Indiana Legislature Passes Gentry Medical School Funds
The Indiana House approved the Gentry bill allocating 350000 for medical school buildings at Indiana University of Medicine in Indianapolis. Senate amendments increased overall appropriations to about 3 million with changes in salaries and agency funding. Other actions include oil inspection reforms, absent voter mail ballots, and a note on potential legal challenges to woman suffrage law.
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Indianapolis
Senate
Bureau of Legislative Information
John Lapp
Office of Reporter
Supreme and Appellate Courts
Bureau of Statistics
Henry Roberts
House
Indiana University of Medicine
Culbertson
State Highway Department
Highway Commission
Simmons
Willison
Indiana
Congress
Loyalty Across Caribbean Colonies by Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt lauds Cuba Porto Rico and Panama for stable governance and high loyalty to mother nations. He contrasts them with revolution ridden republics, praising upright public servants and the willingness of young and colored citizens to serve under their flags.
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Lesser Antilles
Cuba
Porto Rico
Panama
United States
Caribbean
Mexican Gulf
England
France
Martinique
Guadeloupe
Theodore Roosevelt
Scribner’s Magazine
Attachment for hand truck reduces effort by balancing load
Describes a device to ease moving heavy two wheeled hand trucks. An anchor and chain system housed under the truck allows the cargo to tilt forward so the center of gravity sits over the wheel axle. The chain length locks by dropping a link into a slot, securing the load.
New Compact Music Roll Perforator For Dealers
A new compact machine for retail dealers perforates music rolls for player pianos. It can produce one to sixteen records at once from sheet music and can copy standard rolls. The simple operation allows nonmusicians to run it, helping small dealers fill orders quickly without maintaining large stocks. It also avoids factory delays on special orders, enabling up to 16 sheets to be perforated at once and allowing 15 extra records to be added to stock at minimal cost.
Lost Nickel Becomes Missionary Nickel Tale
In a Wall Street Methodist sermon at Jeffersonville the pastor tells of a girl with two nickels, one for herself and one for the mission. She loses a nickel and a front-row boy identifies it as the missionary nickel, illustrating charity over self.
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H. ©. Clippinger
Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Jeffersonville
Indianapolis News
Earthquake Records Show 150 Quakes in 1915
Systematic earthquake recording has been a part of the Weather Bureau since 1914. In 1915 the United States recorded 150 earthquakes, three or four of them severe. Shocks noted without instruments were reported from the bureau’s 200 stations and many cooperatives. Seismographs are in Washington and Northfield Vermont, with records from 18 other institutions from Panama to Alaska and Hawaii to Puerto Rico.
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United States Weather Bureau
United States
Washington
Northfield
Panama
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
New York City as a State Proposal by Col Bellinger
Col J Bellinger advocates making New York City a separate state by annexing parts of Connecticut and New Jersey. He argues statehood would give power to address transport and food distribution problems, noting the new state would lack an agricultural area or farming population.
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New York City
Col
J. B. Bellinger
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Union
ONE VIEW OF A PESSIMIST
A Detroit Free Press quote outlines a critic of pessimism as the son of doubters who denied electricity flight cars and wireless telegraphy. It argues past pessimists failed to foresee progress and that their skeptical heirs preside over gloomy prophecies that avoid accepting inevitable advances.
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Detroit Free Press
Premonition Triggers Bank Fire at Broadway Office
A cashier warned of a looming event at Co B Richards & Co, Lloyd Italiano agents on Broadway, prompting a $250000 transfer to Equitable Trust vaults. A later blaze raged beneath the street 40 feet deep, with smoke overrunning the Journal of Commerce pressrooms, causing about $20000 in losses.
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Co. B. Richards & Co
Lloyd Italiano Steamship Line
Broadway
Equitable Trust Company
The
Journal of Commerce
New York Telegram
Vermin Fence Network in Australia Reaches Global Scale
Australia built 29,148 miles of rabbit fences since 1891, enough to encircle the globe, with NSW spending over 27 million on extermination and 98,000 miles of fence inside its borders. One Western fence spans the continent, and rabbits contribute to export earnings by providing frozen meat and hides sent abroad in 1918.
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South Australia
United States
New South Wales
West Australia
Commonwealth
Prison Journals Circulate Among Japanese Inmates
Large Japanese prisons publish monthly journals for convicts to sustain awareness of the outside world. Kosuge prison in Tokyo issues Mado-no-Hikari The Light of the Window and Sugamo prison in Tokyo publishes Kinen Commemoration. Both are praised as creditable publications by authorities.
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Japan
Kosuge
Tokyo
Sugamo
Japan Weekly Chronicle
Colombia Forms Board to Promote Thrift Nationwide
The Colombian congress approved appointing a ministerial commission to study saving promotion. It will draft a general plan for public and school savings banks retirement funds and mutual aid societies and cooperative buying nationwide.
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Colombia
Colombian Congress
Minister of Public Instruction
Paris Men Dress In Workwear As Coal Shortage Bites
In Paris overalls and hickory shirts replace traditional attire as coal shortages close laundries. Observers predict such garments will likely appear at the opera next season.
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Paris
Din case of bone and reconstruction in Louisville quip
A Louisville Courier Journal quip contrasts a scientist reconstructing a dinosaur from a bone with a landlady who rebuilds a dinner from a bone, highlighting a local humor line about practicality and exaggeration.
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Louisville
Courier-Journal
Academic Consolation in Face of High Living Costs
A Milwaukee Journal note discusses how college professors offer explanations for the steep cost of living and the challenges it creates for academia. The piece underscores the paradox of high salaries in some regions and the pressures of rising expenses, reflecting on the profession’s economic realities.
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Milwaukee Journal
Club Offers Hearts Readers to Subscribe
A brief note urges readers to check another column for club offers and to send in subscriptions promptly. It highlights ongoing promotions and emphasizes staying connected with the club through the mail.
Loan Agents Offer Fast Service in Bloomfield Indiana
We are agents for top money market firms and offer quick service with the best rates and reasonable commissions. Visit our office at the southwest corner of the square in Bloomfield Indiana to discuss your needs with Curtis C. Hendren.
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Square—Bloomfield
Indiana
Curtis C. Hendren
Notice to Non-Residents in Greene County Quiet Title Suit
Greene Circuit Court 1917 case William Killinger v Aleena Downing et al seeks to quiet title to real estate described as the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 14, township 7 north, range 5 west in Greene County Indiana. Defendants named as unknown spouses and heirs must appear by February 28, 1917 or the suit proceeds in their absence.
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Aleena Downing
Alexander Downing
Mariah Downing
Francis Riley
Peter Neidigh
Samuel Brosman
Mary Brosman
Hattie Applegate
Aaron Brosman
Amos Nidigh
Amos Nedigh
Amos W Neidigh
Ams Neidigh
Amos Neidigh
Frances Riley
Andrew Downing
Claude E. Gregg
Greene County
Indiana
Greene Circuit Court
Bloomfield
A. D
RE. Kirby Ashcraft
Evans John S Talbot General Freight Agent Terre Haute
John S Evans of Terre Haute Indiana served as General Freight and Passenger Agent for Talbot Company, overseeing operations and coordination of freight and passenger services in Indiana.
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John S., Talbot
Terre Haute
Indiana
Daily South Round Times Review
Fragment shows a timetable or schedule list with multiple times 7:30 8:55 9:05 9:10 9:28 9:36 9:55 10:01 10:15 and reference to Ar Daily SOUTH ROUND. No clear event or names.
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P. m
Terre Haute
A. m
P.m
Spring Hill
Riley
Cafe Cory
Saline City
Eel River
Clay City
Coal City
Hubbell
Indianapolis
Worthington
Elliston
Bloomfield
Ant
Newberry
Elmora
Plainville
Hyatt
Washington
Maysville
Jacoba
Sees
Rogers
Blackburn
Petersburg
Hosmer
Little
Oakland City
Somerville
Mackey
Elderfield
Green River
Evansville
Jasonville
An Bedford
Seymour
Oden
Odenedford
Beehunter
Nton
Terre Haute Ik
Effingham
Newton Peas
Robinson
Sullivan
Linton
Bloomington
Morgantown
Indianapolias
Innapolis
Ridevine
Newtonixs
Efingham
Hall
C T H and SE Railway South Bound
A brief railway notice reports the south bound movement of the C T H and SE Railway Company train. The item notes route direction and railway status without detailing passengers or incidents.
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Bloomfield Sheet Metal Works
Ss. D. Miles
VanMeter Hardware Co
Oliver
Hasler Bros
Ballard’s
Kessler Bros
North Side Square
S. B. Shertzer & Son’s Drug Store
Chichester
Jans Kootber
Zee
Gentry
State University
Britain
Mast
Australia
Prison Journals In
Guy H. Humphreys
Caros
Slinkard & Vosloh
Law
Democrat
W. R. Cravens
Northside Public Square
State of Indiana
William Killinger
Evansville & Indianapolis Railroad
C.I. & L. Railway
Bedford
North Bound
F. E. Rees
Owensburg
Dresden
eRobingon
Koleen
Rockwood
Mineral City
Switz City
Southeastern Line
J.T. Averitt, G. P. A
Illinois Central Railroad
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