Capitol Ready for Congressmen Move House Post Office
Washington Oct 13 Alterations and improvements at the Capitol and the House Office Building costing about 150000 are rushed to finish before Congress convenes Dec 7. An elevator shaft is cut through the judiciary room to connect the basement with a new tunnel linking the office building and the Capitol for press and clerks.
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Capiol
Elliott Woods
Congress
Capitol
House
Jenkins
Committee On
Judiciary
Cannon
Judiciary Room
South Capitol
Children Trade Junk for Books in Rushville School Drive
Rushville Indiana October 13 children organized a junk day to sell old junk collected at home. Proceeds funded more than 40 volumes for the school library as the reading circle books were bought with the earnings from the rag picker sale.
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Rushville
Ind
No More Moths Bug-Doom Deodorizes Insect Damage
A vintage advertisement touts Bug-Doom as an odorless, colorless moth and insect destroyer. It claims effectiveness against moths bedbugs and cockroaches, with easy application by sprinkling after dissolving in water. Sold in 25 and 10 cent packages at drugstores. dealer listings in Indianapolis note local merchants.
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Bug-Doom Chemical Co
B. C
Detroit
Mica
Indianapolis
Birk’s Pharmacy
Meridian
Ohio Streets
Ferger
Illinoi
Washington Streets
Evansville Principal Bars Boys Over Tobacco Smell
Evansville high school principal Young announces suspensions for any boy whose clothes smell of pipes or tobacco. He says discipline will continue until the odor is removed.
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Evansville, Ind
Young
Evansville High School
Man fined 2500 dollars for killing quail in Tennessee
Nashville Tenn report says R F McMurty of Sumner county faced what may be the largest magistrate court fine in state history. He was arrested while trying to discard 50 quail before the season opened and fined 50 dollars per bird, totaling 2500.
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Nashville
Tenn
R. F. McMurty
Sumner County
McMurty
Tennessee
Girl Aids Father in Saloon Brawl Hurts Face
In Tiffin Ohio 15 year old Mary Birch rushed to help her father during a street saloon brawl. A glass shard shattered by a heavy missile tore her face and she lost one eye.
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Tiffin
Mary Birch
Dreamed burglars firing shots near wife in Dallas incident
In Dallas J C Douglas, a prominent citizen, dreamed burglars were in his house. He fired six shots wounding his wife lightly as a bullet grazed her body. He kept $1300 inside the home, a concern that influenced the dream and actions.
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Dallas
Tex
J. C. Douglas
Douglas
Society matron exchanges over a bridge rag purchase
A witty social exchange from Life magazine reflects on a matron paying $300 for a fashionable rag to wear to a bridge party, highlighting status and taste in high society. The quip showcases rivalry and pride among prominent social circles.
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First Society
Second Society
Young Woman to Marry Mian Who Shot Her
Rushville Ind Oct 13 Orange blossoms will take the place of prison bouquets in the case of Marshall Hollowell who faced indictment for attempting to murder his sweetheart Miss Mary Ertle one of Rush counties wealthiest girls. Hollowell shot her after learning she would wed a rival. He also wounded himself. The young woman chose not to marry the rival and plans to marry Hollowell this month after nursing him back to health.
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Rushville
Ind
Marshall Hollowell
Mary Ertle
Rush County
Hollowell
Father weds Jun 3 wife after divorce in Warsaw
In Warsaw Indiana Albert L Tucker of Akron married his son's former wife Lulu Tucker five minutes after she obtained a divorce on grounds of desertion from her husband John Tucker who had left her a year earlier.
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Warsaw
Ind
Albert L. Tucker
Akron
Lulu Tucker
John Tucker
Albert E. Tucker
Portrait of Daniel Boone Oil Portrait by Chester Harding
The piece notes there was only one oil portrait of Daniel Boone painted from a fire by Chester Harding, a Boston artist who traveled to Missouri in June 1820 to Boone’s residence near Arthasville, Warren County, where Boone lived with Flanders Callaway, his son-in-law.
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Daniel Boone
Chester Harding
Boston
Missouri
Flanders Callaway
Boone
Arthasville
Warrenounty
Babies Sent West By Car From New York
67 babies of mixed colors and conditions were sent from New York to St Paul in a special car, accompanied by Sisters of Charity and two nurses. The Home Finding Society aims to place them with farmers along the way, hoping to find loving homes as the conductor and crew show silent compassion for the waifs despite their grim origin.
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York
Milwaukee
Sisters of Charity
the Home Finding Society of
New York
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Wall Street
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Mr. Green
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