Law Proposal Targets Street Paving Materials Contracts
A Washington bill would compel the board of public works to receive bids on specified paving materials before awarding contracts. It requires detailed drawings and four sets of specifications and lets the city engineer estimate the maximum cost. The measure sets voting thresholds for remonstrances and governs bid acceptance and petition timelines.
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Thornton
Arnold
Board of. Public Works
Goshen Woman Wins Divorce Amid Alleged abuse
Bertha Chiffee of Goshen was granted divorce from Charles L. Chaffee in Superior Court before Judge Vernon Van Meet. She testified he chloroformed her and sometimes struck or kicked her, and she said he did not support her and drove her from home. The couple married in 1906 and separated in 1908. Slander case dismissed.
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Charles
L. Chaffee
Bertha Chiffee T
Goshen
Vernon van Meet
Superior Court
Chaffee
Quote on winter skies and sunrise or sunset charm
The speaker notes winter skies offer an interesting study and rarely a charming sunrise or sunset, contrasting bleak earth scenes with a white man’s snow cover and the day’s passing. The reflection suggests a thoughtful view of seasonal light and mood.
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Iwesul
Humorous Tale of Bede and a Porter at the Station
The Minnesota humorist J. Adam Bede recounts a traveling anecdote about a man with two trunks seeking to save on train fares. He trades a favor with a stranger who unknowingly helps him by offering to check a trunk on the other’s ticket, exposing a playful misunderstanding on the platform.
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J. Adam Bede
Minnesota
Bede
Chicago
Boston Newsboys Average 12-Year-Old Sellers
Herbert Copeland reports from a Boston study on newsboys. He notes about 5 000 boys work the city with roughly 3 000 under age 14 and an average age of 12. No one under ten is allowed to sell. He highlights a prevalence of small statures among Jewish and Italian youths as a factor of environment.
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Herbert Copeland
Boston
Transcript
The Precise Scientist In Philadelphia Opera Season Opening
During Philadelphia's opera season opening a noted scientist is praised for his fixation on proven facts. A dinner exchange reveals a question about cannibalism and a stern reply about speaking on topics one does not know.
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Qoy, Stuart
Philadelphia
Apple superstitions and Halloween customs in Scotland
A fragmented report notes Scottish Halloween practices and apple related superstitions. The readable parts mention seating and tradition around apples but lack full context or details.
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Apple. Superstitions. , Inc
Scotland
Car Plunge Injures Motorman and Nine Others
A streetcar on the Oakland avenue line skidded off the track in dense fog at 6 30 this morning, plunging down the embankment and injuring Motorman Carlton Warrick and several passengers. Warrick, from Goshen, suffered cuts and a broken nose, with glass wounds to the face. Einher Krieger and K S Charlwood also injured. Eyewitness Warrick reported a crowded vestibule and brake failure as the car shot into the frozen ground, scattering glass and causing panic among riders. Authorities and company staff gathered names of those aboard and inspected the scene, with ambulatory care provided at the railway office and Warrick later placed in his South Main Street boarding house.
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Hickory
Oakland Avenue
Carlton
Warrick
Carlton Warrick
Goshen
Main ‘Street
Einher ‘Krieger
Plum’street
Rand
Oakland
Warwick
Railway
South Main Street
Interurban
A. Motorman
sLater
Sibway
Mercantile. Company
Hayes
Creck
B.S. Stewart
Prairie Street
Mrs Millie D Arisman Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Millie D Arisman died at Clark hospital at 3 20 yesterday afternoon from tuberculosis. She had been ill fourteen years and undergone twelve operations. Survived by husband Benjamin J Arisman mother Mrs H J Sperry and brother James Sperry of Osceola Funeral at St John s Episcopal Church Lexington Avenue at 10 Monday Rev Champlain will lead burial at Grace Lawn cemetery Also noted Deaths at South Bend Emma Bibert Hamilton 44 Eugene Nofus 535
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Millie
Arisman
Clark ‘Hospital
Benjamin J. Arisman
Caleb Hughes County Surveyor Dies in Warsaw at 94
Caleb Hughes a former county surveyor aged ninety four died early yesterday at his home in Warsaw. He had voted eighteen times for Republican presidential candidates and was remembered for long public service.
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Caleb Hughes
Warsaw
Infant Sanderson Dies of Pneumonia in Edwardsburg Avenue Home
Two month old Kenneth A. Sanderson died yesterday afternoon at his parents home 1106 Edwardsburg avenue. Cause of death was pneumonia after a several day illness. Survived by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sanderson and children Charles and Mabel.
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Kenneth
Sanderson
Carl’ Sanderson
Edwardsburg Avenue
Carl” Sanderson
Charles
Mabel
Fox family member dies in Battle Creek sanitarium
Fanny Fox of Michigan City died at 6 this morning in Battle Creek sanitarium. She was well known in this city and was a cousin of Misses Bower of Marion Street.
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Fanny
Fox
Michigan
Creek
Mr.Fox
Christian Tftert Dies After Illness at Home
Christian Tftert died yesterday morning at 2:30 in his Union township home seven miles southwest of New Paris after a fourteen year illness culminating from a complication.
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Christian. Tftert
New
Paris
Union Township
Rainey Charges Panama Canal Feud Shifts to Real Issues
Lincoln’s absence cited as framing remarks while Rainey lambasts critics who he says attack him over charges of spoliation on the Panama Canal project. He claims opponents avoid the core issues and vows to deliver on the canal without an apology to Obdalta Cromwell Taft or others.
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Lincoln
Congress
Panama
Canal
Panama ‘Canal
Obdalta
Cromwell
Taft
Hotel Clarendon Fire Spars Large Daytona Resort
Daytona February blaze destroys the Hotel Clarendon Sea Breeze and ten adjoining cottages. Night clerk alerts guests who escape unharmed amid a rapid evacuation of about 215 people. The wooden structure valued at $200000. Prominent guests listed from Detroit Indianapolis Chicago and other cities.
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Daytona
Fla
Clarendon - Cat
Sea
Clarendon
F. G. Smith
Smith
Nora
Charles
Row
Detroit
Indianapolis
Joe Lemeke
Lemeke
Fred
Cincinnati
Howard
Sugden
Strong
Chicago
Kate. Mills
Knox
Sarah Mills
Elizabeth
A Squires
C. B. 'Gosby
Terre Haute
Ind
George A. Christian
Minneapolis
Paul ‘B. Davis
Son
Train Crash Fatalities and Injuries Reported in Omaha
A February Omaha train collision left one person dead and eight others injured. Sparse notes list a single passenger killed and eight hurt among the crash victims as authorities investigate the incident.
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Omaha
Neb
Passennger
Fragments Sketch Intimate Exchange Over Opera Plans
A brief, fragmented passage shows a wife urging patience while her husband speaks of an opera and spare moments. The tone hints at domestic tension and affection as they discuss time and plans.
Good for the Liver Diet and Exercise Advice
Advice on liver health emphasizes diet and exercise. It recommends fresh vegetables fruit whole grains and limited meat, warns against rich foods in hot weather, and suggests lemon juice in water at bedtime with cautious temperature.
Fragmentary Song Verse About New Zealand Facts
A scattered verse references New Zealand and notions of evidence and facts. The lines appear as a fragmentary lyric with unclear authorship and context.
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Peaulescely
Jone
Dr Williams Pink Pills Rescue Woman’s Health
A woman recounts severe illness after typhoid with stomach pain constipation and weight loss. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring appetite sleep energy and significant weight gain after a few weeks. She notes prior doctors failed to help and urges purchase through the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Sveti
Muncie
Willian
Dr. Williams
Dr. Wiliams Medicine Co
Schenectady
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