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An advertorial pitch promotes a free Cincinnati Weekly Gazette with a one year Covington Republican subscription renewal. It touts the Gazette as family friendly with departments on agriculture poultry markets literature and world news aimed at wide readership. The note mentions a reader in Parsmouth Virginia relieved by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for a chronic facial sore.
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Royal Medicine CO
Plymouth
Covington
Lee Anen
Cincinnati Weekly Gazette
West
Covington Republican
James Brows
Parsmouth
DeWitt
J. P. Buckner
Stamp Tax Repeal and New Rates Take Effect July First
Government revenue officers note changes under the tax laws effective July 1 including repeal of taxes on brokers checks drafts notes mortgages leases and many insurance and document taxes. Conveys real estate tickets cigars tobacco and foreign bills will see rate changes with additional taxes on grain securities and bucket shop dealers since April. An asthma relief testimonial from Miss Maude Dicken of Parsons Kansas praises Foley’s Honey and Tar for immediate relief.
West Baden hotel fire shocks 225 guests as flames engulf bake shop
Early Friday a blaze swept the bake shop at West Baden Mineral Springs Hotel turning the building to ashes. About 225 guests, many invalids, escaped in night attire with aid from others. Relief from French Lick and Louisville arrived as phone lines failed and guests found shelter or boarded morning trains to their destinations.
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West Baden Mineral Springs Hotel
French Lick
Louisville
Dedication plans date set for Indiana monument ceremony
A seven member committee appointed by the governor meets in Indianapolis to fix an early fall date for the dedication of the Indiana soldiers and sailors monument. Funds are being solicited as no money is on hand, with plans to avoid delaying the event until next year.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors
Neighbors clash over land and kin in Kentland case
In Kentland Indiana a family land dispute over an inheritance leads to repeated evictions and sheriff actions. John and Aldsline Jettly are central figures amid bitter community tension as neighbors intervene to support both sides. A Winchester and shotguns figure in the tensions with no peaceful resolution yet.
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Kentland
Ind
Idine
Aldsline
John
John Jettly
Shotgun Accident Ends Life of City Saloon Keeper
Vernon P. Brandes, a Georgia butcher and saloon keeper, was killed instantly by a shotgun blast yesterday while seated in a living room above his saloon in Indianapolis. Authorities suspect an accidental discharge as he reached toward the weapon. the muzzle may have been pulled by the trigger.
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Indianapolis
Vernman PF
Brandes
Trial of Jaquith for South Bend deputy murder begins
In South Bend circuit court Louis Jaquith faces murder charges for killing Patrolman Samuel Cooper during a store robbery incident in October. The state seeks the death penalty while Cooper recovered from a gunshot wound suffered during the altercation. Jasper, Indiana reports note Olding’s arrest for horsewhipping an elderly German woman and bond for October court.
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Laporte
Dune
Louis Jaquith
Samuel Cooper
South Bend
Get
Jaquith
Cooper
Jasper
Ind
Frank Olding
Catherine Ferry
Ferdinand
Tragic Kokomo Rope Death Follows Hearts’ Tragedy
In Kokomo Indiana on June 18 the body of 21 year old Simon Gwin was found hanging from a treetop on the remote farm of Joseph Carrens near Sycamore. The discovery follows the suicide of his sweetheart Aggie Long at a village church where she played the organ. In Clay City Indiana on June 17 gold specimens found on Chris Shepper’s east of Coal City farm in Owen county were exhibited. Quartz from the same samples sent to California and Colorado reportedly yielded about 360 dollars per ton and nearly 700 dollars per ton respectively.
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Kokomo
Ind
Simon Gwin
Aggie Long
Vilage
Joseph Carrens
Sycamore
Clay City
Chris Shepper
Coal City
Owen County
California
Colorado
Crowded Buffalo Court Hears Molineux New Trial Argument
The Buffalo court of appeals heard the first challenge to a death sentence for Roland B. Molineux, the New York clubman and chemist, in the Caroline Adams poisoning case. Milburn led defense arguing lower court erred in admitting Barnet death evidence. Senator Hill followed.
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Buffalo
Court of Appeals
Roland B. Molineux
New York Club
Carorine J. Adams
Tsas
Uhirry Cornish
Parker, Vann, Bartlett
Gray
O'Brien
Haight
Werner
Diack
United States
David Bennett Ith
John G. Milburn
Sing Sing
Elin
Lebar Bier
New York
Milburn
George Riordon Battle
Barlow S. Weeks
Molineux
General Molineux
David N. Carvalho
Henry
Barnet
Senator Hill
Henry C. Barnet
Goff
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A. Mars
Albury
N.Y
Eteking Rewedy Company
Chicago
Montreal
Covington, Ind
The
Cincinnati
Weekly Gazette
Peoples Paper
T. A. Clifton, W. B. Harden
Glasscock
South Third Street
People Now On Earth
West Baden
Washington
Edward Fellows
Robert Shearer
Odon
Fellows
Shearer
Auburn
John Pierce
Garrett
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Syracuse
Rocky Mountain Tea
LeRoy Allen
Indiana Soldiers and Sailors
Indiana
Newton County
Loeb’s
Strouse Brothers
Baltimore
General
J. Loeb
Layton & Bilsland
N, 4Th St
McComas & Sullivan
Northeast Corner Square, Covington, and
Noland Molineux
SA Ston S&a
Mite Aan
Judyville
Judy
UA Cre Lay
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