Funeral for Benjamin Roberts touchs off local gathering
Local residents attend the funeral for Benjamin Roberts who died of pneumonia at the Penal Farm. The report lists numerous neighbors and relatives in town, noting illnesses, births, and social visits, with several residents traveling to Indianapolis and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Jacques
Benjamin Roberts
Penal Farm
Mr. Roberts
Jacques
Mary Florer
South Indiana Street
Esther Brown
Indianapolis
School of Music
Classified Ads Snapshot From Local Herald
Notice offers seller financing terms for property with small down payment and installments. Real estate buyers seek modern or semi modern homes in good locations. Other ads seek a girl for general house work and a young man for office work dictation skills. Also for sale a flat corner for ten dollars and farm hand position with daily work and perks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown & Moffett
Putnam Reality Co., (Inc
Herald Office
Pacific Races Slow in Dying and Pacific Islands Interest
A Living Church article notes Pacific islands groups size and ownership matters for America. The piece highlights Guam and Ladrones, discusses declining aboriginal populations, and praises Honolulu’s Bishop Museum for ethnology work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Pacific Ports Magazine
Hawaiian Islands
Guam
Tasmania
Honolulu
Bishop Museum of
Miss Liberty Goldfish Tops Aquarium Fund Drive
Collectors and breeders tout Miss Liberty as a brilliant fancy goldfish whose progeny fund a city aquarium. Her lineage includes a Chinese moor-black a red-scaled Japanese and a brown transparent Japanese. her underbody is red the back white with blue markings on fins and body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Liberty
Popular Mechanics
Victor Hugo: New Drawings Album Unveiled for Fans
The article announces two large Victor Hugo drawings collections in album form, promising new insights into his novels and poems. It notes early enthusiasm from admirers and ties to a broader carbon and paper-saving push urged by the American Forestry Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Hugo
Hugo
American Forestry Magazine of
Washington
Concrete ships face death knell as work halted in Oakland
The United States Shipping Board ordered the discontinuation of concrete ship building at Oakland California. Yet the steamer Falth has demonstrated the feasibility of concrete vessels for freight service despite doubts about their viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Shipping Board
Oakland
Cal
Largest Painting by Tintoretto Guards Venice Treasure
The monumental Tintoretto work Paradise measures 84 feet wide and 83% feet high. It resides in Dove's palace in Venice and is protected as one of the world’s greatest treasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise
Tintoretto
Dove's Palace
Venice
A Frameup Dialogue Sparks Family Shielding Blame
In a Louisville Courier Journal excerpt a man asks his father for permission to marry his daughter and learns the warning that womenfolk fear responsibility if the marriage fails. The exchange highlights family tensions and protective stances amid looming nuptial plans.
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Louieville
Have you kept all the promises you made senator
Senator Sorghum is questioned about promises and confirms he files copies of every letter he writes with promises. The exchange highlights his record-keeping practice and accountability in public statements.
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Star
Senator Sorghum
Corn and timothy stored in crib and mow
8000 bushels fine yellow corn stored in the crib and 20 tons extra fine timothy in the mow described in the report.
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Caroline McMillan
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H. B. Gough
James L. Hamilton
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Jackson Boyd
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A. E. Ayler
Michigan
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George Rice
Cloverdale Township
William R. Smith
Cloverdale
H. C. Clippinger
Cassell Tucker
Boston
George Christie
Lagrip
Josephine Lewis
Knightstown
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Warren Florer
University of Michigan
Marion Farrow
Grip
H. C. Makey and Son
Delilah Miller
Makey
Daisy Stauch
Carl Coffman
A. Murphy
Mary Duncan
Quincy
Boston Transcript
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Louisville Courier-Tournal
Spring Avenue
Chas. Kiefer
W. H. Eiteljorge Meat Market
University of Pennsylvania
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New York
Living Church
Johnson County
Dixie Highway
Bluff Gravel Road
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Franklin
Bargersville
Mooresville
Grain and Feed
Ladies’ Aid of
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Fred Cline
Arthur J. Spaugh
J. Edw. Morris
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E. F. Harvey
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CN. Fields
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