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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
1
A Washington visit recounts the Capitol’s grandeur from Capitol Hill to the Senate and House. The writer notes the blind chaplains of both chambers, Indiana Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge, and comments on the House’s lively, distracted floor and moments of oratory.
The A D O U club met Saturday with Mrs W H Greggy and praised by members. Roots Hall hosted a large Y M A C reception last Thursday with over three hundred guests enjoying athletic acts Blue Ribbon orchestra and ice cream and cake. Gas City suffered a Saturday morning fire causing twelve thousand injuries and one fatality and property damage of fifteen thousand dollars.
Mr. L A Frazee lectured High School students on his Cuba trip detailing Morro Castle and Castle Cabaos defenses a dry ditch a windlass drawn gate and a hostile approach warning of limited prisoner rights. He described Columbus Cathedral a Havana cemetery funeral customs and Cuban living conditions noting poverty and U.S. intervention debate. He also toured Nassau Asheville Vanderbilt estate and a fan maker's home while contrasting Cuban scarcity and American influence.
The First M E Church sermon by Rev W B Stutz warned against self destruction seen as heathen practice, urging life as a sacred trust and a Christian cure through faith, hope, and good deeds. Miss Josepha Franklin spoke on Six years in India, Foreign Mission work, raising over 100 for missions. Rev Clarence Stout missed services due to ankle sprain. Rev W G Proctor resigns. Y P S C E hosted at East Connersville. Kings Daughters to meet. three joined Christian church. revival ongoing.
Longtime Connersville figure W. J. Orr dies at home after pneumonia. His widow died days earlier. Survived by children Mrs Edward McCormick and Kit Orr, with siblings in nearby towns. Funeral held at his home with Masons services. Also noted are deaths of Eleanor McCann, Mary White, Margaret McDaniel, Obe Young, Edith Payne, and B F Norris, with brief funeral details and survivor lists.
Week ending March 4, 1901 uncalled letters include Hush Mias L Burk Harry Clark Frank Cook Claud Dawn Jakie Franklin Me Anna Faucett Tom Jemison Nora Jones Charles Murphy William James Bros Lepper Arthur Reed Wm T Wall Mina Joan Zellers Mira Cora Applicants must call and present ads or letters will be sent to Dead Letter Office. signed Joan Parnes P.M.
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