Good Roads Movement Aims for Indiana Statewide Support
A Northern Indiana road improvement push emerged from a South Bend good roads congress with 14 counties represented. Carl G. Fisher offered 5000 dollars in crushed rock and oil for a South Bend to Plymouth road, aiming to fund a 150 mile Indianapolis to South Bend highway by June. Local dignitaries including Aaron Jones and leaders from Indiana and Michigan spoke on road benefits and legislative needs.
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Indiana
South Bend
Plymouth
Indianapolis
Aaron Jones
National Grange
Indiana State Grange
Olivers to Build $1.5 Million Plant in Hamilton
The Olivers of South Bend Ind announce a mammoth plow and agricultural machinery plant to be built in Hamilton Ontario at a cost of 1.5 million dollars, employing two thousand people and serving Canadian and foreign trade. R A Smart of the South Bend factory to manage the plant, while South Bend’s works expand with over 1 million dollars set for new buildings. Dudley Lappin, 13, rescues his 2-year-old brother from a Detroit house fire, saving the child with his coat over his head. He suffers burns but no life threat. A typhoid outbreak hits Indiana's Reform School in Plainfield. 15-year-old Fred Szelgrigg dies as the epidemic grows with dozens ill. A robbery via Express Company results in 32 thousand dollars stolen from a Buffalo-bound shipment to Philadelphia managed by Adams Express and station agent John J. f.
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Olivers
South Bend
Ind
Hamilton
Ont
R. A. Smart
Babe
Dudley Lappin
Detroit
Mich
Reform School
Fred Szelgrigg
Lafayette
Indiana
Plainfield
Foreman fatally wounded in shop shooting suicide in Chicago
Joseph LeBlanch a Chicago Board of Education machinist shot John Roach the shop foreman after a quarrel then killed himself. The tragedy followed a minor dispute from last week. A separate bank robbery shootout near Wapanucka Oklahoma left a posse member wounded.
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Foreman
Self
Joseph LeBlanch
Chicago Board of Education
John Roach
Wapanucka
Okla
Belgian aviator breaks world air record at Mourmelon
The Belgian aviator Danie set a new waterlogged air speed record at Mourmelon France. The event involved an aeroplane flight with a passenger as the goal.
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Mourmelon
France
Danie
Amel
Air Dy Autes
Halley's Comet Tail Misses Earth Causes Cosmic Confusion
Scientists worldwide were baffled as Earth did not pass through Halley's Comet tail on schedule. The tail curved away delaying contact and unsettling leading astronomers from Yerkes, Columbia, and Transvaal Observatory. Panic and superstition followed with suicides, alarms, and apocalyptic sales.
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Halley
Edwin B. Frost
Yerkes Observatory
E. EK
Barnard
S. A. Mitchell
Columbia University
Transvaal Observatory
South Africa
R. T. A. Innes
Chicago
Christ Chekos
East Chicago Avenue
North State Street
South Bend
Ind
Ohio
Neenah
Wis
Minnesota Point
Minn
Lake Superior
Black Belt
Lower West Side
Atlanta
Heinze Freed After Trial at New York Court
Fritz Augustus Heinze walked from the United States Circuit Court in New York a free man after jurors found he did not over certify 500000 in checks for his brother's brokerage or misapply funds to any copper scheme. Relatives wept and friends cheered as he expressed thanks.
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Fritz Augustus Heinze
United States Circuit Court
New York
Mercantile National Bank
United States
Heinze
Man Freed After $1000 Robbery Case Returns Stolen Cash
L. C. Gale, who accused Michael Rock of a $1000 downtown robbery in Minneapolis, rushed to police to say he had recovered the money. Gale identified a heavyset man who claimed Gale’s loss and helped get Rock arrested, then released him after the cash was returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C
Gale
Michael Rock
Minneapolis
Y Pelice
Rock
Man
Six Pittsburg Men Sentenced in Council Bribery Case
Ten prominent Pittsburg figures including bankers and physicians faced Judge Robert Frazer for bribery and conspiracy tied to council corruption. Six were sentenced to jail terms and fines, four cases delayed due to illness, with several defendants already pleading no defense. Sentences ranged from four to eight months in county jail and fines up to $5,000 for A A Vilsack.
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Pittsburg
Robert S. Frazer
Frazer
A. A. Vilsack
German National Bank
Charles Stewart
Hugh Ferguson
Dr. W. H. Weber
P. B. Kearns
Morris Hinstein
Factory Accident Halts Work as Boy Loses Arm
Harwood Kel, a boy at the Fort Company plant in Rome New York, had his arm severed by a jackknife driven machine. Foreman Ken acted swiftly using a Bee held tool to stop the belt and save the boy's life as heroic actions prevented fatal injury.
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Lad
Harold Kelcame
Fort Company
Rome
N. Y
Foerbert Mills
Foreman
Jad
Keller
Ken
Standings of the Clubs Progress of the Pennant Race
National League leaders Pittsburg and Philadelphia lead with 15 and 12 wins respectively. Chicago 14 wins and St Louis 12, New York 12, Boston 9, Cincinnati 12, Brooklyn 9. American League seeds Philadelphia 18? Boston and New York 15, Washington 10, Detroit 15, Chicago 8, Cleveland 13, St. Louis 4. American Association shows St Paul 20, Indianapolis 13, Minneapolis 9, Columbus 14, Toledo 15, Milwaukee 12, Louisville 14, Kansas City 8, Sioux City 11, Des Moines 0, Wichita 12, Omaha 0. Western League lists Denver 13, Lincoln 11, St Joseph 12, Topeka 7.
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Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
New York
Boston
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
W. Law
Philadelpha
Washington
Detroit
Cleveland
American Association
W. Il. W. St
Rocking Boat Drowns Eight At Huntington Mills
A party of twelve high school seniors on an old mill pond at Huntington Mills Pa. eight youths drown when a boat rocks and overturns four boys escape but fail to rescue the girls. The dead are Maud Sutliff 17 Caroline Koons 18 Ruth Bonham 17 Iris Davenport 17 Kathleen Good 16 Rachel Thompson 17 Robert Minnick 18 and Ray Dodson 17.
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Huntington Mills
Maud Sutliff
Caroline Koons
Ruth Bonham
Iris Davenport
Kathleen Good
Rachel Thompson
Robert Minnick
Ray Dodson
Diamonds Found on Islands Off German Territory
A government exploring party reports diamonds similar to those at Luderitz Bay in German South Africa on islands off German territory, owned by Cape Colony. The University of Berlin invites American universities to Berlin for a Centennial in October. Italian radicals praise Prime Minister Luzatti for a budget aiming to ease taxation, reform the upper house, and extend male franchise to literate citizens over 20.
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Luderitzbucht
South Africa
Cape Colony
University of Berlin
Berlin
Italy
Luzatti
Ohio Insurgents Lose in Bitter Primary Battles
Seven of Ohio's present Republican Congressmen fought insurgent rivals in primaries over the Aldrich-Payne bill and Tawney amendment. Six regulars won renomination: Goebel, Cole, Douglass, Taylor, Kennedy, and Thomas. Incumbents across districts faced Republican opponents with several races detailing district choices for the U.S. Senate seat.
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Ohio
Aldrich-Payne
Herman P. Goebel
Cincinnati
Ralph D. Cole
Findlay
Albert Douglass
Chillicothe
Edward L. Taylor
Columbus
James Kennedy
Youngstown
W. Aubrey Thomas
Niles
George R. Young
James M. Cox
A. R. Johnson
Edmund Willis
J. D. McLaughlin
C. C. Anderson
James Joyce
George White
Ammon
Critchfield
William A. Ashbrook
Paul Howland
William Gordon
James H. Cassidy
R. J. Buckley
F. F. Gentsch
H. C. Claypool
Ross County
H. L. Taylor
Francis S. Monnett
D. A. Hollingsworth
W. B. Francis
J. Warren Keifer
J. R. Post
Frank B. Willis
T. C. Mahon
Nurse Charged in Alabama Baby Poisoning Case
A 10-year-old Black girl employed as a nurse allegedly poisoned two children, the 3 month old daughter of Davis Collins, a planter, who died in Demopolis Alabama, and the 2 year old sibling remains in serious condition. The nurse says the act followed the mother denying permission for a Birmingham excursion.
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Davis Collins
Demopolis
Ala
Collins
Birmingham
Storm Tears Through Culverton Crops and Homes
A severe hail and windstorm wrecked cotton and corn in Culverton Georgia and severely damaged the peach crop. Several houses were blown from their pillars and many others were unroofed.
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Culverton
Get Busy with Emily Stopped at Cort Theater Chicago
Performances of Get Busy with Emily and its alias Have You Anything to Declare? have ceased at the Cort Theater Chicago amid charges the play is vulgar and indecent. The production halted operations as authorities review the material.
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Emily
Cort Theater
Chicago
Week in Congress watch on railroad and tariff battles
The Senate set 4 PM Friday for votes on long and short haul amendments to the railroad bill and planned daily 11 AM sessions starting Monday. Dixon long and short haul amendment praised. Cummins provision on the commerce court defeated 28 to 87. House debated sundry civil bill and Hawaii appropriations bill passage followed Senate action.
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Senate
Clapp
Smoot
Nixon
House
Payne
New York
Dixon
Cummins
Commerce Court
United States
Henry
Texas
Court of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Campbell
Kansas
Underwood
Alabama
Keifer
Ohio
Panama Canal
Barnhart
Indiana
Sisson
Aldrich
Rayner
Hughes
Elkins
Hawaii
Strike at Pressed Steel Car in McKees Rocks Pa
Four thousand five hundred workers at the Pressed Steel Car Company strike at McKees Rocks Pennsylvania. Census estimates suggest the last corn crop would need eighty thousand trains of thirty cars each to move it. Benton McMillin, ex governor of Tennessee, announces Senate candidacy from Nashville for the Democratic primary on June 4 to succeed James B. Frasier.
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Pressed Steel Car Company
Mclisees Rocks
Benton McMillin
Tennessee
Nashville
United States Senate
James’ B. Frazier
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Batesville, Ind
BR. McCallum
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Canada
Express
Pennsylvania
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Adams Express Company
Kimmit
E. H. Jennings
Columbia National Bank
F. A. Griffen
G. W. Friend
Clinton Steel and Iron Company
James W. Friend
M. L. Swift, Jr
BeesHeld
N Zandt
Mill Pond
Charles Dick
Akron
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