Railroads Lead in Global Engine Advances and Carriages
The American locomotive maker wins a Japan contract while Austrian inventor Schreyder patents a steam boiler furnace adaptor to curb sparks. Anheuser Busch orders a $50,000 private car. Baldwin ships 23 engines to New Zealand. California creates a 100-man railroad police force. Chicago inspects city locomotives. Brooklyn plans theater parlor cars. Caledonian railway expands 650-ton freight cars and introduces the 600 class locomotives. Reports also note Baldwin engines in India performing well.
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Caledonian Railway
Scotland
McIntosh
Great Britain
Highland Railway
Boy Reporter Travels the Country in True Hobo Style
Nashville Michigan August 21 A 19 year old Nashville youth Lessie J Flint travels the nation from Alaska to Manitoba Cuba Mexico and South America in a roaming reporter role with daily papers in New York Chicago San Francisco and New Orleans He has visited every US state and Canadian province and notes many adventures while favoring Michigan over all others.
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Nashville
Mich
Alaska
Manitoba
Cuba
Mexico
South America
Lessie J. Flint
Michigan
Chicago
Flint
British Columbia
United States
Ontario
Quebec
Canada
Lower California
Chihuahua
Sonora
Durango
Republic of Venezuela
Central America
Isthmus
Panama
Chinatown
San Francisco
Alum Creek
Yellowstone National Park
Arkansas
South
New Jersey
Florida
Tennessee
New Orleans
Maine
Boston
New York
Leslie
America
Whnt
Chicago Fiancée Proposes Self Cuticle for Fiancé’s Hand
Chicago August 21 A local romance twists old norms as Edith Englund offers to donate skin from her own cuticle to graft onto fiancé Harry Born whose hand was crushed in a bakery accident. Doctor Elmer Prescott weighs scaling grafts from multiple donors to save the maimed hand.
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Chicago
Cuticle
Edith Englund
Elmer Prescott
Harry Born
Homer St
Englund
Born
Aldrich Bakery Company
Prescott
Miss Englund
Dr&*Prescott
Funeral for Artemus Pratt Kerr Editor of Indianapolis News
The funeral for Artemus Pratt Kerr longtime editor of the Indianapolis newspaper union was held Wednesday at 1 p.m. from his brother’s home at 1929 Bellefontaine Street. Interment followed at Monticello Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artemus Pratt Kerr
Indianapolis
Union
Bellefontainest
Monticelio
Trouble With the Amish Refusal to Swear or Affirm
In Portland Indiana Adams County residents report Amish people refuse to swear or affirm on the assessment list prompting authorities to consider invoking the law. The account notes the Amish stance on oaths and the potential for legal action to enforce the listing.
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Portland
Ind
Adams
Reward of 100 dollars for each dead burglar in Queens
New York August 21. Queens officials boost burglar hunt with rewards of 100 dollars for arrest and conviction of a live burglar and 100 dollars for the body of any burglar killed in a house or while escaping a window. Inspector Clayton warns patrolmen face charges for burglaries on their beats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Queens
Clayton
John B. Merrill
Queens County
Mr. Merrill
Wirk
Compton Ave
Jamaica
Young Kirk
Tracheotomy Lets Joseph Reicher Breathe After Injury
Joseph Reicher, 24, recovering after a tracheotomy performed by Fordham Hospital physicians. He fell about six feet during trench work, injuring his windpipe in three places. The operation, using a silver tube, enables normal breathing and feeding, with recovery progressing.
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New York
Aus
Joseph Reicher
Fordham Hospital
Reicher
Fruit Prices Seen Rising Despite Some Bumper Crops
The report notes higher prices ahead for canned fruits and vegetables with light supply in some lines. Indiana corn quality weak, Maine crop strong, peaches abundant, peas large pack, tomatoes good with price drops expected later. Apricots pumpkins short, last year’s drought boosts demand and keeps prices high. blackberries and raspberries scarce with firm pie fruit prices overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Maine
More Guns for Colombia Exhibition Ordnance Shipment
Heavy ordnance on display at the Pan-American show prepared for shipment to Colombia. The pieces are owned by Driggs & Seabury gun and ammunition company and were taken to avoid losing the sale, with delivery prioritized to meet the order.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Colombia
Driggs & Seabury Gun and Ammunition Company
The Swirl of Society Notices
Miss Lucy Mayo sails for Japan September 1. Miss Harriet Scott returns from Germany. Miss Mabel Turpin and Albert Fortune announce their engagement for a September 15 wedding. Mrs Corinne Lahman and W Harry Roberts wed Tuesday. They will reside at 2601 N Dlingisst. Miss Natalie Bonsgil and Samuel I Noon marry Tuesday at the Lawrence home and will live in Nogales Arizona. Katherine Britts and Theodore Foush married Tuesday in Spencer after a Vinennes excursion.
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Harriet Scott
Germany
Mabel Turpin
Albert Fortune
Corinne Lahman
W. Harry Roberts
F. O. Ballard
N. Dlingisst
Natalie Bonsgil
Samuel I. Noon
Charles Lawrence
N. Senate Ave
Nogales
A. T
Martinsville
Katherine Britts
Theodore
Foush
Spencer
Vincennes
Restaurant men plan bulk veggie purchases to fight prices
A group of restaurant keepers met at the Plaza on a Tuesday evening and decided to buy vegetables in car lots rather than by the basket to cut costs and maintain profits amid high prices. Potatoes are scarce on restaurant tables as prices rise. they now cost restaurants 1.40 per bushel.
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Indianapolis
SUN
Buffalo
N. Y
THE
SUN Pub. Co
Ohiost
Peach Roll and Cobbler Mastery from Classic Home Dish
Simple peach roll recipe with butter sugar eggs milk and flour dough rolled with peeled sliced peaches baked in a brisk oven. A rich sherry butter sauce with peach kernels tops slices. Peach cobbler method uses ripe peaches with a butter sugared finish and optional whipped cream.
Industrial city project kept alive by promoters
City officials deny abandoning the Industrial city scheme. The Army of Tennessee reunion is set for October in Indianapolis. Rev. David F. Howe of Springfield declines a call to Meridian Street church. Emma C. Rhodes declines the superintendency of the Industrial school for girls and women's prison. Typhoid cases down in Indianapolis due to improved water service. City Controller Dunn urges boards to prepare next year’s estimates. William Cherry buried after dying on a train en route to Indianapolis. Laundry workers plan a Labor Day parade. Deserter Virgil Foutz escapes from the arsenal before expected return to Fort Snelling.
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Society of the Army of the Tennessee
Indianapolis
David F. Howe
Springfield
Meridian St. M. EE
Emma C. Rhodes
Industrial School For Girls and Women's Prison
Clark
Dunn
William Cherry
Broadway
Laundry Workers’ Union
Marcia's Vocal Passion Changes Philip in Charity Concert
Marcia Egremont’s mastery of voice and charm captivates Philip Derwent during a charity concert. He finally expresses love as she praises his singing after a dazzling performance. The couple's embrace ends the evening with a new, gentle tenderness between them.
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Marcia Egremont
Marcia
Philip Derwent
Philip
Maret
Hhiddd
His Wife's Weak Heart
Courtship tension and medical claim around Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cited as a remedy for constipation. The fragment references a wife’s health and a physician’s product within a period newspaper advertising style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Express Train Schedules Circulate Between Cities
A fast nonstop train departs Indianapolis Union Station at 7 a.m. for the return trip it leaves Cincinnati at 7 p.m. The service runs daily with no intermediate stops in either direction.
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Indianapolis Union Station
Cincinnati
Dayton Round Trip Special Historic Train Fare
Special train from Indianapolis Union Station at a.m. to Dayton with a return from Dayton at 7 p.m. Round trip fare listed as $1.25.
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Dayton and Return
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American Locomotive Company
Japan
Charles Schreyder
Zdie
Austria- Hungarry
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association
Pullan Company
Adolphus Busch
Europe
Baldwin Locomotive Works
New Zealand
California
City Legal Department
Central R. A
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Brighton Beach
Tieliet
India
A.P. Kerr
Lucy Mayo
Combine
WII
City Lif
Virgil Foutz
Jienry-st
Arsenal
Fort Snelling
Minn
Aveverrea Education
Willard C. Tyler
Tyler
Pierce
Julia A. Wilcox
Cygnet, Wood Co
Ohio
Golden Medical Discovery
Sam
Star Store
Ilinois
Return
Dayton
Verinn
Punkha
Stuckmeyer
A. B. Meyer & Co
N. Penn
Bece Taek
Arss
Seeer
Journal Printing CO
Maryland ST
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