Democrats Put Full Ticket Forward For State Constitutional Convention
The Democratic state central committee, after a broad informal gathering, decided to field a complete slate of delegates to the 1916 constitutional convention. Officials said the move aims to mobilize public interest during wartime and to ensure the convention is staffed by capable nonpartisan public servants. Delegates at large will be fifteen Democrats with district voters choosing local delegates. Governor Goodrich was criticized for attempting to steer the process. The meeting also planned firm organizational steps, with Greathouse set to head headquarters and expand the women's executive committee. Miller leads Indianapolis race for mayor with Shank second.
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Indianapolis
Democratic State Central Committee
Charles A. Greathouse
E. G. Hoffman
Greathouse
Democratic Organization
Democratic Party
Hoffman
Goodrich
Indiana
Bell
Thomas Taggart
Bernard Korbly
Evans Woollen
John W. Holtzman
Joseph G. Ibach
Moses B. Larry
Frank Hawley
Charles Remster
Julia Landers
J. L. Keach
Edward G. Hoffman
Jen Ellingham
Ft. Waynes
J. J. Nolan
Evansville
John W. Cravens
Bloomington
Ralph W. Moss
Center Point
E. B. Stotsenburg
New Albany
W., H. O’brien
Lawrenceburg
Riley Dunham
Kempton
Republican State Committee
State Committee
Miller
Lew Shank
English Singers group to standardize English singing
A group called the Society of English Singers plans to standardize teaching of singing in English. Francis Toye argues that English syllables pose difficulties on certain notes and that composers often misset words, creating unintelligible singing. He urges composers to respect English rhythm and natural speech.
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Society of English Singers
Francis Toye
London
Mr. Toye
Recall of Sarcey satire frames bribery trial in China
The trial of Chen Chin ta o former minister of finance and two aides unfolds as prosecutors struggle to confirm bribery. Merchants say money passed, Chen denies. The text recalls a popular travesty where graft is universal and China’s navy disaster ends with a porcelain factory contract and a shattered warship.
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Francisque Sarcey
Chen Chin-tao
Finance
Li Yuan-hung
Sarcey
Fo Hi
From Private to General in the Army Promotion Path
The article traces a soldier’s rise from private to general, via corporal, sergeant, and commission, noting easier access to officers during wartime and citing Britain's caste barriers and a general in chief who started as a tanker. It emphasizes self-improvement and study as routes to advancement.
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Army
Richard Smith
Cured by Service in Army Says Veteran
Maj. W. B. Howard of New Orleans, a Confederate veteran, recalls tuberculosis and a doctors prophecy. He credits four years in the Confederate army with restoring health and vigor, claiming open air and sun cured him and that veterans who serve in Europe return stronger men.
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Maj. W. B. Howard
New Orleans
Lee
Europe
Grist Mills Past and Present in American Milling
A Bridgeport report recalls Sandy Hook Connecticut mills selling ground wheat mixed with Western flour to cut bread costs. The piece contrasts old time home grinding and local grist mills with modern machinery, notes Appalachian mills still operate, and mentions prewar Virginia flour trade to Rio de Janeiro faded after the Civil War.
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Bridgeport
Sandy Hook
Conn
Providence Journal
Appalachians
Pied Mont
North Carolina
Virginia
Richmond
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Collie Drives Motorcar in New York City
A collie owned by a Poughkeepsie dealer reportedly drivers a motorcar through Broadway with an owner supervising. The dog handles turns and traffic on ordinary streets, while on a track it drives alone without a steering aid.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Auto Row
New York City
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Broadway
War Prisoner’s Diversions on a Windy Afternoon
Lieut. F. S. recalls Captain Ayres using a three wheeled pram and a crutch sail on a cold day. He strapped a blanket to a crutch, sailed the chair and crutch together while the crowd cheered. The front wheel wobbled, trees and grass loomed, but onlookers laughed as German doctors and Brother Albertinus looked on from a balcony.
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Ayres
Lieut. F. S
Atlantic
Albertinus
China's New Income Tax Law Resembles US System
The article notes China has implemented an income tax modeled on the United States system. It targets merchants, officials, bankers, and professionals with specific rates: pawnbrokers, salt merchants, and privileged firms pay 5 percent over $1,000, 3 percent over $100,000, and 2 percent over $1,000,000, with clerks paying monthly. Smaller-income extension is proposed later.
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China
United States
Patriotic Defense Fund
Readable language hurdle reshapes post revolution immigration
The new law bars most aliens over sixteen who cannot read a language except for exemptions favoring Russian Jews. It allows entry for those fleeing religious and economic persecution, a motive that fueled decades of Russian Jewish immigration. With Russia’s changes, Russian Jews must read like other migrants.
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Russia
United States
New York
Toronto Like American City
Toronto is described as the most American of Canadian cities and yet distinctly Canadian, with near-border business style and population feel. The passage notes similarities to Buffalo in clothes slang buildings and goods, while Canada’s geography does not alter its American identity.
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Toronto
United States
Canada
America
Montreal
Quebec
Buffalo
Irish Women Press for Franchise in Ireland
A Dublin Mansion House meeting under Mrs Stephen Gwynn's presidency united multiple suffrage groups to urge inclusion of Ireland in any English and Scottish women’s franchise measure. The resolution demands Irish enfranchisement be part of the Irish question settlement and to extend the electoral reform conference’s women’s suffrage resolution to Ireland.
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Irishwomen’s Suffrage and Local Government Association
Lord Leutenant
Ireland
England
Scotland
Mansion House
Dublin
Stephen Gwynn
Irishwomen’s Suffrage Federation
Irishwomen’s Reform League
Munster Women’s Franchise League
Roman Catholic League For Woman Suffrage
Church League For Woman Suffrage
Irishwomen’s Franchise ,League
Conservative and
Women’s Franchise Association
Belfast Suffrage Society
Fuel From Peat Bogs In France May Ease Fuel Shortage
France eyes peat bogs as a potential large scale fuel source. The Grande Bruyere near St Nazaire and regions around Culoz are estimated to hold 80 million tons of dried peat. Peat delivers about 2000 calories per pound, offering heat close to coal. labor efficiency of peat extraction could exceed coal output per worker.
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France
Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep Advises Kindness and Justice
A 3500 year old Egyptian text known as the Instructions of Ptah-Hotep offers moral guidance. It urges bright countenance in life, warns that causing strife harms the actor, and champions acts of kindness as enduring memory. It extols justice and truth over covetousness.
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Egypt
Ptah-Hotep
War Conservation: War Is Work and Energy Tested
Isaac F. Marcosson writes in Everybody's that amid destruction an enormous conservation is achieved. The dead are laid away while nothing is scrapped as castoff shoes become faces and guns are redeemed. Refuse fat becomes glycerin and life’s fires are replenished as war proves energy and organization at their peak.
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Isaac F. Marcosson
Notable Names in Service Show Naval Reserve Leaders
The Naval Reserve corps lists notable names with six of its 14 executive committee members already serving. George F. Baker Jr. chairs as lieutenant, Paul L. Hammond holds the ensign rank on a destroyer, Francis H. McAdoo son of the treasury secretary enlisted as an ordinary seaman, Richard S. Russell is a lieutenant, D McKee Morris is a boatswain's mate, and Junius Spencer Morgan is an ensign.
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Naval Reserve Corps
Naval Training Association
Coast Patrol
George F. Baker, Jr
Paul L. Hammond
Francis H. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Train schedule fragment with station notes
Fragmentary timetable entries list Bedford and Bloomfield Indiana routes with numbered trains and times such as 447 am 7:2 am 10:38 am 1:58 pm 9:69 pm and 11:44 pm No 58 Sunday Only 9:16 p.m. F BE REES agent Bloomfield Indiana.
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Evansville
Terre Haute
A.m
P.m
A.man
mteRea
Greenwood
Spring Hill
Nee
Riley
Cory
Baline City
Eel River
Serica Cote Een
Clay City
Lancaster
Ail Aes
Coal City
Wee
Hubbell
Awe Rincon
W. Bloomild
Plummer
Newberry
Ai Yteeine
Elnora
Plainville
Hyatt
King Ue
Washington
Mayoville
Tte
Thomas
Rogers Sid
Olarenes
Blackburn
Weeen
Petersburg
Hosmer
Little
Whee Massey
Summerville
Mackey
Buckskin
Rosebud
Elberfeld
Pen Edaton
Daylight
Pam
Bedford
BE. Rees
Bloomfield
Indiana
Jasonville
Linton
Beehanter
Elmora
Odon
Ar. Seymour
North Bound No
Seymour
Odon Elnora
Peehunter
J. T. Averitt
A.m Pam
Effingham
Newton
Robinson
F.m
Indianapolis
Morgantown
Bloomington
Bloomfield Goss
Sullivan
Robinson Mane
Plague-Stricken India Burdened By War Taxes
War taxes deepen India's plague crisis as disease spreads nationwide. Pastor Raminah buried 18 in one night while Pastor Simon seeks medicine for lymph and drought. Desperate villagers flee huts into monsoon jungle, quarantined with no relief or wages amid rising mortality. A hut was built for him among the quarantined.
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India
Raminah
Simon
The
Christian Herald
Dark horse question at the women’s party election
An exchange questions the women’s party plan to run a dark horse candidate for president. A quip suggests they should assert female supremacy by backing a mare.
Measure for Hides Patent Uses Air Pressure Reading
A recent patent describes a hide measuring method using a perforated table and a suction base. An air current across the table is drawn by a fan, and the hide changes the flow, creating a subpressure read by a vacuum gauge and a tachometer to determine area.
Brer Wade and Brother Wade Face War's Gloom
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution quotes Brer Wade predicting ruin from the war and Brother Wade replying that he will not be ruined, claiming he already came "heck ruin't" as a defensive remark amid tense speech.
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Wade
Georgia
Brother Wade
Brer Wade
Apple Fruit of Many Uses
Apple versatility is highlighted with uses from drying and evaporating to making juice for cider vinegar or wine. Whole fruit peels and byproducts become apple butter jel lies jams and related products. In recent years culls and cores dried and sold for 42 dollars per ton for export to Europe and later returned as high priced imported wines.
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Europe
Foodstuffs Replace Cotton in Laguna District
Planters in the Laguna district near Torreon Mexico are substituting war crops for cotton. With high demand and prices for corn wheat and other staples, hacienda owners have plowed cotton lands and planted food crops in central Mexico.
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Laguna
Torreon
Mexico
Early to Bed, Early to Rise and the Farmer’s Payoff
The Philadelphia Record cites Department of Labor statistics showing farmers have the highest average life expectancy at fifty eight years six months, while book keepers and office assistants average thirty six years six months. The piece urges book keepers to switch to farming to gain longevity and help society, warning city life brings tuberculosis and other illnesses.
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Department of Labor
Philadelphia
Carrier Pigeons in War Across Nations
Germany has thousands of carrier pigeon clubs and many army stations train birds. Private owners have lent their pigeons to the military authorities before the war. France Russia Belgium also maintain military carrier stations with Belgium as a leading training nation.
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Germany
Army
France
Russia
Belgium
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