Pa’s New Song Hit Then Paarts as Drummer and Composer
William F. Kirk reports a comic family scene with Pa drumming on the piano and composing a humorous song titled You’ve Lost Yure Girlish Figger Dee r, with Ma teasing while Harry Williams is away and Vincent Bryan at ball games. Pa previews a second tune about a Maine fisherman.
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Pieter
Taft
Harry Williams
Vincent Bryan
Adeleen
Geenyus
Harkshaw Pub Ushing Company
Maine
Beeneeth the Waves Song Draft Discussion
The speaker explains two possible lines for a song about a man sleeping with his wife and mother reacting. Ma instructs to mark it either way and to consider getting Sweeney to sing it. The note ends with a remark that Ma is finished thinking aloud about songs.
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Sweeney
Telephone interests merge in Richmond deal
In Richmond Indiana on June 30 negotiations concluded to merge the interests of the Independent and Bell Telephone companies. The Home company gains use of Bell long distance lines and all joint business, sharing the same conduit for poles and wires on Main street. No transfer of holdings.
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Richmond
Ind
Independent
Bell Telephone
Honte
Bell
Main Street
Angry man slashes four with a knife at Barton mining camp
In Bridgeport on June 39 one man is dead and others wounded after Mike Kartik armed with a knife attacked a camp housing Hungarians at Barton. He demanded entry. when refused, a fight ensued and Kartik was arrested. One victim was left dying and another bore a severe facial injury.
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Bridgeport
Mike Kartik
Kartik
Barton
Warttkix
Butterfield Reunion Set for July 4 at Bethany Park
Brooklyn Ind June 30 The annual reunion of the John Butterfield association will be held at Bethany park on July 4 Adaline Butterfield Koons is president and May Jeffries secretary.
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Brooklyn
Ind
John Mr. Butterfield Association
Bethany Park
Adaline Butterfield Koons
May Jeffries
Car jumps the track injuring eight in New York
A Reid avenue streetcar jumped a switch and struck a pole in New York. Four men and four women were injured but all were able to return home after the crash.
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New York
Reid Avenue
Local Property Buys and Community Notes Highlight City Life
Theo dore F. Holland buys a brick two story bakery at Twenty third and Talbot avenues for 9000 from Orlando C McGann on a deal. Dr Leon T Leach and wife purchase Park View Sanitarium for 20000 at New York and California streets. Louis G Deschler marks 25 years in business with seven cigar stores starting from the Bates house and now at 1355 Clinois Street. The Canoe Club plans July Fourth events with fireworks and lawn festivities. indoor aquatic festival omitted. Methodist Episcopal bishops to meet in Indianapolis late October with Freedmen's bureau invited. Lineman Martin Smith injured after a fall from a pole. hospitalization at St Vincent's. Miss Manda Leonard knocked down by a motorcycle at Ohio and Illinois streets. Freddie Cole arrested. Walcott street improvement remonstrance overruled by Board of Public Works for asphalt.
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Manda Leonard
Spring Street
Freddie Cole
Ohio
Illinois
Richmond Adopts Single Telephone System In One City
Richmond joins the Indiana trend of discarding dual phone service by consolidating with Central Union. The Home Telephone Company and Central Union reach an arrangement allowing Home patrons access to Bell toll lines at regular rates, with pole-sharing to remove Main Street poles between Second and Nineteenth streets. Mr. A C Lindemuth, president of the Home company, becomes president of the International Independent Telephone Association under the deal.
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The
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Bell Company
Indianapolis
Central Union
Bell Lines
Home Telephone Company
Richmond Home Telephone Company
Central Union Telephone Company
Main Street
Second
Twenty-first Street
International Independent Telephone Association
Mr. Lindemuth
One Child Killed in Fourth of July Firework Blast
In Canonsburg Pennsylvania a premature Fourth of July celebration left John Fenosess six years old dead and three other children seriously injured. Firecrackers exploded near a powder can and dynamite and kerosene casings ignited, tearing the house apart. Mrs Fenosess rescued the children but was burned during the evacuation.
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Canonsburg
John Fenosess
John
Marie Shaw Seen Likely to Recover After Car Crash
Miss Marie Shaw, severely injured in the Saturday night crash that killed John Sloan and Eart Gardner, at the Belmont avenue crossing, shows slight improvement at City Hospital. Doctors believe she will not die and note two broken legs a broken arm and a skull fracture. A. J. Yaweer, owner of the automobile, returned to Indianapolis and says Sloan drove the car without his consent.
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John Sloan
Eart Gardner
S. Belmont Avenue
Will
Miss Shaw
A. J. Yaweer
Indianapolis
Sloan
Tin workers face wage cuts in new agreement
Pittsburg June 30 representatives of American Sheet and Tin Plate and Amalgamated Association reached a wage agreement after days of talks. The deal reduces tin workers pay by 5 percent and sheet department by 2 percent, affecting about 10,000 workers.
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Pittsburg
American ‘Sheet and Tin Flate Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Grant W. H. Clay D. M. D Dentist At 108 N Delaware
Grant W H Clay D M D long time New York Dental Company member now based at 108 North Delaware Street Indianapolis with Oppomlingon ran details.
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Grant WH. Clay
New York Dental Company
Delaware
Oppomlingon
Indianapolis
Politicians to Speak at Whitely County Old Settlers Reunion
Indiana June 20. Speakers at the Whitely County Old Settlers reunion on August 20 will be Democratic governor candidate Thomas R. Marshall Republican governor nominee James E. Watson Democratic congressman candidate Cyrus Cline and current congressman Clarence C. Gilham.
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James E. Watson
Congress
Cyrus Cline
Clarence C. Gilhama
A New Species of Rat Is Described
The article portrays the house rat as a filthy, disease-transmitting nuisance living in wharves, sewers, and barns. It notes a weakness in its appetite and promotes Rat-Soap by McDermott & Co as an effective trap, urging readers to use smoked glass to observe the Red Rat.
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Trick
G. P. McDermott & Company
Board of Trade
Indianapolis
Ind
McDermott & Co
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