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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1913
Page
10
President Taft declared in New York his unequivocal support for arbitral settlement of Panama canal tolls if negotiations between Britain and the United States fail, hoping the matter is resolved before his term ends.
Noblesville January report details senator elect Dr Wla Words Windfall Tipton Thornston counties proposing a three member state highway commission two paid as expense reimbursed and an engineer salary around four thousand annually. County commissioners would advise on road plans yearly, with patrolmen in each district to keep roads in repair and split between two major parties.
Richmond reports prosecutors and juvenile court officials investigating Georgiana Doyle’s marriage to Benjamin F. Hensley amid claims the girl is twelve. Grandparents allegedly signed an affidavit stating she was marriageable, while the county clerk questioned the age and the girl claimed to be sixteen. In Columbus, Thomas Bailey and his wife were attacked at home. Bailey was struck with a brick and knocked down, later unconscious, and Mrs. Bailey was struck in the side with sewer tile, also left unconscious.
A gasoline stove exploded in Gustav T. Langles tin shop in Aurora sparking a fire that damaged the nearby meat market of Charles J. Scharff the law offices of Hugh C. McMullen Harry R. McMullen and Cassins Wy McMullen and the coffee shop of William Henry on the second floor The total loss is about 15000 with small insurance. In Terre Haute Indiana a couple Mr and Mrs Fred Taylor have three married sons all born into a family where the parents married at ages fifteen and fourteen.
A river steamer mishap drowns Madison Vicholas Johnson leaving a widow and six children. Conductor Litton Stoss on the Southeastern Railway loses a right foot after a car collision. Other items note a church revival reception in Tipton, a melon grower burned by an exploding light plant, and various local incidents including assaults, burns, legal cases, and accidents across Jeffersonville Shelbyville South Bend Mishawaka and nearby towns with hospitals and law actions.
Report details tobacco crop sales in Spencer County versus a rock port area with bidders and local committee involvement. Mentions delivery near a tobacco warehouse and bids to the creek river pool with participants discussing terms and timing for the 19th century harvest season.
In Terre Plate a worker named Newkirk forcibly washed the feet of Lea West after insisting they needed washing. Justice Meinheeke held Newkirk had committed assault and fined him $1 plus costs.
A Lake Shore crossing incident in Mihawaka killed Marian pe vinter and Rosalia Peevinter, ages seven, and a third person who stepped onto the track. both children died instantly.
In Newark 50 striking garment workers blocked guards as 256 young women left work. Police used clubs to separate strikers from the crowd and cars evacuated workers. Five picketers were jailed for ten days in the workhouse after unlawful conduct charges.
Father Daniel J. Gallagher, assistant rector at the Cathedral of the Assumption, wed Florence Layer a nurse residing at 124 North Hite Avenue in St Louis. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. Perceval Btown. Gallagher had been absent from his cathedral for a week before Christmas Mass. Chicago police announce Hubert Catulith, alleged car thief ring leader, arrested after a tip from MV Ster Houston.
Market notes list corn, oats, hay, poultry, geese, rabbits, cattle, calves, and sheep prices. Prices shown for No. 2 red corn, No. 4 white corn, mixed grains, timothy hay, clover, poultry weights and rates, cattle shifts, hogs, calves, and lambs with ranges and averages across shippers and grades.
In Pottsville area reports describe a person attaching firecrackers to a pigeon during a scuffle over a rival shoot. The bird escaped the gunner and flew toward Branchdale, the crackers igniting hay as the pigeon landed.
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