Kidney Trouble Told To Work Relief In Mendota Ad
A testimonial advertises Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney weakness with backache and chills. C D Bessier of Mendota recounts kidney trouble lasting twenty years and stone passage after using Doan's. claims long term improvement and a cure. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
C. D. Bessier
5Th St
Mendota
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Comedian Dixey Quotes On Marriage For Money
Henry E. Dixey jokes at a New York dinner about marrying for money. He notes a rich wife could tire of a husband and curb allowances, recalling an old line about “married money” and the woman who clung to every penny.
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Henry E. Dixey
New York
Child questions God's eye size in shop window
Dorothy Alinien asks if God can see everything, comparing his eye to a large winking eye in an optician's window. Her mother confirms God's all seeing nature as they walk downtown.
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Dorothy Alinien
E. Eighty-fourth Street
Dorothy
Cleveland
A Strange Situation in a Cartoon Panel
Harper's Weekly presents a humorous dialogue among Finks Pinks and the Philosopher on language and jokes. The exchange centers on understanding French and English jokes and the idea of seeing an English joke. The strip underscores vision as a comic twist.
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Finks
Philosopher
Pinks
Binks
Harper’s Weekly
Ship Pronouns: Why “she” for vessels
In a light exchange, Swensen asks why ships are called she and Benson suggests it reflects a bond sailors feel with a vessel, sometimes likened to attachment to a buoy.
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Swensen
Benson
Feed Young Girls Right Food During Growth
A health column urges proper diet for girls entering womanhood to build strong bodies and prevent lifelong illness. A testimonial praises Postum's stomach soothing benefits and claims improved health, endorsed by the Postum Company with the slogan There’s a reason.
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Postum
Postum Company
Battle Creek
Mich
Mayor Knotts Arrested on Embezzlement Indictment
Gary May 20 Mayor Thomas E Knotts already under Lake county grand jury indictment was arrested by Deputy Sheriffs on a warrant sworn in County Clerk Short ridge s office. He faces charges of embezzlement perjury and malfeasance in office. City Clerk Moose swore to embezzlement of about $2 000 from funds collected as city court judge and not turned over to the treasurer. Bail was set at 5 600 dollars.
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T. E. Knotts
Gary
Thomas E. Knotts
Lake County
Grand Jury
George Blocke
Albert Morris
Hammond
E. L. Shortridge
Knotts
Harry L. Moose
E. C. Simpson
Pastor Lewellyn Dies After Apoplexy at 63
Rev. Joseph Ashpury Lewellyn, 63, a veteran Northern Indiana Methodist minister and former Warsaw district presiding elder, died at his Muncie home after an apoplexy. He served thirty years in the conference, retired nine years ago, and is survived by his widow and six sons in Muncie.
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Muncie
Joseph Ashpury Lewellyn
Northern Indiana Methodist Conference
Warsaw
Carpenter Dies After Plunge At Sunnyside Mine
Evansville May 20 Henry Stough twenty three a carpenter for a railroad fell over three hundred feet down an air shaft at the Sunnyside coal mine. He was crushed instantly as he went to aid men fighting a fire in the fanhouse. He was single and lived at Kratazville.
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Evansville
Sunnyside
Henry Stough
Stoug
Kratazville
Valuation Increase in Steel City Reaches New Total
Gary's Value totals 29,259,200 up five percent in 1912 from 1911. Last year the new steel city reported 18 and the 1911 total hits 29,350,200. State board advances for railway telephone and telegraph lines may raise the overall assessment beyond 2? billion.
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Gary
Steel City
Five Prisoners Escape Boonville Jail by Digging Wall
Five inmates escaped Boonville county jail by digging a 20 inch wall. Sherman Lance Herman Wise Kerman Ambrose William Otto of Newburg Jesse Laker and Ollie Freel of Yankeetown fled. Four faced assault charges and two petit larceny. Sheriff Scales recaptured Freel at Green River mouth and tracked the others.
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Boonville
Sherman Lance
Herman Wise
Kerman Ambrose
William Otto
Newburg
Jesse Laker
Ollie Freel
Yankeetown
Scales
Freeb
Green River
City Purchases Pesthouse for Detention Hospital
Mayor Barnard and a city committee closed a deal for eleven acres with a four room house and barn to serve as a detention hospital for smallpox patients. Patients from the tent detention house and new cases will be moved there.
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City
Newcastle
Barnard
Strike Set For Indiana Coal Fields In Seven Mines
Terre Haute May 20 A strike involving more than 1 500 men in the Indiana bituminous coal fields is scheduled to start next week. Phil R Penna secretary of the Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators Association announced three Wise county mines two in Greene county and two in Pike county will be affected.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Phil R. Penna
Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
Wise County
Greene County
Pike County
Victim Dying as Laborer Flees After Attack
In Anderson on May 20 a Greek named Chris Jemas lies in a dying condition with a fractured skull at St John’s hospital after a man identified as Thomas Whitefeather escaped following a blow with heavy pincers at the American steel on wire mill. Police in multiple cities search for the suspected assailant.
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Anderson
Chris Jemas
St. John’s Hospital
Thomas Whitefeather
Boy dies after mistaking poison for candy in barn find
In Wayne on May 20, five year old Clifford Howenstine stopped playing and died minutes after telling his mother he was tired. He and his brother found strychnine tablets in a barn and swallowed them thinking they were candy. the brother is expected to recover.
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Wayne
Clifford Howenstine
Bishop Starts Inquiry Into Priest Charges
South Bend May 20 Bishop Herman Alerding opened an official inquiry into criminal charges against Rev. John Von Froelick priest of St. Stephen's Magyar parish.
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South Bend
Herman J. Alerding
John von Froelick
St. Stephen’s Magyar
Immanuel Mystery: Tin Plate Worker Shot Near Elwood
Harry Bohl, a former Elmwood tin plate worker, was shot while tamping dirt beneath a railroad tie on the Lake Erie and Western line two miles west of Elwood. He cried I am killed, with the eyeball hanging from the skull after the bullet pierced above the eye. He was taken home and doctors say he cannot live. His father and two others were nearby and did not hear a shot.
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Anderson
Harry Bohl
Elmwood Tin Plate
Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Elwood
Bohl
Pendleton Milling fire destroys flour mill
The Pendleton Milling Company flour mill was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at 10 000 to 12 000 with about 8 000 insured. Fire started in an engine room where a gasoline engine powered machinery. Fire department used a gasoline fire engine to control the blaze for nearly an hour before flames reached upper floors.
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Anderson
Pendleton Milling Company
Pendleton
Quarantine Violation Leads to Arrest in Marion
Charles Straughn a salesman defied small pox quarantine by visiting his sweetheart Charlotte Staunton at her parents home in Marion despite illness in the house. Neighbors complained to City Health Officer Dr O W McQuown who ordered Straughn's arrest for violating quarantine laws.
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Marion
Charles Straughn
Charlotte Staunton
O. W. McQuown
Straughn
Auto Crash Near Crawfordsville Slopes Down Embankment
Mrs. Albert D Brewer, 40, sustained injuries in a collision on the Crawfordsville pike near the Big Four tracks as an automobile skidded off the road and overturned down a five foot embankment. Five others were shaken. Mrs Brewer was trapped briefly but taken to City hospital with non serious injuries.
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Indianapoli
Albert D. Brewer
Crawfordsville Pike
Brewer
City Hospital
Rules Against Police Chief Hammond
Judge V S Reiter of the Wake superior court concluded impeachment proceedings against Albert Lewis East Chicago police chief with ouster from office. Lewis will seek a new trial and a ruling on whether he remains in office during appeal or pendency. Charges allege he permitted gambling in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor.
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Hammond
V. S. Reiter
Wake
Superior Court
Albert Lewis
East Chicago
Lewis
Reiter
Chief Lewis
Indiana Harbor
Baby Eczema Cured By Cuticura Remedies, 1910 Ad
Mrs. Drew of New York details a severe baby eczema breakout that resisted doctor prescribed soaps. After trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment four times daily, her baby healed in two weeks and she praises the products for skin care and even shampooing.
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Castile
Poetic Prosecutor At Trial Over Torn Picket Fence
John Burns the St Paul city prosecutor argued before Judge Finehout that Mike Chicket tore a picket off Mrs Joe Goesiks fence and she took offense. The judge rejected the poetry remark and noted this is no place for verse.
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John Burns
St. Paul
Finehout
Joe Goesik
Mike Chicket
Judge Finehout
Wealth Alone Won’t Help If Boy Lacks Brains Say Parents
Opinion notes that money in a boy’s pocket is useless without a sharp mind. It argues parental guidance should stress education and prudence to use funds wisely and avoid waste or folly.
Youth killed on through freight train near Attica
An unidentified young man, 38, died after attempting to alight from a through freight train at Attica. His head was severed and body mangled while the face remained only slightly disfigured. He wore a dark blue serge suit and had no identifying items. His hair, eye color, a gold crowned tooth, and a tattoo of a star under two crossed hands on his right forearm are noted.
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Attica
Allen's Foot-Base Ads Offer Free Trial Package
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot Base antiseptic powder. Shake into shoes to make tight or new footwear feel easier. Refuse substitutes. Free trial package available by mailing Allen 5 Olmsted Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Allen 5
Olmsted
le Roy
A Woman’s Take on Bravery and Mice in the Dark Closet
A humorous reflection on courage. The speaker describes a brave man as someone unafraid to enter a dark closet where a mouse might lurk. The line plays on gender notions of bravery with a light domestic context.
Pastor Bollens Resigns to Lead New Chicago Hospital
Rev John Bollens pastor of the German Evangelical church Wanatah resigns to take the superintendency of the German Evangelical Deaconess hospital at Fifty fourth street and Garfield boulevard Chicago to be dedicated June 11. He will oversee the first hospital in Chicago established by the evangelical synod.
Mother Grieves and Becomes Insane
Grief over the sudden death of her child has driven Mrs Sophia West to insanity. A patient at a local hospital she will be admitted to the Southern hospital for the insane. Mrs West, from Warrick county, is the mother of five and has been known for strong literary tastes.
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Evansville
Sophia West
Southern Hospital
Indiana Christian Missionary association meets in Columbus
The seventy second annual convention fills Columbus with guests as many visitors overflow homes. Local churches provide accommodations while the entertainment committee adjusts for the larger than expected attendance.
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Columbus
Indiana Christian Missionary Association
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