Veteran of the Forty-eighth Ohio Recounts Last Battle
An elderly Civil War veteran from Goshen Indiana recalls thirty years of illness ending after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He attributes relief from a long diarrhoea rheumatism and nerve troubles to the medicine and notes its sale in druggists for 2.50 per six boxes plus mailing options from Schenectady New York.
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Ohio
Charles van Horn
Peny E
Volun- 8
Goshen
Ind
Shar Din
Dr Williams
Dr. Williams
Mr. van Horn
Telephone Girl Sparks Married Men Postal Card Protest
In Brooklyn a wave of anger targets a new advertising scheme using forged love letters on postal cards. Men report wives become suspicious after receiving personal messages to their husbands. District Attorney Clarkes investigates as couples question the mail scam and its romantic ruse.
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New York
Brooklyn
Elsar
Clarkes
Agairi
Card adverts spark anger among telephone girls and husbands
A local dispute centers on a drawn out Tuesday night card scheme described as an advertisement. The district attorney forwarded some cards to the Postmaster to check postal law violations while telephonists denounce them as slander. A reporter quotes a worker lamenting the impact on reputation and personal communications.
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Roberts
Japan Demands Open Ports at Tai-Tung and Mukden
A Yokohama dispatch reports Japan’s Pekin minister formally demanded opening Tai-Tung and Mukden to foreign trade. American and British ministers supported the move while Chinese officials cited ongoing control issues and declined to grant the request.
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London
Yokohama
Good natured enthusiasm of miners in Arnot handshake
Editor Samuel M. Sexton of the Mine Workers Journal shows a swollen hand after days of handshakes in Arnot Pennsylvania where about 6 600 residents greeted him He says the swelling came from handshaking only and his explanation matches the crowd’s friendly reception in his old home town
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Thomas L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Sexton
Mine Workers’ Journal
Arnot
Leggo
Terrible crime record in Indianapolis in last three months
A lengthy report details a surge in murders and self harm in Indianapolis over the past three months. It cites cases by name and place including Dunkirk Elizabethtown and the English hotel, noting jealousy as a trigger and describing victims such as Mrs. Wesley King, James Dumas, and Julius Buck, with police actions and trials referenced.
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Indianapolis
Colored man of New York turning white case of Rufus Harburt
A New York tobacconist named Rufus Harburt is described as undergoing a gradual, mysterious whitening of his skin over more than a decade. Doctors note the change begins with white spots and progresses to nearly complete whiteness by late summer, with no signs of illness or malnutrition. The physician calls it a freak of nature caused by pigmentation and lacks a known treatment.
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New York
Rufus Harburt
W. Twenty-third St
Mr. Marburt
Hurhurt
Transforma
Pulliam Explains Why He Suspends Players
New York June 2 The article quotes President Pulliam on suspending players who talk back to umpires. He says preserving discipline is essential to protect teams and fan interest, and that magnates demand enforcement of rules with no fear or favor.
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New York
Pullann
Ang
Ethen Lial
Krexing
Double Hanging at Clarksville for Park Robbery
Denham and Underwood were hanged on the same scaffold in Clarksville Arkansas on Friday for the murder of Sheriff John H. Powers who tried to stop their robbery of the Clarksville tank. Dunham and Wallace were with them at the time and Dunham was later arrested in Wichita Kansas while Underwood was captured in Evansville Indiana.
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Clarksville
Arkdune
Geo Denham
Fred Underwood
Tihe
Sherof
John H. Powers
John P. Dun
Jim Walluce
Wallace
Dunham
Wichita
Was
Underwood
Evansville
Ind
General Young Named Chief of General Staff
President announces Gen S M Young to be chief of the general staff with rank of lieutenant general on Aug 15. Maj Henry Corbin and Brig Gen W A Cutter join the general staff. Gen Young to leave War College post and be succeeded by Brig Gen Bliss.
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Washington
S. M. &. Young
Army
Wen
Henry
Corbin
W. A. Caater
Young
The
War College
Bliss
Elwood boasts of the tiniest Hooster and other notes
A scattered Indiana page item collects odd reports. Elwood boasts of a tiny Hooster named Weteht weighing two pounds. Logansport sees wiped out trading ramp enterprises. Salem resident Nancy Fereisett dislocates her hip after a porch fall. Lebanon and Frankfort traction routes alter stations to match landowners. Fort Wayne youths warned about celebrations before the fourth. Gorsline opposes a 1 grade. Gothen digs up another skeleton tied to a long ago murder. Han A. A. Barrier of Marlow undergoes successful tumor removal from a gun injury. Money, a desperado, seized near Mount Vernon by Sheriff Mel Yadden while river cruising. Victor Allison, 18, burns eye with hot lime at Huntington kilns. St. John Kindred, 17, badly injured near Danville by a runaway wagon. Logansport rumors claim wide rumors. Fieldon Fiddler, night mail clerk, keeps post duties after three days away. Mount Vernon interurban dispute over franchise prompts city council debate. Clinton county farmers organize threshing rings to protect wheat. Prisoner John Coburn beats cellmate Newton Halstup in Anderson jail. Jacob Hinesin killed near Laporte after approaching a Michigan Central train. Wire-tappers caught near New Albany, disrupting a Chienge project. A woman arrested in Frankfort wearing men’s clothes travels from Chicago to St. Louis on a wager. Sid Conger’s farm snake drive set to rid rattlers. snake-hunting gear described. Two Hartford City youths disrupt interurban lines by tampering with wires. Mountain Valley mineral water touted as a cure all for various ailments.
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Fort Wayne
Gorsline
Gothen
Han
A. A. Barrier
Marlow
Join Money
Logansport
Fieldon Fiddler
Jolin Coburn
Anderson
Newton Halstup
Halstup
Jacol Hinesin
Michigan Central
Laporte
New Albany
Pottes
Madison Off
Brellu Mae Taylor
Madison
Folleeman Bundy
Charles Moore
Richmond
Muncie
Mayer Sherritt
Lake Erie Express
Hartford City
Frankfort
Chicago
St. Louis
Sid Conger
Bob Grimes
Huraday
Nash
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Dunkirk
Vendome
John L. Foote
Fragette St
Eugene Burk
Meade Barr
Marr
Philippines
Burk
Burr
Barr
Elizabethtown
Isyrian
Wesley King
James Dumas
Dumas
Frank Sutton
A-Lam
Edward Hover
Hoover
Sutton
Maryland
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Iberty
Wl-health
Tove
Julius Buck
Whitestown
Brookards Park
Albert Wright
E. Wabashsr
Lora Jeffries
Jeffries
Ure Jeffries
Wright
Undianapolis
Treg Covery Mrans
Pulliam
Sheriff Powers
Wells
B.S. Warce
Gen. Young
Indiana
Elwood
Nancy Fereisett
Salem
Lebanon & Frankfort Traction Company
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Meridian
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John H. Stem
Claypool Building
Washington and
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Jane Soth
D. H. Baldwin & CO
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Kennedy & Keagan
America
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