roosevelt's message and the Neill Reynolds report denying unsanitary conditions. Eight leading firms convened with experts from the University of Illinois to counter alleged abuses. They call for stricter slaughterhouse inspection and deny hidden methods or diseased meat.
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Congress
Chicago
Roosevelt
National Packing Company
Neill-Reynolds
T. J. Burrill
University of Illinois
H. S. Grindley
Department of Agriculture
Germany
United States Department of Agriculture
Hereditary Resemblance In Country Dialect Cartoon
A brief Indianapolis News panel notes a humorous exchange about hereditary resemblance as a family jokes about appearance and aging with a rustic voice. The caption highlights the idea of looking like one’s father and growing older.
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Indianapolis News
Mercy in Law From The Boston Transcript
A brief note quotes a judge showing mercy in a case, with lines about merciful treatment and tempered justice. The passage reflects a poet’s remark on the cost of a week’s labor for composing the verse and the judge’s clemency.
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Boston Transcript
Remarkable cure challenges spinal cord limits
A Philadelphia doctor sutured a severed spinal cord in Clara Nichols after a 1891 shooting. After years of massage and care she slowly regained sensation and mobility, walking with crutches and foreseeing full recovery in time.
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Philadelphia
Clara Nichols
Luther Burbank’s Vision for Race Improvement Behind Plant Life Metaphor
The California plant expert proposes applying his cultivation ideas to human races to create a superior lineage. He envisions mixing normal families in a controlled environment to ensure honest upbringing and ample resources while excluding the physically weak and mentally defective from reproduction. He claims ten generations could fix desired traits.
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Luther Burbank
California
Burbank
Automobile Efficiency Contest Report
The Automobile Club of America ran an efficiency test with sixty five cars starting from New York. Cars were limited to two gallons of gasoline and under bad weather 15 exceeded forty miles. A twelve horsepower runabout traveled eighty seven miles to North Haven Conn at 2 800 pounds with two passengers and an 800 pound handicap. IMive surpassed the fifty mile mark.
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Automobile Club of America
New York
North Haven
Conn
Imive
Indiana Neighbors Report Deaths and Local Incidents
Indiana community notes report Henry Morrison of Frankfort dies, local accidents claim lives in Lyons, Roann, and Lapel, a runaway horse injures a child near Lebanon, a jeweler’s shop burglary occurs in Andrews, and a farm barn fire damages property near Lapel. бал
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Fred Edwards, Jr
Robert Shortes
Lyons
Harry Burson
Roann
Purdue University
Lafayette
Herman Wolfe
Hammond
Jesse Rinehart
Lebanon
Indiana National Guard
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Edward Johnson
Lapel
William Lutz
Clover Leaf Railway
Frankfort
John Berkley
Henry Brumbarger
Berkley
My Mother Poem At Mother's Grave By Rev Will Jackson
A poet recalls comfort and guidance from his mother as he reflects beside a grave and willow tree. The verses express faith that death brings reunion, with the mother’s memory transforming darkness into day.
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Rev. J. Will Jackson
Narrowest Escape Under the Horse Barn
A boy recalls a childhood peril when trapped under a sunken barn space while seeking hen nests. He endures darkness and tight squeezes, claws upward, and miraculously finds a way out through an emergent light after a long, terrifying confinement. The memory triggers family reactions and a policy change at home.
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Jim Lee
Ried
Father
The Sea Otter Behavior Described In Seafaring Note
A historical note describes sea otters as combining seal habits with otter wit. They swim on their backs in herds rarely seen now and eat while afloat. Mothers nurse young on their chests between paws and shade their eyes with paws when sun dazzles them.
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South Sea Island
Rural postmistress approves card payments amid mixed opinions
In Queens a boastful beau says four ladies called, Jack Potts remarks on a strong hand, and a rural postmistress is compelled to stamp approval on many posts cards she does not endorse. The scene mixes gossip and authority in a local page of the Standard and Times.
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Queens
Jack Potts
Standard and Times
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William J. Bryan
Packers
Country
Hoosier
Angola
Henry Y. Morrison
A. L. Sharpe
Bluffton
Ralph Strow
Strow
Tony Webber
Terre Haute
E. E. Westeller
Tipton
Peru
William Coughlan
August Escher
Royal Wheel Works
Aurora
Jewlery
Lee Thompson
Andrews
Lake Shore
Elkhart
Central Grain Elevator Company
Middle West
Beech Grove
New York Central Lines
Marion Evans
Fredrick Landis
Marion
John E. Clark
Hanly
Artman
A. C. Daily
Clarence Kell
Attica
Kell
Sam L. Morris
State Board
Wherry
Kendallville
White Cloud
Frank Hildreth
Shellenbarger
Knox County
Mt. Vernon
Dora Smith
Marcus Conway
Newcastle
Conway
Captain Marabee
Blacky
Mother
Jed
Tupper’s
Ridgefield
Martha
James Tee
Isphraim
Lee
Cobbler
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Jim
Ephraim
Martha Bolles
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