Tax Ferret Got Money A Public Salvo At Decatur
The Decatur Democrat roars over a $1 954 23 payment to tax evader J B Workman dated May 3. It notes prior contracts for sequestered taxes, a 1909 act legalizing them, and council refusals to pay until circuit court orders. The piece accuses county officials of hush tactics for political aims.
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Decatur Democrat
J. B. Workman
O. d
Workman
Treasury
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Hacker
D. d
Moody S and Son Plan Cement Tile Factory
H. J. Moody and Son will establish a cement tile factory in the city on a ground lease from Augustus Miller. They will erect a building next month and equip a machine with 4 000 tile daily capacity by August. Four tile sizes will be produced and the plant aims to employ a score of workers this fall, increasing to at least thirty next year with Commercial Club backing.
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H. J. Moody & Son
Augustus Miller
Michigan Division
Michigan Avenue
Sheridan Street
Iowa
Moodys
Commercial Club
Professor Leaves City High for Cincinnati
Professor L. P. Stewart announced to the school board on Monday that he would not accept the raised salary offer for next year. He sought a position in Cincinnati under Superintendent Prof. F. B. Dyer, passed academic exams, and was assigned to teach the eighth grade with a view to ward principalship. The community regrets his departure and hopes for a suitable successor.
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L. P. Stewart
Our City
Altho
Stewart
Cincinnati
F. B. Dyer
Our County
Teachers’ Institute
Roosevelt Disowns Spurious Hunting Trip Volumes
Theodore Roosevelt tells Scribner's Sons to disown any connection or responsibility for fake volumes claiming to recount his hunting trip. He states that the only legitimate account is the one he publishes himself. The note follows his extensive public duties and travel.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Messrs
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Roosevelt
Author details forthcoming African expedition volume
During his European tour the author revises proofs for a forthcoming volume about his African trip. The work includes fifteen chapters totaling 140000 words, five appendices on topics like Protective Coloration in Animals and The Pigskin Library, plus eight drawings from authentic expedition material. Scribners plans an August publication in a handsome large octavo of about 500 pages.
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Kermit Roosevelt
The
Scribners
Shelbyville Must Attract Local Industry Not Outsiders
In a Shelbyville News editorial the city is urged to focus on nurturing homegrown industry and legitimate manufacturing, while resisting exploitative outside ventures seeking tax breaks. The piece argues small local startups offer lasting value and urges promotion of Shelbyville’s advantages to lure manufacturing.
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Shelbyville
Jioca
Wedding Breakfast Honors Ruth Bonner and Homer Meek
Mrs. Cassius Hamilton hosted sixty guests at a three course breakfast north of town on Saturday in honor of Miss Ruth Bonner and Homer Meek following their Wednesday night marriage. Hearts and roses decorated tables with eight verse bearing place cards concluding the wedding tale. Among the visitors were Miss Annetta Shannon Springhill Mrs George Dobyns Clarksburg Miss Louise Belser Indianapolis Miss Mabel Schofield Colorado Springs Miss Huey Thompson Covington Kentucky Miss Estelle White Findlay Ohio and Miss Margaret Wilson Cincinnati.
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Cassius Hamilton
Ruth Bonner
Homer Meek
Annetta Shannon
Springhill
George Dobyns
Clarksburg
Louise Belser
Indianapolis
Mabel Schofield
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Huey and Thompson
Covington
Kentucky
Estelle White
Findlay
Ohio
Margaret Wilson
Cincinnati
Captain Aiken Weds In Hope Surprise Marriage
Captain W H Aiken, a leading Hope Republican and Bartholomew County figure, married widow Christina Murphy after securing a license last week. The couple wed at Dr Alfred Pitkin’s Methodist parsonage in Columbus, returning to Hope as residents learned of the ceremony Monday.
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Hope
W. H. Aiken
Christina Murphy
Captain Aiken
Bartholomew County
Ed Daimbert
Bertha Lanham Weds Isom Ferris At Beech Grove
A wedding was held yesterday at 3 30 PM at the Lanham home five miles south of the city. Miss Bertha Alice Lanham and Isom Herschel Ferris, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Ferris, were joined in marriage by Rev J F Huckleberry of Franklin. The groom, a theology student at Franklin College, pastors Beech Grove Baptist church. The bride, a skilled musician, is well regarded in the locality. They will establish their home at Beech Grove.
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Beech Grove
Bank Account Reported as Personal Funds
A brief notice states that the bank account belongs to an individual, identified only as the owner, with details limited by the source text. No further names, dates, or locations are provided in the readable portion.
Women and Banking Skills Spark Suffragette Debate
A suffragette argues women deserve votes and property rights while a man recounts a tale of his wife managing money poorly. He describes learning she forged his signature on a bank check, highlighting a humorous mismanagement of finances and concluding women are not suited to banking.
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Iid
Effects of Absinth On Digestive Health And Mind
The piece warns that excess absinth disrupts digestion and appetite, producing thirst, delusions, depression, and lunacy. Even moderate, regular use harms the user, causing a pale, aging face, hair loss, tremors, brain decline, dreams, and eventual paralysis leading to death, per Pearson's.
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Map
Pearson's
Justifying His Judgment
Mrs Flittson argues that her husband’s judgments are flawed citing a newspaper report about Mrs Shapeler’s husband attacking her yesterday. The dialogue ends with a quip about his claim being proved by the paper’s account.
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Flittson
Chicagca News
Fine Point In Legal Testimony
A courtroom exchange centers on a witness denying travel to Chicago while acknowledging a companion, Snyder, did ride a train. The judge presses for precision and the witness admits backing away from Huntersville to avoid the journey, framing the wartime context as the truth.
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Chicago
Hontersville
Snyder
Huntersville
Unfamiliar Commodities In a Department Store
A sharp exchange unfolds as a keen old customer seeks lasting classics among fiction. The clerk redirects to the provision department while suggesting Lambs Tales and Bacon Crabb Fox. The scene captures humor over literary taste and store layout.
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Crabbe
Fox
Father-in-law's Chance Wedding Banter
A dialogue centers on a fiancé deferring dates and style to Mary and Mrs Bullion while the father-in-law probes plans and income. The tactful suitor answers with humor by leaving each major decision to the women and the elder man.
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Mr. Bullion
Mary
Poor Man Seeks Lodging in Bin of Coal
A Chicago News item quotes a sad tramip pleading for shelter from a housewife. He asks for a night’s lodging and is offered space in her bin of anthracite, while she suggests a soft coal bin for the night. The exchange highlights a bleak, frugal street scene in the cold city.
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Chicago News
Inside and Outside of Planks and Timber Quality
The article explains there is an inside and outside to each plank, the outside being away from the pith. A careful worker leaves the outside exposed to air to prevent shelling and loss of cohesion. If the inside faces air, early layers peel and surface quality deteriorates.
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Pearson
Black Bread Praised Over White Bread
The London Lancet says rye bread is not a famine ration but a nutritious staple in several civilizations. Chemically similar to white bread with a touch less gluten, black bread keeps longer and may gently irritate the intestinal canal. Whole rye is preferred.
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London
Poor Foundations and the Collapse of Institutions
A concise critique argues that weak foundations undermine entire structures leading to eventual collapse, with scandal as a catalyst and consequence. The piece stresses the need for solid underpinnings to prevent harm across systems.
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Aiken
American Press Association
Charitable
Maetre Ca
Ains Sr
Mets
Geo. W. Magee
Bennett, Wi
Youghiogheny
S. Jones Lumber Co
Michigan Ave
Nion 7 Rust Company
Greensburg, Indiana
Walter W. Bonner
J. HB. Christian
W. H. Robbins
Chas. Zoller, Sr
James M. Woodfill
James B. Lathrop
Frank Robbins
Isaac Sefton
Harrington Boyd
Edison Phonographs
Edison
J.W. Owens Music House
South Side Square
Greensburg, Ind
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