Indiana church turmoil prompts talk of new congregation
In Evansville Indiana Rev C A Majors of Independence Baptist Church urged members to pay delinquencies at a Friday congregational meeting claiming he would not starve while preaching. He criticized dead-beats in the church and said money should cover his needs as long as he remains pastor. The remarks drew applause and sparked talk of forming another church.
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Evansville
Ind
C.A. Majors
Independence Baptist Church
Majors
Too Romantic Tale Defeats Divorce Plea in Ind. Case
Scottdale Indiana June 15 Judge New refused to grant a divorce to Mrs Grace Harlin despite her claim she was forced into marriage by drugs and threats of insanity. She alleged marriage to Enos Pheasant was predetermined and that a man she had never met forced her to wed Richard Harlin. The judge called the tale too romantic for the age and ordered her to remain married unless she brings a stronger complaint.
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Scottsburg
Ind
New
Grace’ Harlin
Harlin
Enos Pheasant
Emma Ford
Alexandria
Richard Harlin
James Shearer
Blackmail Defense Raised by Anderson Councilman Woolley
William J. Woolley Anderson councilman and manufacturer plans a strong defense in a $1,000 note suit held by Benjamin Lukens Jr. He will claim a hotel encounter with Mrs. Lukens led to coercion after returning home, alleging blackmail and force to sign the note to avoid trouble.
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Anderson
Lukens
Woolley
A Probing at Richmond The Bond Prosecutor Investigation
A petition in Richmond circuit court requests recall of the grand jury and naming of a special prosecutor to investigate Prosecutor Attorney W A Bond. No charges are listed, but his conduct is described as unsatisfactory. Roland Laws, 22, of Richmond, previously hospital steward in the army, has moved to Frisco.
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Richmond
Ind
Circuit Court
W.A. Bond
Roland Laws
Brothers Reunited in Muncie After 27 Years
Samuel E. Watson of San Francisco and his brother George, of Muncie, were reunited at a railway station after a 27 year separation. The meeting Friday surprised both when they finally recognized each other after inquiry. Samuel plans to take George to the Buffalo exposition.
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Muncie
Ind
Samuel E. Watson
San Francisco
George
Attorney Roelker Suicide Tied to Mismanaged Portland Estate
Portland Indiana reports the suicide of Cincinnati attorney Frederick G. Roelker linked to mismanaged affairs over the Eliza Stolz estate. German heirs allege they received only a fraction of their shares while Roelker advanced about $6,000 in receipts in the county clerk, claiming funds went to the heirs.
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Portland
Ind
Frederick G. Roelker
Cincinnati
Roelker
Eliza Stolz
Man Charged Over Attempt on Alleged Witch in Evansville
Frank Olding of Dubois county was bound over to Jasper circuit court after he allegedly shot at Mrs. Catherine Ferry, an accused witch, in Evansville. Neighbors say Ferry displays witchlike powers and roams at night. Olding claimed the woman had bewitched his horse when he fired at her door.
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Evansville
Ind
Frank Olding
Dubois County
Catherine Ferry
Jasper
Milk Sickness Strikes North of Princeton
Milk sickness is raging ten miles north of Princeton with many people sick and numerous cattle dying. The illness is a malignant fever linked to poisonous herbs in cattle feed and affects both humans and animals, causing violent vomiting and burning stomach pain, often fatal by day three.
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Princeton
Ind
Unknown Man Found Dead by Railroad Near Zionsville
The body of a 25 year old man wearing a brown coat red sweater brown corduroy pants and a black work shirt was found beside the railroad near Zionsville Indiana. He had probably been thrown from a train and killed instantly. He had noth
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Zionsville
Ind
Fire Destroys Downing Barn in Brazil Indiana
A fire Saturday morning engulfed the large barn of John Downing in Brazil Indiana. Four milk cows two horses and a large quantity of feed were burned. No injuries are reported and cause is under investigation.
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Brazil
Ind
John Downing
Shelbyville and area briefed on varied local matters
Wheat crop looks promising in Shelbyville. Wayne county liquor licenses cost 400 dollars with 62 total. Postmaster W L Royce of Mount Vernon is arrested for a 592 dollar shortfall. Hamshire will probate in Logansport, and American Christian Missionary Society faces about 10009 dollars loss. Bedford ministers press Sunday post office closure to nine, citing church attendance impact. Lewiz Marion’s daughter dies under care of a Christian Scientist physician. child had croup. Robert Clark pleads guilty in Kokomo to killing an unknown man at Converse, sentenced to 2 to 21 years. Bedford mills lose two stone columns bound for Jackson MS state house. Muncie News criticizes Union Traction but hopes in future electric lines. William Ripperson body found near Lake Shore tracks. murder likely, tramps suspected. Lucile Bowman, 3, rescued from mill race by George Bess. 2,000 Penn RR employees from Fort Wayne to picnic at Rome City June 22. Shelbyville Democrat collects 313.70 from George Ray for 1,158.50 in blanks. Ray in penitentiary for mulch Shelby county. Scott and Charles Henderson arrested for attempting to wreck a Lake Erie train. Lake Michigan sees mass die off of lake herring near Michigan City due to poison food. Indiana University law class admitted to supreme bar. graduation address by Attorney-general Taylor. West Liberty residents ready to lynch a man who assaulted Miss Mayme Wilkinson. she was found exhausted later.
Theory on appendicitis proposed in Paris
Dr Routier a noted physician offers a curious theory that each appendicitis attack causes torsion of the appendix, explaining recurrent episodes unless prevented by surgery. In a case observed the appendix twisted four times, with similar bends in other patients correlating to the number of prior attacks.
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Paris
Routier
Mrs Mary McGraw Missing Near White River
Police search for Mary McGraw 7 near the Kentucky Avenue bridge after she left her daughter Mrs Thomas Driscoll's Missouri Street home Thursday night. Relatives fear she may have drowned herself as extensive checks of relatives and friends prove fruitless.
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Mary McGraw
White River
Kentucky Ave
Thomas Driscoll
Missouri-st
City Life Notes Preview Local Events and Incidents
Ironwood camp Modern Woodmen plan a Fourth of July picnic at Armstrong Park. Brakeman W D Anderson fell from a Vandalia train Friday injuring his back. Thirteenth Indiana regiment to reunite at Military Park Wednesday night. Maennerchor society attends the Saengerfest at the Buffalo exposition in late June. Cleveland bankers fidelity office to open branch in Indianapolis. John L Geiger sails for New York Tuesday then to Europe on June 25 aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Indianapolis Delta Tau Delta alumni chapter held its quarterly meeting and dinner at the Commercial Club Friday night. Christian Alliance convention Sunday sessions planned at Gospel Tabernacle, East St and Massachusetts Ave.
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Ironwood Camp
Armstrong Park
W. D. Anderson
Maennercher Society
Buffalo Exposition
Bankers’, Fidelity and Guarantee Company
Cleveland
Indianapolis
John Ll. Geiger
New York
Europe
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Delta Tau Delta
Commercial Club
Christian Alliance Convention
Gospel Tabernacle
East St
Massachusetts
Ava
Brave Sheriff Rescues Murderer From Mob at Villisca
In Villisca Iowa on a Saturday, Ida Thiele was murdered by her husband after an argument on a downtown street. As a lynch mob closed in, Sheriff Hendricks and deputies intervened, rescuing the suspect and whisking him to Red Oak for safekeeping amid renewed tension at the jail.
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Villisca
Ida Thiele
Thiele
Hendricks
Red Oak
Schnull & Co. Buys Severin & Co. Wholesale Grocers
Schnull & Co. has completed the purchase of Severin & Co., a historic wholesale grocer founded in 1863. The deal, handled by C. L. Deitz & Co., transfers the entire business and goodwill to Schnull & Co. for an undisclosed price. Severin & Co. operated at 101 to 103 S Meridian St and 110 to 1 S Meridian St, with Henry Severin Jr and Julius Wocher as former owners. Henry Schnull and partners continue management as the new owners.
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Schnull & Co
Severin & Co
C. L. Deitz & Co
Henry Schnull
G A. Schnull
Wm. J. Griffin
G. Griffin
Midnight Burial Planned Quiet Funeral for Gen Knefler
Gen. Knefler arranged a private 6 am funeral in Indianapolis with only immediate family and eight pallbearers. The two regiments represented include four pallbearers from the Seventy ninth Indiana and four from the Eleventh. Named pallbearers include Col. George W. Parker and Gen. Robert S. Foster among others.
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Seventyninth Indiana Regiment
Seventy-ninth Regiment
Daniel Waite Howe
George W. Parker
Eli F
Peruna touted by prominent American women in early 20th century
A society column promotes Peruna as a universal remedy for catarrh, featuring letters from Miss Jaret Wilson Gaire of Ohio Musical Club, Miss Mattie T. Guild of the Illinois YWCA, Miss Bertha Fischer of Appleton, and Mrs. Col. E. I. Gresham, praising its health benefits for women. It argues female anatomy increases catarrh susceptibility and urges readers to request a free catarrh book from Dr. Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
J. Wilson Gaire
Mattie L. Guild
Tlmois Young People’s Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Perang
Hartman
Bertha Fischer
Appleton
Wis
Peruna
Col. E. I. Gresham
Hernden
Daughters of the Confederacy
Flornden
Col
E. I. Gresham
A. C. Jackson
Sherman House
Hartman Sanitarium
Ohio
Comprehensive Cracker, Coffee, and Produce Price List
A dense price catalog listing per pound and per unit costs for candies, nuts, coffee varieties, sugars, spices, beans, molasses, rice, oils, canned goods, tobacco, salt, flour, and assorted produce. Includes assorted coal types and chemical staples with quoted market prices and brand mentions. Lists items such as Domino sugar, City coffee brands, New Orleans molasses, Colombian and Java coffees, bananas, oranges, strawberries, and oysters with regional pricing notes.
West Baden fire spares opera house. hotel planned
West Baden Indiana June 15 officials report the Springs hotel and casino complex largely saved despite a kitchen fire. Insurance on the burned building totals 84750 split among four companies with property value near 330000. An offer of 1000000 for the property was reported as owners plan a modern fireproof hotel to replace the destroyed structure.
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West Baden
Ind
Amy Leslie
Chicago News
Clark
Elwood Plate Glass Works
Fred H. Winters
Harold J. Hibben
Indianapolis
Gustav H. Mueller
N. Noble St
Charles Weiss
Meridian St
Fred W. Fuehring
Ohio St
David Newman
New York St
Harry Stouch
Grand Hotel
Frederick Tf. Winters
Meridianat
Harold B. Hibben
Delawarest
Saloon Workers Union Card Plan Considered
A proposal to form a compact between saloon keepers and union labor will be debated at the state liquor league convention in Terre Haute. The plan would require saloons to sell only union made cigars and liquors, display a union card, and urge laborers to patronize those saloons. The aim is to curb pony union or sweat shop cigars distributed through Indiana saloons by large wholesale houses.
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State Liquor League
Terre Haute
Fort Wayne
League
Indiana
Police Chief Shot During Market Burglary in Mahoney City
Chief of police John Hasset was shot and probably fatally wounded by burglars at 3 a.m. during a safe dynamiting attempt at the Swift and Co branch meat market. The attackers fled the scene.
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Mahoney City
John Hasset
Swift & Co
Child Rescued After Fall Into Cistern at Home
Five year old Freida Gertling slipped into a kitchen cistern at 835 Meek Street on Thursday afternoon. Her uncle Gottlieb Gertling jumped in and lifted the unconscious girl to safety.
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Freida Gertling
Meekst
Gottlieb Gertling
Chicago Market Notes Wheat Corn and Livestock Prices
Wheat futures rise with July at 69% to 70 cents and September at 64 GS. Corn advances 4 percent with July 42 34 to 43 33 cents and September 42 4 cents. Oats up 14 cents to 28% and September 25% to 26 cents. Provisions up 24 112 cents with September pork at 34.87 to 36 14.95, lard 8.57 to 468.65, ribs 8 58 to 3408, 124 eggs down 10 percent. Butter mixed with creamery and firsts at 1s 3y 1c, daisies 11 6 1c. Cheese varieties quoted from full creams to Swiss and limburger. Live poultry markets show chickens 14c hens, roosters 5c, spring 16 22c, ducks 7 8c, turkeys 6 714c, geese 6 60 per dozen.
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Java
Golden Rio
Bourbon Santos
Golden Santos
Prime Santos
Ariosa
Lion
Jersey
Caracas
Lulsworth’s
Gates
Germold
Columbia
Empire Aa
Deal Gelden
T Windsor
Ridgewood
New Orleans
Louisiana
Carolina
Chicago
Young Americas
Limburger
Suse
How to Tell the Genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine
The signature of E. W. Grove appears on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine. This mark identifies authenticity and assures customers they have the legitimate product.
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E. W. Grove
Man Leaps 60 Feet To Save Drowning Men
Jack Smith leaped 60 feet from a Big Four bridge into the Scioto river to rescue two men after their boat capsized. He pulled them from the water, saving lives in Columbus Ohio on Friday.
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Columbus
Jack’’ Smith
Scioto River
Illness of Charles Timberlake Prominent Inventor
Charles Timberlake son of A Timberlake a College and Sixteenth street druggist is seriously ill with dropsy at 715 E Sixteenth street He formerly worked in the local telephone companies electrical department and patented switch board inventions He spent time in Chicago overseeing production with Eureka electric company He married an Indianapolis girl about a year ago and was highly regarded for his natural talent in electrical construction.
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Charles Timberlake
A. Timberlake
Chicago
Eureka Electric Company
Indianapolis
Ele
Pennsylvania Lines Through Michigan Resorts
A through sleeper for Petoskey will leave Indianapolis on train No 2 at 7 10 p m Thursday June 20 to accommodate early visitors en route to Michigan resorts.
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Michigan
Petoskey
Indianapolis
Market Prices for Wheat Corn Oats and Hay
Wheat prices show No 3 red at 68 cents and June at 68 cents while No 2 red sits at 68 cents. Corn steady with No 1 white 45.14 cents and No 2 white 43. c. Oats weaken with No 2 white 30¾ cents No 3 white 29¾ cents. Hay weak with No 1 timothy 11.50 to 12.00 dollars and No 2 timothy 10.50 to 11.00 dollars. Inspections list cars by grade including several rejections and totals across wheat corn hay and mixed lots.
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Hay
Timothy
Hog market report from Indianapolis stock yards June 15
Interstate Stock Yards in Indianapolis reports hog receipts of 200 shipments totaling 900. Quotations show mixed quality from good to choice and common to good light hogs. prices range with several lines around 60.50 and 63.00, reflecting medium to heavy weights and grade variation.
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Union Stock Yards
UNION
Indcianapolis
Ceeeeseeas
Interstate Stock Yards
Indianapolis
The Jobbing Trade Poultry and Produce Prices
Price list for poultry and other produce paid by shippers. Turkey hens and young toms 4 1 6c per lb. fowls 7c. cocks 1c. ducks 6c. geese 4c. spring chickens 12 13 lb. cheese varieties with per pound prices. butter and eggs values. hides and tallow rates with cure classifications.
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New York
Wanted Reliable sales agents and performers
WANTED Reliable men or women to sell goods to consumers in communities from 1000 to 10000 population permanent employment with good pay. Address The Great Eastern Coffee and Tea Co 3018 Tenth st St Louis MO. WANTED Ladies and gentlemen to place 100 singers and dancers for the season good chances for new beginners Call Prof Rayno 30 W Dae
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The
Great Eastern Coffee & Tea Co
Tenth St
St. Louis
Rayno
W. Dae
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Shelbyville Democrat
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Supreme Bar
Jordan
Martian
United States Court
Noble C. Butler
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West Liberty
Mayme Wilkinson
Benjamin Wilson
Dr. Routier
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Thirteenth Indiana Regiment
Military Park
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Kneffer
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Gaire
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Ohio Musical Club
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MAS
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