Senate Finance Committee Act on Canada Reciprocity Bill
The senate finance committee acted on the Canada reciprocity measure and will report to the house without recommendation. The Rootmendment to the print paper and wood pulp provision was adopted 8 to 6. Elbert H. Gary urged a rewrite of the Sherman anti trust law. A Lorimer investigation subcommittee was named by unanimous senate vote. Taft declined an invitation from the Anti horse Thief association in Arkansas City. The wool tariff revision bill was presented to the house with a Democratic report in its favor and Republican opposition. Public hearings on the Canadian reciprocity bill closed with AP and American Newspaper Publishers Association representatives appearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
United States Senate
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Lorimer
Taft
Anti-horse Thief Association of
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas City
Kan
House of Representatives
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Tariff Board
United States Senate Finance Committee
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
The
Associated Press
Treasure found off Honduras by Star Eureka crew
A San Diego message claims an expedition recovered a huge gold cache buried by a Chilean cruiser crew off the Honduran coast over twenty years ago. Value estimates range from 15 million to 65 million dollars.
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San Diego
Cal
Star Eureka
Honduran
Yale freshmen to face court for alleged sidewalk mutilation
Three Yale freshmen must appear in New Haven court to answer charges of mutilating property by painting remarks on a sidewalk outside an inspector’s home. The case highlights student conduct amid broader state and national issues reported in the same notice roundup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Papke Knocks Out Sullivan to Claim Middleweight Crown
Sporting Billy Papke defeats Jim Sullivan in the ninth round of a 20 round battle in London to become the middleweight champion of the world. The American fighter dominates the match, earning the decisive victory and the title.
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Billy Papke
Jim Sullivan
London
Papke
Bank Birbeck in High Holborn Suspends Payment
The Birbeck bank in High Holborn London withstood a run last fall due to rumors of trouble has suspended payment. Actuaries estimate the deficit at 3 750 000 dollars.
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Birbeck Bank
High Holborn
London
England
Big Harness Show At Indianapolis Opens July 11 14
Indianapolis hosts the grand circuit opening at the state fair grounds with 150 plus horses in training at the mile track. Prominent eastern horsemen W B Dickerman David Lock and F C Kilpatrick say Indianapolis is a premier speed plant and demand for stalls may exceed capacity as drivers Ed Geers Murphy Snow and many others arrive. The ninth Indiana Grain Dealers meeting follows June 15 16 with speakers from Chicago New York Cincinnati and Indiana experts and a social program led by Bert A Boyd.
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Capital
Indianapolis
Indianapolis State Fair Ground
W. B. Dickerman
David Lock
F. C. Kilpatrick
New York
United States
Detroit
Indiana
Indianapolis Mile Track
Ed. Geers
Murphy
Snow
McCarthy
Estabrook
Genyon
McMahon
Lon McDonald
Millard Sanders
M. D. Shutt
W. L. Shuler
State Fair Grounds
Indiana Grain Dealers’ Association
M. Goodman
Chicago
L. W. Forbell
F. F. Collins
Cincinnati
Bert A. Boyd
W. B. Foresman
Lafayette
A. W. Taylor
Stillwell
Charles B. Riley
Lead Jerome Herff to survey state lands in Indiana counties
Jerome Herff, land clerk in the office of the auditor of state, will depart in about ten days to supervise surveys of state lands in Laporte Porter Lake Starke Pulaski Marshall Jasper Newton and Fulton counties. The work will extend over several weeks and involve a motor boat. All meandered lands and stretches held by squatters will be examined. Herff believes many holds lack formal patents and that the state may hold equity in various tracts.
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Jerome Herff
the Auditor of State
Laporte
Porter
Lake
Starke
Pulaski
Marshall
Jasper
Newton
Fulton
Indiana
Mr. Herff
Herff
Railroad Commission Takes Action in Indianapolis Rate Case
The Indiana railroad commission under recent assembly authority filed an intervening petition in the Indianapolis freight bureau versus Big Four Railroad case. The suit seeks to readjust rates for inbound and outbound city traffic, with charges that the respondent railroad discriminates against Indianapolis shippers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Railroad Commission
General Assembly
Indianapolis Freight Bureau
Big Four Railroad Company
Indianapolis
Prize Essays on Forestry Winners Named by Indiana Board
Charles C Deam secretary of the state board of forestry announces four ten dollar prizes for essays from common and high schools on To What Extent Should Indiana Be Reforestized Gladys Jones Attica high school Mabel Adair Lebanon high school Cora B Dough erty Bedford country school Mecca Parke county Mary Mason Mecca country school
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Deam
State Board of Forestry
Indiana
Gladys Jones
Attica High School
Mabel Adair
Lebanon High School
Cora B. Dougherty
Bedford
Mary Mason
Mecca
Parke County
Election May Reopen Fight for Board of Agriculture Seat
The state board of agriculture may again face opposition as it seeks a successor to the late David Wallace whose term would run to January 1 1912. I Newton Brown Franklin president notes the board will meet August 60 and 31 to decide if the vacancy is filled now. Brown cites past precedents while associations aligned against current members plan to oppose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Agriculture
David Wallace
Mr. Wallace
I. Newton Brown
Franklin
Mr. Brown
Claude Matthews
James H. Sankey
Marion County
I. J. Robison
Hiram B. Howlands
Will Command Spanish War Veterans Elect Officers in Indiana
The Indiana department of the United Spanish War Veterans reached a compromise to hold the eighth annual encampment in Terre Haute while Terre Haute obtained the 1912 encampment. William F. Ranke of Fort Wayne won the department commander post after serving as senior vice commander. Charles F. Zillmer of South Bend withdrew from candidacy, clearing the field for Ranke. Frank J. Walsh of Lafayette emerged as favored for senior vice-commander, with Indianapolis backing him. The race for junior vice-commander pits H. C. Perry of Richmond against Charles F. Zillmer, both named candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Department
United Spanish War Veterans
Lafayette
Terre Haute
William F. Ranke
Fort Wayne
Charles F. Zillmer
H. C. Perry
Richmond
South Bend
Orders Woman to Free Bird in State
George W Miles the state fish and game commissioner refused to grant permission to keep a mocking bird in a cage. A West Baden woman sent a special delivery letter asking for permission. Miles said the law gives him no right to grant the request and warned to release the bird or face consequences as no native bird may be caged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Miles
Forty-Seventh Indiana Sunday School Convention Opens
Fort Wayne hosts the Indiana State Sunday School association four day session with about 700 delegates. Opening events at First Baptist Church feature welcome by Charles H. Worden and J F Vichert. State president W C Hall delivers response. Dr Cornelius Woelkin of Rochester New York presents the main address on Religious Verifications.
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of State Association
Fort Wayne
Indiana State Sunday School Association
First Baptist Church
Charles H. Worden
J. F. Vichert
Free home remedy recipe promises quick recovery
The ad touts a medical recipe supposedly curing frequent urination headaches and weakness and asks readers to mail for a free copy. It claims others would charge $3.50, but Dr. A W Robinson of Detroit will send it by return mail in a plain envelope. The note urges immediate action and guarantees powerful healing effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.W. Robinson
Luck
Detroit
Mich
Monument Plans Adopted for Local Soldiers Memorial
Vincennes June 19 The board of county commissioners agreed to build the soldiers and sailors monument per C N Clark Urbana plans. The memorial room at the base will display war relics in a plate glass compartment. The shaft stands 80 feet high made of red Metellro granite and the cost is about 48000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Board of County Commissioners
C. N. Clark
Urbana
Choices Attorney in Court Logansport June 10
In Logansport on June 10 a jury trial in the circuit court saw Frank Pittman, a railroad man, attack Attorney O. B. Conant, nearly strangling him. Deputies Harness and Stover had to separate Pittman, and Harness was clawed by Pittman's wife during the scuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
O. B. Conant
Frank Pittman
Harness
Stover
Pittman
Conant
Boy snatched from rails by engine in Connersville
Nine year old Emerson Hines was saved from death under a C., H. & D. engine by Vernon Doll in Eastern avenue. The boys were crossing the railroad in a small wagon when the older boy yelled and fled as the engine approached. Doll grabbed the child from the track but the wagon tongue was severed by the wheels.
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Connersville
Emerson Hines
Vernon Doll
Eastern Avenue
Doll
Painter Dies After Scaffold Collapse in Vincennes
Vincennes June 10 George Jones aged thirty and married was painting the third story of the Meise store on Main Street when scaffold ropes broke his fall. He dropped to the street, a ladder toppled on him breaking his back and he died almost instantly. Edward Abernathy, his companion, clung to the cor ners and survived as the scaffold failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
George Jones
Meise
Main Street
Edward Abernathy
Mrs Rosa Berry Convicted of Grand Larceny in Marion
Marion jury convicts Mrs Rosa Berry of near Goshen on May 12 for stealing a horse and buggy from a Marion liveryman. The court imposes a sentence of one to fourteen years in prison after more than four hours of deliberation.
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Rosa Berry
Marion
Near Goshen
Lay Blame on Boiled Ham in Rushville
Eleven people fall ill from ptomaine poisoning after eating cold boiled ham in Rushville on June 10. Adolphus Cameron was stricken near Henderson and lies in critical condition in hospital.
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Rushville
Adolphus Cameron
Henderson
Miner Harpers Self Inflicted Shot Ends at Hymera
Terre Haute June 10 A coal miner Henry Harper Hymera recently married to a waitress picked a revolver from behind a bar and asked if it was self acting Gambill the saloonkeeper answered Harper then shot himself in the head He died instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Henry Harper
Hymera
Gambill
Harper
Post Office Savings Bank to Open in Vincennes
Vincennes post office will become a postal savings bank on July 3. In New Albany three tracts in the knob district west of here have been leased for five years by the state and a militia life range will be built at once. In Marion George McPherson has been sued for 1000 dollars in the Grant superior court for alleged breach of contract by Mrs Ella Luster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
John W. Amison
Vincennes Postalfice
New Albany
Knob District
Here
Marion
George McPherson
Grant
Ella Luster
Selective boast at grand street mansion sales pitch
A landlady tries to woo a hopeful lodger by claiming a neighbor across the street owns seven million dollars, pointing to a fine mansion to imply exceptional neighborhood wealth. The whispered boast aims to impress the prospective tenant with perceived affluence.
Strange Children and Levi Lincoln Joke Retold
George Bancroft the historian recounted a joke from a Massachusetts country road tale. Percy H. Epler notes Lincoln street scene with an almost blind Levi Lincoln as geese march by. A carriage passenger leans out and scatters pea, saying God bless you, my children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bancroft
Massachusetts
Levi Lincoln
Percy H. Epler
Commonwealth
Lincoln Street
Lunch Fit for a King by Grape-Nuts A Woman’s Testimony
An active young woman credits Grape-Nuts with curing nervous pros tration and dyspepsia. She details improved health, describes a noon lunch with fruit, and praises Road to Wellville tips. Letter from Battle Creek. appeals to women and office workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellville
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Weillville
Inolies
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C. Frederick Kohl
San Francisco
Adele Verge
Brazil
Hitchcock
Shafer
Tooele
Utah
Wisconsin Senate
Isaac Stephenson
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Rocklin
Colfax
Sierra
Heilermekers
Win Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Beilermekers' Union
Faung Yuin Sao
Shanzhai
China
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
America
Nathaniel Tooker
Amy D. Winship
Racine
University of Wisconsin
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Grace Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Richard L. Hargraves
Lincoln, Neb
Fairview
William Cornelius Hall
Bob Cook
Church of the New Jerusalem
Council of Ministers
David H. Moffatt
Denver
Margherita
Heloise Durant Rose
Rome
Charles P. Taft
President Taft
King George
Buckingham Palace
Whitelaw Reid
Theodore Roosevelt
Dix
New York State
Judiciary Committee
Connecticut General Assembly
John Sowague
Cleveland, O
W. E. D. Stokes
Ansonia
New York City
Lillian Graham
Ethel Conrad
Young Women's
Crawford and Cherokee Volunteer Association
Topeka
Eas
Crawford
Cherokee Counties
A. B. Bankston
Pulaski County
Haineis
Williford French
Cairo
Jonesboro
H. Sg. Smith
McKinney, Tex
State Fair Ground
Lis
Board of Managers
O. J. Thompson
Kokomo
Cloyd Loughry
Monticello
E. M. Wasmuth
Roanoke
Cary Jackson
D. Cc. Moore
Waynetown
E. K. Lowash
Middletown
H. H. Deam
Bluffioa
William Nading
Shelbyville
Charles B. Jenkins
Noblesville
R. A. Kuhn
Argos
A. F. Yiles
Evansville
H. E. Kinney
A. H. Taylor
Canada
Henry M. Dowling
Walter W. Bonner
Greensburg
A. F. Files
Railroad Commission
Kign
Stripes
War Department
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