Happenings From Around the World in Brief
A sweeping weekly roundup notes Senator Lafayette Young of Iowa delivering his maiden speech in the Senate, Eli Perkins illness in Yonkers, and Vice President Rossiter’s death in New Jersey. It covers labor leaders reelected, Baldwin estate litigation, War Department aero nautical upgrades, and a broad array of political, legal, and crime items with multiple named figures and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Young
Iowa
Senate
Cummins
House
Melville de Laney Landon
Eli Perkins
Yonkers
N. Y
T. L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Edward van Wryck Rossiter
New York Central Lines
Flushing
I. J
Beatrice Anita Baldwin Turnbull
KE. J. Baldwin
Rives
Superior Court
Los Angeles
Cal
Dickinson
Congress
United States
Indiana Women Run State Institutions Praised
Legislative committee praises the Indiana Woman's prison and the Indiana Girls' school as the world’s only state institutions run by women. They commend the management and care, note expansion needs, and outline funding requests for two cottages a hospital and an administration building. Also covered are road associations, diphtheria findings, and upcoming oratorical contest planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Legislative
Indiana Woman's Prison
Indiana Girls’ School
Woman's Prison
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Charlotte Dye
Sarah E. Campbell
Anderson
International Dispute Conference and World News Roundup
The American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes holds a three day Washington conference. Federal authorities raid Capital Investment Company and four Chicago branches plus one in Aurora and Joliet, ending a major private wire bucket shop network processing about 10 million dollars annually. Harvard students hear Col Theodore Roosevelt urge politics after graduation. Star Pointer the pacer dies aged 21 at Rosewood Farm. Mexican revolutionaries report 200 government casualties at Juarez. Earl Ward who robbed Paradise State Bank commits suicide near Paradise Kansas. US 1909 census shows 1 265 000 cords of wood distilled at 3 21 a cord. West Point bans chickens for eggs and meat. Honduran government restricts Americans after dark. London dispatch says King George coronation may be postponed. Chicago clash between police and garment workers leaves a dead striker and injured detective. The Bonner family in Newcastle welcomes its 28th child among 21 living. Brooklyn lawyer George L Fox wills 1 300 000 with 70 000 to faithful domestics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Society For Judicial Settlement of
Washington
The
Capital Investment Company
Chicago
Aurora
Joliet
Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt
Star Pointer
Rosewood Stock Farm
Maury County
Tennessee
J. A. Murphy
New York
Juarez
Earl Ward
State Bank of
Paradise
Kan
United States
West Point
Barry
Government of
Honduras
Honduran
Ottawa Free Press
George
Sergt
Charles Wieneke
Crowded Indiana Soldiers Home Seeks Expansion Aid
Report to a legislative committee shows Lafayette's Indiana State Soldiers Home with 1401 enrollees, 300 on furlough and 300 awaiting approved admission. An appropriation of 50000 is asked to build and furnish a 150 capacity wing. Commandant Haggard notes wives and widows being admitted and out of state soldiers moving in to gain entry, highlighting broad eligibility under Indiana law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Lafayette
Board of
W. S. Haggard
Haggard
United States
Gift Book List Under Review by Indiana Librarian
Carl H Milam secretary of the Indiana library commission studies holiday books for a gift book list to be published next year. The list will be short graded by ages and will include best offerings from this season and next. He finds little suitable for children’s gift books and notes a revised general gift book list issued last year. The list guides librarians in suggesting purchases this Christmas season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl H. Milam
Indiana
Commission
Indiana Scolded for Shortcomings at Good Roads Congress
About five hundred Indiana delegates heard themselves arraigned for failure to give intelligent attention to highway construction. The plan is to resolve to mend ways and to organize a push for good roads legislation at the upcoming general assembly session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
General Assembly
Y M C A State Convention Officers Elected
At Vincennes Indiana the Y M C A state convention adopted the nominating committee report naming officers for 1910 1911. President Sharon E Jones Rich mond and other officers including W C Belman Hammond J H Baxter Terre Haute J S Findley Logansport Marc N Goodnow Gary John F Wallick Indianapolis were re elected. Crawfordsville opened as candidate for next convention with Gary also seeking later hosting. The spring decision rests with the state executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Vincennes
Sharon E. Jones
Richmond
W. C. Belman
Hammond
W. H. McCurdy
Evansville
J. H. Baxter
Terre Haute
J. 8. Findley
Logansport
Marc N. Goodnow
Gary
John F. Wallick
W. W. Lockwood
Shanghai
A. G. Knobel
Chicago
Railroad International Committee
Crawfordsville
4. C. Doggett
Crawfordsville Ministerial Association
Business Men's Organization
Board of Trade
Doggett
State News in Brief from Indiana Items
Resignations and appointments in Cen ter township Laporte. Walton leaves trustee post and Balsar Crane takes over amid red tape. Parry Griffith building fire in Connersville damages stock and building. gas explosion earlier killed four in 1898. Shelbyville deed recorded from 1835 conveys lands to Michael Haehl, parchment aged. Washington damage suits over auto crash with Nugents settle for 7,000. terms undisclosed. Lebanon suit reveals Andrew Hoover lived with Eliza Hoover as husband. estate worth 20,000 awarded to Thorntown woman after discovery of non mariage. Spencer census counts: Spencer 2,150, Owen county 3,413, down from decades past. Anderson farmer Charles Wickersham injured by ice, paralyzing left side. Kokomo police probe Olga Floyd death after she accused a woman of illegal operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
William W. Walton
Center Township
Balsar T. Crane
Walton
Connersville
Parry Griffith
Central Avenue
Braun & Kehl
Shelbyville
Lee Hoop
General Land Office
Indianapolis
Shelby County
Michael Haehl
Washington
Thomas Nugent
Lowry Cooper
Dale Cooper
Andrew J. Hoover
Thorntown
Eliza Hoover
Pennsylvania
Hoover
Spencer
Census
Washington Township
Owen County
Anderson
Charles Wickersham
Kokomo
Olga E. Floyd
Clarence Floyd
Saved Old Lady's Hair and Eczema Healed by Cuticura
A letter describes a mother plagued by a scalp eczema with hair loss. After two doctors failed, a niece recommends Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Within six months itching subsided and hair regrew, leaving the seventy four year old grateful. The writer, Ellsworth Durham of Hiram Maine, reports his own winter feet improved after using the same products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Ellsworth Durham
Hiram, Me
A Long Chance And Mrs Austins Pan Cake Flour Ad
A humorous exchange about marriage vows and rejection turns to an ice breaker about taking a long chance. The ad promotes Mrs Austins Famous Pan cake flour now available at local grocers with a light literary quote and a Dickensian warning about truth and deception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
The Jocular Clerk
A humorous exchange in a grocery store shows a customer asking if eggs on the counter are fresh and the clerk joking that he laid them there himself twenty minutes ago. The light moment highlights everyday shop humor and casual customer clerk banter.
Man Cannot Live With In-Laws Says Court Case
A man complains of strife with his wife's relatives and cites financial pressures. He recalls his father in law insisted he must earn the salary provided by the older man. The exchange hints at ongoing domestic tension and expectations surrounding support.
Buckle on Experience as Safer Guide Than Any Principle
A succinct quotation emphasizes practical experience as a safer guide than theory. It argues that hands on learning and tested results trump abstract rules, even when those rules are precise and scientific.
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Thomas McKinsey
Battle Creek
Mich
Stocks and Bonds Commission
Taft
New York City
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Concord
N. H
Augusta Stetson
Andrew Carnegie
War Department
House of Representatives
Colorado
Interior Department
Bond Coal Company
Greene
Norton, Va
Thomas J. Navin
Michigan Republican State Central Committee
Detroit
Jackson
Bobby” Leach
Niagara Falls
Reichstag
Berlin
Germany
von Bethmann-Hollwe
Aileen Christopher
Federal Brick Trust
Landis
John A. Brown
Olympia
Bligh Island
Prince William Sound
Valdez
Alaska
Missouri Supreme Court
Mort Holman
Pike County
Eugene Tucker
Green County
Manchuria
Peking
Bert E. Corbin
Union Savings, Building and Trust Company
Boise
Idaho
Big Springs
Robert Emerson Davie
Boston
National Senate
Aldrich
Lodge
Snohomish River
Indiana Women’s Prison
Girl's School
Good Reade Society
American Good Roads Congress
Indiana Good Roads Association
State Association
Clarence A. Kenyon
American Road Builders’ Association
James M. MacDonald
State Board of Health
Wayne County
Vigo
Madison
Hendricks
Knox County
Marion County
Simonds
Indiana Intercollegiate Oratorical Association
Caleb Mills
John E. Cleland
Shortridge
Secretary of State
Foerderer Foundry Company
Capital Stock
Anthony, Louis
George Foerderer
Jasonville
H. A. Burkhart
E. A. Wood
W. T. Seamen
Jessie T. Shuttleworth
L. A. Easley
Springer-Whitaker Foundry Company
A. H. Springer
A. C. Whitaker
M. A. Whitaker
Grant County
State Board of Accounts
A. Y. Stout
Stout
General News
Jason Bonner
Newcastle
Ind
George L. Fox
Brooklyn
Campton
Daily Mirror
State News
Dickens
Zest
Post
Yostum Osreal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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