Gateman Roney Can Pick Out All Kinds of Passengers
At Union Station a gateman named Roney identifies passengers by railway line. Amid a noon lull a woman with four children heads toward a Big Four gate but Roney directs them to Lake Erie & Western. He claims he can distinguish Lake Erie & Western travelers every time and others say he can spot Big Four Panhandle and Monon riders as well.
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Roney
Union Station
Lake Erie & Western
Panhandle
Gates
A Pair of Old Friends Entangle Hearts in Spring Park
In a spring park I meet Mrs Ventry with her French poodle and hear of a charming encounter in Monte Carlo. Skeffington recalls a young Irish lieutenant Lord Dennis Gorison seeking aid to fend off a breach of promise suit from a former actress. The tale blends romantic mischief, social pressure, and a plan to salvage family honor.
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Hugh
Mr. Ventry
Victoria
Steff
Dennis Gorison
South Africa
Skeff
War Office
Mater
Southbrook
Dennis
I Found My Divinity in a London Romance
A narrator recalls a seduction plot in which he retrieves a crumpled envelope with Miss Eve Brenan at Westbury Mansions Hyde Park. He meets Effie Brenan, an actress known as the lady of La Table, and negotiates a breach of promise dilemma with her, seeking forgiveness for Lord Dennia Gorison’s sacrifice. She ultimately forgives him and hints at a lasting union, while he vows to wait for the next suitable match.
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Eve Brenan
Westbury Mansions
Hyde Park
Dennia Gorison
Dennis
Southbrook
Dennia
Gorison
Denny
Dennis Gorison
Vaccination Seen as Path to End Smallpox
A 19th century health discussion notes smallpox reduced by vaccination, citing Indiana records from 1882 83 and recent cases in Indianapolis. It explains general vaccination origins with Jenner 1798, contrasts inoculation with modern vaccines, and quotes a young Indianapolis physician predicting eventual elimination after generations of vaccination.
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State Board of Health
Muncie
Indiianapolis
Indianapolis
Jones
City Hospital
Jobes
China
India
Edward Jenner
England
White Wash Hat Popular in Indianapolis Outings
The white wash hat is popular for outings and now worn as ready-to-wear. It features round outing shapes with stitched brims and soft white trim of wash chiffon or mull. Quills in white or brown may be added at the front, or trimming alone used. Priced at 98 cents ready trimmed.
Miniature Pelee In Indian Nation
A Missouri Kansas & Texas survey party north of Tulsa reports hills rising and cracking due to underground pressure with gas hissing and a top hill venting a small volcano throwing rocks, seen as a potential oil and gas field. In Philadelphia a blast from July 4 at Isaac Supplee’s drug store killed Joseph Chaplan, a porter, when carbonic acid gas exploded from overcharged marble dust and hydrochloric acid in a shattered soda tank.
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Guthrie
O. T
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Tulsa
I. T
Philadelphia
Isaac Supplee
Twentieth St
Joseph Chaplan
Chaplan
Social notes from the Swirl Society events
Elliott Ayres hosts a tennis party Saturday afternoon. Miss Susie M Noble travels to Omaha for the summer. Miss Dorothy Donlon visits Richmond then joins a Basslake party. Mrs Anna McKee entertains the Thimble club. Mrs Barbara Trott weds William R Hart at the bride’s home. Mrs Samantha Miller and daughter Bessie and Percy Miller plan three months in the Rocky Mountains. Katherine Clark hosts a garden party for Lillian Blood. The Seventh Presbyterian Choral Verein meets at Harrison Street with director Charles Clay. Eleanor Moore weds Charles F Talkington at Mrs George Meier’s home. Rev J Cumming Smith officiates. families only, pale blue foulard gown noted.
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Elliott Ayres
Susie M. Noble
Omaha
Neb
Dorothy Donlon
Richmond
Basslake
Anna McKee
Thimble Club
Barbara Trott
William R. Hart
N. Witnessst
C. E. Bacon
Samantha Miller
Bessie Miller
Percy Miller
Rocky Mountains
Katherine Clark
Thomas Clark
Virginia Ave
Lillian Blood
Seventh Presbyterian Church
Charles Clay
Jessie Reba Keefe
Harrison St
Eleanor Moore
Charles F. Talkington
George P. Meier
J. Cumming Smith
Foulard
Council of War Among Cheyenne Near Calumet
Cheyenne Indians near Calumet hold a war council over a sun dance torture prohibition by Indian agent Stouch. War department notified of the dispute as tensions rise.
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Guthrie
O. T
Calumet
Stouch
War Department
Convicts Escape From Stockade Car Near Preston
Bright state convicts working on Fort Smith road improvements cut a cattle car stockade near Preston, Arkansas, Sunday night and escaped.
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Little Rock
Ark
Bright State
Fort Smith
Preston
Cloudburst Flood Hits McKane Missouri
A Monday cloudburst in McKane Missouri unleashed a flood that swept through the streets tearing away loose objects. The damage is expected to be heavy though no fatalities have been reported. Local authorities assess the scene and begin initial damage surveys.
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Mckane
Wife finds husband after 22 years in Chicago shop death
In Chicago on July 8, Mrs Burnett W Pyle learned her husband had died by a personal safety related wound. The discovery was made after more than two decades of unknown whereabouts.
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Chicago
Burnett W. Pyle
WANTS TO BECOME A RABBI IN BOSTON CASE
Charles Levine of New Castle seeks guardianship in Boston courts to block his nephew Abel Tebalovits from becoming a rabbi. Abel, an orphan living with Boston rabbi Tevin Agnus, is praised for biblical mastery. Grandfather Agnus, orthodox and prodigious, hopes for Abel to lead Jews back to Jerusalem, while Levine opposes these plans.
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New Castle
Charles Levine
Abel Tebalovits
Boston
Tevin Agnus
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Reet
H. J. Finesinger
Agnus
Abel
Levine
Alligator pulled from Chicago river near downtown bridge
In Chicago on Monday a two and a half foot alligator was fished from the river near the Twelfth Street bridge. It was placed in a patrol wagon and hauled to a police station as authorities began identifying its origin amid prior river thefts and the opening of a drainage canal.
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Chicago
Twelfth-st
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