Build Sidewalks and Get Out of the Mud Meeting Call
In a circular from the First ward improvement club residents are urged to attend a Friday meeting at Hillside Ave at 7:30 p.m. to discuss building sidewalks to Washington and Oak Hill schools. The plan proposes five foot sidewalks at about 30 dollars per property with Barrett law payment options, arguing the work lowers costs for shoes and rubbers and boosts home value. B Reeves is secretary.
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Sheldon St
Oak Hill
Winter Ave
Peery
Washington
Hillside Ave
Woman Attacks Husband with Carbolic Acid in New York
Thomas Kelly, an engineer, lies in Eastern hospital with eyes damaged after his wife Elizabeth Kelley threw carbolic acid into his eyes during an election-night dispute. The 35 year old former nurse fled and remains missing as neighbors aid the injured man.
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New York
Elizabeth
Kelley
Notable Cincinnati Doctor Promotes Home Goitre Cure
A Cincinnati physician claims a home remedy cures goitre without surgery and offers a free trial package by mail. He cites Mrs Ellen A Glaynor of Covington Indiana as a cured example after 28 years of illness and urges writing now for the postpaid trial kit.
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Ellen A. Glaynor
Covington
Ind
Herble
Haig
Glenn’ Building
Cin‘ Intiati, O
Hubby Seen With Blonde Woman Sparks Stage Scene
In New York on a Sunday trip, Wm. Vent told his wife he might travel to Philadelphia. On Wednesday night Mrs. Vent and her son attended a Harlem music hall where Vent entered with a blonde woman and caused a disturbance by tearing at the stranger's hair and ripping her dress, prompting police to intervene.
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New York
Wm. Vent
Philadelphia
Licksa Plans Regular Auto Service to Rail Station
Stockholm reports the borough of Licksa in Lapland seeking government permission to establish a regular automobile service to the nearest railway station. Officials expect the motor sleigh will facilitate the new communication.
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Stockholm
Licksa
Lapland
Man Scalded at Cerea Line Mill Water Pipe Burst
F. G. Thompson, 81 W. Eleventh Street, was badly scalded at the Cerea line mill on Wednesday while drawing water from a waste pipe. He says the pipe burst as he leaned over the pipe with a bucket.
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F. G. Thompson
W. Eleventh St
Train collision at Palarm kills brakeman in Arkansas
Two freight trains collided head on at Palarm Arkansas on Wednesday. Brakeman J S Maloch was killed and other trainmen were slightly injured. The accident occurred in Little Rock reporting district with authorities investigating the cause.
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Little Rock
Ark
Palarm
Maloch
Farmer John McGillum Killed Walking on Track
Petersburg Indiana reports that 70 year old farmer John McGillum was struck and killed by a train while walking along the railroad tracks. He served in the Civil War.
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Petersburg
Ind
John McGillum
She Lectures to Farmers
Mrs. William Ervin of Bourbon Indiana has engagements to lecture at several farmers institutes during the winter in this city and surrounding areas likely drawing farmer audiences and support for agricultural education.
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Bourbon
Ind
William Ervin
Farmers’ Institutes
Rebels Take Panama City as Panama Falls
A cablegram to Colombian insurgents in New York says Panama has fallen and rebels now control the city. Gen Alban the Panama governor is believed captured, and the message declares the government surrendered all. Dr Restrepo asserts foreign interests will be protected and the isthmus kept open.
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New York
Panama
Liberal Party
Alban
Restrepo
Fiddler Mayor of San Francisco Elected by Union Labor
Eugene E. Schmitz, orchestra leader at the Columbia theater, wins the San Francisco mayoralty with a 5100 plurality. Voters credited his union ties after a citywide dock strike that paralyzed business for nine weeks last summer.
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San Francisco
Eugene E. Schmitz
Columbia Theater
Union- Labor Party
Musician's Union
Rising Sun Woman Prepares Brief in Appellate Court
Cynthia Coles of Rising Sun daughter of John B Coles prepared a legal brief filed in the appellate court on Wednesday. She works in a law partnership with her father.
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Cynthia .Coles
Rising Sun
Hawkins Sells North Capitol Residence in 12500 Transfer
Roscoe O Hawkins sold his residence on N Capitol Avenue to Chauncey L Turner for 12500 dollars on Thursday.
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Hawkins
Roscoe O. Hawkins
N. Capitol Ave
Chauncey L. Turner
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets Promoted by Physicians Nationwide
Observant doctors note rising catarrhal illnesses and endorse Stuart's Catarrh Tablets as safe and effective. A well known specialist reports relief after weeks, even restoring smell and aiding hearing. Dr Estabrook adds nasal and throat benefits, with tablets completing cures. The product contains eucalyptus bark Guatacol blood root hydrastin and costs 50 cents for complete treatment.
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Stuart
Risdell
Estabrook
Strike Ends as Most Haughville Workers Return
The Haughville strike ends with 49 of 59 white workers resuming duties on Thursday and the rest expected back Friday. The walkout followed the murder of Joel Combs by James Johnson and demanded the discharge of all black workers in the department.
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Haughville
Joel Combs
James Johnson
Melton
Cece
Enenes
Miss Maud Johnson Dies By Drowning in Cistern
The Martinsville woman Miss Maud Johnson, sister-in-law of Judge Jordan, died after leaping into a cistern at Dr Sterne's sanitarium on Wednesday. She had been confined there months for paralysis of one brain half and was despondent about returning home. Her body was found by servants when the cistern top was removed. clothing caught on a pipe, leaving only head and shoulders underwater. Her married name was Wall, later restored upon divorce.
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Maud Johnson
Martinsville
Judge Jordan
Johnson
Wall
Rockefeller Candidate Defeated in Westchester Road Office
John D Rockefeller's choice for highway commissioner in Mount Pleasant Westchester County failed to win as William Hutton edged him by 24 votes. Reuben Roosa supported Rockefeller but Hutton's four year tenure in the post drew voter preference.
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New York
John D.rockefeller
Mount Pleasant
Westchester County
William Hutton
Reuben Roosa
Rockefeller
Hutton
Japanese women protest Mormon preaching in Japan
Advices from the orient report Japanese women petitioning the imperial government to bar Weber J. Grant and three Mormon apostles from propagating their creed in Japan. The reform groups cite continued plural marriage as a reason, though pretended not to, as part of the protest.
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Weber J. Grant
Imperial
Japan
Rockville Street Fair Nets $360 in 1900 Report
Rockville Indiana on November 7 reports the Rockville street fair named one of the best in the state cleared 360 dollars. Officials say it will be bigger and better in 1900.
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Rockville
Ind
Chanler Declared Sane and Begins Estate Examination
Charlottesville report notes John Armstrong Chanler has been declared sane. On Thursday he started the slow task of examining the great estate awarded to him by Judge J.M. White's Wednesday decision. No word yet from Amelie Rives Troubetskoy, his former wife who remains in the United States.
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John Armstrong Chanler
J.M. White
Amelie Rives
Troubetskoy
Maennerchor Opens Season With Successful First Concert
Maennerchor presented its first concert of the season on Wednesday night under director Franz Bellinger. The Norse piece the Cru Sad ers was performed to good reception and several more concerts are planned this season.
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the Crusaders
Franz Bellinger
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