Typhoid danger decreasing at Plainfield Indiana Boys' School
Special to The Sun reports no new typhoid or malaria cases at the Indiana Boys' School in Plainfield. About twenty of eighty ill boys are convalescing with one dangerous case described as physically weak. Convalescents are dieted and cared for. the spring with suspected impurity has been sealed. Two safe springs supply the institution and are deemed uncontaminated by sewer risks.
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Plainfield
Ind
Indiana Boys’ School
E. E. York Y
J. P. Simonds
York
One and Papa Beat by Love and Trolley
In Columbus Indiana a dramatic interurban chase followed an elopement. Samuel Cook aged 18 and Zora Whittington aged 17 eloped to Louisville and married ten minutes after a telegram alerted authorities. The fathers vow to cause trouble. the mother gave away the bride.
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the Sun
Columbus
Ind
Samuel Cook
W. Cook
Zora Whittington
Frank L. Whittington
Louisville
Marshal Cooper
Weuisville
Tribe of Ben-Hur Opens Convention in Indiana
The seventh biennial congress of the Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur opened in Crawfordsville Indiana with 400 in attendance. W T Whittington gave the welcome address. Micheal Kahoe of Maryland spoke for the supreme representatives. The Rev Earle Wilfiey welcomed visitors for the host Simondies court and Charles B Landis replied. Afternoon session heard the biennial reports of the supreme order.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Supreme Tribe of Ben
Wilfiey
Supreme Order
Girl Plows to Keep Father's Contract in Indiana
Miss Nora Mosher, on parole from Indianapolis reformatory, works hard to fulfill her late father Dorman A Mosher's farming contract for Charles Delvin in Wabash Indiana. She hauls, hoes, and tends a growing crop after his death, amid a troubled past including a child death years ago.
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Wabash
Ind
Nora Mosher
Dorman A. Mosher
Miss Mosher
Charles Delvin
Indianapolis
Man Fined For Intoxication Tried To Fire City Building
Ekokomo Indiana May 17 Jimmy Mc Cartney fined Monday for intoxication was ashamed he had attempted to burn the city building during a drunken spree. A cement detention room contained the incident as a pile of newspapers burned harmlessly while he sang revelry through the night.
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Sun
Ekokomo
Ind
Jimmy” McCartney
Mquor
Man Killed in Box Car Shooting Near Hammond
Special to The Saw reports at Hammond Indiana on May 17 Charles H Proctor of Utica shot and killed Peter Schuyler in a Michigan Central freight car. Proctor on way to a western homestead with furniture was riding with George Jones and Schuyler. he says he believed Schuyler to be a burglar.
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Hammond
Ind
Charles H. Proctor
Utica
Peter Schuyler
Michigan Central
Proctor
George Jones
Schuyler
Former Marion mayor L A Von Behren dies in Pa
Marion Ind May 17 L A Von Behren 53 former mayor of Marion died Monday in Portage Pennsylvania after Brights disease He was an Elk and Mason and prominent in the community through years of public service and fraternal involvement
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Marion
Ind
L. A. von Behren
Cener Fi
Bright
Mason
Bland to Be Named in Second District
Bloomington Ind May 17 State Senator Oscar E Bland will be nominated Tuesday by the Second district convention for congress He is without opposition He spoke at the Lincoln league banquet lauding Beveridge and predicting his election by 75000 if decided by popular vote E G Hogate dean of the IU law school was toastmaster Speakers included Finley P Mount Will Hays Simpson B Lowe Charles Sefrit W K Penrod Lyman Heavenridge Elmer Hastings J E Heary Judge Wilson Robert G Miller Homer Elliott and President Miller of the Lincoln league Resolutions were expected to endorse the Republican state platform Taft pensions and a mine rescue station with no mention of the Payne Aldrich bill.
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Sun
Bloomington
Ind
Oscar E. Bland
Congress
Lincoln League
Beveridge
E. G. Hogate
Indiana University Law School
Finley P. Mount
Crawfordsville
Will Hays
Sullivan
Simpson B. Lowe
Bedford
Charles Sefrit
Washington
W. K. Penrod
Shoals
Lyman Heavenridge
Spencer
Elmer Hastings
J. E. Heary
Wilson
Robert G. Miller
Homer Elliott
Miller
Taft
Coroner Probes Death Of Miss Tillie Bruner In Evansville
Coroner Edward Lava investigates the death of Miss Tillie Bruner found unconscious in a shed behind her Oak Street home. The death, attributed to a brain hemorrhage possibly caused by a blow to the head, prompted a post mortem examination.
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Evansville
Ind
Edward Lava
Tillie Bruner
Oak Street
Marott Elected President of Local Traction Company
GEORGE J. MAROTT OF INDIANAPOLIS elected president of the Kokomo Frankfort and Terre Haute Traction company at a May meeting in Kokomo. Lex J. Kirkpatrick of Kokomo is named vice-president with T. C. McReynolds as secretary treasurer and general manager. Directors include J. B. Carter, McReynolds, Kirkpatrick, Marott, and Lee Hall of Marion.
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Sun
Kokomo
Ind
Kokomo, Frankfort & Terre Haute Traction Company
George J. Marott
Indianapolis
Lex J. M Kirkpatrick
T. C. McReynolds
J. B. Carter
Lex J. Kirkpatrick
Lee Hall
Marion
Daylight Burglary Steals Jewelry On Fort Wayne Ave
Mattie Hayworth found her home at 924 Fort Wayne avenue entered by a burglar after a laundry shift Monday evening. A rear window was forced open and jewelry items including a gold watch a locket a small diamond ring and a garnet ring were taken.
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Mattie Hayworth
Wayne Avenue
Sisters Reunite Over Civil War Pensions in Indiana
In Columbus Indiana Mrs Jennie Leighton and Mrs Mollie Turner traced funds owed to their father from Civil War bounties and U S pension bureau, leading to a reunion with a long lost sister.
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Columbus, Ind
Jennie Leighton
Mollie Turner
United States Pension Bureau
Brothers Meet Long-Lost Sister After 44 Years
Two men, long estranged from a sister they believed dead, found a new sister, Mrs. Sarah Jane Toney of Crawfordsville, after visiting Tuesday. They learned another sister in Crawfordsville had also been granted a like claim.
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Ter
Sarah Jane Toney
Crawfordsville
Church Convention Opens In Indiana With Speeches
Rev. I J Spencer of Kentucky delivered the evening address at the opening of the Church of Christ in Indiana convention in Anderson. Delegates arrive from across the state. Jerome Stauffer of Angola J C Todd of Bloomington and FE Daugherty of Wabash scheduled to speak. W E M Hackelman of Indianapolis directs the music.
White dress cottons offered in reduced PECLAL sale
The notice advertises reduced prices on white dress cottons in several varieties. Limited quantities remain with items such as white India linen of good quality 32 inches wide, price cut from 18c to 12c.
Yeggs Go South Crack Another Safe
Burglars blew the Henryville Indiana post office safe and stole about 400 in stamps and cash. They fled and are believed to be the same gang that opened the Scottsburg safe last Friday night. This marks the seventh safe cracked in the state within 30 days, totaling over 2000 in stamps and cash.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Henryville
Here
Scottsburg
Henrsville
Paint for Fun Now They Have 10 Do It
Columbus Indiana May 17 A school board ordered Palmer Bozzell McCleland Carl Kollmeyer Walter Fiegenbaum and Jack Imes colored high school boys who painted Superintendent Fitzgibbon s home and other buildings with their colors to pay for materials and repaint the buildings themselves.
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Columbus
Ind
Palmer Bozzell
McCleland
Carl Kollmeyer
Walter Fiegenbaum
Jack Imes
Widow Weds Fourth Husband in Evansville
Evansville Indiana May 17 Lula Cooper 23 years old married Harley E. Yates the fourth husband in a year after losing two husbands to divorce and one by death in 1909. She discarded a single piece of crepe on the justice of the peace desk. The ceremony took place in the same city.
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Sun
Evansville
Ind
Lula Cooper
Justice of the Peace
Harley E. Yates
Enme
Walsh Banker Captive, Ill in Fort Leavenworth Prison
John R. Walsh, a Chicago banker and railway builder recently sentenced to the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., is reported ill in confinement. Dr. L B Baldwin just visited him and says Walsh remains under constant prison medical care while still able to work at his desk six days a week, clipping newspapers for crime stories.
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Chicago
John R. Walsh
Ft. Leavenworth
Kas
L. B. Baldwin
Walsh
First 19 miles of connecting interurban link open
Marion Indiana May 17 The first portion of the connecting link between Ohio and Indiana interurban lines is open to travel The opening drew a large number of riders Sunday and Monday to learn the new service The line joins at Bluffton with the Marion Bluffton Eastern Traction and passes Vera Cruz Linn Grove and Geneva in the Wa bash valley once cut off from railway and interurban facilities The new route offers direct connection between Ohio and Indiana lines through this valley corridor
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Marion
Ind
Ohio
Indiana
Marion, Bluffton & Eastern Traction Company
Buuffton
Wabash Valley
Vera Cruz
Linn Grove
Geneva
Circus employes suffer injuries in switch engine accident
Three John Robinson circus workers were badly hurt when a switch engine ran down a wagon being hauled to the train in South Bend Indiana on May 17. Louis Handghon of Cincinnati had a gash and bruises, George R Hutchinson of Danville Virginia suffered internal injuries, and Charlie Schaufele of Canton Ohio had a crushed chest.
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South Bend
Ind
John Robinson Circus
Louis Handghon
Cincinnati
George R. Hutchinson
Danville
Charlies Schaufele
Canton
Council rejects bikes for walk in Anderson police
Anderson Indiana May 17 the city council ruled policemen should walk rather than ride bicycles. A bill for 100 dollars to cover annual spring repairs on police bicycles was presented and disallowed in Monday’s session.
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Anderson
Ind
Home Hair Tonic to Prevent Dandruff
Dandruff may not always signal baldness but leaves roots weak and hair dull. Use a good shampoo and a weekly hair tonic. Mix beta quinol with alcohol and water or bay rum to nourish follicles and promote long glossy hair.
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