City to build first apartment house at $15 000
Indiana news items report Richmond ground cleared for a new apartment building costing 15000 dollars. Other notes include elopement of Levi Burton and Wana Hunter in Kokomo and various local incidents across several towns.
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Richmond
Kokomo
Levi Burton
Wana Hunter
Indianapolis
Greensburg
I. O
Common Sense Engine Company
Frankfort
John Smith
Smith
Marion
Grant County
Bundy- Clark Company
Liberty Center
Vermont
Greencastle
John Crocks
Lena
Why Stay Pale A Dieter Pales Girls Do Better Health
An advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion claiming it adds rich blood to pale girls improves appetite and enhances looks and manners. It promises a free sample from Scott & Bowne chemists at 400 Pearl Street North.
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Scott
Oldest man in Wayne county Elisha Brown at 94 on Christmas day
Elisha Brown, 94, lives near Hagerstown Indiana and remains in excellent health with sharp memory. Born December 25 1810 in Kentucky he and wife Margaret Burns nearing their 73rd wedding anniversary in February 1905 and may reach a diamond anniversary. Brown is highly popular and well known as Indiana’s oldest married resident.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Wayne County
Elisha Brown
Brown
Mr. Brown
Cynthiana
Jefferson Township
Margaret Burns
Indiana
Abraham
Lincoln
Waterloo
Union
William B. Gladstone
Queen
Ohio
Brothers Reunited After Brother's Death in Pittsburg
Josef Tomiskey and Michael Tomiskey, Polish natives who emigrated separately, lived near each other and worked at the same job in Pittsburg. They did not recognize one another until Michael’s death a few days earlier revealed their kinship. Josef was about 41. Michael was in his early twenties.
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Pittsburg
Josef Tomiskey
Michael
Poland
Josef
Brothers Reunited After Tragic Allegheny Car Plant Death
Michael and Josef, unaware brothers living four doors apart in Woods Run, Allegheny, failed to recognize each other until a fatal accident at an Allegheny car plant. A fallen car injured Michael, who died two days later. letters from Poland revealed their kinship to Josef.
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Michael
Woods Run
Allegheny
Josef
Poland
Doing heroic work by Indianapolis sanitarian and assistant
Sanitarian Eugene Buehler and Dr Carter in Indianapolis lead nightly, unpaid tours to visit smallpox patients at home. They accept personal risk, having been vaccinated but not immune, while city officials praise their selfless service and advocate paid salaries.
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Indianapolis
Eugene Buehler
Carter
Health Board
Buehler
Bookwalter
Hewitt Experts Say He Speaks Many Indian Languages
J N R Hewitt of the bureau of ethnology can converse in more Indian languages than any other American. He has mastered the body of writings on the aborigines from early exploration and asserts that tales linking Indians to Asian peoples exist in the record.
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Washington
J. N. R. Hewitt
Bureau of Ethnology
Asia
Indian linguist Hewitt charts 22 languages and tribal origins
John Hewitt, Tuscarora interpreter and chief philologist, argues Native American roots differ from European lines. He lists languages he commands and deciphers place names such as Cuyahoga for forked stream and Ohio as beautiful river, asserting distinct cultural lines.
Governor Office Records Jumble Sparks Call for Action
State officials say a crying need for an appropriation to hire someone to sort the governor office records. Papers from Mounts and Durbin administrations are scattered in the state house basement and around the building. An old janitor recovered papers tied to a $600,000 war claim, but many valuable files remain disorganized and at risk.
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Mount
Durbin
State House
Col. Wilson
Inis
Indiana Picks Up News From Various Towns
Crawfordsville man receives a Christmas gift in a check worth over $20 000. A Marion con artist passes forged checks totaling about $200. Bechtel to vacate as local manager for Central Union Telephone Co and move to Vincennes plant, Mamaker to succeed here. E C Coomer, 90, dies from injuries after a fall on ice. Bluffton to issue 500 000 in bonds for extensions. Mrs M A McClerry hosts four generations at birthday. Orva Brenner nearly drowns after wagon crashes into a ditch. help rescues him.
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Ball Brothers
Anderson
George Kerney
Big Four Roundhouse
Patrick Bradley
Home Storage and Manufacturing Company
Bradley
Thomas Ansberry
Union Glass Works
Pat Casey
Superior Court
Crawsfordsville
Crawfordsville
Marion
Gemee E. L. Bechtel
Central Union Telehone Company
Vincennes
H. G. Mamaker
Wechtel
E. C. Coomer
Bluffton—United Telephone Company
M. A. McClerry
Orva Brenner
Rockcreek
Brenner
Wells Hair Fone and Baleam Promoted in Ad Copy
An old advertisement extols Wells Hair Fone as a superior hair preparation and claims it leads in lighting like electric light. It also markets Wells Hair Baleam as a non dye remedy to restore gray hair to natural color, claiming it is harmless, non greasy, non sticky, with 50c and 1.00 bottles available from Jersey City supplier E S Wells.
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Wells
Express
E.S. Wells
Jersey City
N. J
County to Seek 8000 for Voting Machine Suit Testing
County commissioners expect to ask the county council for an $8,000 appropriation to cover litigation expenses to test the constitutionality of a compulsory voting machine law if the upcoming legislature passes it. The move aims to resolve legality before machines are purchased.
New Treatment Promises Fast Cure Shift From Old Methods
Ad urges people with heart lung kidney stomach blood skin muscle or nervous system disorders to seek a free trial of Dr Lipes new method, claimed to rapidly replace traditional cures.
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Dr. Lipes
Cirralare
Bishop Remedy Co
San Francisco
Cal
Sloan Devs CO
West Weskinton St
Judisnapelen
Ind
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Garoon
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Oconto County
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A. B. Evans
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Mahoning
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Das
C. I. Hood Co
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