Domestic trouble leads to suicide amid legal case
Adolph Ubly, 55, a Philadelphia railway carpenter in Richmond Indiana, killed himself after learning he faced trial for complicity in alleged malpractice involving Eva Sullivan. He drank carbolic acid then shot himself in his boarding house, leaving a note for relatives and directing burial.
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Richmond
Ind
Trias
Eva Sullivan
Adolph P. Ubly
Pennsylvania
Uhly
Pennsylv Yanng
Harry ©. Downing
The Sinous Eel Bite After Death
A St James Gazette report discusses the uncanny persistence of eel reflexes after decapitation or severed bodies. An anecdote from Wales describes a large eel head biting a boy hours after beheading, prompting questions about posthumous wounds and eel biology.
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Wales
Kipling
St. James’ Gazette
Lifelong friends raise caterer’s bill by twenty percent
A caterer explains that guests who are lifelong friends eat more at gatherings, estimating twenty percent higher costs than strangers or passing acquaintances. He argues comfort among friends boosts appetite, citing personal experience to justify the higher bill.
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New Orleans Times- Democrat
City residents and guests mingle as summer notices abound
A parade of personal mentions lists Mrs. P. W. Morris visiting Chicago and J. R. Watson from Klinger Lake. Invitations for the marriage of Guy T. McBride and Bernice Hale are issued for a June 23 ceremony at Goshen. Local movements include weddings, births, travel, and census work by Capt. John W. Andrews.
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Guy T. McBride
Elkhart
Bernice Hale
Goshen
John Hale
North Main Street
Star Baseball Team Scheduled for Practice Tonight
All members of the Star baseball team are requested to meet at the driving park for practice tonight.
Lost the Case A Test of Fig Quality in London Court
A London court hears a $100 suit over figs claimed unfit for human food. The coster plaintiff questions the defense, then spars with his counsel until the judge suggests an edible test. The broker agrees to lose the case rather than eat the figs. A second item recalls a Solomon difference anecdote from Dr. Randall Davidson.
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London
Coster
Randall Davidson
Canterbury
Dartford
King Solomon
Solomon
Moving Pictures and the Quick Reel of Film
Moving picture cameras are remarkable mechanisms. Films three quarters of an inch wide come in rolls up to 800 feet long. The cameraman reels off films rapidly onto a canvas for spectators at ten to twelve films per second, so views appear as continuous motion.
Author Who Hated Water Echoes in Yankee Pronunciation
The London Spectator notes Mme. d Arblay later Miss Fanny Burney as a writer with a strong aversion to washing confessing she had not washed for fifteen years to her physician Sir Henry Holland. Historic Suffolk families carried this trait to America shaping the seminasal Yankee twang.
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Mme. d’Arblay
Fanny Burney
Sir Henry Holland
America
London Spectator
Very Sharp Teacher-Now Johnny Riddle
A classroom exchange imagines Earth as empty inside, likening it to a razor with hollow ground to make the pun.
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Johnny
Teacher
Noteworthy convention pits conservative and reform in Knights hive
The twenty first great camp review of the Knights and thirteenth of the Ladies of the Modern Maccabees met in national convention in Toledo on Monday. A spirited contest for officers and policy splits the order with Major N. S. Boynton defending partial control against reform leader S. B. Williams. George S. Lovelace of Muskegon supports reform candidate for great commander. Republican Committee offers $150 for best article on why the party should win next November.
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Knights
Ladies of the Modern Maccabees
Toledo
N. S. Boynton
S. B. Williams
Detroit
George S. Lovelace
Muskegon, Mich
Boynton
Republican Congressional Committee
Congress
Community notices from Elkhart on Wednesday gatherings
Regular meeting of Indiana Hive No 22 L O T M at 7 30 p m Wednesday. Red Men hold a regular meeting Wednesday night with important business. Ladies of the W R C market Saturday June 13 at J J Hoffman's former store. Elks attend Joseph Cloyes funeral Wednesday afternoon. lodge meeting at 3 p m. Ladies Guild St John s Episcopal meets 2 p m Wednesday at Mrs Shaffer 109 Edwardsburg Ave. Companion Court Samaritan and Court Elkhart I O F joint initiation Wednesday evening with a large class and social session after.
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J. J. Hoffman
the Elks
Joseph Cloyes
Ladies' Guild of
St. John’s Episcopal Church
South Bend Fort Wayne Excurson Train and Real Estate Deals
The item notes an excursion train run by the L S M S Ry for $1 round trip from Elkhart to Fort Wayne on Sunday June 14 with 8 20 a m departure and 7 30 p m return. Also advertised Riverside bargain: $1 550 for a large house and lot worth $1 800 this month only with two lots and cottage for value of lots only by G B Arnold near gas office. Gatf sllle Pasteurized Buttermilk 3c per qt from Wambaugh Sanitary Milk Co Home Phone 1175. The Daily Review ten cents a week.
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Fort Wayne
Elkhart
Riverside
G. B. Arnold
Gatf
Wambaugh Sanitary Milk Co
The Hard Knocks Proverb on Life as a Smithy
The excerpt compares life to a Plutonian blacksmith, saying the world is an anvil and life’s blows shape us. It notes the hardest blows may be the ones that form us most, reflecting a stoic view of struggle and growth.
Pheasants Sing of Mayonnaise Touch Mrs Nuvoreesh
The fragment features Mrs Nuvoreesh recalling French pheasants singing about mayonnaise in a deeply moving moment. The passage cites Success Magazine and reflects on Great souls and passions versus virtues.
Local Health Notes and Funeral Arrangements
A list of residents undergoing medical procedures includes Mrs. Theodore Snader with tonsillitis Miss Hock of Syracuse and Ralph Brumbaugh son of J A Brumbaugh both receiving treatment and surgery at local facilities Mrs Mina Deming had a serious operation at Clark Hospital Guy Swanson and Bernice O Dell underwent procedures for throat and arm issues respectively Funeral services for J B Cloyes will be held at his home with clergy from Trinity M E church and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Elks in attendance Charles Johnson the Niles bank cashier who finished a ten year term in Detroit will spend the summer at Barren Lake with his wife and son
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Uhly
Pennsylvania Railway System
Flo
Jessup
J. M. Bulla
Ralph
J. A. Brumbaugh
Mina Deming
Clark Hospital
Guy Swanson
Bernice O'Dell
Willowdale
J. BE. Cloyes
West
Franklin Street
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
the Elks
L. A. Beeks
Trinity M. E. Church
F. T. Simpson
Charles Johnson
Niles Bank
Detroit House of Correction
Niles
Barren Lake
Jedge Immanuel Baxter Faces Bacon Theft Charge
In a southern courtroom vignette a judge questions Immanuel Baxter about stealing a side of bacon from Walters' store last night. The exchange features strained alibi attempts and a terse judgment. The judge notes the lack of ham and imposes thirty days.
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Jedge
Immanuel Baxter
Immanuel—Yassah
Tucker
Walters
Immanuel
James
Cleveland
Obesity and the Habeas Corpus Act’s Unusual Passage
Historic note on how England’s Habeas Corpus Act was enacted by an odd device. Lords Grey and Norris involved in a counting jest. Norris distracted by vapors, Grey counted him for ten, triggering the bill’s advancement despite mishap.
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England
Bishop Burnet
Lords Grey
Norris
Lord Norris
Lord Grey
Bill
Third pupil recital by Miss Gera B Himes at Presbyterian
Miss Gera B Himes presents the third in her popular recital series under the Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian church on Friday evening June 12 at the Presbyterian church. Admission is 15 cents.
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Gera B. Himes
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
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