Grocers Claim Commission Men In Collusion Over Prices
Indianapolis grocers and fruit dealers allege commission merchants on Delaware and Maryland streets maintain tacit price agreements, raising costs for peaches lemons eggs and butter. Merchants defend prices as supply and demand driven, noting perishability and quality differences. Witnesses fear retaliation if identified.
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Robbers’ Row
Indianapolis
Commission Market
Delaware and
Maryland Street
Commission Houses
Commission
Deitz and family arraigned over bullets souvenir case
Sawyer county district attorney will arraign John Deitz his two sons and Mrs Deitz in Hayward on warrants issued in a case where bullets found in their cabin are kept as souvenirs. Preliminary hearings set for this week before Municipal Judge Riordan with December term to hear the case. Oscar Harp 45 fatally shot. others uninjured.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Davis
Sawyer County
John Deitz
Deitz
Hayward
Riordan
Wickham
Alve
Oscar Harp
Deitzs Cabin
Leslie
John
Reactionaries of Democracy in Ascendancy
Morgan holds throttle as Gold Democrats are the most talked about force in the political scene. The piece analyzes how conservative factions gain influence within the party and steer policy directions amid rising opposition.
Tries Twice To End Life In One Home
Mabel Hoffman aged 20 attempted suicide twice in two days taking strychnine. Her husband John and mother in law resisted hospital transfer. humane society urged action as doctors warned life-saving care needed. A typhoid fever scene was noted in the same house.
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Schlangen
Glenn
Hoffman
The
Humane Society
Beveridge Tackles Tariff Board Fight in Indiana Rally
Senator Beveridge spoke in Clark County Indiana backed by Frederick Landis and John Monghan attacking big business influence in politics and urging voters to support what he calls progressive Republican reforms. He urged citizens to defend the nation from an invisible government of special interests and to vote for policies serving the people.
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Jeffersonville
Smadifi
Beveridge
Clark County
Frederick Landis
Logansport
John Monghban
Knights of Pythias ‘Armory
J.mc Reynolds
Tariff Commission
Lincoln
Princeton Graduate Tries to Enlist to Escape Belle Court
A Princeton University class of 1964 graduate sought enlistment at an Indiana town recruiting station aiming to escape his parents who pressure him into a loveless arranged marriage to a society leader. Lt Bullock refused the application citing potential notoriety and public fallout from the match.
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Hig Smell
Indiana Town
Princeton University
C. A. Bullock
Indianapolis Naval Station
Princeton
Eight of sixty six fall only eight of sixty six fall
Probation officer Samuel Gaddis reports three months show 143 prisoners placed on their own recognizance by Police Judge James A. Collings to pay fines. Five returned to jail. Twenty signed pledges to quit liquor bringing total sixty six this year. eight stayed off the water wagon. For quarter ending Sept 30 Judge Collins pays city clerk 8217.29 in net fines.
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Samuel ‘Gaddis
James A. Collings
Worehouse
Collins
Weather Page Fragment Signals Ongoing Updates
Continued coverage on page 2 hints at weather reporting by the weatherman. The snippet suggests ongoing updates and forecasts for readers following regional conditions.
Fires Threaten City as Death Toll Soars
Reported fires devastate neighborhoods with up to a thousand feared dead and fifty bodies recovered. Citizens react with fear as flames destroy homes and livelihoods.
Fires devastate towns and threaten region in widespread blaze
The fire toll rises across a 2,500 square mile area destroying Beaudette Spooner and wiping out Graceton Roosevelt Swift Pitt and Cedar Spur. Rainy River and other towns are in danger. Deaths are estimated from 200 to 1,000 with sixty bodies found and seventy five known dead. About 2,000 are missing as hundreds of homesteaders are cut off. Loss is estimated at 4 million dollars and climbing as fires continue to burn hourly.
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Winnipeg
Man
Minnesota
Ontario
Rainy River
Canadian Northern Railway
Lorette
Spooner
Benudette
Pitt
Graceton
Williams
Roosevelt
Canadian Mounted Police
Eberhardt
Sire
Beaudette
Swift
Cedar Spur
Willams
Tere
Canadian Northwest Railway
Empress
Five Roses
Wapiti
Rainy
Deal
Courthouse Wags Told to Work or Leave
Supt Hyland orders courthouse loafers to find work or face removal. Daniel Foley proposed twenty cents an hour to workers for sewer construction in Emerson Heights but drew no takers. Patrolman Englebright instructed the crowd to seek jobs, warning of a lengthy rest in the shade if they lingered.
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Hyland
Daniel Foley
Emerson Heights
Foley
Supt. Hyland
Courthouse Rest Trust
Englebright
Valuable furs stolen in daylight burglary at Rothschild store
thieves broke two rear windows of Rothschild fur store on Washington Street early Monday took fur coats silk coats and shirt chests valued between 3500 and 8000 dollars. They entered after 430 am and fled via the same window, avoiding alarms with painted panes. Police suspect professional thieves and note the scene as highly organized.
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Rothschild's
Washington Street
Ilinois
F. E. Manker
A. G. Rothschild
Mr. Rothschild
Oscar Williams
East Market Street
Louis Rose
Charles Foote
Hermes Avenue
Roosevelt in Hot Springs Defends New Nationalism Tour
Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Hot Springs Arkansas on a southern swing and reasserts his tariff stance. He says the Saratoga plank was not of his making and plans a Indianapolis speech to attack the Payne Aldrich law while defending his views on democracy and corruption. Roosevelt notes strong reception from crowds across Virginia Tennessee Georgia Mississippi and Alabama.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Theodore Roosevelt
Atlanta
St. Louis
Col Roosevelt
Saratoga
Syracuse
Indianapolis
U. S
Albert J. Beveridge
John Kern
Beveridge
Roosevelt
Indiana
William J. Bryfin
Archan Hunter
Col
Bryan
Teddy
Col. Roosevelt
New York
New Nationsliam
West
Iside
Bessiam
Pabi
South
Virginia
Tennessee
Georgia
Miassissippi
Alabama
Colon
Africa. Co
Body found near Big Four railroad tracks identified
The body discovered along the Big Four railroad tracks near Sunny has been identified as male. Police and investigators are reviewing the death as a possible incident on a quiet rural route. Further details were not released pending autopsy results.
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Big Four
Corn Growers Meet Indiana Committee Session
A compressed notice describes an executive committee meeting of Indiana corn growers. Details are fragmentary but indicate organizational discussions among corn producer leaders.
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Acree
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