Women Who Do Things Miss Cora Self and Miss Anna Link
Feature honors two early 1900s women in banking. Miss Cora Self earns promotion to bookkeeper at Third National Bank after proving capable. Miss Anna Link, praised at Citizens Bank, demonstrates reliable, precise work. The piece notes their impact and promises a shift to nursing next.
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Third National Bank
Cora Self
Miss Self
Miss Shelf
W. W. Bonner
Leif
Anna Link
Citizen’s Bank
Miss Link
Henry Link
Carry
John Lorraine Wright
Reed Smoot Seat in Question in Senate Fight
National Reform Association reports a 9 to 5 Senate Privileges and Elections Committee vote against Smoots retention in the Utah seat. Church groups aided the push for seating review and possible declaration of vacancy. Clifford, a coal shortage town, faces fuel delays. Lulu McLaughlin to close a school year at Washington schoolhouse.
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Fittsburg
National Reform Association
Washington
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Smoot
Utah
Senate
Lulu McLaughlin
Washington School
Resignation of Adams township trustee Floyd filed
O P Floyd trustee of Adams township Decatur county resigned through his attorneys with an effective date of May 1. The move follows prior denials of rumor and raises questions about the investigation of township affairs and the appointment by Auditor Ryan. Floyd’s replacement may be Jacob Johannes of St Paul who favored a full inquiry. The table factory owners plan to return to Anderson for better inducements.
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O. P. Floyd
Adams Jo
Decatur County
Frank E. Ryan
The
Graphic
Floyd
Ryan
Charles Howard
Jacob Johannes
St. Paul
Howard
Johannes
Anderson
Egg Prices Drop as Grocers Sell At One Cent
Local grocers offered eggs at twelve cents per dozen on Saturday the lowest in two years. Mild winter weather is blamed for the price decline as hens produced steadily and earlier high-priced storage losses questioned by packers with large cold storage stocks.
Murder in First Degree in Brownsburg Case
Danville Indiana grand jury completes investigation of Samuel Watson charged with murder in the first degree for shooting Mrs Alice McMecNelly at Brownsburg March 8. McMecNelly died Monday morning after being shot in the throat paralyzing her vocal organs. Watson collapsed upon learning of her death and is under physician care with heart trouble.
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Danville
Ind
Samuel Watson
Alice McMecNelly
Brownsburg
Watson
McNelly
Suicide Over Trashy Novels Sparks Oklahoma Dream
Grover Young, seventeen, killed himself at his brother-in-law Samuel Wilson’s home near Kokomo Indiana after reading trashy novels and fearing he could not go to Oklahoma. He bought revolvers and daggers with his $50 pony sale proceeds and shot himself in Wilson’s presence as he urged him to bed.
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Kokomo
Ind
Oklahoma
Grover Young
Samuel Wilson
Wilson
Young
Freight traffic remains heavy as March ends
Freight trains carry western products to eastern markets amid a coal strike and rising corn shipments. The Williams murder trial at the courthouse this week draws hundreds of curious spectators. A saying notes that lack of friends in town implies no fault of the town.
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Coa
Williams
Debate tickets top Shelbyville rush as Greensburg eyes win
More than two hundred tickets are set for Shelbyville in support of the high school debate. The piece notes Greensburg spirit remains high and insists a loss would not stem from lack of enthusiasm.
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Shelbyville
Greensburg
Republican Ticket Nominates Local Officials for Ballot
The ticket lists candidates for key offices including representative Web Woodful, clerk Myron C. Jenkins, auditor Frank E. Ryan, treasurer Oscar B. Trimble, recorder Marsh Thomas, sheriff Jacob L. Biddinger, assessor John M. Reddington, and surveyor Bruce Craig. Voter rolls indicate district numbers 237 and 167 with reference to Orlando Lee 2nd.
Wolves In Brown County Move From Hiding
In Brown County Indiana heavy snow and cold drive wolves from hiding. James Helms on a farm eight miles southwest of Nashville reports a pack gathered near his home, howl loudly, and kill two sheep before we drove them off with gunfire. Farmers go armed after dark and children are kept indoors.
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Nashville
Brown County
James Helms
Here
Helms
Death from bruise leads to blood poisoning in Indiana
Jacob Lucky of Elizabethtown died in Columbus Indiana two weeks after a bruise on his left hand while helping move household goods to Elizabethtown. Blood poisoning developed from the wound. The rest of the text describes an unrelated historic crowd scene with a wireless pole.
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Columbus
Ind
Jacob Lucky
Elizabethtown
Lucky
Scattered items and oddities from a Rushville paper
A Rushville page highlights a society woman’s sun protection by veiling to guard paint, sharp social jabs at Shelbyville critics, a contrast in schoolbook language, Greensburg youths burning art and breakfast, a Greensburg boy’s marriage leverage, Marion Indiana’s hen that preys on mice, a Westport visit by Miss Zola Martin visiting Mrs Nora Vandever.
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Greensburg
Nathaniel Wood
Marion
Ind
Zola Martin
Westport
Nora Vandever
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Hart Schaffner
O Marx
Carter & CO
First National Bank
Greensburg, Indiana
Earth
Heaven
Miss Cora
Reed Smoot
Clifford
Adams
Alice
Republican
Web
Myron C. Jenkins
Oscar B. Trimble
Marsh Thomas
Sheriff, Jacob L. Biddinger
Frank R. Robbins
Orlando Lee
Dr. Sanders
John M. Reddington
Bruce Craig
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