Indiana's Century of Noted Leaders and Luminaries
A review of Indiana's first century highlights its notable natives across politics, education, science, and culture. It lists presidents, vice presidents, governors, judges, soldiers, authors, and educators who shaped national life, from Benjamin Harrison to Booth Tarkington and James Whitcomb Riley.
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Indiana
Benjamin Harrison
Schuyler Colfax
U.S. Grant
Thomas A. Hendricks
Grover Cleveland
Charles W. Fairbanks
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas R. Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
William Henry Harrison
United States
Jonathan Jennings
Jennings
Wayne County
John Paul
Madison
State Senate
Isaac Blackford
Vincennes
James Noble
Walter Taylor
Caleb Mills
Joseph A. Wright
State Board of Agriculture
Hugh McCulloch
Fort Wayne
Treasury
President Grant
McCulloch
Walter Q. Gresham
United ‘Courts
Indianapolis Ambulance Fund Named the Indianapolis
Sixteen Indianapolis men subscribed $1,500 to buy equip and maintain an American ambulance for six months to aid Allied forces in France. The donors remain anonymous, the vehicle will be known as the Indianapolis, and a American volunteer driver will file reports to sponsors. Other notes report a Mine Workers convention in Terre Haute. a state park fund in Indianapolis growing toward $25,000. plus smaller gifts from clubs and individuals in Indiana.
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Charles Major
Maurice Thompson
Gene . Stratton Porter
Juliet Strouse
James Whitcomb Riley
Riley
Mary
George Abe
Nas
Kin Hubbard
Abe Martin
Indiana
Albert J. Beveridge
United States
United States Senate
Beveridge
Senate
John Marshall
United States Supreme Court
Indianapolis
France
New York
Pensions Granted to Indianians and Washington D C Residents
A pension list notes William F. McDowell of Bruceville receives $6. Dorothy Frick of Huntingburg Minerva Gideon of Angola Alice R. Nutt of Carbon Catherine A. Williams of Shoals Luciana Sullenbarger of Fort Wayne Sarah B. Watson of New Albany and minors of William H. Johnson Peru, helpless child of Elijah Dickison Grand View Elizabeth Walden Versailles and Elizabeth A. Lain North Judson receive $12 under a special act.
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Washington, D. C
William F. MceDowell
Bruceville
Dorothy Frick
Huntingburg
Minerva Gideon
Angola
Alice R. Nutt
Carbon
Catherine A. ‘Williams
Shoals
Luciana Sullenbarger
Fort Wayne
Sarah B. Watson
New Albany
Wiliam H. Johnson
Peru
Elijah
Dickison
Grand View
Elizabeth Walden
Verzailles
Elizabeth A. Lain
North Judson
Fly outbreak prompts prizes for pupils at Jefferson school
In Columbus a plan to kill nearly 200 000 flies targets local schoolchildren. Merchants offered prizes for catching flies as Melvin Houk, the principal, organizes a flytrap at the Jefferson school building. Six hundred children entered.
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Columbus
Melvin Houk
Jefferon
Board Adente Text Boots The Board
A terse note from the State discusses the Adente board and the act of booting the board. The wording is fragmentary but indicates a governance push or dispute surrounding leadership changes.
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Board
Adente
Indiana Bankers Hold Seventh Annual Meeting
The Indiana Bankers Association held its seventh annual meeting with the Chamber of Commerce prior to adjournment. Delegates adopted resolutions commending the host state automobile club for its efforts to obtain a state highway department plan. Members show deep interest in the project.
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Widianapolis
Indiana Bankers’. Associatio
Chamber ‘of Commerce
Tha Hoost State Automobile Club
Bankers’ Association
Purdue to Build Biology Building on Campus
The contract for Purdue University’s new biology building was awarded to Leslie Colvin of Anderson. The total price is $76,300, and construction will replace the old science building with work to start immediately after classes end in June.
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Purdue
Lafayette
Leslie, Colvin
Anderson
University
Fort Wayne YMCA Drive Sets $400000 Goal
Fort Wayne launches a campaign to fund a new Young Men’s Christian Association building with a $400000 goal. Subscriptions must pledge the full amount to be valid.
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Fort Wayne
Young Men's Christian Association
Club Officers Elected by Indiana Federation
Goshen district convention of the Indiana Federation of Clubs elected officers. Chairman is Mrs William C Vallette of Goshen, vice chairman Mrs A J Dillon of Rochester, and secretary treasurer Mrs Guy Stoddard of Michigan City.
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Goshen
Indiana Federation of Clubs
William C. Vallette
A. J. Dillon
Rochester
Guy. Stoddard
Michigan City
Elks Plan State Reunion Decorations Along May Parade Route
Marton committees prepare twenty eight blocks of decorations for the Elks state reunion marching along the line. Decorations will feature national colors and the purple and white Elks colors.
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Elks
Marton
Elka
Roads Ordered for Clinton Township Improvements
Three road improvements in Clinton Township have been ordered. One road will be paved with brick, another with brick and concrete, and a third concrete pavement sixteen feet wide extending westward from West Clinton.
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Clinton
Haveeen
Clinton Township
Hoosier News Notes Bulletin Roundup
Bedford lodge plans a $65,000 temple after Elmer B Dunlap of Indianapolis submits designs and the lodge nears the $20,000 estate grant. Lafayette reports a possible kidnap and murder of Ralph B Deemer’s father in a Villa bandit incident. South Bend fireman Stanley Duzynski, 28, dies after being hit by a passenger train near Singer plant. Clinton reports rabid dogs biting cows and other animals as dog is killed. Muncie notes 7 year old John Branley among names listed.
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Bedford
Bedford Lodge of ‘Magons
Elmer B Dunlap
Indianapolis
Jate
Moses F. Dunn
Dunlap
Lodge of Elks
Dunn
South Bend
Singer Manufacturing
Stanley Duzynski
New York Central
Clinton
Ccton
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America
BY Ellis Searles
Commonwealth
Eral
Arthur
Cleveland
William A. Woods
John H. Baker
Francit. E. Baker
Albert B. Anderson
Oliver P. Morton
Morton
Union
George Chapman
A. D. Streight
John Coburn
R. 3
Foster
George F. McGinnis
Alvin D. Hovey
James R. Slack
Robert H. Milroy
Willis A. Gorman
Lew Wallace
John T. Wilder
Thomas A. Morris
General Hackelman
Henry W. Lawton
Lawton
Philippines
Garfield Park
Indiiana
William H. H. Miller
Henry Ward Beecher
Abraham Lincoln
Spencer County
Kentucky
Nancy Henka Lincoln
Illinois
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas A. Edigon
Wizard of Invention
Wood
Haynes
Kokomo
Othe Automobile
John
Clark
Hidpath
Booth Tarkington
Meredith Nicholson
John W. Kern
David Starr Jordan
Leland Stanford University
Indiana University
Robert J. Aley
University of Maine
Idiaka News
Hoosier ‘State
Donera_ Withheld
Terre Haute
United Mine Workers of America
Joint Scale
State Bark Fund
State Park Fund
State Park Committee
Twentieth Century Club
Clayton
Crawfordsville
Portland
C. D. McCoy
Roann
Wabash County
Apolle
Club
Hoosier
Tens Deemer
Mexico
Ralph
B. Deemer
Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station
Wabash
Anna Dormit
Firad
William
Standel
Muncie
John Branley
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