Fifty Cent Investment At Indiana State Fair
A visitor can stretch a fifty cent investment over about 300 acres at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis the week of September. Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture notes fifteen departments with concerts, races, livestock and agricultural exhibits, cooking and butter making schools, arts and machinery displays. The fair is praised as the best value and the largest exposition in the Western States, though its vast size makes it hard to see in a week.
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Indiana
Tidianapolis
State Board of Agriculture
Downing
Souse
Returned Cured Abram Roudenbush Bitten by Rabid Horse
Abram Roudenbush, bitten at his home near Elizabeth by a horse suspected of hydrophobia, has returned from treatment at the Pascur Institute in Altimoere. Doctors report no remaining danger of infection and the lacerations from the attack are healed.
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Abram Roudenbush
Elizabeth
Altimoere
Pascur Institute
Ex-Employee Recants Fake Confession In Chicago Rail Yard Killing
John W. Sinder, former Chicago City Railway employee, told Chief O'Neill he fabricated details of a deadly raid on the company barns. He admitted to newspaper reporters that his confession was a lie and that he was not present at the scene. The chief noted Sluder had varied his story since arrest.
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Chicago
John W. Sinder
Chicago City Railway Company
O'Neill
Sluder
Dreasa
Will File Test Suit Over Oil Leases in Counties
Farmers in Crawford and Dabois counties threaten a test suit to cancel oil leases claiming the companies sunk wells then abandoned prospects. They allege the lands are underlaid with oil yet development is blocked and leases retained to bar others from profitable investment.
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Crawford
Dabois
Hueu- Conte
Occupations of the World in the 1905 German Empire Register
The 1905 Statistical Register for the German Empire details global labor by sector. It lists percentages of the white population employed in agriculture industry and trade, with figures per country and region, including the United States.
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German Empire
Aeroutire
Bidustis
Prade
ASP
Plan for Frances Willard temperance hospital in Chicago
Chicago September 5. Directors of the Frances Willard national temperance hospital plan a $75,000 five story facility in Chicago to mark 19 years of work by women directors. The hospital will treat diseases without alcohol and dedicate a ward to the Loyal Temperance Legion children with a mixed medical staff of allopathic homeopathic and eclectic doctors.
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Plan Temperance Hospital
Chicago
Frances Jy. Willard National Temperance Hospital
Loyal Temperance Legion
Society of
Ideal Entertainers to Benefit Lodge at Corydon
The Lodge of Maccabees plans a September 24 benefit entertainment at the Auditorium featuring the Ideal Enter tainment Company of Michigan. Tickets will be sold at Riely’s drug store, promising one of the year’s top shows in Corydon.
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Lodge of Maccabees
Ideal Entertainment Company of
Michigan
Riely
Corydon
Death of Michael Flaherty in Taylor township
Michael Flaherty, among Taylor township’s oldest residents, died suddenly last Saturday at his Convenience home at age eighty. He leaves grandchildren. Funeral services were held Sunday at Convenience, with many relatives and friends in attendance, burial in the Catholic cemetery there.
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Michael Flaherty
Taylor Township
Convenience
Death of Catharine Harper at Pixie neighborhood
Catharine Harper widow of Wh Harper died last Sunday at Will Rhoades’s home near Pixie from stomach trouble at age 75. Surviving children number five. She attended the UU Gl church and led a Christian life. Funeral held Tuesday at Bethel conducted by Fureham. Other item: Conrad Spink injured in barroom accident after a whisky barrel explosion. he was suspended by trousers during rescue. We also note the fall/winter shoe line now available.
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Catharine Hanger
Wh. Harper
Will Rhoades
Pixie
UU. Gl
Bethel
Ley
Fureham
Salt Lake City
Conrad Spink
C. B
Spink
Bonnetti
Bank touts safety and growth with new customers
Five months into operations a local bank boasts growing patronage and calls for trust in its safety under federal supervision. The notice claims free cashing of checks and drafts nationwide and urges delinquent dog tax payers to settle by October 3, 2024. In a separate item a Nevada tragedy reports an aged father killing his sick son before taking his own life near Shurz on the Carson and Colorado line.
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Owood
Wes
Nis
Carson
Nev
Shurz
Carson and
Colorado
George Sam
Southern Indiana Fruit Growers Gather for Good Roads Plan
A large crowd from southern Indiana attended the district gathering at New Albany on the fourth and fifth, with twenty counties represented by fruit growers and road advocates. Trusteess Pitman Gettlefinger Jessinger and others attended as topics covered fruit culture, spraying methods, and a push for state and Purdue University collaboration. A Southern Indiana good roads organization formed with county officers, while national road aid was urged as essential, citing parallels with rivers and warfare funding. Prof. W. C. Latta of Purdue led the organizing effort, praised for his leadership in the cause.
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New Albany
Indiana
Pitman
Gettlefinger
Jessinger
Purdue University
W. H. Moore
St. Louis
National Good Roads Association
Good Roads
J.B. Killebrew
Nashville
Tenn
Ecouscey
Congression
Committee On
W. C. Latta
Purdue
Uiversity
Jury Drawn for September Term of Court
Clerk and jury commissioners selected the grand jury and petit jurors for the September term. Names include J. Stevens, G. Mugler, J. Friedley, A. Peters, O. S. Wright, C. Radcliffe, and others from Harrison Blue River Spencer Pose and nearby townships. Further names listed as Verd Bannon Benoni Jones Jacob Tind and more.
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Iass
Grand JU
T. J. Stevens
Jackson Township
George Mugler
Harrison
James EH. Friedley
Washington
Aaron Peters
Poter
O.S. Wright
Chas. Radcliffe
Blue Iver
Petit Jur
Jas
J. Long
Harrison Township
Verd Bannon
Tayer
Benoni Jones
Blue
Jacob Tind
Blue Hives
Joshua
Zenor
Pose
Eugene A. Berry
Spencer
Wmn
C. Yeager
Webster
Chas
WW. Smith
Wester
Levi Hottel
Scot
Eugene ‘Proncin
Frank Crayden
Blauiver Lewis Beker
Morga
Death of Robert N Singer Former Elizabeth Hotel Proprietor
Robert N Singer of Elizabeth died on the 31st after long illness and past accident complications. He owned the Singer Hotel in Elizabeth for many years and leaves a wife and a daughter Mrs Patrick Flanagan. The funeral occurred Friday and the remains were interred in the town cemetery.
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Inger
Citeos
Elliat
Singer Hotel
Elizabeth
Patrick Flanagan
Frica
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Main
New Albany, Ind
Fifty Cent Investment
Indivoa State Fair
Occupations of the World
Griffin’s
The
Maccabees
Catharine Harper
Logie Man
Jack O'Lantern
Ww. C. Foth
UC. 5
Whiel
Xaminer
United States
Pirsp National Bank
John
Kessinger
Posey
Robert N. Singer
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