Indoor Track Meet Prep By Indianapolis Marion Club
The organizing committee for the April 3 indoor meet at the Coliseum met to arrange details. A full brass band will perform, Fairmount Academy leads entries and will be represented in all events, while Shortridge and Manual Training High School students have signed up for individuals. The Marion club plans to send a full team and Company C of the Indiana National Guard will have athletes competing.
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The
Coliseum
Indianapolis Marion Club
Fairmount Academy
Indiana University
Shortridge
Marion Club
Company C
Second Infantry
Indiana National Guard
Lincoln Reed on the Tariff Across Time
The piece recalls Abraham Lincoln's view from March 1881 that the tariff is national housekeeping. It also cites Thomas B. Reed’s quip that a perfect tariff bill exists only in one’s mind, noting no such bill can become law.
Remarkable young Hoosier speller shines in county match
Master Lloyd Cooney of Bunker Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cooney, recently passed his eighth birthday and amazed spectators with four hours of flawless spelling in preparation. In the county contest he earned high distinction, winning four James Whitcomb Riley books as prizes.
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Bunker Hill
Ind
Lloyd Cooney
Theodore Cooney
Master Cooney
James Whitcomb Riley
Ada B. Connor Recital at Central Ave Church
Miss Ada B. Connor will give a piano recital at Central Avenue M E Church on Friday evening April 16. She is assisted by Miss Marie Hallen Dawson on violin and Mrs. W E Duthie on piano. The program features varied selections from the masters.
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Ada B. Conner
Central Avenue M. E
Central Avenue
Twelfth Street
Marie Halleen Dawson
W. E. Duthie
New York Growth and London Stagnation Compared
The World’s Work notes New York’s seven year growth shows birth rates down eight percent and school enrollments down two percent while paupers rise fifteen percent. In contrast London growth slows as assessed valuation rises seventeen percent and city debt surges one hundred ten percent.
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New York
London
Bahama Minister Seeks Day Labor Work in New York
Joseph H. Diller, a Baptist minister from the Bahama Island, declines the title Reverend, saying only God should be revered. He is in New York to seek day labor work to pay a $127 debt to a New York wholesale grocers firm. Diller receives no salary as a Bahama Island minister and struggles to make ends meet.
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Joseph H. Diller
Bahama Island
MR. Diller
New York
Player Stricken In Arkansas Triage
Paul Ma fone, utility outfielder for St. Paul Americans, arrived with the team in Jonesboro Arkansas. He was struck with heart failure due to acute indigestion and initially thought near death. He later rested well and is expected to recover. He was taken to St Bernard's hospital.
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Fone
St. Paul
Prescription Blessing for Impaired Health Claims
The notice promotes home treatment for physical impairment and nervous issues, describing symptoms like dizziness heart palpitations and cold extremities. It urges readers to obtain three ounces of an ordinary compound and six ounces of another, to be prepared at home, promising personal secrecy and discreet testing.
Indiana Gel Slayer Dies on Gallows
Terre Haute Indiana April 3 Sylvanus Burnham was hanged in Mexico more than twenty years ago according to Jed W Hudson a farmer west of West Terre Haute He recalled a confession that Burnham killed Rosa Tritt in 1877 and another girl in Canada before fleeing to Mexico The case stirred prior searches for Burnham and a telegram from Tulsa Texas later declared Burnham not the man sought ending the indictment and Texas trip costs.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Sylvanus Burnham
Mexico
Jed W. Hudson
West Terre Haute
Texas
Rosa Tritt
Henry Burnham
Tulsa
Tex
Fred Armstrong
Canada
Hudson
Burnham
Mr. Hudson
Lon Baker
Sadford
Sandford
México
Sheriff Walsh
Capt Armstrong
Ira D. Andrews
Capt. Armstrong
Drinks Agid Left by Careless Girl at Orphans Home
John Lewis a colored lad at the Washington Indiana orphans home swallowed carbolic acid and survived after two hours of treatment. Girls at the home used carbolic acid daily to disinfect beds and one cup was emptied on the floor where the lad found and drank it. Doctors treated him with antidotes and he slowly recovered.
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Washington
Ind
John Lewis
Orphans’ Home
New Fight Club Ground Broken in Memphis Arena
Memphis on April 9 reports ground broken for a Phoenix club arena to seat 5,000 spectators. The contract is closed with B. J. Carroll of Chicago as matchmaker and manager for the venture.
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NEW Fight Club
Memphis
Phoenix Club
B. J. Carroll
Chicago
Marmola Tablets Promoted For Directoire Era Fat Loss
A 19th or early 20th century style advertisement promotes Marmola Prescription Tablets as the quickest way for women to shed excess fat for the Directoire mode. The copy claims rapid results, safety, and that a large case costs seventy five cents with claims of losing up to four pounds daily.
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Marmola Company
Detroit
Mich
Notice of Appointment of Indiana Estate Administrators
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have duly qualified as administrators of the estates of Flora C. Jones Mary Kelly and Emma Brautigam all residents of Marion County Indiana deceased The estates are declared solvent Aquilla Q Jones Thomas M Dugan and Charles Pleschner are named each with court numbers and status of solvency in this notice of appointment.
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Flora C. Jones
Marion County
Indiana
Aquilla Q. Jones
Mary Kelly
Thomas M. Dugan
Emma Brautigam
Charles Pleschner
Indianapolis and Cincinnati Traction Co schedule notes
Train timetable fragment lists routes to Shelbyville Rushville Greensburg with departure times. Mentions freight trains to Shelbyville and Greensburg at 1 15 p m and 1 p m, express for delivery at station, and phone numbers New 239 Old Main 4647.
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Shelbyville
Rushville
Greensburg
Prrneeene
Connersville
Patch Ree
Acton
Ushville
Bashviles
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the People’s Credit Clothing Co
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Reed
Abraham Lincoln
Ada B. Connor
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Ark
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Indiana Gel
Old Mexico
West Terra Haute
Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Co
Indianapolis
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Lebaron
Fran Lsfaytte
Serine
Greenfieleld
Cambridge
Richmond
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Ested
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Ern Traction Co
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Mark Cross
Dent
Bates Street
Earl & Wilson
Cory & Sachs
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