J Harry Roberts Seeks County Commissioner Nomination
J Harry Roberts, a 33 year resident and prominent local contractor, campaigns for County Commissioner in the Second District. A machinist by trade and longtime employer, he highlights highway construction experience, hard work, and advocacy for good roads, noting his memberships in Druids Elks Knights of Pythias and AOUW. Primary set for March 14 from 11 AM to 8 PM.
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Lexington Flats
Indiana Medical College
Kirschbaum
Columbia Bank
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Merchants Day Banquet Illuminates Chinatown excess
The Kong Chew Tong hosted a lavish banquet in Los Angeles with 200 Chinese merchants and guests, 25 to 30 slave girls, hora music by Hop Sing Tong and a show of opulent decor. Reporters observed a contrast as Christian hymns from a nearby mission mingled with revelry and trains rattled Chinatown.
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Kong Chew Tong
George Lem
Los Angeles
Christ
Chinatown
Los Angeles Times
Taft to Finish Testimony Friday Before House Panel
Gov W H Taft of the Philippines will finish his testimony before the house committee on insular affairs Friday In a Thursday afternoon session he joined a conference between house and senate committees on the Philippines tariff bills seeking his direct views Also note ad copy for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming quick cures and E W Grove's box signature.
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Washington
W. H. Taft
Philippines
House Committee On Insular Affairs
House
Senate
E. W. Grove
Smallpox Cure Boosts Hope For Consumed Man
Hackettstown New Jersey February 28 Eugene La Rue a consumptive patient who was attacked with smallpox did not go to a hospital. A nurse cared for him at home. After three days he grew stronger and coughed less. By the seventh day the cough nearly vanished and he recovered from a light smallpox infection, now in better health than in a year.
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Hackettstown
N. J
Eugene la Rue
Gifts from Kaiser arrive for Roosevelt at White House
Washington Feb 28 The gifts sent by Kaiser Wilhelm to President Roosevelt arrived on the train with the prince and were delivered at the German embassy. The largest item is a life size bronze bust of the German emperor in full dress. A second piece is a full length portrait of Prince Henry in naval uniform. A third is an elaborately gilded parchment greeting from the emperor to the U S president. The gifts were placed in the state dining room and admired after the dinner.
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Washington
Kaiser Wilhelm
Roosevelt
White House
Prince Henry
United States
Germany
Potter criticizes American manners and dress in Europe
In a Temple Rodeph Shalom talk Bishop Potter contrasts American coarseness with European civility. He cites noisy railcar conduct, harsh speech, and vulgar behavior as faults, urging better enunciation, restrained dress, and refined color harmony as a middle path between blunt practicality and old‑world ceremony.
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New York
Young Men’s and
Young Women’s Culture Society
Temple
Rodeph Shalom
Potter
Europe
America
East
Washington
Stomach and Liver Tablets Pledge Great Relief
Mrs. H Geiger of Dunkerton Iowa reports taking many medicines for stomach trouble and constipation but getting better results from Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets sold by all druggists.
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8. Geiger
Dunkerton
Iowa
Chamberisin
Corpse sits up frightening Miss Garling in Joplin
In Joplin Missouri February 27 word arrived of Miss Mary Garling’s death from fright after a corpse sat up while watchful neighbors kept vigil. An undertaker used ropes to move the body of Thomas Sharon into a casket, and a rope across the room caused the corpse to bolt upright startling Garling who died shortly after.
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Joplin
Mary Garling
Garton
Thomas Sharon
Sharon
Miss Garling
Garling
Speaking on dress and color perception across cultures
The speaker reflects on translating color into sound and criticizes American fashion as lacking an artistic concept of dress. He cites red beards with green cravats as an example and argues for studying foreign costumes to broaden tastes beyond current Western norms.
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Europe
Man holds two victims up from live wire in Philadelphia
Coroner and jury hear that Charles H. Sacks touched a live wire and died instantly. John Shields, standing nearby, kept two dead men aloft for over ten minutes to shield others. Bennett arrived and was killed trying to help. Shields finally freed the bodies with rubber gloves and boots burned by the charge.
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Philadelphia
John Shields
Charles H. Sacks
Shields
Sacks
Chas. H. Bennett
Bennett
Man seeks mortgage lien after giving son $12000 in trust
Frederick Messenger of Pontiac Michigan filed a chancery bill alleging he gave about $12000 to his children under a verbal agreement for support as he nears 71 They allegedly provided only a scant living now he seeks court action to compel a mortgage or establish a lien in his favor Burdock Blood Bitters is touted as the health secret in the ad portion
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Pontiac, Mich
Frederick Messenger
Looted Leesburg Burglars Strike Homes and Offices
Leesburg, Indiana, was rattled by bold night burglaries as two masked men entered the home of H. B. Stanley, binding and looting his residence while another burglar aided. valuables taken from Dr. P. G. Ferrier’s office and a cash box from an automatic telephone also emptied. Multiple houses entered. no suspects yet.
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Warsaw
Ind
Leesburg
H. B. Stanley
Guardian Appoints Alice Mattison for Lizzie Mattison
Alice Mattison named guardian of eight year old Lizzie Mattison. Adopted by Mrs. Mattison years ago, the child was left with a Jennings county friend after the husband went west. With a home found, the friend refuses to yield the girl, prompting habeas corpus action in Jennings county to recover custody.
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Alice Mattison
Lizzie Mattison
Guardian Appoints Louis Runnela for Emma B Ney
Probate court names Dr Louis Runnela guardian of Emma B Ney due to her incapacity from morphine and liquor use. The Indianapolis resident once ran a millinery store on West Market Street and is noted as a Frenchwoman reputedly related to Marshal Ney.
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Emma B. Ney
Louis Runnela
Indianapolis
W. Marketst
Marshal Ney
Miners elect new officers in local district race
Terre Haute Indiana February 28 miners of the district chose officers with George W Hargroves of Linton as president John Boyle of Princeton as vice president and John H Kennedy of Terre Haute as secretary treasurer in a routine district ballot results reported today.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Eileventh
George W Hargroves
Linton
John Boyle
Princeton
John H. Kennedy
Fatally Injured by Electric Car in Marion
Philip Crabb of the soldiers' home was fatally injured when an interurban car struck him Thursday night in Marion Indiana. The accident occurred near the soldiers' home where Crabb resided. He died shortly after at a local hospital from the injuries sustained.
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Marion
Ind
Philip Crabb
Soldiers’ Home
Franklin Republicans Nominate Ward Convention Slate
Franklin Republicans held ward conventions Thursday night naming Riley Riggs James M Brown Taylor O Ballard Richard M Lee and Frank Crowell for city offices Washington Democrats listed Hale Clark W H Keifer Thomas G Underdown and Peter Geyer for mayor clerk treasurer and marshal David Kronenberger was elected president of the Vanderburg county Republican committee Warren G Sayre of Wabash is a candidate for speaker of the next legislature.
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Franklin Republicans
Riley Riggs
James M. Brown
Taylor O. Ballard
Richard M. Lee
Frank Crowell
Democrat City Ticket
Washington
Hale Clark
W. H. Keifer
Thomas G. Underdown
Peter Geyer
David Kronenberger
Vanderburg County
Republican Committee
Warren G. Sayre
Wabash
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