Holiday candy and hat sale at local shops
Lesson Democrat item notes closeout of stock at Rule's Confectionery with children's hats, beavers, and bargain items. Zora Motto advertises at 118 North Ninth Street while Ire C Noel’s Bicycle Man at 208 North Main advertises gifts and Christmas candy orders. Parfitt Goshen photographer offers Christmas warrants on negatives taken by Dec 20 with holiday rates.
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North Ninth Street
C. Noel
North Main Stree
Parfitt
Goshen
Postmaster Hitchcock reports large postal deficit reduction
Postmaster General Hitchcock issues the annual report noting a deficit drop from 17.5 million to 5.85 million dollars for the year ended June 30. He emphasizes no curtailment of service, expanded rural routes, and renewed calls for limited parcel post on rural lines. The report details postal savings progress and 1,500 new post offices and 515 new rural routes totaling 12,235 miles.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Postal Service
Department
Post Office Department
Postal Savings System
Board of Trustees
Mutiny and Bombardment Hit Rio Grande Do Sul
Mutineers on the Rio Grande Do Sul clashed with shore batteries in Rio de Janeiro starting at dawn Sunday. Civilian casualties rose as fighting continued. officials said government forces gained control after rebels surrendered. Martial law declared for 30 days amid widespread property damage and panic.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande Do Sul
Marine Corps
Brunswick Hotel Fire Damages Minneapolis Landmark
Fire destroyed the Brunswick Hotel at Fourth and Hennepin in Minneapolis. The blaze began in the basement and swept through a crowded building. officials estimate losses near 180000 dollars and fear several may have perished.
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Minneapolis
Brunswick
Fourth and
Hennepin Ave
Nue
Twin Cities
Lottery operation arrests shock Anderson visitors
Joseph Smith George Masson and A J Van Patten from Richmond were jailed in Anderson Indiana after failing to post bond on a lottery charge. They allegedly ran a house to house canvass selling numbers from one to twenty one with small girls selling cards and the holder winning silverware.
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Anderson
Ind
Joseph Smith
George Masson
A. J. van Patten
Richmond
Robbers Loot Milton Bank in Indiana
The Farmers Bank of Milton, Indiana, was entered and two vault doors blown off. About 400 dollars in change was removed from just inside the vault, while the inner safe remained untouched. The thieves escaped with a buggy and horse from a Milton stable, then abandoned the rig at Griffin & Saunders livery barn in Connersville.
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Connersville
Ind
Farmers’ Bank
Milton
Griffin & Saunders
Coal Miners Strike Benefits Top One and Half Million
United Mine Workers reports 140000 workers on strike in North American coal fields receiving benefits. total benefits paid in the year ending November 30 amount to 1632022 42 dollars. Edwin Perry secretary of the union released the report from Indianapolis headquarters.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States
Canada
United Mine Workers
Edwin Perry
North America
International Union
Publish List of Imbibers in Connersville
Connersville Indiana officers Lewis and Jordan prepared a list of 45 persons convicted of intoxication in city court. They served notice on drug-store proprietors that the named individuals habitually become intoxicated, following a complaint by the Good Citizens League that liquor was sold from drug stores.
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Connersville
Ind
Edmund E. Lewis
Henry Jordan
Good Citizens’ League
Whiting Standard Oil Plant Destroyed In Fire
The Standard Oil Company petroleum plant at Whiting caught fire in the engine room and was destroyed. Loss estimated at 75,000 dollars. About 100 workers employed. plant produced petroleum by products and was recently built. Fire threatened wider city area but was contained by insurance coverage.
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Hammond
Ind
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
Girl dying makes charge in illegal operation
Kokomo Indiana December 12 police investigate the death of Miss Olga E Floyd daughter of former councilman Clarence Floyd. Before dying she charged a local woman with performing an illegal operation. The statement is filed with Dr J L Puckett mayor of Kokomo who attended the young woman.
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Kokomo
Ind
Olga E. Floyd
Clarence Floyd
J L. Puckett
Young Couple Elopes and Marries in Jeffersonville
A Forest Fellows 18 and Miss Fay Montgomery 16, socially prominent in Columbus, eloped to Jeffersonville and wed. Returning home, they kept the marriage secret until Sunday.
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Columbus
Ind
Forest Fellows
Fay Montgomery
Jeffersonville
Fatal Train Collision Near Ricketts Crossing
In Kokomo Indiana Hugh J Umbarger and daughter-in-law Mary Umbarger drove into an approaching train on the i. b. & W. railroad at Ricketts crossing. Hugh Umbarger died from injuries while Mary Umbarger sustained severe bruises. A separate incident in Portland Oregon reports Frank Linaker and rancher Edward Naylor involved in a serious wound at Wor st Grove.
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Kokomo
Ind
Ricketts Crossing
Hugh J. Umbarger
Mary Umbarger
Umbarger
Sheets Rancher
Portland Ore
Frank Linaker
Menlo, la Aber
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