Greene County Democrat-Democratic Newspaper Details
The Bloomfield Indiana based weekly Democrat-Democratic Newspaper founded in 1861 lists publication Fridays, semi weekly Tuesdays, and subscription terms 1 year 1.50 6 months 0.75 and single copies 5 cents. Advertising rates shown per line with minimum 25 cents. Office mail matter second class. Editor proprietor W L Slinkard. Telephone number 80.
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Greene County
W. L. Slinkard
Bloomfield
Indiana
Postoffice
Williams seeks larger pay for state legislators and mileage
Rep William E Williams of Boonville proposes raising legislature pay from five to ten dollars a day and mileage from ten to twenty cents per mile for a round trip. A leading house member condemned partisan maneuvering after voting against a prohibition bill, warning that public scrutiny will expose such tactics.
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William E. Williams
Boonville
Brewery interests criticized in brewery and saloon conflicts
The article condemns brewery groups for meddling in politics to defeat a prohibition bill. It argues laws aimed to separate breweries from saloons are violated by owners who also hold titles and operate saloons. It warns that breweries' power will provoke public backlash and likely end their influence.
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Senate
Lord Carmichael’s Thrift and His Smoking Answer
Lord Carmichael, governor of Bengal, plans to be succeeded by Lord Ronaldshay. In Victoria he was noted for generosity but thrift in small matters. At a clansmen dinner he declined smoking others’ tobacco, saying it does not draw when I try it.
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Lord Carmichael
Bengal
Lord Ronaldshay
San Francisco Plans Municipal Bus System Across Park
San Francisco aims to pioneer municipal operation of motor bus lines in street traffic. By year end buses, starting across Golden Gate Park, will transfer with municipal railways. City engineer says five buses can run at 13 cents per mile and will pay due to higher traffic for municipal lines.
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Municipal Bus Line
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Sues for 10000 in alienation suit in Mooreland
Newcastle reports Ross G. Miller has filed a circuit court suit against John A. Healton and A. V. Healton of Mooreland seeking 10000 damages for the alienation of his wife Edna Healton. Miller formerly lived in Mooreland and is now a government employee in Washington. Rushville notes William P. Henley as executor of Rachel P. Hill’s will of Carthage has petitioned to sell real estate to fund buying 200 Bibles in Spanish for missionaries in South and Central America.
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Newcastle
Ross G. Miller
John A. and
A. V. Healton
Mooreland
Edna Healton
Miller
Washington
Rushville
William P. Henley
Rachel P. Hill
Carthage
South
Central America
Man Secures Divorce in Shelbyville
David Morris of northern Shelby County obtains a divorce from his wife Mrs Eliza I Morris of Indianapolis. The couple lived together six months and Morris testified she left him because he would not move to Indianapolis.
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Shelbyville
David Morris
Shelby County
Eliza I. Morris
Indianapolis
Arrest of alleged safeblowers breaks up five-city ring
Police in five Indiana cities arrested George McBride Effie McBride and May McBride to end a safeblowing and robbery gang. Investigators say James and Charles McBride husbands of the women escaped jail at Albion a week earlier.
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Marion
George McBride
Effie McBride
May McBride
Indiana
Charles M McBride
James McBride
Albion
Mrs. Sweezey injured by hot water bottle blast
Mrs. Lelia J. Sweezey widow of Dr. John M. Sweezey of Cross Plains was severely scalded about the neck and face when a hot water bottle stopper came out. The shock worsened her already serious illness.
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Jenham
Lelia J. Sweezey
John M. Sweezey
Cross Plains
Ballou and Weir Vie For Vacant Senate Seat
Kendallville Democrat Otis L. Ballou and Republican Prank OL Weir emerged as likely contenders in a February 6 special election to fill the late Senator Green's seat. Both parties plan nominations at conventions on Saturday.
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Kendallville
Otis L. Ballou
Senate
OL Weir
Green
Special Election Preparations in Indianapolis
Indianapolis political groups of both parties have completed plans to nominate men for the February 6 special election to fill the vacancy created by the death of Senator William Green. No successor will be chosen in this election.
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Indianapolis
William Green
Evansville Editor Moran Killed in St Louis Accident
Herbert H. Moran forty four longtime Evansville Courier city editor and telegraph editor was killed in St Louis when struck by an automobile. He had been in St Louis about two weeks. The telegram from St Louis confirmed the fatality.
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Evansville
Herbert HH. Moran
St. Louis
Moran
Prisoner Released After Ink Attack in Connersville Court
Mrs Marlin Adams jailed after she threw ink on three people during arraignment for attacking Mrs Julia Waybright. She was freed on condition she leave Connersville.
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Connersville
Marlin Adams
Court of Justice of the Peace
Tate
Julia Waybright
Robberies Hit Kokomo Stores Despite Guarded District
Two Kokomo shops were robbed taking a total of 12.99 as police guarded the business district after a string of robberies.
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Kokomo
Help Crippled Neighbor Tipton
Twenty eight neighbors and friends of Parke Hoover a farmer near Hobbs helped his family after he fractured both legs in a Thanksgiving day accident. They went to his home and cut twenty cords of wood to aid the injured family.
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Tipton
Parke Hoover
Hobbs
Ap Ae Fu
Gas Kills Aged Man in South Bend Room
Daniel McDaniel aged sixty seven was found dead in his room in South Bend from asphyxiation. Officials believe he turned gas off and then on again without realizing it, leading to a fatal accident.
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South Bend
Daniel McDaniel
Trains Collide Delaying Traffic on Illinois Central
Two Illinois Central passenger trains collided at Victoria near Linton causing track damage of 300 yards and the destruction of six coaches. Traffic was delayed several hours but no injuries were reported.
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Linton
Iulinois Central
Victoria
Ane
Vaccinate 500 Children in City Effort Against Smallpox
Brazil reports more than 500 school children vaccinated at the city expense to shield against smallpox, with many additional pupils receiving vaccines as a preventive program.
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Brazil
Laborer Killed by Train in Lafayette
Martin Maroney an Indianapolis native and laborer died after being struck by a Wabash passenger train in Lafayette. He passed away in a local hospital about an hour after the accident. His widow survives him.
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Lafayette
Martin Maroney
Indianapolis
City forms film censorship board in Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville city council adopts an ordinance creating a board of censorship for moving pictures and appoints seven members, including three women, to oversee films shown in the city.
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Crawfordsville
Prohibition Bill Passed by House Heads to Senate
The Indiana House approved the Wright State wide prohibition bill 70 to 28 and sent it to the senate. The measure prohibits manufacturing selling or giving away intoxicating liquor after January 1 1918 with penalties including fines and jail terms. It preserves certain exceptions for medicinal scientific sacramental and home guest use with pharmacist permits required.
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Indianapolis
Wright
House
Senate
State Board of Pharmacy
Wet—Bird
English
Erskine
Grant
Hazen
Hirsch
Kinder
Kelsem
Laney
Nejdi
Hetherford
van Auken
Wolfson
Smith
Elsner
Thornton
Reser
Chambers
Dry—Armstrong
Beardsley
Bracken
Dobyns
Dorrell
Gemmill
James
McConaha
McCray
McKinley
Muston
Mercer
Negley
Norman
Robinson
Signs
Simmons
Spann
Summers
White
Sludvins
Metzger
Porter
Humphreys
Culbertson
Hagerty
Hemphill
Tacha Fleming
Reidelbach
Lanz
Hamilton
Marion
Hendricks
Marion County
Indiana
State Bureau of Agriculture
Indiana Senate Keeps Capital Punishment, Debates Liquor Abolition
The Indiana senate rejected a bill to abolish capital punishment by a 29 to 18 vote after a full day of debate led by Senator McCray. The session also saw highway and road law conflicts, a new lobbyist list, and measures on liquor manufacture, supreme court justice numbers, and state official salaries.
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Indiana Senate
McCray
Indianapolis
Highway Commission
House
Senate
Secretary of State
George H. Graham
Logansport
Glutrin Paving Company
Columbus
Ross F. Lockridge
Citizens’ League of Indiana
T. J. Crook
Hammond
State Building Trades Council of Indiana
William F. Wilson
Indiana State Council of Carpenters
A. M. Biekel
Elkhart
New York Central Railroad Company
Charles, BE
Committee On
Otis
Supreme Court
Turner
Wood
Indiana
Willisons
Loase
State Board of Accounts
San Francisco
Train Kills Two Men in Columbia City Wreck
In Columbia City two men, Jacob Hawk, sixty four, and Clarence Van Cisdell, nineteen, were killed when a fast Pennsylvania railroad express train crashed into their automobile as they failed to hear it approach.
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Columbia City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jacob Hawk
Clarence van Cisdell
Ferryboat Burns at Tell City Landing
The gasoline ferry Ohio operating between Tell City and Petri Station Ky. was burned at its landing here. The incident destroys the vessel and disrupts the transport link between the two communities. Authorities investigate the fire's cause and assess damages.
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Burns
Tell City
Ohio
May Proposes State Reforms For Labor and Tax Cash Payments
A May proposal outlines an eight hour day for female workers, 70 cent gas in third class cities, extending pure drug laws to physicians and peddlers, and requiring cash payment of all road taxes.
Indiana to probe coal situation and ventilation at statehouse
Attorney General Ble Stansbury announces a state legal department probe into Indiana coal shortages and price gouging. The review covers retailers wholesalers brokers mine operators and transportation firms. Senator Beardsley reports the statehouse ventilation is subpar and harmful to health and legislative decision making.
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Indiana
State Legal Department
Ble Stansbury
Stansbury
Statehouse
Beardsley
Elkhart
Committee On Public Health
New Incorporations and Capital Adjustments Noted
The American Aircraft company retires 55000 in preferred stock and raises its capital stock from 445000 to 500000 all preferred stock. The United States Crushed Stone company of Chicago files its annual report as a foreign corporation in Indiana. Independent Premium company Crown Point capital 30000 real estate publishing and premiums directors Robert Jackman AG Lockmuller Howard Stevenson.
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American Aircraft Company
United States Crushed Stone Company of Chicago
Indiana
Crown Point
Robert Jackman
A. G. Lockmuller
Howard 8. Stevenson
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VanMeter & Company of Quality
VanMeter Hardware Co
Ballard’s
Kessler Bros
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Star Grocery
R. Rodarmel
Lee
Ladies’ Union
AL Williams
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