From Lake to River Insane From Heat and Exertion
A jumble of notes reports Alvin Clark near Covington vanished after heat and effort at saving a burning barn. Various local items include a stabbing at a fair gate, a miner killed near Knightsville, college openings, and town news from Madison, Muncie, Rockville, and beyond. The Caseyville dog attack spurs village fear as a black hound bites horses and a boy before being shot.
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Covington
Alvin Clark
John Jones
Frank Bull
Hull
Brazil
James McKeis
Knightsville
Madison
Hanover College
Fisher
New York
Muncie
Rockville
Franklin College
Anderson
Gretna
Aurora
J. F. Brothers
New Albany
Evansville
Joseph Kitzler
Brooklyn
Crawfordsville
Franklin
William Cole
Maud Woodyard
Shelbyville
Russiaville
Land
Logansport K
Kansas City
G.S. Burroughs
Amherst
Sol. Neidener
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Aurore
Princeton
Kendallville
Disappearing Palmer Bridge By Palmer Lake County
In Yarranarso Indiana on September 16 the Chicago and Erie railroad Palmer bridge spanning 480 feet sinks into quagmire. Cracks widen around the trestle while water fills many fissures. Workers say earth beneath has sunk 134 feet and keeps dropping as onlookers flock. The company spends thousands with no end in sight as rumor of an underground lake grows.
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Yarranarso
Ind
Chicago & Erie Railroad Company
Palmer
Lake County
Died at Poor Farm Inmate with no known heirs
John Bockwilder, 67, died Friday morning at the poor farm after being admitted in 1865 as an unsound mind. Officials report no known relatives and hold $3,500 in his possession with no clear plan for its disposition.
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John Bockwilder
Dreamed and died in Hart Spring Arkansas
Miss Sidney Kusler, a popular young lady of Hart Spring, Arkansas, died Wednesday night after a dream of death. Distressing cries were heard from her room and she told her mother she dreamed someone carried her away behind the clouds. Despite medical aid she grew worse and died.
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Hart Spring
Ark
Sidney Kusler
Man Dies After Erysipelas Attack In Market Street Room
Geo. Laycock, struck by erysipelas and driven by pain, jumped from his Market Street room at 180 West Market and ran down the street. He was caught, taken to City hospital, and died an hour later as the disease worsened with exposure.
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Geo. Laycock
W. Market St
City Hospital
W. Chrost
Armendt
Grand Hotel
W. M. Foot
David Kern
Michigan St
Kern
Tippecanoe Club
Gov
Chace
Denison
Reichwein
E. Market St
Chase Club
Ward 10
Erastus McCarty
George Fultz
Fultz
McCarty
Indianapolis
St. Vincent's Hospital
Tomlinson Hall
Ato
W. A. Peelle
Leon O. Bailey
Muagsie Wiaherty
Seafond
Board of Trade and Commercial Club
Jtolla. m
Board of Public Works
Citizens’ Street Railway Company
N. Pennsylvania St
Real estate notice appears on page two
The column shows a real estate notice in Tae Sox's real estate column on the newspaper's second page with details readable in the damaged text.
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Wees Parcana
Tae Sox
Sun contest offers prizes for Indiana election estimates
The Sun explains that only the two leading party tickets matter in the estimate contest and prizes go to the top three closest correct political standings for Indiana in the November election. Cash rewards include 35, 20, and 10 dollars with a coupon required.
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Sun
Tus Suy
Indiana
Contest estimates open to all state and nation
The Sun announces a nationwide contest inviting every man, woman, and child to submit estimates. Send in plain envelopes to the contest editor at 79 HE Ohtest, Indianapolis, with clear name and address and the date of sending. No sender restrictions. winners chosen by arrival time at the Sun office.
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Tun Sun
Tue Sun
HE. Ohtest
Indianapolis
Tux Sun
United States
Toe Sun
Empy
Washington Meeting Opens October Seventeenth
The article lists racing results and sports notes across multiple venues including Washington, Covington, Plainfield, Latonia, Hawthorne, Gravesend, Peru Indiana, Covington Indiana, Richmond, Rushville, St Joseph, and St Louis. It covers track times, trotting and pacing records, horse names, cyclists, and a boxing match in Baltimore. It ends with league scores and weather outlook for Indiana.
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Washington
Covington
Judge Morrow
Plainfield
West Indianapolis
Richmond
Taylor
HE. H.S
Jersey Hunt
O'Leary
Baltimore
Newlin
McKeesport
Ind
Uncle Tom
Anna Wilkes
Mollie Warren
Nightingale
Alabama
Rushville
Russia
Indianapolis
Lady Robert
Dolly Brown
Nancy Hanks
St. Joseph
Budd Doble
St. Louis
Meekin
McGuire
Gleason
Buckley
Cleveland
Cuppy
Zimmer
Gilbert
Ward
Cobb
Gunson
Vickery
Robinson
Young
Boston
Chicago
Staley
Kelly
Hutchinson
Kittridge
Stivetts
Ganzel
Gumbert
Miller
Schriver
New York
Louisville
King
Boyle
Sanders
Merritt
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Ehret
Weyhing
Clements
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Chamberlain
Sullivan
Murphy
Kennedy
Kinglow
TG Date to Chapaig and Printing Co Ad
Classified notice listing services from Printing Co and hardware items at 170 Indiana Ave. Includes room seekers and lodging requests in a garbled Kent Streets column with scattered names and unclear dates.
Saturday Bargain Budget Opening Bargains Across Counters
Opening bargains at Hew Fall Goods showcase center counter white blankets at 1.66 per pair, west table offers 42 inch suitings at 25c, halt table features damask, and front counter sells N S cream bonbons at 12 14 per pound for opening sale. Multiple bargain items highlighted with specific prices and counts across centers.
Opening Sale of Kid Gloves Exposition Promised Statewide
An opening sale offers 60 dozen new kid gloves in 4 button length at 79 cents and 38 dozen Mosquetaire suede gloves in black and fall colors at 1.19 dollars. A sample lot of 15 dozen $8 button suede Mosquetaires should be 1.25 dollars, with a bold claim this sale is the finest glove exposition in the state.
Saturday Boys Clothing Day at Local Store
The ad promotes a Saturday clothing event for boys with school suits priced from 2.25 to 3.00 dollars in varied sizes and styles. It also lists special school pants at 60 70 and 85 cents, fall overcoats, reefers, and kilts at discounted choices, highlighting a large stock of new fall and winter clothing ready for inspection and approval.
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West
Washington Street
Great Salzif Newfall Jack ets in the Cloak Room
A vintage clothing sale lists 100 Indies jackets at 84 inches, double breasted with wide seams in black diagonals beaver and cheviot cloths, value 7 dollars, sale price 5 dollars. Also 60 Oberon cheviot jackets 384 inches long with astrakhan haw collar, half lined, value 12 dollars, choice 8.75, plus 10 colors of a fine mixed jacket for young ladies, half lined, 20 inches long, value 13.50, choice 10 dollars.
An Opening Safe of Ken's Purnishit 3
Met's heavy merine and natural wool shirts and drawers, worth 75c, on sale Saturday at dts. Men's heavy natural shirts, ribbed ends, drawers to match, 52¢ goods for 45c. Choice of 25 dozen men’s heavy striped overshirts, all sizes, for. One case men’s 20c merino half hose on sale Saturday at 12g. Men’s cotton half hose in fast black, modish and aus, double soles, high splicad heels, 3ilxe value, choice at. Men’s dress gloves, tags, browns and slates, 31.25 value, choices at palr.
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Dts
Eale
Preliminary Sale of Ladies and Children's Hosiery and Underwear
A sale offers ladies ribbed balbriggan vests with high necks and long sleeves, priced down from 35 to 25 cents, ribbed vests at 25 cents, lisle ribbed vests at 25 cents, and a choice of 100 dozen black fleeced hose at 25 cents per pair. Also available are children's heavy school hose in fast black with double heels and toes, offered at low prices.
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Lse
Lee
Holiday Handkerchief Sale Quick Clearance At Deep Discount
Arrived early by six days, 800 dozen imported handkerchiefs flood the holiday market. To move stock fast prices slashed. 100 dozen ladies hematitched initials at 5c, 60 dozen Japanese silk embroidered at 1c, 100 dozen men colored border at 10c, 50 dozen white hematitched Japanese silk at 26c.
We Start the Fatt Season in the Center Aisle Thus
A reader-shopping listing notes assorted small items and prices. Items include rings, buttons, opera glasses, gold earrings, ammoniacs, infant powder, toilet paper, campaign heir Crashes, perfume bottles, puff boxes, buttermilk soap, rose water, and more priced from a few cents to a dollar. The ad reflects early 20th century retail pricing and product names.
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Lubin
Cleveland and Harrison Campaign
Bo Ounte
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