Engagement News and Society Romance At Bar Harbor
Katherine Elkins faces danger yet her romance with the duke progresses with a fall announcement expected soon. Mathilde Townsend, Washington’s beauty, summers at Bar Harbor with her mother to host the Duke d Alber, signaling a high society match amid years of courtship rumors.
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Astington
Evelyn Walsh
Dauce
Colorado
Bard McLean
John R. Melean
Cincinnati
Washington
Mis- Walsh
Mathilde Townsend
Duke of Ash
Spain
Catherine Elkin bin
May
Vinson Walsh
Katherine Elkins
Miss Hiking
Nps
Bar Harbor
Duke d'Albe
America
Miss Townyear
Pegar
Mav
Alisa
Jackson Located Treasury Site Tradition Credits Andrew Jackson
A historic note claims President Andrew Jackson selected the Treasury building site after a commission failed to decide among land options. It recounts a morning encounter with the site committee and the moment he struck the earth with his walking stick near the White Lot marking the southeast corner. The project by Robert Mills began and the granite edifice was completed in August 1830s.
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Andrew Jackrapatese
Tokietis
the & Vatteet States
Oto
United States
Treasury Bion Togedeer Gui Preaerty Penidinge
Jackson
Seston
Pennaverine
Polina
Robert Mills
Maine
New Hampshire
Besieged Heiress Declines Contest to Millionaire Will
Miss Anna S. Cammack daughter of the late John Cammack says she will not contest her father’s will. She plans to keep working as a federal clerk earning about $160 a year, while the estate mostly goes to his widow and a minor son. The case highlights her unusual stance and independent stance after her father’s death on June 15.
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Anna S. Cammack
Washinston
John Cammack
Lncal
Apa
Cammack
Will
Post Office Department
Doe
Miss Canmack
Laneing
Brightwood
Izabeth Cammack
John Edmund Cammack
Anna Cammack
Big Force to Take Next Federal Census
PRECTAR NORTH plans the thirteenth census though new legislation is pending. The project targets about 90 million people across the United States and territories. It aims for unprecedented thoroughness, counting agriculture, manufactures, mines and quarries, beyond a simple population tally. The Philippines census is not included.
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Prectar North
Congress
United Sates
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Guam
Samoa
Panama Canal Zone
Philippines
Bryan and Bryanism Dominant in Democratic Platform View
The piece critiques the Democratic platform as mixed and evasive while praising the Taft and Republican contrasts. It contends Bryan advances a reformist yet opportunistic agenda, with his platform framed to appeal to uncommitted voters and his nomination making platform specifics secondary to the candidate himself.
Bryan backs off second term pledge to voters
Mr. Bryan states he will not seek a second term if elected this year. The passage suggests voters will decide his fate, possibly keeping him as a first term candidate rather than a chronic contender.
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Bryan
Democratic party praised as greatest conversational party
A Denver correspondent hails the Democratic party as the greatest conversational party on earth. The remark ends with a note of pity that the party’s actions do not match its rhetoric.
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Democratic Party
Denver
Bryan faces issue of a second term pledge
The piece discusses Mr. Bryan’s professed refusal of a second term, noting such promises are common but not binding. It compares with Roosevelt and other presidents, arguing Bryan may change his mind and that public opinion may override a vowed future candidacy.
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Brean
Roosevelt
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Bryan Skewers Platform Criticism as Retreats
Milwaukee Sentinel analyzes Mr. Bryan’s charge that the Chicago platform’s omissions reflect retreat, noting Roosevelt’s advanced proposals are missing from Denver as well. The piece commends the omission of radical vague ideas but argues Denver weakens its platform by nominating a proponent of those doctrines.
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Mr. Bryan
Chicago
Roosevelt
Bryan
Denver
Milwaukee Sentinel
Denver platform fuels Japanese anxiety in wartime rhetoric
An editorial accuses readers of overreacting to a Denver convention plank on excluding Asiatic laborers, arguing the issue is used as a subterfuge by politicians. It suggests the Japs overreact while noting Bryan is not elected and urging restraint until tangible cause for alarm appears.
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Denver
United States
Bryan
Mystery surrounds death and embezzlement cases
In Indianapolis a 28 year old woman died at the family home due to chloral. Her husband Frankel reported a quarrel and found her body with an empty bottle. Police pursue a full investigation amid uncertainty. In Bloomington ex city treasurer Harry A Axtell faces embezzlement and defalcation charges involving a real estate fund and city records. Axtell’s bonds were tied to forgery and false sworn reports. a receiver was appointed for the association.
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Ianapoli
4 Olo
North Capital Avenue
Knox
Frankel
Bray
Eeris
Bloomington
Ind
lTlarry A. Axtell
Axtell
Building Association
Bingham
Death of Indiana editor Fallea follows
Tadianapelia Indiana records show Variin E. Ries a Freemason and former Indiana editor from Indianapolis died of heart disease while traveling from Indianapolis to Tipton. The funeral and cause are noted after a rapid decline during travel.
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Heart of Indiana
Fallea
Tadianapelia
Ind
Variin
E. Ries
Freemason
Indiana
Indianapolis
Tim
Tipton
Pad
Rice
Indianapolis Sentinel
Roan
Casuelty
Miasonic Advocate
Wheat Pest Under Investigation at Government Station
The government experiment station near the city works on the roxopetra wheat pest spreading in the south and southwest. The station aims to find eradication methods as its spread would cause heavy damage to Indiana wheat interests.
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Ychmaard
Itd
South
Southawest
Indiana
Temperance Forces in Portland Arrest Three Liquor Sellers
Portland Pennsylvania? no. Civic League of Pennville campaigns against liquor sellers. detective hired by temperance forces files affidavits charging three men with selling bot tied beer and several arrests have been made.
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Portland
Ind
Pennville
Temperance Forces
Penn Americans Plate Glass to Resume Operations in August
Alexandria Ind. The Penn American Plate Glass Co. ends a six month shutdown and plans to resume with a full force of 600 workers around August 5. Since the shutdown about 100 men have been at work.
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Alexandria
Ind
Penn-American Plate Glass Co
Good Roads Congress Planned in Richmond August 8
Richmond Indiana plans for a statewide Good Roads Congress on August 8. A petition will circulate to urge the government to build a mile model road in Wayne County.
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Richmond
Ind
Good Roads Congress
Wayne County
Lightning Red Man Heid in Indiana Change of Venue Case
Lightning red man from Lawrenceburg Indiana named Hills or Heid claimed Cincinnati as home. He was tried before May or Bielby on a change of venue from Mavor Johnson of Aurora. After a preliminary hearing the prisoner was bound over to the grand jury.
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Lightning Red Man
Heid
Lawrenceburg
Ind
W. CC. Hills
Cincinnati
Bielby
Mavor Johnson
Aurora
Sale of Non-Intoxicating Beers Banned by Judge
Anderson ruled that selling so called non-intoxicating beers is unlawful as statutes define such beverages as intoxicating and sale requires a license. Judge Mc Clure presided in the decision.
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Anderson
McClure
Indiana Pastor Adjudged Insane in Marion
Marion Indiana Presbyterian minister Edward F. Planett was declared insane after visiting many residences and offering to raise the dead by prayer. He will be sent to a private sanitarium.
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Indiana
Marion
Ind
Edward FE. Planett
Evansville River Engineer Horatio Larne Dies at 12
Evansville Indiana mourns Horatio P Larne a veteran river engineer aged 12 native of Madison Indiana. His long service to the local port and engineering community is noted in obituary remarks.
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Evansville
Ind
Horatio P. Larne
Madison
Revenue Collections for New Albany Division July Totals
July receipts for the New Albany division of the 7th internal revenue district show beer 1.98 cigars 387.24 tobacco 101.20 with a total of 2482.92. A separate brief from Ft Wayne notes Jack Young 22 of Indianapolis aiding Miss Hazel Aigood of LaGrange when a cry ended a walk along a country road.
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New Albany
Ind
7Th Internal Revenue District
Ft. Wayne
Mnd
Hazel Aigood
Lagrange
Jack Young
Indianapolis
Tragic finds and early morning manhunt in Indiana
Reports describe a mutilated body found in Rensselaer by a rain crew, identified as John W. Yates 21, with chaotic details of the woman's involvement and his attempted boarding of a fast train. In Indianapolis, 100 armed men scoured 70 miles around Broad Ripple for William Douglass 25 after an alleged assault on Helen Dungan, who was with her mother nearby. Separately, French Lick West Baden liquor interests organize to thwart temperance and dry township efforts by expanding the voter role and mobilizing supporters.
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Rensselaer
Ind
John W. Yates
Trac
H Ke
J. W Vares
Ireliananolis
Broad Ripple
Wiliam Doucghiss
Helen Dungan
Aga&n
Samiteee Dungan
Douglass
French Lick
West Baden
French Lick Township
High Divorce Filings Reported in Delaware County Court
Judge Lefler faces a flood of divorces as 114 applications were filed in the April term. Wives account for 88 petitions and husbands for 26. In Warsaw, 16 year old Violette Marie En died after illness. postmortem found heart pierced by a sharp instrument along arterial path.
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Muncie
Ind
Warsaw
Public meeting forms group to combat law violators
At Bethlehem near Jeffersonville Indiana a public meeting formed an organization to deal with law violators in the future. The gathering followed three killings within the past year in the area.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Bethlehem
Here
Death After Bat Hit At Inglefield Game
Evansville Indiana they report Oscar Meyers died after being struck in the left temple by a pitched bat while playing in Inglefield. He felt no ill effects for several hours and left the diamond unaccompanied.
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Evansville
Ind
Oscar Meyers
Prisoners Escape From Brownstown Jail Amid Lock Break
Four inmates led by Charles Aber Jimmie Holland Curtis Acton and John Sass escaped Brownstown county jail breaking a lock. The facility housed 26 prisoners at the time as authorities investigate the break.
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Brownstown
Ind
Charles Aber
Jimmie Holland
Curtis Acton
John Sass
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