Long Beach turf exchange dodger sparks Indiana debate
An Indiana advertisement dodger shows a Monte Carlo themed Long Beach turf exchange near Whiting with roulette tables and betting boards. Residents condemn the gambling lure as officials pledge an investigation and potential action by state authorities. Roby near Hammond. governor urged to act to shut down the venture.
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Lake County
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
Long Beach Turf Exchange
Dodger
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Turf Exchange
HIC Sun
State of
Illinois
Denmark
Gov. Mount
Roby
Hammond
Long Beach
Real estate auctions expand in Indianapolis amid cautious market
Otto Stechhan sells southwest corner of Alabama and Washington streets for 35000 cash to George B. Yandes with deed passing Monday. D A Rudy and wife sell 442 E Vermont street property for 6500 to F W Spacke who plans an apartment house. Dealers see better fall trade, notes on 4 5 and 6 percent yields, and growing interest in auctions but worry about inside bidding and fraud.
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Alabama
Washington-sts
Washington-st
Otto Stechhan
George B. Yandes
Central Trust Company
Yandes
Vermont St
D. A. Rudy
F. W. Spacke
Snacke
Chicago
Musty papers may save soldier pension in Indiana
George Geisendorf of the Marion soldiers home seeks relief after the attorney general finds records suggesting a habeas corpus writ by Judge Perkins in November 186? led to Geisendorf being taken from the army. If no evidence of non desertion is provided by August 20, his pension will be cut. He alleges he never mustered into the Seventieth Indiana and did not draw pay, while the AG believes he may have been mustered in.
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Marion
Atty
Taylor
Supreme Court
Judge Perkins
Geisendorf
Christian E. Geisendorf
Seventieth
Indiana
Tharrison
Perkins
Wilcox
Capt. Wilcox
Geisendorff
Noble County
Judge Price Dead in Springfield Idaho?
Judge Wm Cecil Price, once U S treasurer during Lincoln era, died in Chicago and had longtime ties to the Confederacy, living in Springfield in later years while not taking oath to the United States.
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Wm. Cecil Price
Chicago
Confederacy
Union
United States
Judge Price
Lincoln
Treasury
Springfield
Bike repair kit turns lifesaver in awkward accident
In Rochester New York on August 6 Jacob Hartz claimed a fall on a scythe nicked his jugular. A passing bicyclist used a bike repair kit plus tape to staunch the bleed until help arrived. The quirky tale ends with Hartz alive after the improvised treatment.
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Rochester
Jacob Hartz
Boers Suffer Heavy Losses in Latest Campaign Report
London reports since June 29, 48 Boers killed and 19 wounded while 20 captured and 57 surrendered. Gen. Kitchener drives Viljoen across the Olifants river and Scobell cripples Latigan in Cape Colony. Doran fights Smit. Gorringe clears Myburg area, with 86 horses seized and several prisoners taken.
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London
Walter Kitchener
Viljoen
Olifants River
Scobell
Latigan
Cape Colony
Doran
Smit
Gorringe
Myburg
England Bucks At The Last Moment
Pekin date August 6 The foreign ministers planned to sign the protocol Tuesday but Sir Ernest Satow the British minister notified colleagues that Great Britain would be unable to sign He gave no reason for the refusal The meeting of the ministers is indefinitely postponed.
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Pekin
Ernest Satow
Great Britain
Weavers Strike Heroine Holds Paterson Front
Esther Cohn runs a candy store opposite the Enterprise mill. After Vice-chancellor Pitney ordered the pickets off the street she raised a banner and set a tent in her yard to support strikers. Landlord Nathan Garfinkle, a nonunion worker, knocked her down and was jailed awaiting trial.
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Enterprise Mill
Pitney
Garfinkle
Mrs. Cohn
Indianapolis firm wins Brookville Road electric franchise
Lidward W. Little, vice president of the Indianapolis Morristown & Rushville traction Co., secured a franchise over Brookville road for an electric railway to Rushville. He indicated the project may not proceed immediately but a private right of way will be used. The survey was shifted to run along the road, appealing to eastern financiers, with financing and construction expected soon.
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The
Indianapolis, Morristown
Rushville
Cure Varicocele Without Cutting in Five Days
A medical ad warns of varicocele causing nervous debility and loss of manhood. It claims a five day non surgical cure, with immediate improvement and full restoration of sexual power, urging victims to seek the advertised method at the writer’s clinic.
Blood Poison Cure Promises Safe, Rapid Results
Advertisement touts a treatment claiming to direct remedies to the blood and tissues to neutralize poisons. It asserts success against all forms of blood poisoning and related skin diseases with no after effects from harmful drugs, boasting many cured patients and lasting health.
Keyless Lock Officers Refuse Cuban Testimony
Arthur Jordan and Arthur Baxter, president and secretary of the Keyless lock company in Indianapolis, declined to testify before Commissioner Moores claiming the Cuban government is foreign and they owe no allegiance. The firm is said to have sold many mailboxes to the Cuban postal department via Neely. Expected witnesses were thought to be from Muncie. Attorney Denny says they would testify in a regular proceeding.
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Moores
Keyless Lock Company
Neely
Muncie
Denny
Kite relayed wireless messages tested to Danvers
Edgar S. Gray of an electrical school has perfected a kite relay system to send wireless messages from Boston toward Danvers Massachusetts. The apparatus uses a kite to transmit and another to charge and forward the signal with increased force and range. Tests show a message relayed 70 miles, with potential kite stations every five miles.
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Boston
Danvers
Mass
Edgar S. Gray
Princis Pal
Jie
WRE Against Sympathetic Strikes Debate Draws AFL Leader
In Pittsburg on Aug 6 President Shaffer awaits word or presence from Samuel Gompers to discuss weighty AFL proposals. The coal miners issue on sympathy strikes m cloud, with John Mitchell of the National Federation of Mine Workers opposing sympathetic strikes to avoid hardship on innocent dependents.
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Pittsburg
Shaffer
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
John Mitchell
National Federation of Mine Workers
Hoosier Construction to Start Meridian Street Paving
The Hoosier construction firm plans paving on N Meridian Street by Monday at latest with a possible start on Wednesday morning. President Kenyon says the company is ready to push ahead and City engineer Jeup notes the firm has asked for stakes to be set within three days.
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Hoosier
City of Aberdeen Strikes Mooring Barge Near Iowa
In Everett Washington on August 6 the steamer City of Aberdeen hit a barge moored to the side of the battleship Iowa. About two hundred people were aboard and panic followed before calm and orderly rescue efforts saved one man who fell overboard.
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Everett
Wash
City of Aberdeen
Iowa
Vacations Granted for City Police Officers
The Board of Safety approved paid two week yearly vacations for patrolmen with one year of service. Three new officers will replace those on leave, costing about $1 000 for the remaining months of the year. The first three recipients are M Rafferty D Haley and W D Hite.
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M. Rafferty
D. Haley
W. D. Hite
Carriage Plant Leader Eyes Indianapolis Move
J. S. Starr proprietor of a Decatur Illinois carriage factory plans relocation to Indianapolis if a suitable site is found. He seeks about 46000 square feet of floor space within a half mile of major freight depots and has offers in Columbus and Cincinnati, but favors Indianapolis.
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J. S. Starr
Decatur
Indianapolis
Columbus
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania lines appoints new Cincinnati assistant general agent
A message from E A Ford at Lakewood New York states J M Harris, district passenger agent at Columbus, has been appointed assistant general passenger agent at Cincinnati succeeding G E B Rockwell who resigned.
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E. A. Ford
The
Pennsylvania Lines
Lakewood
N. Y
J. M. Harris
Columbus
Cincinnati
G. E B. Rockwell
Collapse at Hartford City Injures No One
The east wall of the Sage block in Hartford City collapsed Tuesday morning due to excavation next door. The large brick structure housed Fulton bargain store on the ground floor and offices and tenants above. Occupants escaped with narrow misses and no injuries were reported.
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Hartford City, Inn
Sage
Fulton Bargain
Howison Named To Schley Court Vacancy
Washington Aug. 6 Rear admiral Henry L Howison retired has been detailed by the navy department to take the place on the Schley court of inquiry vacated by Rear admiral Kimberley on account of sickness Howison is at present at Saratoga Springs.
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Navy Department
Schley Court of Inquiry
Kimberley
Howiison
Saratoga Springs
Strike partial success ends in Lexington transit pullback
All but a few machinists have returned to work as the strike action lags. The Dean Bros C A Potts Rockwood Mfg and National automobile firms remain on the unfair list. Union business agent Collins reports requests from Washington and Princeton for workers but preferences keep men local. In Lexington tied to Aug 6 the motormen linemen conductors and light trimmers strike fails as non union crews operate without incident.
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Dean Bros
C. &A. Potts
Rockwood Manufacturing
Lexington
Evangeline Vendor Promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil
Prompt claims by a vendor that Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil provides instant relief and perfect safety. The brief endorses a remedy with confident language and asserts guaranteed, immediate effects.
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Thomas
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Ad
An 19th century ad touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming it soothes the child softens gums relieves pain and cures wind colic and diarrhoea priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
Lake Manitou Excursion Fare In Rochester Schedule
Lake Erie and Western Railroad offers a $1.00 Lake Manitou and Return trip from Indianapolis at 7 00 a m and returns from Rochester at 7 30 p m Rochester Indiana origin and destination listed for the excursion plan.
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Lake Erie & Western R. R
Lake Manitou
Special Train Fare to Louisville and Return
A special train departs Indianapolis at 7:00 a.m. bound for Louisville with a return from Louisville Fourteenth Street Station at 7:00 p.m. The round trip costs $1.50 each way.
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Indianapolis
Louisville
Fourteenth-st
Special Train Schedule Indianapolis to Decatur
A special train runs Sunday August 11 departing Indianapolis at 7:00 a m and returning from Decatur at 6 30 p m the same day for the $1.00 fare each way.
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Rochester
Ind
Indianapolis
Decatur
Vandalia Line Offers Terre Haute Return Train Deal
Special train departs Indianapolis at 7:00 AM and returns from Terre Haute at 5:30 PM for a $1.25 round trip. Ticket includes admission to the grand band tournament at the fair grounds.
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Vandalia Line
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Fair Grounds
Colorado Excursions Via Monon Route Offer
Tickets on sale daily through Sept 10 with final return limit Oct 31. For details contact ticket agents.
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Colorado
Monon
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