Migration to the Southeast Draws Immigrant Interest
Immigration officials anticipate a surge of settlers moving from central and northwestern states and Canada to the southern states. Reports cite 50,000 acres in Southern Alabama bought for northern colonization and new colonies forming in Georgia Florida and Alabama. A campaign to educate buyers highlights lower prices and strong yields in the region.
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Clark
Montreal
Southeastern
Central States
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Oklahoma
Calgary
Alberta
Gulf States
Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway
Northwestern
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Wlinoa
Virginia
Carolinas
Tennessee
England Need Not Worry Over Liberia
Washington officials say there is no need for Britain's concern over U S plans to influence Liberia. The United States will not adopt proposals until Congress is assured the move prevents entanglement in world politics and conflicts with other nations, despite Liberia’s ties to American colored organizations.
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Washington
State Department
England
Liberia
United States
Congress
West African Republic
Forthofer Sentenced for Barn Fire at Indianapolis Concrete
Frank Forthofer, 37, was sentenced by Judge Pritchard to two to 21 years in prison for setting fire to the Indianapolis Concrete barn at LeGrand and Madison avenues. The court overruled a motion for an in person trial after his attorney argued a grudge against the owners. A $1 fine was also imposed.
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Frank Forthofer
Pritchard
Indianapolis
LeGrand Eid Madison Avenues
Forthofer
Steamer City of South Haven Seized Over One Dollar Debt
Chicago July 28 A deputy United States marshal seized the excursion steamer City of South Haven over a debt of one dollar alleged to be due a deck band. The action shocked many who saw the vessel, crowded with hundreds onboard, remain idle after the seizure.
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Chicago
City of
South Haven
United States Marshals
William Horsely Parades Town After Patent Suit Loss
Terre Haute Ind July 28 William Horsely recently defeated in a patent infringement suit against Carl Fischer heads a wheel works wagon parade through the streets. On painted canvas he displayed incoherent references to God Mars and Fischer。
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Horsely
Carl Fischer
Wapakoneta
God
Mars
Fischer
Statue Reared to Hero of 1812
Washington reports a statue honoring a hero of the 1812 conflict has been raised. Details on the figure commemorated and the dedication ceremony are limited in the fragments available.
England Denies Votes To Women
London July 28 the government announced the doom of the woman suffrage bill as David Lloyd George stated it would not be allowed to come up in the house of commons leaving suffrage advocates without progress for the time.
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London
David Lloyd-George
House of Commons
Cholera Death Toll Surges as City Burdens Rise
In St PetersburG during July 16-23 cholera killed 5 955 people per government statistics. Since May there were 37 652 cases with 16 651 deaths. Daily city fatalities increase by 12 with 40 more cases. Forty two provinces are affected by the outbreak.
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Petersburg
Government Sanitary Commission
Mrs James C Matthews to entertain Emmanuel Baptist women
Mrs James C Matthews will entertain the women of Emmanuel Baptist church Friday afternoon at her home 1322 Shelby Street.
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Emmanuel Baptist Church
Shelby Street
Greeve
Schoennemann
I. Ee
W. Tenth St
Bismarck
Crown Hill
Bismarck Car
Mayer
Wilhelmine J
Nee Miessen
Cornelius Mayer
Boulevard Place
Senate Ave
O'Neill
Daniel
J. T. Carr
Parkview Ave
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McDowell
Joseph G
Meridian St
Hagerstown
Gurlal
Tobias
Lydia J
Lydia J. Yobias
Henry Hunter
Ashland Ave
Keers
Esther
Douglas St
Residents protest park assessment for Ellenberger woods
East park division residents will meet the park board Friday at 10 to protest the assessment for purchasing Ellenberger woods. They oppose an unequal levy arguing those who pay least benefit most from the improvements including roadways and a new park.
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East Park Division
Park Board
Ellenberger Woods
Conductor Fined After Gar Fight Over Change
Police Judge Collins dis posed of Clyde Holmes conductor on East Washington street car after he fought with passenger Louis Herd. Holmes was fined one dollar and costs while Herd was discharged.
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Collins
Clyde Holmes
Washington
Louis Herd
Holmes
Herd
Barnyard Mellerdramer to Outdo Chantecler
Dopes town Indiana reports a promoter plans a new barnyard melodrama titled New Type to outdo Chantecler and Maeterlinck Bluebird. The project, linked to Klaw and Erlanger, promises sensational staging with blood and thrills as a gas meter inspector turtle plots revenge against Chantecler after a yard accident.
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Dopetown
Ind
Chantecler
Barnyard
Maeterlink
London
Klaw & Erlanger
Hiccoughs Cause Death of Youth in Wasaw
Charles Snyder, 20, of Wasaw Indiana, died Thursday after a violent hiccough attack. Doctors failed to stop the spell, and fatal choking followed from acute indigestion.
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Charles Snyder
Warsaw
Wasaw
Ind
Hiccoughs
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