Excursions Draw Crowds On One Day Holiday
Sunday proved the biggest excursion day of the year as trains from the city carried crowds seeking a day away. Trips to Muncie Fort Wayne Marion and other lines drew large numbers despite threats of rain with delays returning due to floods and weather.
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Marion, Mimeie
Fort Wayne
Muncie
American Mechanics
Ft. Wayne
Marion
St. Louis
Ohio
Lake Erie
New Superintendent Installed at County Office
At the courthouse on Thursday A R Huyette, elected Monday to succeed RR Stine as county superintendent, began duties after the required bond and oath. Stine, eager to leave the office for other business, stepped down earlier than usual, with the change taking place to support constitutional adherence.
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Court House
W. Stine
A. R. Huyette
Anarchist in Bluffton
Bluffton hosts an avowed anarchist, John Clarkson of Chicago, an advertising distributor for a local medical institute. He promotes his views via the paper Free Society, displays copies, and claims three Bluffton subscribers. Clarkson praises Hearst and argues socialism worsens conditions, while maintaining he is not foreign born.
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Bluffton
John Clarkson
Chicago
Free Society
Ross Wynne
Clarkson
W. H. Hearst
Hearst
Pilgrim of the Pentecost Behind Bars and Backslides
Sherm Stanton receives a letter from Cal Hawkins of Middleton Indiana claiming he has rejoined the church for good after a past backslide marked by street preaching and prizefights. Hawkins admits stealing two cigars from Stanton when in the area and sends ten cents to pay for them, which Stanton plans to keep as a memento of the Pentecoster. Eugene Tapy of Poneto spent Sunday at his home from Marion where he has been attending the normal school and returned to enter it.
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Sherm Stanton
Cal Hawkins
Middleton
Indiana
Cal
Sherm
Hawkins
Church
Eugene Tapy
Poneto
Marion
Ie Te
Ed Wingfield's drunken spree ends in arrest and injuries
Ed Wingfield sought trouble on a Friday afternoon driving drunk and threatening Marshal Crosbie. He fired twice at the marshal, struck by a buggy wheel, brought to jail, and charged with intoxication and shooting within city limits. fined one dollar and five dollars with costs, then released.
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Dr. McKinney
Ed Wingfield
Marshal Crosbie
East Wabash Street
John
West Side
Frank Adams
John Adams
Wingfield
Mack
Mr Lamm Honored With Dinner For Brother Visit
On Saturday Mr and Mrs Wirtely Lamm hosted an elaborate dinner for his brother W I Lamm of Reading Pa who is visiting. After the meal John and Miss Clara Guldin received five dollar gold pieces as thanks for their service. A long list of guests included Clella May Guy Homer Wentz and many others. It was a day long remembered for its pleasant associations.
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Wirtely Lamm
W. 7. Lamm
Reading
John
Clara Guldin
Clella May
Guy
Homer
Charlie Wentz
Wm. McAfee
Colston
George
Frank McAfee
Jacob McAfee
Lovie
Ulrich
Charley
Iona
Clarence McAfee
Frank Humphrey
Fred
Vera
D. V. Lamm
Ora
Stella
John Weaver
Albert Sparks
Isaac Fishbaugh
Clara Guld
Nickle Plate Excursions and Special Rates
Nickle Plate Road announces Sunday excursions at 1.00 round trip for five or more travelers within 100 miles returning same day. Special rates to western and northwestern points, colonists and homeseekers rates west northwest and southwest, and tri weekly tourist car service. Berth rates are cheaper than regular Pullman. Bellevue and West-Low rate excursion to Chicago on June 13 1903. For details, see local agent C A Asterling P A Fort Wayne Ind.summer amusements promising great attractions at low cost.
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Nickle Plate Road
Nickel Plate Road
Must Pay the Fiddler over Street Horse Race
Two country lads on south Main street Saturday night engaged in an asphalt horse race as recreation. Marshal Crosbie will file an affidavit against Emerson Brandeberry and his companion when they are apprehended. The incident prompts a formal police action and potential charges.
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South Main Street
Marshal Crosbie
Emerson Brandeberry
Red Cross patent oiler for windmill bearings
The Red Cross company secures a new patent for a compact oiling device placed above upper windmill bearings. A pull wire from a small oil tank oils all bearings at once, simplifying maintenance and improving mill efficiency. A product picture will appear in their catalogs.
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Red Cross Company
Wells oil line fight spurs new rigs near Montpelier
Three miles northeast of Montpelier in Wells county two oil firms Bar low & Eckels and William Welton are drilling along a shared lease line on Levi Spaulding and George Ely farms. Each has two wells with Welton’s No 3 and Barlow & Eckels pursuing Nos 3 and 4 as rigs move in. All wells produced some oil but none large. landowners report no trouble from the dispute.
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Montpelier
Wells County
Barlow & Eckels
William Welton
Levi Spaulding
Welton
George Ely
Real estate transfers in multiple townships and parcels
A series of property transfers listing granted acres and feet, buyers and sellers, and prices. Transactions include Tsujah Langel to John Yaus for 44 acres at 8 375 dollars. Mary P Rockwell to M C Blue Jet 21 in Tocsin for 300. Elizabeth Hall to Margaret McLeath 3 acres for 3800. and others across Bluffton and surrounding areas.
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Tsujah Langel
John Yaus
Township
Range 11
John North
Edward Sanshie
Silver
Bluffton
Mary P. Rockwell
M.C. Blue Jet
Tocsin
Caroline Oswalt
Francis Fisher
Elizabeth Hall
Margaret McLeath
Aaron Moser
G. I. McFarren
J. A. Parmerlee
Cob R. Harvey
John R. ‘Harvey
Lancaster Township
Cinderella and the Prince of the Slipper
Ellinor Cary in New York hosts a playful dinner where a bronze slipper becomes a symbol of romance. Jack Stanhope vows to find the wearer of the slipper, flirting with Ellinor during the evening as Mrs. Stanton guides social shifting. The slipper resurfaces on a pier as a lighthouse for a quiet, hopeful love.
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Mrs. Stanton
Ellinor Cary
Ellinor
Fate
New York
Prince of the Slipper
Jack
Ife
Prince
Jack Stanhope
Lucania
Tallaman
Cinderella
Brain and nerves in piano playing stunned by speed
Scientific American notes during a Dublin conference that pianists must process about 3 500 signs per minute with mind and eyes, make 2 000 finger movements, and absorb 1 500 signs while issuing 2 000 commands. It cites Webern Moto Perpetuo and Chopin Etude in H minor as examples of rapid reading rates.
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Dublin
Ireland
Scientiic American
Spiders As Aeronauts And Jumping Masters
Spiders display aerial skills as young spin thread filaments that lift them on autumn winds, creating gossamer trails. Some species act as leapers with kite like structures aiding short distance leaps, an example found in Sydney shows a sap on the body that aids its parachute like glide.
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Sydney
New South Wales
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Indianapolis
Sentinel
DAILY
Great Sunday Sentinel
By Mail
MR. Lamm
Jo Gibson
Miss Grey
Miss Severn
Miss Cary
Stanhope
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