Road funding and education urged for rural and national highways
Colonel Albert A. Pope argues for extensive state and federal road development with bonds and sinking funds to finance public highways. He notes the need to educate rural areas on road value and cites successes in connecting highways to railways, plus the growing demand for trained road engineers and interstate commerce benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert A. Pope
Harper's Weekly
Seaboard
Congress
Soldiers of Fortune and the Allure of Mercenaries
The article questions why men volunteer for any belligerent that accepts them, arguing warfare can become a trade for some. It describes the mercenary as a persistent historical figure whose allure lies in the act of fighting itself rather than a grievance.
Portrait finally identified as Capt. William Smith of South Carolina
A long search by Daughters of the Revolution ends with identification of an unnamed Independence Hall portrait. An 1810 engraving reveals the subject as Capt. William Smith, an 18 year old South Carolina brave who formed a company and joined a Georgia troop to attack a British garrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Daughters of the Revolution
William Smith
South Carolina
Captain Smith
Georgia
James Sharpless
Dog Jealousy in a Birmingham Family Pet
A Birmingham dog once cherished by a family shows jealousy after a new baby arrives. Although no outward misbehavior is seen, the baby cries whenever the dog is with the child. Observers find the dog calmly sleeping by the fire until a keyhole peek reveals the dog rubbing its cold nose along the baby's neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ralph Neville
Outing Magazine
Occultism and Prophecies Among Mexicans and Spaniards
The London Onlooker notes that supernatural belief spread among New World peoples and that Spaniards’ arrival was foretold by Mexican leaders whose prophecies were sung at festivals. It adds a cautionary domestic view claiming that a woman who does not marry well learns nothing beyond hoping for better next time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New World
London
Roosevelt speaks on trusts and national control in Massachusetts
President Roosevelt at Provincetown lays cornerstone for the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial. He calls for stronger laws on corporate misdeeds and wage-earner protections, favors national incorporation and tougher employer liability, and warns against unchecked individualism and socialism. He urges federal oversight of railroads and a balance with states rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Provincetown
Mass
Department of Justice
Major World Events Timeline From 1344 to 1906 Noted
A compiled list records battles, sieges, and notable happenings across centuries. Entries include Fort of Derby vs French at Auberoche 1344, Wars of Edward V and York brothers in the Tower, Battle of Blenheim 1704, Salem witch trials 1692, Napoleon Arc de Triomphe first stone 1806, Detroit capture 1812, Niagara rope walk 1859, Valparaiso earthquake fire 1906, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby
Auberoche
Edward V
Richard
Duke of York
Preston
Port Royal
Sedwick
Salem
Mass
Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim
Eugene
Belgrade
St. Sebastian
New England Courant
Liegnitz
Havana
Earl
Nelson
Trafalgar Square
London
Flushing
Detroit
Gen. Brock
Fort Erie
Peregrine Maitland
Upper Canada
King George IV
England
Ireland
Cardinal Rampolla
T. MciXennon
Pennsylvania
Interior
Blondin
Niagara
Spurgeon
Tabernacle
Great Britain
Ater Pressia
Indian Territory
Tentonio
Cook Creek
Tenn
Wellman
Tromsoe
North Pole
Denver
Colo
Viscount Wolseley
Duke of Cambridge
Nansen
Vardo
Prince Henry of
Orleans
Count of
Turin
Paris
Son Discovers Hidden Gold In Old Cabinet Shop
Jacob Moore, a young farmer living near Lagerstown, finds $5,000 in twenty dollar gold coins hidden in a ceiling beam of the cabinet shop once used by his father Benjamin Moore. The coins were stacked in thousand dollar cylinders and concealed behind a dovetailed block that could be removed and replaced without damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Moore
Lagerstown
Benjamin Moore
Young Moore
Indiana farmer and wife slain by robbers
George W. Trudson and wife, who recently sold their Noblesville area farm, were found murdered in their home after a daughter’s return. The house was ransacked and an external revolver with four spent cartridges was found. authorities suspect two shots were fired and indicate Mrs Hudson was likely shot in bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
George W. Trudson
Noblesville
Reformers Knocked Out By Saloonkeeper During Sunday Clampdown
Fort Wayne dentist Dr. M. A. Mason leader of the Law and Order League was hurled through a plate glass window by an irate saloon proprietor while monitoring a saloon for Sunday closing violations. He escaped with cuts and bruises and vowed to return next Sunday to continue enforcement.
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M. A. Mason
Fort Wayne
Law and Order League
Counterfeit Pennies Case Jogs Northern Indiana Town
A well dressed man circulated counterfeit pennies by the hundred in northern Indiana. He entered Claypool and visited multiple stores and restaurants making purchases with the coins. An indignation meeting formed, and Sheriff Edward Laas was urged to arrest him, but he had fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Claypool
Edward Laas
Life Prisoner Fleeing Michigan City Abandons Team
A Bedford-born life-termer, Nelson Fritz, imprisoned for murder, escaped from Michigan City State prison after being assigned a mile from the yard with a team. He reportedly fled while the other prisoner Creorge Fritz, son of the convicted man, had earlier been paroled by Gov. Hanky. A search recovered a pocketbook with $536 and papers of F. T. Delashmutt, Shelburn mine receiver, killed in an explosion on Aug. 5, as miners Anderson and others were involved. Neuralgia tablets caused near fatality for Mrs. Reed of Monard county after she took two tablets to ease toothache.
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J. Y. F. Blake
Europe
Sir Walter Scott
Dugald Dalgetty
Montrose
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Sam Houston
Texas
Mexico
William Walker
California
General Ryan
Santiago
Hobart Pacha
Russia
Charles Darwin
London
Herzegovina
Servia
Devonshire
Brooklyn Eagle
Korea
Yi Syek
Ile
Min
Nelson Fritz
Bedford
Michigan City
Fritz
Creorge Fritz
Hanky
F. T. Delashmutt
Shelburn
Anderson
F. G. Reed
Monard County
Plans Funeral, 12-Year-Old Captain Dies in Warsaw
After arranging funeral details including pallbearers and singers Captain Eiijah Blackford, age 12, dies suddenly in Warsaw from apoplexy. The abrupt death interrupts the planned service and shocks the local community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eiijah Blackford
Warsaw
Farm Accidents and Legal Trouble Hit Indiana Area
Frank Wilson, near Lebanon, killed by a pony. Oscar Knoleight burned to death and seven injured when a threshing machine exploded on John Sharpe’s farm south of Peru. Lang’s trial in Warsaw interrupted by Constable Stephenson’s sudden death. Boonville farmers fear clover seed crop loss due to missing bumble bees after past efforts to exterminate them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Peter FP. Wilson
Lebanon
Oscar Knoleight
John Sharpe
Peru
Tienry Lang
Warsaw
James Stephenson
Boonville
Postoffice Department cuts railroad mail pay by one million
The Postoffice Department orders a reduction of one million dollars in pay to railroads for carrying mails. A projected 500 mile canal to drain Florida swamps could reclaim 6.5 million acres. India now has four million school children, up from 150 thousand fifty years ago. England’s navy total first cost is estimated at 670 million dollars with about 390 million spent in the last decade.
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Postoffice Department
Florida
India
England
Jersey City's Giant 69 Acre Playground Plan Unveiled
A landscape artist is authorized to convert 69 acres west of Jersey City along the Hackensack river into a vast city playground. It will be the world’s largest, six times Athens Stadium size and larger than Brooklyn’s Prospect Park play area. A 100 foot drive will encircle the site for horsemen and autos with riverfront pool recreation piers and multiple sports fields. A central fieldhouse and an immense winter skating rink will serve as universal facilities.
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Jersey City
Hackensack
Athens
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Break in Erie Canal arches at Syracuse halts traffic
The masonry arches supporting the Erie canal over Onondaga creek in Syracuse collapsed, wrecking a large flouring mill and destroying several canal boats. The five mile level drained, stopping canal traffic. repairs will take days. Convicts were involved in the removal effort.
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Onondaga Creek
Syracuse
The Science of Love Heard At London Congress
Dr Sir James Creighton-Brown spoke at the International School Congress in London on first love tracing to cerebral disturbance and a dormant association center stir. He urged proper school nutrition with balanced, digestible foods and criticized fish and phosphorus as brain boosters, endorsing animal protein and small frequent meals for brain workers of all ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
James Creighton-Brown
Creighton- Brown
Minneapolis to Gulf Railway Company Formed in Oklahoma
The Minneapolis Kansas City and Gulf Railway Company organized in Oklahoma with 50 million dollars stock. Plan a double track electric line from Minneapolis to Galveston via Des Moines Kansas City Wichita Guthrie Oklahoma City Dallas. A Louisiana woman sustains herself by mint farming and a Jersey City woman earns income painting signs.
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Minneapolis, Kansas City and Gulf Railway Company
Oklahoma
Minneapolis
Des Moines
Kansas City
Wichita
Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Dallas
Galveston
Louisiana
Jersey City
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Soldiers OF Fortune
Trusts
Hiram Stevens Maxim
Ife
Sangerville
Hiram
Hiram Maxim
Queen Victoria
D. C. Gillman
American Bible Society
United States
East
American Title Society
Daniel Coit Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
America
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Presient Sanclemente
Republic of Colombia
Valparaiso
Chile
Indiana State News
Reformer
Life Teamer
Trusty
Erie Canal
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