Merchants organize Indianapolis Salvage Corps
City merchants move to form the Merchants Salvage Corps with Herman Newman at the helm. The group aims to reduce fire losses by providing mobile salvage units headquartered in a central building and operating an automobile to respond to alarms. Newman previously led a salvage effort in Cincinnati and will oversee the new Indianapolis organization as it seeks members and funds.
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Herman Newman
Mile Square
Indianapolis
Salvage Corps
Herman New
Kipp Brothers’ Toy and Fancy
S.meridian Street
Central Rubber and Supply Company
Meridian Street
United States
Merchants’ Salvage Corps
Newman
Cincinnati Ros
Dining Room in Factory Opened with a Feast
The Lewis Meier & Co. hosted a dinner for about 250 employees including office, factory and traveling staff to celebrate the completion of a large dining room. The plan is to offer hot, palatable noon meals at a nominal price and to hold a dance or similar entertainment twice a month for workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Meier & Co
Aunt and Niece Try Poison in Market Street Incident
Mrs. Edwards and her niece Maud Bacret 17 drank chloroform after an argument over attention from her husband. The incident occurred Friday night near Market and Alabama streets. Neither woman was seriously affected. both were detained by police.
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Charles Edwards
Market Street
Market
Alabama Streets
Maud Bacret
What a Clergyman's Wife Found in Food
A Minnesota clergyman's wife credits a simple dietary change with curing years of dyspepsia and recurring grip. She reports consuming Grape-Nuts with cream each morning, noting improved digestion and winter resilience, and urges readers to consider the product as a cause of renewed strength.
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Minnesota
Fell Ville
Tillman Slips Toward Recovery After Second Stroke
Washington Feb 19 Senator Benjamin Tillman rested quietly with slight improvement forecast but remained unconscious. Right side nearly paralyzed and aphasia from a cerebral hemorrhage on the left brain, doctors say speech may never fully return though paralysis could improve. This marks his second paralysis episode following a nervous breakdown two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Y M C A Half Miler Fox Injures Leg in Dual Meet
The Y M C A faces DePauw in a dual meet with Nox the half miler sidelined by a leg tendon injury. Despite the bad leg he will start as entered. DePauw's entry list includes Grady Pittles McGrew Somerville Wheansand Guthrie Letzer Dale Calvin Bittles Fribley and others.
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DePauw
Nox
Grady
Calvin
Bittles
Hockstettler
Sommerville
McGrew
Pittles
Jones
Wheansand
Fribley
Guthrie
Letzer
Dale
Kittles
Newbanks
Pliingston
Denny
Hardian
Walker
West
J. G. McKay
Butler
H. H. Horn
Eric Hopkins
Cross
Reed
Riddel
Hunt
Trash
Stewart
Tad Shideler
Goodlet
King
Williams
Bowlers of State Plan Organization Meeting
The bowlers of the state will meet tomorrow afternoon at the Marton club to form a state bowling association similar to the Midwest Bowling Association. It is hoped every league in the city will send a representative, and if plans succeed a state tournament will be held annually under ABC sanction.
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Marton Club
Midots
Brownfield Acquitted by Greenfield Jury
Brownfield acquitted by a Greenfield jury of murdering James Desmond in Indianapolis on June 26, 1909. The killing arose from a quarrel over $1.50 room rent. Case sent from Marion county on change of venue.
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Greenfield
Ind
Joseph Brownfield
James Desmond
Indianapolis
Marion County
Girl drinks acid in presence of lover at Altoona
In Altoona Pennsylvania on February 19 Olive Troxel a young woman drank carbolic acid in front of her suitor and died within minutes. The act occurred as the man watched.
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Altoona
Olive Troxel
Woman Found Unconscious After Fall At Home On Senate Avenue
Mrs. Taylor Barger was found unconscious at her home, 200 North Senate Avenue, Friday night with a fractured skull. She was alone in the house and authorities believe she fainted and fell down a stairway. Her condition is listed as serious.
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Taylor Barger
Senate Avenue
Wal tham Watch Factory Shuts Down Amid Overproduction
Waltham Mass February 19 For the third time in as many months the Wal tham watch factory shut down today. The closure lasts a month and is attributed to over production of watches.
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Waltham
Mass
Cold blast ends as trains resume full service
After a four day cold spell many lines return to normal. Friday night’s low was five degrees and by dawn Saturday the temperature rose to seven with limited delays easing as steam and electric trains, interurban cars, and city lines restart full schedules.
Muncie Star shows strong January earnings under receivership
The January report filed by receiver George C. Hitt details gross earnings across the Indianapolis Star, Muncie Star and Terre Haute Star totaling 15 137 38 with 4 468 77 in charges. Surplus for the month stands at 10 669 21 while assets reach 408 265 26 against liabilities of 509 284 48.
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Star Publshing Company
George C. Hitt
Indianapolis Star
Man«le Star
Terre Haute Star
Elks Thrilling Thirtieth Show At Englishs
Indianapolis Elks Lodge No 13 prepares its thirtieth annual charity minstrel at English s for February 23 and March 1 2 with a cast of 80. Director Al Donahue promises a new first part and an original afterpiece while the chorus boasts their best ever performance. Interlocutor Hubert S Riley and end men W E Carnaby Charlie Rauh Max Siegel Ernie Zeigler A V Wilson Mike Jefferson Jack Quill and Harry Mullkan are named for the show.
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Elks
Hene
Hubert S. Riley
W. E. Carnaby
Charlie Rauh
Max Siegel
Ernie Zeigler
A. V. Wilson
Mike Jefferson
Jack Quill
Harry Mullkan
McCray Backs Primary for Seventh District Nomination
Judge Franklin McCray, a Republican candidate for Congress in the Seventh district, endorses a primary election to pick the party nominee. He rejects a delegate convention to select the nominee for one office, stating he is opposed to it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin McCray
Judge McCray
Cold wave grips eastern Pennsylvania and Pittsburg
Eastern region and western Pennsylvania faced a sharp cold snap with 4 to 10 above zero temperatures. A heavy 45 hour snowstorm disrupted all traffic, and in the oil regions farmers burn fences for fuel as roads stay impassable. Farm produce is scarce as trips are halted.
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Pittsburg
Hin
Pennsylvania
Clawson Opens Lake County Campaign in Whiting
M. L. Clawson a noted Indiana Republican and progressive leader spoke at Whiting on Saturday inaugurating the Lake County campaign. Sent by the state central committee to kick off the drive, he is a candidate for Congress in the Seventh district.
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M. L. Clawson
Indiana
Indianapolis
Whiting
N d
Lake County
Clawson
Congress
State Central Committee
Attorney General Sues Whallon for $7000
U.S. Attorney General Bingham sues Thomas C. Whallon former Indianapolis police court judge in superior court to recover 7000 claiming it represents the state share of fines collected while in office Federal Union Surety Company on Whallon's bond is named as a defendant Whallon vows to defend on grounds that his acts were judicial or that he acted as a voluntary chairie and may seek to join as codefendants those who received the money.
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Thomas C. Whallon
Indianapolis
Bingham
Union Organizers Enter Battle Creek Stronghold
Battle Creek rises in a labor war as open shop adherents clash with organized labor supporters. Eighteen organizers representing unions of every form of labor arrived, turning the city into a battleground in mid February.
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Battle Creek
Mid
Mayor Shank names reform commission members
Ten men chosen by Mayor Shank for a reform commission include Joseph C. Schaf, W. J. Richards, John Candee Dean, Herman Munk, William Watson Woollen, Andrew Steffen, Rev. O. TD. Odell, Rev. George D. Wolfe, Rev. C. Wicks, and Rev. Morris M. Feuersicht. He plans to name ten more soon and says the panel will advise on moral reforms and city business. Several named expect the panel to benefit Indianapolis though some have not decided to serve.
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Shank
Reform Commission
Joseph C. Schaf
American Brewing Company
C. Wicks
All Souls Unitarian Church
Morris M. Feuersicht
In- Manipolis
W. J. Richards
Union National Bank
John Candee Dean
Dean Bros
Herman Munk
William Watson
Odell
Wolfe
Wicks
Feuerlieht
Munk
Richards
Schaf
Indianapolis
Many Churches Hear Sermons Tomorrow Across City
City churchgoers will hear a slate of sermons tomorrow at Central Reformed Tabernacle Presbyterian Central Avenue M E Second Presbyterian Roberts Park Grace Mission Central Christian Edwin Ray M E Sutherland Presbyterian First Presbyterian First Christian Meridian Street M E with ministers Gehler McPherson King Odell Hurlstone McPherson Carson Haines Whitaker Stansfield and others delivering addresses on faith labor and law with music and special programs presented across multiple churches.
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Second Presbyterian
O. D. Odell
Second Presbyterian Church
Roberts Park
Albert Hurlstone
Robert Louis Stevenson
Choral Society
Edwin Ray M. E
H. C. Clippinger
Edwin Ray
Sutherland Presbyterian
William Carson
Sutherland Presbyterian Church
Bernice Reagan
Brotherhood of the Church
C. W. Mayer
First Presbyterian
First Presbyterian Church
M. L. Haines
William H. Donley
First Christian
O. B. Whitaker
Union Christian College
Merom
Ind
First Christian Church
Seventeenth Street
College Avenue
G. M. Hebbiec
Paul Raymond
Meridian Street
M. E
Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Joshua Stansfield
Esau or the Price of Passion special series
The piece previews a religious feature on sin and presents talks by Dr. Stansfield on an unnamed morning topic. Home Presbyterian notes Pastor George Dantel Adamson preaching on The Power That Proposes and the Power That Disposes and A Life for a Life based on Africa experiences. Columbia Avenue M. E. hosts a Sunday temperance meeting with Charles M. Lemon speaking on Feb 20.
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Columbia Avenue M. E
Columbia Avenue
M. E. Church
Charles M. Lemon
Esau
Dr. Stansfield
Home Presbyterian
George Dantel Adamson
Home Presbyterian Church
Central Africa
Columbia Avenue M. E. Church
Daint Gaudens Exhibit At Herron Seen By Thousands
Thousands have viewed the Daint Gaudens statuary at the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis. The exhibit remains in the Herron building through two more Sundays, with March 1 as the close date. Festival attendees include many repeat visitors who praise the display as both educational and artistically rich. After its departure from the institute, a similar show is not expected again in the city, and about 60,000 people are anticipated to have seen the statue by closing.
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M Ptein
R. V. Pierce
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Ot Buffalo
Wonin
R. V. Piero
M. D
Buchale
N.Y
Pierce
Herron Art Institute
Herson
Institut
Bas
Indianapolis
Herron
Actor Neil Burgess Dies at 69 in New York Home
New York reports the death of actor Neil Burgess at his home after a yearlong struggle with diabetes. He was 69 years old.
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Neil Burgess
New York
Woman Still Has Hope Nina Is Safe
Mrs John S Groghan wife of the chief boatswain who commanded the lost naval tug Nina has written the assistant secretary of the navy asking that the search for the vessel be renewed. She says she is kept from prostration only by hope the Ning was met by a foreign bound craft that took off the crew.
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Boston
John S. Groghan
Nina
Secretary of the Navy
Washington Street Merchants Act for Better Lighting
E Washington Street Merchants association moves to extend a new lighting system along Washington Street from Delaware to East Street adding ten lights. Work starts once posts are obtained and a formal protest is filed with the Board of Public Works over missed street cleaning during the storm. Mayor Shenk attends and supports the effort.
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Washington Street
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Delaware
East Street
Board of Public Works
Shenk
Barcley Resigns as Western Union Official
New York Feb 19 Western Union Telegraph company announced James C Barcley assistant general manager and de facto head of operations resigned. The same bulletin named W E Athern as engineer of equipment while Belvidere Brooks was named general manager earlier.
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New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
James C. Barclay
Belvidere Brooks
W. E. Athern
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