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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1905
Page
1
Bold ad promises painless extractions for 25 cents in Room 24 Neal-Cason block. Calls out reasonable prices and potential savings, urging readers to call 240 for work and prices.
Special notice outlines two trains running Sundays with eastbound service from Lebanon at 1 Team and westbound from Mp to Low. The schedule includes round trips on Sanday with trains serving Waveland and Anderson.
Dunc & Co's weekly trade review reports moderate improvement in commercial conditions along conservative lines with no evidence of speculative excesses. June rail earnings rise about 7 percent. New York port foreland commerce shows gains in exports and imports. retail sales for light weight wear and parel are positive. manufacturers anticipate better conditions next month as inventories adjust and machinery is overhauled.
Frankfort Kentucky district court of appeals holds policyholders bound by a agreement transferring the reserve fund and outstanding policies from a failed insurer to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Had they not consented they could have only sought surrender value under Kentucky law. Meanwhile nearby, Washtenaw farmers report crops damaged by floods and an influx of German carp into flooded marshes.
President Roosevelts administration orders a five member committee to streamline public business across bureaus. The plan aims at uniform standards, centralized purchasing, and inter departmental cooperation while reducing nonessential correspondence and paperwork in government operations.
In Kentucky, old soldiers gathered for the fifteenth annual United Confederate Veterans reunion. The parade featured veterans in uniform, familiar tunes, and recently returned battle flags carried with reverence as crowds watched the last event for many of the aging veterans.
Ohio Attorney General moves to oust Hocking Valley Railroad from its charter alleging control of coal firms in the Hocking Valley and discriminatory practices against rivals. Amended petition names Buckeye Coal and Railway, Toledo and Ohio Central, Kanawha and Michigan, Zanesville and Western Halfway as wholly or jointly controlled by Hocking Valley. Filed in Franklin County circuit court.
Summary of yesterday's baseball results from the National and American Leagues with scattered scores across Chicago Cincinnati St Louis New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit and Milwaukee. Notable items include a Canadian Pacific train robbery loot recovery and a fatal accident report, plus wariness over Morocco tensions and a new $20 gold certificate design.
Russians and Japanese near formal armistice signing on the Manchurian plains as exchanges between Tokyo and St Petersburg, via Washington, sharpen. Plenipotentiaries named from Russia and Japan to attend the Washington conference with Mikado and Rosen the key figures, while Takahira and Neubott may lead their missions.
A chaotic report cites a Tokyo correspondent noting strategic shifts in the Far East. It claims a key Russian depot at Gunah Pass amid rail construction northward, while Lieutenant General Linevitch faces probing Japanese reconnaissance as his forces appear enveloped.
The two women Mrs. Young and Mina Pyle were close companions for five weeks. Mrs. Young, from Asherville but often near Freeport, allegedly controlled Pyle and introduced her to strangers. Bodies were found in the river and police seek two strange young men seen with them the day before the deaths.
The State of Trade summary notes improved sales for summer goods and active construction while crop prospects remain generally favorable though corn lags. A sensational item reports a double tragedy as a husband kills his wife and then fatally shoots himself in St. Paul Indiana. Police recover a bloodied sheet tied to the crime.
Washington reports Assistant Secretary Meise W. Miller refused his resignation and the president accepted it. Jesse Wilson of Indiana is appointed to succession. Miller was also from Indiana. Furthers a political personnel shift within the Interior Department amid leadership changes.
In Blackford County a temperance controversy fuels conflict as Roll, six miles away, nears becoming dry. Sheriff Hudson and deputies guard a school commencement amid threats from saloon interests and local dissent led by Virgil Alexander, a church worker active in the remonstrance efforts. A guard now accompanies him to his business at night.
The bulletin from the state board of health notes May figures for Indiana Indians show rheumatism as the most prevalent illness. Pneumonia and typhoid follow, with smallpox down from last year. Tuberculosis deaths reach 104 males and 79 females. 178 orphans under twelve. Overall death rate 12.7, with major causes listed and violence causing 142 deaths including 32 railroad deaths and 20 drownings, among others.
June 17 report from Shelbyville Indiana details 5 year old May Hill daughter of Charles and [unnamed] Hill dying after a blunt instrument strike during a burglary. Citizens vow pursuit of the attacker as a lightening-quick hunt unfolds in the neighborhood. An inquest unfolds in Wabash as labor leader Orville Davis’s death is ruled self defense after a shooting by Samuel Snyder. A Stratford man Thaddeus K Peck, claiming a personal faith, transacts disputed land in New York.
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