Titanic Disaster Not Without Results in Ocean Safety
Waspixctax DC August 8 Special The Titanic disaster spurred extensive federal efforts to protect ocean travelers. Supervising Inspector General George Uhler says American rules improved lifeboat provisions and safety measures, with ship tonnage guiding standards. Congress has seen about fifty bills on lifeboats crew, fire safety, and equipment, aiming for a practical, comprehensive law before adjournment.
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D.C
America
Atlantic
United States
George Uhler
Steamboat Inspecting Service
British Board of Trade
Norway
Houses
Congress
Ever at War There Are Two Things Everlasting War
Advertisement proclaims Backlen's Ainice Salve banishes piles and soothes itching inflammation and swelling. It promises comfort and joy by healing boils ulcers bruises eczema and eruptions. Sold for 25 cents at all druggists.
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Huma
Obituary of Mary Isabelle Schneider Ridge
Sunday evening the spirit of Mary Isabelle Schneider Ridge departed after eight months of illness. Born December 2, 1544, in Lafayette Indiana to George and Catherine Schneider, she came to this city as a child from Baden Germany. She married Andrew Jackson Ridge in 1661, who died in 1 0, leaving six children: Mrs. Sarah Catherine Spence, Mrs. Mary Caroline Moody, Mrs. Helen Minerva ...
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Mary Isabelle Schneider
George and
Catherine Schneider
Baden
Germany
Lafayette
Ind
Andrew Jackson Ridge
Sarah Catherine Spence
Mary Caroline Moody
Helen Minerva
Lengthy Ridge family matriarch passes at 67
The obituary notes the death of a Mrs Ridge aged 67 years 7 months and 29 days. She is survived by George Edward Evans, Julia Belle Hackman, Alre ham Ridge, Ica Mae Contant and others including eight siblings two sisters Teresa Kerns and George Crane and one brother Henry Schneider plus seventeen grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Terre Haute and remained a faithful member. Mahlon Ridge, who died in 1694, was a former husband.
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Ridge
Methodist Episcopal Church
Terre Haute
Dear Mother A Poem of Final Farewell and Loss
A speaker reflects on losing his mother across time and space. He recalls her calm visage, the furrowed brow born of years of care, and tears she shed. He cannot shield her, watching her drift toward death while longing for tangible signs of maternal love. He imagines a future where she awakens in ageless lanes, yet laments missing the earthly proofs of a mother’s presence.
Indiana State Fair Harness Races Feature New Rules
The Indiana State Fair harness races during the Sept 2 week in Indianapolis promise closer contests and more starters due to new rules. No stable can monopolize, purses total near $20,000 with four races daily, most $1,000 per race except two. The State Board of Agriculture touts honesty and no pool selling as a hallmark.
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Indianapolis
Fair Management
State Board of Agriculture
Fair Board
Weber
Columbus
Bettendorf
Steel King
IHC
International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated
Purdue at State Fair Education Week Starts Sept 2
A Purdue University corps of twenty instructors will spend the week at the Indiana State Fair opening September 2 to provide practical agricultural and household economy instruction. Departments include animal husbandry crops dairy soils and crops chemistry veterinary extension and more for farmers unable to attend Lafayette. Contest prizes are Purdue scholarships for boys aged 16 to 20 in livestock and corn judging. Outdoor amusements at the fair in Indianapolis run to September 6 featuring Prevost Brown Bartelli Murphy Kroneman Abdallah troupe Five Merkel Sisters and other acts.
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Purdue University
Purdue
University At
Lafayette
Indiana
Charles Downing
Indianapolis
Ind
America
Prevost & Brown
Cork Screw
Bartelli & Murphy
Kroneman Bros
Casey & Milligan
Abdallah
Merkel Sisters
The Impresario of To-Day and The Eagle and the Arrow
Aesop presents two fables. The first defines an impresario as a manager or trainer of singers. The second depicts an eagle watching a race and an archer who wounds it mortally, lamenting the irony of his own feathered arrows.
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Sull
Aesop
Receiver's Sale Of Real Estate In Fountain County Indiana
The Receiver in the Fountain Circuit Court case Ora B Randolphus et al numbered 2280 will sell at private vendue at not less than full appraised value. Real estate described as Lots 3, 4, 27, 37, 40 in Steinbaugh Heath's Original Addition to Cates. Sale at 10:00 a.m. at the law office of W B Livengood Covington Indiana. Terms cash in hand. July 10 1912. VALENTINES EK LIVENGOOD Receiver.
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Fountain Circuit Court
Fountain County
Indiana
Ora B. Randolphus
James E. Heath
Sophronig F. Heath
Samuel Heath
John G. Heath
Hester F. Heath
Perry Glascock
W. BE. Livengood
Covington
Steinbaugh & Heath
Cates
Careh
Valentines EK
Livengood
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Ct" Company
Murray Street
New York City
Information Bureau
United States Press Association
Colorado Building
Washington, D. C
Victor
J. Evans & CO
Ninth Street
Wasalogton, B.C
Paul Murphy
Calliope
Winona Assembly
Winona Lake
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