Automobile prodigy Hubert Orden to drive 1000 mile test
Columbus Indiana reports Hubert Orden 10, an auto prodigy, will soon travel to Detroit to drive a Hudson five passenger touring car over a thousand miles with full control. At age three his father built the smallest car in the world for him and he later learned by living in his father's garage.
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Columbus
Ind
Hubert Orden
Detroit
Mich
Hudson Motor Car Company
Danville Boy Held After Stealing Horse and Buggy
Kenneth Fry of Indianapolis is jailed in Danville Ind charged with stealing a horse and buggy from the town square rack. He was captured near Clarto after claiming he and two other boys rode to Danville Sunday and that his bicycle broke down leading him to seize the horse.
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the Sun
Danville
Ind
Kenneth Fry
Alex Fry
Indianapolis
Moses C. Crawford
Clarto
MURDER WILL OUT SO PAIR NOW REALIZE INDIANA WEDDING
Columbus Indiana June 21 Capt W Hi Aikin 73 and Christiana J Murphy 55 of Hope tried to keep their Sunday marriage secret to avoid publicity but it became known Tuesday.
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Columbus
Ind
W. Hi
Aikin
Lateyer
Hope
Christiana J. Murphy
Parrot Returns After Song Draws Boy Home
In Kokomo Indiana on June 21 Ralph Truesdell’s parrot Polly escaped and learned to open its cage. The bird, brought from Panama where Truesdell worked for the government, answered with a Spanish folk song prompting him to search and locate Polly near his home, after fearing a cat had eaten it.
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Kokomo
Ind
Ralph Truesdell
Truesdell
Panama
Polly
Statesman Proves Child Saving Hero
Fairsmount June 21 J J McEvoy Grant county legislator saved Reginald Parrill son of Mr and Mrs William Parrill from a speeding automobile as the child rode a tricycle crossing the street. He plunged in front of the car grabbed the child and dodged back moments before the vehicle passed.
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Fairmount
J J. McEvoy
Grant County
Reginald
William Parrill
McEvoy
Elliett sville Stone Mill Burns in Fire Losses
BloomingtonInd June 21 At a loss of 30000 the new stone mill of A J Thompson Co Ellettsville was destroyed by fire Monday night The plant housed expensive machinery and more than 100000 worth of orders from New York and Boston It is believed sparks from a Monon locomotive started the blaze
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Bloomington
Ind
A. J. Thompson & Co
Ellettsville
New York
Boston
Epworth League in Session at Brazil
The Greencastle district Epworth League began its annual convention in Brazil Indiana on Monday. Ches teen Smith of Anderson will speak Tuesday on The Delight of the Doers and Dreamers.
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Brazil
Ind
Greencastle District
Epworth League
Chesteen Smith
Anderson
The Summer Widowers at Broadway in 1909
New York June 21 Lew Fields presents The Summer Widowers a nine scene apartment house revue. Nine rooms on three floors show various antics including a nurse and a drunken sleeper a police flirtation and a party group. Fields acts as janitor moving through each scene.
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New York
Lew Fields
Jama Girls
Fields
Woman buried without coroner inquest in Greensburg
Mrs May Bone Parrish was buried Monday in Greensburg Indiana without a coroner s inquest into her death. She was found dead Sunday with a decomposed body and authorities believed a fall against a heavy flower pot may have broken her neck. Her brother Scott C Bone editor of the Washington Herald and her son Will Parrish of Portland were unable to attend.
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the Sun
Greensburg
Ind
May Bone Parrish
The
Washington
D. C
Herald
Will (. Parrish
Portland
Ore
Commencement in Full Blast at I. U. Bloomington
Indiana university marks its eighty fourth commencement in Bloomington with hundreds of relatives and alumni attending. Five reunion classes—1885 1890 1895 1900 and 1905—gather for events. An alumni dinner at noon featured toastmaster Dr Maurice G Moore Vinccennes and toasts by John C Clark Judge Joseph Shea Mattie HB Lacey William Lowe Bryan and Ralph Y Sollitt.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
State School
Maurice G. Moore
Vincennes
John C. Clark
Brookville
Joseph Shea
Scottsburg
Mattie HB. Lacey
Indianapolis
Willian Lowe Bryan
Ralph Y. Sollitt
Peru
Young burglar to be tried in Kokomo juvenile court
Julius Harding aged eight will be tried by the Kokomo juvenile court after breaking into the Kokomo Cash Lumber Company using a ladder to reach the second floor office. He pried open a lock on the money drawer and stole a sack containing 26 dollars.
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Kokomo
Ind
Julius Harding
Kokomo Cash Lumber Company
Big Alimony Asked by South Bend Wife
Nellie Talcott sues THadius Talcott Sr. for limited divorce and $100,000 alimony on cruelty and statutory charges after a 50 year marriage. Trial concluded yesterday before Special Judge Truesdale in Laporte.
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Nellie Talcott
Thadius Talcott
Truesdale
Laporte
Horse Might Have Saved Owner's Life
In Kokomo Indiana on June 21 Walter Ervington rode a horse that halted at the tracks as a Pennsylvania train approached. The owner struck the animal with his whip and the buggy detached, allowing the horse to leap free while Ervington was struck and killed.
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Kokomo
Ind
Walter Ervington
Ervington
Pennsylvania
Man Dies in Richmond from Injuries While Coupling Cars
Harry A. Decker a brakeman from Camden Ohio died in Richmond Indiana on Monday from injuries suffered while coupling railroad cars.
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Richmond
Ind
Harry A. Decker
Camden, C
End to Skin Troubles Poslam Claims Cure
North Haven resident praises poslam for ending fifteen years of eczema itch after first application. Free trial packages offered by mail from Emergency Lab. Product touted to treat eczema acne tetter and other skin ailments with options priced at 50 cents for minor uses and two dollars for the regular jar available at local druggists.
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West 25Th Street
New York City
H. J. Huder and
Weber Drug Company
Roosevelt Pays 500 On Personal Luggage
New York June 21. Customs officials disclosed Col. Roosevelt paid about 500 in duty on his luggage. The colonel’s African trip specimens are to go to the Smithsonian for education. Most have already arrived.
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New York
Loeb
Cal. Roosevelt
Customs House
Smithsonian Institution
Schmuck Chosen as Indiana Journalism Head
Bloomington Indiana June 21 Adolph Schmuck was appointed to succeed Fred Bates Johnson as head of the department of journalism at Indiana University Schmuck formerly an Indianapolis newspaper man assumes the post that guides the campus journalism program and its future directions
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Schmuck
I. U
Bloomington
Ind
Adolph Schmuck
Fred Bates Johnson
Indiana University
Indianapolis
Suit Threatened Against Receiver in Johnson Elevator Case
Logansport Loan and Trust company as receiver for Johnson Elevator accuses E. W. Wagner of Chicago board of trade of causing a $16,000 loss in futures trading linked to the late John F. Johnson who drowned in the Wa bash river last February. Illinois law makes the sum recoverable.
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E. W. Wagner
Chicago Board of Trade
Logansport Loan and Trust Company
Johnson Elevator Company
John F. Johnson
Johnson
Wabash River
Daughter Bitten by Viper at Grave Site Disturbs Nest
In Columbus Indiana on June 21 a daughter of Fred Geilker was bitten on the hand by a viper while tending myrtles planted on a gravesite. The father searched the grave and found a nest of eight vipers which he killed.
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Columbus. Ind
Fred Geilker
Bantam Hen Adopts Litter Of Nine Pigs
In Greensburg Indiana on June 21 Alfrea Jackson reports her bantam hen has deserted her chicks to mother a litter of nine pigs. The hen now tends the porkers as if they were her own, abandoning fowl duties for the piglets.
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Greensburg
Ind
Alfrea Jackson
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