Important News Notes Of A Week Condensed For Busy Readers
A weekly roundup notes Gen Samuel Crocker Lawrency resignation as grand commander at Detroit after a long Masonic council session. Other items include Senator Elkins ill at home in Elkins West Virginia, Taft entering Harvard Law, Vanderbilt Jr's swiftest monoplane, a Kansas Roosevelt provocation, Mrs Thayer’s daughter removing Roosevelt’s picture, and Gen Louis Botha retaining Pretoria premiership despite election losses.
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Samuel Crocker Lawrency
Medford
Mass
Supreme Council
United States
Detroit
Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
W. Va
Robert Alphonso Taft
Yale
Harvard Law School
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Neuilly
France
New York City
Thayer
Kansas
State
Roosevelt
Worcester
Toll of interurban disaster rises to forty in Kingsland area
Reports list 40 dead with Frederick C. Jones of Warren Indiana as the last to die. Nine seriously injured remain in Fort Wayne hospitals with only Miss Margaret Tribolet and F. A. Parkhurst in Bluffton in critical condition but expected to recover. Other items note a Grand Army of the Republic leadership vote, ICC warning to railroads, and several criminal cases and trials.
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Kingsland
Ind
Frederick C. Jones
Warren
Fort Wayne
Margaret Tribolet
F. A. Parkhurst
Bluffton
X National
Grand Army of the Republic
John E. Gilman
Boston
John McElroy
Chicago
Interstate Commerce
Franklin K. Lane
Benjamin Franklin
Burlington
Pound
Billings
Mont
Franklin
Charles R. Heike
American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
Martin
United States
New York
Blackwell's Island
Unsound mind verdict in slayer case at Lake Como
Alienists declare Porter Chariton mentally unsound after examining the slayer of Mrs. Scott Castle, wife of Charlton, at Lake Como last June. The report notes impulse violence and defective moral sense.
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Porter Chariton
Scott Castle
Charlton
Lake Como
Italy
Erroneous charges noted in Wayne Township audit
State board of accounts examiners report Wayne Township overpaid trustee Potter by 399.90 to 3895.80 under a strict law interpretation. The document cites salary classifications, prior overpayments by Conley, fuel yard costs, and calls for adherence to the statute while allowing certain teacher attendance payments. A reunion letter from Capt. Estis Walton Mingford was read at the statehouse.
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Indianapolis
Charles E. Weybright
Harvey T. Barrett
State Board of Accounts
Charles E. Potter
Wayne Township
Wayne County
Wayne Township Advisory Board
Juel
Board of County Commissioners
Potter
State Board
W. A. A. Conley
Mr. Potter
Conley
Robert J. Aley
Aley
W. A. Deharity
Delays Election Board Faces Staffing and Timing
The state election board decided no new codification of election laws will be needed for fall distribution, saving 300. The only change is inserting an act requiring ballots to be preserved. The board worked with clerks McGinnis and Butler to address delays caused by prior advance preparations and partisan clerk concerns, aiming to certify precinct counts and votes across counties promptly.
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State Board of Election Commissioners
EB. W. McGinnis
A. E. Butler
Battle Flags Returned at Eighty second Infantry Reunion
At Columbus a reunion of the Eighty second Volunteer infantry featured Maj. David I. Mc Cormick of Indianapolis unveiling three flags: the Fourteenth Indiana banner, the Seventh Indiana battle flag, and the Third Indiana flag from the Mexican war. Michael Emig, once in Seventieth Indiana, learned the Mexican war flag could not be shown to him due to the veteran’s blindness. The Eighty second flag, previously lost for 23 years, was recovered recently after being found in a store in Indianapolis.
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Columbus
David I. McCormick
Indianapolis
Indiana Battle Flag Commission
Indiana
Major McCormick
Michael
Emig
Seventieth Indiana
Eighty-Second
Indiana State Fair Sets Attendance Record For 57th Year
The fifty seventh Indiana state fair closed as the most successful five days in Hoosier exposition history with 130 716 paid admissions. The weekly total exceeded last year by over 27 000 and surpassed the 1908 fair by about 18 000. Estimated weekly attendance reached 170 000 including special passes and 12 000 free admissions for children and veterans.
Examiners Report on Pierce Shortage and Suicides
Field examiners for the state board of accounts report an alleged shortage of 634.46 in the books of Walter Pierce former justice of the peace in Center township Delaware county who died by suicide on February 14 1909 by drinking acid. The case links to financial complications surrounding a school fund and loans involving Mr Idan.
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State Board of Accounts
Walter ¥. Pierce
the ‘Peace
Center Township
Delaware County
Idan
Financiai
Honor Mother of Regimen Reunion of 51st Indiana
Tears filled veterans at the 51st Indiana reunion in Indianapolis as they decorated the vacant chair of Mrs Lovina Streight known as mother of the regiment who died June 5 1910. The ceremony on the Streight homestead grounds featured flags carnations and prayers with remarks by Mrs Bohlen and Capt Welton. This marked the regiment’s forty ninth annual reunion and plans include a future golden wedding celebration. The 124th Indiana ended its reunion with officer elections and a vote to hold the next gathering in Winchester rather than Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Fifty-first Indiana Regiment
Lovina Streight
Streight
A. D. Streight
A. M. Dooley
Danville
Ada Kirk
International Tuberculosis Congress invited to Rome in 1911
National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis announces the Seventh International Congress on Tuberculosis to be held in Rome September 24 to 30 1911 under royal patronage. An American committee of 100 will act as the U S delegation with Prof Vittorio Ascoli as secretary general.
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National Association For the Study and Prevention
Rome
Washington
Italy
United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosia
New York
Congress
Vittorio Ascoli
Pierp a Appetite and Morgan’s Culinary Echoes
The note recalls J P Morgan Sr a famed trencherman with a hearty appetite for corned beef and cabbage and other foods. It humorously contrasts his youthful mathematical prowess with a hypothetical Heidelberg chair offering suggesting a life of frankfurters and sauerkraut.
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Pierp
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
Teutons
Heidelberg
New York Press
Gambling on Insurance Abuses Prompts Parliament Act
The New York Press notes British practice of insuring against unlikely events such as a king's death or a horse loss led to widespread speculative marine insurance by outsiders. Parliament enacted a drastic measure to curb gambling on marine accidents and losses by those with no direct interest.
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New York Press
Distinction. Milly and Tilly compare to a father’s photo
Dialogue fragments show Milly and Tilly discussing a picture. They remark it resembles a father’s portrait, with playful irony about likeness and memory. The exchange highlights family likeness and humor.
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Milly
Tilly
Puck
Grape-Nuts Help a Brooklyn Family Heal
A Brooklyn mother shares how her weak digestion child improved after feeding him Grape-Nuts breakfast and supper. She notes her husband also grew fond of cereal, and the family believes the change boosted health and growth.
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Brooklyn
Kmd
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