Bedford’s First Bard: Discovering the Bedford Band Book
A music book from Bedford’s early band era was found in a repair of the Glover homestead. The volumes list members such as John Mitchell who played a Kent bugle, with signatures including M A Malott and Hiram McLane. The band, formed September 1838, performed in Bedford and traveled to Louisville, New Albany, and the Tippecanoe Battleground.
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Oll Glover
Bedford
Joe Glover
American Express Co
John Glover
John E. Maiott
M.A. Malott
Bedford Band
Marion Guards
M. A. Malorr
S. M. Alexander
H. H. McLane
John Mitchell
Avfrep C. Hamm
I. F. Walker
Saml. Mitchell
Alfred Glover
Alpheus Phelps
James R. Glover
Thomas J. Francis
W. T. Rankin
W. M. Hamston
Glovers
Winnsboro
Virginia
Indiana
South Carolina
Washington
Lafayette
Austria
Prussia
Louisville
New Albany
Tippecanoe
Harrison
M. A. Malott
Col. McCrea
Malott
Hiram McLane
McLane
Tom Francis
Sam Mitchell
Texas
Court adjourns on Newkirk Iseminger case. Thralls granted divorce
Circuit Court actions include the Newkirk Iseminger matter taken under advisement by Judge Wilson. Bessie B Thralls wins a divorce from William F Thralls on cruelty grounds. Frank Able versus City of Bedford ends with a defense verdict after a $35 000 damages claim for a broken leg on East 17th Street.
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Newkirk Vs
Bessie B. Thralls
William F. Thralls
Frank Able
City of
Bedford
East 17Th Street
Boruff & Boruff
S. B. Lowe
James A. Zaring
Brooks & Brooks
Twin Star Prodigal Trotters Train at Lexington Track
In Kentucky training circles at the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders track in Lexington twin bays Star Prodigal and Starless Prodigal draw unusual interest as possibly the only twin trotters ever trained. Their dam Kathleen Rogers and racing lineage are noted while a separate Frankfort property matter involving the Martin Meeker heirs is mentioned.
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Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders’ Association
Lexington
Prodigal
Kathleen Rogers
Senorita
Trial
Martha Simmons
Ashlawn
J Allerton
Wheat market soars as prices top the dollar mark
The Chicago Board of Trade opened with a sensational surge in wheat as July and September options jump about 4 cents with December up 14 to 8 cents from last Saturday’s close. Buyers from across the United States flood in, shorts cover, and a strong underwriting demand drives prices higher before profit-taking trims gains. Reports from West and Northwest indicate weather damage and insect losses tighten supply while European markets react to Russia and potential U.S. exports.
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Chicago Board of Tracts
United States
Winnipeg
Louisiana
Pacific
Atlantic
West
Northwest
Canadian Northwest
Liverpool
Budapest
Russia
Commission
Europe
Foreign population estimates in Indiana cities reported
At a Presbyterian workers meeting in Indianapolis Rev J M Houser cited foreign groups in Indiana cities including 400 Hungarians 400 Macedonians and 1000 Romanians in Terre Haute 300 Poles 100 Hungarians 1000 Bulgarians and Slavonians in Fort Wayne and 20000 Poles 3000 Hungarians 300 Italians 100 Greeks in South Bend He noted about 50000 foreigners from northern and eastern Europe in the state and fourteen churches serving them He warned that industrial growth may intensify immigrant pressures but found newcomers largely useful labor with no evident disorder
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Indianapolis
J. M. Houser
Indiana
Terre Haute
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Europe
Terre Haute Tribune
Bruce Chesnut wedding in Indianapolis emphasis on new household
Harley Bruce and Miss Vada Chesnut wed Monday at 3 30 PM in Indianapolis and will set up housekeeping on Harrison Street. Both former Bedford residents, the bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Chesnut. McBride Lois McBride died Wednesday night at 31 years 8 months 20 days. funeral Friday at 9 AM from Lincoln Avenue residence, Rev R S Hyde officiating. burial Harrodsburg. Iva Fox 13 months, daughter of Mr and Mrs Alva Fox of North H Street, died Wednesday and was buried at Beech Grove. Rev Findley conducted services.
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Harley Bruce
Vada Chesnut
Indianapolis
Harrison Street
Bruce
Bedford
James Chesnut
McBride
Lois McBride
Lafayette McBride
Lincoln Avenue
R. S. Hyde
Harrodsburg
Iva
Alva Fox
North H Street
Beech Grove
Findley
Innes Band to Open Aero Dome Week of May 26
The Innes Band, a famed 60-piece group, plans to open the Aero dome in the city the week of May 26 if timing allows. In other notes, Washington treasury reports show many cornerless two-dollar bills tied to racing superstition and anti luck practices.
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Innes Band
Treasury Department
Washington
Kid Burglars Steal From Cal Bair's Store Drawer
Thieves entered Cal Bair's grocery on 16th street Wednesday night and stole two dollars in cents and one dollar in silver from an unlocked money drawer. A piece was recovered after being dropped on 15th street near James Harris' cab shed along with six pennies.
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Cal Bair
16Th Street
15Th Street
James Harris
Indiana Rail Workers Gain Rest Under New Law
Seymour Delaware County Indiana workers on railroads report less pay but more rest due to a state act limiting continuous work to sixteen hours and mandating extra crews and flagmen on long trains. A federal rule limits railway telegraphers to nine hours, not effective until March 1998.
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Seymour
Indiana
Pennsylvania
S. I
United States Congress
Seymour Democrat
Burned the Booze by Bedford Officers
County Sheriff Tom Box and City Marshal John Gratzer destroyed seized liquor at Snapp's North End drug store Tuesday at 2 PM. They burned a whiskey barrel and keg then smashed beer and whiskey bottles, burning and spilling contents worth about 65 dollars. A crowd watched as the police carried out the act, with mixed reactions.
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Tom Box
John Gratzer
Embryo
Snapp
North End
Bedford
Unusual April Weather Returns to Indiana State
The Indiana Weather Bureau reports a cool April with an average state temperature of 43.4 degrees the lowest since 1887 except for three outliers. Records show widespread temperature deficits from Vincennes and Auburn with limited high temps, while precipitation averaged 2.8 inches across 58 stations and days with measurable rain averaged 10. A separate notice covers Walter Miller, a Greencastle farmer, jailed after squandering a $100 sent to California for health reasons, allegedly after being drugged in Chicago.
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Indiana
Weather Bureau
Climatological Service
Vincennes
Hammond
Rome
Auburn
South Bend
Delphi
Bedford
Moores Hill
Logansport
California
Walter Miller
Greencastle
Bloomington and Indiana news round up of local events
Local notes report social visits in Bedford and Bloomington areas, school sports plans, ailing residents, a temperance debate from Lafayette, and county population counts. Rail work begins on the B and O Southwestern station at Washington, Indiana, with office moves planned near the current site. Census shows Montgomery county school age children total 8,080. Vandalia rest house for workers opened east of St. Louis with beds and dining facilities. A demented woman shot by a farmer near Washington. the shooter aided by fear. Remarkable electric cure for hiccoughs in Greensburg ends a five day spell. Late frosts threaten a regional pecan crop near Princeton. statewide impact noted.
Traces of oil at Mark place well near town
The well on the Mark place south of town shows traces of oil on the water at a depth of 950 feet. Drilling proceeds slowly due to water pressure and the stubborn nature of the material being drilled.
Bedford to Get New W P and L R R Line
Bedford will soon see a new railroad the W P and L R R connecting Washington Park and Lakewood. A miniature railway with eight hundred feet of track a engine and eight cars for thirty persons capacity will be installed this week. Track bed is graded and the outfit is due today.
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Bedford
Washington’ Park
Lakewood
Washington Park
Special Train to Washington for Knights of Columbus
The B. and C. S. W. runs a Bedford to Washington excursion on Sunday May 19 departing Bedford at 7 a.m. and returning from Washington at 11 30 p.m. Proceeds support the dedication of the Knights of Columbus Temple House in Washington.
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Bedford
Washington
Knights of Columbus
Conductor Loses Toes When Hurt on Moving Engine
Extra Conductor Robert McDonald suffered severe toe injuries at Belt yards in Oolitic as he attempted to jump onto a moving engine. A wheel severed about half of each toe on his right foot. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment by Drs Freeland and Shrum. He is a 28 year old newcomer.
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Robert McDonald
Oolitic
Secret societies drive Indiana saloons dry after Moore law
A. G. Humphreys of the Anti Saloon League states the Gannard blind tiger law has closed most illicit liquor joints in two months and that remonstrance campaigns and secret groups aim to make several Indiana cities dry within a year. Since Moore law, all saloons have left 219 townships.
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Indiana
A. G. Humphreys
Anti-saloon League
Humphreys
Stone versus cement in pavement decision debated by city council
The City Council held a special meeting to hear arguments from quarrymen Norton Reed and McKinley for stone flagging and from E W Shirk of United States Cement Co for cement. No decision yet, expected on cost comparison, amid jail labor dispute and prisoner escapes in Monroe County.
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C. S. Norton
Robert Reed
Robert McKinley
E. W. Shirk
United States Cement Co
Marriage License Listings For Four Couples
Barardino Mazzone wed Lucia Giar dono and Oliver Smith married May Chaney in two pending marriage license records. The notices appear in the local civil records with names and proposed unions.
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Barardino Mazzone
Lucia Giardono
Oliver Smith
May Chaney
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Bedford, Indiana
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