Indiana Seeks Payment From US for Public Lands
Indiana lawmakers push to recover about $100000 plus from the United States for public land sales after 1818. They cite an enabling act and Jackson-era distributions, with an ongoing congressional bill to require full accounting and payment. Also notes excess fire insurance premiums, pensions for Indians, and local civic items from assemblies in Indiana.
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Indianapolis
United States
Indiana
William Cullop
Treasury Department
The
Land Office
Cullop
Jackson
Congress
Union
Herman B. Seely
Chicago
Bingham
Seely
State Auditor
Senate confirms Indiana postmasters before adjournment
The Senate swiftly confirmed Marion F. Evans for Marion and J. G. Brattain for Alexandra. It also approved Myron A. Thorp as Warren postmaster and Louis H aan as postmaster of Hualingbere, with action completed just before adjournment.
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Senate
Indiana
Marion F. Evans
J. G. Brattain
Marion
Alexandra
Myron A. Thorp
Warren
Louis Haan
Hualingbere
La Follette Praises Roosevelt In Oyster Bay Visit
Senator LaFollette spent two hours at Sagamore Hill discussing politics with Theodore Roosevelt and left with a broad, confident smile. Other insurgent figures Elmer Burkett and Representative Madison plan visits to Sagamore Hill, while Roosevelt has recently met with Pinchot and Garfield, all shaping the ongoing political fray.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Robert M. LaFollette
United States
Wisconsin
Theodore Roosevelt
Elmer Burkett
Nebraska
Sagamore Hill
Col. Roosevelt
Boston
Representative Madison
Kansas
Gifford Pinchot
Ballinger-Pinchot
Congressional Investigating Committee
James R. Garfield
LaFollette
New York
Juggling with Figures in Congress Expenditures
Washington figures show how much the late session cost the country. Tawney and Livingston dispute method and totals with net and gross figures. Tawney's net expenditures are 493,120,760 while Livingston's gross total reaches 1,081,744,142, about 15 million more than last year, including 11 million for the extra session.
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Washington
Tawney
House Committee On Appropriations
Representative Livingston
Georgia
Congress
Mr. Livingston
Taft's Auto Knocks Down Man in Massachusetts
President's son Robert A Taft and two companions were riding near Burgess Point when an Italian laborer, Michael Thisthwalla, stepped in front of their car. The impact fractured the man's skull base and caused head wounds and body bruises as repairs delayed traffic.
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Beverly
Mass
Robert A. Taft
George Harrison
Washington
Lendell King
Minneapolis
Burgess Point
Essex Country Club
Manchester
Young Tatt
Pride's Crossing
Taft
Michael Thisthwalla
Culberson's Seat Cost Twenty-Seven Dollars
Washington reports Senator Charles A. Culberson of Texas will enter the next Congress with a Senate seat purchased for 27 dollars the lowest modern cost in the upper house. The note contrasts his minimal outlay with ex representative Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania claiming his House nomination exceeded forty thousand dollars, seen as a critique of contemporary politics in Texas.
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Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Eleanor Butler Alexander
New York
San Francisco
John F. Philips
United States Court For
Western District of Missouri
Stuyvesant Fish, Jr
L Mildred Dick
Garrison
The
Hudson
Arthur Donner
American Sugar Refining Company
Charles Hi. Allen
Lowell
Mass
Taft
Knox
Pennsylvania
Mary Coes
Radcliffe College
Cambridge
Agnes Irwin
Richard S. Aldrich
N. W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Presbyterian Hospital
New York City
Emperor William
Kiel
Albert H. Babcock
America
E&ciety
Brooklyn
N. Y
Edith Gaynor
Mayor Gaynor
Washington
Charles A. Culberson
Texas
Senate
Culberson
Joseph C. Sibley
Lone Star
Latonia Roguits Winners List from Latonia Ky Meet
Latonia Kentucky results show Thorpe Herbert 802-5 and Indian Gin Ganz 409-20 with Ali Red Warren 117-20 and Right Easy Herbert 59-20. Markie M Werbert 79-10 and Hughes Martin 23-10 also listed as winners in a compact card from the racing segment.
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Latonia Roguits
Latonia
Walthorpe
Herbert
Ganz
Ali Red
Warren
Right Easy
Markie M
Werbert
Hughes
Martin
Georgia Desperado Found Wounded in Fitzgerald Home
A wounded desperado was found dying inside a Fitzgerald residence amid a national manhunt. Police report the suspect barricaded in the home and awaiting medical aid as investigators secure the scene.
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Georgia
Fitzgerald
Skin Humor and Pimples Celeb Cuticura Cure Claims
An advertisement-like recount describes long ago sufferers cured by Cuticura Remedies. One man endured 25 years of severe head and neck skin humor before rapid relief after trying Cuticura. Another writes of pimples vanishing in ten days after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Both include location and dates from 1909 1909.
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Normal
W. W. Parsons
Indiana State Normal School
Parsons
Normal Training High School
Terre Haute
Demarchaa Co. Brown
Cutiura
P. Keyes
Congress St
Boston
Mass
Cuticura
Wm. J. Sadlier
Susquehanna Ave
Philadelphia
Samples of College Humor From a German Professor Tale
A humorous quote from Life and a Royston remark describe college life. A German professor teases a student about staying after class while a professor’s wife warns him about standing bareheaded in the rain. The pieces lampoon campus behavior and social wit.
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Girin
John
The Finest Fabric? A Curious 19th Century Ad Parody
An OCR fragment voices a peculiar ad style note about fabric and pains with a mention of Painkiller Perry Davis. It ends with a quip that equates a genius to a man who borrows money and fails. The readable text blends product mention with a joke on cleverness.
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Welch &Landregan
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Varilolla
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Bakers
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