Grand Circuit Race Meeting Promises Big Indiana Attendance
Indianapolis prepares for the Grand circuit race meeting July 11 14 with 150 horses in training at the mile track. Prominent drivers Ed Geers Murphy Snow McCarthy Estabrook Benyon McMahon and others are expected to arrive. The event aims to secure a permanent Grand circuit berth and attract crowds from across Indiana.
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Capital
Indianapollis
Indianapolis
Indiana
Indianapolis Mile Track
Ed. Geers
Murphy
Snow
McCarthy
Estabrook
Benyon
McMahon
Postal service reform pledge cited in agitation text
A call to protect competitive classified service with written charges and defense rights is echoed alongside honors for Orphans' Home graduates and a list of Indiana inventors receiving patents. The notice includes sympathy for dismissed workers and petitions for restoration to rights and positions. Names of graduates and patent recipients follow.
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Post Office Department
Sach
J. R. Fesler
Indiana
Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home
Knightstown
State Department of the
James B. Anderson
Clarence W. Garrison
James W. Blye
Opal D. Kitts
Floyd Ff. Smith
Evert E. Butcher
Lillie O. Childers
Ellen F. Anderson
Leone M. Hotchkiss
Ida E. Goodwin
Maude A. Brown
Lottie I. Johnson
William H. Davis
Florence W. Mitchell
Marshall Seeks Support for New Constitution at Laporte Outing
Governor Marshall spoke to Indiana Democratic editors in Laporte advocating his proposed constitution, addressing critics who call it the Tom Marshall constitution. The event included a banquet by Rumely Co at Interlaken gymnasium and a reception with state officials and editors.
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Harry B. Darling
Marshall
Darling
Laporte
Courthouse Square
Hall
Lake Michigan
Henry A. Barnhart
Rochester
Tom Marshall
General Assembly
Indiana
Edward Rumelo
Interlaken Gymnnasium
Eymission
Loy
Interlaken School
Cacao Prospects in the Dominican Republic for Growth
The article argues cacao as the country’s mainstay with broader wealth distribution than sugar. It notes Dominican cacao benefits from New York demand, Panama Canal potential, and favorable Cibao and Samana regions with foreign stewards improving quality. Land near Yuna river offers settlement, aging trees exist, and labor is inexpensive. Major markets are the United States Germany and France with prices around eight dollars per quintal.
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Dominican Republic
Santo Dominic
New York
Panama Canal
West Indies
Cibao
Leibo
Higuey
Cabana de la Mar
Samana Day
Yuna
Samana Bay
Sanchez
Santo Domingo
Sae Thome
Africa
United States
Germany
France
Republic
Indiana orchard promoters warned against false claims
Douglass deny connections with any fruit firms except Indiana Grehards company. He warns the public not to rely on representations by promoters, noting many new orchard ventures lack experienced growers and promise quick peach crops. Separately, Judge Markey and Prosecutor Parker rule Indiana law on sending insane convicts to Michigan City is unconstitutional, affecting James R. Wood's murder case and potential insanity proceedings.
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Douglass
Indiana
Pam
Indiana Grehards Company
Joseph T. Markey
Frank P. Paker
Michigan City
Marion County
James R. Wood
Jasper Bucy
Wood
Commission Intervenes in Indianapolis Freight Rates Case
Indiana railroad commission acting under recent assembly authority has drafted an intervening petition in the Indianapolis freight bureau versus Big Four Railroad case. The suit seeks to readjust rates for shipments into and out of Indianapolis and charges the respondent with discriminations against Indianapolis shippers.
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Railroad Commission
Indiana Railroad Commission
General Assembly
Indianapolis Freight Bureau
Big Four Railroad Company
Indianapolis
Farmer Chases Pig In Long Race On The Highroad
A farmer pursues an escaped pig with a neighbor laughing from a buggy. The farmer keeps a calm, good natured tone while explaining the chase as a round the world auto race, noting the pig is laps behind yet somehow staying ahead briefly before the gap into a potato patch.
Woolworth Building rises one-seventh mile high in New York
The structure will reach 55 stories, planned for completion next year as the world’s tallest business building surpassed only by Paris’s Eiffel Tower. The article evokes skyscraper ambition, comparing steel and stone ascent to legendary Titans and pondering future architectural limits.
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New York
Woolworth
Salvator
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Towers and the Race to the Sky in Major Cities
The piece contrasts Chicago’s skyline with New York’s craze for higher towers. It notes the Singer Building’s height and the Metropolitan Tower’s ascent, then mentions the Woolworth Building planned even taller. It asks what will determine future height limits and whether architecture will cap or push the ascent.
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Chicago
New York
Singer
Geetham
Metropolitan
Woolworth
Midgets Block Weathervane at Lurgan Church
A steeplejack found the weathervane on Lurgan parish church blocked with many dead midgets after it had stopped working. The incident occurred in County Armagh Ireland and the object was not functioning prior to discovery.
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Lurgan
County Armagh
Ireland
Taking No Chances in Talker Robbery Confrontation
Dialogue depicts a prisoner recalling a lone robbery planned with no accomplice due to fear of a dishonest partner. The exchange highlights risk awareness and pragmatic self reliance in a crime scenario.
Historic mansion destroyed for film fire in New Rochelle
The 250 year old shard mansion built by a Huguenot family in New Rochelle was set ablaze by a moving picture company with city approval. The building, a hub of colonial era aristocratic activity, was auctioned and bought by the film company to film rescue of a child, a village bucket brigade, and a mourning family viewing the ruins for a new Episcopal church site nearby.
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New Rochelle
Moving Picture
Immigrant Girls Went Missing En Route to West
Grace Abbott of Hull House told the YWCA convention that about eighteen hundred immigrant girls were lost track of after arriving at Ellis Island and being sent by train to Chicago and other western points in the last year and a half. She urged a federal immigration bureau in Chicago to curb white slavery. Abbott noted the shift from traditional dress to fashionable skirts as a reason for departure.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ellis ‘Gland
Chicago
Grace Abbott
Hull House
Young Women's Christian Association of America
Miss Abbott
Mias Abbott
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Offered by Market Ad
Chicago woman testifies that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her female weakness and stomach trouble after a clerk urged alternatives. The ad urges women to insist on the product during their health crises and notes its thirty years as a standard remedy across communities.
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Chicago
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Janetzes
Arch &J
Lydia E. Pickham
Veiled Woman Causes Quiet Curtain in Wise-M News
In a small exchange, Wise asks Howe about a woman wearing a veil. Howe concedes he does not know the reason. Wise suggests the veil is not hidden modesty but fear the sun might blister her palate.
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Howe
Seven Million Dollars Across the Street
The landlady boasts to a prospective lodger about the neighborhood’s wealth pointing to a mansion and claiming over there lies seven million dollars as a boastful lure. The line adds color to a social scene illustrating ambition and perceptions of value in the area.
Lunch Fit for a King Promotes Grape Nuts Cure
An active young woman credits Grape Nuts with curing nervous prostration and dyspepsia after years of brain strain. She says a noon Grape Nuts with fruit lunch kept her at work, boosted energy, and reduced lost days. The letter praises Road to Wellville and the product’s health claims.
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Wellville
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Prigs
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State Convention of Post Office Clerks
Richmond
United National Association of Post Office Clerks
A. F
O. B. Bahr
Marion
John W. Ballard
George W. Barnard
B. Deuel
F. E. Follett
Otterbein
S. Frank
Kokomo
William M. Gentle
Greenwood
Clifford Kerr
Aurora
A. L. Peasley
RB. OW. Danzigss
Venezuela
Farmer
Gotham
Woolworth Building
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