Mail order houses face hits in parcels post hearing
Washington April 28. Mail order stores and related goods are under attack by opponents of parcels post legislation in a House Post Office Committee hearing. Chicago is cited as a hub, with catalogs shipped nationwide harming rural merchants. Retail groups label mail order sales deceptive and fault freight costs not considered in pricing. The appropriations bill, about 3.140 billion dollars, moves to the Senate without amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National House Post Office Committee
House Post Office Committee
George E. Green
Retail Merchants’ Association Illinois
Charles L. Underhill
Boston
John A. Green
Cleveland
National Association of Retail Grocers
Senate
Prince Tsai Tao Arrives in Washington for Visit
Prince Tsai Tao of China arrives in Washington from Chicago with ten court officers. Assisted by Assistant Secretary Hale and Capt. Butt, the party is escorted by U S cavalry to their hotel. President Taft to meet in special audience and a White House dinner is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Prince Tsai Tao
China
Chicago
Hale
A. W. Butt
Tang
Regation
United States
Taft
White House
More Sunshine for City Hospital Children Planed
Women of St Pauls and St Margarets Hospital Guild plan a city canvass May 9 10 11 to raise funds for braces and sunlit care for children at City hospital. Any surplus funds may endow the ward. guild members will visit homes wearing badges to assure honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guild of
St. Paul's
Episcopal Church
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Guild
Mothers' Club Quarantined After Measles Warning
Evansville Indiana April 28 health officers quarantined fifty members of a mothers' club at Mrs W B Millers home during a weekly meeting after a measles warning was posted. The health board will quarantine homes of all attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Mothers’ Club
W. B. Miller
Miller
Railroad Combine Held Up Coal Rates in Ohio
Columbus April 28. Attorney General Denman reports to the legislature that for at least eight years competition in coal transport from Ohio coal fields has been suppressed by an illegal railroad combination. He urges a strengthened anti trust bill for public protection, noting the C H D line once under Gov. Harmon as receiver is among the roads named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Judson Harmon
Police to Enforce Barber License Ordinance Citywide
Police will visit every barber shop Thursday and Friday to identify holders of licenses. The Friday start date for the ordinance requires barbers to be licensed. A warrant is prepared for James Breeding, expecting arrest Friday if he fails to file a license fee with the city controller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breeding
Whisky and beer destroyed in Sullivan jail raid
In Sullivan Indiana the county jail basement held two thousand bottles of beer 100 gallons of whisky and six jugs of liquor emptied by Deputy Sheriff Kelly under court order. The liquor counted forty raids by Sheriff Vible and his deputies on illegal venders across the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vible
Name Change Petition for Joseph John Williams
Joseph John seeks to change his legal name from Joseph John Williams to Joseph John Williams to realign his public identity. An aviator and actor known as Joseph Williams Curzon cites reputation concerns and filed the petition in circuit court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph John
Joseph John Williams
Joseph Williams Curzon
Pythian Sisters Hold Sixth District Convention in Portland
More than 300 members of the Pythian Sisters of the Sixth district gathered in Portland Indiana for the annual convention. Seventeen candidates will be initiated by the degree staff of the Decatur lodge Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pythian Sisters of the Sixth District
Decatur Lodge
Automophile Collision Injures Halstead in Meridian Crash
An automophile collided with a buggy at Meridian and Michigan streets on Wednesday night. Halstead, riding the buggy, was thrown out and suffered several cuts and bruises. He told officers Trimpe and Netter that the accident was unavoidable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WiHam
Halstead
Fast Street
Meridian
Michigan Streets
Halfstead
Bierele
Trimpe
Tnetter
Stevens awarded $25 after seeking £5000 damages
Charles Stevens sought £5000 damages in superior court against William A. Hammer for assault and battery. He received $25, the amount he spent defending himself in city court, as compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Stevens
Superior Court of
Wiliam
A. Hammer
Stevens
Franklin resigns as Toledo & Western head to join Winona Lake road
C F Franklin resigns as general manager of the Toledo and Western since its construction to become general manager of the Winona Lake Interurban Railway company of Indiana with headquarters at Warsaw. The Winona road is owned by H J Heinze of Pittsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo, O
C. F. Franklin
Toledo & Western
Winona Lake Interroban Railway Company
Indiana
Warsaw
Ind
Winona Road
H. J. Heinze
Pittsburg
Miner Kills Two Then Dies After Train Escape
Welch West Virginia April 28 John Morris a miner shot and killed two men and wounded several others and a woman before dying while escaping to Virginia on a freight train. The dead are Samuel Walker Frank Harris and John Morris. The seriously wounded include John Logan Mrs Washiston and an unidentified Black man.
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Welch
W. Va
John Morris
Virginia Territory
Samuel Walker
Frank Harris
John Logan
Washiston
Waiter Lewis Johnson Arrested in Millinery Plume Theft
Detectives Dugan and Manning arrested 23 year old waiter Lewis Johnson on Wednesday after allegations he tried to pass as part of the plume collection valued at four dollars stolen from Mrs Verda Walters millinery shop. Johnson claimed he purchased them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Johnson
Dugan and
Manning
Verda Walters
Johnson
Births and Deaths in City Record Listing
Births listed for Michael and Gertrude Reidy. Kurbert and Elsie Arnold. John and Tamma Buchanan. JuHan and Lenora Tomey. Homer and Alpha Fletcher. Maurice and Margaret Neville. George and Mary Morrison. Halle and Anna Sanders. Peter and Maggie Trusty. John and Lena Chambers. Frederick and Lena Hague. George and Jennie Smith. Deaths recorded for Mary Guthrie. Olver Poppino. Ruth Lena Bulthaup. Starah Schoonover with ailments and locations noted.
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Michael and
Gertrude Reidy
Randolph Street
Bor
Kurbert
Elsie Arnold
S. Warman Avenue
John and
Tamma Buchanan
Washington Street
JuHan and
Lenora Tomey
Hancock Street
Homer and
Alpha Fletcher
Addison Street
Hoy
Maurice and
Margaret Neville
Park Avenue
George and
Mary Morrison
Columbia Avenue
Halle and
Anna Sanders
Warman Avenue
Peter and
Maggie Trusty
W. Pearl Street
Lena Chambers
English Avenue
Frederick and
Lena Hague
Blake Street
Jennie Smith
Maxwell Street
Mary C. Guthrie
Seventeenth Street
Olver Poppino
City Hospital
Ruth Lena Bulthaup
Sanders Street
Starah Schoonover
Ruckle Street
Railroads urge tax cuts on million-dollar assessments
Representatives of the Lake Erie and Ft. Wayne railroad company the Cincinnati Richmond and Ft. Wayne company the Grand Rapids and Indiana company the Ferdinand railway company and the Central Indiana company appeared before the state board of tax commissioners Thursday to urge reduction in their assessed valuations which average $1,000,000 apiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond & Ft. Wayne Company
Grand Rapids & Indiana Company
Ferdinand Railway Company
Central Indiana Company
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Seventeen Years Ago This Month Indiana Trust Co Organized
Seventeen years ago this month the Indiana Trust Co organized and became Indiana’s first trust company. The note invites deposits from all readers, pledging one million dollars capital and five hundred thousand dollars surplus to guarantee savings.
Diamonds a Specialty for Fifteen Years in Indiana
A jeweler notes fifteen years of specializing in diamonds and offers expert selection for better brilliance at lower prices. He claims to carry one of the largest diamond stocks in Indiana and to pass savings to buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iiamond
Earry
Indiana
Medical notices and marriages dated items and home repairs
A list of patient ages and ailments from Central Insane hospital and other facilities includes John M. Perry, Jeannette Andrews, Mary Pfenning, and more with conditions such as nephritis, measles, and pneumonia. The section also records a series of marriages, building permits with addresses and costs, and a local baseball result where Indianapolis Grays defeated Arrows 7 to 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Perry
Central Insane Hospital
Jeannette Andrews
City Hospital
Mary Pfenning
Central Insane
James Bradley
Deaconess
William &. Mills
Bellefontaine Street
Mayme Burke
Bates Street
Richard Selttars
Deadoness Hospital
Celia Salter
Twenty-Seventh Street
Jesse Beck
Singster
Thomas Shea
Market Street
Samuel Gebhart
Washington Street
Daniel Charles McCoy
Sixteenth Street
AMERICAN PRINTING COMPANY Fabric and drapery print sale
A sale advertisement lists wash fabrics and drapery prints from American Printing Company including about twenty five pieces offered at reduced prices. Pacific printed cotton chalks in Persian designs 30 inches wide drop from 10c to 5c. Cotton voiles, mercerized poplins, and printed wash voiles in assorted colors are offered at substantial reductions for Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Printing Company
Pacific
Special value Oxfords on sale at reduced prices
The notice advertises Oxfords regularly selling for 3.50 to 4.00 a pair now offered at 2.35. It promises favored styles in all choicest leathers and a full range of sizes.
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Hibbs Building
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Cording
Denman
James
Sullivan
Uty
Kelly
Pythian Sisters
Portland
Franklin
The
Lake Erie & Ft
Indiana Trust Co
Trust Company
J. P. Mullally Diamond Importer
Monument Place
Edward Sheldon
Jennie Wilson
Henry W. Muerge
Lovi Creech
Earle_ BR
Cereland
Golela Rumberg
Creeee Lae Jobogan
Louise Rentsch
Christy Young
Sadie M. Kelly
Henry Peters
Hannah Kkastin
Charlies Wildrick
Eva Templin
D. FE
Kirk
Otto Stark
Delaware
S. W. Hatfield
Steward
A. Underwood
Stevers
Richard Fahey
Vermont
E. W. Hugil
Gladstone
Enn Fleck
Charles Badger
Emerson
F. H. Baumhofer
Rackle
An M. Ungnich
Sheffield
M. Ungnich
G. Garrett
Chestnut
D. M. Ketcham
Pennsylvania
E. A. Williams
Caroline
A. Williams
Indianapolis Grays
Arrows
Lee Tompkins
Germania Avenue
Paris
LS Press
Indianapolis
New York
Otton Voiles
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