Tomato Crop Outlook Improves Despite Wet Weather
State statistician Johnson says the tomato crop is not badly damaged this season with late planting due to wet conditions, and acreage is up. He notes fall in fruit crops not due to locusts, while some northern counties report flood damage. in Knox and Kosciusko counties, land remains unplanted and dry spells hurt corn and oats. A separate note mentions insect-caused apple drop and varying fruit spray results.
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Johnson
Franklin
Leporte County
Kosciusko
Whitley
Mr. Johnson
Decker Township
Knox County
Desperate Mountain Man Stalks Suitor at Summer Inn
A narrator at a mountain hotel races to impress Miss Chalmers and win her father’s favor. He pursues a supposed desperado along a winding road, confronts the suspect as an officer, then is knocked down and left weaponless, facing danger and a test of nerve under a summer sky.
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Miss Chalmers
Mountain House
Plasza
Miss_ Chalmers
Law
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Cure for Coughs and Consumption
An advert-like fragment touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for bronchitis and consumption related diseases. It cites personal testimonials from John T Reed of Jefferson Arkansas praising restored health after multiple bottle uses and claims dramatic improvements in strength and endurance.
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Des Pierce
Lot
Hoosierisms and reminiscences mirror agrarian tales
A Crawford county farmer vows irrigation revenge after a dry year, planting five acres of watermelons to channel melt water down a hill into his corn field. Wingate News notes a boy blessed a home with ten living grandparents nearby. Madison reports Johnny Clement, 16, with tough bare heels, drawing six show offers. Logansport Journal quips on Green Apples and a Happy Pear as a minister joins Green Apple and Apple family pair. County Howell pushes for covered wooden bridges citing low cost and longevity with historic spans near North Salem and Brownsburg.
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Crawford County
Mexico
Irvington High to Hold Commencement in Assembly Hall
Irvington high school commencement exercises will be held Thursday at 8 p m in the high school assembly hall. Indiana club directors meet Monday evening to hear the report of the committee on temporary quarters for the club.
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Irvington High School
Indiana Club
Handsome Medal Awarded for Indianapolis Essay Design
The Commercial club will award a gold medal to a public school pupil in grades 6 to 8 for the best essay on why we take pride in Indianapolis. Designed by Frank Hunter, 18, of Manual Training High School, the medal features a winged figure and symbols of the state capital and Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The project aims to inspire local pride, cost about $250, and may inspire an annual contest.
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Indianapolis
Frank Hunter
Manual Training High School
Buckle St
Indiana
Soldiers’ and Sailors
New York
Philadelphia
Ikko Matsumoto
William Fortune
Whitening the Woman's Hands
Advice on whitening and softening hands discusses causes of redness from circulation and other factors, offering remedies such as a honey eau de cologne and lemon juice lotion, alum tepid-water washes with sachet powder, and a home cold cream made from tallow and camphor for rough hands.
The Coronation of Edward VII Purely Ecclesiastical Affair
London's preparations for the coronation of Edward VII are vast and costly with about eight million dollars blamed on the people. The two day service on June 26 27 will include a recognitions, oblations, oaths, anointing, and a royal sermon followed by a grand procession through central London the next day drawing unprecedented crowds.
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England
London
Edward VII
Archbishop of Canterbury
King Edward VII
York
Scranton Board Accepts $50,000 Gift for Manual Training School
Scranton's board of control accepted a $50,000 offer from Mrs. William T. Smith to fund and equip a suitable building for a manual training school. The board will proceed with construction. The gift mirrors Mrs. Smith's prior philanthropy, including support for the Lackawanna Hospital children's ward through her husband, a former hospital trustee.
Pope and Rockefeller Take Control of American Bicycle
In Boston on June 16 Col. Albert A. Pope and John D. Rockefeller are reported to have gained a majority stake in the American bicycle company. Pope, who once declined the presidency, now chairs the board after resigning five months ago. He has repurchased stock previously sold and the pair hold most of the outstanding shares, bought in the market at six to nine dollars per share.
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American Bicycle Company
Boston
Col
Albert A. Pope
John D. Rockefeller
Col. Pope
Madame Ruppert
A. Zuppert
Butler Commencement Week Seeks Diplomas and Reunions
Butler college outlines a full commencement schedule with sermons in the college chapel by Rev. C. C. Rowlinson and a keynote address by Herbert L. Willett. Addison C. Harris will present diplomas to 16 graduates including Ovid McCunt Butler and Verna Meade Richey, followed by class reunions, a seniors versus alumni baseball game, and an alumni banquet at the Commercial club. The Boys' Father Mathew brigade marks its fifth anniversary at St. John's hall with Mothers' club refreshments.
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Butler ‘College
C. C. Rowlinson
Third Christian Church
Philokurian Literary Society
Butler
Commercial Club
Herbert L. Willett
University of Chicago
Addison C. Harris
University of Indianapolis
Ovid McCunt Butler
Irvington
Netta Deweese Campbell
Fassett Allen Cotton
Indianapolis
Whiliam Herman Hays
Bellevue
Emmett Huggins
William Raymond Longley
Noblesville
Harry Albert McGill
Patten Mills
Samuel Joyce Offut
Greenfield
Orval Edmund Mehring
Elizabeth Poulson
Harry Otis Pritchard
Verna Meade Richey
William Shimer
Wanamaker
Charles Oscar Thornburg
Graysville
Ind
Father Mathew
St. John’s Hall
Mothers’ Club
Rail schedule notes limited trains to Anderson and Muncie
For Anderson and Muncie and intermediate stations trains depart 4 15 a m and every hour to 9 15 pm and 11 15 pm. Limited trains to Anderson and Muncie leave 8 00 am 11 00 am 2 00 pm and 5 00 pm arriving Anderson in one hour twenty five minutes and Muncie in two hours. 11 00 am and 5 00 pm trains connect at Anderson with limited trains to Elwood.
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Anderson
Muncie
Marion
Alexandria
Elwood
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