The Plunderers by J Cutcliffe Hyne
Patrick Cambel, famed traveler, visits London and draws Theodore Shelf into a plotted theft. Shelf plans to blow up the Port Edes and seize £300,000 in gold via a secret Florida waterway. Captain Owen Kettle, a damaged but skilled skipper, is enlisted to pilot the scheme as Cambel and Shelf discuss the mercantile crime with brutal pragmatism.
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Patrick Cambel
London
Theodore Shelf
Shelf
Hamiton Fatrinx
Amy Rivers
Cambel
Camball
Dee
Florida
Marmaduke Rivers & Shelf
Gulf of Mexico
Mily
Ike
Vertes
Pany
Minckel
Thes
Gryners
Kettle
Mato
Pacific
Red Kettle
Camb
Boece
Port
Morocco Canal
Shipowners and a wavering captain in a hullabaloo
Captain Cambel and Mr Shelf clash over a proposed scheme backed by Theodore Shelf. Captain Owen Kettle listens, weighs morality against greed, and signals cautious assent to join the venture despite warning as the narration hints at a dangerous financial ploy to be continued.
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Theodore Shelf
Cambel
Janta
Commons
Camon
Nanne
Mr Shelf
Judeloun
Kettle
Boa
Shelt
Kete
Owen Kettle
Mr. Shelf
Mr. Camel
Aman
Litou
Shelf
Tvt
Clothing Needed at Fresh Air Mission for Dirty Children
Local mission appeals for children's clothing as supplies run low after a year of heavy work. Volunteers describe grim conditions, with dirty clothes requiring baths in alcohol and frequent missing buttons. A boy promises to earn money to buy better clothes and to kiss Miss Wayman someday.
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Fairview
Miss Elot
Tiny Wayman
Miss Wayman
Miss Elliot
Miss. Wayman
Lml
Father sobs at clerk as police court hearing nears
A distraught man, W. EB Lew, anxious over his dead wife and estranged family, battles sorrow while awaiting formal proceedings. He says his home fell apart after her passing four years ago, with daughter living elsewhere. He seeks details about his son’s case and mentions a pending matter at the marriage clerk’s desk.
Hoosier News Notes Abound With Oddities And Local Gains
A round of small items from Indiana towns: councilmen push an ordinance. new smallpox cases in Michigan City. street fair plans in Alexandria. Miss Moble Farley wins at a rile shoot near Muncie. twenty women take vows at St Marys academy in South Bend. Frank Row injured in Mitchell runaway. A new Presbyterian church rise near Wartherton. Cain near death at Tenker Jil. Detroit gathering invited for ministers. Fort Wayne rifles noted. Terre Haute thieves caught. Tipton man exposed as automate. Michigantown minister honored. dog poisoning case in Greensburg. Laporte carnival planned. a Valparaiso sidewalk cave-in. Various traffic, legal, and social items follow from across the state, including planks about local strikes, livestock mischief, and civic events as reported.
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Nvbile Farley
Stuncle
Muncie
St. Mary's Academy
South Bend
Frank Row
Mitchell
Wartherton
St. Joseph County
Lieber & Fon
Fly
David Hf. Cain
Tenker Jil
A. M. Hoetman
Logansport
Detroit
Fort Wayne Rifles
Terre Haute
W. Ripeley
Tipton
Lewis
Michigantown
Sunda
Ernest Epstein
Greensburg
Laporte
Valparaiso
Broadway Street
Cnr
Bansport
David Moore
Colfax
Logansport 8
Ballard
Decatur County
Canaries
Rambling Local Notes From A Turbulent Era
A compilation of scattered items recounts swindles targeting farmers via false loans, fires threatening Galveston and grain circulars urging holdouts, a carnival ballot for a wedding, and a new Alexandria Carnegie Library nearing occupancy. Other items mention a Purdue-bound train, a dog crushed by a train, a hoard of deer, and local murder and lynching cases. church appointments conclude the roundup.
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Furma
Ubes
Union Traction Company
Shmile Co
Galveston
Cage
Grangerr
William Guttigan
Buck Hawkins
Edwant Meach
Guttigan
Logansport Carnival
Intateter
Alexendria Carnegie
Eva M. Armfeld
Howard County
Kool
Purdue Atudenta
Calen Traction Company
Mele
Indianapolis
Greencastle
Sumimitvilla
Clapp
Palement
M. V. Bargett
Balevilie
Mra
Aung Lawrence
Girls Must Stay In Industrial School
Sentencing of Ethel Porlant Lute Astry and Leona Pfitter to the In-Quatrin school noted. Mothers, led by the Astry family, push for release while Judge Stubs expresses limited remedy saying protest was before sentencing and evidence against the girls was clear.
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Sige
Ethel Porlant
Lute Astry
Leona Pfitter
In- Quatrin
Astry
Stubs
Noakes Will Give Powers a Hard Jolt
Corbin man Robert Noakes fled to Indiana after planning violence linked to a contest involving Powers and Goebel. He claimed Powers foretold the outcome would be settled after Goebel’s death and after mountain men arrived at Frankfort. Noakes led eight men toward Frankfort on January 8, 1900, with the mountain army.
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Noakes
Georgetown
Robert Noakes
Corbin
Indiana
Catel Powers
Erat Powers
Goebel
John Powers
Frankfort
Noaken
Escaped Convicts Turn Up Near Reno Nevada
Gang of escaped convicts last seen on a ranch near Jay Coddington is believed to have reached Nevada. A posse is in pursuit as lawmen intensify efforts to recapture the fugitives. Identifications are incomplete and the search concentrates on rural areas around Reno.
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Reno
James Theron
Jay Coddington
Nevada
Pancake a Desarter and Navy Deserter Branded
The text outlines George B. Pancake’s patriotic enlistment in Indiana, his disillusionment by Navy life, and eventual desertion. It notes a Navy communique to Mayor Bookwalter confirming his demotion and lists his unit as the Maine. The fragmentary piece hints at official actions but remains unclear.
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George B. Pancake
Indianapolla
Navy
Pancake
Bookwalter
Navy Department
Maine
Investigation of Brosius Charges Under Department Review
Washington authorities report that the interior department is continuing an inquiry into charges raised by Samuel Brozina, general agent of the investigations section. With Hitchcock absent, Secretary acting Beate Smith says no new findings were announced but the probe remains thorough and focused on department employees. The matter involves alleged land deals and payments tied to officials and real estate interests, with no criminal charges yet.
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Washington
Omctaig
Interine Department
Chimn
Samuel Brozina
Insights
Aubget
Sopyettie
Hitchcock
Beate Smith
Bla
Font
Department of Justice
Attorhey-géen
Doctors Careless With Birth and Death Reports
Employees of the Board of Health complain that two thirds of birth and death returns omit key details. Clerks report missing sex and burial place, failure of physicians to comply with the law, and frequent incomplete records. Chief Clerk Duarter notes the problem in many submitted returns.
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Board of Health Office
Duarter
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Mr. Ehelf
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Buyes
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Court House
E. Y. Teas
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Har Pe
Rushville Fair
Daniel Kesuir
Goshen
Keyser
Payton & Western Traction
Hiehmong
Richmond
Daycan
Wilder
Aiekamauga
Tombers
Vvarlona
W. J. Brenan
Ansl
Cleveland x Mince
Marion
Fourteenth
Whallington-sts
Noblesville
Everett Vanostal
Vanostal
George Washington Randolph
Esi
Ile
Brosius
Farmiberas
Vose
Chickering
Watschner
Flacher
Behoing Steve
Braumalter
Stoddart
Conkar Om Payments
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