Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Praised by St. Louis Doctor
Dr William Hooker Vail calls Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey a superior remedy for consumptives noting its health benefits. The ad claims the malt whiskey enriches blood, aids digestion, strengthens the heart, and resists disease while warning buyers to demand genuine “Dusty’n” labeled bottles and avoid imitations. It markets at $1.00 per bottle with a medical booklet free.
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William Hooker Vail
St. Louis
Duffy
Duffy's Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester
New York
Bodies of four murdered persons laid side by side
Terre Haute Ind February 23 four murdered people lie in the city morgue. Jerry Duggins a railroad section hand confessed after slashing Mrs Ramsey and her two young children Burl four and Marie two. He also killed three others. The Ramseys recently moved from Seymour and Duggins had long courted Mrs Ramsey before the killings. He surrendered to Patrolman Westbrook and asked the law to kill him.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Jerry Duggins
Southern Indiana Railroad
Sarah Ramsey
Ben Ramsey
Ramsey
Mrs. Ramsey
Burl
Marie
Wabesh
Tenth-sts
Westbrook
Columbia Stamp and Enamlering
Dugging
Lydia
Pearl
Duggins
Ramseys
Seymour
Indiana field notes and incidents across towns
Mrs. Margaret Yarling dies at 60 in Tipton county after a long life. A gag flow in an oil well near Petersburg during cleaning operations. Arthur Burns, 2, of Brazil, found dead in his room. cause unknown. Indiana university freshmen beat sophomores in scrap Monday. Five Wabash College students detained in Crawfordsville for disturbing the peace from the scrap event. A Jeffersonville man’s smallpox sign hidden by shrubs. Harry Barnett’s severed foot found on a locomotive near Paris, after a Big Four train death in Terre Haute. Clark county trustee arrested for neglecting road maintenance on a rural mail route. Wabash’s big tomato cannery to skip season due to tomato shortages and prices. Night operator Maggie Ryan reports a Bartlett building explosion near the Bell telephone exchange. loss about 3,000. Nicholas Madden, 62, Fort Wayne, dies four and a half hours after an accident at work. he held a 2,000 life policy expiring at midnight and leaves a widow and nine children.
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Tipton
Petersburg
Arthur Burns
Brazil
Indiana University
Wabash College
Crawfordsville
Jeffersonville
Harry Barnett
Terre
Lafayette
Bartlett
Miks Ryan
Nicholas
Madden
Fort Wayne
Traction Company
Heaviest Man in Empire Dies in Dover
London report says Thomas Longley, the heaviest man in the British empire, died Monday in Dover of cancer. The giant stood 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed over 0 pounds, known for his unusual size and health battles.
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London
British Empire
Dover
Thomas Longley
Giant
Woman and dogs battle wildcat in Kentucky barnyard
In Barbourville Kentucky on February 21 Mrs. Robert Taylor of Galloway faced a wildcat amid poultry. She took a gun as her husband was unable, shooting the animal after it charged. The cat was mortally wounded then died. its stuffed hide is displayed.
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Barbourville
Robert Taylor
Galloway
Taylor
Hearst Boom Spreads in Kentucky Democrats Reorganize Club
Louisville reports a strong Kentucky Hearst surge as the Old Guard club reconstitutes after a large meeting. The group endorses Hearst and Bryan, condemns Bryan critics, and predicts a solid Hearst delegation to the national convention.
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Kentucky
Hearst
Louisville
William Randolph Hearst
Old Guard Club
Bryan
Pyramid Pile Cure Promised In Patient Testimonial
A testimonial from Milbury of Reading, Pa. claims Pyramid Pile Cure relieved years of itching and constipation from hemorrhoids after one half of a box. The ad urges readers to buy the remedy and contact Pyramid Drug Co. for free literature.
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Milbury
Sam
Prisoner Dave Stewart Reflects On Losses And Land He Once Roamed
Dave Stewart, now a prisoner for drunkenness at the workhouse, recalls a childhood on the Schurman farm where his family lived before Indianapolis grew. He recounts early drinking on the very grounds, his father’s turmoil, and a lineage tied to a fatal shooting linked to the swing around the circle era. His brother Wil, a police officer, tracked bounty jumper Howard Stretcher, who killed Stewart’s father. The tale ties the Stewarts to early city streets and a long arc of dissipation and memory.
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Dave Stewart
Iives
Dave Stewan
SCN
Col. Shaw
Andrew Stewart
Bates House
Howard Stretcher
Andrew Johnson
Wil Stewart
Dave
Stretcher
Will Stewart
Stewart
Stewarts
Indianapolis
Schurman Farm
Crawfordsville
Senate-ave
Vermonint
Indiana Volunteers
Gen. Foster
Capt. Wright
Southern railway wreck after landslide at Bridgeport
A south bound Southern railway passenger train was derailed by a landslide at Bridgeport, sixty miles from Knoxville. The engine overturned and two passenger cars slid into the river. Engineer George Clark was badly injured and several passengers suffered bruises.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Southern Railway
Bridgeport
Here
George Clark
Man recounts severe injury under city streetcar
Evander Foster of Rock Lane Indiana describes eight weeks ago lying beneath an Interurban car on Washington street. He felt bones grind as heavy iron bars trapped and then the car was reversed, crushing both legs. He survived with a long, painful recovery and reports doing well now.
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Evander Foster
Rock Lane
Ind
Muncie
Washington St
Foster
City Hospital
Four Young Women Sign Up For Poison Test Class
At the University of Michigan homeopathic department four women joined a poison proving experiment led by Dr. Ebersoff who will not disclose the drug’s nature though it is not cyanide or cacodyl. The Alpha Sigma fraternity hosted provers and the Michigan Society of Drug Provers may form to continue such work. In St Louis four injured in electric car collision, one seriously.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Ebersoff
Homeopathe Department
Alpha Sigma Fraternity
Homeopathic Department
Tes
Michigan Society of Drug Provers
Temperance Movement to Target Wholesale Liquor House
Zionsville Indiana February 3 The temperance people who have kept saloons out of this town will now focus on a wholesale liquor house whose doors opened Monday New Cure for Cancer Paris February 3 Dr Doyen a physician presented a study on serum from the micrococcus neoformans microbe linked to cancerous tumors Among 86 cases treated in 12 years 20 did not improve 4 improved and 2 show no trace of cancer and are deemed cured Tackled a Big Proposition Washington February 2 Professor J A Woodburn of Indiana State University has come to study a national attnig a
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Zionsville
Ind
Paris
Doyen
Academy of Medicine
Washington
A. Woodburn
Indiana State University
Parson Clashes During Church Fight in Harveytown
In Harveytown West Virginia on February 2 a violent brawl erupted inside United Baptist Church during Rev Howard Fugate s sermon. Dozens fought as deacons helped quell the disturbance with the parson delivering blows before order was restored. Those involved including the preacher must answer in court.
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Harveytown
W. Va
United Baptist Church
Howard Fugate
Hughes
W. F. Hite
Charles Hale
John Greshon Pheaney
Parson
Fugate
No Immersion for James McDonald
James McDonald now jailed in Bloomington Indiana requests baptism by immersion claiming it will save his soul after a Bedford murder alleged. Sheriff Thrasher doubts the conversion and considers it a possible ruse to escape. church officials were consulted but deemed the request unwise to grant.
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Almomington
Ind
James McDonald
Sarah Schafer
Bedford
Baptist Church
Sheri Thrasher
McDonald
The
WAGON WITH FURNITURE RECOVERED AFTER THEFT
The Friedman and Blue wagon of installment furniture dealers stolen from Capitol Ave last week was recovered in Fittsvoro Indiana. About $2000 worth of goods disturbed. A drunken suspect may have tried peddling them before abandoning the scheme. In Cincinnati Mattie Winburn hid in a folding bed to escape police during a search at George Street. Urbana Ohio area flooded by muskrat activity flooding the factory pond banks.
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Capitolave
Fittsvoro
Ind
Bhs
Cincinnati
RS George St
Mattie Winburn
Urbana
Canary in Jail Sparks Confidence Scheme Claim
CHICAGO reports Charlea Kelly and his trained canary are jailed as Kelly faces allegations of a confidence game. He asserts the bird can perform tricks and whistle Yankee Doodle while in prison at Jackson, Michigan. Washington coverage notes Indiana residents urge congressmen to back a West Point Kentucky military camp to aid Southern Indiana.
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Chicago
Charlea Kelly
Canary Bird
Kelly
Jackson
Mich
Washington
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Ind
Indiana
West Point
Bedford clerk resigns to practice law in Pittsburg
Martin goes to Pittsburg after resigning as a government clerk in Washington. Jesse Martin of Bedford Indiana will practice law in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. Six miners killed in Aldwark colliery accident at Rotherham England with many injured.
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Martin
Pittsburg
Washington
Jesse Martin
Bedford
Ind
Sheffield
Eng
Aldwark
Rotherham
Dr Miles Heart Cure Promised to Strengthen the Heart
An advertisement urges readers to treat the heart like other organs and try Dr Miles Heart Cure. It claims the heart can be strengthened to stop dizziness palpitations and shortness of breath and cites a testimonial from Emma J Barton of Watertown NY who says the remedy removed her heart ache and palpitation. The first bottle will help and if not a refund is offered.
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Miles
Miler
Emma J. Barton
Watertown
Bloomfield Man Hopes Arm Removal Ends Painful Triage
Thomas Bryan of Bloomfield, whose left arm has been severed above the elbow since last June, reports doctors finally cut it off last Saturday at City hospital. He says he endured painful treatments but now hopes for relief and adds he would accept more amputation to end the ordeal.
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Thomas Bryan
Bloomfield
Ag Bng
Bryan
Indianapolis Man Suffered Injury From Fall Years Ago
Seventeen years after a fall on Pennsylvania Street, J. W. Anderson of 1901 Jefferson Avenue lies confined at City Hospital with severe pains on one side of his head. Doctor Shipp fears brain pressure may require trephining. Anderson notes pains cover exactly half his head. The item blends medical opinion with local business notices and a public liquor license notice from Howard Olds.
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J. W. Anderson
Jefferson Ine
Indianapolis Journal
Pennsylvania St
City Hospital
Shipp
Anderton
Investigating Killing of Druggist Runyan in South Bend
Police continue to probe the murder of William Runyan the druggist last Saturday night. Reported arrests in the case are unconfirmed as officials withhold statements while investigators pursue leads.
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Runyan
South Bend
Ind
William Runyan
Oon Snephun
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