Bank swindle suspect nabbed in Peru Indiana
Indiana Bankers association officers say they captured Leonard Brokaw alias A E Manson a top bank swindler who operated in about a dozen Indiana cities. He posed as a working man using farm talk to cash forged or questionable checks, netting an estimated four to five thousand dollars.
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Eru
Leonard Brokaw
Mafiton
Andich
Indiana Bankers’ Association
Indiana
Brokaw
Indiana Bankers
H. C. Webster
Andrew Smith
Security Trust Company
Indianapolis
Columbus
Ind
A. E. Manson
People’s Savings and Trust Company
Irwin's Bank
Muskrats Honeycomb Dam Threatens Big Four Reservoir
Greensburg reports part of the south wall of the Big Four reservoir, one mile west of the city, collapsed allowing thousands of gallons into Muddy Fork. Muskrats gnawed the dam creating honeycomb damage. The ten acre reservoir will be rebuilt at once with cement. sand in two burlap sacks used to form the damaged wall.
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Greensburg
Thin City
Henryville Robbery and Truancy Fines Reported
Robbers entered William Reynolds farm home in his absence through a broken window and stole 700 dollars in cash and two cashier checks. The cash and checks were hidden in a tin box near a ceiling closet. Bluffton notes Mrs Joseph Swarthwood of Nottingham pled guilty to violating truancy laws for not sending her twelve year old son to school receiving a five dollar fine plus twenty one twenty in costs. She paid and promised to enroll the boy.
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Henryville
William Reynolds
Bluffton
Joseph Swarthwood
Nottingham
Jasper
Paul Faulkner
George H. Faulkner
Salem
Bedford
Galt
William Voyles
V. Voyles
Jeffersonville
Charles 83. Hay
Indiana Reformatory
Canada
Hamilton
Portland
State Board of Accounts
Clark H. Brotherton
Richland Township
Jay County
Lawrenceburg
John M. Belnkamp
Lafayette
John Peter Kile
Tome
Petersburg
Georga Nenning
Thomas Whitney
Nenning
Whitney
Denning
Milton
Folk
Oliver Stewart
Here
Muncie
Thomas Livingston
Corn Public Sale Yields 74 Cents Per Bushel
Columbus area farmer John Sidener held a public sale where corn in the crib sold for 74 cents a bushel and hay in the mow brought 23 dollars per ton.
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Columbus
John Sidener
Lope
Indiana News in Brief Petersburg Police Fines Whisky Clerk
In Petersburg Judge Bretz fined Tom Fowler fifty dollars for accepting twenty five cents for a bottle of whisky from Thomas King of New Albany. The item surveys various Indiana briefs including suffrage, deaths, crimes, accidents, and local notices from several towns.
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Petersburg
Bretz
Tom Fowler
Gilmore’s
Thomas King
New Albany
C. P. Dessanges
Winchester
Beedy Cougille
Eighteenth Indiana Infantry
Terre Haute
Frank Neiding
Washington, Ind
Indiana Teachers to Meet in Chicago April 4 6
Indiana educators announce the Northern Indiana Teachers association spring meeting in Chicago at Auditorium hotel Orchestra hall and University of Chicago to study visits to Chicago schools Speakers include William Jennings Bryan Carter Harrison and Ella Flagg Young The program lists welcomes Judson Harrison and Young with addresses on education and crime prevention The event runs April 4 6 with multiple sectional programs and music.
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William Jennings Bryan
Carter Harrison
Ella Flagg Young
Chicago
Indianapolis
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Northern Indiana Teachers‘ Association
Auditorium Hotel
Orchestra Hall
University of Chicago
Ella Plage Young
Helen Axe Brown
Valparaiso
Harry Pratt Judson
Chicago University
Chicago City School
Carter H. Harrison
Charles A. Greathouse
Superintendent of Public Instruction of
Indiana
Miss Brown
H.B. Brown
Valparaiso University
Signs of the Times
Rich Rabbit Harvest on Henryville Forest Reserve
Trappers in Indiana near Henryville report a record rabbit harvest from the forest reserve during the cold snap. Thousands of rabbits have been trapped and sent to Indianapolis, with fishing and trapping activities noted around the area. The rabbits destroyed experimental tree stands and the reserve allowed trapping without shooting.
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Henryville
Charles C. Deam
State Board of Forestry
Indianapolis
Ita
State board to press chiro licensing case to high court
W T Gott says the Indiana board will continue actions against two chiropractic schools in Huntington until a supreme court ruling decides whether chiropractors must be licensed by the state board. A jury ruled against the board. it is unclear if an appeal will go to the supreme court or another county action will be filed. Prosecutions hinge on chiropractors practicing healing art and thus falling under state licensing statute.
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National Association of Master Bakers
United States
Europe
W. T. Gott
State Board of Medical Examination and Registration
Chiropractice School of
Supreme Court
Huntington
Indiana
John Doe
Hancock County
Spruce Street
Germany
Columbus
Ohio
Cincinnati
bin Hame
Board of Registration
Egg Dealers Tales of Woe and Ice Dealers Meet
H E Barnard notes an egg dealer who cashes out before January first and would have gained 107000 if he waited. Indiana egg trade totals about 12000000 yearly, Barnard declines to call a state meeting. Indiana Ice Dealers plan their eighteenth annual convention February 28 29 at the Denison hotel Indianapolis with talks on refrigeration but not on prices.
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H. E. Barnard
State Board of Health
Worthington
Mr. Barnard
Indiana Ice Dealers’ Association
Indianapolis
Denison
W. K. Martin
Crawfordsville
A. B. Schwartz
Frankfort
W. E. Siddons
Marion
J. W. Rushton
Birmingham
Ala
American Association of Refrigeration
B. B. Johnson
Richmond
George W. Balfe
Lafayette
Monroe George
Internaional Congress of Refrigerating Industries
Chicago
Paria
Vienna
Charity Board Reports Over Three Million in Aid
The annual board of state charities report for the year ending September 30, 1911, shows 3,871 wards under state, city, county, and township care. Of these, 11,801 were in state institutions, with 9,009 in county poor asylums and 1,266 in county jails. Dr. J N Hurty notes Massachusetts will issue 26,000 pamphlets on social plagues, with Indiana and the author receiving due credit for origin. the Indiana publication has reached its 110,000th copy and circulated worldwide.
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Board of State Charities
Jalla
Indiana
J. N. Hurty
Massachusetts
Indiana State Board of Health
Massachusetts State Board of Health
Indiana election law changes and registration duties explained
A 1912 article details changes in Indiana election law, outlining duties of election officials, registration procedures, and required forms. It covers signatures and attestation, in person applications, data entry for registration books, custody of records, session hours, and compensation. It notes watcher limits from political parties and establishes procedural steps for May September and October registration sessions.
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Board of Registration
Euch Place
Registration Board
Election Board
Nero’s World Loss Sparks Roman Fiddling Irony
A humorous quip imagines Nero reacting to Rome burning. The emperor resumes fiddling and says the disaster proves moving pictures were not yet invented, framed as a playful historical joke with satellites in attendance.
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Nero
Rome
Capital Punishment Across Nations and States
The article notes that Italy has no capital punishment and that Maine Michigan Wisconsin Rhode Island and Kansas have abolished it. Colorado and Iowa restored it after brief abolition. Methods include the public guillotine in France Belgium Denmark Hanover and two Swiss cantons, with private use in Bavaria Saxony and two Swiss cantons. The gallows is used publicly.
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Italy
Maine
Michigan
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
Kansas
Colorado
Iowa
France
Belgium
Denmark
Hanover
Bwitserland
Bavaria
Saxony
Aleo Io
Ieitomt
Electrocution and sword use across nations cited
The passage notes varied execution methods by country, listing Austria Portugal Russia and private practice in Britain and the United States except New York New Jersey and Virginia where the electric chair is used. It mentions sword executions in Switzerland China and elsewhere, and musket use in several regions, with several garbled place names and unclear phrasing.
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Austria
Portugal
Russia
Great Britain
United States
New York
New Jersey
Virginia
Switserland
China
Ecuador
Oldenburg
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