Bayonet threat may quiet Gary as militia discussed
Citizens report to Governor Marshall that Indiana National Guard will move into Gary to close vice springs and gambling dens if local authorities fail to act. The delegation cited threats against leaders, a minister narrowly escaping harm, and liquor sales despite May’s restraining law. Premier and Pierce-Arrow cars shine in Glidden tour results.
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Ind
Indiana National Guard
United States Steel Company
Thomas R. Marshall
Marshall
Indianapolis
Shepard King
Governor Marshall
Price and Matthews
Lake County
Kansas City
Mishawaka
Detroit
McConahay Gas and Hawks Hardware Promote Local Events
McConahay Gas touts Mantles and Carbomouth Gatarrh with Garland Gas stores at Hawks Hardware Co. Tyler and Burton headline roller skating at Band Park this week, touted as the world s best. Trinity Lutheran youth society event postponed a week. Geo W Herr manager of Smith Clark Co markets Masury Paint praising Goshen residents for quality goods after 36 years.
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Hawks Hardware Co
Tyler & Burton
Tyler
Burton
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Berton
Rogers Band Park
Masury
Goshen
The
Hawks. Hardware Co
Battle on Vermont Leaves One Dead After Ten Round Fight
In Provincetown Massachusetts on August 2 a boxing bout aboard the battleship Vermont between two colored mess attendants Foster and Williams ended tragically when Foster died shortly after the ten round match. Williams was declared the winner amid officer witnesses.
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Provincetown
Mass
Vermont
Foster
Williams
William
Hawks Milling Co. sees resignations and leadership shuffle
Harry Reiff resigns after years advocating Hawks Milling Co and departs for Seattle to locate there. Grover Madlem joins seeking better health from Goshen and previously worked for M A Goldberg Shirt Co in Chicago. Herman Roscoe will fill Reiff's role along with W A Sharp taking Roscoe’s former interurban ticket agent post.
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Harry Reiff
Hawks Milling Co
Seattle
Grover Madlem
Goshen
M. A. Goldberg Shirt Co
Chicago
Rieff
Herman Roscoe
Locks Bad for Five Cadets Alleged Hazers
Five West Point cadets, four tied to the hazing of Cadet Sutton, will be sent home this week as a court of inquiry at Annapolis investigates the death of Ieie Lieutenant Sutton. They await final war department action on dismissal by the superintendent.
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New York
West Point
Sutton
Ieie
Annapolis
Secretary of War
Carbo Meuth Healing Balm Marketed In Goshen Indiana
Carbo Meuth is a healing balm for relief and cure of catarrh hay fever asthma and cold in the head. Not new, but in use for about twelve years and now marketed to the general public by the original inventor. For information contact the manufacturers at 402 Wilkinson street Goshen Indiana.
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Wilkinson Street
Goshen
Ind
Thaw Sanity Hearing To Hear Jerome Testimony
White Plains Aug 2 Harry K Thaw faces a sanity hearing before Justice Isaac Mills Charles Morschauser Thaws attorney plans to call W T Jerome to the stand to testify whether Thaw suffered delusions about Stanford White during his relief efforts.
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White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Isaac Mills
Charles Morschauser
Thaw
W. T. Jerome
Stanford White
Ratliff Becomes Agent at Interurban Station
EB. I. Ratliff, after two years as a city car conductor, is appointed agent at the interurban station to fill the vacancy created by W. A. Sharp's resignation. Sharp was checked out yesterday and Ratliff began his duties this morning.
Brother of Syracuse man named among Calumet river drowning victims
Joseph M. Harkless, a brother of Sheldon Harkless of Syracuse, drowned in the Calumet river at East Chicago. The incident adds to a list of residents affected by the river tragedy.
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Syracuse
Joseph M. Harkless
Calumet River
East
Chicago
Sheldon Harkless
Elkhart County Real Estate Offered With Exchanges
A catalog of 300 acre northern state farm parcels 120 acres with timber 180 acre stock farm and 65 acre fruit farm all in Elkhart county. Listings include exchange options for Goshen Elkheart city properties and other city lands plus a hardware business proposition and other properties for sale. My specialty is Michigan lands.
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Goshen
Elkhart
Elkhart County
Michigan Lands
Woman Seeks View of Body in Funeral Riddle
In Pasadena Georgia on Aug 2 a Brooklyn woman Florence Grange appeared at the funeral of Civil War veteran Frederick Fackner. She claimed he might be her father, saying she had not seen him in thirty years and shared a tale of tea and an accidental death.
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Pasadena
Frederick Fackner
Florence Grange
Brooklyn
N.Y
Packner
Kaiser’s Daughter Victoria Louise Set to Come Out
Berlin reports Kaiser’s daughter Victoria Louise the Little Princess is about to come out socially next month marking a shift from childhood days to European diplomatic life. Her future as a royal figure is anticipated as suitors and world political roles loom ahead.
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Victoria Louise
Berlin
Germany
Europe
Kaiser
French Aviator Sets New French Biplane Duration Record
Chalons sur Marne August 2 M Sommer flew a biplane for 1 hour 50 minutes 30 seconds to break French aviation records. Paris August 2 reports France plans to call an international conference to discuss aviation.
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Chalons-Sur-Marne
M. Sommer
Paris
France
Local social notices and public ads from Elkhart
A digest of small town notices and classifieds includes a Kendallville death in Arkansas, busier summer at Hawks-Gortner shops, and Republican ticket talk in Southern Indiana. Community events list dances, a pastry sale, an ice cream social, a business meeting, and a car and street notices with lost envelopes and checks.
Ankle Injury Sidelines George Shaw for Crutches
George E. Shaw injures his ankle while running to catch a streetcar and must rely on crutches. The item notes the practicality of patent clothes-line props sold by Hawks Hardware Co, priced at seventeen cents.
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The
Hawks Hardware ‘Co
Wife Occupies Pulpit for Pastor's Vacation
Mrs. H. S. Baker, wife of the South Brooklyn Unitarian church pastor, fills the Brooklyn pulpit to allow her husband a monthlong vacation without hiring an extra pastor, preaching in his stead to spare the congregation costs.
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Gar
New York
Brooklyn
H. S. Baker
South Brooklyn
Sunken Cadillac Crew Camps On Collapsed Vessel Near St Clair Flats
In a collision with an unknown vessel the steamer Cadillac of Cleveland sank in the channel opposite the St. Clair flats. Her fifteen crew members camp aboard as the coal laden ship lies with one side out of the water while bound for northern destinations.
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Colisien Viterm
Algonac
Nmich
Cadillac
Cleveland
St. Clair Flats
Hymn Sung by 26 Nations at Y M C A Conference
Delegates from twenty six nations joined in singing the hymn Now Thank We All Our God at the Y M C A conference in Barmen Germany August 2. The gathering featured forty great meetings focusing on work among soldiers and sailors.
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Barmen-Wiberfeld
Germany
Barmen
Etberfeld
Wrights Get $30 000 From U S Treasury
Orville and Wilbur Wright were ordered to call at the treasury to receive 30 000 dollars. The payment is for the aeroplane used when Orville Wright, with Army Signal Corps Lieutenant Benjamin Doulois, won the army prize of 25 000 dollars plus a 5 000 dollar bonus by flying ten miles in record time. Wright covered 47 431 miles per hour on the return from Alexandria to Fort Myer, with an average speed of 42 583 miles per hour from Fort Myer to Alexandria.
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Washington
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Treasury Department
Orville Wright
Benjamin Doulois
Army Signal Corps
Army
Wright
Alexandria
Fort Myer
Ring tears off her finger on platform rail
Stockton dispatch reports Mrs N H Neidert alighting from a train when a steel rheumatism ring caught in a handrail tearing the index finger of her right hand nearly off. In New York pickpockets stole $150 and about twenty five railroad passes from B A Littles assistant claims agent of the Chicago and North Western railroad.
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Shelne
Stockton
N.H. Neidert
New York
B.A. . Littles
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Forest Fire Burns Over 1500 Acres in Bourne
A woodland blaze in Bourne Massachusetts on August 2 burned about 1500 acres. A triangle of drazing woodland was kept burning today, with over 700 men reportedly involved in efforts to contain the fire.
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Bourne
Mass
Therr
Tragic Chicago Case: Mother Kills Two Children Then Herself
In Chicago on August 2 Emma Michels killed her children Meta fifteen and Gustav twelve by gas in bed. She then opened a stove gas tube to her mouth and died in the kitchen chair after waiting to ensure the children were dead. The tragedy followed the family being taunted over a past that threatened disgrace.
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Chicago
Emma Michels
Meta
Gustav
Opium Seizure in Manila Targets U.S. Merchant
In Manila a 460 pound opium and 72 ounce cocaine haul hidden in mining equipment prompts an arrest of Louis Grant, an American businessman, as authorities pursue a broad smuggling inquiry. The narcotics reportedly originate in Hong Kong and are valued at about 25 dollars per pound.
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Manila
Louis Grant
Hongkong
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