Indiana briefsa round of 1900s events and notable deaths
The report lists multiple Indiana updates including W J Murphy named cashier of First National Bank Newcastle succeeding the late George R Murphy, Ventura Club women taking hunting licenses, turkey shortages in Evansville, Fort Wayne streetcar replacement, Dr Harvey Mitchell’s death at 83, and Governor Marshall’s appointment of George W McCoy as Adjutant General with Charles A Garrard as Quartermaster General. It also notes J K Woodward and James Tucker injuries, a pelican of local mining accidents, a diphtheria outbreak at the State Children’s Receiving Home, and various local business, weather, and transport items across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Mitchell
Muncie
Charles Anthony
Mitchell
South Walnut Street
W. T. Durbin
Indiana
Washington
New York
Republican State Committee
Edmund Hostetter
Crawford County
Milltown
Canton
Ohio
California
Thirty-eighth
Indiana Infantry Volunteers
C. F. Brown
Rockport
Roy Mitchell
New Harmony
Morton Elliott
Thomas J. Erwin
Mt. Vernon
Josie Crank
New Haven
William
Ruling Dissolves Standard Oil as Illegal Trust
The St Paul Circuit Court orders the Standard Oil Company dissolved within thirty days under the Sherman anti trust act declaring the giant oil combine a monopoly and restraint of trade. The decision faults its organization methods and predicts sweeping industrial upheaval nationwide. The company plans an appeal with the Supreme Court likely to be involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Circuit Court
St. Paul
Standard Oil Company
Standard of
New Jersey
Rockefeller
Oil Trust
Supreme Court
United States
Court of the
Circuit Court
Farm Land Prices and Productivity Under Market Conditions
The Kansas Farmer argues land prices will rise only if productivity increases and labor remains profitable. With good markets and crops yielding 60 to 100 bushels of corn per acre, land value should rise through productive use. Surpluses are ending as demand outpaces supply, and prices will adjust as conditions normalize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rensas
Aqoining
Kansas
Plans for Hog Houses and Pumpkin Storage
A Breeder's Gazette correspondent offers a six by six foot hog house plan with hinged roof doors for sun access and sow care. The article also advises storing mature pumpkins in cool dry places away from frost, then raises concern over possible oleomargarine law amendments and urges readers to contact their congressmen to preserve current dairy protections.
Panama Canal Cost Estimate Soars to 400 Million
War Department releases annual canal commission figures showing completion costs near 400 million dollars, well above the 150 million previously reported to Congress in 1902. The estimates, prepared for congressional sanction, are signed by Chief Engineer Goethals and Secretary Dickinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Congress
Atlantic
Pacific
Canal Commission
War Department
Goethals
Dickingon
Murdered heiress Ella Smith and Franklin Mine disaster
Miss Ella Smith of Manassas Virginia was slain for her money and her body burned in her home ruins on Ball Run battlefield. Police seek a missing neighbor described as a negro who lived near the Smith residence. In Ohio, the Florence mine near Martin's Ferry explosion fatally burned six miners just before night shift entered the mine, causing severe damage to the mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball Run Battlefield
Ella Smith
Manassas
Smith
Florence
Youhiogheny and Ohio Coal Company
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Robbers Kill Saloon Keeper in Kansas City Hold Up
Two unidentified robbers shot and killed M. A. Spangler, a saloon keeper, and seriously wounded his son Samuel during a hold up in a Kansas City saloon. Two customers in the saloon were unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Spangler
Spangler
Samuel
Kansas City
Black Hand Member Dies in Leavenworth Prison Hospital
Giuseppe A. Aieilo, a Black Hand Society member in Cincinnati, died in the federal prison hospital at Leavenworth Kansas from dementia brought on by acute melancholia after two weeks of violent insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hand
Guiseppe A. Aieilo
Black Hand Society
Cincinnati
Federal Prison Hospital
Leavenworth
Kan
Goats Supplied to Workers in Wurtemberg Experiment
A large Wurtemberg firm supplied forty seven goats to workers on easy payments, plus stable space and pasture plots. The system yields three to four quarts of milk daily per goat, allowing the men enough milk for families and potential sales. A consular report notes Trieste’s hilly district is largely uncultivable due to pointed stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wurtemberg
Molkerezietung
Trieste
Prizes Funded for Agraria Redevelopment and Beehive Concrete
The Society Agraria awards prizes for converting waste ground to meadows with sixty six peasant workers improving forty four acres and earning 1040 dollars. The article also highlights concrete beehives as a practical, affordable project for women, home fabrication, and the need for proper stock and care in poultry and dairy farming amid sun and TB concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society Agraria
Convenient Light for the Barn
A simple safety lantern hanger uses two small pulleys and a rope to lift a lantern to a chosen height. The lantern end is pulled up and the rope secured to a wall cleat, central placement in the barn providing better light than moving the lantern around.
Beekeeping innovation and origins in New England history
The passage notes bees were unknown to Indians and brought from England after the Pilgrim landing. It states modern beekeeping began over two centuries after white settlement in New England, attributing the industry’s start to Langstroth’s movable frame hive invented in 1852.
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England
New England
Langstreth
Horseman Recommends Corn Based Grain Ration for Colts
An experienced horseman endorses a diet of equal parts corn and ground oats as an optimal grain ration for growing colts. The blend provides essential nutrients for fat, bone, and muscle development. Adding bran or linseed meal aids bowel regularity and helps reduce disease susceptibility.
Handy Cooking Utensil Serves Three Veggies at Once
An Ohio inventor designs a stewpan with a skeleton frame and three separate compartments, each with a clip for easy placement. The utensil fits on one stove lid or gas frame, allowing three vegetables to cook simultaneously and saving gas, time, and space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Simple quick biscuit recipe from a kitchen guide
Two cupfuls of sifted flour half a cupful of cream two teaspoonfuls of baking powder one of sugar and a half saltspoonful of salt. Mix the flour sugar salt and baking powder together then add the cream and one well beaten egg. Bake in a hot oven about ten minutes. This quantity makes a dozen biscuits.
Home Style Milk and Potato Mash with Paraffin Preparation
Instructions describe shredding onion into milk with celery and boiling in a double boiler, boiling potatoes then mashing and mixing with butter and seasoning, then straining and serving. Also includes paraffin cleaning method and a recipe combining ham beans bread crumbs egg and butter shaped in cans and baked.
Apple Bread Pudding With Lemon and Cinnamon Flavors
Mix sugar with lemon juice and rind. Cream butter with bread crumbs eggs and chopped tart apples. Add sugar lemon and cinnamon. Bake in a pudding mold in a moderate oven. Serve with hard sauce.
Kitchen tips from a French chef and pantry basics
Practical household notes cover sugar chocolate and milk blends for candy dishes and fried slices, plus tips on egg whites and cream of tartar, prunes with cider, preserving celery, and safe handling of opened canned goods. Additional lines advise whitening dishes with whiting and flavoring sugar with a vanilla bean.
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Review OF Indiana
Washington, D. C
W. J. Murphy
First National Bank of Newcastle
George R. Murphy
Ventura Club
Evansville
J. K. Woodward
Merchants’ National Bank of New Albany
James Tucker
Tom Tioal
Fort Wayne
C. D. Emmons
John R. Moore
Greenfield
James Whitcomb Riley
Mina Postman
Boggstown
Pellagra
New Bellsville
Brown County
Columbus
Nashville
Indianapolis
Edward Baugh
Hartsville
David Webber
Baugh
Bartholomew County
Gilbert Conwell
Newcastle
Conwell
William Potts
John Robinson
Bogle
Jasonville
Westfield
Fred Kiechle
Homesville
Southern
Georgetown Hill
New Albany
Orleans
Huntingburg
Basil Cochran
South Bend
Young Cochran
Edmund C. Roche
Ade
George Ade
Morocco
Uncle Sam
Lawrence Pinkerton
Butler Bench and Steel Company
Marion
Pinkerton
F. M. Murphey
State Board of Optometry
Edwin C. Felt
Chicago
W. J. Rooda
Gary
Frank A. Hanks
Peru
Fred G. Fitch
Warsaw
C. F. Gordon
Pennville
Harry T. Parker
Dunkirk
Hugh J. Davey
Charles Boaz
Mattoon
William R. Christman
Oxford
George W. Ridgway
Earl C. Berry
Logansport
Charles R. Brooner
Montezuma
Alfred H. Bower
Greenville
Hugh H. Osborn
Petersburg
Standard of New Jersey
Rockeefeller
Sunshine
Missouri Dairyman
Panama
Prises
Barra
Bees In
America
Queen Cream Biscuits
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