Taft's heavy travel schedule signals busy spring abroad
Washington April 16 President Taft continues booking speeches as travel becomes his hobby surpassing golf His plans include eight days in the middle west visiting Buffalo Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis with a New York stop and a Atlantic City swing He also targets Yale commencement Beverly Mass and Cincinnati and San Antonio trips plus a ranch visit and more before Congress reconvenes
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Mosher Announces Candidacy for Marion County Sheriff
Jonathan M Mosher has announced he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Marion county. He has worked 17 years with the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal company and recently served as a motorman on the Central Avenue line. He resides in the Fourth Ward.
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Jonathan M. Mosher
Marion County
Mr. Mosher
Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company
Central Avenue
Army Orders Detail Promotions and Leaves in Coast Artillery Corps
Army orders issued by direction of the president detail Capt. Malin Craig to the general staff, grant four month leaves of absence with overseas permission for several officers, retire one sergeant, and announce transfers within the coast artillery corps including Captains William W. Hamilton Henry H. Scott Edward M. Shinkle and Second Lieut. Henry H Malven Jr. The actions affect First Cavalry, Coast Artillery, Field Artillery, Signal Corps and Ordnance departments with moves to Ft Slocum and San Francisco for examinations and observations.
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General Staff Corps
John W. Furlong
Sixth Cavalry
Nathan Horowitz
Coast Artillery Corps
Edwin E. Pritchett
First Field Artillery
Shelby C. Leasure
Signal Corps
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Eighty-first Company
Coast Artillery
Ernest P. Newsom
John K. Cree
Army Retiring Board
San Franisco
William W. Hamilton
Henry H. Scott
Edward M. Shinkle
Ordnance Department
Henry H Malven ,Jr
Laundrymen Convene State Meeting at English Hotel
The Indiana Association of Laundrymen will hold its state convention Monday at the English hotel. Mayor Shank was invited to give the address of welcome to the delegates and is expected to return this afternoon. If unavailable, his secretary Luman Kk. Babcock will deliver the address.
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Indiana Association of Laundrymen
Shank
Luman Kk. Babcock
Peanut whistle noise draws police action in city district
Loud piercing peanut whistle complaints from North Meridian to St. Clair streets led to a police inquiry at headquarters last night as residents in the district complained of a noise nuisance and disruption to their neighborhood.
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St. Clair
Truants School in Indianapolis Proving Successful
The truants school on the Hyde School floor in Indianapolis aids boys with wandering minds toward hockey. Miss Addie Wright leads with two assistants. average attendance 65. It emphasizes kind treatment and shop work, drawing many boys to enroll willingly. 1908-09 figures show truancy causes, outcomes, and home conditions, with calls for parental schools to curb reformatories.
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Indianapolis
Plainfield Reformatory
J. L. Wieser
Board of Children’s Guardians
Felser
Wide Street Woes Raise Crossing Safety Calls in Washington
In Washington April 16 Representative Tirrell of Massachusetts complains wide streets heighten pedestrian danger versus Boston New York and urges police crossing regulations to reduce accidents. He notes drivers pedestrians and streetcar traffic endangering walkers and favors safer crossovers. Representative Martin of Colorado extols farming and Westward growth urging eastern awareness of Colorado inducements to attract capital and immigrants.
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Not Rioting Only Wedding Ceremony at Park Theater
A crowd outside the Park theater yesterday morning appeared to riot but it was the wedding preliminaries in Justice Holmes's office. Miss Hildegard Hireeh wed Francis Joyner with actors and vaudeville associates present. Shoes flew, no rice, usher bought corn, and the couple had met in vaudeville in Chicago before their union on the Love Route.
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Francis Joyner
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Park
George Ar
Coal Prices Dip Sharply Then Expected to Rise Soon
The coal market fell this summer with anthracite down five cents per ton, Pocahontas by about one dollar, and coke fifty cents, per A B Meyer. He notes the dip is seasonal and tied to a concurrent strike, predicting higher prices again this winter, especially for soft coal.
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Meyer
Measles Epidemic Persists in Indianapolis Area
The measles outbreak reported last December continues to claim many victims among school age children. City health officials log over 30 new cases daily, with spring bringing a seasonal rise similar to past epidemics. Dr Woods notes quarantine limits spread of other diseases and few serious outcomes.
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Indianapolis
Woods City Sanitarian
Young bride slain near Gladwin in rural Michigan
Gladwin Michigan April 16 Mrs Clay Armo aged 16 wife of a farmer was found dead near her home yesterday with a bullet wound in her breast. Her husband a pensioner about 70 years old had married her two weeks prior.
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Gladwin, Mich
Clay Armo
Brown County gold turns out to be fool's gold
Special to The Sun from Columbus Indiana reports John Saf fles traveled from Brown county to save mineral he believed to be gold but the assayist declared it fool's gold with no market value. Brown county residents pan for gold earning about 2 to 3 dollars daily and place the gold in goose quills to bring to local jewelers. a quill holds about 2 dollars.
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Columbus
Ind
John Saffles
Brown County
Drys Push County Option Pledge Across Grant County
The drys in Grant county and the Eleventh district under editor George B. Lockwood promote a pledge demanding lawmakers support the county option law. Signers vow to oppose candidates who do not declare for maintaining the option, aiming to spread beyond Grant county. Republican candidates in Grant county pledged support to the option law if elected.
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Drys
Grant County
Eleventh
George B. Lockwood
Marion Chronicle
Lockwood
Marion
Red Men to Powwow at Winchester gathering
Red Men of the Sixth Indiana district counties Blackford Wayne Delaware Randolph Jay plan a powwow in Winchester on April 19 as guests of the Mohawk tribe. More than 600 delegates expected to attend.
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Hartford City
Indiana
Blackford
Wayne
Delaware
Randolph
Jay
Winchester
Invitation to become a depositor and join savings plan
If you are not now a depositor a cordial invitation is extended you to become one. Your savings account, large or small, welcomes one million dollars capital, every dollar paid in, and five hundred thousand dollars surplus, every cent earned, I pledged to you to make good our promise.
Conservation men attack Smoot bill headline
Washington April 16 A bulletin issued by the National Conservation association led by president Gifford Pinchot attacks the Smoot bill which would transfer water power sites from federal ownership to the states The bulletin quotes Roosevelt veto messages and argues the measure would place water power in the hands of large power interests
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National Conservation Association
Gifford Pinchot
James River
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