Investment plan promises life income with 2 50 monthly stock shares
The offer touts non assessable stock at 100 per share paid in 40 monthly installments of 2 50. It claims limited sale to 2 000 shares and a security system with deposits in banks in Indianapolis and Mexico City. Each share pledges a half acre of developed land and a future value of 500 to 1 000 per acre depending on location.
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Hiie
Tehuantepec
Mexico
Merchants’ National Bank
Indianapolis
American Security Bank
Mexico City
A. C. Daily
W. D. Owen
Nat Us. Hill
W. J. Overstreet
Ubero Plantation Company
Girl abducted by 18 youths near English town
Miss Sarah Randolph 17 says she was dragged into the woods by 18 young men while returning from church with three companions. She was held until morning and later released at dawn. She identifies many suspects, including prominent locals, with arrests expected amid talk of lynching.
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Ind
Sarah Randolph
Jesse Lingert
Miss Randolph
Despondent Woman Attempts Suicide In Greenfield
Mrs Edna Worthington daughter of ex mayor Jack Heron attempted death by her own hand Tuesday night by taking morphine. She has been despondent and left a letter blaming her husband described as a sport and herself as fanatically religious. She is believed to have poisoned her infant child who is unconscious but not in danger. Mrs Worthington will recover though another attempt is feared.
Possum Prank Jumps Man Down Stairs in Aurora
In Aurora Indiana on November 15 a man was injured when two friends placed possums in his bed as a joke. In a panic one possum climbed under his shirt and he plunged down stairs headfirst, suffering serious but nonfatal injuries. He was able to survive the ordeal.
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Aurora
Ind
Garrett Johnson
Local Incorporations and Manufacturing Firms Listed
The notice lists several Indiana based companies with capitals including Upland cooperative glass company capital 10000 and James A Armstrong company Fort Wayne capital 50000 plus others in Madison Cambridge City Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. It also mentions a sweeping health claim for Dean's Ointment and a general drugstore sale note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upland Driving, and Fair Association
Upland Co-Operative Glass Company
Century Fence Post Company
Madison
W. S. Wickard Company
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Standard Manufacturing Company
Cambridge City
Fire-bug suspected after trio of neighborhood blazes
A barn at 368 W Eleventh Street owned by Isaac Allen and used by William Jones and Ed O'Hara burned Tuesday near 9 pm causing 100 dollars loss. The blaze spread to 371 W Eleventh Street destroying a shed owned by William Allen with slight loss. A frame house at 1107 Colter Street rented by James Cruse and occupied by Minnie Ready and Louis Neil also burned with 100 dollars estimated damage. This marked the third mysterious fire in the area, prompting suspicion of a fire-bug at work.
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Eleventh-st
Isaac Allen
William Jones
Ed O’hara
William Allen
Colterst
James Cruse
Minnie Ready
Louis Neil
County Commission Denies Appointment Of Lesley And Appel
Commissioner Greer said on Wednesday that Lesley and Apple have not been appointed to continue the county books investigation. The session was postponed due to the absence of one commissioner, with no known rescheduled date.
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Lesley
Appel
Greer
Apple
the Sentinel
Carpenter Falls 25 Feet On Belt Bridge Project
John Reese of 1516 Lee Street, a carpenter on the Belt railroad bridge over White River, plunged 25 feet to a pavement Tuesday evening. He landed on his feet but lost several teeth, cut his chin, and sprained an ankle.
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John Reese
Lee St
Belt
Acros
Dying at 115 Lizzie Luckett Hous frail after slave life
Lizzie Luckett, aged 115, lies dying in Houston on November 15 after 15 years bedridden. Once a slave in North Carolina and Tennessee, she recently lost her sign.
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Houston
Tex
Lizzie Luckett
North Carolina
Tennessee
Tie Talk Among railroad men at Union Station review
A. E. Robbins of the Wabash Buffalo division and Richard Doyle of the Big Four St. Louis division were in town. Foremen and inspectors met at Union station for a rolling stock and repair review as the I and W inspection train departed at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
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A. E. Robbins
Buffalo
Wabash Railroad
Richard“ Doyle
St. Louis
Big Four
Union Station
Cable chat and world briefs from Paris Berlin and The Hague
The American colony in Paris sent 1450 dollars for outfitting the steamer Maine as a hospital ship for the Finnish army. In Berlin Lieut Von Queis who led a German expedition into the Cameroons Hinterland was killed by natives. In The Hague a special dispatch Te-
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Paris
Maine
Berlin
von Queis
Cameroons
West Africa
Hague
Hogeland urges child welfare plan for cities
Col Hogeland touring Indianapolis and Louisville presses executive committee of a national home and employment association. He endorses the city curfew as the best enforced and proposes detaining tramping boys, separating youths from criminals, guiding youths to employment via intelligence bureaus, and safeguarding children from abusive homes.
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Alexander Hogeland
Newsboys
Indianapolis
Louisville
National Home and Employment Association
Hogeland
Col. Hogeland
Maxwell and Goodwin Trial Over Play Infringement
Chicago November 15 The case of John Maxwell a Chicago newspaper man against Nat Goodwin the actor may come up Thursday The suit for damages alleges appropriation of words plot and ideas from the plaintiff's play Congress of which Ambition used by Mr Goodwin is charged to be an infringement A jury previously returned a 10000 verdict in Maxwell s favor but a new trial was allowed
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Chicago
John Maxwell
Nat Goodwin
Congress
Goodwin
Rollinger to be hanged for wife murder in Chicago
In Chicago on November 15 Michael Emil Rollinger, accused of killing his wife to marry Lena Hecker, faces execution after the governor refused to intervene. Mrs Rollinger was beaten to death and an attempt to cremate her body in a closet at the Rollinger home followed.
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Chicago
Michael Emil Rollinger
Rollinger
Lena
Hecker
Queen opens Convalescent Home amid cheering crowds
The Queen visited and opened the Convalescent Home in Bristol on Wednesday afternoon. The ceremony drew widespread enthusiasm with her majesty cheered in the streets by large crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Eng
Franklin men form pneumatic tools company in town
General Charles Miller and Representative John C. Sibley of Franklin have organized a local firm to manufacture pneumatic tools air compressors and mining machinery. The plan includes a plant to be built in Franklin that will be among the world's largest of its kind and will employ hundreds of workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin, Pa
Charles Miller
John C. Sibley
Reiffs Sweep Horse Races at Leicester
At Leicester on Wednesday J Reiff aboard Downton won the Apelthorpe handicap of 100 sovereigns. L Reiff took the November handicap of 300 sovereigns on Lockford. L Reiff also led in the Barborough handicap of 100 sovereigns with White Nun.
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Reiffs
Leicester
Eng
Racing
J. Reiff
Downton
L. Reiff
Lockford
Barborough
White Nun
Benham Sentenced to Electroution for Wife Murder
Howard C. Benham, the wife murderer, was brought from Auburn prison to Batavia and before Justice Hooker who sentenced him to be electrocuted on January 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia
N. Y
Howard C. Benham
Auburn
Hooker
Births and deaths page records local families
Birth notices list numerous families with newborn girls and boys at specified addresses from W. E. and Kate Peats to Charles Tuley and Nancy Hall, with medical causes noted for some deaths. Marriage licenses show pairs including John Guy Keckler and Helen Van Piper, Phas B. Jamison and Carle Ellen John, and other local couples.
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John Guy Keckler
Helen Louise van Piper
John P. Knamilien
Margaret Klingel
Phas B. Jamison
Carle Ellen John
Harry O. White
Maybelle Miller
Lane L. Ballinger
Viola Stoner
William F. Kitzele
May Esther Sherley
William R. Seitz
Ella Anderson
William E. Crane
Louise A. Cassa
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Statuary Hall
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Fitzgerald Building
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William D. Owen
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A. GC. Daily
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A. Z. Wiley
Justice State Appellate Court
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United States
Matias ‘Romero
Statistics
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Philadelphia
Gulf Ports
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Isthmus
San Juan Evangelista, Estado de Vera Cruz
Bailey & Dorman
Board of Control
Uberooo
Tehauntepec
Las Chirriras
Ubero Plantation
W. E
Kate Peats
English Ave
W. H
Margaret Round
Wilkins St
Otto and
Luella Bradford
Patterson St
W. R
Elsie Hancock
Broadway
Fred F
Pauline Heier
S, New Jersey
Thomas B
Elizabeth Higgins
Illinois-st
Joseph T
Mary Eliott
Pennsylvania-st
Steve
Ora Wright
River-ave
Charles
Martha Cheetham
Alvord-st
Eliza G. Walker
Wm. H. Fredricks
S. East St
George E. Thompson
Charles P. Tuley
Nancy E. Hall
Arsenal Ave
John Walker
Nancy Robbs
George Albert Geis
Elsie Josephine Miggenburg
Charles Goepper
Clara Koehler
Benedict Haueser
Margaret Hahn
Edward C. Tinsley
Eva Jordan
Albert Young
Carrie Lyzott
Adarecs Gterting Remedy Company
D. H. Baldwin &Co
H. Penn
Dow
H. M. Bronson, A. G. B
Sun
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