Remarkable Evansville Youth Lost Senses And Speech
John Patrick Walsh, once able to hear and speak, is now blind and deaf, yet travels Evansville with a cane and communicates by finger spelling. He reads lips by touch and understands quickly. A fund seeks funds to send him to an institution hoping for sight restoration. he studied English and German and was once removed from a national deaf mute school for misbehavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Patrick Walsh
Evansville
Helen Keller
Walsh
National
Washington
Monument plan for Claybourne founder sparks romance
In Claybourne the Ladies history club forms a monument for founder Joshua Claybourne. Chair Avice Dunbar leads events as her admirer Lawrence Fairfield, a lawyer, ponders a possible match while she juggles lectures and a looming unveiling sketch. Her illness hints at deeper feelings as he cares.
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Ladies’ History Club of
Claybourne
Joshua Claybourne
Avice Dunbar
Miss Dunbar
Lawrence Fairfield
Avice
Quites
Lawrence
Lawrence Fairfield Wins Muse of Love and Marriage
A passage recalls Miss Dunbar finally yielding to Law Lawrence Fairfield’s inescapable feelings. He declares his intent and she accepts, transforming a life of law books into a shared future. Their presence at the unveiling of the Claybourne monument confirms a union born from mutual longing.
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Lawrence
Miss Dunbar
Claybourne
Lawrence Fairfield
Hoosierisms of Bathing and Bizarre Tales
A string of odd incidents across Indiana towns features Druggist HE. L. Garrett diving into Delta lake and injuring himself, Miss Maddie Henton flooding after suit mishap, boys failing to return from dives, and attorney George A. Johnson recalling a river of bed humor. Other notes include dislocated shoulder, a Seymour clothier named The Klondike, arrests for rotten eggs, and Main Street crops urged for harvest.
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HE. L. Garrett
Fort Wayne
Delta Lake
Maddie Henton
Logansport
George A. Johnson
Brownsburg
Tommy Cassaway
Madison
Bull fells farmer after hatchet strike to eyes
Bridgeton New Jersey June 19 A farmer Oscar Elmer crossing a field faced a calm bull that suddenly charged. He hurled a hatchet at the animal striking it between the eyes. The bull lay helpless for about an hour before aid arrived.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Oscar Elmer
Elmer
Desirable Pet Snakes In Indiana Attract Curiosity
A Klepper's Bird Store on Massachusetts Ave. showcases a black snake behind wire as an odd attraction. The article surveys common Indiana snakes including the black snake, garter snake, green snake, water snakes, and the puffing viper, noting behavior, temperament, and suitability as pets.
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Klepper
Massachusetts Ave
Mr. Snake
Kle
Eel River Falla
Greencastle
Indiana
Blatchley
Gen Grubbs Money Found On Train By Honest Passenger
On a Pennsylvania railroad line from Camden to Edgewater Park Francis R Cullen found a package in a seat left by Gen B Burd Grubb civil war hero and former minister to Spain. The cash, estimated at four thousand dollars, was returned to Grubb via the conductor and Cullen.
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Bordentown
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Camden
Francis R. Cullen
White Hills
Gen. B. Burd Grubb
Spain
Edgewater Park
Florence
Cullen
Gen. Grubb
Joseph Dowell
Ex-convict Hyland captured by Marion police in Haughville
Lon Henderson, the ex convict who killed Constable Tarpey nine years ago in Haughville and wounded Patrolmen Alberts Merchant policeman Bell and Capt Hyland, has been brought back from Marion where he was captured. Henderson talked to Capt Taffe and pretended not to know Capt Hyland, even asking the superintendent who the captain was. He admits shooting at Patrolman Alberts and says Alberts wounded him too.
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Lon Henderson
Tarpey
Haughville
Alberts
Bell
Hyland
Marion
Henderson
Taffe
Saxony's King In Critical Condition At Berlin
In Berlin on Wednesday the king of Saxony was in a critical condition and unconscious for nearly a day. His family stayed at his bedside through the night as death seemed possible. he woke Thursday morning appearing slightly improved but remains precarious. In Nashville Annie Rogers was acquitted of floating bogus money after a Wednesday night trial, a verdict welcomed by the public.
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Berlin
Saxony
Nashville
Tenn
Annie Rogers
Indiana university president's romance and marriage tale
Dr. William L. Bryan, recently chosen president of Indiana University, married Miss Lottie Lowe of Indianapolis after a university romance. The couple's courtship began on campus, with Mr Lowe taking his daughter to Bloomington for her first year, amid the university setting and early wedding.
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William L. Bryan
Indiana University
Lottie Lowe
Charles Lowe
Cornellave
Indianapolis
It Reads in His Newspaper About Pain Balm Cure
George Schaub of New Lebanon Ohio, a regular Dayton Volkszeitung reader, bought Chamberlains Pain Balm for his wife whose eight week back pain vanished after a few days use. He reports her relief was complete before finishing the bottle and urges others to hear of her recovery. The lotion is sold by all druggists.
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George Schaub
New Lebanon
Ohio
Dayton Volkszeituns
Chamberlain
Father entrusts daughter to doctor for college trip
He could not take his daughter to college and back on the next train due to business. At the station, he asked about a carriage. The agent introduced Dr. Bryan, who then cared for the girl. He left her in Dr. Bryan's supervision and she remains under his care.
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Dr. Bryan
Bryan
Local Firms Report Construction Funds Across Indiana
Kirchner Coal and Supply Company of Terre Haute reports $2,000 in work funded. Commercial Improvement Company of Fort Wayne lists $20,000. Leavenworth Electric Railroad in Leavenworth shows $10,000.
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Kirchner Coal and Supply Company
Terre Haute
Commercial Improvement Company
Fort Wayne
Leavenworth Electric Railroad
Leavenworth
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