Indiana veterans meet in Fort Wayne encampment parade
The Indiana G A R State encampment adjourned to Kokomo next year. William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis elected department commander over James M. Barlow by 250 to 214. Elects Mrs Mirabah Walker and Mrs Jennie Irvin as presidents. March limits set to 1.5 miles. Parade drew thousands despite rain, with Fort Wayne committees praised and grand arches of lights spelling welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Department of Indiana
Kokomo
William A. Ketcham
Indianapolis
James M. Barlow
Plainfield
Mirabah Walker
Clinton
Jennie Irvin
New Albany
Benjamin W. Skelton
J. I. Nosler
Terre Haute
N. B. Walker
Fortville
S. M. Samilton
Connersville
John P. Alexander
Bedford
H. C. Rouse
Verre Haute
J. E. Loughrey
Monticello
W. W. Wood
Wabash
D. C. Elder
Greensburg
E. R. Brown
J. R. Fesler
Brown
Col. Fesler
SSOC
Treasury
Princess Theater
First Baptist Church
William P. Breen
Swagerbund Hall
Perry A. Randall
A. T. Lukens
Old Shady
John W. Vordermark
Sheridan
Clay School
Hanna School
Almira Scott
Ingersoll
Laura S. Burr
Columbia
D. Ford Urbahns
Henry L. Turner
Chicago
Roosevelt
Indiana National Guard
McGinnis
Indiana National Aruard
Wibernian
Durbin
John C. Chaney
R. OB. Brown
Zanesville
Ohio
E.R. Brown
Leighty
Adair
Eighth
Gilbanms
Ubs
Women’s Relief Corps Elects Officers At Meeting
The Women’s Relief Corps elected officers including President Mrs. Mira bah Walker Clinton senior vice president Mrs Amanda Edsall Fort Wayne junior vice president Mrs Jackson Hammond secretary Mrs Belle W Mpp lin Tangier chaplain Mrs D R Lucas Indianapolis councillor Mrs Sarah A White Rockville and announced retiring president Mrs Waugh wore a jeweled ring gifted by the State department. A gold berry dish was presented by the executive board. Carrie Sparkling national president praised Wallace Foster. G A R women’s meeting followed with Mrs Eliza Browning Attica honored with a gold ring, and Mrs Elmira A Cassell and Mrs Carrie I Porter receiving jeweled stars. Officers listed include President Mrs Jennie Irvin New Albany and others.
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Women’s Relief Corps
Mirabah Walker
Clinton
Amanda Edsall
Fort Wayne
Jackson
Wtammond
Belle W. Mpplin
Tangier
D. R. Lucas
Indianapolis
Sarah A. White
Rockville
Waugh
State Department
Hadley
Carrie Sparkling
Wallace Foster
G. A. Rt
Etta Lee Toby
Eliza Browning
Attica
Browning
Elmira A. Cassell
Carrie I. Porter
Emma Dalton
Winfield
Kan
Indiana Department
Jennie Irvin
New Albany
Elvira Cassell
Westpoint
Hannah Gelpin
Marion
R. E. Hollis
Washington
Mary Stirk
Where Was the Stock Cat
A New York suburb family left their kitten with a butcher during summer promising a pound of meat weekly plus cream. A family head visits and finds the cat starving, the butcher insists the cat weighed one pound after a week. The owner asks where the cat is, highlighting the odd outcome.
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New York
New York Tribune
Immigrants Lose A Friend In Modern City Welfare
London journalist William T. Stead warned that while ward healers and corrupt rings vanish, new immigrants lack care. He said cities once guided immigrants from cradle to grave, but municipal reforms may have erased a social safety net, leaving newcomers exposed.
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William T. Stead
London
Wardheeler
Joose
Farmer Demands Quick Price From Local Druggist
A farmer visiting an upstate town asked a druggist to fill his prescription and then balked at the amount. The pharmacist itemized 1.10 for the medicine and 1 cent for the bottle. The farmer urged the cork price be set and the total final figure given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Paradoxical Evil On Forger Who Finds Good Evil
A Baltimore American quote questions whether a forger who writes good is still committing a wrong. The exchange probes moral double standards and the nature of evil in creative deception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bualtimore American
Irrigation Near the Pyramids Progress in Cairo
A progressive Arab of Cairo sinks wells and installs irrigation pumps at the foot of the pyramid of Cheops and the Sphinx. After gazing thousands of years on sand wastes, the structures will soon overlook green fields. This marks a notable shift from old to new Egypt.
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Pyramids
Cairo
Pyramid of
Cheops
Cold Weather Wrecks Crops Across Nation
The unprecedented cold sweeping the country east of the Rockies has damaged crops and delayed plantings from Illinois to Michigan and Ohio. Officials cite Siberian air masses and a theory of unusually snowed regions causing a high northern pressure and a dry cold that has slowed growth, with fruit and vegetable losses evident in multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountains
Washington Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Siberia
British Columbia
Middle West
Great Lakes
New York
New England
Kansas
N. O. Frankenfeld
Arctic
American
Peoria
Ilinois
la Crosse
Wis
Minnesota
St. Paul Railway
South Dakota
Minneapolis
Minn
Northwest
Cincinnati
Ohio
Cleveland
Wabash
Ind
Keokuk
Lowa
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Wolverine
Maine farmer loses farm chasing fake seer gold
A Maine farmer, Samuel Gordon near Macwahoe, falls under the sway of a daytime patent cure faker who promises second sight. After a séance, Gordon piles into a woods-spot described by the faker, mortgages his farm, digs for two years, and ends up ruined, broken in health, and dead, with his children scattered west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Samuel Gordon
Macwahoe
Gordon
Vast Growth Since 1800 in U S Conditions Panoramas
A Department of Commerce and Labor study presents a panoramic statistical abstract of U S conditions from 1800 to 1906. It shows population density rising from 6.5 to about 28 per square mile, wealth and deposits expanding dramatically, and major shifts in imports, exports, cotton, sugar, and corn production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Commerce and Labor
Continental
Soo
Tsoo
Questioning Brain Localization Of Speech Function
Pierre Marie argues against a single brain region controlling speech and asserts that aphasia tests reflect reduced intelligence, not word deafness. He notes patients understand individual words but fail to connect ideas, challenging the localization theory and suggesting modification of established views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre Marie
Literary Digest
Georgia Forest Protection Victory in Supreme Court Case
The Supreme Court ruled Georgia may protect its forests from smelting operations on the Tennessee side. The Tennessee Copper Company and the Ducktown Sulphur and Iron Company face an injunction, with Georgia given until October term to submit decree details. Meanwhile a new plant to condense fumes may render the decree unnecessary. the case involves Standard Oil‑owned interests. Detective Samuel A. Hamilton, shot in Smithfield by Annie Magness, has died during a custody dispute recovery attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Georgia
Tennessee Copper Company
Ducktown Sulphur and Iron Company
Tennessee
Standard Oil
Federal honors awarded at Block Island for Larchmont rescue
Federal medals and certificates were awarded at Block Island Rhode Island to the captain and crew of the schooner Elsie and crews of several fishing schooners who saved passengers of the steamer Larchmont last February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Block Island
R. I
Elsie
Immigration Reform Aims To Reroute New Arrivals
Government pledges to distribute immigrants via a new information division opening July 1. Ellis Island will become a focal point for gathering and publishing state resources, with agents guiding newcomers to regions offering work. Italians increasingly settle in the South, praised for farming, steadiness, and economic progress.
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Congress
Frank P. Sargent
Ellis Island
New York State
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Massachusetts
New Jersey
South
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi Valley
Italy
America
European and international political shifts in mid June report
The Hague conference meeting planned for June 15. Germany posts a tariff treaty with the United States effective July 1 for one year with six months notice. Austria's election shows Socialists rising. Reichsrath split Clericals and Socialists. Spain’s parliament opens with Conservatives dominating 260 seats. Alfonso I vows naval reconstruction. Finland grants women parliamentary seats, marking equality in the legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
Spain
Christine
England
Clemenceau
France
Grand Duchy of Finland
Insurance Flyer Trick Costs Indianapolis Executive
Hervey Bates of Indianapolis president of the American Homing Company lost 2024 dollars in a scam where an alleged insurance broker offered a $100,000 policy for 350 dollars. Bates agreed to the full payment, the broker claimed the sum would go to the bank and a rebate would follow, but the broker vanished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hervey Bates
Indianapolis
American Homing Company
Bates
Settle Evansville Street Car Strike Ends
Evansville street car strike ends after ten days of disrupted traffic with violence by sympathizers. Men return to work under terms including platform time, an eleven hour day, and wage increases to sixteen to eighteen cents per hour with grievance appeal rights. Strikebreakers depart to Chicago and Cleveland.
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Evansvile
Chicago
Cleveland
MacCabees Depose Old Head In Indiana Order Fray
Milo E. Merideth of Wabash, four term great commander of the Indiana Order of Maccabees, was defeated by S. B. Borden of Hartford City after a South Bend contest. New officers named include W. E. Mowbray Peru as lieutenant commander and J. W. Replogle Goshen as record keeper, with Samuel P. Thomas South Bend as great finance keeper and Dr J. N. Kelley Westville medical examiner chaplain Harvey Reynolds Muncie. Indianapolis will host the next review in 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo E. Merideth
Wabash
Indiana
S. B. Borden
Hartford City
South Bend
W. E. Mowbray
Peru
J. W. Replogle
Goshen
Samuel P. Thomas
J. N. Kelley
Westville
Harvey Reynolds
Muncie
Indianapolis
Lady Maccabees
Supreme Convention
Tragic River Bridge Accident Claims Three Minds
Three youths from Indianapolis were sitting on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railroad bridge over the Blue river near Morristown when a fast passenger train No 37 struck them. Frank St John Orville Babb and Joseph Fairchild aged 16 17 and 18 were swept into the stream and their bodies were found mangled.
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Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Blue River
Morristown
Frank St. John
Orville Babb
Joseph Fairchild
Indianapolis
Dry workers plan buy saloon and pour liquor out
Henry Smith tired ofProhibition protests agrees to sell his saloon in Swayzee for $800 to temperance supporters who will close the business by pouring liquor into the street, leaving the town without a saloon after the sale.
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Henry Smith
Swayzee
Anti-Saloon League
Temperance
Old Bayonet Found Near Site Of Tippecanoe Battle
An old bayonet fitting a musket was unearthed in Marion during sewer excavation. It is thought to have belonged to an Indian fighter in General William Henry Harrison's division. Harrison fought Miami Indians near Marion on the Mississinewa River. William Henry Harrison was father of President Benjamin Harrison.
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Tippecanoe” Harrison
Marion
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin M Harrison
Mississinewa River
Golden Wedding Observed By Valparaiso Couple
Mr and Mrs Ar D Smith celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a family gathering. He is 73 and she 72, long time Valparaiso residents, having lived there for fifty years.
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Ar. D. Smith
Valparaiso
Whisky Kills a Child in Newberg Home
The 38 year old child of John Wells of Newberg drank half a pint of whisky found on a dresser and died within hours, authorities report a tragic accidental poisoning.
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John Wells
Newberg
Boy Falls From Raft, Drowns Near Ryansville
A 12 year old, Ralph Rohrbecker, fell from a raft of logs in a pond near Ryansville and was drowned. He was identified by officials and the tragedy is being investigated by local authorities.
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Ralph Rohrbecker
Ryansville
Knights of Columbus Hold Annual State Convention in Evansville
The annual State convention of the Knights of Columbus met in Evansville with about 100 delegates in attendance.
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the Knights of Columbus
Evansville
Martha Taylor
Pike County
Abraham Taylor
Taylor
Terre Haute
Hopperson
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Wma
Electric Illuminations
Calhoun Street
East Berry Street
Whang the Miller
Samuel A. Hamilton
Birmingham, Ala
Annie Magness
Smithfield
Ala
W. R. White
Mra. Magness
Uncle Sam
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Austria
Socialist Party
Reichsrath
Indiana State News
Order
Joseph Martin
Gary
Soltow
Martin
Thomas B. Knotts
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