Happenings From Around The World In A Week
Numerous items from politics to science mark the week. Auditor Robert 8. Person resigns amid claims South Dakota senators sought his removal. President Taft discusses ship subsidy in Seattle. Dr. Hutchins named temporary president of Michigan. German American and other allied conventions meet. marriages and diplomatic moves occur. boycotted or contested actions raise tensions in industry and international affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert 8. Person
Interior Department
South Dakota
Taft
Seattle Exposition
Congres
William Jennings
S.ary
Lincoln
Neb
Harry BE. Hutchins
University of Michigan
Girl Hero Drowned After Saving Ten Children at Dam
Cecilia Roach 17, a high school pupil from Pittsburgh, saved ten children from a drifting rowboat near the Mo Nongahela dam at Eighteenth Street before the craft capsized. Thirteen-year-old Bessie Timmons died in the transfer chaos. rescuers pursued others and pulled several to safety as the current drove the boat over the dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitsburg
Cecilia Roach
South Aide
Monongahela River
Eighteenth Street
Bessie Timmons
Atll Pool
Government Lock
Cilia Roach
Miss Roach
Cecilia
Mike Hubbard
Mazie Kearns
Memory Gone Four Months in Spokane Mystery
Spokane resident Max Passler vanished April 10 amid a deep memory lapse. He reappeared days ago with a friend, recalling little of five months, only work on a farm and a fleeting memory of needing a wife. Neighbors aided and he returned home to his wife and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Max Passler
Passler
Montgomery Avenue
Sandpoint
Idaho
Telegraph Pole
J. J. White
Pagasler
Indiana Happenings: Health Rules for Schools Expanded
Indiana reports to the state superintendent and board of health show trustees and teachers increasingly enforcing sanitation in public schools. Rules demand no crowding, air standards, illness reporting, restricted access for infectious cases, proper ventilation, drinking gear rules, and outdoor sanitation for outhouses.
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Indianapolis
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Board of Health
State Board of Accounts
Board of Accounts
Board of Health
Health Board
Corporations Formed in Secretary of State Office
Articles of incorporation filed for several companies including The Liberty Light and Power Company in Richmond with $25,000 capital stock and directors R. B. Ashe G. L. Varney and I. A. Perkins, Georgetown State Bank in Georgetown with $25,000 stock and officers R. A. Kelley and C. E. Kemper, The Stewart McMains Company in Indianapolis with $50,000 capital stock, The Alexandria Fraternal Investment Company in Alexandria with $12,500 stock and a slate of real estate directors including F. C. Headington H. B. Harting S. B. Henshaw JW. P. R. Hughes and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of State
Liberty Light and Power Company
Richmond
Capital
R. 8. Ashe
G. LE. Varney
I. A. Perkins
Georgetown State Bank
Georgetown
R. A. Kelley
C. E Kemper
Stewart-McMains Company
Indianapolis
Capital Stock
A. M. Stewart
Louis McMains
C. E. Smith
Alexandria Fraternal Investment Company
Alexandria
F. C. Headington
H. B. Harting
S. B. Henshaw
JW. P. R. Hughes
Ss. L. O'Bryant
J. F. Merker
Joseph Wright
Boy Burglar Townsend Sentenced in Richmond
Frank Townsend an 18 year old who robbed the Commons Dairy Company safe pled guilty to grand larceny. Judge Fox and Prosecutor Ladd allowed the plea changes and he was sentenced to the Jeffersonville reformatory for one to fourteen years. The judge noted burglary existed but a ten to twenty year term was too severe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Fox
Ladd
Frank Townsend
Commons Dairy Company
Townsend
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Seek Clean City Election Proposed by Party Chairs
Crawfordville aims for a graft free municipal election. Democratic chairman Charles Lockabill presented Republican chairman James Inlow with an anti corruption agreement. Inlow will bring the matter to the Republican city committee. Democrats have pledged support. The agreement mirrors the successful general election pact from last fall.
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Crawfordeville—i
Charles Lockabill
James Inlow
Inlow
Republican City Committee
Richmond Fall Festival Plans Preview City Banquet Edits
Richmond outlines for the fall festival include a grand opening October 6 with decorative streets. A banquet for eastern Indiana and western Ohio editors is set for October 7 with Gov. Marshall as guest of honor and an address. Music features include the Newsboys Band from Indianapolis and the Smythlie Cincinnati band with the Tenth regiment band from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Two hundred members of the Tenth Regiment will stay two days at Glen Miller park. Meanwhile the Indiana yearly meeting of Friends adjourned its eighty ninth annual session in Richmond and will reconvene September 21 next year to address a proposed catechism for Sunday schools managed by a special committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sokel Jemis
Morocco
Gifford Pinchot
Washington
Congress
Progreso
Mexico
Peary
Roosevelt
New York
Newburgh
Durand
Prince Miguel of
Braganza
Anita Stewart
Tulloch Castle
Dingwall
Scotland
San Jose
Department of Agriculture
Admiral le Pord
Hudson- Fulton
William Mitchell
Cecil Palmer
Nashville
Tenn
State Prison
Dickinson
Frederick D. Grant
Chicago
William Armstrong
Quincy
Ill
Harold
Archie Johnson
Buda
Arctic
New York Harbor
Hudson River
W. J. Gayhor
Greater
Gen. Grant
Col
W. R. Morrison
Waterloo
Frederick A. Cook
Philadelphia
Thomas Gray
Bellevue Hospital
Paris
Kdward Baudin
Long Island
James Bates
Herbert Lytle
Sam Yong Ping
Louisiana
Paratana Bay
Omaha
Finland
Abd-el-Aziz
Linda Baldwin
Ellis Island
Brooklyn
Ireland
Hunter Harry Whitney
St. Johps, N. F
Labrabeth Cook
Sees
Richmond
Indiana
Ohio
Gov. Marshall
Indianapolis News Newsboys
Smittle
Cincinnati
Tenth Regiment
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Glen Miller Park
Henry Horn Jury Procured for Princeton Murder Case
The jury for Henry Horn pit boss of the Princeton mire in the Louis Gaisser murder case was chosen after 80 veniremen were nearly exhausted. Both sides bring strong legal talent and start testimony soon. Horn pleads self defense while the state argues he was not in danger when he fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Henry Horn
Louis Gaisser
Horn
Young I A Graduate Is Drowned In Missouri
Bloomington report states Prof. John Tourner aged 23 drowned while teaching German and French at Blees Military Academy in Macon Missouri. Telegram to President Bryan of Indiana University asked him to notify Charles J Tourner the father. No further details provided. Fort Wayne health authorities close Hoagland school for fumigation after a child at the school that week was found to have smallpox.
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Roslyn
Wash
Daniel D. Davies
Chicago
Brownsville
Tex
Columbia
T. L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Baffin Land
Morrison
Dundee
James C. Maybray Fa
San Francisco
San Jose
Towa
United Boys Brigade of America
Pittsburg
Waion
New York
Dunham Chocolate
Pearl Street
Admiral Schley
New
Washington
Seclretart
Alaska
Seattle
I. A
Bloomington
Macon
John Tourner
Blees Military Academy
Bryan
Indiana University
Charlea J. Tourner
Fort Wayne
Hoagland
Declare Former Minister Owee Taxes
Lafayette Workmean and Higgs employed as tax ferreta by Tippecanoe county fled a report with County Aa. Senior James M. Stingle states that Rev. George W. Switzer owes the county 2086.65 for back taxes. Dr. Switzer served for years as presiding elder of this district of the Northe Anétana e of the.
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Lafayette
Workmean
Higgs
Tippecanoe County
James M. Stingle
George W. Switzer
Switzer
Anétana
Ours and Theirs Playfully Sparks Neighbor Feud
A Flatbush man recalls a laughter inducing mishearing about a Feitenour family next door. He explains his son investigated a porch racket and his wife queried whose cats caused the noise. The punchline: one cat belonged to them and the other to Feitenour.
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Flatbush
Feitenour
Jim
Guess Where She Is From
The head of the house has been ill for months and has lost his appetite. The mistress tells the maid, a new arrival from the old country, that nothing seems to please the patient. The maid replies that invalids always want nothing, and then refuse what is offered.
Come Home Mother Plea Echoes from Press Poem
A fragmentary quotation from the Los Angeles Express invites a mother to return from the club to prepare tea. The speaker laments delays and contrasts domestic duties with social diversion, ending with a rhythmic plea for her swift return.
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Los Angeles Express
Postum Cereal Turns Healthier Morning for Children
A former coffee drinker reports a year of nervousness eased after switching to Postum. After a failed first trial, a longer boil produced a rich flavor and marked health improvements for both the adult narrator and the children, who now enjoy the drink with meals.
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National
German-American Alliance
Wonal
Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America
Toronto
Can
Richard Updyke Sherman
Sherman
Eleanor Miller
Utica
N. Y
Hamilton University
Charles R. Crane
China
American Humane Association
St. Paul
St. Louis
John R. Walsh
Frederick A. Coon
University of Copenhagen
Monongahela Dam
Prison ‘Board
Marshall
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Hanson
East Long
Columbus
Graniteville
Marc
Char Les Bancuay
K.F.D
Granite
E. Pinkham
Lydia Brinkham
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