Informed fragments on world affairs and American notes
A miscellany of brief observations touches on sultans and rallying discourse, Wright brothers in Dayton, Turkish missions, aviation prospects, and Mars signaling. It cites Japanese population in the United States, a London divorce case with a North American Indian as corespondent, Georgia peach crops and short cake, New England industry plans, western land openings, Porto Rico prospects, and the deposed Sultan Abdul Hamid II with a speculative sum about his condition.
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London
Senate Passes Corporation Tax Amendment in Tariff Bill
Taft proposed amendment clears the senate by 60 to 11 amid widespread business telegrams of protest. Borah argues trusts favor the tax to shift costs to the public while Roosevelt frets over senate divisions. Separately, Miss Marion Lawson wed James Fuller Lord under a vast American flag in Scituate Massachusetts as Miss Harriman joins the National Association for the Promotion of Kindergarten Education.
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Taft
Senate
Roosevelt
Library Committee
Borah
Idaho
Monsig. Falconio
United States
Marion Lawson
Thomas W. Lawson
James Fuller Lord
Chicago
Scituate
Mass
Marry Harriman
National Association For the Promotion of
New York
Rays. Reid
la Crosse
Lewis
Multiple Events Highlight 1903 News From Coast to Coast
Reports state an East St. Louis meat inspection inquiry found unfounded charges. Ironwood bank officers face grand jury over alleged 300000 missing funds. Wrights fly at Fort Myer. Cornel crews sweep rowing events defeating Syracuse Columbia Penn Wisconsin. Charles Carr faces bigamy trial in Carmi after St. Louis arrest. Iowa student Bertram Graves drowns in Iowa City. John Schuette sinks after collision with Alfred Mitchell near Detroit. Hotel Raisseau Mont fire at Lake Placid kills employee. 200000 loss. U S Congregationalists raise 300000 toward 500000 goal for missions. Newport docks tragedy kills twenty workers. Fairbanks Alaska gold output tops 4750000. Chicago mayor Busse undergoes appendicitis operation. critical. Oklahoma farmer’s daughter killed by harvester accident. Orville Wright completes successful aeroplane flight at Fort Myer after three tries. bloodhounds chase two suspects.
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East St. Louis
Wilson
H. F. John
E. T. Larson
George H. Meadow
First National Bank
Ironwood
Mich
Wright
Fort Myer
Orville Wright
Cornell
Syracuse
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Charles Carr
St. Louis
Carmi
Ill
Verne Wood
Bertram R. Graves
Dows
University of Iowa
Iowa City
John Schuette
Toledo
Alfred Mitchell
Duluth
Detroit
Raisseaumont
Lake Placid
N. Y
Congregationalists
United States
American Board of Foreign Missions
Newport
England
Fairbanks
Alaska
Fred A. Busse
Chicago
Ural
Okla
John Nichola
Turbulent Era Headlines From 1906 News Wire
A mosaic of 1906 items reports a London baronet identified by a railway death, a Peru dignitary found in a New Labrador field, vast fires in California ranches, a murder confessions in San Francisco, 8000 Kansas miners ordered back to work, Calvin anniversary rites in Geneva, Lake Champlain tercentenary events, Danish American Fourth of July in Aarhus, New York politics shakeups, and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition gains. Also noted are Wright’s flight at Fort Myer, antitrust indictments at Sugar Refining, Italian earthquake shocks, Harvard beating Yale in rowing, and various public notices from across the nation.
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Yuma
Ars
Arthur Carl ‘Stepney
London
Spring Valley
Charles, Butler
Peru
Tfl
Potters
San Fernando
Cal
James 4H. Cunningham
San Francisco
Caroline Branch
Gray Brothers’ Construction Company
Kansas
John Calvin
Geneva
Switzerland
Taft
Gow. Hughes
Lake Champlain
Ticonderoga
N. Y
Aarhus
Denmark
Crown Point
National Education Association
Denver
Col
Old State House
Philadelphia
Toledo
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Washington B. Thomas
Arthur Donner
Charles H. Senff
John E. Parsons
John Mayer
George H. Frazier
American Sugar Refining Company
Italy
Sicily
Messina
Reggio
Harvard
Ita
Yale
Thames
Gustave Thiese
Akron
William Hutt Curzon Wylie
Calas ‘Labaca
Shanghai
United States
Roosevelt
McClellan
New York
Theodore Bingham
J. E. Chilberg
John C. Raymond
Second Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Lisle Crabtree
Alabama Supreme Court
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Jackson
Mich
Laporte
Ind
Belle Gunness
Andrew Helge
Magee
Judge Weir cites Fire Insurance Officials for contempt
Indianapolis judge issues contempt citations against Ernest Sellers Thomas McMurray and James McBeth in a charge that fixing fire insurance rates by the inspection bureaus and the underwriters association violated a restraining order. The attorney general seeks injunction and receiver to control bureau records, which the judge declined to appoint.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Weir
Superior Court
Ernest M. Sellers
Indiana Inspection Bureau
Thomas 8. McMurray
Indianapolis Fire Inspection Bureau
James McBeth
Indiana Association of Underwriters
Bingham
Association of Underwriters
Manslaughter Verdict for Scott in Thornton Killing
Ft Wayne Indiana John B Scott found guilty of manslaughter in the death of J Frank Thornton of Toledo carrying a sentence from two to fourteen years. Other notes: Maples, friend of Vice President Colfax, dies in the local poor house. Elwood plant shutdown. Newcastle melon king John Vanbuskirk dies after illness. Rev Father Bildermann in serious condition. New Albany appoints Nicholson to sinking fund board. Mrs Mary Ann Shelby, cholera heroine of 1833, dies at 94.
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Ft. Wayne
Ind
John B. Scott
J. Frank Thornton
Toledo
South Bend
B. Maples
Colfax
Newcastle
John Vanbuskirk
Henry County
New Lisbon
John Bildermann
St. Peter’s
Whitley County
New Albany
Best
Charles D. Nicholson
Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners
John H. Stotsenburg
Charlestown
Mary Ann Shelby
Reiza Hammond
Governor Marshall Calls Reformatory Trustees Meet
Indiana Gov. Marshall orders a Saturday July 3 meeting of the reformatory board of trustees at his office to consider charges against the trustees and Superintendent Whittaker. Theodore Weinshank of Warren Webster & Co. alleges the heating and lighting contract was awarded to Indiana Engineering Co. after a new bidding, despite Weinshank's $9,000 bid being the lowest at the first setting.
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Tndianapolis
Ind
Marshall
Board of Trustees
The
Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Whittaker
Theodore Weinshank
Warren, Webster &, Co
Chicago
Weinshank
Indiana Engineering Co
Multiple Indiana city notices reveal legal and civic actions
Reports show Kinny fleeing a hospital after a wreck. Indiana music teachers pick new officers in Lafayette. Thompson Co. forms in Evansville amid prohibition laws. Indianapolis court approves rail case master’s report. Rose Polytechnic Institute receives a $500000 bequest and a city block for the school. Grand Army fund planned in Crawfordsville. saloon licenses contested in Goshen and Marlow. Lafayette brides vow in a large ceremony at St Francis.
Governor orders probe into Jeffersonville poolroom betting
Indiana Governor Marshall sent counsel Bert New to Jeffersonville to investigate reports of a poolroom backing ponies bets in the ball park. The poolroom, allegedly flourishing among Louisville sporting men driven out after the HID crackdown, may be shut down if local authorities fail to act. Ed Alvey of Louisville is said to back the operation.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Marshall
Bert New
Jeffersonville
Louisville
Ball Park
Ed Alvey
Pitner suit over Gunness estate verdict in Laporte
Laporte jury awards $8,145 to Fred M. Pitner as administrator of Andrew Helgetein’s estate against Wesley Gogle executor of Belle Gunness. Helgeen allegedly stole funds prior to her murder. history ties to Aberdeen and Laporte in 1908.
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Laporte
Ind
Fred M. Pitner
Andrew Helgetein
Aberdeen
S. D
Belle Gunness
Laporte Circuit Court
Wesley Gogle
Fatally Flirtatious Captive Outwits Cannibal King
A playful captive charms a cannibal monarch with flirtation and wit. She insists prettiness helps her fate, and the king, both amused and shaken, orders her instant revenge as she is led away. The quip concludes with the captive noting confidence in her looks would pay off someday.
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Puck
Mrs Caroline Kessler’s Kidney Trial and Recovery
Friends recall severe kidney disease that left Mrs. Caroline Kessler of Paw Paw Michigan near collapse with back pain rheumatism dizziness urinary troubles and dropsy. After using Deans Kidney Pills her health returned and she encourages inquiry. Sold by dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Caroline Kessler
W. Main St. Paw Paw
Mich
Kessler
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
The Privileged Class
A social scene vignette centers on Minna warned against flirtatious behavior by a companion, stressing propriety and marriage expectations in a fashionable circle. The dialogue hints at romantic tension and the constraints placed on women in upper-class society.
Force of Habit Proposal Voice Melts as Humour Flares
In a playful scene a stammering suitor at last asks Mum Maud to marry him. The blushing response from Mum Maud signals surprise before the romance takes a sudden, lighthearted turn.
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Harry
Old Timer Praises Postum for Health and Nerves
A longstanding user recounts switching from coffee to Postum after nervous dyspepsia. She notes her physician advised against tea or coffee, that Postum tasted delicious, and that her nerves and stomach strengthened steadily. Her husband also quit coffee, and the family benefited from the change.
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Baye
Ari
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Dayton
Tle
Asiatic
Turkey
Mars
Ananias Club
Tokyo
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Delaware
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Maine
Sam
Montana
Washington
Porto Rico
Abdul Hamider
Ca. Alte
Iike Cagebereen
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News OF the
Indianapolis Superior Court
Elwood
GOV. Marshall
Board of Trustees of Reformatory At
Michigan City
D. E. Kinny
Carson
South Shore
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Lafayette
Indiana Music Teachers
Princeton
Zark Leaming
Mimi M. Kimball
James S. Bergen
Ethelbert Fisher
Evansville
Tennessee
Thompson Co
Willey B. Thompson
Charles T. Willams
Nashville
David A. Stele
John J. Nolan
Evansville & Southern Indiana Traction Co
Anderson
United States District Court
Vandalla Railroad
Union B. Hunt and
Railroad Commission
Terre Haute
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Susan Frances Heminway
Rose
Crawfordsville
Culver Union Hospital
Goshen
James S. Dodge
Elkhart County
William Fredmeke
Abram Peck
Marlow
Grant County
Paulus
Francis
Helen Realty Cou
C. B. Somers
Minnois
New York Streets
Wilde
Morris
State Dental Association
H. C. Sexton
C. D. Lucas
C. ©. King
C. R. Redmond
Drs. Alex. Jameson
J. A. Dinwiddie
F. R. Henshaw
State Board of Dental Eixaminers
Union Horseshoers
International Association
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Efomatl
Minna
Mengas
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