Japan to Honor Dead Ambassador Bancroft With Remains Aboard Warship
United Press dispatch from Tokyo reports Japan plans unusual honors for the dead American ambassador Edgar A Bancroft. The government may send his remains to the United States on a warship with a mission likely led by Rear Admiral Tamura. Bancroft’s death followed a period of recovery and surprised many U S congressmen visiting Japan.
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United Press Dispatch
Tokio
Japan
America
Edgar
A. Bancroft
United States
Tamura
Bancroft
Bedford to Linton Bus Line Petition Heard Today
The Indiana state public service commission considered J. B. Smallwood’s petition to operate a Bedford to Linton bus line. Smallwood appeared before the commission, while Illinois Central railroad protested, arguing it already provides adequate service and that bus competition would force passenger trains to operate at a loss.
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Indianapolis
State Public Service Commission
J. B. Smallwood
Bedford
Linton
Smallwood
Commission
Illinois S Central Railroad
Indignant wife sues for separation over husband’s habits
Emma O Donnall files a divorce suit in Marion Indiana claiming Roy O Donnall rarely bathes and did not remove his clothes at night. She also charges he gave cigarettes to their two children aged five and two.
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Marion
Ind
Roy O’donnall
Emma O’donnall
Fish killed by dynamite blamed for flood near Bedford In
In Bedford Indiana residents carted away hundreds of dead and stunned fish from the Interstate Public Service dam on the East Fork of White River ten miles west of town. Wheel pits were blocked and workers labored to clear the dam while thousands of fish swam above. Reports say dynamiting occurred twelve miles upstream Sunday night and that poisoning may have occurred.
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Bedford
Ind
Interstate Public Service Company
East Fork
White River
Exceeds One Million Rail Freight Cars in Week
Washington July 29 Loadings of railroad revenue freight set a new 1925 mark by exceeding 1,000,000 cars for the week ending July 18. The American Railway Association reports total loadings at 1,010,970 cars, up 28,161 from the prior week and 80,257 from the same week in 1924, though 18,459 below the 1923 week.
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Washington
American Railway Association Today
Lincoln kin Mary Goldthwaite dies in Chicago at 83
Mrs Mary E Goldthwaite third cousin of Abraham Lincoln and friend of Robert Lincoln died yesterday at age 83 in Chicago at her daughter Mrs Frank Murphy s home. She had long lived at the family home in Harrison Ohio and came to Chicago to visit.
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Chicago
Mary E. Goldthwaite
Abraham Lincoln
Robert
Frank Murphy
Bryan Used Bible in Courting Days to Win His Wife
The 19th century anecdote from Perry Illinois recounts William Jennings Bryan wooing Elizabeth Baird. He quoted Proverbs about finding a wife, her father cited Paul on marriage, Bryan countered noting Solomon’s multiple wives, and won the argument to marry Elizabeth.
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Bryan
Paul
Baird
Solomon
Tragedy Strikes Montgomery County Pett Family
Disaster devastated the Pett household in Montgomery County as one child died from burns, another succumbed to pneumonia after a brief illness, and a third drowned in Sugar Creek. The report notes multiple fatalities within the same family.
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United
Crawfordsville
Tnt
Arthur Pett
Montgom Ery County
Sugar Creek
Pett
Starvation Death Reported in Clay County Mine Case
Coroner Dr William Palm reports 66 year old Robert H Rogers of Knightstown died of starvation. Rogers and his bachelor brother James ran a small coal mine near Brazil, earning money from one venture and spending it on another. Lacking coal orders, they ran out of money and refused charity, leading to Robert's death after both grew too weak to work.
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Brazil
Ind
William Palm
Clay County
Robert H. Rogers
Knightstown
Rogers
James
Robert
Bays to Tour Vaudeville as Dancing Partner
Fred F Bays, Dome Gas Company owner and manager, will leave this week for a Keith circuit vaudeville tour. He will partner Miss Ernes tine Myers in a dance number crafted by Myers with a company of top Terre Haute dancers. The act opens August 2 at the Palace theatre in Fort Wayne with a three day engagement before moving on to Indianapolis Detroit Cleveland and other cities.
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Palace Theatre
Indianapolis
Detroit
Cleveland
Earth slides kill two miners at strip bank mine
Danville Indiana July 29 two men died in earth slides at a strip bank mine near town William Thain 38 a mine machinist was buried by a 75 foot slide and later died William Murphy another miner perished in a second slide A woman and a boy escaped unharmed despite the danger and a worker carried out the injured to safety.
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Danville
Here
William’ Thain
William Murphy
Murphy
Bumper Bean Crop Reported by Washington State Factory
In Washington Indiana on July 29 beans are plentiful this year. The Plainville canning company reports an average of 43 000 cans of beans produced by the factory daily for the last ten days.
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Washington
Ind
Plainville Canning Company
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