Readjustment of rates tops agenda at Maccabees session
In Detroit on July 19 the triennial review of the Knights of the Maccabees opened with rate readjustment as the key issue. About 100 delegates represent roughly 400000 members as Supreme Commander D P Markey cites a three year gain to 362385 and outlines office and death claim statistics. A faction opposed to rate changes calls for more rank and file representation and will present resolutions. Mass meetings are planned as Markey addresses the gatherings.
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Detroit
Mich
Supreme Tent
Knights of the Maccabees of the World
D. P. Markey
Port Huron
Markey
Supreme Record Keeper
Supreme Finance Keeper
D. D. Aitken
D. P. Marly
Ladies of the Maccabees Meet in Detroit for Triennial Review
Seventy five delegates representing 160000 women gathered in Detroit at the Russell home convention hall for the three day triennial review of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World. The supreme commander Mrs Jillian M Hollister opened with welcomes and discussed rate adjustments and the emergency fund which now stands at 838788. Miss Binn M West reported membership growth from 84657 to 136921 with total in force certificates near 99081443 and 1555 death claims paid totaling 1435384.
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Detroit
Mich
Russell Home
Supreme Hive
Jillian M. Hollister
Binn M. West
Supremsa
Miss Warner Celebrates Twenty-First Birthday at Garman Home
A Sunday gathering in Collingwood Perry township honors Miss Warner turning twenty-one. Misses Frittle and Mattie Warner and friends attended at Mr. and Mrs. Eli Garman residence. A bountiful dinner was served, with decorations of carnations tea roses and nasturtiums. Music performed during the meal by several attendees.
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Frittle
Mattie Warner
Eli Garman
Collingwood
Perry Township
Warner
Garman
John Warner
William Crus
Anusie
Twin Young Ladies Honored with Birthday Joyful Party
A birthday gathering for Misses Warner and Warner featured ice cream lemonade and cake. Attendees included Mr and Mrs William Cruse Mr and Mrs John Warner Mrs Circling Cruse and many nieces nephews and friends. Guests joined in wishing the twins a long life.
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Warter
William Cruse
John Warner
Circling Cruse
Clara Warner
Bertha Meyers
Elsie Warner
Eva Meyers
Dora Garman
Mellie Bunting
Orpha Bender
Stella Williams
Blanche Garman
Rena Cruse
Sunday School Workers Train at Winona Lake
The fourth international district summer training school for Sunday school workers opens in Winona Lake Indiana on August 1. Held by regional associations from Michigan Illinois Ontario Ohio Indiana and Kentucky the school offers free tuition with faculty including H M Hamill D D Nashville and Mrs M S Lamoreaux Chicago. Lectures cover model lessons child study and teacher and scholar duties with bible study daily and special mass meetings for primary and teachers. Prominent workers form the board of directors including W A Endaly J J Maclaren E Wesley Halpenny A H E Mills E A Fox Alfred Day and H M Hamill.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Fourth International
Winona Assembly
H. M. Hamill
D. D
Nashville
M. F. Brynor
Peoria
Ill
Mexico
W. ©. Pearce
Chicago
International Teachers’ Training Department
Marion Lawrence
Toledo
M. 8. Lamoreaux
Illinois State Sunday School Association
Nannie “Ee Fraysar
Louisaville
Misa Ato Burton
W. B. Jacobs
Wilbur Chapman
James M. Gray
Bodtan
W. H. Gerstwelt
Illinois
E. A. Fox
Louisville
Theaa
Drs. Chapman
Hamill
Gelstweit
Gray
W. A. Endaly
Cincinnati
J. J. Maclaren
Toronto
E. Wesley Halpenny
Indianapolis
A. HE. Mills
Decatur
Tfl
Alfred Day
Detroit
Mich
S. C
Dickey
End of Stephenport race clash eases after violence
Sheriff Paine of Cloverport Ky. remained in Stephenport all day with deputies as order was restored after a race war. Many Negroes fled the town with fears they would be gone by night. A mob had pursued Daniels, blamed for the stabbing of Frank Blaise, who was left for dead but escaped. The pursuit of Daniels and his brother continued.
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Evansville
Ind
Sheriff Paine
Cloverport
Stephenport
Paine
Daniels
Frank Blaise
Daniela
Registration for claims on Devil's Lake lands begins August 8
Grand Forks North Dakota July 19 Registration for claims on the Devil's Lake Indian reservation will begin August 8 at Grand Forks and Devil's Lake and will close August 24. The drawing to set filing order will be by the General Land Office commissioner and start at Devil's Lake September 6 with each registrant notified by mail of their entry day at the Devil's Lake land office.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Devil's Lake Indian Reservation
Devil’s Lake
General Land Office
World's Oldest City Is Found Adab Debut in Iraq Excavation
Chicago reports that Udnunki, identified with the ancient Adab, may be the world’s oldest city. University of Chicago excavations in Babylonia led by Professor Harper and Dr Banksfield uncovered bricks bearing Ud-Nun-Ki, four successive temple ruins, and various artifacts. Excavations paused for summer heat in Baghdad.
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Chicago
Record- Herald
Udnunki
University of Chicago
Babylonia
E . Banksfield
Bismya
Adab
Banks
Harper
Bismus
Bismyn
Uduunki
Hammarnabi
Udumki
Bagdad
Second Love Affair Cited in Fort Wayne Suicide Case
Coroner's inquest in the Bila Conahan case heard distress over a second love affair that may have driven the Fort Wayne girl to suicide in Chicago. Ellen Swoboda, also known as Ellen Conahan, had just received a divorce decree from Joseph Swoboda and left a note indicating she would meet her secret sweetheart named Will Winter. The coroner ruled the death a suicide by her own hand while despondent, age 19, with a note found in Hotel Metropole stationery.
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Bila Conahan
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Chicago Chronicle
Ellen Swoboda
Ellen Canahan
Joseph Swoboda
Amin Burton
Armour Avenue
Twenty-Second
Twenty-third
Daniel Burke
Ind
Belle Palmer
Swoboda
Brandon
Chicago woman testifies to alleged cruelty by husband
Mrs Swoboda told Judge Tudge Smith she lived in Chicago three years after leaving Fort Wayne Indiana. Married September 27 1903 the union lasted three months, ending December 16. She says he abused her for money and choked her, while he never supported her. Annie Burton testified Swoboda admitted marrying to gain support.
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Swoboda
Tudge Smith
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Ind
Wabash Avenue
Annie Burton
Armour Avenue
Platt Celebrates 71st Birthday at Oriental Hotel
Senator Thomas Q. Platt marked his seventy first birthday in New York with flowers telegrams and congratulations at the Oriental hotel Manhattan Beach. After a long talk with Governor Odell he spent most of the day at Oyster Bay in a conference with President Roosevelt before returning on the seven o'clock train. The birthday observance has long been a regular event at the Oriental except for one year. Attending were Senator and Mrs. Platt Miss Louisa Snow Mrs. Platt's daughter by a former marriage and Mr and Mrs R L Ide.
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New York
Thomas Q. Platt
Oriental Hotel
Manhattan Beach
Odell
the Oriental
Platt
Louisa Snow
Man kills wife then commits suicide in Jealousy case
In Youngstown Ohio on July 19 Inn cance Livingston a railway employee fatally wounded his wife by shooting twice one bullet through her left side and another in the left cheek before taking his own life. He was about 23 years old. The couple had been married five weeks and jealousy is blamed for the tragedy.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Cance Livingston
Livigston
Ancient Order of Hibernians Meet in St Louis
The national convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and its auxiliary opened with a solemn high mass at St Patrick's church. Officials say it is the largest convention in the group's history with about 20 000 members present. The gathering includes 500 delegates and 150 auxiliary delegates. Delegations from Canada Ireland Australia and Mexico attend as fraternal guests without voting power.
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St. Louis
Order of Hibernians
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Canada
Ireland
Australia
Mexico
State Pardon Board Denies Stay for Charles Stimmell
Columbus Ohio July 19 the state pardon board refused to interfere with the death sentence of Charles Stimmell and he will be executed in the state prison next Thursday night. He killed Joseph Schaid in an attempted robbery at Dayton.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Pardon Board
Charles Stimmell
Joseph Schaid
Dayton
America to Give Aid to Protect Kommander Islands Seals
The United States has informed Russia it will join Great Britain in protecting the seals at the Kommander islands. This move is expected to impress observers, and Russia is understood to respond in a few days.
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St. Petersburg
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Kommander Islands
Lloyd George seeks adjournment over Dundonald political meddling
In the House of Commons, David Lloyd George moved an adjournment to spotlight Lord Dundonald's involvement in political agitation against the Canadian government while he remains an army officer. Debates scheduled for tonight.
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London
House of Commons
David Lloyd George
Lord Dundonald
Canada
Mother Gray child medicine ad targets sickly Mary School
An old advertisement touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claimed to cure colds in 24 hours and feverishness, headaches, stomach troubles, and worms. It promotes Mrs Emily Moroni of Merden, CT, and urges readers to write Allen Olmsted in Le Roy New York for free samples. The text uses period language and prizes the product as best for feverish and constipated children.
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Mary
Saranto
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Northern Indiana notes drift across Whitley and Huntington
Longtime Darwin teacher D L Johnson resigns to teach in the Philippines. Pearl Ball is named editor of the Island Park assembly paper at Rome City. Walter Bent travels to Honestec SD to file ten claims for Wabash soldiers in the Rosebud reservation. Huntington farmer William Lininger dies at 74 in Clear Creek. Berna contracts for a new municipal electric plant with Fort Wayne Electric Works and Fort Wayne Construction Co to install boilers and engines. Ernest Haag, once a Plymouth youth who left home at 17, now a Shreveport millionaire, visits his former home this week.
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D, L. Johnson
Darwin
Whitley County
Philippines
William Iininger
Huntington County
Clear Creek Township
Berna
Fort Wayne Electric Works
Fort Wayne Construction Company
Ernest Haag
Plymouth
Far West
Shreveport
Help Sought for Leper Colony Aid and Study
In San Francisco on July 19 the leper colony plea asks for federal support and funds for care. Hawaii’s Molokai settlement lists 951 Hawaiians and 105 other residents by race, with leprosy said to be inherited or spread only via close contact and not contagious.
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San Francisco
Cawaii
Board of Health
Mrs Addie Burt Dead After Shooters Attempt
Mrs Addie Burt died in Toledo at age from brain inflammation following her May 21 shooting attempt on her former husband Frank Burt, manager of Lyceum and Burts theaters. The divorcee’s death ends a high profile case linked to the attempted murder.
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Toledo
Ohio
Addie Burt
Frank Burt
Lyceum
Burt
Carpenters Lockout Halts Massive New York Building
Carpenters employed by the master carpenters association have been locked out by order of the building trades employers association board of governors. The action halts work on a very large borough building and involves between five thousand and six thousand workers.
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New York
Master Carpenters’ Association
Board of Governors
The
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Workers, Carpenters Strike Spark General Lockout
After months since accepting arbitration by the building trades employers association, a general lockout has erupted over a breach of the agreement. The dispute centers on a carpenters strike related to a contract held by a member firm in the masters' negotiation group.
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Mion
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Carpenters
Burns Shot in Burron Wisconsin Tragedy Unfolds
Burron Wisconsin July 10 Coxey Burns a local ball player was shot yesterday morning by RB Walker bridge foreman of the Soo Jine. The ball entered his side above his hip penetrated the stomach and lodged in the opposite hip dowe. Burns had been out until about 5 o'clock the night before with Walker's daughter an 18 year old. Walker the marshal and others searched for her all night. Walker anger rose and he warned Burns to stay away from his daughter. The girl was said to have been drugged. Burns is in a critical condition.
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Burron
Wis
Coxey Burns
Walker
Soo Jine
Burns
Waller
Fortune to friend in Miss Dolbeer will probate
The will of Miss Bertha Marion Colbeer filed for probate leaves nearly 2 million in estate to her friend Etta Marxian Warren. Warren receives 300000 in cash 400000 in Dolbeer and Carson Lumber stock at par value the home and personal effects in this city and all remaining estate not otherwise provided for. About 125000 goes to other friends and relatives 80000 to charities and 50000 for a mausoleum at Cypress Lawn Cemetery.
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San Francisco
Gal
Bertha Marion Colbeer
Waldorf- Astoria
New York
Etta Marxian Warren
Dolbeer and Carson Lumber Company
French deny troops to Kwangsi amid disturbances
Pekin July 19 noon reports that France plans to send troops to Kwangsi are unfounded. French legation repudiates the rumor and says the unrest affects only the northern part of the province, distant from French territory.
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Pekin
Kwangsi
Assassination Plot Probed in Elizabethpol Vice Governor Case
St. Petersburg reports a political plot behind the assassination of Vice Governor Andrelis of Elizabethpol on July 17. Uncertainty remains whether Armenians or anarchists were responsible, and officials call for special measures to curb such crimes.
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St. Petersburg
Andrelis
Elizabethpol
Both Enginem En d Killed At Switch Collision
Branwood July 10. Atlantic express eastbound on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad ran into an open switch and the engine was destroyed with fatalities reported for both enginemen.
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Branwood
Town
Atlantic Express
Chicago and Northwestern
Four cars left the trace in railway incident
An engineer and a fireman named Jeillad were involved as four cars departed from the trace. The report notes their roles but provides limited context or outcomes.
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Jeillad
Fort Wayne WCTU to Host Mrs Stoner July 31
Mrs Elizabeth Stoner state vice president of the Indiana Womans Christian Temperance Union will deliver an address in Fort Wayne on July 31. The local WCTU plans a Plymouth Congregational Church meeting Wednesday at 2 30 PM to arrange for her visit and discuss upcoming events.
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Elizabeth Stoner
Indiana Woran’a Christian Temperance Union
Fort Wayne
Stoner
Fort Waynes
T. U
Plymouth Congregational Church
Girl and Boy Drowned at Klinger Lake
Fay and Marion Shoub, ages eleven and nine, children of Conductor William Shoub, drowned while swimming near their cottage at Klinger Lake Indiana. Their mother briefly watched them from a porch before they wandered into deeper water and disappeared. A search recovered Fay first and then the boy. The father was away in the city when the telegram announced the tragedy.
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Ekhart
Ind
Fay
Marion Shoub
Conductor
Irs
William Shoub
Klinger Iake
Shoub
Mound Springs
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Mrs. Stoner
Senate Supply CO
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