Big Free Fourth of July Celebration in Linton
A traditional Fourth of July event in Hase manegreve will be held under the Greater Linton club and Linton Chautauqua association. The Lexie Smith Amusement company will bring free attractions and a chautauqua band concert. The Greater Linton club committee will be on site Monday evening 4 to 7 to sell stand privileges.
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Hasemanegreve
Greater Linton Club
Linton Chautauqua Association
Lexie Smith Amusement Company
Chautauqua
President Harding Urges World Unity at Wilmington Luncheon
President Harding told a Wilmington luncheon that America must help restore world peace and unity. He said happiness cannot come while global strife continues and urged a spirit of fraternity, noting God intended the world’s restoration and tranquility and that America should give as much as it can.
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Wilmington
Del
America
Harding
Young Men’s Republican Club
Woman receives largest life policy to a wife in U S
Chicago June 9 Life insurance totaling 2 000 000 is reported as the largest ever issued to a woman in the United States Mrs Evelyn Marshall Field III of Chicago is the policy holder Her husband a La Salle street broker head of a large estate is named sole beneficiary He is said to carry over 1 000 000 in policies all for his wife They have three children a boy and two girls
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Chicago
United States
Evelyn Marshall Field
la Salle Street
Wigwam Could Yield To Modern Wew York Building
Tammany Hall on east Fourteenth Street, known as the Wigwam, may be replaced by a modern uptown business building. Younger members seek a larger facility. Realty operators have submitted bids for the old brick structure. The site was bought in 1867 for 80000 dollars. Bids totals not announced.
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New York
Tammany Hall
East Fourteenth Street
Liquor Limits Enforced On Sea Vessels Westbound To U S
Southampton June 9 An announcement states that from June 10 ships bound for the United States will carry enough liquor to reach the three mile limit and return dry to Europe. The White Star Line steamer Majestic will sail first under the regulations with liquor stores cut to half.
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Southampton
United States
Hey
Europe
White Star Line
Majestic
Missing Evansville bookkeeper raises fear of foul play
Eloise Gardner a 28 year old bookkeeper for an insurance agent vanished after noon May 31 following a bank deposit. Police fear she may have been the victim of foul play and are investigating. Her widowed mother Mrs Minnie Gardner initially delayed notifying authorities.
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Evansville
Ind
Eloise Gardner
British Divorce Bill Gives Wives Ground of Misconduct
London June 9 The commons passed a bill granting wives the right to divorce on grounds of misconduct by 257 to 26. The measure now goes to the Lords, replacing the former law that allowed husbands to petition for misconduct with additional proof of desertion or cruelty by the wife.
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London
Commons
House of Lords
Spot coal prices show declines and mixed gains
Trade Journal report Coal Age notes continued decline in spot prices for soft coal while inquiries rise and demand improves in some markets. Advances occur for Pocahontas Cambria Somerset southern Illinois Standard and Hocking coals. declines noted in Indiana fourth and fifth veins Pittsboro Kanawha eastern Kentucky coals. Lake shipments rise as May loads near 1.4 million tons soft coal and 200,000 tons anthracite. Buffalo shipments reach 72,600 net tons last week.
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New York
Coal Age
Pocahontas
Cambria
Somerset
Ilinois
New England
South America
Baltimore
Lake
Head-of the-Lakes
Buffalo
Two Negroes Hanged in Alabama Inmates Executed
Two black men were hanged in Alabama yesterday. Ben Moore was executed at Lafayette for the killing of J A Taylor a Fairfax merchant. Willie Golson hanged in Jefferson county jail for attacking a Birmingham woman. Golson followed his father’s 23 year old scaffold execution for a police slaying.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Ben Moore
J. A. Taylor
Fairfax
Lafayette
Willie Golson
Jefferson County
Woman Not Suspect In Tesmer Slaying Case
Chicago reports the widow of Richard C. Tesmer declared Billie Conn is not the girl linked to his murder after police failed to identify suspects. Tesmer, an insurance man, was killed Tuesday night during an attempted holdup by a young woman bandit and a male accomplice.
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Chicago
Richard C. Tesmer
Billie Conn
Day Agents Called In Force Jolts Chicago Bootleggers
Chicago authorities announced that over twenty five prohibition agents were summoned for office work leaving only two or three federal agents in the field. Rum runners prepared to move goods from Canada through the Great Lakes as mobilization began, reports stated.
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Chicago
Canada
Great Lakes
Words in Pain excerpts from a dying Englishwoman letters
A surviving fragment from an Englishwoman’s letters to her doctor reflects on facing death with calm acceptance. The lines compare death to chloroform and invoke a promise of rest and heaven for loved ones.
Noah Webster Wrote of Epidemics
Noah Webster the lexicographer behind Webster's Dictionary also authored the first general history of epidemic diseases published in the United States.
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Noah Webster
High School Inquiry About Twelfth Century American Education
Miss M. D. notes a high school girl asked a librarian for a book on American education in the Twelfth century. The moment captures curiosity about historical educational topics and library resources.
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M. D
Boston Transcript
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