Indianapolis High Schools Lead in Public Lunchrooms
The Indianapolis Manual Training and Shortridge high schools operate lunchrooms within buildings, serving about 1,600 students daily at low prices. The article praises the program as beneficial and convenient, noting rapid service and a sample 12 cent meal, with profits viewed by some as better kept under School Board supervision for school use.
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Indianapolis
Manual Training High School
Shortridge High School
Cleveland
Shortridge
Doggie’s New Shoes Cause Local Stir in Cleveland
Miss Tiny presents a pair of rubber soled kid shoes for Delight Strauss’s dog, priced at four dollars a set. The outfit includes an inner tongue and laces with a valet to assist. The booted dog draws amused attention as residents describe the sight as swell and fashionable.
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Cleveland
Miss Tiny
Miss Delight Strauss
Tiny
What Explosion Meant
A compact note on the evolution of the word explosion tracing its shift from forceful blast to metaphorical idea. It notes early uses in ballistics and weather, and explains that ex modo referred to barring or driving away, shaping the modern sense of an exploded idea.
What Great Secret Has the Oil King
Augusta, March 8 John D Rockefeller is the focus of intense press interest as reporters press for meaning behind his remark of a matter of great importance to education. He declined to discuss a possible duplication of his recent $32,000,000 gift while in Augusta to cheer his ill daughter in law. Rockefeller plans to stay as his daughter Mrs McCormick recovers and will remain in the city through the spring.
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The
Sun
Augusta
John D. Rockefeller
New York
Educa
Rockefeller
McCormick
Mr. Rockefeller
Lost articles count for Chicago women shocks readers
A Chicago statistician estimates women drop two items daily, totaling about 265 million annually. He cites breakdowns for gloves, umbrellas, purses, headpieces, and more, with a liberal adjustment claiming only about 3 million are truly lost while the rest are recovered by men.
Chile Offers Big Inducements to Japanese Farmers
In Chile the government welcomes Japanese immigrants with heavy support. Each settler receives forty acres of fertile land, twenty more for each son aged 18 or older, plus oxen, farming implements, and fifteen dollars monthly cash for the first year. The program aims to lure Japanese farmers from their small tile farms to Chile.
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Chile
Viennese Subscriber Fined For Ward Minx Remark On Wire
A Viennese subscriber was sentenced to 48 hours imprisonment and one day fast for calling a telephone girl a ward minx over the wire. The case reflects strict enforcement of abusive language in telephonic communications.
Woman Foils Bank Robbery in Union Trust Corridor
Miss Alma Loeffler, a Pearce & Co desk keeper, stopped two Canadian robbers from fleeing with $238. In a corridor stand off at Providence Union Trust, armed occupants restrained the men until police arrived. The pair, Bela Mueller age 21 and Adalar Lederer age 19, were taken into custody.
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Alma R. Loeffler
Daniel A. Pearce & Co
Union Trust
Miss Loeffler
Mademoaiselle
Union Trust Company
Providence
Pearce Company
Benjamin J. Andrews
Central Station
Bela Mueller
Adalar Lederer
Roath
Stamp Placement Delays Highlight Postal Woes
A postal clerk notes stamps misapplied on envelopes slow mail handling. In Enghand, letters without stamps in the correct position are set aside until all other letters are sorted. The clerk says locals who know better also slow processing, not just foreign-born patrons.
Coin Hoard Found After Death in Glasgow
Following the death of Joseph Skeeters, reportedly impoverished, authorities uncovered about $3,060 in gold and silver hoarded in boxes, flax sacks and tin cans hidden from his residence.
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Glasgow
Joseph Skeeters
Manstarved to death in Indiana jail case
William Schoop aged 66 died in Logansport county jail after refusing food since his detention began February 16 when adjudged insane and held for transfer to Logansport asylum.
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Laportis
Ind
William Schoop
Logansport
Indian Elephant Trade Sparks Lancaster Rumor
Special to The Sea reports Louis J. Hall, a horse and wild animal dealer, returning from India where he brokered elephants, tigers, monkeys, and snakes with rajahs. He describes pit traps, jungle hunts, and a British backed servant system, noting India’s elephant trade could rival horses in Lancaster but with higher risk and costs.
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Lancaster
Louis J. Hall
Efall
Eeery Rajah
Mr. Hall
James
Britain
Ife
Wilaut
India
Africa
America
Emiran
A Husband's Mistake in the Watertown Late Hour
A Watertown man, devoted lodge member, returns home at 2 a.m. and quietly rocks the cradle to prove he is on duty. His wife, wakeful and irritated, snaps that the baby is already in bed, ending the scene with a sharp rebuke.
Perkins Repays New York Life Funds After 1904 Campaign
George W. Perkins, former New York Life vice president and now with J. B. Morgan & Co., sent a personal check for 54 619.19 to reimburse New York Life for the 1904 Republican campaign contribution. He was recently involved as a defendant in a larceny charge related to the affair.
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The
Sun
New York
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
J. B. Morgan & Co
New York Life
Perkins
Paper Mills Merged In Quebec Consolidation
Special to The Sun Boston March 8 announces the consolidation of two large Quebec paper firms with 350000 acres of timber land on the St Francis river. Brompton Pulp and Paper absorbs Brompton Falls and Royal Paper of East Angus. The deal totals nearly 3000000 dollars.
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Boston
Quebec
St. Francis River
Brompton Pulp and Paper Company
Brompton Falls
Royal Paper Company
East Angus
Quinine removes the cause says Lazative Bromo
An advertisement for Lazative Bromo claims the medicine cures by removing the cause and urges readers to call for the full product name and to verify the signature of E. W. Grove, priced at 25 cents.
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E. W. Grove
Fifty Years in Prison Florist Plans Golden Anniversary
John Warren, the prison florist at Wethersfield, will celebrate fifty years as an inmate in December. A former escape risk who twice attempted liberty, he has been a model prisoner for a decade, tending grounds and greenhouses and contributing botany notes from the prison library.
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John Warren
Warren
Unson
Ziba Warren
Mansnellt
Juha EL
Belchertown
Mass
Ater
Tolland
Rofluall
Threats in divorce court reveal limits on poisoning claims
In Chicago on March 8 a divorce case exposed that threats of poisoning do not alone establish grounds. George and his witnesses testified that his wife Dinah allegedly whispered about using variolic acid, but the court did not treat threats as decisive proof.
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Sun
Chicago
George
Dinah
Court Remarks on George Case and Decree Prospects
Fragmentary court notes discuss a judge addressing Gereorge about attempts and motivations. The text hints at a poisoning claim and the potential impact on decrees, mentioning John and B and O. The passage is incomplete and unclear about the exact events or parties.
Birthday Petition Rejected by Board of Pardons
A man’s birthday marked his failed plea as the Board of Pardons refused his petition, leaving him to spend his final days in the home he has known for roughly a century.
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Board of Pardons
Illinois to raise coal rates to Chicago markets
Chicago on March 8 reports Illinois and Indiana coal roads will raise rates by 10 cents per ton on all coal mined in the two states and shipped to Chicago. The higher charges take effect April 1.
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Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Ad Claims Alcohol Free Formula
A promotional notice touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as non alcoholic with a full ingredient list on the bottle wrapper. It asserts endorsements from leading medical writers, offers free booklets of endorsements, and urges women suffering from various ailments to try the remedy. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a bowel regulator and laxative.
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Pierce
B. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
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