Love feast roils Indiana politics with candidate chatter
Marion county and Vigo area figures discuss bids for state and local offices amid factional shifts. Names floated include Alf Glossbronner, Senator Barcus, Warren Sayre, James Egnew, Lee Nash, and Charles Remy as contenders for reporter, state statistician, congress, and district posts.
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James Egnew
Wabash
Amiles
John B. Conner
Thia City
Marion Club
Willng
Charles Remy
Supreme Court
Frank Smith
Brookville
Franklin County
B. F. Corwin
Greencastle
Tipton
Iroquois Theater Fire Survivors and Aftermath
Eyewitness accounts recount the Iroquois Theater disaster in Chicago where Eddie Foy and others escaped. Victims suffered severe burns as crowds fled, with rescuers using ladders through the roof and steam of reports from physicians, clergy, and family members.
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Eddie Foy
Sherman House
Chicago Theater Fire Leaves 150 Bodies Reported
A blaze at John R. Thompson’s Randolph Street restaurant near the Iroquois theater killed and injured many. Doctors, police, and firemen fought chaos while thieves looted bodies and loot amid the pandemonium.
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Chicago
John R. Thompson
Randolph St
Thompson's
Heroes Free People From Fire by Painters
In Chicago a group of painters at Northwestern University aided escapees from a fire. They lowered ladders and formed a safe bridge 59 feet above ground, guiding women children and men to safety. Workers opened windows and used wet towels to dampen flames as others passed flames and smoke to safety.
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Ilinois
Powers
Troquoia
Chicago
Dec
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Gia Nmer Ut
Narewestern University
Presbyterian Christmas Show Delayed by Smoke Issue
Smoke prevented a Christmas entertainment at a Presbyterian church in Anderson Indiana. The event was moved to New Year’s Eve due to furnace trouble causing smoke buildup. Meanwhile Edgar Yeatal, a young farmer near Avine, broke both leg bones after slipping on ice.
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Anderson
Ind
The
Presbyterian Church
Edgar Yeatal
Avine
Here
Iroquois Theater, Chicago Fireproof Edifice Opens
The Iroquois Theater in Chicago opened on November 2 as a lavish French Renaissance playhouse costing over 500000 dollars. It boasted a 1724 seat main area and a 475 seat balcony with a design claimed to be perfectly fireproof.
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Chicago
United States
Iroquois Theater
Calendar issued by Chicago Northwestern Ry features yearly calendar
A serviceable calendar for 194 year shows large figures for days of month and consecutive day of year. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway recommends it to business men and manufacturers and asks four cents postage to W. B. Kulakern, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago.
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Chicago & Northwestern Ry
W. B. Kulakern
Chicago
Greatest Disaster of 1903 Theater Fire and Calamities
A fragmented historical note surveys the year 1903 disasters, citing the Troquois theater fire as the era’s deadliest and noting other major calamities worldwide with scattered dates and locations. The piece contrasts the immense toll with broader 1903 tragedies across cities and industries.
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Tobey Hateh
London
Isleney
O Neill Describes Piled Victims After Disaster
Chief of police O Neill recalls a summer storm scene with Timothy Grass field debris and victims piled ten deep at stair exits. He notes the crowded doorway trapped people beneath others and weighs of bodies made rescue impossible until men cleared from above.
Lost Her Hand in Angola Ind 2 Mrs Ellen Towle
A laundry employee in Angola Indiana, Ellen Towle, had her hand badly injured when caught between two hot rollers. Doctors determined amputation was necessary. An ambulance of remedies and ads follow, with medical patent cures and assorted tonics.
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Mise
Estelle Muir
Chicago
Emery Hewine
Petersburg
Ind
Leo Wolff
Angola
Dee
Ellen Towle
Fire and Pneumonia News From Philadelphia and Nebraska
Fire at Edward Johnson home causes $30 loss and injures a two year old in the blaze. A neighbor helps the infant as a defective flue starts the fire while the family mourns a dying child. Pneumonia is declared contagious by Philadelphia health officials, urging caution. In Nebraska City a baker’s belt injury leaves a worker scalp injured after being pulled into a dough mixer.
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Edward Johnson
N. Wallacess
Death
Life Home
Carl Johnson
Nebraska City
Neb
Vic Volbrenk
Cracker Breaks Leg of Local Barber in Kentucky Incident
In Lenington Kentucky on Pec 31 Dynamite Cars are blamed for injuring Monty Muterel by hurling an explosive at his shop. A fragment struck his leg and broke it just above the ankle. The attacker’s identity is unknown.
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Barber
Lenington
Monty Muterel
Ulcerated Tooth Said to Kill Miss Laura Wier
In Muncie Indiana Laura Wier aged 25 died from blood poisoning traced to an ulcerated tooth. The city coroner reported the case as fatal and linked it to the dental infection rather than external injury.
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Muncie
Ind
Laura Wier
Thin City
Egged Professor Shaler May Quit Harvard Lectures
Cambridge Mass December reports say students disrupted Nathaniel Shaler a leading geologist by throwing eggs chalk and other objects during stereopticon lectures prompting him to threaten resignation He has taught at Harvard 35 years and the course remains popular with many lectures to be rearranged upon his return from Egypt
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Mass
Nathaniel Shaler
America
Hos
Mervard
Shafer
Egypt
Prof. Shafer
Shaler
Maryvard
Harvard
Central College of Music Ad in Indianapolis Offers Scholarships
The Central College of Music at 550 N Meridian St Indianapolis advertises day and boarding pupil entry with unexcelled advantages in all branches of music. It offers one free and two partial scholarships in piano voice and violin, with boarding rooms and studies in a well furnished college building. Catalog terms via Edward Taylor Director Meridien Street Indianapolis.
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Edward Taylor
BON
Meridina Street
Indianapatis
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