Brief News Notes From the Past Week Summarized
Vice-President Marshall declined to present to the senate a written charge against a western senator and returned it to author Jim R. Jacobs of Oklahoma City. Connecticut ratified a constitutional amendment for direct senatorial elections, with 35 states having ratified. Senator Hitchcock introduced a currency bill proposing 20 national reserve associations among banks across leading clearing centers. The new Democratic tariff revision bill seeks broad relief with food and clothing duty removal, lower duties on essentials, higher on luxuries, and an income tax starting at over 4006 dollars net income. The navy pay corps faces a shortage of ten officers and will hold an examination in June in Washington for assistant paymaster candidates. Congress opened an extraordinary session with Champ Clark reelected speaker. President Wilson’s executive order against destruction of plumage birds in the Panama canal zone, enforced by the canal commission, remains in effect.
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Marshall
Senate
Jim R. Jacobs
Oklahoma City
Hitchcock
Senate backs bill for third class city commission form
News from Harrisburg reports the Pennsylvania senate approved a bill allowing third class cities to adopt a commission form of government if residents vote yes by 34 to 7. In other items, a Sum merville Georgia bank robbery left several thousand dollars taken and two deputies fatally wounded. suffrage activists filed petitions in Washington. New Jersey adjourned without jury reform. Michigan defeated a second woman suffrage constitutional amendment. New York hosts a Babica welfare baby show judging by physical features.
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Pennsylvania
Senate
Harrisburg
New York
Babica’ Welfare Association
Michigan
Inauguration of World’s Youngest Republic Parliament in Peking
News from Peking reports the first parliament of the world’s youngest republic is inaugurated amid general rejoicing. Also noted are suffragette Emmerson released from Holloway prison after 19 days, and a German Arctic expedition presumed lost with Lt Schroeder Stranz missing.
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Peking
Mias Zee Emerson
Holloway Prison
London
Schroeder-Stranz
Chriatiania
Norway
Schroeder Stranz
Unlawful Hatpins and Other Early 20th Century Sparks
New Jersey bans hatpins with guarded points under a disorderly conduct statute. fines range from five to twenty dollars. Supreme Court upholds Wisconsin pure food labeling as affecting interstate commerce. Six corded strikesfire at Columbia Rope plant leaves two dead and four wounded. Ansberry seeks 25 million for Ohio flood relief via War Department use. Dr. Cook ousted from San Diego hotel after accusations. Hodges weighs special session on Kansas commission government. Oskaloosa fire destroys half a block, estimated at 100000 dollars.
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Ohio
Ansberry
Secretary of War
Department
Fourth biennial YWCA convention opens in Richmond
The fourth biennial YWCA convention in the United States opened in Richmond Virginia with a keynote address by Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin of New York. Fred L. Taft former Cleveland judge and cousin of ex president Taft has died. Charlies FE Pugh longtime Pennsylvania Railroad official died at Old Point Comfort Virginia. The Washington Women’s Democratic club held its second annual breakfast honoring Mrs Wilson Mrs Marshall and Mrs Champ Clark with partisanship barred.
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The
Young Women's Christian Association of the United States
Richmond
Cornelius Woelfkin
New York
Fred L. Taft
Common Pleas
Cleveland, C
William H. Taft
Charlies FE
Women's Democratic Club
Washington
Mra. Wilson
Marshall
Champ Clark
Bedford Mayor Injured in Office Fracas Over Charge Filing
Bedford April 9 Prosecutor Underwood reports a violent altercation in his office involving Mayor Albert Fields liquorman David Torphy and Charles Burton. A knife was used, fields was cut and Torphy knocked Burton down. Torphy was jailed but bonded awaiting trial.
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Bedford
John H. Underwood
Albert Fields
David Torphy
Charles Burton
Torphy
Burton
Clark
Underwood
Field
Indiana State Prison abolishes solitary confinement
Dread. In Michigan City on April 11 warden E J Fogarty announced the Indiana state prison will no longer use the hole or solitary confinement. He said the board approved advancing Indiana in prison discipline and that they will maintain strict order without the barbarous practice. He noted no man has been whipped there in fifteen years and cited the prison’s national reputation for discipline.
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Michigan City
Indiana State Prison
E.J. Fogarty
Indiana
Ben
Marrying Pedestrian Arrests Shocking City
Fort Wayne police report that J Russell Smith posing as a cross continent pedestrian married Mies Chapman in Terre Haute to win a wager. Smith and a companion were arrested in Fort Wayne. he faces bigamy charges and possible return to Terre Haute for prosecution. Children Shot in Gary Home. two brothers survive. John Hamilton, Democrat and clerk candidate, sees seven year old Willian and six year old Devon shot at 2333 Adams Street. both taken to Mercy Hospital with infection and lockjaw risk concerns. No motive or shooter captured.
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Terre Haute
Fort Wayne
Massachusetts
J. Russell Smith
Smith
Mies Chapman
Boston
Gerhardt
Gary
John Hamilton
Adams Street
Mercy Hospital
Willian
Devon
Man Found Dead After Hospital Escape in Clinton Township
Gilbert Huff of South Bend died after escaping two weeks earlier from the Northern Hospital for the Insane. His body was found in the Pleasant Hill churchyard by janitor John Hines. Authorities believe starvation and exposure caused the death, noting Huff's mania for starving himself and prior efforts by attendants to induce eating.
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South Bend
Pleasant Hill
Aurch
Clinton Township
St. Joseph County
Gilbert Huff
John Hines
Huff
Death of Mrs Weidler in Union Township
Mrs Josephine Weidler sister in law to state representative Charles W Weidler dies at her Union township home after a brief illness She is survived by her husband Henry and four children in South Bend Indiana
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South Bend
Josephine Weidler
Charles W. Weidler
Union Township
Henry Weidler
Indiana News in Brief Sets of Local Legal and Social Items
A compilation from multiple towns notes eleven year old Richard Cretcher's disappearance in Warsaw, divorce suit with $12,000 alimony in Fort Wayne, and a $10,000 breach of promises suit in Noblesville. Other reports include a fatal gasoline fire in Terre Haute, a large Knights of Columbus initiation in Elwood, and upcoming cipher trials in Newcastle. Local option petitions surface in Brownstown and Carr townships, amid saloon licensing activity, and notes from Gary, Martinsville, Evansville, Jasonville on marriages, settlements, and church conventions.
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Warsaw
Richard Cretcher
Fort. Wayne
Matilda Louise Wicks
John Eicks
Allen County
Noblesville
Leafy Breedlove
Jay Voss
Terre Hante
Margaret Gray
Shelburn
Chester Gray
Rose Polytechnic
Elwood
Knights of Columbus
Anderson
Muncie
Marlon
Kokomo
Tipton
Newcastle
Ross D. Strock
John Murray
Indiana
Nelson Hamilton
Brownstown
Carr
Gary
John Stevensk
Mary Sabinski
A. C. Huber
Martinaville
Wolf & Ewing, Contractors
Indianapolis
Mary Strawder
Prest-O-Lite Company
Evansville
State Sunday School Association
Trinity M. 5
Caurch
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church
Jasonville
James Dobbs
Dr Barnes argues sanatoriums as investments for states
Dr. Barnes notes gross earnings from former patients at a sanatorium reached 102,752 in 1911 and 112,031 in 1912. He estimates that incomes of ex-patients total 561,000 for those years, more than triple maintenance costs. He suggests isolation institutions for advanced TB may be even better investments.
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HL. Barnes
Breakout Cured by Cuticura Remedies
A Hilltop Kansas woman describes a two year leg breakout with severe itching and sores. After trying salves she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment following an ad, saw improvement, and was cured with no scar. Sample offered by Cuticura, Dept. L Boston.
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Hilltop
Kan
Signold
Anna A. Lew
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Glengarry Testimony on Dodds Kidney Pills Healing
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pa suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs and dizzy exhaustion. After using Dodds Kidney Pills the swelling disappeared and he felt renewed energy. He remains convinced of the remedy and sent praise months later. Dodds Kidney Pills 50c per box at dealers or from Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY. Home hints and music offered.
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Edmund Heslop
Wigton
H. Heslopesos
Dodds
Dodds Medicine Co
Ouffalo
N.Y
Costly City Pedal Jogs Through Demolition Totals
A scrambled item notes a costly city project with references to a pedal cost and demolition totals. It mentions last year figures and a tank brought into the context, but the exact data is unclear in the fragments.
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Mereveren
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