Indiana Teachers Choose Miss Wilson for President
Miss Anna Wilson of Crawfordsville is chosen by the Indiana State Teachers Association as president after a close meeting in Indianapolis. The executive committee postponed a decision on next year’s convention location, with Indianapolis favored if suitable arrangements are possible.
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Indianapolis
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
State Fair Grounds
Misa Anma Willzon
Crawfordsville
Severin Hotel
Representaves
Cincinnati Chambers of Commerce
Misa Willson
Fair Grounds Colisaeum
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Thomas Quinlan, Jr. Mapazer
Chicago
Belle O'Hair
Miss O'Hair
Miss Wiilson
Richard Park
Sullivan
E. C. Jerman
Greensburg
J. H
Ona Hopper
Galem
H. J. Skeeters
Rushville
Ralston
Samuel M. Ralston
Gress
Indiana State Conference of Charities and Correction
Richmond
Central Board of Control
Convention Hall
David C. Peyton
Indiana
State News Briefs on Labor Violations Probe
Evaneville union members form a secret committee to investigate alleged state labor law violations. Fort Wayne widow Mrs. Lucens Diedrich, 68, died last August by suicide using poison.
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Evaneville
Central Labor Union
Fort Wayne
Snipers in Trench Warfare Shape of Modern War
British troops face relentless snipers whose bullets outlast shells in daily tolls of war. The piece notes how trench defenses and mobile fronts push snipers into danger, with accounts of two marksmen at extreme range and a famed rapid-fire ace killed fetching water for a gun.
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Eld
Great Britain
Desert Wrecks a Minstrel in California
William Green, a New Orleans animal trainer with 18 performing dogs and a show wagon, arrived via Pomona begging Mayor Vandergrift for aid after his mule and horse died in the Arizona desert. Stranded and penniless, he had left New Orleans last March en route to the San Francisco Exposition.
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Pomona
Cal
William Green
New Orleans
Vandergrift
Green
San Francisco Exposition
Arizona
Oldest Red Cross Member Sends Warm War Greeting
Ottawa reports Sir Robert Borden has received and forwarded a picture of the world’s oldest Red Cross member, a Western Indian named Pointed Cap from the Fire Hills reserve in Saskatchewan. He will be about 108 on November 14, as Canada creates a Red Cross branch for Indigenous peoples, showing broad national wartime support.
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Ottawa
Can
Robert Borden
Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Fire Hills
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Flatiren Explosion Injures Local Daughters
Berilavilice O Edna and Sertha Jenkins, daughters of a farmer nearby, were burned when a f ron fletiren acetoloang Seeviet ie exploded near their home. Officials report one injured presumed serious with burns and the scene under investigation by local authorities.
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Flatiren
Giris
Berilavilice. O
Edna and
Sertha Jenkins
Here
War Horrors and Courage From a French Train Car
A wounded stretcher bearer recalls early war horrors from Nice to Arras, including amputations, lack of tetanus serum, and a surgeon’s slap that jolted him. He notes grim scenes of the Notre Dame de Lorette fighting and the toll on soldiers, ending with a Moroccan’s pacifist harsh critique of ongoing war.
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Nice
France
Italy
Arras
Notre Dame de Lorette
Professor Searches Wilda Wilds for Missing Husband
Mrs Genevieve Bridwell wife of J W Bidwell former entomologist at the University of California travels toward Wilda Berkeley to aid in locating her husband who ventured into the western Australian wilds months ago as an agent of the Hawaiian government seeking ports on the west coast.
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Wilda
Berkeley
Cal
Genevieve Bridwell
J. W. Bidwell
University of California
Antipodes
Western Australia
West Coset
Not Suitability for Navy Tales of ill-suited applicants to a shipyard
A column recounts readers stories about a secretary of the navy who never saw a ship and bungled reactions to a manofwar. It notes individuals visiting the Wabash navy yard seeking work as a paperhanger, stableman, roofer, or gardener and failing to enlist because their skills did not match naval needs.
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Boriow
Charleston
Mass
Navy Yard
Ward
United States
London Weather Inspires Far Country Return
A returned traveler recalls London's dreary air and thick smoke impressing his village friends. He jokes his window-sill corn sprouted oddly, but a policeman soon orders him to remove the box, underscoring local reaction to unfamiliar sights.
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London
Fragmentary Dialogue Suggests Family Struggle Over Clothing
Disjointed lines show a man and companion debating a coat purchase amid a broader theme of domestic tension. References to a wife and repeated yearly expectations hint at financial pressure and unresolved conflict within the household.
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Anna Willson
Indiana State Association
Bachner
Gary
Harry J. Bachner
Ruby Bachner
David Edenburg
Whiting
Tesa
The
Frankie
Sai
Christian D. C. Buck
Hoagland
Edgar M. Caskey
F. Bowser & Co. Inc
Alvie C. Crimmell
Hartford City
Thomas Hartsook
Logansport
William H. C. Higgins, Jr
M. Rumely Company
Laporte
Alps
Tyrolese Alps
Desert
Calumet
Calumetdoss
Sallere
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