Foraker Gets Thunderous Ovation At Republican Meet
In Columbus Ohio on July 27 ex senator Joseph Benson Foraker drew the day’s strongest applause as the Republican gubernatorial race narrowed to Judge Brown and James R Garfield. Party leaders praised Foraker and taft while Alice Roosevelt Longworth attended as her husband Nicholas Longworth spoke as temporary chairman.
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Columbus
Brown
James R. Garfield
Garfield
Alice Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Coa
Heyuilican
Longworth
Amvror T. Herrick
Mark Hanna
United States Senate
Joseph Benson Foraker
William Howard Taft
United States
Sferrick
Mr. Garfield
Mr. Taft
Great Memorial Hall
Foraker
Sunday social notes and regional updates from Valpo area
R R Peddicord was in Valparaiso Sunday and many locals visited relatives and friends in Chicago Hobart Gary and Michigan City. Dyer Dyer and other towns note stays births deaths travels as Wisconsin fires loom and local politics push rentention of local option law.
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Wisconsin
Alex. Ballantyne
Fostoria
Ohio
Ed Gordon
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
William Jennings Bryan
Indiana
Fiester Fire Loss Hits Flat and Store Stock
A Saturday fire at J L Fiester’s corner Main and Third streets damaged his flat above the store. Clothing and furniture burned or waterlogged, with stock losses up to 2500 noted. Insurance coverage arranged, contents largely saved. cause under question and a mystery lingering.
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J. L. Fiester
Main
Third Streets
Frank Fiester
Nilligrew
L. E. Barnes
Death of Hobart Resident John Mellon at 77
John Mellon aged 77 died suddenly at his Hobart home after an evening meal. A longtime pioneer and former farmer near Turkey Creek, he leaves a wife and five children. Funeral is set for Thursday at 9:30 a.m. from the Catholic church with burial at Turkey Creek cemetery.
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John Mellon
Hobart
Mr. Melton
Turkey Creek
Joe
Ft. Wayne
Halfman
Mellon
Francen
Turkey Creek Cemetery
Mrs Haase Dies After Illness At 26
Mrs Huldah Haase wife of Emil Haase died at their northeast town home after a lingering consumption. She was 26 and leaves a husband and a three year old son. Many friends extend sympathy to the bereaved family.
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Huldah Haase
Emil Haase
Architects Plan 60 Gary Dwellings by Dean & Dean
Chicago architects Dean and Dean prepare plans for 60 two story houses to be built by Gary Land Co in Gary. Project costs about 400000 with frame homes priced 3000 to 4000 and brick homes 8000 to 14000. The American Sheet and Tin Plate Co of Pittsburgh also plans 160 Gary dwellings with about 600000 in investment.
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Chicago
Dean & Dean
Gary
Gary Land Company
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company of
Pittsburg
Town Board Awards Boiler House Contract
The town board met in adjourned session to receive bids for a new boiler house at the power plant. Schmidt Bros. Construction Co. won the contract at 2249.00 dollars, beating separate bids for excavation and concrete work, and for concrete plus excavation. The same firm also handles local school projects, ensuring prompt completion and reliability for the power plant upgrade.
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Schmidt Bros. Const. Co
W. H. Fairbank
Alexander & Gerber
Schmidt Bros
Schmidt Bros. Construction Co
Miller
Seydel of East Gary Involved in Kingston Shooting
Louis Victor Seydel, a New York broker and Hobart high school alumnus, shot and killed Clemente Demaron, an Italian saloonkeeper of West Park, in Kingston New York on July 24. After the crime he evaded police while trying to find officers to surrender to.
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Charles Seydel
East Gary
Chicago Tribune
Louis V. Seydel
Hobart
Kingston
N. Y
Louis Victor Seydel
New York
Clemente Demaron
West Park
Seydel
Demaron
Rioting Flares in South Bend Rails Strike
Sunday evening a fire started by sympathizers of Grand Trunk strike trainmen destroyed three cars of a thirty-car freight train and a caboose. Firemen aided by police fought flames as a 5000 strong crowd watched amid threats while other blazes and a shooting marked the day of riot.
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South Bend
Grand Trunk
Kraft and Shearer wed in Chicago at 6727 South Chicago
Daniel Kraft of Hobart marries Ada Shearer of Hobart at her brother Roy Shearer’s Chicago home. The 8 pm ceremony, conducted by Rev. F O Imore Farrington, drew about twenty relatives including the bride’s parents and groom’s father. A wedding dinner followed and the couple planned to stay in Chicago before returning to Hobart to reside on Michigan Avenue. Kraft works at National Fire Proofing Co. local offices. both are well regarded.
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Daniel Kraft
Ada Shearer
Hobart
Roy Shearer
Chicago Ave
Chicago
F. O‘imore Farrington
Hobart Congregational Church
Harrison Shearer
Fred Kraft
Michigan Avenue
National Fire Proofing Co
Crown Point Men to Build Line
Crown Point men plan to construct an electric interurban line into Gary if H. W. Seaman’s injunction suit against Gary delays the project. The Crown Point Register reports the potential self help by local residents to establish interurban communication.
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Crown Point
Gary
H. W. Seaman
Crown Point Register
Free Public Dance at New Chicago Bowery Saturdays
Edward Spletzer invites the general public to a free dance every Saturday evening at his new bowery in New Chicago. Spencer's orchestra will provide the music for the event.
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New Bowery
New Chicago
Spencer
Edward Spletzer
Harbor Opening Tribute as Gary Ports Celebrate
On July 23, two years after the Gary harbor opening on July 28, the steamer E. H. Gary carried over 400 prominent locals from Gary and Chicago. The vessel passed the piers as the national flag rose and four government warships fired a 21 gun salute.
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Gary
E. H. Gary
Chicago
For Sale items include piano and Lincoln Park lots
Upright piano in first class condition for sale, inquire at the News office. Also several nice resident lots in Lincoln Park addition offered on easy terms by C. M. Barney.
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Lincoln Park
C. M. Barney
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A. J. Swanson
Main Street
Ind
Gary, East
South
Glen Park
George and
William
Nat. Bank
G. Ehrhardt
Odd Fellow’s
Hohart, Indiana
H. W. Abbott
Roper
Hobart, Ind
Home Insurance Co
Confessman Lengeworth Stakes
R. R. Peddicord
Valparaiso
Henry Harris
Joseph Reissig
Mrs. Truesdell
Andrew Melin
Dell F. Beach
Valpo
John G. Earle
Dr. Kenward
Watford
Canada
James Shearer
William Killigrew
Michigan City
Marie Scheidt
Dyer
Freehler
Ed Neilman
Keilman J -An
Mer
L. J. Johnston
Grace
Wheeler
Axel W. Strom
Pullman
Strom
Paul Newman
C. L. Fleming
Ald Newman
Martin Swanson
Lee Royer
Ed Rupp
Postmaster Linkhart
Ted Schroeder
Fred R. Fleming
Ed Traeger
Lawrence Hopkins
The
Valpo University
Otto Wilson
Ruth Dishman
Greenfield
Epworth League
Roos
Pine Lake
Wm. H. Mathews
Thompson
Warren
Doris White
Miher
Helen Koepke
Lizzie Rossow
Clarence Tillman
Centralia, T
Chandler
Deepriver
Claude Bullock
Ethel Crockett
Kathleen Killigrew
Lowell
Margaret
Katherine
Thor Fleck
Merfore
Rilville
Edith Rudolph
Martin Rudolph
J. Wickerseimer
Paris
France
George D. Custer
Logansport
Cass County
Custer
C. H. Barts
Plymouth
Jasper
Johnson
Shortridge
Toronto
Can
Thousand Islands
Crown Point Star
Fiester
Blaze
First State Bank
Kraft-Shearer
A. D. S. Brug Store
E. F. Scheddell
Paul Newnan
General Hardware and
Sporting Geods
W. H. Gardner
Walter G. Black
John Killigrew
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