Indiana Labor Federation faces split over anti temperance move
In Vincennes Indiana the Indiana Federation of Labor adopted anti temperance resolutions favoring liquor interests, sparking a miners revolt led by 18 000 Indiana miners who threaten to withdraw from the state federation. The scene featured Edgar L Brown Terre Haute and W D VanHorn Indiana Mine Workers opposing the move as brewers and bartenders pressed the policy.
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Vincennes
Indiana
Federation
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Edgar L. Brown
Terre Haute
State League of Bartenders
George Hargrove
International Board of the United Mine Workers
Mine Workers of
Hargrove
W.W. D. VanHorn
Indiana Mine Workers
David Curry
Charles Cox
George Stargrove
Carry Littlejohn
Hymera
Littlejohn
Democratic Party
Child Proclaims Poet's Name In Classroom Guess
A primary teacher, presenting Hiawatha selections, asks students to name the poet. A girl named Sarah proudly answers Mr Longlegs, eliciting smiles as the class learns about the poet’s love for children according to Lippincott's.
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Hiawatha
Sarah
Lippincott’s
Delacroix's Dante and Virgil Found Framed by Salon
A young Eugene Delacroix, poor in youth, painted Dante and Virgil at twenty. With no frame, he built a lath frame and sent it to the salon. On opening day, the painting appeared in a magnificent gilded frame, funded by the examining committee headed by Baron Gros who declared they would frame it at their expense.
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Eugene Delacroix
Dante
Virgil
Delacroix
Monnter
Paris
Baron Gros
Gros
Croup Quickly Cured by Hyomei Inhaler Claim
An advertisement touts Hyomei as a miraculous antiseptic dry air treatment to cure croup in early stages. It includes a testimonial from Rev. Geo. Sisson praising rapid relief and notes a complete inhaler outfit costs $1 with extra bottles for 50 cents, guaranteed by Houseworth Bros.
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Iyomei
Walter
Geo. Sisson
M. E. Church
South Londonderry
Houseworth Bros
Frogs and Fortunes in a Patchwork of Notices
A fragmentary newspaper item mentions frogs in western Australia shaping colonial history, a Civil War veteran praising Electric Bitters and selling at Houseworth Bros. drug stores, and several local notices advertising farms east of Elkhart river, a huckleberry farm, and a cabbage car arrival by William Currier with kraut cabbage sales planned for October 15. farm listings include two large estates and contact note Glenn B. Arnold, Gas block, home phone 1228.
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David Parker
Fayette, N. Y
Gettysburg
Houseworth Bros
Elkhart River
Sugar Grove
Glenn B. Arnold
William Currier
Piano Tuning and Cleaning Notices from Local Firms
Piano Tuning by Geo. Schaffl, piano maker in Hilk hart every month, phone 656. Riverside Cleaning Works at corner Maple Row and Michigan St, D. L. Martin, proprietor, home phone 3 on 1375. Do not forget Tag Day on October 17.
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Geo. Schaffl
Hilkhart
Riverside Cleaning Works
Maple Row
Michigan St
D. L. Martin
A Bad Spell Causes a Poetic Mixup
An old humor piece recalls Poor Jack who could not spell and fell into trouble after drafting a verse to an heiress he loved, joking that he wrote bonny for bonny and ruined his chances with words.
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Jack
Boney
Bonny
The Wise Man Should Not Refuse a Kindness Quote
A fragment from Herodotus states a wise man should not refuse a kindness. The line reflects on virtue and prudent generosity in ancient thought.
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Herodots
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Dean
King Cactus Oil
Gold Inc
Olney & McDaid
Mfrs
Clinton, Sowa
Tor
Elkhart
Ocean & Swift
Ure
Singer Sewing Machine Store
S. Main St
Indiana Labor Federation
the Brewers
Confederaton
Louis Ludiow
Indianapolis Star
Ion Movement
M. M. Lollo
Terre Mante
W. D. VanHorn
George W. Lackey
Dugger
Mine Workers
Congress
John Hughes
Indianapolis
J. H. Lehman
Bucklen Block
C. Walley & Son
South Main Street
C. K. Ranyon
Bell
Lexington Avenue
B.C. Godfrey
Western Australia
Australia
Western Australa
Rome
Mlic
Burn-Cro
Lamp Post
A. C. Keene
So. Main St
Chicago
Grand Rapids
Toledo
Air Line
Old Road
Lake Shore
Michigan
Great Council of Red
Southwest
Mexico
J. H. Rhein
Cincinnati
J.h.neds & Son Jewelers
Elkhart, Ind
Woodmen OF the World
Lake Shore Railway
BKK
J. Thomas
Lake Shore By
Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern
Gas House Coke
Elkhart Gas Company
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