Playgrounds to Go Ahead in Indianapolis Schools
Indianapolis school children will have summer vacation playgrounds with centers offering physical training, outdoor gymnastics, games, and guidance by trusted elders. A $1,200 city school board appropriation matches last year, funds a few playgrounds, with plans to name supervisors this week and place a matron at No 40. A neighborhood fundraising plan for a public playground is also proposed to expand access citywide.
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Indianapolis
John C. Mc ¥Ay
Butler College
Military Park
Harry D. Tulewiler
The
Playgrounds Commission
Young Woman of Indiana Will Be a Farmer
Greenfield, June 16. Miss Ella Bourne of this city, formerly a teacher in Evansville schools, will move to Olustee Oklahoma after term end Friday. She owns a farm near Olustee where her father Richard Bourne has tended crops. This fall she plans to plant a pecan orchard.
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Greenfield, Inc
Ella Bourne
Evansville
Olustee
Okla
Zink Granted Divorce by Superior Judge Bartholomew
James Zink won a divorce from Mabel Zink in Judge Bartholomew’s court yesterday afternoon after a prior filing that named Herbert P. Dahlen as co respondent. Mrs Dahlen had divorced Dahlen, and Zink’s later petition faced a probate judge’s denial before venue shifted to Bartholomew.
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James Zink
Mabel Zink
Bartholomew
Zink
Herbert P. Dahlen
Dahlen
Ross
Probate
Captain Asche Faces Breakdown After Dowden Shooting
Police Captain Asche, aboard the car with Dowden during the Dow den shooting, says he has slept none since the night of the incident. He plans a rest leaving the city for Martinsville to escape mounting criticism that grinds on his nerves and affects Chief Metzger as well.
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Dowden
Martinsville
Capt. Asche
Capt
Asche
Chief Metzger
Capt Asche
Man Dies After Carbolic Acid Drinking at Saloon
Allen Richardson, unmarried with no known relatives, drank carbolic acid in a rear room of Herman Nowak's saloon at 1039 4 Tabet street Tuesday night and died. Despondency from excessive drinking was named as the cause.
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Herman Nowak
Tabet Street
1700 Acres of Corn for Canning Plant
Shelbyville Indiana June 16 The Shelbyville canning plant has contracted for 1700 acres in Shelby county to grow sweet corn for this year only. Most of the corn has already been planted and the plant will dedicate the season to corn production alone.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Shelby County
Delayed steal brings business to Champs base runner
Otto Williams, the Champs' second-sacker, uses a delayed steal to jump the catcher and reach second. By feigning attention, he triggers a quick throw to second, leaving the infield out of position. The bold maneuver often succeeds as the covering fielder is caught unprepared.
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Otto Williams
Williams
McGraw and Raymond in Fist Fight on Train
In Pittsburg on June 16 it was learned that John McGraw and Bugs Raymond of the Giants clashed aboard a Cincinnati bound Pullman sleeper. McGraw knocked Raymond down and punched him, then Raymond recovered and struck back.
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M’graw
Raymond
Pittsburg
John McGraw
Bugs
Giants
Cincinnati
McGraw
Typhoid Warning Urges Careful Water and Milk Use
Arcadia report notes city sanitarian Dr. Eugene Buehler warns typhoid season nears and urges careful water and milk sources, fly control, and hygiene, asking papers to aid public health efforts. Also mentions a June 16 lynching in Arcadia over an attempted attack on Mrs. Reed.
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Eugene Buehler
Buehler
Health Department
Arcadia
Fla
P. R. Reed
Special Cabinet Meeting on Income Tax in Washington
President Taft summoned a special cabinet session before 9 am to discuss his message on taxing corporate net incomes. The library at the White House hosted the meeting, with Senator Root attending at Taft’s request. Six cabinet members were veteran corporation lawyers. three non-attendees had not served as counsel.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Senator Root
New York
Dickinson
Knox
MacVeagh
Wickersham
Ballinger
Nagel
Meyer
Wilson
Hitchcock
Tarkington Praises Beaucaire Presented by Indiana Group
Booth Tarkington lauded the Beaucaire production by S. I. Conner and his Indianapolis players calling the play extraordinary. He admired the cast for rendering the long play smoothly and praised Conner for a fitting Beaucaire build and strong leading performance.
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Apolis
Mr. Tarkington
Beaucaire
Conner
S. I. Conner
Resting horse disrupts fire wagon drill tale
A fire department horse named Charlie refused to rise during a drill after fatigue. Driver Bud Moore halted the team as traffic stopped, considering water or whiskey to rouse him, but Charlie preferred rest. After about ten minutes he stood and continued toward the station.
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Charlie
Water
Box 47
Capitol Avenue
Washington Street
Bud Moore
Ohio Street
Illinois Street
Rink
W. Washington Street
Moore
Pueblo Manager Hogriever Suspended by Western League
President Norris O Neill of the Western league indefinitely suspends Pueblo baseball manager George Hogriever for taking his players off the field after Pueblo players abused umpire Glenalvin in the Pueblo Topeka game. The action is described as Hogriever ignoring the rights of the officials.
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Chicago
Norris O'Neill
George Hogriever
Pueblo
Hogriever
Glenalvin
O'Neill
Talks On Gas No 458 Aimed At Coke Price Estimates
The piece questions the so called guaranteed results and the ridiculous estimates used to set saleable coke at 4 25 per ton. It argues the reported operating results of the Hamilton Otto Coke Co labelled confidential are not reflective of prices the Indianapolis plant could fetch.
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Tive
Hamilton
Hamilton Otto Coke Co
Hens Weakened in Toledo Setback for Minneapolis
In Toledo on June 16, Minneapolis tied the score in the eighth after a bases on balls and three timely hits. O'Neill opened the tenth with a double and scored on two sacrifice plays, giving Minneapolis the winning run while Toledo missed a chance to surpass them.
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Toledo. O
Minneapolis
O'Neill
Toledo
Dark Ronald Wins Ascot Royal Hunt Cup
London reports Dark Ronald won the Ascot Royal Hunt Cup with Arranmore placing second and Christmas Daisy third. The result crowns a clear victory for Dark Ronald as Arranmore and Christmas Daisy follow in the finish order.
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London
Dark Ronald
Arranmore
Christmas Daisy
Brightwood W C T U Meeting at Mrs Saylor Home
The Brightwood W C T U will hold a meeting at 2 o clock Thursday afternoon at 241 Brightwood Avenue the home of Mrs Mary Saylor.
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Brightwood W. C. T. U
Mary Saylor
Brightwod Avenue
Queen Victoria attended by royal physician at Lagranja Palace
In Madrid on June 16 the royal physician attends Queen Victoria at Lagranja Palace as the Spanish public eagerly awaits celebrations for the King's family addition.
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Madrid
Spain
Queen Victoria
Lagranja Palace
Taxicab Crash Near Grant’s Tomb Hurts Three
New York June 16 A taxicab descending Riverside Drive from Grant s Tomb skidded at Ith Street swerved and overturned pinning three occupants in the wreck The injured are Arthur E Small physician his wife Anni E Small and the chauffeur Robert Yeager They were taken home by automobile ambulance
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New York
Grant
Riverside Drive
Ith Street
Arthur E. Small
Ninety-sixth Street
Ann
Silk Stocking Element Urges Peirce for Clerk
William H. Peirce submits petition for Republican mayor city clerk nomination backed by the silk stocking element. Edward B. Ramsey seen as candidate of the people with broad voter support across classes. Fleed does not confine his forces to any single element.
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William H. Peirce
Edward B. Ramsey
Fle d
Emil Mantel Elected to a Lodge Office
The rational convention of the Order of Brith Abraham in New York elected officers for the ensuing year including Grand master Samuel Dorf and Emil Mantel of Indianapolis as third deputy grand master. The slate also named Mayer Schoerfeld New York, David Grady Syracuse, Leonard Leisersohn New York, and Barnet Friedman New York in key posts.
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Order of Brith Abraham
New York
Samuel Dorf
Mayer Schoerfeld
David Grady
Syracuse
Emil Mantel
Indianapolis
Leonard Leisersohn
Barnet Friedman
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Tip O'Neal
United Coke & Gas Co
Ham
Ilton
Indianapolis Gas Company
Carl H. Graf
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F. Augustus Heinze
United Copper Company
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