Four Millions Starving in China Reported by Washington
Washington reports appalling famine conditions in China with four million people starving. Refugees in camps lack food clothing and medical supplies as native and foreign relief efforts struggle. Government opens public relief works and canal improvements provide employment while costs soar and incidents of famine turn violent.
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Washington
China
State Department
Rodgers
Hatchen
Hsuchonfu
Foreigners Pay Fines Rather Than Saw Up Wood
Two foreigners Kretty and Boppus were fined eleven dollars each in county court for refusing to work at a wood pile. They sold food from a lunch wagon and resisted police orders, then paid fines and were released. A separate note mentions apt. 8. N. Markley undergoing finger amputation after an accident with electric wires.
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Bays
Turkey
Greece
Bill Kretty
Gust Boppus
Uncle Sam
Kretty
Boppus
N. Markley
Columbia City
Farkley
House kills Moons track elevation measure
Indianapolis January 30 Indiana cities hoped to shift the cost of elevating railroad tracks to rail carriers. The bill by Representative Moon of St Joseph postponed by the House railroad committee. Fort Wayne Mayor Hosey and City Attorney Colerick supported the plan, but it lacked enactment prospects.
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Sentinel
Indianapolis
Indiana
Moon
St. Joseph County
Railroad Committee
House
South Bend
Hosey
Fort Wayne
Guy Colerick
June date favored for state Grand Army encampment
Fort Wayne veterans favor the second week in June for the state encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be hosted in the city this year. They propose a four day meeting not earlier than mid May or later than mid June, and will push for a June second week.
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Fort Wayne
Grand Army of the Republic
Brown
S. M. Hench
State Council
Sion S. Bass
Lawton-Wayne
Commercial Club
Grand Army Veterans
B. W. Skelton
City Council
Skelton
W. A. Kelsey
Lawson-Wayne Post
A. T. Lukens
W. F. Geller
A. R. Walter
Dennis Monahan
Clyde Gandy
James Liggett
William Engle
Lion S. Bass Post
J. W. Vordermark
Youth Assassinates Brutal Jailor in St Petersburg
St. Petersburg January 30 A youth of 18 dressed as a workman shot and killed M Guide ma governor of the political prison on Vasiliostroff island as he walked home. A prison warden accompanying him was mortally wounded before the assailant vanished amid popular anti-terrorist sentiment. Guide ma had been sentenced to death by a local terrorist group for ordering punishments during a hunger strike.
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St. Petersburg
M. Guidema
Vasiliostroff
Guidema
Basil Island
Bowser Quits Cigar Quarrel Ends With Smoking Revival
Mr Bowser announces a year without smoking to prove backbone after a colleague fails to quit. He endures cloves licorice and orange peel as substitutes while enduring the cat’s grin and his wife’s skepticism. By nightfall he resumes heavy smoking, vowing to outpace the bet and boost pin money claims.
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Green
Mrs. Bowser
America
M. Quad
Dentist E F Sites D D Wayne Street Address
E F Sites dentist at 112 W Wayne Street near Sentinel office in ORT Wayne. Weston Calhoun area noted in IO?
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W. Wayne
Calhoun
Sentinel Office
Nobody’s Debt Floats Away in Ohio Flood Tale
An elderly philosophical farmer on the Ohio River, his house and barn mortgaged to the caves, watches a flood from a safe eminence and sighs with relief. He quietly declares that the disaster carries away his floating indebtedness in a Womans Home Companion anecdote.
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Ohio
Speech practice and talking for an hour
A Milwaukee Sentinel quips that a good speech needs sentences with sense, while an hour of talk that says nothing requires even more practice, highlighting political rhetoric and its empty cadence.
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Senator
Badger
Milwaukee Sentinel
Eldest Hope Questions Marriage Plans In Sketch
A fragmentary dialogue shows His Query and The Eldest Hope debating family ties and future arrangements. The Eldest Hope identifies the speaker who married the mother and ponders who will stay in the house, revealing tensions around marriage and residence.
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Ash
Machinist Oscar Prahl Arrested in Elkhart on Coffee Face Attack
Oscar Prahl a machinist in Elkhart is under arrest charged with dashing hot coffee in his young wife face damage to her beauty and life Jealousy is cited as the inciting cause A hearing against him has been postponed and he is able to appear later
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Oscar Prahl
Elkhart
Criticism of Secretary Hitchcock Over Land Patent Order
Washington reports Senate opposition to Secretary Hitchcock over a December order delaying land patent issuances until ground examination by a special agent. Senator Carter blasts the policy as unprecedented, oppressive, and harming homesteaders while defending settlers’ innocence and urging adherence to law.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Senate
Carter
Montana
United States
Interior Department
Land Service
Wolfrum Named Cashier at Citizens' Trust Company
Fort Wayne young man John G. Wolfrum has been named cashier of Citizens' Trust Company succeeding Clinton R. Willison who left to become cashier at Commercial Bank. Wolfrum began duties Friday morning after years as private secretary to J B McKim of Pennsylvania Lines and as secretary of Federal Securities Co. He is a graduate of International Business College and previously worked for Fort Wayne Gas Co. Leander F. Hanes in Wabash narrowly escaped suffocation after a lamp exploded in his home setting a fire in a sick chamber.
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John G. Wolfrum
Fort Wayne
Citizens’ Trust Company
Clinton R. Willison
Commercial Bank
Wulfrum
J B. McKim
Pennsylvania Lines
Federal Securities Company
Wolfrum
International Business College
Pennsylvania Company
Fort Wayne Gas Company
Leander
F. Hanes
Wabash
Fresh dangers in cold storage and oysters reveal by Dr Wiley
Dr Harry Wiley Washington expert told the House agriculture committee about risks in cold storage affecting milk eggs and meat with deterioration trends. He warned oysters in bulk can carry germs and should be shipped alive in the shell. Gelatin from tanning scraps may carry tetanus germs though usable if properly made.
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Washington, D. C
Harry W. Wiley
Sam
House Committee On Agriculture
Bureau of Chemistry
The
Agriculture Department
Wiley
Washington
Dr. Wiley
Haskins
Marine Hospital Service
Whiley
Haugen
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St. Peters
Warner
Angola
Bowser
P. C. Eastment
E.F
Wayne
the Interior
Inet
Secretary of the Interior
Canada
Dominion
Tie
West
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
Pennsylvania
J. W. Cummins
Lake Shore Railroad
Munday
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