Early life of United States Supreme Court justice Van Devanter
Marion Indiana mother of Judge Willis Van Deventer recalls his boyhood on the Spencer farm. Willis showed industrious farming roots, rode horses, and helped milk cows from age three. His path toward law began after Cincinnati business trips and advice from Isaac Gordon. He later returned to Marion, joined his father’s law practice, and married Dolly Burhan of Ionia Michigan.
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Marion
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Isaac van Deventer
Willis van Deventer
United States Supreme Court Bench
van Deventer
Elizabeth Winchell
L. P. Price
M. T. Shively
Greencastle
Cincinnati
Willis
Robert Spencer
Spencer Hotel
Golf Club
Charles Mill
James Charles
Charles
Chhildhood
Isaac Gordon
Congress
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Ime
Judge Lacey
Lacey
Cherenne
Cherenne. Wyo
Dolly Burhan
Ionia
Mich
California
John Lacey
Territory of
Wyoming
Philip Matter
Willis van Devanter
Jim
Spencer Farm
Mr. Matter
Spencer House
Jacob Spencer
Exams End at Indiana University Term Concludes
Bloomington Ind Dec 15 Final examinations mark the close of the fall term at Indiana University. Departments are conducting exams while fraternity men and sorority girls rush to complete assignments. The term ends next Friday.
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Bloomington
Tod
tTuciana University
Dantes
Chief Former Police Chief Divorced Over Desertion
Lebanon Indiana December 13 Catherine Cooper was granted a divorce from Ed Cooper on grounds of desertion. He allegedly ran away with Hattie Russell a local Lebanon woman.
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Lebanon
Ind
Catherine Cooper
Ed Cooper
Cooper
Hattie Russell
Prof Leathercar Posts Leaf Through Cuffs For Ideas
In Dopetown Indiana Prof Leatherear plans a 1911 career as an author ordering cuffs sewn to his nightshirt with a violet pencil attached to trap ideas. He hopes to nail fleeting notions to the cuff as subjects like shoplifter stocking theft and a buttered cow’s milk output flash through his mind.
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Dopetown
Ind
Leatherear
Leathercar
Two Men Take Exit by Revolver Route
A condensed dispatch reports multiple suicides and violent incidents on December 13. Adolph Hut, a wealthy New York manufacturer, killed himself in his 121 St Nicholas Avenue apartment while his wife was nearby. In Pittsburgh Dr F W Ely, age 37, another local physician, died by his own hand. Charleroi saw two men killed by a premature dynamite explosion at the commercial works. In New York a derrick accident at Broadway and Park Place wounded a boy and injured a bystander, provoking a panic. Chicago coverage notes a riot at garment strikes ending with a 16 year old shot by a policeman and a bystander beaten. In Detroit William F Baker Jr killed Catherine Devine and then shot himself, quoting a poem as motive.
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Adolph Hut
St. Nicholas Avenue
Broadway
Park Place
Chicago
Joseph Lecak
Garment Workers
Detroit
Mich
William F. Baker Jr
Catherine Devine
Baker
Wipling
the Vampire
Devine
Drunk and disorderly clash at TPavid McCormick saloon
Curley Boone collided with a glass screen at 2202 East Washington in a drunken dispute with Bing McCormick. Boone taunted and challenged, while McCormick called police by phone. Boone was later given a ride from the scene on a charge of drunk and disorderly conduct plus malicious trespass.
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Tpavid Mccormick Saloon
East
Washington Street
Curley Boone
Saii McCormick
Boone
McCormick
Une
All Miss Cues at Strange Wedding in Lawrenceburg
Tod Mee reports a bungled marriage in Lawrenceburg as Arthur J. Hill age 35 marries Anna Richardson age 19. Father Richardson leaves for cigars causing chaos before Rev Claude Booth, 23, officiates and nearly forgets the couple’s names. Witness signing rights are disputed with a humorous remark on damages.
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Lawrenceburg
Tod
Mee
Arthur J. Hill
Anna Richardson
Papa Richardson
Claude Booth
Father
Swallows Nail in 1880 and Finds It Thirty Years Later
Lawrenceburg Indiana December 13. Thirty years ago Constable Walter Whittaker 36 swallowed a wire nail. Monday it was removed from his forearm after he told Justice J W Probst of the sharp pain felt when he shook hands.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Walter Whittaker
Whittaker
J. W. Probst
Knights of Columbus Banquet Scheduled in Rushville
The seventh annual Knights of Columbus banquet will be held Tuesday night in Rushville Indiana. Charles Kh Duffin of Terre Haute will be the speaker.
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Rushville
Ind
The
Knights of Columbus
Charles Kh. Duffin
Terre Haute
Infirmary Fire Displaces Five Inmates in Kokomo
A fire at the county infirmary hospital in Kokomo Indiana caused four thousand dollars in damage and forced five inmates from their beds last Monday night. None of the inmates were injured.
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Kokomo
Ind
County Infirmary Hospital
State faces tight finances warns Auditor in 1911 12 report
Auditor W H O'Brien warns that state finances are strained and will require strict economy in coming years. The report shows available receipts of 1911, large transfers from sinking fund to general fund, and a looming 800000 debt due in 1915. It notes that income does not cover appropriations and outlines required transfers and legislative duties.
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W. H. O'Brien
Sedeaagp Heed Co
Treasury
General Fund
Hoosier May Step Down for Taft Man
Ohio Secretary of State Carmin Thompson plans retirement to take an assistant secretary of the interior post in Washington. He would replace Indiana's Jesse W. Wilson with a $4,500 yearly salary, after prior restraint on gubernatorial bid efforts.
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TAFT
Thompson
Ohio
Lan
Jesse W. Wilson
Indiana
Woman and lawyer are sent to jail
In Chicago on December 13, Mrs Aileen Christopher was sentenced to thirty days in jail and her attorney John A Browne to seventy days by Judge Landis in federal court for failing to produce in evidence the stubs of checks the defendant claimed would prove that politicians and city officials were bribed by the brick trust. The judge said there was too much contempt in the case.
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Aileen Christopher
John A. Browne
Landis
Federal
Brick Trust
Waite Elevated to Jasperville City Schools Superintendent
Waite, principal of Wiley high school, was elected superintendent of the Terre Haute city schools by the school board on Monday night. The post had been refused by George W. Benton, former principal of Shortridge high school in Indianapolis.
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Terre Haute
Ind
J. Waite
Wiley High School
George W. Benton
Shortridge High School
Indianapolis
Suspect arraigned in murder case in Brazil
Casey Simms, arrested in Brazil on an indictment charging him with the murder of night traction agent Otis Mendren two years ago, was arraigned Tuesday. He asks for bail if no immediate trial is granted.
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Greencastle
Ind
Casey” Simms
Brazil
Otis Mendren
Simms
Acquittal to Stand in Carmack Murder Case
Attorneys for the state filed a petition in Davidson county criminal court asking that the judgment acquitting Robin J. Cooper of the murder of Senator E W Carmack be set aside as illegal and old. Judge Neil ruled against the petition.
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Nashville, Tenn
Davidson County Criminal Court
Robin J. Cooper
E.W. Carmack
Neil
Milligan Made Acting Warden at Indiana Prison
Dr. J. W. Milligan, prison physician, was chosen acting warden of the Indiana state prison with the deputy warden title. The decision, aimed at state interests, followed resignations and a scramble among Democrats to fill the posts, pitting Kruger and Fogarty in a heated race with Milligan kept as deputy to smooth transition.
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Reid
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Connecticut
Peter Kruger
Marshall County
Ed Fogarty
South Hend
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Adam Wise
Wise
Indiana State Prison
Fogarty
St. Joseph
Shively
Marsbhall
United States
South Bend
Guv. Marshall
Milligan
Dr. Milligan
Burglar Defends Himself in Plymouth Trial
Lawrence Edwards acted as his own attorney in a Plymouth burglary case. The jury found him guilty after a three hour deliberation and sentenced him to ten to twenty years in Jeffersonville. Edwards was caught nearby with trinkets identified as belonging to the robbed family, drawing notable attention to the case.
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Jeffersonville
Edwards
Stranger Dies in Jail in Peru Morgue
Unidentified man about 45, 130 pounds, died in jail Monday night and lies in the morgue. He wore good clothes, carried a gold watch, and business cards suggest he was a traveling salesman from Indianapolis or Chicago.
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Indianapolis
Chicago
Woman Club Leader Indicted Amid Pneumonia Fight
Miss Minnetta Taylor, indicted for practicing medicine without a license, lies seriously ill with pneumonia in Greencastle Indiana. once president of the State federation of clubs and a well known local figure, she has not been arrested.
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Minnetta Taylor
State Federation of Clubs
Gov. Marshall Remits Druggist Fine in Liquor Case
Kokomo Indiana December 13 Gov Marshall remitted the $ fine of Larry Ryan a druggist who sold whisky to a man under an assumed name for medicinal purposes The governor ruled the violation was accidental not intentional The purchaser later got drunk
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Kokomo
Ind
Marshall
Larry Ryan
Ryan
Mrs Taft’s aunt Hannah Jack dies in Decatur
Decatur, Ti December 13 Mrs Hannah H Jack an aunt of Mrs William H Taft died at her daughter’s home after a lingering pneumonia illness She was in her ninetieth year at the time of death.
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Hannah H. Jack
William H. Taft
Jack
Clarissa Truitt, 100, Dies in Kokomo Indiana
Mrs Clarissa Truitt aged 100 dies in Kokomo Indiana after a long life that included walking from Delaware to Indiana in youth and a conversion by a vision eighty years earlier.
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Kokomo
Ind
Clarissa Truitt
Delaware
Indiana
Police Chief Is Taken For Thief In Hoaxing Night
Loganport Indiana December 13 A horse and buggy belonging to Police Superintendent Morris were stolen from his barn. Morris joined the search hiring a rig at a livery stable and drove about with patrolmen chasing the thief. He was stopped by officers who mistook him for the culprit before recognizing their chief.
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Dual Life Revealed In Court Ruling In Indiana
Judge Parr ordered property held by a Thorntown woman returned to the man’s Pennsylvania wife and children. Hoover lived with the Thorntown woman while maintaining a wife in Pennsylvania from whom he was never divorced. He died last April and his children learned of his second life months later.
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Lebanon
Ind
WABASH Board Chosen by Crawfordsville Junior Class
The Wabash annual editorial staff was chosen Monday. Editor in chief Ferdinand Tannebaum of Crawfordsville leads the board, with business manager Ryland A. Walcott of Marlon, assistant business manager David Sloan of Crawfordsville, and treasurer Harry Stout of Winchester.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
The
Wabash
Ferdinand Tannebaum
Ryland A. Walcott
Marlon
David Sloan
Harry Stout
Winchester
Grain dealers rapped by Bingham in Indiana suit
Attorney General James Bingham filed a circuit court suit in Fort Wayne charging fifty three Hay and grain producers and shippers association members with restraint of trade and price fixing. A restraining order blocks officers from sending daily price lists and other work. A hearing on a temporary injunction is set for December 27. The suit claims annual business of 3 million dollars and farmers lose 250 thousand dollars yearly. elevators and buildings valued at over 1 million six hundred thousand dollars are noted. Officers listed include President Herbert H. Deam Bluffton secretary G Thomas Burk Decatur and directors Edward Wasmuth Roanoke and T P Riddle.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
James Bingham
Hay and Grain Producers and Shippers’ Association
O'Rourke
Indiana
Herbert H. Deam
Bluffton
G. Thomas Burk
Decatur
Edward Wasmuth
Roanoke
T. P. Riddle
Drummer Boy Buries Colonel in Columbus Funeral
Col. John A. Keith, 78, was buried in Columbus, Ind., on Tuesday. At the funeral, John R. Rodenbarger of Brazil, once a drummer boy who joined the Twenty-first Indiana at age 14, spoke of Keith as both father and mother to him.
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John R. Rodenbarger
Brazil
Rodenbarger
Twenty-first
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Col. Keith
Burglars Loot Freighthouse In Franklin Candy Heist
Burglars opened every freight box at the New York Central freighthouse in Franklin Indiana, stealing about forty pounds of candy and several pairs of overalls. The Greer Wilk inson lumber company office was ransacked but nothing valuable was taken.
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Ind
New York Central
Greer-Wilkinson Lumber Company
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