Citizens Pay High Prices for Whistle Blowing Utilities
History in Indianapolis shows citizens pay high rates after public service efforts. Water, gas, and telephone ventures duplicating existing systems led to city franchises granting higher charges. The Home Heating and Lighting company now People’s Heat and Light faced rising rates and perpetual interest costs on securities. The New Telephone Company followed a similar pattern, arguing low initial rates but securing franchises and high charges later. Continued on Page 2, Col. 5.
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Cean Utilities
Indianapolis
People’s Heat, and Light Company
Xynuch
Traveling salesman and two girls jailed for loitering
Harry Lester, a traveling salesman from Cincinnati working for a New York firm, was found talking with Ella Vance and Manda Leonard near the Claypool hotel at midnight. He defied patrolmen when asked his name, received ten days in jail for contempt, but the days were suspended after intervention. The two girls were fined and jailed for loitering.
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Harry Lester
Claypool
Lester
Dugan
Sheridan
Ella Vance
Manda Leonard
Central
Whallon
Cincinnati
New York
Wheat Slips on Toboggan Trade in Chicago Market
May wheat fell sharply as early buyers rushed to sell. Prices closed with wheat July at 1.17 and May wheat briefly crossing 1.35. Corn rose for nearby contracts but fell for deferred months, oats rose modestly, and provisions advanced notably led by lard and ribs.
Indiana Senator Shively Delivers Maiden Senate Speech
Washington May 35 Senator Shively Indiana the sole Democrat north of Ohio and east of the Mississippi made his maiden Senate speech before a large crowd of colleagues. He assessed the tariff bill noting nine schedules higher than present law four lower and one same predicting duties would rise to the maximum rate. Senator Beveridge acted as interpreter of President Taft’s tariff views citing speeches urging downward revision.
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Washington
Shively
Indiana
Senate
Ohio
Eut
Mississippi
Beveridge
Taft
Bath
Barrel tug sparks street dispute over price
A dispute over barrels drew Patrolman Deiner to a street altercation between Israel Silverman and Henry Seiring Monday afternoon. Each man held a barrel end and tried to take it from the other. They dropped the barrel and clinched but no blows were shown. Silverman was driving a wagon loaded with barrels. Seiring sought to buy one but balked at the price, sparking the quarrel.
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Deiner
Israel Silverman
Henry Seiring
Silverman
Seiring
Selring
Deserted Wife Sent Back to Her Home
In Chicago on May 25 the Travelers' Aid of the YWCA helped a distraught wife of a New York drummer after he left New York for Yellowstone Park and boarded a train for an unknown destination without saying goodbye. She had only 2 dollars. Mrs. Taylor at Union Station secured funds to send her back to New York where she hopes to receive letters from her husband who writes daily.
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Chicago
New York
Yellowstone Park
Prisoners Sentenced by Judge Pritchard
Dennis Courtney was jailed in the workhouse for one year for petit larceny by Judge Pritchard on Tuesday morning. James Connelly and William McCracken were also sentenced on the same charge with their sentences suspended. Bert Eubanks pleaded guilty to entering a house to commit a felony and was sentenced to two to 14 years in prison.
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Dennis Courtney
Pritchard
James Connelly
William McCracken
Bert Eubanks
Mother Reclaims Children in Indiana Custody Dispute
Amelia A. Moyer, of Findlay, alleges her ex husband John Moyer abducted her two daughters Marian and Gladys after a December divorce. Deputies found the girls in Indianapolis and brought them to Sheriff Woessner. Judge Remster issued a writ of habeas corpus and temporarily placed the children with Zoe Graul while the case proceeds. The father was ordered to pay weekly support into court.
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Findlay
Indianapolis
Remster
Circuit Court
Amelia A. Moyer
John Moyer
Marian
Gladys
Woessner
Broadway
Moyer
Zoa Graul
City inspectors to canvass Indianapolis premises
Ten city inspectors will begin a house to house canvass in Indianapolis on Wednesday morning under Board of Health orders. Residents must clean premises within five days after notification or face prosecutions. Efforts target breeding places of disease and flies.
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Indianapolis
Board of Health
Fortifications planned to defend Panama Canal at $7 million
Washington reports outline a defense plan with three Pacific side batteries to guard the canal mouth and 60 disappearing guns including 16 inch calibers. The project spans Flamenco Culebra Noais islands and Ancon San Juan positions, with key works at Pedro Miguel and El Boco, totaling about seven million dollars.
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Flamenco
Culebra
Noais
Ancon
San Juan
Pacific Ocean
Pedro Miguel
Atlantic
el Boco Point
Children Wed Separate Get Another Chance
Judge Pritchard warned against child marriages in a Tuesday session of the criminal court. Jesse Mullin, 18, and his wife, 11, married at 16 and 17 respectively, had separated three times and filed for divorce. The judge chose leniency, delaying punishment and urging the couple to live apart from interfering neighbors, then offering a fresh chance if they reconciled and dismissed the divorce.
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Jesse Mullin
Pritchard
Criminal Court
Mullin
Dudley Drops Suit Over Receiver Appointment
Pate News records a daily sweep of brief items. Dudley’s lawyers withdrew the suit against the United States Express Co. seeking a receiver order. Reports also cover a Centerville murder trial guard, tariff vote moves in the Senate, a coastwise derelict destroyed, and other brief items across cities.
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New York
John L. Dudley
United States Express Company
Dudley
Ponies Shine in Sun's Gentry Show Contest Win
Marvin M. Lain and Alice Dunn won ponies in the Sun's pony contest at the Gentry show. Lain entertains crowds each afternoon with the pony, while Dunn’s daughter shares in the joy. Eugene Sauley named as special guest, coming this summer, after placing close second.
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Rinh
the Sun
Marvin M. Lain
Alice Dunn
Sun
Marvin Lain
Miss Dunn
Eugene Sauley
Rdea
Eugene
AID SOCIETY MEETING AT KING AVE M E CHURCH
The Ladies Aid society of the King Avenue M E church will meet tomorrow at 2 30 PM at the home of Mrs E Bartle Germania Avenue. Bulletin.
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Ladies’ Aid Society of
the King Avenue
M. E. Church
Indiana Appoints Chief and Two Deputies to Public Accounting Bureau
Governor Marshall announces William A. Deharity as chief examiner of the Indiana public accounting bureau with Fogarty and Boltz named deputy examiners. Terms vary from two to four years, starting June 1. The bureau will inventory state property, standardize public spending, and require retiring officers to account for assets. Field examiner positions are open with competitive pay.
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William A. Deharity
Elwood
Indiana Public Accounting Bureau
Marshall
William M. Fogarty
Indianapolis
John H. Boltz
Winchester
Dehority
Fogarty
Boltz
William A. Dehority
Randolph County
Delegates Chosen by Marion County Catholic Societies
The Marion County Federation of Catholic societies selected delegates to the state convention to be held in Peru Indiana starting Sunday May 30. Named were Timothy Sexton Hugh Davey M C Moran Joseph C Schreiner Edward Hayden and women leaders including Mrs P E Deery Mrs Katherine Miller Mrs John Arthur Mrs Maurice Quill Miss Ela Hallinan Miss Sadie Cahill Miss Hannah Creeden Miss Ela Washman and Miss Margaret O'Mara. Alternates named include Miss Anna Gibbons Mrs Patrick Curran and Mrs Ball O'Leary. Henry J Budenz Marion county president will attend alongside state president Patrick J Griffin of Indianapolis.
Columbia City to get interurban line route clarified
Indiana May 3. Harry S. Dickey says Winona traction will not use the Nickel Plate route. The line will run along the Pennsylvania tracks, likely on the north side. Work through Columbia City will start after four miles of grading south of Menicane on the Peru One is finished.
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Columbia City
Ind
Winona
Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania
Menicane
Peru
Larchil
Coesse
Arcola
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Jall
U. S
Panama Canal
Neal
Prigks
Dickinson
J. Franklin Bell
William H. Taft
Mr- Taft
PATE
Des Moines
John Junken
Centerville
Clara Rosen
Aldrich
Seneca
San Francisco
Wilfrid Nellogg
Allejo Street
Caracas
Venezuela
Jules Juscelsne
Port Townsend
Ediz Hook
Boston
Mount Hope
George Dixon
Joe Humphreys
Terry McGovern
Young Corbett
Manhattan
West Orange
Berlin
Much
Eppendorf Hospital
Hamburg
Ottumwa
John Carter
Lena Shaw
Shaw
Eldon
Eugene Saulcy
Public Accounting Law
Elwood Banker
Marion County Federation of Catholic Societies
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