Mystery of a Confederate Spy Comes Home to Roost
Balcomb plots a Patoka flat on Ezra Cameron’s creek property as Captain Pollock confronts Colonel Merriam over a long war era feud. The old veteran reveals Hamilton Pollock, a famed Confederate spy, bore Pollock’s name and a past betrayal tied to the Cameron family. The confrontation ends with questions about lineage and forgiveness as the truth edges into the open.
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van Cleve
Balcomb
Patoka Land and Improvement Company
Tealcomb
Cameron
High Street
Courthouse
Cameron Ground
Ezra Cameron
Ezra
Hamilton
Cameron Hoes
Mince
Hilmilton
Donelson
Mariana
Copperhead
Jo Gret
Lan
Pollock
Merriam
Rodney Merriam
Confederate War Department
South
Mr. Merriam
Tennessee
Richmond
Knoxville
Memphis
Atlanta
Captain Pollock Confronts Merriam Over A Snub
Captain Pollock arrives at Rodney Merriam's house to demand an explanation for a string of perceived snubs at the club and at friends' homes. Merriam denies insult but acknowledges distant acquaintance, while Pollock insists on a direct answer about their strained relationship.
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Captain Pollock
Pollock
Merriam
Frank Pollock
Rodney Merriam
Tan
Miss Cameron
Justly Incensed Over Neighborly Vacation Conversation
A Houston Post note recalls a dispute where a woman grows angry at a man vacationing in their neighborhood after he asks about her daughter. The man replies he has seen all local sights, illustrating friction in everyday social encounters.
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Houston Post
Health Caravan plans to tour by open air hospital wagons
An Indianapolis father, whose son has incipient tuberculosis, proposes an Indiana Health Tour company to equip and operate twelve covered vans as a moving hospital. The plan would start in September, travel 4 7 miles daily at first, visit sites and offer medical supervision, with 50 patients per trip at a cost of 400 per person.
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Indianapolis
Ohio River
Kentucky
Tenessee
Medical Directory Health
Carolinas
Virginia
Ohio
Indiana Health Tour Company
Tennessee
Pittsburg Landing
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
San Carolina
Calcutta
Europe
Body Partly Ossified. Richmond Stock Buyer Dies
Horace Dean, fifty, died at Greensfork in Richmond County. A well known eastern Indiana stock buyer for seventeen years he suffered a rheumatism that partly ossified his body. Despite the handicap he remained active, dictating stock transactions by telephone with a receiver strapped to his head until a few weeks before his death.
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Richmond
Horrace Dean
Greensfork
Indiana
Weekend Sale of Lions at Peru Trust Auction
The Norris Rowe estate was sold by the Peru Trust Company trustee Satinity for under 12000, bought largely by Penjamin G. Wallace of Hagenbeck Wallace and W. O. P. Wall of Lancaster. The two elephants sold to Thulb for 2200 and prize tigers and friez were sold for under 500 each. Colonel Wallace has received 50 a day for caring for the show property since receivership.
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Peoru
Norris & Rowe Elreus
Peru Trust Company
Satinity
Penjamin G. Wallace
Hagenbeck & Wallace
W. OP. Wall
Sunburned Carpenter Faces Severe Boil and Sores
C W Jiarves, a carpenter at a frame factory in Danville, suffered a severe sunburn after weeks of indoor work. On returning to outdoor labor with arms exposed, he developed boils and infection. Medical staff labeled it the worst sunburn seen, and treatment has slightly improved his condition.
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Danville
C. W. Jiarves
Owindaw
Indianapolis
Tlee
Sai
Captures Wildcat with Fish Net in Barn
Columbus report tells how Alva Nugent’s wildcat escaped the cage and hid in the Nugent barn. A fishing net was used as a trap and the cat was dragged to the edge and captured, ending days of chase as townsfolk watched for a safe recovery.
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Columbus
Traction car jumps tracks injures Louisville passenger
Limited car No 200 on the I S traction line left the rails at Martin street curve due to rail spread. The car bumped two lengths and struck a pole, breaking it. All passengers were shaken. Mrs Le FP Jones of Louisville was injured severely and unconscious for two hours before continuing her trip home.
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Franklin
Death Notice of Mrs Clyde E Houston in Los Angeles
Telegram reports Mrs Clyde E Houston aged 24 died at home in Los Angeles before burial her body to be cremated and ashes brought to Crozier cemetery for burial She was formerly Miss Alma K Warner graduated from Moore's 11H College in June 1909 with class honors and member of the Sigournean society.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Lawrenceburg
Clyde E. Houston
Alma KE. Warner
Moores 11H College
Sigournean Osciety
Crozier Cemetery
Hagerstown Man Kills Large Stork at Farm
Hagerstown report states Louis Hines shot a large American stork at Emmet Moore's barn five miles north of town. The bird measured six feet tip to tip and five and a half feet beak to toes. Taxidermist deemed it too young to mount, noting the young bird had left the nest about three weeks prior.
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Hagerstown
Louis Hines
Emmet Moore
Here
Walked In His Steep and Fell at Waveland Farm
Crawfordsville farmer Luther Perkins suffered a dislocated shoulder and injured spine after a fall from a second story veranda while walking in his sleep. He stepped off the veranda about fifteen feet to the ground and was unconscious for two hours. In Madison, three teens, George Montz Edward Shanks and Marl McKay, camped at Flat Rock. While playing Indian and cowboy Montz shot McKay with a loaded 20 caliber rifle. McKay died soon after the shooting.
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Crawfordsville
Luther Perkins
Waveland
Perkins
Madison
George Montz
Edward Shanks
Marl McKay
Flat Rock
Montz
McKay
Worry Hastens His Death at Lawrenceburg Home
Robert Kellough aged 67 died suddenly at his Short street home from heart disease. Worry over his wife’s death three months earlier is said to have caused the heart ailment. Kellough was a member of the Masonic order and Miami fire company No. 1.
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Lawrenceburg
Robert Kellough
Short Street
Kellough
Masonic Order
Miami Fire Company No. 1
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Marlena
Camp Burr
Tim
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Louisville
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Health Caravan
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