Loeb Avoids Taft Roosevelt Clash on Gubernatorial Path
William Loeb Jr., former Roosevelt aide and New York port collector, skipped the Saratoga showdown to hunt in Wyoming. He avoided choosing sides between Taft and Roosevelt, preserving his ambitions while avoiding enemies, leaving his gubernatorial prospects to unfold in two years.
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the Sun Special Service
Hibbs
Washington
New York City
Saratoga
Roosevelt
Empire State
William Loeb Jr
New York
Loeb
West
Taft
Col. Roosevelt
Sherman
Albany
Wyoming
Brickbats
Stimson
Newark
Sara‘toge
Mr.Loeb
Petition for Brick Road on National Road in Warren Township
A new petition signed by over 150 residents and landowners of Warren township 16 seeks a brick roadway about one mile long on the National Road from the Hancock Marion county line west through Cumberland to the German station. A prior petition was filed recently but withdrawn because of a technical defect in the document.
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Warren Township
Hancock
Marion County Line
Cumberland
York seeks Yoke alias Harry Blake for grand larceny
The National Bureau of Identification lists Yoke alias Harry Blake as a man wanted in York Pennsylvania. He was sent back Monday by Charles White, chief of detectives in York. He was picked up a week earlier on a charge of grand larceny.
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Oke
York
Yoke
Harry Blake
National Bureau of Ideation
Charles White
de- Hyes
Slims Newly Married Couple Feted in City Directory
A brief city note highlights the newly married couple at 618 Erospert Street being feted by neighbors and listed in the local directory, reflecting postnuptial community recognition.
Wants to Live But Not with Husband
Mrs. Gertrude Putnam, in Princeton Indiana, attempted suicide after divorce filings, then rejected her husband’s plea. Ben Putnam contacted Vincennes police offering to take her back, but she recovered and declared she would never return to him or the river.
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Princeton
Ind
Gertrude Putnam
Ben Putnam
Vincennes Police
Putnam
Ben
Officer Cut by Drunk in Fight at Richmond
N Marshal Dan Drischell of Cambridge City was badly injured Saturday night when he fought Alf Parton of Newcastle whom he had arrested for intoxication. Parton cut him with a knife, slashing the right cheek neck and ear. Parton is charged with cutting with intent to kill and held on $500 bond.
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Richmond
Ind
Dan Drischell
Cambridge City
Alf Parton
Newcastle
Parton
Mystery Tax Case Grows Around Francis Smith
Indiana tax officials pursue Francis Smith for twenty thousand dollars in back taxes. Affidavits from all local banks show Smith had no accounts before 1906 in San Antonio. Commission says he dodged taxes while acting as a realty agent. loans and vast funds allegedly moved without bank recourse.
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Francis Smith
Smith
San Antonio
Tex
J. C McCardle
Mr. McCardie
Scotland
Run of a Paris film stunt ends in crash for aviator
Parisot, an aviator, sues a moving picture firm in Paris accusing a hired chauffeur of ramming an automobile into his Farman biplane after he stepped from a plane near the Esplanade des Invalides. He says the collision was staged to film a realism scene and wrecked his aircraft.
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Paris
Moving Picture Machine
Parisot
Esplandes Des Invalides
Farman
Moving Picture
Earl Sholty Ends Benevolence Effort In Kokomo
In Kokomo Indiana on October 3 Earl Sholty announced he will exit the benevolence effort after building streets and alleys near the Great Western pottery works at his own expense. Residents complain bricks are too large and roads rough and Sholty faces arrest threats.
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Kokomo
Ind
Earl Sholty
Great Western Pottery Works
Sholty
Reproached Youth Ends Life by Rope in Michigan City
Chris Bilrich, 20, hanged himself Sunday night after his father reproached him for drinking. City Controller Howard Kimball returned Monday after a ten day trip to Toronto, Detroit, and Buffalo to study methods used by elites affecting finance departments.
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Michigan City
Ind
Chris Bilrich
Howard Kimball
Toronto
Canada
Detroit
Mich
Buffalo
Kimball
Mons Gay
Jane
Forest fires threaten Plymouth county towns in four day blaze
After an all night battle, forest fires raged across Plymouth county for four days burning over 500 acres of timber and damaging homes. Rockland Abingdon Whitman areas saw the worst loss as crews and 200 volunteers saved Hanover. Canton and Sharon remain fire zones with 200 plus acres burned and cranberry bogs destroyed.
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Boston
Plymouth County
Rockland
Abingdon
Whitman
Hanover
North Abingdon
Canton
Sharon
Senator Beveridge to Tour Indiana Districts in Campaign Swing
Senator Beveridge plans a nationwide style swing through Indiana districts with stops in the Tenth at Monticello, the Eleventh at Wabash and Kendallville, and the Twelfth in many counties except Allen. He will be joined by Judge O N Heaton and will end the week in Kokomo, aiming to ignite progressive sentiment amid district rivalries as hoarseness limits his speaking.
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Monticello
Edgar D. Crumpacker
Wabash
George W. Rausch
Marion
John L. Thompson
Gas City
Beveridge
Twelfth
Allen
Cyrus Cline
O. N. Heaton
Columbia City
Marshall
Kendallville
Angola
Lagrange
Auburn
Huntington
Peru
Kokomo
Indiana
Willam BE. Springer
Protests Against Pardoning Murderer Echo in Indiana
Ota L. Oyler brother of Thursa Hinshaw protests Gov pardon moves for W. E. Hinshaw now in prison for murder. Oyler cites parole violation by another crime and argues it undermines trial justice. He warns release would harm families and public morals and urges keeping Hinshaw jailed.
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Winchester
Ind
Ota L. Oyler
Thursa Hinshaw
W. E. Hinshaw
Hanly
Oyter
Oyler
Hinshaw
First World Series games set in Philadelphia
The national commission announced the first two games of baseballs world championship series will be played in Philadelphia after a coin flip between Ben Shibe of the Athletics and Charles Murphy. The seven game series moves to Chicago after Philadelphia, with no opening date fixed.
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Cincinnati
Philadelphia
National Commission
Ben Shibe
Athletics
Charles Murphy
Chicago
Candy plant accident maims worker fingers at Deaconess
Harry Wood of 411 North Liberty Street employed by National Candy Company had fingers caught in a candy roller Monday morning. sufferings were so severe that doctors at Deaconess Hospital amputated them.
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Harry Wood
North Liberty Street
National Candy Company
Deaconess Hospital
State shoots unsafe by regulars clash over range
Quartermaster General Garrard reports friction between Indiana National Guard and regular army. He urges procuring a central tract to house at least a regiment for a state rifle range, notes Ft Harrison range dismantled after government range built nearby. He cites safety and access issues for Indianapolis units and urges state storerooms to cut transportation costs during encampments.
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Indiana National Guard
Regular Army
Charles A. Garrard
Marshall
Garrard
Ft. Harrison
Indianapolis
FOREIGN MADE GOODS NOT SO POPULAR HERE
A report shows $39 106 67 in collections lost on imports into Indianapolis for the quarter ending Sept 30 compared with 1909. Total imports valued at $145 423 yielded $60 909 93 in collections with $18 213 admitted free. Toys led the list at $17 641, salt $12 433, and items included chemical drugs $5 087 works of art $2 895 cabinet wood logs $7 588 brass items $3 902 saltpetre 77 000 pounds $3 931 cotton goods $4 500 linens $2 750 kid gloves $1 000 musical instruments $992 silks and laces $5 500.
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Indianapolis
Quail Abundance Reported Across State This Season
State Fish and Game Commissioner George W. Miles says quail are plentiful this year, with a favorable winter boosting Bob White populations, especially in the southern part of the state. The closed season on all game except waterfowl began Saturday to protect quail from indiscriminate hunting.
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Bob White
Whisky Receipts Grow During Year In Indiana
Internal Revenue Office figures released Monday show September whisky collections at 532415.36 dollars, beer at 58110, and cigars at 20606.09, with September 1909 whisky at 34488.48, beer at 55303.50, and cigars at 20344.29.
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Indiana
Internal Revenue Office
Washington Dines With Denmark King
Booker T. Washington, famed American educator, will dine with King Frederick of Denmark at the royal palace Monday night after an audience with the king. They discussed the colored race and the king asked for a copy of Washingtons work on the Negro problem.
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Copenhagen
Booker T. Washington
Royal Palace
Frederick
Denmark
Cook
Postoffice fraud order hits Dr Branaman remedy
Washington October 3 the postoffice department issued a fraud order against the Dr Branaman remedy company and Dr G M Branaman of Kansas City Missouri charging obtaining money by a false pretense. Inspections found the company failed to deliver advertised cures for deafness nasal catarrh and noises in the head.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Harvard Man Placed in Legislative Reference Dept
Attorney Charles Jewett and Miss Grace Nixon named as assistants in the legislative reference department of the library. Jewett, a DePauw and Harvard Law School graduate, appointed by Governor Brown to serve until the legislature adjourns.
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Charles Jewett
DePauw University
Harvard Law School
EjGrarian
Demarchus C. Brown
Lbrary
Grace Nixon
Walker Advises Denying Permit For Gas Mains
City Attorney Walker concludes the board of public works cannot grant a permit for new gas mains without a petition from street property owners. The Indianapolis Gas Company sought approval to lay mains at New York and Agnes streets. If a petition requests the mains and agrees to burner use, the board may compel laying the mains. refusal could bar future street use by the company.
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Board of Public Works
Indianapolis Gas Company
Walker
New York
Agnes Streets
Walkerp
Wright Brothers Sued Over Patent Rights Infringement Case
Orville and Wilbur Wright deny borrowing Lamson's ideas in a Pasadena patent dispute filed in the U S circuit court. They say Lamson's box kite patent is impractical, never flew, and that heavier-than-air flights with a passenger were not achieved until Oct 17 1908, after Lamson filed May 9 1900.
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Cincinnati
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Charles H. Lamson Jr
Pasadena
Cal
United States Circuit Court
Lamson
Wrights
Men Sign Pledge to Lynch Slayer in Mississippi
Louisville Mississippi October 3 Fifty young men in the county signed an agreement to lynch Swinton Permenter if the jury acquits him in the trial for the slaying of Janis Sharp 18 The governor ordered out the state militia to prevent an outbreak after mobs made several attempts on Permenter life prior to the trial.
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Louisville
Miss
Swinton Permenter
Janis Sharp
Permenter
Funeral of Circuit Rider Nelson Greene Draws Large Crowd
Danville Indiana October 3 The funeral of Rev Nelson Greene 94 one of the oldest northern conference members and a pioneer circuit rider drew a large throng. In 1840 he traveled 350 miles to reach churches in twenty eight towns.
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Danville
Ind
Nelson Greene
Green
Northern Conference
Man Dies From Burns After Boiler Explosion
Peru Indiana two local hospital reports Charles Oliver thirty married scalded in a Chesapeake and Ohio locomotive boiler blast south of Peru near midnight Sunday. His condition is listed as discouraging as he fights severe burns.
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Peru
Ind
Charles Oliver
Here
Coroner Names Man Found Dead In Alley as B Fitzgerald
Coroner Brickwell identified the deceased as B. Fitzgerald of Terre Haute after finding tattoo initials B F on the arm and evidence the man receipted for express packages under that name. Initial belief pointed to T. W. Ward as the decedent, cards bearing Ward’s name found on the body.
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Brickwell
New Jersey
East Street
Washington Street
B. Fitzgerald
Terre Haute
B. F
T. W. Ward
Barnard Juniors Favor Soul Dance at Barnard College
New York Oct 3 Barnard juniors show interest in adding a soul dance course for girls at Barnard College The faculty awaits the junior class decision on establishing a class in soul expression by anatomical oscillation A YY WCA entertainment by Miss Dorothy Cheesman inspired the craze and faculty action is expected to formalize a class with a skilled instructor
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New York
Barnard College
Dorothy Cheesman
Barnard
Beveridge Club Plans Reception For Senator Beveridge
Republican workers in Bloomington Indiana schedule a Tuesday night meeting to arrange an October 12 reception for Senator Beveridge. The Beveridge club formed at the university will lead the parade for his open air address.
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Bloomington
Ind
Beveridge
University
Elderly Sullivan woman credits longevity to coffee abstinence
Mrs. Eleanor Combes age 101 from Sullivan Indiana says she has lived long by never drinking coffee and has survived two husbands.
Interurban Workers to Face Written Examinations in Terre Haute
Terre Haute Indiana October 3 Interurban officials announce mandatory written examinations for all interurban trains employees. Meetings of interns and trainmen will be held at 663 Wabash avenue in the tram clubrooms on October 11 at 1 30 and 7 30 p m to test rules and equipment. General Manager Grover says the move is to prevent negligence and insure safety, with no previous incidents cited.
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Terre Haute
Ind
M. Nash
Terre Haute Divisio Atr T. H., I. & E
Interurban
Tralom
Wabash Avenue
Eployes
Grover
Compas
George Locks Dies at 63 Former Circus Clown and Musician
Anderson Ind Oct 3 George Locks died after a stroke of apoplexy once a clown and musician with the John Robinson circus years ago as it traveled the country by wagon.
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Anderson, Ind
George Locks
Wood
John Robinson
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