Open Door in China Boosts US Commerce Says Wilson
Secretary Wilson states the open door concert secures permanent markets for US goods in China and expands cotton and farm products exports. He credits Secretary Hay and notes rising Pacific exports from $26 million ten years ago to $73 million last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
China
United States
Celestial Empire
Manchurian
Hay
Islands
Pacific
Pacific Coast
Alum Poisoning Suspected in Somerset Baking Powder
Four members of the Thomas family in Thomas Mill Somerset County became dangerously ill from a baking powder in buckwheat cakes. Dr Critchfield secured the original can and sent a sample to Dr Schill who certified the powder contained alum, a common ingredient in cheaper powders and a mineral poison leading to bans in many cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Thomas Mill
Somerset Co
Critchfield
Francis Schill, Jr
Johnstown
Penn
Tribune
Sisters Die Within Moments at Sister’s Bier
Mrs Lucy Howard Armstrong age 56, sister of Captain Howard shipbuilder of Jeffersonville, died yesterday morning from a complication of diseases. Her sister Mrs Martha Howard Baird age 63 of Louisville, after learning of the death, visited the home and collapsed at the bier, dying soon after from paralysis of the brain. The two sisters were deeply devoted to one another.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Ind
Lucy Howard Armstrong
Howard
Martha Howard Baird
Louisville
Mill Accident Crushed Workers Die At Plant
In a twenty eight inch mill, a chain failure caused heavy rolls to fall on workers. Joseph French suffered a broken nose and severe injuries, Jos Cahall had an arm crushed, and a man named Berger was crushed nearly to pulp and likely died.
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Joseph French
Jos. Cahall
Berger
Stormont Chosen Commandant of Soldiers' Home
Gilbert R. Stormont of Princeton has been unanimously selected as commandant of the Indiana state soldiers' home at Lafayette to succeed the late Gen. Jasper Packard. Stormont, a Civil War veteran, editor of the Princeton Clarion, and former department commander of the G A R, gains broad support from both Republican and Democratic board members. He will soon assume duties, succeeding Capt. D B Kehler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sentinel
Gilbert R. Stormont
Princeton
Lafayette
Jasper Packard
Stormont
Fifty-eighth
Indiana Infantry
Princeton Clarion
Henry
Terre Haute
Murphy
Evansville
D. B. Kehler
Packard
Men to Be House Servants In New York Debate
The New York servant-girl question may be solved by substituting men for women in domestic work. Mrs Amelia E Barr supports the shift asserting men are more thorough quicker cleaner respectful and less prone to gossip making them more desirable house servants.
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New York
Amelia E. Barr
Oil Proved a Good Thing In Indiana Field
Wabash Indiana January 6 Mary Shinn of Blackford county emerges as the top royalty earner in the Indiana oil region. Twelve years after her husband’s death she kept her 120 acres afloat with a $1,000 mortgage. With the oil boom she secured profitable leases and now earns about $30 daily from her share. The mortgage is long paid and she and her children manage the wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash, Ind
Indiana
Mary Shinn
Blackford County
My Wife Saved Me With New Discovery Cure
A Winfield Tennessee man credits his wife with saving his life by urging Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. He was failing under medical care and could hardly breathe before using the remedy which completely cured his coughs colds bronchitis and la grippe.
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M. Ross
Winfield, Tenn
Dr.ing
Defalcation Case Rehearsed In DeKalb Court
Auburn Indiana January court session reviews misappropriation of county funds tied to the Coffinberry case. Late county auditor H N Coffinberry died amid 1884 inquiry, bondsmen paid seven thousand dollars. dispute over house funded by county funds. Witnesses include ex-treasurer Fair ex-auditor Borst and Garrett bank deposits pass books missing. Legal teams and judges named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ind
DeKalb County
H. N. Coffinberry
Coffinberry
Judge McClellan
L. J. Miller
J. L. Davis
McClellan
Garrett
Judge Roby
W. W. Sharpless
Rose & Rose
Daniel Fraser
Fowler, Ind
Watkins
Huntington
Tea Set Pieces Priced Under Half, Pots at $4.50
Bargains spotted on assorted tea sets with many items discounted below half price. Tea pots priced at four dollars fifty cents each accompany the sale with limited stock and assorted patterns.
Multiple Local News Items Highlight Health, Deaths, and Publishing Moves
Twelve J L Stewerts patients recovered after white hellebore exposure. Peru man Arch Mellan died from scaffold injuries. Bluffton health officer writes The Health Officer's Guide. Peru native Lyman Paul Edwards among rescued American prisoners in the Philippines. Cass County German paper Das Sternenbanner moves from Logansport to Evansville. new Die Logansport Freie Presse by John Day in Logansport. Warren Oil secures thirteen leases in Huntington. Brighton resident E L Horner severely injured by a horse. Warsaw performs successful umbilical hernia surgery on 90 year old Mrs Calvin Beagle. Bluffton First Baptist calls Rev C S Lester of Muskegon for $1200 salary. Huntington loses bid to house Christian church publications now in Dayton.
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Krueger
Michigan City
Newcastle
Jacob Baker
Wabash
Grace B. Daniel
Chalmer C. Schafer
Decatur
Pinhook
New Durham Township
Laporte County
Dewey
James Fencannon
Bluffton
W. W. McClain
Hartford City
Indiana
Chicago
Illinois
L. McFadin
Logansport
Augustus BN. Hammond
Wa- Bash
Perry
Oklahoma
Bere
Ham
Steuben County
William Burford Company
Indianapolis
Angola
Adams Circuit Court
Jane Snyder
Ulysses
Lambdin P. Milligan
Huntington
Fort Wayne
Fred Hamilton
Pittsburg
W. C. Curtis
Canning Company
Butler
Chicago and Erie
Grand Rapids
Clover Leaf
Ed. August
Middlebury
Elkhart County
Captain Dodge
Lyman Paul Edwards, Landsman
Peru
Ind
Mexico
Philipines
Cass County
Peter Wallrath
Das Sternenbanner
Evansville
Die Logansport Freie Preese
John Day
First Baptist Church of
C. S. Lester
Muskegon
Mich
The
Christian Church
Dayton
Ohio
Woman Claims Cripple Creek Mining Claim Left by Son
Goshen Indiana January 6 Mrs Bates formerly Mrs Elizabeth Middleton of Bristol Indiana learns she owns a valuable mining claim at Cripple Creek Colorado left by her son Thomas Middleton who departed Bristol about fifteen years ago and whose death is reported after a stranger sought to buy the claim Middleton had refused sale keeping it for his mother Mrs Bates now in competent hands.
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Goshen
Ind
Bates
Elizabeth Middleton
Bristol
Cripple Creek
Col
Thomas Middleton
Oklahoma
Young Middleton
Middleton
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Commerce
Unani
Mous
Dekalb
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Northern
R. H. Stanley
Lake Wawasee
Harry Gleason
Manila
Miller
O. TI. C. Breeding Company
Whitley County
O. Gandy & Co
Churubusco
Charles A. Shorb
W. W. Reed
Kelly
Kendallville
Brook Bowman
Bremen Enquirer
Inland Farmer
Board of Commissioners
Hudson
William Zongker
Cleveland
North Judson
Laporte
Starke
St. Jos
New England Sugar Beet Company
Kankakee
Henry, Myers
Fulton
Odds and Ends
Elgin
Price
J. L. Stewert
Optician and Jeweler
Mr. Myers
Arch Mellan
Horne
Warren Oil Company
Recorder
E. L. Horner
Brighton
Lagrange County
Horner
Warsaw
Calvin Beagle
Beagle
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