Indiana State Teachers Association 47th Annual Session
The 47th annual Indiana State Teachers Association session will be held on the above dates with Prof R J Hamilton Huntington schools president delivering the inaugural address titled A Plea for Sanity Supt W H Glascock Bloomington public schools retiring president will give a pre session address The Grand Hotel will host executive committee offices and a social is planned Friday evening Light refreshments and a brief literary program will be offered The program emphasizes Hoosier educators with sessions featuring Indiana and ex Indiana speakers and a strong educational focus
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Indiana State Teachers’ Association
R. J. Hamilton
Huntington Schools
Hamilton
W. H. Glascock
Bloomington Public Schools
Grand Hotel
James Hart
Lebanon
Ind
Elkhart
Indianapolis
Indiana
Calanerites High
Guess game prompts quiz on famous names and puns
Readings describe a party game where contestants answer with famous names from the last century. A questioner uses a prepared list of prompts ending with slips dropped into a bowl, prompting humorous or punny responses linked to well known figures and places.
Postmaster Lew Stens to Retire After Four Year Term
North Manchester postmaster Lew Stens plans retirement at term end next year. He was appointed despite a primary recommendation, and would likely retain the job if desired, but favors stepping aside for another capable Republican. The 4 year primary winner was a young Dunkard.
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Lew 'Stens
Manchester
Signs
Dunkard
Clothilks Assign From M rday Daily
Kaatz and Goldstein clothiers of Elkhart and Goshen assign their property for creditors. Mayor B F Deahl of Goshen named assignee. Stores closed. likely business conduct decisions to follow. Estimated assets 25 000 to 30 000 dollars. debts in Elkhart 158.95 and Goshen 1 887.43. Biggest failure in years. wholesale houses to feel impact.
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M Rday
Kaatz & Goldstein
Elkhart
Goshen
B. F. Deahl
Anthony Deahl
South Bend Conference Elects Leaders and Plans Epileptic Village
The annual state conference of charities and correction in New Albany elected officers for the coming year. T. E. Huison of Fort Wayne is president with vice presidents including Gov. James A. Mount and others. The next meeting occurs in South Bend in October. A bill to create an Indiana epilepsy village seeks $40,000 for land and $160,000 for buildings.
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Indiana
Property transfers in Washington and Elkhart areas
Guardians Cyrus Wirt and Catherine Streely complete multiple land and lot transfers in Washington and Elkhart counties. Transactions include 103.25 acres for Louisa Besecker at 350 dollars, 104 acres for Louisa Besecker at 2000 dollars, a lot in Elkhart for 500 dollars, and several Elkhart and Goshen parcels priced from 50 to 3500 dollars.
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Cyrus Wirt
Louisa Besecker
Washington
Catherine Streely
John H. Mammon
Elkhart
Fredrick Streely
Eugene Gourdeau
Equitable B. L
Goshen
William E. Kern
Lillian B. Garber
C. A. Webmyer
A. F. Wilden
Ira Sparklin
George C. Shipley
Prison Life in Maine Prisoner Missed Night Return
A Bath Maine waterfront inmate spent a month in Wiscasset jail and was allowed leisure like fishing. Used as mail messenger and errand boy, he was late returning to the post night and the warden warned of locking him out. afterward he timed his returns.
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Bath
Wiscasset
Court Rules Workman Cannot Sue Over Obvious Hazards
The appellate court ruled in the James L. Rebellus case that a worker cannot recover for injuries when guards required by law are clearly absent. It held a worker must use his eyes and accept obvious dangers as his own risk. The Brazil Black Coal Co. decision reinforces personal responsibility for noticing hazards.
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James l. Rebellus
Brazil Black Coal Company
Truancy Officers Abolished and School Reform Agenda
The Indiana Grange adopted resolutions at Terre Haute calling for abolishing school truant offices and placing duties on township trustees for a high school in each township. It seeks elimination of Roby race track and Lake County superior court funding based on actual attendance, creation of an extra Purdue agricultural hall, tougher pure food laws, improved game and trespass rules, a flat two cent per mile railroad fare, and mandatory agricultural education in public schools.
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Indiana Grange
Terre Haute
Roby
Superior Court of
Lake County
Purdue University
Local Jury Orders Tiny Damages in Affections Case
A Porter county jury awarded Dr. Claude H. Thompson ten dollars in a suit against Maurice Lowenstine for alleged alienation of Mrs. Claude H. Thompson of Athens Iowa. The claim sought fifteen thousand dollars after Mrs Thompson pursued knowledge in Vallejo raiso.
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Porter County
Claude H. Thompson
Athens
Iowa
Maurice Lowenstine
Maurice
Thompson Institution
Congressmen Brick Abides in Normandie Home of Speaker Henderson
Washington dispatch notes Congressman Brick lives at the Normandie, home of Speaker Henderson. A cluster of congressmen reside nearby to engage with the speaker on recognition for legislation. His wife and young daughter also reside there, while Griffith and Zenor stay with private families.
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Congressman Brick
Washington
Indianapolis News
National Capital
Brick
Normandie
Henderson
Griffith and
Zenor
Woman's Building At State Fair Advocated By Indianapolis Council
The Indiana legislature may fund a women's building at the state fairgrounds with ground donated by the state board of agricultural. The Indianapolis Council of Women backs a three story colonial style structure like Illinois’, to provide a rest room, dining area, nursery, domestic science school, and dormitory for students and instructors. The piece cites women's expanding roles, Civil War contributions, and notable female figures connected to such ventures.
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Council of Women of
Indianapolis
State Board of Agricultural
Fair Grounds
Illinois State Legislature
Illinois Woman’s
Council of Women
Asr
Busiest Woman in Boston Builds a Real Estate Empire
A Boston woman valued at about a quarter million dollars transforms houses into fashionable shops on Boylston Street. She personally oversees every detail from carpentry to cleaning, living in a basement apartment and directing all management herself. Her generosity to women in business remains notable.
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Boston
Bok
New York Sun
Reward Offered for Fugitive Desperado MarVin Kuhns
The Horsethief Detective association of Fulton County offers a reward of 100 dollars for the arrest of Marvin Kuhns. Representatives search for the fugitive desperado wanted for stealing a horse and buggy in Fulton County.
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Horsethief
Associattion
Fulton County
Marvin Kuhns
Society
Insanity in Army Command and Military Life
A discussion on how mental disease among generals could undermine campaigns and harm troops. The piece cites the Philadelphia Medical Journal noting a war balloon revealing a commander's insanity and warns of covert morbid conditions and delayed detection in distant campaigns.
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Philadelphia Medical Journal
Fifth Fulton county victim in corn shredder tragedy near Rochester
Frank Gelbaugh, a farmer near Rochester, becomes the fifth Fulton county victim in two weeks after his hand is caught in a Lively Corn shredder. Two bystanders restrained him as the roller tore his arm off at the elbow, the mangled limb delivered with the shredder fodder.
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Frank Gelbaugh
Rochester
Fulton County
First National Bank of Knox Planned in New Block
A group of Knox businessmen have filed an application with the department to organize the First National Bank of Knox. A new block will be erected to house the bank's location.
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Knox
Department
First National Bank of Knox
Ex-Policeman Arndt Attacks Wife in Elk City House
Frederick Arndt a former South Bend policeman battered his wife with a butcher knife injuring her forehead and fled as neighbors arrived. He, a blacksmith, has abused his wife and left the family strained since Thanksgiving. Mrs Arndt lies in a serious condition as police hunt him.
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Frederick Arndt
South Bend
Arndt
Turnock
Elkhart
Elkee
Date of the Flood Recalled From Genesis Chronology
The article recounts how the flood occurred in 1656 years after Adam's birth, citing Genesis ages to show the timeline from Adam to Noah. It notes the second month and seventeenth day for the start and the six hundredth year of Noah for the flood, per Genesis chapter five and six.
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Adam
Seth
Enos
Cainan
Mahalaleel
Jared
Enoch
Methusaleh
Lamech
Noah
New York
Ten-year-old Connolly to be sent to reform school
Thomas Connolly the ten year old boy accused of dis posing of a bicycle stolen from L A Larkins was taken to Goshen this morning by Supt Silvers, accompanied by his father. Judge Ferrall to decide if he will be sent to the reform school. The boy has repeatedly shown incorrigible conduct and refused to obey parents. He had been picked up by South Bend police weeks earlier and returned.
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Ingland
South Africa
Rhodes
China
Custer
Adam’s
Isaac
Abrahar Lincoln
Li Hung Chang
Sedley
Lan
Livingstone
Rockefeller
Senator Depew
Nye
Turkey
Leiter
Wheeler
Kitchener
Burns
Southey
Bobs
Max O’rell
Speaker Reed
Fillmore
Russell Sage
General Lee
Northern Pacific
Judge Parnell
Richmond
Harriet Beecher Stowe
United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas Hardy
Philadelphia
New York
Bellows
Commission
Chicago
Florence Potter
Thomas Connolly
L.A
South Bend
Hills in the dawn spark a playful chat
Rosa Dawn extols the hills as Mr. Tire admires their beauty at sunrise. Mr. Plumpford Tire jokes about the sun as a fiery chariot and ponders witnessing the climb on a bicycle in a humorous exchange from the New York World.
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Miss Rosa Dawn
Mr. Tire
Plumpford Tire
N. Y. World
Cuckoo Clock Fix Cues Talk of Teen Romance
A humorous Detroit Free Press aside notes a daughter’s suitor left at curfew and a clever fix to the parlor clock making it cuckoo every ten minutes, implying a playful parental trap centered on time and romance.
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Detroit Free Press
Africa's Sargent City Cairo Crowned Greatest Town
The Cairo chapter of Africa's Sargent City claims the title of greatest town in Africa with a population figure noted around half a million. The source text cites a Chicago Chronicle reference and mentions European influence.
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Africa
Cairo
Chicago Chronicle
Weber
Local G A R appoints Tipton officers
George Millerpost of Tipton elected officers for the G A R line up Commander William Cox senior vice J Bass junior vice Nathan Bailey. The staff includes Quartermaster Drury B Vice chaplain Rev Jacob Barrow officer of the day W O Dean representative Nathan Bailey alternate C W Passwater.
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George Millerpost
Tipton
William Cox
Nathan Baitey
Drury B
Jacob Barrow
W. O. Dean
Nathan Bailey
C.W. Passwater
Wolverine Sugar Co Offers Farm Prices in Wa Bash County
The Wolverine Sugar Company of Benton Harbor cannot secure sugar beets locally and offers favorable prices for tubers in Wa bash county. Lowest grade is tendered at $5 per ton amid price concessions.
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Wolverine Sugar Company
Benton Harbor
Wabash County
Elwood City Faces $65,000 Claim Over Defective Sidewalk
Mrs. Patrick Laughlin seeks 65000 from the city of Elwood alleging a defective sidewalk caused damage. The claim highlights municipal responsibility and seeks compensation under local law.
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Patrick Laughlin
Elwood
Harry Stewart Former Indianapolis Baseball Player Involves Court Hospital
Harry Stewart brother of Ace Stewart and former second baseman for the Indianapolis Baseball Club has become violently insane at Terre Haute and will be sent to the hospital for the insane. He was previously a baseball player and was struck on the head with a baseball bat.
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Harry Stewart
Ace Stewart
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Miss Myrtle Blackburn Sues Chicago and Erie for Injuries
Miss Myrtle Blackburn sues the Chicago and Erie railroad at Wabash for 15000 dollars claiming injuries after being struck by a fast train while crossing the track last summer near the town.
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Myrtle Blackburn
Chicago &Erie Railroad Company
Wabash
Invented by a Woman in China Empress Huang’s Rise and Remarkable Influence
The article traces the empowerment of women in China from ancient dowager rulers to modern figures. It highlights Huang in Shanghai as a revered, service‑oriented woman and notes a historical shift in female roles from silk to cotton industries over centuries.
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China
Shanghai
Huang
Kwan-Tung
Wu-Ni-Ching
Penelope
Solomon
Widow's grave water rite accompanies Arab remarriage
A vignette notes a widow in a distant culture visiting her late husband's grave the night before remarriage. She prays for forgiveness and uses water skins to pour tribute, hoping to soothe the spirit, then proceeds to wed again without guilt.
Grant county farmers hold annual institute at Marion
About 400 attendees join the Grant county farmers annual institute in Marion. Lecturers include Calvin Hugselman of Auburn Indiana and Miss Mary Li Clark of Wisconsin.
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Grant County
Marion
Calvin Hugselman
Auburn
Ind
Mary Li Clark
Wisconsin
John Chapman Shot by Brother in Connersville Incident
John Chapman of Connersville was reportedly shot by his brother in an early incident described in local reports. Further details remain unclear as investigators assess circumstances surrounding the event.
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John Chapman
Connersville
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Maine
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Giubs
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