Death of Chief Justice Fuller ends 22 year Supreme Court tenure
Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller died at his Sorrento Maine summer home on July 4 from heart failure. He served nearly twenty two years as head of the U S Supreme Court, facing a Senate confirmation fight in 1888 and leaving a legacy of landmark opinions including the income tax ruling and cases on labor, interstate commerce, and married women’s liabilities.
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Washington
Melville Weston Fuller
United States Supreme Court
Sorrento
Fuller
Taft
Chicago
Cleveland
Lloyd W. Bowers
United States
Supreme Court of the
Marshall
Taney
Grover Cleveland
Senate
Maine
Bowdoin College
Harvard Law School
Supreme Court of
Edmunds
Evarts
Stewart
Cullom
Farwell
Justice Harlan
Danbury
Western Union Telegraph Company
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Bank of Washington
Hume
Inman
South Carolina Railway Company
Moore
Crawford
Leisy
Haddin
Wilson
Fifty-Two Tuany Chicks Killed by Suspected Weasel
Danville reports John M. Towles, a local chicken fancier, lost fifty-two of his fine young chicks in a single night. He keeps over four hundred birds and suspects a weasel got into a box and killed the chicks, some valued at a dollar each. He has set traps and tried various means but remains unsuccessful.
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Danville
John M. Towles
Feasel
Killed in Runaway Near Romnay Mrs Davis Dies
Mrs Martha FE Davis wife of John Davis a prominent Romney area farmer was killed when a buggy overturned after being frightened by a car driven by Dr J H Mitchell of Romney near Rommey The accident injured none of the occupants except Mrs Davis who died two hours later after treatment Mitchell took the injured to Romney where she passed away.
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Lafayette
Martha FE. Davis
John Davis
Rommey
Mitchell
Romney
Darvis
Gala Day at Roanoke Honors Kil so-quah the Miami Queen
Roanoke hosts 1000 attendees for Kil so quah centennial tribute. The Miami lineage gathers as Kil so quah, granddaughter of Chief Little Turtle, is crowned for a day and greets relatives, with notable attendees from Peru Wabash Marion and Miami County.
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Roanoke
Kilsoquiah
Pocahontas
Kil-so-quah
Little Turtle
Mecca
Gabe Godfrey
Peru
Peter Godfrey
Frances Slocum
John Lam
Judson Bundy
Sam Bundy
Wabash
John Bundy
George G. Bundy
George Slusman
John Sassaquash
Andrew Sassaquash
Miami County
Aveline
Marion
Mkil-So-Quah
Electric Shock Strikes Two Men on Riverbank
Logansport resident Joseph Bornepeen and a companion were badly shocked while wading in the Wabish river during a severe storm. They were sitting in shallow water when a lightning bolt struck nearby. both were rescued unconscious and treated for injuries. Barwanger, an electrician, offered a theory that the strike grounded in a tree and traveled through the river, dissipating strength as it spread.
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Logansport
Joseph Bornepeen
Cini Preescout
Wabish
T@sgunsport
Ning
Motorcyclist Killed in Maine and Seventeenth Crash
Lafayettes-Cheater Oditt aged twenty was killed instantly in a motorcycle collision at Maine and Seventeenth streets. He was en route to the Knights of Pythias Fourth of July celebration when a Singer Grocery wagon turned into Seventeenth Street. The rider, a Purdue University student and son of traveling salesman William Huff, died from head injuries after his machine struck the pavement.
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Oditt
Maine
Seventeenth Streets
Tle
Fair Ground
Knights of Pythias
Singer Grocery Company
Seventeenth Street
Purdue University
William MM. Uluff
Huff
Loaves of Gread 93 Years Old
Two small bread loaves in Muncie belong to the Himmel family and were baked in 1816 1817 during Germany’s famine. They weigh about one and a half ounces each and are preserved under glass at Joseph Hummel’s home. Wheat sold for 84 dollars a bushel then as floods and war disrupted crops and drove prices sky high.
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Joseph Hummel
Muncie
Germany
Himmel
Mr. Hummiel
Wurtemberg
Hives All But Fatal In Muncie Worker Case
William Whitaker, an iron worker in Muncie, survived a severe hive attack that left his face swollen and eyes nearly shut. Neighbors and police responded believing he attempted self harm. he later explained the illness and received relief.
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Muncie
William Whittaker
Whittaker
Record Catch of Turtles at Adams Streams
St Paul resident St Paul Anspaugh and Ross Coy of Adams collected forty four turtles weighing 160 pounds in a single day. Anspaugh, famed as a bold turtle hunter, claims this is his largest one day catch to date.
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St. Paul
Frank Anspaugh
Ross Coy
Adams
Anspaugh
Circus Seats Collapse Injures Woman in Greensburg
During a Ielks circus performance in Greensburg a section of the reserved seat area collapsed injuring Mrs. James Porter with a broken left ankle and several others with minor injuries. At a second show the same section fell again but caused only bruises, and the management canceled the program before completion.
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Greensburg
Ielks
James Porter
Pigeon Fosters Chickens in Lyon’s Yard
Curt Workman reports a pet pigeon acts as a mother to twelve motherless chicks. The bird sleeps with them at night and leads them during the day in search of worms, sharing the sustenance. When danger appears it hustles to shelter the brood.
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Lyons
Curt Workman
Perfect Wedding Cake Recipe From Historic Instructions
A historic cake method outlines preparing fruit the day before. Cream butter and sugar, mix flour with spice, fold in eggs and alcohol, then layer batter with fruit and citron. Bake slowly for hours, finish with a sugared egg white icing as a decorative glaze.
Sunday berry cottage pudding a Victorian dessert method
To follow Sunday dinner, use freshly baked cottage pudding or stale cake steamed until moist. Layer warm cake with blackberries and juice in a pudding dish, repeating until full. Weight with a plate, chill, then turn out and slice, served with thick cream.
Rhubarb Shrup Recipe For Home Preserves
Instructions for making rhubarb shrup with unpeeled stalks, sugar, and water boiled into a syrup. Strain, bottle, and optionally add lemon peel. Serve by mixing equal parts syrup and water over ice.
Old Maryland Baked Ham for Easter Colonial Table
Instructions describe preparing and boiling a ham then filling the center with a traditional stuffing, removing the skin, studding with cloves, and baking with breadcrumbs brown sugar and pepper. The dish recalls Easter dinners in colonial times.
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Maryland
Lunch Meat Loaf
Boil veal or pork shank with two pounds lean veal until tender. Skin off fat, remove shank, chop meat, set stock to cool. Return meat to liquor with salt pepper and bouquet, boil, add two chopped hard boiled eggs, mold and chill until firm.
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U. S., Supreme Court
American Bench
Cheney
Kil-Lo-Quah
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