Democrats Elect Osborn Claiman Chairman
Democrats of the Sixth Congressional District met in Connersville to elect John K. Osborn of Greensburg as District Chairman amid wrangling over credentials and resignations. The convention endorsed Bryan for president and S. Jackson for State Chairman. Osborn pledged to push state political reform as Wayne County delegates contested the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gether
Sylvester Meek
Andre’s
Merrell
Fayette County
Odd Fellows Building
Merrel
Dave Andre
Wayne County
Richard Schillinger
Richmond
Committee On Credentials
House
Judge Felt
Meek
John Meee
Rushville
George Yarris
Fountain City
Bryan
W. L. Newbold
Rustville
Committee On
Skuhn
Stokes Jackson
Greenfield
Chitruran
Indianapolis
Taggart
Tom
John KF. Osborn
Greensburg
T. J. Study
Judge Wray
John DePrez
Shelbyville
Felt
Jesse Jackson
F. E. Bolser
Ed Smith
F P. Ice
W. S. Chambers
New Castle
J. D. Megee
Donald Smith
H. B. Stenger
Brookville
Bent Wilson
Cambridge City
Harrisburg Social News Highlights and Church Visit Invite
Rosa and Lillian Tingley spent Saturday with Stephen Kerr and family. Mrs Henry Adams returned home Monday after a week with her Kentucky-based parents. Charles Suttles and wife visited Charles Thomas and wife. Maude Lucy Neff and Josephine Barker attended Gladys Crouse birthday party. Bro Daniels to speak at Christian church Sunday. Eva Campbell visited Frances Huber. Eva returned to Danville Sunday. Liszie Wright and son Charlie called by illness of sister Mrs Campbell. Families Ludlow Hammond Kerr Leffingwell attend church at Village Creek. Walter Bainbridge welcomed a daughter born since Christmas.
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Rosa
Lillian Tingley
Stephen Kerr
Henry Adams
Kentucky
Maude
Lucy Neff
Josephine Barker
Gladys Crouse
Bro. Daniels
The
Christian Church
Eva Campbell
Hope Kerr
Myrtle Leffingwell
Frances Huber
Liszie Wright
Charlie
Campbell
Indiana Board Reports Orphans Visitation Shortages
Indianapolis Jan 2 The annual report of the Indiana board of state charities emphasizes the need for family homes for orphans and notes nearly three thousand children are under visitation. It details 41 public wards, about 1,100 homeless children housed annually, and 2,978 children in family homes subject to visitation. The report urges more agents to visit children and highlights that only about 6 percent of homes are unsatisfactory.
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Indianapolis
Board of State Charities
Amos W. Buller
Indiana
Indiana Grain Dealers to Host Jan Corn Show and Election
The Indiana Grain Dealers association meets January 8 and 9 in Indianapolis at the new Board of Trade building. A corn show with five prizes for top ears will run two days. Purdue-certified judges will assess the displays. Notable speakers include Senator McCumber on federal grain supervision and Hiram N. Sager of the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Grain Dealers’ Association
Board of Trade
M Growerg
Aspogiplion
Purdue University
McCumber
North Dakota
Hiram N. Sager
Chicago Board of Trade
Whitecap trial progress and alibi hearings in Indiana case
The Indiana whitecap murder trial moves rapidly with four defendants examined for alibis and the state set to present more testimony before rebuttal. In Muncie the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes voted to strike, with ninety six workers out. city lines are reduced while interurban cars run with strike-breakers from Chicago. Some members at Anderson and Marion declined to strike.
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Columbus
Ind
State of
Indiana
David Fox
Lowell Bowers
Jacob Kirk
Charles Sylvester
Charles Seitz
Charles Stull
Andrew Stull
Joseph Stull
Tris
Stulls
Charles Merits
Wilcome
Sfite
Seid
Munole
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
Muncie City
Chicago
Anderson and
Marton
Druce heirs complain over Portland exhumation method
London officials report George Hollamby Druce and lawyers for the Duke of Portland claim discontent with the exhumation of Thomas Charles Cruce. They say the vault floor was not opened and they were instructed to demand that action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George Hollamby Druce
Duke of Portland
Thomas Charles Cruce
Death by own action rising as lynching falls in 1907
Chicago reports show lynchings at sixty three in 1907, the lowest in twenty years, while deaths by own action rose. The 1907 personal crisis reports reached 10 782, up from 10 125 in 1906, indicating ongoing social stress despite fewer lynchings.
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Chicago
United States
Mail Carrier Frozen to Death in Idaho Crossing Mountains
George McKenna, a first time mail carrier, died frozen while delivering government mail from Atlanta to Rocky Bar along the Fountain trail in Elmore County. He left Atlanta on Christmas Day, broke a snowshoe, and could not press on through the mountains.
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Horse
Idaho
Rocky Bar
Elmore County
George McKenna
Atlanta
McKenna
Renowned Wichita Editor Marshall Murdock Dies at 70
Wichita Eagle editor and proprietor Marshall Murdock died this morning at age seventy. He was father to Congressman Victor Murdock and one of the best known newspaper men in the United States.
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Wichita
Kan
Marshall Murdock
The
Wichita Eagle
Victor Murdock
United States
Emancipation Day crowd and losses in 1917 telegrams
Mrs Mary Ramsey Wood dies at 119 in Hillsboro Oregon. Ten thousand colored people celebrate Emancipation Day in Mobile. The Gloucester Colonial Arms burned with substantial furnishings valued around 106000. H C Frick Coke reports wage cuts across all plants by about 7 percent. In Bevier Maine Bertha Peikert and her infant drown themselves in a cratered well. The Bell system in Man Trobe was purchased by the government for 3303900 dollars with transfer Jan 15. A fight in North Baltimore leaves George Chapman dying from a bullet and Ernest Hune jailed. The first Duma members convicted for signing the Viborg manifesto face three months' imprisonment. case to be taken to Russia's Senate.
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Mary Ramsey Wood
Hillsboro
Ore
Mobile
Colonial Arms
Gloucester
Mass
North Shore
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Ite
Bevier, Me
Bertha Peikert
Heanest
Bell Telephone System
Man- Trobe
Dean
Iasume Sontro
North Baltimore
George Chapman
Ernest Hune Fa
First Duma
Senate
Russia
Local Notes On Family Visits And Gifts In Town
John Maley returned to Chicago after a two week visit to his parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Maley. Mrs E Derbyshire received a box from San Francisco filled with orange flowers sent by her daughter Miss Katherine Derbyshire. Oliver Cline of Huntington, a Farmers Institute lecturer, is well known in this vicinity. Mrs Reese Western Lines nephew of Mr Dongen.
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John Maley
Chicago
Thomas Maley
E. Derbyshire
San Francisco
California
Katherine Derbyshire
West
Oliver, Cline
Huntington
Farmers’ Institute
Ome
Mra
Reese Western Lines
Wr. Dongen
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S.S.S
SWIFT
Atlanta, GA
Democrats
Osborn Clairman
Connersville
Shome
Osborn
Harrisburg
Charles Suttles
Charles Thomas
Danville
Phil Ludlow
Charles Hammond
Hattie Kerr
Russell
Bam Ludlow
Ema Leffingwell
Hasei, Lucy and
Maure Neff
Village Creek
Walter Bainbridge
Pierca
Rosf
Aaa Ag
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
R. Pierce
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Levin
Blu
Engelo
Jered
Lavaliak
Hiot
Gical Institute
Nifalo
Pees
Hogan
Lerce
Cardinal Gibbons
Whitecap
Druge
Svens
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