Close Call for Wingate as Freight Car Barely Misses
State tax commissioner John Wingate narrowly escaped death at Crawfordsville when a freight car nearly struck him on Main street. walking with two canes, he stepped onto the track unaware of the approaching car. the motorman halted within inches. Wingate, who uses two canes due to a prior injury, attributes the close call to luck and remains wary of future dangers.
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Montgomery County Exchange
John Wingate
Atate
Crawfordsville
Wingate
Main Street
Soldiers’ Monument
Mr. Wingate
Logansport
Forest study voyagers assess Wabash flow impact
Two Indiana State Board of Forestry researchers Fred A. Miller and B. E. Davis visited the city Tuesday night to study how forest disruption affects the Wabash River. They travel in a light canoe, camp if towns are far, and carry cameras and notebooks for field work.
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Indiana State Board of Forestry
Fred A. Miller
BE. E. Davis
Wabash
Messers Miller
Davis
Discount Sale At J Loebs Stores For Stock
A discount sale is announced at J Loebs Stores offering all merchandise for sale except Sweet Orr Co working clothes and Lambertville Rubbers. The notice emphasizes stock clearance with emphasis on excluding specified items.
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J. Loeb’s
Sweet Orr & Co
Lambertville Rubbers
Contracts Awarded for Three Bridges in Fountain County
Fountain County commissioners at the July term awarded Shultz bridge to Philip Hank for 470 dollars and Harper bridge to Philip Hank for 335 dollars while County Farm bridge went to Boggs & Wertz for 306 dollars. A petition seeks a Coal Creek bridge near the Hetfield mill south of Veedersburg. No appropriation exists and County Council meets in September before action. Also Prather Carriage Works notes longestablished local shop claiming lowest prices and best work.
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Fountain County Commissioners
Shultz Bridge
County Farm Bridge
Harper Bridge
Philip Hank
Shultz
County Farm
Boggs & Wertz
Coal Creek
Old Hetfield Mill
Veedersburg
County Council
Willetts Sues Green Over Stolen Horses and Expenses
William Willetts of near Attica sues Robert Green for 1000 dollars claiming Green stole his horses worth 1000. He says he incurred 500 more in efforts to recover them after finding they were sold to Newgrass and Co and sent east. Willetts, with Meeker and Milford, sought a settlement in Chicago and declined a 400 offer.
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William Willetts
Attica Bas
Charles R. Milford
Robert Green
Green
Chicago
Newgrass & Co
United States
Willetts
Mr. Meeker
Big Powwow Planned in City August 20
The Red Man of the city prepare for the annual Pow wow to be held August 20 with a large crowd expected and elaborate entertainments promised.
New Office and Scales at Elevator, H H Smith
H H Smith opens a new office and installs Fairbanks grain scales. He offers quick efficient grain handling with accurate weights and ready service for patrons.
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H. H. Smith
Fairbanks
Land for sale in Texas Panhandle 80 to 5000 acres
For cheap Panhandle land a seller offers 80 to 5000 acre tracts and will divide to fit purchaser needs. Promises sunshine, good health and prosperity. Previous contact urged for home buyers and investors to communicate.
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Texas Panhandle
State Board rules on teacher institute attendance
The state board of education passed a resolution allowing teachers attending a school for teachers during county institute to finish their training without leaving before the twelve weeks required by law, and granted that the two percent institute attendance be added to the general average as if the teacher had attended.
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State Board of Education
Poll tax critics cite Hamilton voters as equally powerful
County Treasurer Petty John notes 1235 Hamilton county residents pay no poll tax and may influence primaries as much as the county’s top taxpayers. The reform urged is that a voter present tax receipts at the polls or be denied voting. Also reported is Covington Bank’s close of business July 15 1908 and a funeral gathering for John W. Sullivan and others from several towns including Joplin Danville and Veedersburg.
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Petty John
Hamilton County
Hamilton Co. Ledger
Covington Bank
Would Be Depositer Learns Wall Street Banks Are Elite
A magazine writer with 350 dollars tries to open an account in a Wall Street bank using a manager's note. He discovers the bank serves 1,600 depositors with about 110 million in balances and leaves convinced he cannot join that elite. He ends with 62 dollars and plans to save.
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Wall Street
Nate
Fpenphist
Penpleist
New York Sun
Samuel White Declared Dead After Civil War Disappearances
Samuel White, once a prominent figure near Danville, Illinois, has been officially declared dead by Judge Love after disappearing during the Civil War era. A letter from 1873 shows he was alive and employed by the U S government to track thieves and recover horses, but no further word followed. His small estate has been divided among relatives.
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Denville
Ill
Samuel White
Danville
Love
White
United States
Barge dynamited and tow boat shot at Caseyville mine scene
At Caseyville Kentucky West Kentucky Coal mines a dynamited barge and over 106 gunshots wounded engineer John Goodall of Gallipolis Ohio aboard the tow boat Harvester. The vessel was left riddled with bullets. no arrests reported. Goodall treated at Sturgis hospital. Immigration totals fall sharply in June with 31,947 entrants nationwide, Russia 6,202, Japan 60, six months 192,656 versus 743,952 in 1907.
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Paducah
Caseyville
West Kentucky Coal Company
Harvester
John Goodall
Gallipolis
Goodall
Sturgis
Kentucky
Washington
United States
Russia
Japan
Combs Denies Peru Campaign Funding Link
Lexington July 22 Leslie Combs United States Minister to Peru and former Guatemala minister denies knowledge of a report that Cabrera contributed $10,000 to the Roosevelt campaign. He says he never heard of the matter and the newspaper story is his first news. Former Minister W Godfrey Hunter also denies the tale saying he was in Kentucky, not Guatemala, at the time.
Thirteen-year-old steals $10,000 suitcase in federal building
In Chicago a 13 year old stole a suitcase damaged valued at $10,000 belonging to John Burford of Chattanooga Tennessee. The case contained stocks bonds and other securities and was taken while Burford listened to a U S court trial in the federal building.
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Chicago
John Burford
Chattanooga
Tenn
Federal
Duel Ends in Tragedy at Frog Station
In Lee County near Frog Station Virginia Neal Sutton and William C Williams fought a pistol duel following a quarrel. Both men fired their pistols and died from the resulting gunfire in a tragedy that shocked Leesboro Kentucky.
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Leesboro
Lee County
Virginia
Frog Station
Neal Sutton
William C. Williams
Lurton Pleads Guilty in Forgery Case
Eugene P. Lurton of Elwood has pleaded guilty to forgery. Sentencing awaits after the trial of Frances Meyer, accused with him for finding a check and sharing in the profits after it was cashed.
Despondent Mother Drowns Herself and Two Children
In New York on July 22 Mrs. Gussie Bennon, in ill health and fearing for her two young children aged four and two, drowned herself and the children in the East River, leaving a note of despair.
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New York
Gussie Bennon
East River
Farmer Elijah Watkins Killed Crossing Track near Fithian
Elijah A. Watkins a fifty year old leading farmer in the county was killed at the doorway of his home at Fithian when struck by a livestock train while attempting to cross the tracks at 11 o'clock at night. In Fort Wayne John Platt a Pleasant township farmer killed himself by hanging rather than face sheriff sale of his farm.
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Danville
Ill
Elijah A. Watkins
Fithian
Watkins
Wayne Ind
John Platt
Pleasant Township
Clerk Stole Prison Funds, Confesses Shortage
G W Rowland, a clerk at the Kentucky state prison, confessed he was short 1600 dollars in his accounts and handed in his resignation. The missing funds belonged to convicts at the prison in Frankfort.
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Frankfort
G. W. Rowland
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Wabash River
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Texas Homes
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Stephen Minor
Joplin
John Sullivan
Anderson
James Sullivan
Madigan
Frank LaSir
Indianapolis
James Minor
James Gilmore
John O’brien
Frank McMahon
Jos
Meitzler
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Whiting
Gregory
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Lurton
Pioges
Kimberneck
Hedges Drug CO
the Prather Carriage Works
Prather Carrigge Works
Covington
Ind
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Judyville
John F. Judy
Niagara Falls
James A
Avaiust
Omagars Falls
Toronto
Alexandria Bay
Montreal
Quebec
C. S. Crane
ST. Louis
M. Boord
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