Connersville Plans Last Spike to Open Plano Factory
Citizens urged to rally at the Commercial club rooms on Tuesday evening to drive in the last spike for the large new plano factory. The event aims to mark a hopeful year end and a strong start for the plant with no public subsidy offered, inviting investors to buy stock that local financiers view as gilt edge. Remodeling of the Indiana Furniture factory is to begin within ten days to prepare for the new plant’s reception.
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Connersville
Commercial Club
Plano
Indiana Furniture
Ofa
Lamp Collision Injures Window in City Streetcar
A westbound interurban car struck a street lamp at Sixth Street and Central Avenue this morning. The lamp, lowered for cleaning, swung and smashed a small side window on the car, with the lamp itself demolished.
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Sixth Street
Central Avenue
Corn Crop to Move to Market After January First
Grain buyers in trade centers predict the corn crop will begin moving toward markets after the new year with transportation wheels groaning beneath the load. Late maturation kept corn from shelter, increasing moisture and delaying field ripening, leading to a January movement.
Coal wagon sinks into city sewer east of Western Ave
A horse and wagon loaded with coal owned by L. M. VanHart fell into a sewer hole in the alley west of Western avenue and south of Eighth Street when the ground caved in. The horse was later extricated and the sewer repaired. Mr and Mrs James Henry and Gaughtier of Orange were passing through en route to Petra Kentucky to visit relatives.
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L. M. VanHart
Western Avenue
Eighth Street
James Henry and
Gaughtier
Orange
City
Petra
Kentucky
President's praise greets Captain Downs during Washington visit
Captain Thomas Downs returned from Washington with a formal order to report to Wyandotte Oklahoma to temporarily lead the Seneca Indian training school. He plans a southern tour to inspect agencies and will travel north to Spokane where his son Dr. George Downs lives. Mrs Downs will accompany him. He met President Roosevelt who praised him with several "Bully" remarks and noted he did not wish to see Captain Johnson.
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Thomas Downs
Washington
Wyandotte
Oklahoma
Spokane
George Downs
Downs
Roosevelt
Leupp
Captain Johnson
When We Were Roxas The taunty antics on Christmas Eve
M. Ob. Stewart recalls a humorous Christmas memory of boys and family chaos. The piece describes a night before Christmas with clumsy antics, sleepy parents, tangled clothing, and the bright gleam of anticipation as morning arrives. The narrator reflects on how Christmas feels changed over time.
Murder at Shirley Shooting Ends Life of Oscar Martin
About 1 PM yesterday, Joseph Hicks, a prominent Shirley man, entered a saloon and shot Oscar Martin four times, killing him instantly. The tragedy stems from an old grudge over alleged spite work. the pair had long been enemies, though friends did not foresee fatal trouble.
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Joseph Hicks
Shirley
Oscar Martin
Richmond Item Roasts New Castle Over Coffin Factory Banter
The Richmond Item mocks New Castle over delays in industry while noting Connersville’s steadiness. It defends local factories as solid though idle, and ridicules New Castle for a rumored coffin factory and failing bonds as its fortunes decline.
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New Castle
Richmond
Connersville
Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Concern
Charley Hernly
Daily Courier
Courier
Buco
Christmas Visitations Spark Waterloo Township Gatherings
Mrs Hattie Cully and son Charles arrive from Liberty to spend Christmas with sister Mrs Richard McMullen in Waterloo township. Mr and Mrs Norman Shaw host a new daughter. Miss Mary McDonald of Cincinnati visits over holidays. The Bennett family arrives from Greenfield to visit Mrs Boland and Mrs Thrasher. Emma Stoll from Cincinnati joins her parents for Christmas. Mr and Mrs Goble of Dayton remain for the week.
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Hattie Cully
Charles of Liberty
Richard McMullen
Waterloo Township
Mary McDonald
Cincinnati
C. Bennett
Greenfield
L. M. Boland
W. W. Thrasher
Mra. Bennett
Mra. Boland
Thrasher
P. T. Bilby
Jease Henry
Emma Stoll
Mrs
John Stoll
Christmas Eve at Port of Spain Opens Pacific Fleet Voyage
Washington reports the battleship fleet will arrive at Port of Spain Trinidad on Christmas Eve to begin the first leg of its voyage to the Pacific with five days of festivities and shore leave. The group will sail to Rio January 11 for a ten day stay. Returns via Suez or the Horn are discussed but no decision is made.
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Washington
Spain
Trinidad
Pacific
Port of Spain
Government House
Rio
Para
Brazil
Navy Department
Metcalf
Connecticut
Evans
Suez Canal
Loeb
Hivats
Horn
Admiral Evans
Death of Senator Mallory in Pensacola Florida
United States Senator Stephen M. Mallory died at 12 43 this morning after a prolonged illness with paralysis of the left side. He had shown some improvement after a breakdown on November 20 but sunk Sunday and never regained consciousness. A second item from Marion Illinois reports a farmer finding his son hanged in a haymow, the halter strap attached to a rafter.
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Mallory
Pensacola
Fla
United States
Stephen M. Mallory
Marion
William Bryant
Lima Township
Boyd Bryant
Rescue Work Slow as Miners Dead at Darr Colliery
From the Darr mine of the Pittsburg Coal Company near Jacobs Creek Pa a Thursday explosion imprisoned and likely killed 200 or more workers only six bodies reached the surface. Rescuers seven thousand five hundred feet in found conditions require hours more to vent gases and reach distant sections three miles from the mouth. Rev Father LaCarroll arrived to console widows and urge sobriety as town binds to the tragedy.
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Liery
Jacobs Creek
Darr
Pittsburg Coal Company
Kitanning
Father LaCarroll
St. Timothy’s Catholic Church
Emison Emerges as Possible Lieutenant Governor Candidate
Indiana political notes outline James Emison of Vincennes as a potential lieutenant governor contender with patronage hints involving John Edwards and Thomas Nugent. Mitchell labor leader John Mitchell faced illness. Robert Mitchell, long-time state agriculture figure, died of pneumonia at 76. court rulings on railroad and streetcar negligence. labor resolution on Congressman Watson circulated here.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Thomas Adame
Vincennes
James Wade Emison
Emilson
Emison
John Edwards
Mitchell
Joe Barr
Bruceville
Edwards
Thomas Nugent
Washington
Nugent
Barr
Robert Mitchell
State Board of Agriculture
Princeton
Scotland
Hovey
Gibson County Agricultural Society
Plate Printers’ Union
Washington, D. C
James E. Watson
Thief William White Arrested in Jewelry Heist
William White, 17, confessed thief of a $32,000 United States Express jewelry package. Arrested in Jersey City after attempting to sell the entire collection for $2. A $3,000 necklace sold for 25 cents led to his capture. He was a helper on an express wagon when the theft occurred.
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New York
William White
United States Express Company
Jersey City
Express Company
Brutal assault on Mrs Hershey leaves assailant at large
Columbus report states John Young, a Negro, brutally attacked Mrs W D C Hershey at her West Sixth Avenue home yesterday. Her condition shows some improvement. Police continue the search for the fugitive.
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Columbus
Ohio
John Young
W. D. C. Hershey
West Sixth Avenue
Nitrate Workers Strike Shuts All Chile Plants
In Santiago on December 21 the nitrate workers strike widens until every nitrate plant is closed. The nitrate industry, a principal Chilean resource, faces serious complications from the shutdown and paralysis of production.
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Chile
Santiago
Paris dressmaker M Paquin dead in terse telegram
Multiple brief items note the death of M Paquin, famed Paris dressmaker, and other varied news including a fatal shooting in Chicago, a cotton supply statement, and political tensions in Perala with the shah.
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Kenter
Burgess Admits Guilt In Hotel Embezzlement Case
Indianapolis reports Charles A. Burgess a longtime bookkeeper at English's hotel confessed to embezzlement charges. Prosecutors estimate defalcations between three thousand and three thousand five hundred dollars. Burgess stated he was short by about twelve hundred to eighteen hundred and refused to detail how the funds were spent.
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Indianapolis
Charles A. Burgess
Burgess
Hungarian premier challenges minister to pistol duel
Buda Pesth December 31. In a dispute over political honesty during parliament, Premier Wekerle has challenged former Justice Minister Polony to a pistol duel. Seconds appointed. the meeting will occur soon.
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Buda-Pesth
de. Wekerle
ez-Mistater
Polony
Youthful murderer dies on scaffold in Peoria jail
Edward Clifford, the young man convicted of murdering his father, was executed on the scaffold at Peoria county jail after the governor declined to intervene. The article notes brief refusals from state officials to grant a stay of execution after the holiday period.
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Peoria
Ill
Edward Ciifford
Qeuar
Deneen
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