Indiana Opium Tiger Case Relates to Brockman’s Back Room
In Tipton Indiana a “blind tiger” case centers on William A. Brockman a barber and his son at Brockman Tailor Shop. Witnesses described a rear room used for illicit liquor operations tied to bars and society women frequenting an art studio nearby. Brockman was fined 75 dollars and jailed six months with suspended sentence, later challenged by mayor A Mock who fined 100 dollars and jailed ninety days prompting appeals through Tipton and county courts.
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Kfort
State of Indiana
William A. Brockman
Opa
Tipton
Indianapolis
Brockman
Beau Monde
Cina
Broeckman
Ndt
William A. Brock
Ity
William
Wiliam A. Brockman
A. Mock
Senmce Brockman
Tipn
Melcy
Purvis
Fire and weddings amid Indiana town news reel
Bridegroom's room fire at Vincennes during Kiplinger McJimsey wedding prompts hotel response led by Al Ford and Rev Hagar. In Covington, high Wabash water yields catfish harpooned in shallow pools. Wabash rescues a life risking bridge incident. South Bend reports a family remarriage after a policeman son arrest. Brazil notes eight weddings officiated by George H. Law at Sunday’s squire events.
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Vincennes
Lawrence M. Kiplinger
Marshall, Ill
Margaret Ames McJimsey
Guy A. MeJimsey
St. James Episcopal Church
Grand Hotel
al M. Ford
Covington
Squire
Brazil
George HE. Law
Indiana
Four-Legged Chicken Report From Jeffaragnville in April
April notes from Jeffaragnville describe a four legged chicken named Mya and a mystery that includes Noah Pearcy. The fragment hints at a unique livestock oddity and local curiosity surrounding the event.
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Jeffaragnville
Noah Pearcy
Tragic drowning as mother saves herself and son near Bluffton
Mrs Nellie Turnpaugh of near Bluffton killed herself and her 9 year old son Donald by jumping from a bridge over Deer Creek in Logansport. Delbert 6 survived after grabbing Brass tufts and reaching the bank. Police recovered the bodies. the incident occurred during a visit to Lincolns county.
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Routh Bend
Willam
Pearl Garfield
Logansport
Nellie Turnpaugh
Bluffton
Donald
Delbert
Indiana Union Traction Company
Deer Creek
Mamma
Indiana News in Brief Highlights Local Oddities
Summaries from towns across Indiana note May 2 commencement in Tangier, Evansville buying land for a $15,000 home, child death in Wabash, multiple injuries, century birth, a suicide, a train accident recovery, teachers changing schools, an ordinance on chickens in Nashville, sheep losses from dogs, arrests for theft and assault, a $10,000 lawsuit, a summer school plan in Muncie, a fatal fall in Marion, railroad supervisor appointment, 287 Kosciusko graduates, apoplexy incident in South Bend, paint-eating cattle, candidacies for public office, and a county oratorical contest results.
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Tangier
Evansville
Wabash
William Stoker
William Sellers
Charlottsvile
Comfort Steele
Brookville
Frank Drake
Spencer
John C. Robinson
Rushvie
Anna Trobinette
Oak Park School
Chicago
Nashville
Town Boar
Hiram WH. Wallman
George Kraci
Sullivan
Charles Whitlock
Paxton
Delphi
Lake FE
Rariden
Charles McGammon
Jessie A. Ashby
Columbus
Mre
Catherine Gruhim
Isaiah Harker
Parker
Muncie
Marion
John E. Blessing
Green Township
Harry V. Rice
Warsaw
Kosciusko County
South Bend
Harvey Steele
Bloomfield
Lester Watkins
Jagonville
Denver
Burton Green
Isaac N. Vaughn
New Richmond
James Lockard
Mamie Hyuston
Nelson Hickman
Terre Haute
Philip K. Realmbold
Indiana Red Men
Tichmond
Henry Farwig
Daeideg
Teket
NoblesviNe
Chalmers Patton
Weatfield
Robert’ Howe
Noblesville
Anna Holbs
Atlanta
Rashlston County
When May is Gone of All the Year
A fragment notes passage of time with May’s departure and a sense of an annual limit being reached. The line evokes seasonal closure and reflection on a year’s progression.
Efficient Baking Day Tips and Quick Bread Recipes
This piece offers housework planning advice to save time in the kitchen. It outlines overnight bread prep, steaming brown bread for noon, and a Pfeffer Neusse loaf with spices. It also gives Raisin Brown Bread ingredients and steaming method, plus tips to keep utensils within reach and clean as you go.
Pansies Speak in Gentle Lessons for Hard Times
A whimsical verse contemplates pansies as small teachers from humble places. The speaker imagines flowers with human speech offering counsel to endure life’s trials and to brighten even the darkest day.
Cheaper Meat: Prices and Cooking Tips Across Cuts
The article compares meat prices from twenty-five cents to ten to fifteen cents a pound for liver and other cuts. It suggests using small amounts of meat to flavor dishes and provides recipes for beef loaf and liver gravy, including parboiling liver with bacon fat and making a smooth gravy with flour and milk.
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Caif
Bullock Rampage Stirs Wexford Household
A bullock ran amuck in Wexford Ireland causing chaos at Murphy's home. It climbed stairs and wrecked a bed and furniture before smashing through a window frame and entering the street. The animal fled into the harbor and was chased down by magistrates before capture.
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Wexford
Ireland
Murphy
Magausaf
Revive Old Warning Out Law to Combat Central Kansas Pests
An archaic warning out statute may be revived after decades to address chinch bugs threatening crops in central Kansas. Gov Hodges faces petitions to invoke the law, once used during locust raids in the 1870s, now aimed at protecting agricultural yields this year.
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Hausays
Chorge H. Hodges
Kansas
Why a Poet Quit Politics by Yeats in Dublin Lecture
In a Dublin lecture the poet W. B. Yeats argued that political life corrupts sincerity, saying Eli warned that striving to speak high honest truths while pursuing politics leads to abandoning those ideals for expediency. The London Mail attributed the remark to Yeats.
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W. B. Yeats
Dublin
Eli
London Mail
Important to Mothers Review of Gastoria Remedy
Advertising jumbled copy notes Gastoria safety for infants and children with a 30 year signature claim. Mentions Fletcher's Castoria and a casual cheer about rain and crops. Includes stray lines about Mrs. Austin's Bug Buck wheat and a child’s playful fence remark.
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Fletcher
Various Advertisements and Quotations from a Past Issue
A collage of ad lines and quotes appears with mentions of Mrs Austin bag buckwheat, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a Daisy Fly Killer, and a kitchen gag about slow waiters. The text includes a quip on egotism, a call to “Kill the Files Now,” and a William Dean Howells quotation praising democracy and social contrast.
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Express
Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
N.Y
Oldest Yacht Constance Sold To Skaw Fisherman
The Copenhagen yacht Constance, claimed to be the oldest ship still in active service, has been sold to a Skaw fisherman in Jutland who will use the craft in his trade. Built 193 years ago, the vessel has sailed to many world ports, and the new owner believes she can sail for another century. Pneumonia and Erysipelas Serum. Not long before his death last February Dr. Philip Hanson Bliss of Baltimore discovered serum for pneumonia and erysipelas, which is now being tested with interest. Dr. Ford of Johns Hopkins notes the pneumonia serum is not a cure like diphtheria antitoxin but is helpful in treatment.
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Copenhagen
Constance
Skaw
Jutland
Philip Hanson Bliss
Baltimore
Ford
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Bisa
To Mothers In Thig Town Sweet Powders for Children
Delicate feverish children find relief with Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Remedies cleanse the stomach and aid the liver, recommended for fussy youngsters and used by mothers for 22 years. Sold by all druggists 26c. Sample Fred A. Olmsted Le Roy NY. Ad text ends with a moral proverb.
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Cass St
St. Louis
Charles Judlin
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Thig
Gray
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed
A Munford Alabama reader credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing back ache nervousness and fullness after passing through nail rubber on gates. The message praises the root and herb medicine as a dependable female remedy and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
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Munford
Als
Lydia E. Pinkham
F. P. Mullendore
Mupford
Alabama
Lyne
Mass
Lydia E
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Wiliam Dean Howells
New Leaf Mills
Dean
Iowa
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Fairfield
Payery
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Acre
Nethery
Gardner
Toledo
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