Gary Y M C A Cornerstone Laid In Place
Gary Y M C A corner stone ceremony marks $250000 gift by Judge Gary for a new building in Gary Indiana to be completed by mid 1912. The three story to four story structure will include 65 bedrooms on top floor and multiple facilities with lavish furnishings.
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Gary
Ind
BE. H. Gary
The
Steel Corporation
E. J. Buffington
Ilinois Steel Company
Buffington
William A. Wirt
Gary Y. M. C. A
E. E. Stacy
Indiana Y. M. C. A
Fred E. Walton
Gary Presbyterian Church
Thomas Janson
Holy Angels
Adams and
Jefferson Streets
Fifth Avenue
Carnegie Library
Opera House
Episcopal Church
Federal Building
L. W. McManee
C. A. de Long
T. H. Cutler
W. P. Gleason
Imnois Steel Company
A. R. McArthur
American Steel and Tin Plate Plant
H. S. Norton
John Kirt
E. J. and Brailroad
Samuel Miller
Refused Loan Spurs Hold Up in Loganport
Fred Schum and George Best staged a fake hold up to keep $14 taken from William Diamond after Diamond refused a loan of $1. The boys, both youths, chose the robbery when Diamond broke a $2 bill. Schum and Best were arrested.
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Logansport
Ind
Fred Schum
George Best
William Diamond
Diamond Ralk
Schum
Bost
Mules' Backs Crack as Tree Falls on Animals
Martinsville Indiana September 12 Two mules owned by Theodore Brown were injured when a rotten tree toppled onto them as Brown was mowing weeds beside the road. He escaped uninjured.
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Martinsville
Ind
Theodore Brown
Brown
Mr. Brown
Aged Handkerchief Bears Lord's Prayer
Columbus Indiana September 12 Isaac Seamaster inherits from his father Richard Seamaster a handkerchief eighty years old bearing the Lord's Prayer on one side. The script remains decipherable despite the age lending a quiet note of sentiment to a family heirloom now passed along.
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Columbus
Ind
Isaac Seamaster
Richard Seamaster
Greensburg Chair Factory Sells Out
Greensburg Indiana reports that James F. Fulton who held the controlling stake sold his interest to F. P. Wade W Windt and M Biddle all of Winona for 30000. The plant can produce 150 dozen chairs daily. Married Again Too Soon relates Noblesville Indiana where Mrs. Pearl Knotts a bride of a week was arrested on bigamy charges following a divorce filing by Ernest Lehrman of Indianapolis.
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the Sun
Anderson
Ind
James F. Fulton
Greensburg Chair Company
F. P. Wade
W. @. Windt
M. Biddle
Winiwac
Noblesville
Pearl. Knotts
Ernest Lehrman
Indianapolis
Lehrman
Lumbermen protest freight tariff rise in Evansville
An Evansville lumbermen group formed to oppose proposed railroad tariff increases and to demand repayment of overcharges totaling more than 33,000 by the Illinois Central. A follow up meeting will form a permanent organization in coming days.
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Evansville
Ind
Ilinois Central Railroad
Lake Erie Bill Returns to Sorrow
Lake Erie Bill was arrested Saturday charged with trying to break into Harry Beard s cigar store in Dublin Indiana. An effort to place him in the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane will be made. Bill once an expert machinist and was engaged to a girl in Ohio when he learned she married another. He has wandered for years seeking to forget his sorrow.
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Dublin
Ind
Lake Erie
Bill
Harry Beard
Eastern
Indiana
Ohio
Court Denounces Sheriff as No Good in Indiana
In Columbus Indiana on September 12 the court denounced the sheriff after Jesse Reno accused in a bootleg case was not arrested. The absence of Reno prevented trial and Sheriff Cox admitted no warrant was given. The court called the sheriff inefficient for prioritizing private business over duty.
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the Sun
Columbus
Ind
Jesse Reno
Reno
Cox
Chautauqua Elects Officers for 1911
Columbus chautauqua reorganizes for 1912 electing officers President M O Reeves vice presidents Miss Lilian Volland H M Campbell Mrs H H Bassett EB Lindasy Simeon Boaz treasurer Edward M Green secretary Roy W Emig directors John L Jones William H Newsom Samuel Wertz Grant Fitch G L Reeves M O Reeves and Roy W Emig.
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Sun
Columbus
Ind
The
Columbus Chautauqua
M. O. Reeves
Misa Lilian Volland
H. M. Campbell
H. H. Bassett
EB. E. Lindasy
Simeon Boaz
Edward M. Green
Roy W. Emig
John L. Jones
William H. Newsom
Samuel Wertz
Unpopular tax law amendment proposed in Indiana
Richmond Ind Sept 12 The Young men's business club proposes amending the vehicle tax law to make it inoperative against farmers as a relief measure. The law is unpopular and feared to drive farmers away.
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The
Sun
Richmond
Ind
Young Men’s Business Club
Hunters jealous of marksmanship in Martinsville
Martinsville, Ind. locals say former Postmaster W. W. Kennedy, 63, accidentally shot while aiming at a fox squirrel. He downed two gray squirrels and shows them as proof of his shotgun skill.
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Martinsville
Ind
W. W. Kennedy
Kennedy
Indian farmer loses right arm in traction engine accident
In Anderson Indiana on September 12 Frank Hoarding, a young farmer, lost his right arm when the traction engine he was operating stalled. To restart it he braced with his shoulder, the machine jolted with force, the sleeve caught on a wheel projection and the arm was ripped away.
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Anderson
Ind
Frank Hoarding
Here
Harding
Stricken on Street Claims Peruvian Woman
Peru Ind September 12 Mrs William Rentzel died after slipping on a street Sunday and suffering a ruptured blood vessel She had lived in Wabash until several years ago and was with friends at the time of the accident
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Peru
Ind
William Rentzel
Wabash
Divorcing Man Alleges Wife Bit Him in Complaint
Sylvester Young files for divorce in Kokomo Indiana alleging his wife bit him and citing several other alleged acts of savagery as grounds for the divorce. The filing reflects a domestic dispute with claims of mistreatment and physical aggression.
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Kokomo
Ind
Sylvester Young
Heaviest Twins Claim From Noblesville Farmers
Noblesville Indiana September 12 Watt and Otto Brandon may hold the title of the world’s heaviest twins with weights of 251 and 249 pounds. They are prosperous farmers near Noblesville, share height of 5 feet 11 3/4 inches, wear identical clothing, and are indistinguishable to strangers though friends tell them apart by voice and temperament.
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Noblesville
Ind
Watt
Otto Brandon
Otto
Sheriff and posse chase murderer across state line
Sheriff Wible and posse pursued the Sullivan murder suspect of Ray Orr into Illinois but units failed to locate him. Orr was shot without provocation, fired as he approached a bundle of jewelry inside an icehouse. Orr died ten minutes later, and authorities believe the assailant mistook him for the quarrel partner.
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Shelburn
Ind
Wible
Ray Orr
Sullivan
Illinois Line
Orr
Death by own action believed only verdict in Wicks case
In Richmond Indiana on September 12 the verdict in the death of Mrs Ira Wicks is death by own action by drowning. Officials say a preliminary investigation shows she took her own life due to marital troubles. Jealousy of 19 year old half sister Mabel Thorne is believed the cause.
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Richmond
Ind
Ira Wicks
Mabel Thorne
Prohis Name Ticket Chosen in Monroe County Vote
In a mass convention in Bloomington on Saturday afternoon Monroe County prohibitionists selected their county ticket. For clerk James R. Rabsom for treasurer William Welsc for sheriff Grant Wright for recorder William H. Bierly for assessor George W. Rogers for surveyor D. Maurice Hunter for commissioner Second district Norman Johnson for commissioner Third district Samuel J. Woodburn.
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Bloomington
Ind
Monroe County
James R. Rabsom
William Welsc
Grant Wright
William H. Bierly
George W. Rogers
D. Maurice Hunter
Norman Johnson
Samuel J. Woodburn
Ladoga Man Killed by Train in Bloomington
James J. Bullet a Ladoga born contractor who had moved to Bloomington in June to supervise construction of the Shower Brothers furniture factory was instantly killed Sunday afternoon when struck walking on a Monon passenger train line in the city center.
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Ladoga
Bloomington
Ind
James J. Bullet
Shower Brothers Furniture
Monon
New York Man Held on Arson Charge at Delaware Hotel
Special to TH sun. C. M. Webster, of New York, is jailed in Muncie Ind for three Sunday attempts to burn the Delaware hotel. Proprietor C. P. Bundy reported Webster’s odd conduct after a doctor warned he was acting strangely. The third try involved bedding ignition as fire alarms sounded with Webster crying Fire at the Delaware.
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Muncie
Ind
C. M. Webster
Delaware
New
Webster
New York
C. P. Bundy
57Th Street
Central Park
Carnegie Hall
Great Northern
Home of Wealthy Cicero Man Burns
The home of W. F. Modes, part owner of Modes Turner glass company, burned to the ground Sunday night in Cicero Indiana. Fire was noticed by passersby about 7:30 pm. Cicero has limited fire protection and the volunteer force watched as the building was destroyed. No cause is known and the family were away from home since Sunday morning.
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Cicero
Ind
W. F. Modes
Modes- Turner
Arendin
Boy 11 Fights Off Aggressive Sow in Washington
In Washington Indiana on September 12 a boy aged 11, son of Milton Fitzgerald, was seriously injured when a sow charged him Saturday. The sow gnawed his leg before a dog clung to the sow’s snout and finally subdued the animal. Proceedings or further details were not provided.
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Sun
Washington
Ind
Milton Fitzgerald
Indiana soil gave him birth a Michigan governor hopeful
Special to The Sup Huntington Indiana Sept 12 Chase Salmon Osborn Republican candidate for Michigan governor was born in Huntington County near Dora Jan 12 1860 His father George Osborn a pioneer and abolitionist moved to Lafayette where Osborn attended school then Purdue for three years He began in newspapers with type setting peddling Chicago papers in Lafayette and later worked as an roustabout in a Michigan lumber camp.
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Huntington
Ind
Chase Salmon Osborn
Michigan
Indiana
Huntington County
Osborn
Dora
George Osborn
Lafayette
Purdue
Chicago
Windy City
Milwaukee
Lover dies at hand of woman's husband
South Bend Ind September 12 After eloping with Mrs Zell Oglebey of South Bend Frank Kanouse was shot and killed near Kankakee Illinois Saturday by John L Oglebey the woman's husband Oglebey is jailed at Kankakee Kanouse left with Mrs Oglebey ten days ago The Oxliebeys agreed to separate but the husband vowed to kill Kanouse if he could find him
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South Bend
Ind
Zell
Oglebey
Kanouse
Kankakee
John L. Oglebey
Councilmen Quit as Knockers Howl in Roanoke
Roanoke Indiana on September 12 the town clerk and councilmen resigned amid constant criticism leaving the town without clerk or council to call a new election. The community had recently defeated a water works measure and lacks fire protection.
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Roanoke
Ind
Col Gavins Dies At Home Of Apoplexy
Bloomfield Ind September 12 Col H Co Cavins a widely known Green county citizen died at his home here Sunday from a stroke of apoplexy suffered four weeks earlier He served as colonel of the Fourteenth regiment Indiana volunteers in the Civil War and was a member of the Indiana general assembly in 1859 He spent his 78 years in Green county Corporate.poorly formatted text corrected for clarity
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Bloomfield
Ind
Col. H. Co. Cavins
Green County
Fourteenth Regiment of
Indiana Volunteers
General Assembly of
Indiana
Cancer off breast restores speech in Auburn woman
Auburn Ind Sept 12 After four years without speech Mrs Abe Thorn who had a stroke of apoplexy and was left dumb regained her ability to talk following a breast cancer operation. The growth was removed Saturday in a surgery lasting over two hours and she spoke again as she woke from anesthesia surprising onlookers.
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Auburn
Ind
Abe Thorn
Solomon Smith Seeks Money Not Wife in Huntington
Solomon Smith traveled through Huntington on Sunday in search of his wife and a couple of hundred dollars or a diamond ring he claimed she possessed. He believed she had lunch there with someone and planned to continue on without stopping.
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Sun
Huntington
Ind
Solomon Smith
C and L to Acquire Ground for Richmond Yard Relocation
In a move tied to Chesapeake and Ohio policy, the C C and L announces plans to buy substantial ground around Richmond for railroad yard expansion. Purchases will occur north and south of the city to create a shorter, straighter switching route.
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Richmond
Ind
Chesapeake & Ohio
Indiana
C. and L
Boy Killed In Lamp Collision In Columbus
In Columbus Indiana on September 12 Roy Hunter, 12, is believed fatally injured after colliding with a car while riding a wheel. His head shattered the glass of an automobile lamp.
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Columbus
Ind
Roy Hunter
Attorney defends woman in Johnson death probe in Crawfordsville
Clyde H. Jones, attorney for Mrs. Etta Johnson, issues a statement denouncing the investigation into Edward Johnson's death. He denies homicide links and conspired letters, claims Mrs. Johnson unaware of insurance motives, and accuses her brothers of stirring hostile sentiment to press the case.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Clyde H. Jones
Etta Johnson
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