Ragtime Church Music Roasted at Chautauqua
C C Washburn of Vanderbilt voiced sharp critique of church music at Chautauqua New York arguing ragtime tunes and traveling evangelists profit from hymnals. He praised traditional hymnals and condemned modern camp meeting music and sensational concert tunes as poor art and marketing. He cited Episcopal and Methodist hymnal rankings and lamented Sunday school songs as mediocre.
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Chautauqua
N. Y
C. C Washburn
Vanderbilt University
Washburn
Episcopal
Vanderbilt
Princess Parlaghy Charms Philadelphia With Eighteen Pedigreed Pets
Special to the Reporter in Philadelphia July 22 the Princess Wilma Lwoff Parlaghy the wife of a Russian prince and noted portrait painter arrives with an entourage and eighteen wild animals. She plans to paint thirty prominent Americans charging thirty thousand dollars per portrait. Her Majestic Hotel suite requires a dozen handlers before you meet her and her animal retinue. She says she has sixty pets in Europe and travels with them nightly before sleep.
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Philadelphia
Europe
Wilma Lwoff Parlaghy
Hotel Majestic
Parlaghy
Washington
Lwoff Parlaghy
Edward
England
America
United States
Majestic
Death in Chicago Follows Tornado Fright in Louisiana
Mrs. Hattie Tyler formerly of Crawfordsville died in Chicago from a nervous shock after a tornado frightened carnival company members in Louisiana months earlier. Daughter of Edward Townsley, widow of a carnival proprietor, she left a brother Fred Townesley and two sisters.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Chicago
Hattie Tyler
Louisiana
Edward Townsley
Fred Townesley
Coal contracts let by school board for winter supply
The school board met last evening and awarded contracts for the winter coal supply. The Indiana Coal Company received the contract for 650 tons of Pocahontas coal, and Beal Bros. received the contract for 250 tons of Pittsburg coal.
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Indiana Coal Company
Pocahontas
Beal Bros
Pittsburg
Clothes Lead To Trouble In Indiana Forgery Case
Spencer Indiana July 22 Rush Stogsdill a well known young man was arrested in Lafayette on a forgery warrant. He cashed a $150 check drawn on Gosport bank signed by Amos Barker at Beem Peden Co bank June 29. He fled to Lafayette with his wife after cashing the check and was arrested at his father's home. Authorities say a taste for fine clothes motivated the crime.
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Stogsdill
Bank of Beem, Peden & Co
Gosport Bank
Gosport
Amos Barker
Lafayette
Swiss War on Absinthe
Robert L. Mansfield consul to Lucerne travels to Rushville Indiana to visit his father in law Capt. Jobak K Gowdy before returning to take up a new Swiss post. He notes a nationwide Swiss drive to curb absinthe with tougher laws and higher liquor licenses as a national effort against the drink.
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Joba K K. Gowdy
Paris
Mr. Mansfield
New
Swiss Post
Rushville
Mansfield
Switzerland
Indiana
Gould Causes Several Women Arrest In Divorce Case
New York July 22 Frank Jay Gould amid a divorce suit prompted the arrest of Mrs Teal Julia Fleming and Harry S Mousley on charges they induced seamstress Mabel B McCauslan to testify falsely for Mrs Gould Miss McCauslan confessed implicating Fleming Mousley and Teal promising her 1000 dollars for a statement damaging Gould The motive and origins of the plot remain under district attorney inquiry.
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Helen Kelly Gould
Teal
Julia Fleming
Hary S. Mousley
Mabel B McCauslan
Gould
Jerome
Wyoming
Tombs
District Attorney's
Mrs. Teal
Fleming
McCauslin
Mousley
Smyth
Miss McCauslin
Miss Fleming
Mexicans Push Law To Bar Yankee Mine Ownership
Mexico City July 22 reporters say a bitter anti foreign controversy grows as La Patria backs a mining law barring foreigners from owning mines in frontier states and blocking foreign companies from mining anywhere in the republic. The draft, submitted to President Diaz, seeks to curb American investment amid nationalist sentiment.
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Mexico
la Patria
Argentina
Chile
Brazil
Diaz
Dream of Death Premonition Fulfills in Gibson County
Charles J. Whitten of Gibson County predicted his death would come fifty days after hearing his wife’s call in a dream. He died of heart failure at age seventy seven in Oakland City after describing plans to die on schedule. Surviving children include Obediah Charles James and William Whitten of Oakland City, Mary Hockman of Tangier, and Sarah Wright of Clinton.
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Oakland City
Ind
Clinton
Charles J. Whitten
Gibson County
Mr. Whitten
Obediah
Charles
James
William Whitten
Mary Hockman
Tangier
Sarah Wright
Child Provokes Mother By Stealing Charlotte Desserts
Wife laments daughter devoured three charlotte fusses planned for Fido's supper. Husband questions the misdeed as the scene unfolds in a domestic exchange.
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Boo
Charlotte
Fido
Women Golfers Qualify At Local Country Club Meet
The first women’s golf match at the Country Club drew sixteen qualifiers. Top scores were Mrs. O. H. Binns 71 and Mrs. M. B. Larry 72, with a long list of scores for qualification led by Miss Virginia Craig 80 and Miss Mayme Foreman 7.
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O. H. Binns
M. B. Larry
Virginia Craig
Mayme Foreman
Hal Smith
Flo Shultz
Stewart Frazee
Walter Uhl
Mabel Shultz
Gertrude Funk
L. Elliott
Clara Wiler
Murdock
Lafayette
George Kistler
Wilson
Willard Elliott
J. F. Digan
Nina Douglass
Miss McConnell
Psyche Sutton
Lottie Shultz
Marion gun club members attend state school
At Marion Frank Enyart and other Bridge City Gun club members travel to Marion for a state school held under the auspices of the Queen City club.
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Frank Enyart
Bridge City Gun Club
Marion
Queen City Club
City
Muskrat Causes Suit Over Levee Breach
In Lewiston Illinois a muskrat allegedly bored a hole in the Lacy levee flooding thousands of acres. Crops were destroyed and damages totaled. Suits for 87 500 dollars were filed in circuit court against John W Rhodes and Dennis Culilane led by claimant A L Laungallies, citing levee breach.
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John W. Rhodes
Dennis Culilane
A. L. Laungallies
Rescued Girl Survives After Drowning Near Muskegon
A twelve year old daughter of Edward Sikkenga fell into the Magoon Kimball dock water and nearly drowned twice. Workmen saved her from drowning as she was revived by physicians and later sent home with her life no longer in danger.
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Edward Sikkenga
Magoon Kimball Dock
Oyster shell found in patient during Dr Price operation
A surgical report notes a small piece of oyster shell discovered in the appendix of Dr Harold Price of Brazil during an operation. The finding prompted no stated complications and the procedure proceeded to completion.
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Harold Price
Brazil
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Princess Parlaghy
Kings
Spencer
Dill
Robert L. Mansfield
Robert L
Ment
New York
Frank Jay
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Mexico City
Ico
Spencer Park Music
Spencer Park
Broadway Street
George Bush
Lewiston, UL
Girl
Muskegon, Mich
Washburn-Crosby
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