Walsh Indicted for Bank Misconduct in Chicago
Federal grand jury charges John R. Walsh former president of the Chicago National Bank with ninety two transactions claiming unlawful use of bank funds and 182 related counts. He allegedly placed 2.09 million in memorandum notes to his personal account and funded his rail ventures with bank proceeds.
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Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Federal Grand Jury
Walsh
Southern Indiana and
Illinois Southern Railway
Indiana
Illinois Southern Railways
Sims
Roosevelt Sees bright future as US urged for commerce
President Roosevelt at a banquet with convention delegates urged strong navy preparedness as insurance for peace. He backed San Domingo aid, consular reform, and expanding American trade in Central and South America. He cited Root’s diplomacy and pressed Congress to pass trade and merit-system measures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Europe
Asia
United States
United States Navy
State Root
Cannon
Warfield
Maryland
Swanson
Virginia
Arlington Hotel
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Carroll
Bevt
Root
San Domingo
Central
South America
Island Republic
Santo Domingo
Hhe
Congress
Globe
Secretary Root
Kansas City
Carnegie Medals For Near A Score Who Braved Death
Pittsburg Pa January 17 The Carnegie Hero Fund commission awarded eighteen medals to rescues across Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Oregon New York and Missouri. Recipients include Cline Horton Astoria Illinois who saved Ralph Baxter in 1905, John Young Bryant Illinois who saved Albert Brookham in 1904, and Mary Gertrude Black Gardiner Oregon honored for saving three women with her dog. Additional awards went to Leo Nokes Sac City Iowa Herman Zick Athens Wisconsin Morris Nourse Des Moines Iowa and others with monetary gifts and scholarships for heirs or education.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Cline Horton
Astoria
Ralph P. Baxter
Spring Lake
Baxter
Horton
John H. Young
Bryant
Fulton
Albert Brookham
Brookham
Young
James Lukins
Petersburg
Menard County
Ill
Lukins
Vance Ray
Sangamon
Theodore Boettecher
Belleville
St. Clair County
Moren
Southern Coal and Mining Company
Daniel Hopp
Hopp
Boettecher
Leo H. Nokes
Sac City
Lillie Wingerson
Nokes
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Herman Zick
Athens
Wis
Philip J. Drissem
Black Creek
Zick
Drissem
Morris A. Nourse
Des Moines
Frank Leonard
Chesterfield
Nourse
Mary Gertrude Black
Gardiner, Ore
Thomas Wilson
Lake Erie
Donovan
Samuel M. Stowe
Oregon City
Ore
George Hemminger
Portland
George H. Poell
Grand Island
Neb
Powells
A. Paul Assary
Poell
Herman J. Petzel
St. Louis
Huntington gets new postmaster as region notes passings
Northern Indiana updates report J and Glenn named post master at Huntington. Obituaries record W H Watchorn dies at 71, Jacob Lininger dies at 80 Cedar Creek Huntington County, and Katherine Crone dies suddenly at 86 in Garrett.
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J. &. Glenn
Huntington
W. H. Watchorn
Cincinnati
Liberty Center
Wells County
Congregational Church
Elkhart
Jacob Lininger
Cedar Creek Township
Huntington County
Katherine Crone
Garrett
C. B. Jones
Harry M. Daniel
Decatur Journal
Chicago Inter Ocean
Paul Wooton
M. E
Indiana
Oxaca
Mexico
Emil Hauenstein
Josiah Alger
Fairview
Bluffton
Frank A. Vanderlip
Treasury
Scarborough-on-the-Hudson
Owen Sullivan
Wabash
Fort Wayne
F. Knowlton
South Bend
Wolf Lake
Lagrange
Syracuse
Lake Wawasee
Henry Case
Granger
Etta H. DeLay
Lagrange High School
Herbert 8. Gilliams
Miss DeLay
Lagrange County
Wolcottville
Panama Construction Company
Grass Lake
Chicago
D. J. Splane
O. G. Wales
BE. A. Hebbard
R. Hart
Hammond
Hartsdale
Purdue University
Hart
Wabash Valley Traction Company
Cincinnati Car Company
Boyd Park Barns
Whitley County
L. S. J. Hunt
Korea
Oriental Gold Mining Company
P. Clapham
A. E. Deardoff
Women bring rare $5000 worth of dogs to Fort Wayne show
Mrs. D. B. Lester of Indianapolis owns two toy spaniels valued at $2500 each and carries them on her person. She enters the second annual People's Poultry and Pet Stock show opening Wednesday in Harrison and Pearl streets, with many women exhibitors and top pedigreed dogs from Evans ton, Chicago, and Cincinnati. The event, delayed from Monday, promises Fort Wayne’s greatest pet show yet under Secretary D. F. Ault.
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D. B. Lester
Indianapolis
Becaus
United States
Ashton Favorite
Erncliffe Hiawatha
America
Laura Lee
Alta
Evanston
Lady Prudence
Robert Millard
Ashton Sunshine
Harriet Macbeth
Buster Brown
W. H. Myers
Fort Wayne Fair Association
Damfino
Boston Terriers
Kenilworth Kennels
Chicago
Collies
Brookmere
August Leverle
R. S. Barrett
D. F. Ault
Fort Wayne
House Passes Pay Rise for Congressmen to Seven Thousand Five
Washington reports the House approved raising members pay from 5000 to 7500 by a 133 to 92 vote. The Senate also backed the Jamaica relief bill moving from the House. The Jamaica aid aims to let the Navy supply immediate relief from the Celtic’s stores en route to Kingston.
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Washington
House
Senate
Navy Department
Celtic
Kingston
Youth shoots father to save life of mother in Taunton
George Poole a Taunton leader and head of Poole Silver was fatally shot by his 17 year old son Howard M Poole who said he acted to protect his mother from an attack by her husband. Police note mental instability and prior threats. Poole died at Morton hospital two hours later.
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Petzel
Luther H. Wagner
Milton
Wagner
Park College
Parkville
Platte County
Kate Crabb
Miss Crabb
Willets
Jewel H. Reed
St. Louis
Laura Pulvermacher
Pauline Hermanns
Miss Reed
Taunton
Mass
George Poole
Poole Silver Company
Howard M. Poole
Poole
Morton
Young Poole
Horace
Hand
Frisco Railroad Company
Chicago
James L. Blaine
Muench
Jefferson City
C. A. Newton
San Francisco
Garrett Men Seek Improved Mail Service with Fort Wayne
Garrett business leaders led by former mayor Charles W. Camp urge faster mail between Garrett and Fort Wayne. They note garbled evening deposits reach Fort Wayne next day around noon or 2 pm, and reverse shipments suffer similar delays due to rail connections. Officials explore interurban line option to speed service.
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Garrett
Fort Wayne
Charles W. Camp
Garret Bank
Ft. Wayne
Camp
Fort Wayne and Springfield Line Moves Toward Start
Fredderjohann reports three Fort Wayne and Springfield cars fitted with motors and ready. Three more cars tested to Fort Wayne found perfect. By week end a fourth car to be completed and schedules, ticket offices to be announced. Public info promised early next week. The line aims to run from Decatur to Allen county capital as a strong regional railroad.
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Decatur Democrat
Fredderjohann
Fort Wayne & Springfield Company
Fort Wayne
Allen County
Woman cut off from Strunk estate in sensational verdict
In Laporte Indiana a woman who lived as John C Strunk's wife for forty three years is barred from inheriting his property. Jennings Myers Strunk of Akron Ohio is upheld as the legal son and sole heir after proof that the father deserted the mother and remarried without divorce. Also mentions local anti race death ideas and Gribben family with ten children.
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Laporte
Ind
John C. Strunk
Mishawaka
Jennings Myers Strunk
Akron
Strunk
Jennings Myers
Family of W. D. Stoner Found in Barn on Miner Street
Humane authorities have been caring for the Stoner children after their father W. D. Stoner, a recent arrival from Michigan with no means, was found ill and living in a Miner street barn. A physician was sent to assess him while the children receive food and support from the Columbia street mission. His brother reported prior time in Joliet and Michigan City. the father showed no willingness to work.
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W. D. Stoner
Miner Street
Stoner
Michigan
Columbia Street Mission
Cooper
Joliet
Michigan City
Interurban line suspension due to power plant accident
The western division of the Fort Wayne Van Wert and Lima interurban line halted for five hours Friday because of a power station accident at St Marys Ohio that cut current. No cars operated between 7 a.m. and noon with service resuming in the afternoon.
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Fort Wayne
van Wert
Lima
St. Marys
Don't be angry with me darling a sober warning
Florence Fish Smith writes in the National Advocate urging a loved one to quit drinking. The speaker, a devoted friend, warns that alcohol will ruin life and future happiness. She contrasts a sober life with drugs, homelessness, and loneliness, ending with faith and reunion after death.
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Darling
Florence Fish Smith
National Advocate
Rum tragedy in Africa condemns rubber trade practices
Rev W P Dodson writes from Donod Angola at the Quanza river head of navigation about how rubber trade corrupts and kills. Thousands of natives bring rubber into town then are plied with rum, weighed on falsified scales, paid in liquor, and left to die along a bloodstained trail, no wealth without ruin.
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W. P. Dodson
South Africa
Donod
Angola
Quanza
Smoking and Heart Trouble Among Chicago High School Athletes
Prof. W. Lt. Bodine reports medical inspectors found valvular heart trouble in many male athletes across Chicago high schools while all tested young women passed. All but one of the rejected boys smoked cigarettes, a coach notes that smoking undermines athletic strength in football, baseball, and basketball players.
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W. Lt. Bodine
Chicago
The Bootlegger or the Saloonkeeper
Opinion argues that closing saloons would not boost illegal sales and compares liquor trade to legitimate commerce. It questions the plausibility of bootleggers selling more openly if saloons shut down and uses a grocery analogy to illustrate the point.
Dr Henry Wilmot Johnson Ends Life in Police Cell
The Boston man declared he would kill himself if arrested again for drunkenness. He was jailed at Lagrange Street police station after his arrest last evening and hanged himself in his cell at around six this morning. Mrs Anna Fortune and Mrs A M Weaze, Chinese missionaries, hosted him at 91 Appleton Street since last October. Moral: Remove temptation.
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Henry Wilmot Johnson
Anna Fortune
A. M. Weaze
Appleton Street
Johnson
Lagrange Street
Boston Herald
Would-Be Assassin Declared Insane in Chicago
Fred Elerbrock who tried to kill Probate Judge Cutting days earlier was declared insane today. He attacked the judge with a revolver but was overpowered during a desperate struggle with the maniac.
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Chicago
Fred Elerbrock
Cutting
Elerbrock
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Help Neuralgia Sufferers
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for neuralgia. A user testimonial from Mrs W H Burkett of Macon Georgia praises relief without habit risk. The ad claims quick benefit from a daily dose and guarantees money back if the first package fails.
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W. H. Burkett
Macon
Mises
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Wisslow’s Soothing Syrup Promoted for Teething Relief
Fragmentary ad copy touts Wisslow’s soothing syrup as a great remedy for children cutting teeth. The jumbled text suggests a maternal audience and a focus on ease of teething discomfort.
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