How Roosevelt Sent His Message to Daily Newspapers
Washington dispatch explains Secretary Cortelyou arranged a secure mailing of Roosevelt's annual message to editors nationwide. Copies went to thousands of papers with pledges of non disclosure until reading began in Congress. Distribution matched time zones so papers hit the streets as the senate opened.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Congress
Cortelyou
United States
Wall St
White House
Middle West
Mississippi Valley
Senate
Indiana Tax Board Treats Franchises in Personal Property
Indiana does not tax franchises separately but counts them when valuing personal property. The State Tax Board says a franchise is an element of the assessment, not a separate listing, with stocks and bonds also weighed but not sole determinants. A Missouri dispatch notes the Western Union franchise may be taxed.
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Indiana
State Tax Board
Vanderburg
Wingate
Martin
Frank Martin
Tax Board
Union
B. Hunt
Missouri
Supreme Court
Western Union Telephone Company
Elopements by the Score Shake Bristol Society
Bristol on December 5 reports a surge of elopements as families abandon gossip and ministers marry, led by Hopkins B. Holt taking a fourth wife, Anna Ellsworth, amid a publicized annulment and a kidnapped child incident.
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Tention
Hopkins B. Holt
Anna Ellsworth
Denver dynamo lights trains with wheel rotation
A Denver inventor introduces a compact dynamo attached to car wheel axles to generate electricity at five miles per hour, powering automatic regulation via a storage battery. The system promises brighter electric lighting, fans and ventilation, with safety advantages over Pintsch gas.
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Colorado
John Co. Henry
General Electric Company
Denver
Florence & Cripple Creek
Henry
Russia
Trans-Siberian
Poor, Lonesome Bogardus The Only Bachelor Left
W A Bogardus deputy city controller was the last unmarried member of a 12 man group who grew up together He confessed he would be willing to be picked as the final single one He had sworn affidavits for each friend seeking marriage and helped them through the clerk’s office.
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W. A. Bogardus
Muss
Pat Rownan Guards Saloon Against Brewers in Battle
In Muncie Indiana Pat Rownan keeps watch in his saloon day and night to resist brewers who sought to confiscate his furniture and equipment. He says he paid $390 for the right to run the place, and he will not surrender it.
Dickie’s Quixotic Proposal and Jennie’s Witty Reply
Dickie, a Harvard student, pursues Jennie for two months hoping she will marry him. After bold speeches and humorous counterplays, he writes a bold letter claiming she is his. Jennie responds with playful praise and approval, ending with Dickie’s happiness as Jennie remains amused and content.
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Dickie
Jimmie Brown
Jennie
Jimmie
Harvard
Ghostly Visit Sinks Mary Hoffman to Bellevue Insane Pavilion
Ghost hallucination haunts Mary Hoffman a 25 year old Austrian immigrant now in Bellevue hospital pavilion for the insane. She reports a white robed old man ghost that appears after dark, disturbing her sleep and endangering her nervous system as daytime lucidity remains.
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New York
Mary~ Hoffman
Bellevue Hospital
Miss Hoffman
Austria
Injured Man From Indianapolis In St Louis Incident
Frank R. Demmerly, a 1960 Manual Training High School graduate and son of C. W. Demmerly of 605 N Alabama St, was seriously injured Tuesday night in St Louis while alighting from a train. The condition was not immediately fatal.
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Frank R. Demmerly
Demmerly
Alabama St
St. Louis
Truant Pupils, Local Trades and Roaming News in Indiana
A Terre Haute paper lists pupil absentees as truancy drops, while towns report petty incidents and local business notes. Items cover Hyde hides dealer Evansville, Propp in Valparaiso, Guilbert Michigan City tongue injury, Vail mill dust suit, Shelbyville hot water plant, Clinton coal price, and rural mail carrier civil service concerns with Roosevelt.
Noted Illinois banker Thomas Haymond commits suicide at home
Kinmund, Ill, Dec 5 Thomas Haymond a heavy stockholder in the Farmers and Mechanics bank of T W Haymond & Co died by his own hand at his home Wednesday night. The firm had seen James H Gray die a month earlier and Haymond had acted strangely since then. He was 57 years old.
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Dickie
Boston
Jennie
Jennife
Harvard
Kinmund
Ill
Thomas Haymond
Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank
T. W. Haymond & Co
James H. Gray
Haymond
Late Suppers and Theater Parties Burden the Body
The passage notes late suppers and theater outings cause heaviness in the body and mind the next day and suggests aid to nature to relieve the languid feeling. It warns that late entertainment strains the liver kidneys and intestines.
Alma-Bromo Salt from Alma Mich Promotes Gentle Laxative Effect
The advertisement claims Alma-Bromo Salt dissolves and purifies the body by acting on liver kidneys and nerves differently from medicines. It is produced from the Alma-Bromo Spring water at Alma Michigan and, when dissolved in water, provides a pleasant effervescent laxative that restores intestinal activity and claims permanent relief from constipation.
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Alma
Mich
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O— G. C. Hyde
Evansville
H. A. Valparaiso
J. Propp
George Upthegrove
Porter County
John Downthegrove
Michigan
Frank Guilbert
Michigan City
Noah Reed
Roanoke
Vail & Co
Shelbyville
Clinton
Ray Sox
Clinton County
Michigan Drug Co
Detroit
Piel Bros. M’s’g. Co
R. Pennsylvania St
the Boy and
Charles Mayer & Co
W. Washington Street
Telephone
the Sun
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