Tailors impose new credit rules on unpaid coats
New York merchants announce a blacklist for tailors who fail to pay for winter overcoats. The national association will notify and deny credit to debtors as they travel to other cities. About 86 merchant tailors at Hotel Astor trade meeting with 150 attendees endorse the measure and a credit status investigation policy.
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New York
Hotel Astor
Chicago
National Association
Pittsburg
Change in Ownership of the Princeton Hotel
George T Caldwell and James Geraghty have bought the Princeton hotel on Illinois street from Henry Dakin. Caldwell runs the Exchange hotel at the stockyards and Geraghty has been proprietor of the Princeton hotel bar. The consideration is 7500 dollars and remodeling plans are announced.
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George T. Caldwell
James Geraghty
Princeton Hotel
Llinois Street
Henry Dakin
Caldwell
Exchange
Stockyards
Mr. Geraghty
Princeton
Jonas F Parker Dies After Four Years Ill
Jonas Farmer Parker 83 died Wednesday at his Windsor block apartment on North Illinois Street. He suffered a stroke of paralysis four years ago. Parker moved to Indianapolis 36 years ago and ran an implement business before retiring. He is survived by four children. Funeral set for 2:30 Thursday at Flanner Buchanan's chapel.
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Jonas Farmer Parker
Windsor Block
N. Illinois Street
Indianapolis
Flanner & Buchanan’s
Blind piano tuner injured in stair fall at Illinois street
Albert Swindler a 30 year old blind piano tuner was taken to City hospital after falling down the basement stairs at 7 N Illinois street Wednesday night He struck the railing with his cane and slipped stepping on the wrong side of the stairway causing a long fall and painful injuries.
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Albert Swindler
City Hospital
N. ‘Illinois Street
Swindler
Bakery Planned in Modoc Indiana
Modoc Indiana reports a bakery will be established in town. Local officials confirm the project and construction aims to serve residents and passersby with fresh bread and pastries. The plan includes hiring several workers once permits are secured.
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MODOC
Ind
Mayor objects to Gosport spellings and race image in play
Gosport Indiana mayor John Rum barger demanded two changes to Mary Jane's Pa at Garden theater. He objected to Gosport being misspelled as Gassport and to a black resident in a second act street scene. Spelling was corrected. the race element remains. Henry Dixey starred. Claxton Wilstach explored an in-town engagement hindered by Gosport lacking a theater. Henry Miller to stage Faith Healer in St Louis March 15.
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New York
John Rumbarger
Gosport
Ind
Henry E. Dixey
Henry W. Savage
Frank C. Payne
Garden Theater
ST. Louis
Henry Miller
Engine Knocks Girl Off Aniladad Track In Vincennes
Misa Mollie Fossmeyer daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick Fossmeyer was struck by an engine while crossing homeward over the B and O tracks in Vincennes Ind. She sustained a severe scalp wound requiring four stitches to close.
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Vincennes
Ind
Misa Mollie Fossmeyer
Frederick Fossmeyer
Marion Couple Plans European Trip After NYC Visit
Marion pair Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cushwa will depart Friday for New York City and then sail to Europe on Thursday February 13. They expect to be away five or six months as they travel between cities and sights.
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Marion
Ind
H. L. Cushwa
New York City
Europe
Drink Drives Divorce Petition in Marion Court
Mary Sims files for divorce from John Sims in Marion Indiana circuit court. Married in Wales on June 2, 1889, they separated November 7, 1907. She alleges cruel treatment and that he drank, choked, slapped and cursed her, threatened to kill her, and pointed a revolver at her, causing her to leave home until he sobered.
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Marion
Ind
Mary Sims
John Sims
Wales
Gotch to Meet Raoul De Rouen in Chicago Fight
Frank Gotch world champion wrestler plans to face Raoul De Rouen the French giant in Chicago on a February night. Police had lifted a ban on De Rouen’s exhibitions after his tactics in a recent match against Makmout. The Empire Athletic Club reports Gotch may accept a New York telegram offer for a guaranteed match.
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Chicago
Frank Gotch
Raoul de Rouen
Schuettler
de Rouen
Empire Athletic Club
Gotch
New York
Empire Club
Makmout
World Almanac and Encyclopedia 190 Edition Available
Fresh from the press the 190 edition of The World Almanac and Encyclopedia is being distributed to subscribers and news dealers across the United States. It lists 15 000 facts on politics commerce weights measures secret societies populations and sports with an index for quick reference. Priced 2 cents at Jews stands and 35 cents by mail.
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United States
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Religious Revival Sparks Sullivan Churches
Sullivan Ind February 11 New religious revival grips the town with meetings at the Baptist and the Methodist churches. Talks by Rev A M Miller and Prof R M Birdsall lead the sessions as organizers consider combining the two gatherings.
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Sullivan, Ind
Sullivan
A. M. Miller
R. M. Birdsall
De Oro Defeats Lean in First Three-Cushion Match
Alfred De Oro, world champion, beat Horace B. Lean 50 to 31 in the opening three-cushion billiards championship match at McGraw's academy in New York on February 10.
Thought Leads to Public Office Rise
A reflective note credits persistent effort in daily drudgery as the path to success and the high position he now holds, highlighting workmanlike perseverance as key to achievement.
Brown's Maxims For Workers Honor Duty And Study
A compact set of maxims urging dedication to work and employer interests. It urges forgetting self, accepting responsibility, staying alert to learn, and aiming to outperform all previous efforts. The tone reflects a classic labor ethic guiding personal conduct at work.
New York Central chief stresses work over success
William C. Brown, newly named president of the New York Central lines, says success comes from forgetting oneself in work and striving to do it better than ever. He attributes his rise to hard, continuous labor and a love of the daily task rather than a fixed goal or deliberate self-promotion.
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NEW_ YORK
Feb
William C. Brown
New York Central Lines
Mr. Brown
Vanderbilt
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road
Brown
Socially Charming Beauty Formula Promises Rapid Body Changes
An old advertisement touts a beauty doctor’s figure culture treatment claiming dramatic results. It describes a home routine with are roses, cadomene compound, borax and rosewater, urging morning and night applications to alter measurements.
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Appi
Early Lessons in Ambition and Reliability from Brown
The narrative cites W. C. Brown as a model of work devotion and responsibility. It recounts his rise after a key 1877 event when a snowstorm endangered stock, prompting his night of labor as a train dispatcher to save the cattle. Potter recognized his drive and promoted him.
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T. J. Potter
Burlington
East
Jerry Hosford
Young Brown
Mr. Potter
Hosford
Brown
Potter
Woman Starts Fire Heating Bed With Irons
Mrs Lucy Workman an aged resident of Jason Will Be Indiana used hot irons to heat her bed and when she uncovered the blanket flames arose she managed to extinguish the blaze with little damage.
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Jason
Ind
Lucy Workman
A Call for Clear Poison Labels and Red Firearm Tags
The piece argues poisons must have explicit labels and firearms carry large red metal tags. It notes the U.S. Constitution protects gun ownership but would not justify resisting protective labeling and warning standards for danger.
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United States
Safety rules for revolver handling and burglary deterrence
A public safety note outlines revolver handling rules to prevent accidental discharge. It warns to remove cartridges before inspecting, avoid touching triggers, never clean a loaded gun, count cartridges, and not reload with gun cocked. It also advises against keeping a revolver and suggests a halberd as a deterrent for burglars.
Saratoga Racing Association to elect new president
In New York on February 11 the Saratoga Racing Association will elect a new president at a meeting in the Arcade building. R. T. Wilson Jr is expected to succeed Francis Hitchcock who resigned from the post.
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New York
Saratoga Racing Asoociation
R. T. Wilson, Jr
Francis Hitchcock
Carlisle Indians and Browns Likely at Polo Grounds Next Fall
New York Feb 11 Carlisle Indians and Browns heavy eleven probably will play at the Polo grounds next fall. Pop Warner and Jeffries discussed the subject with Fred Knowles and a November date seems likely if faculties approve.
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New York
Carlisle
Browns
Polo Grounds
Pop Warner
Jeffries
Brown
Fred Knowles
Youthful couple wed in Bedford ceremony
In Bedford Indiana on February 11 Orville Cline aged 18 and Miss Ethel Daggyr aged 17 were married by Reverend Melvin Putman with parental consent reported.
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Bedford
Ind
Orville Cline
Ethel Daggyr
Melvin Putman
Fragmentary Verse Snippet Mentions Tennyson and Open Fines
A partial poetic fragment references Tennyson and the notion of open fines. The text is incomplete with scattered phrases and punctuation, yielding little clear context beyond the literary allusion.
Figures of Speech From a Schoolgirl Letter
A Ga city paper prints a playful verse from a young lady away at school. She writes to an uncertain young man that she is in a dreamy mood and feeling poetic, apologizes for absence, and asks him to bear his ills with pride.
A Good Exchange
A brief joke exchange about mixed coats leads to a lighthearted near miss with a dine out anecdote. The humor hinges on mistaken identity between a man who swapped coats and the restaurant owner remaining unaware of the swap.
The Gargoyle Poem by Oliver Herford
A humorous verse from The Gargoyle by Oliver Herford, in The Century. The Gargoyle perched on a church spouts at passersby and, like the parson, seems to say Let us pray. The poem contrasts rain damp parsons with the Gargoyle’s cheerful wit.
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Congressman Willett’s
Oliver Herford
Gargoyle
Parsons
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