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Newspaper
Connersville Times
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
1
Retailers urge residents to shop locally and early to beat holiday crowds and secure better selections. The editorial compares prices with Indianapolis and Cincinnati and stresses choosing Connersville merchants to support the local economy and avoid stockouts.
Mr Watson announces support for the ship subsidy bill, facing opposition in the west and middle west. He argues few truly understand the measure and its aim to fund designated payments from the treasury, urging explanation to constituents in the Sixth district.
The Nodell Prize of 30000 dollars is awarded to President Roosevelt for mediation in the Russia Japan peace effort. He declines to take the money and plans to fund a permanent industrial peace committee in Washington to improve relations among capitalists wage workers and farmers nationwide.
The piece reports gambling in Rushville saloons despite earlier talk of a closed lid. It notes Marshal Pea and Tommike Chose Wicked people and suggests ministers may influence votes. Senator Parker and Taft are referenced in relation to colored troops and Brownsville Texas.
The press criticizes the government for withholding citizenship from Porto Ricans after the island’s seizure. A congressional bill to grant islanders citizenship faces strong Democratic opposition and asks whether officials owe the public thanks to figures like Mrs. Bellamy Storer.
In Dayton Ohio detectives allege Mrs Gilman and relatives conspired in the strangulation death of Dana Gilman. A sister faces charges, while an unrelated gun attack on Mrs Orie Miller in Liberty is investigated as a separate attempted homicide.
Fragmentary text references war, leadership figures, and ineffectual resistance. Named individuals and specifics are unclear, rendering a precise report impossible from the readable lines.
The Liberty Herald reports Stivers has taken the half share in his son Oke Stivers and will pursue additional Liberty-area fields. Both are veteran newspaper men. Rash county man Divedhdiss is arrested for assault with intent to injure. Lajon Cirles and others in Indianapolis face bribery schemes tied to an unfair draft at a brewer. Edward King’s forces beat a Chicago show entrant. Katehe operates in Rushville amid links to old Hootche-hutehe firms in the show business.
A proposed plan suggests Secretary Honeparts seeks three new battleships, with each costing about 7.55 units of currency. The proposal asks for public how to respond.
Mondas's Evening News reports a horse at large in a court street alley crashed into a wagon along Fas ten Avenue. The driver was thrown but escaped with minor injuries and bruises. the horse and wagon were damaged. Cad Calloway and others were affected as two Patrick Beth horses died recently, raising concerns over steeds and misfortune.
Ed Stoll of Western avenue risked shock to free a boy dangling from a live utility wire at Western and Sixth streets. The boy, whose name could not be learned, suffered burned hands and fled after liberation. Misses Cora Alta and Lillian Jones visited Mr and Mrs H Bailey. the Baileys plan to return to Indiana soon.
John Be Reed Deputy Auditor of State and Secretary of the State Board of Tax Commissioners says a training meeting for assessors and township officials will be held at the State House. County and Fayette County assessors will lead discussions on assessors and township assessors with John Wingate presiding. Committee meetings follow in the afternoon.
A late autumn wedding at Mr. and Mrs. 8. 2. Hall home in Glenwood joined Martha B Hall to William Haeussier of Dayton Ohio. Rev John M Senlho of Flat Rock and Rev ROP Conke officiated. The couple departed for Pevion aboard the 8 weeklock train.
A night scene near Connersville led to warrants for Luther Floyd William Short and Stengtean Shores on assault charges after a disorderly dance at a house near the Mansfield Furniture works. Sally Parker, keeper, paid bond. others fined, with a separate rail accident near Milton injuring three aboard a caboose from the Bir Four railroad and damaging equipment.
A microcope column illustration shows a figure said to be the Speaker and the Sixth District congressman. The piece satirically imagines Sherlock Holmescannon decoding a subsidy bill maneuver in Congress, mocking the public feud over funds and the Whip’s leadership as it unfolds in the House.
The Rathbone Sisters in this city will hereafter be known as Pythian Sisters as the Grand Lodge announces the order becomes an auxiliary to the Knights of Pythias. A closer relation will be maintained with the fraternity.
John Hendricks, a Wisconsin farmer, fought with a village marshal in Tarrent and knocked him down. He returned home to work, then learned a warrant was issued. He told the justice to hold the matter over the phone while he dug potatoes, and was convicted with a plan to send the fine by rural mail-carrier.
Oscar M. Backhouse transfers eighty three acres in Connersville township to Capitola Mace for four thousand six hundred dollars.
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