Indiana G A R elects officers at 29th encampment
John D. Alexander of Bedford elected Department Commander at the Indiana G A R encampment. Officers named include Milton Bell Kokomo as Senior Vice Commander and Wilbur E. Gorsuch South Bend as Junior Vice Commander. The Womens Relief Corps also chose officers led by Mrs. Anna Tucker Noblesville as president. Mayfield Kentucky suffers major fire. Chicago Fire at Wintermeyer box plant causes $400 000 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Alexander
Bedford
Enior
Milton Bell
Kokomo
Wilbur E. Gorsuch
South Bend
S. I. Brown
Knox
F. M. Elliott
Hammond
J. R. Fesler
Indianapolis
Council of Administration
Joseph D. Galleher
Williamsport
T. B. Wilkinson
Knightstown
D. H. Miller
Franklin
W. D. Myers
Kendallville
J. L. Miller
Lafayette
Relief Corps
Women’s Relief Corps
Anna Tucker
Noblesville
Laura Kalter
Koko
Etta Lee Toby
Chicago
Logansport
Toby
Ladies of the
Indiana
Rebecca Hammel
Monticello
C. Graves
R. E. Hollis
Washington
Grace Carnahan
Oxford
Olive Allison
Richmond
Alice Kramer
Jennie Ervine
New Albany
Mayfield
Isaac Owen
Wintermeyer
Twenty-seventh
Throop Streets
Professor Leslie A Lee Dies After Operation
Professor Leslie A. Lee of Bowdoin College renowned for Labrador and South America expeditions died in Portland after an intestinal operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie A. Lee
Bowdoin College
Labrador
South America
Portland
Three Men Burned In Acetylene Plant Explosion
Three men suffered painful burns when an acetylene gas plant exploded at the Frank M. Great house northwest of Mt. Vernon Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Greathouse
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Annapolis Student Crowna Drowns During Graduation Week
Annapolis Md. mourns as Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas of Cleveland drowns while graduating. Fellow midshipman Carl J D Hibbard of Northfield Minn. nearly dies while trying to save him. Also noted pianist Dr Robert Goldbeck dies at 73 in St Louis after early virtuoso years in Prussia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Crowna
Arthur Linford Lucas
Cleveland
Carl JD. Hibbard
Northfield
Minn
Lfe
Robert Goldbeck
St. Louis
Prussia
Goldbeck
Dun's Review of Trade notes mixed signals in 1907 market
The report says mortality in business is down but bank deposits and unemployed funds rise amid reduced commerce and coal labor troubles. Costs uncertain, demand for finished goods weak, and contracts slow. Weather hampers retail, interior reports better for general merchandise, road salesmen seek fall and winter orders, and money ease aids collections. Chicago district failures climb from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dun’s Review of Trade
New York Weather and Trade Reports Signal Mixed Recovery
Weather and crop reports show irregular warmth and heavy rains with fluctuating retail and jobbing demand. There is a measurable improvement in commercial and industrial conditions and a growing belief that cotton goods prices have bottomed. Woolen orders rise, carpets and ribbons sell, and fall buying improves in major centers while pig iron quotas prove ineffectual and prices ease. Bradstreet’s week ending May 14 notes 281 business failures in the US and 22 in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Northwest
Historic Midwestern Market Price Report Snapshot
Commodity price ranges across multiple markets including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati and New York for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Notables include Chicago hogs 4.00 to 5.05, cattle 4.00 to 7.15, wheat No 2 around 1.00, corn 63c to 74c, butter 17c, eggs 13c to 17c. Milwaukee wheat 1.07 to 1.09. Toledo grains mixed 96 to 97c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New York
Milwaukee
Toledo
Herge
The Grand Army Ode to Fallen Heroes
Elsie Florence Fay in Success portrays a solemn reflection on Civil War veterans as they dwindle, their regiments thinning while nation honors the dead. The piece laments long absence of living, honors memory, and crowns the fallen with May blooms as 80 million voices proclaim freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Florence Fay
Memorial Day Restrospect and War Ration Recall
The report recalls a memorial day scene with references to fresh beef salt hard bread coffee and sugar. It notes Colonel Kellogg and Small are dead and describes a swift pursuit and the rations carried to support the army despite losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Kellogg
Small
Book That Saved a Life
Story of Andrew French who enlisted under the name Andrew Page in the Third Maryland Infantry and was wounded at Chancellorsville. A pension case identifies him by a diary and a towel found on a comrade Wannall, linking Page to French and saving Wannall through the diary’s evidence. The tale ends with a visionary pledge to build academies and churches for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew French
Andrew Page
Third
Maryland Infantry
Baltimore American
Chancellorsville
Andrew Fresch
French
Page
J. M. Ludsburg
William H. Walter
Wannall
Tre
Skyscraper Design Reveals NYC Municipal Headquarters Plan
Busts of Franklin and Washington now adorn the American embassy in London. A fire at Jamestown exposition grounds wiped out the arts and crafts village and other structures. Reports from northern Persia describe a Kurdish massacre of about 2,000 people and the pillaging of 36 villages. A new design for New York City's skyscraper has been chosen to house most city departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Washington
London
Jamestown Exposition
Persia
New York City
Memorial Day Reflections On Honor And Decoration
The article extols Memorial and Decoration Day as a unique national observance. It links the day to Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, the valor of Civil War soldiers, and the duty of living citizens to honor the dead with reverence, wreaths, and half-mast colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
The
Lee
Feeding Confederates Three Days Rations From Sheridan
General Morgan recounts in the Washington Post how Grant ordered three days of rations for Lee’s army at Appomattox. He says Sheridan’s and Ord’s commissaries were consulted, and Kellogg could not feed the army while Small believed it possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Sheridan
Grant
Appomattox
Michael K. Morgan
Washington Post
Ann Fes
Kellogg
Northern
Virginia
M. P
War talk by Charles Simmner on global spending and reform
Charles Simmner asserts that if the world spent all war money, he would buy land for every acre on earth, clothe all people, and fund a schoolhouse for each community, challenging rulers to fund universal education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Simmner
Admiral Schley Visited Bangor After Spanish War
Crowds gathered as Admiral Schley was hosted by General Joseph Smith in Bangor Maine. A grieving Irish mother, Mrs Casey, presented a bronze Manila service medal to Mrs B on the piazza, claiming the medal honored her son for safety at sea with the inscription To the Man Behind the Gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Schley
Bangor
Joseph Smith
Mrs. Pearsons
General Smith
Mrs. Casey
Mrs. B
Bible on the Battlefield Unearthed Among Richmond Dead
A Confederate youth lay unburied days after a battle near Richmond. Worms feasted on the flesh while beneath his skeletal hand rested an open Bible, fingers lingering on the Twenty third Psalm: Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Violent Cleveland streetcar strike hits city
Dynamiting and rioting mar the Cleveland strike with multiple explosions and brick throwing on routes at Woodland East Fourteenth and Broadway. Passengers suffer injuries including a broken jaw and head injuries while crews repair torn lines as mobs target cars and tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Detroit Avenue
100Th Street
Woodland
East Fourteenth Street
Woodland Avenue
David Benjamin
Woodlawn-Lorain
Elizabeth Meiser
Broadway
Fast Pitty-fifth Street
Municipal Traction Company
Calgar y snow slide kills forty Japanese laborers
A snow slide at Calgary Alberta carried two boarding cars with forty Japanese laborers down the mountain side, and all perished. Correspondence from Caracas accuses Roosevelt of seeking light incidents to provoke conflict with Venezuela, amid disputes over the Tacoma mail pouches. The Turkish Italian dispute ends with Turkey yielding, not authorizing post offices in Turkish territory. The US Japan arbitration treaty is praised. Russian troops in Persia face brigand attack, threatening their surround. Richard Strauss named leader of the Berlin Royal Orchestra, Raisuli survival report false.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Alberta
Caracas
Castro
Venezuela
Roosevelt
Russell
Tacoma
la Guayra
Asia Minor
Tripoli
Turkey
Italy
Porte
Tokio
United States
Japan
Persia
Lasting Comfort in Marriage, A Banker's Parable
A depositor tells a bank receiver that marriage offers no real comfort. A bachelor and a benedict debate the cost of marriage with a blue married man noting a wife is expensive yet she lasts a long time.
Who Likes Lemon Pie And Pocketless Navy Uniforms
A Kansas City Times note highlights a woman praising OUR-PIE lemon pie mix while a navy yeoman laments the lack of side pockets in the standard uniform trousers. He relates four years of habit and constant attempts to slip hands into pockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
J. R. Rose
Kansas City Times
St Vitus Dance cures advertised by Dr Kline
The text advertises permanent cures for nervous disorders claimed by Dr. H. EB. M. Kline of Philadelphia. It also includes a science anecdote about dreams and a note urging Red Cross Ball Blue, plus a description of strict security and searches in a nitroglycerin plant with 500 female workers under matrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Vitus
Dr. Kline
M. Kline
Lil
Arch Stress
Philadelphis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sam E. Thurston
Galveston
Department of Indiana
Congress
Crawfordsville
Terre Haute
Bob Evans
Metcalf
Robly D. Evans
Atlantic Fleet
General Board of the Navy
Board
Ifees- Pittestre
Canada
the Grand Army
Tere
Cleveland Strike Directors
East Thirty-seven Street
West Madison Street
West Ninety-seventh Street
J. John’s Hospital
Tetian S. Behner
Harry . Ingersoll
Jamles Pata Sey
Richard Strauss
Royal Orchestra of Berlin
Weingartner
Strauss
Tangier
Raisuli
Caid MacLean
Sophia Kittleson
Evanston
Ilinvis
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus
Ohio
Miss. Sophia
Jottlesen
PE Ru-Na
Wang
Scientific American
Dodds
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