Elopement and possible theft shake Tipton rail line
Cottingham a ticket agent from Tipton is suspected in an elopement with Mrs. Cravens wife of a conductor. They boarded a Panhandle train toward Buffalo after altering the Tipton office safe combination. Officials fear missing funds and await word on whether any money was taken as the couple head for Canada to escape arrest.
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Tipton
New York
El“wood
William Cottingham
Union Traction
Tipton Sand
Fred Cravens
Alexandria-Tipton
Abs
Cra
Yens
Logansport
Cottingham
Buffalo
Canada
Cravens
Deaths in Vernon and Custer Families
Mrs. Mahala Vernon of Washington township died at home Tuesday morning. She was the sister of Attorney James A. West and is survived by her husband daughter Blanche and eight West siblings. Funeral Thursday at ten. Byron J. Custer of McKee's Rocks Pa died of typhoid fever. His remains will go to George A. Custer's home on High street for funeral services Thursday. He formerly lived here and studied at Butler College and Penn in Philadelphia.
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Washington Township
Custer
Byron J. Custer
McKee's Rock
George A. Custer
High Street
Butler College
Pennsylvania
Local Visitors and Church Notices In Camden
Camden notes show Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Orahood of South Dakota visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. C C Orahood. Prof Waldrip and others visit. Baptisms and communion at the Lutheran church with Ethel Hamerick joining. A reception for the Neibel and Edward Thomas precedes their departure as missionaries abroad.
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Edwin ‘Orahood
South Dakota
Mrs
C.C. Orahood
Earl Robison
Ethel Hamerick House
Grace Ulery
Jacob Coldsmith
Lutheran Church
E. Neibel
Edward Thomas
Runaway Wife Ties To Traction Firm Across Lines
A runaway wife has been connected with the traction company for years and is well known on the north south east and west lines. He is a model young man, well liked by all, with many friends in the city and Tipton who will regret learning of his trouble.
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Traction Company
Tipton
Flora local notes and business updates from June
Flora news brief lists Dr Thomas Peters and Ross Penn and wife traveling to Chicago on business. John Wharton installs a gasoline engine driven shoe making machine. Bert Shigley's family reunion welcomes all children for dinner. Mart Eaton and wife depart for Wisconsin where he is a foreman. E J Taylor opens a new ice cream parlor and bakery on Center Street. Roy Davis of Frankfort visits town. Mrs Li G Kitsmiller decorates a bazaar. Hoosier Democrat Pub Co plans a move to a new room. Earl Sims works for Foust and Davis firm, handling more work than three chairs can manage.
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Flora
Center Street
Roy Davis
Frankfort
Li. G. Kitsmiller
Hoosier Democrat Pub. Co
Earl Sims
Foust and Davis
Mail Delivery Report for Logansport Routes
A monthly report notes two rural routes in Logansport handling mail counts. It details the volume collected and delivered, highlighting the ongoing assessment of route efficiency and service levels for the past month.
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Logansport
Military enforcement at border prompts constitutional debate
Washington reports American troops may enforce neutrality laws at the Mexican border with four cavalry posts directed to Del Rio as war and state departments consult. The issue tests passport rules and civil authority while preventing aid to Mexicans, amid conferences and delicate policing of the inter national line.
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Associated Press
Washington
Meyer
The
Texas
War Department
del Rio
United States
Army
Mexico
State
Revolt Attacks Mexican Post at Palomas Repulsed
Rebels attacked the Palomas post in Chihuahua about 100 miles west of El Paso and were repulsed by the garrison after a battle. The foreman at Mimbres W. M. is reported a prisoner. Immigration inspectors summoned to Columbus New Mexico near the border.
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el Paso
Texas
Palomas
Chihuahua
el Paso and Southeastern Railroad
Mimbres
W. M
Immigration and Customs
Columbus
N. M
Births and deaths in Logansport rise in May totals
May reports show thirty births in Logansport with one infant death despite heat. Nineteen deaths occurred last month, six over seventy and four under five. Contagious cases included four with measles and two with typhoid, listing Russell Seybold Marion Flaherty Dorothy Herd and the Hush babies for measles and Elmer Paugh N Carrell for typhoid.
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Russell * Seybold
Marion Flaherty
Dorothy Herd
John Hushlinger
Elmer Paugh
N. Carrell
Livery Stable Collapse Kills Two in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis on June 30 a livery stable under demolition for a theatre project collapsed. Two men were killed, three seriously injured and seven or eight others bruised as the front roof caved in while fourteen workmen were on site. The deceased were C. W. Hardy, 22, of South Eighth Street, and George Johnson, from a home near Willmer, Minn.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
C. W. Hardy
Eighth Street
George Johnson
Willmer
Hardy
Johnson
Jail doors open as cell blocks empty in city
For the first time in months the jail is left unguarded during the day with no prisoners. Webb and Smith are removed, leaving James Banta at large after parole. He roams the city by day, reporting to the jail at night.
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Webb
Smith
James Banta
Sleep and Old Age Decline in Sleep Needs
Sleep requirements decrease from infancy to old age, an exception to typical aging patterns. If elderly individuals secure good initial sleep and maintain an interest in reading, their condition is less worrisome. Early hours of sleep, the deepest phase, are proven to contribute to health and beauty.
A Queer Habit in a New Jersey Dog
A New Jersey dog behaves peacefully on ordinary days but on Sundays and holidays becomes quarrelsome. Each such day he actively seeks fights with canine friends, tail up and fur bristling, and always finds an opponent. The reason remains unknown, but something in the air on those days seems to trigger his fighting instinct.
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New Jersey
Plant Prophet predicted in Cuba forecasts weather and quakes
A Cuban plant rumored to show signs in twigs and leaves can forecast weather two to seven days ahead and earthquakes up to 26 days in advance over 300 square miles. It is also claimed to predict volcanic eruptions and mine fire damp accumulations.
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Cuba
Smoking in Church and Historic Censures by Popes
The article notes ancient tobacco use in church life and its severe censure by Urban VIII in 1624 and Innocent XII in 1690. It also mentions William Breedon, vicar of Thornton, praised as a polite divine, whose habits included smoking bell ropes when lacking tobacco.
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Urban VIII
Innocence
Rome
William Breedon
Thornton
Lilly
Ancient Cure for Madness in 1736 Dictionary Entry
A 1736 household dictionary prescribes a lunacy remedy by boiling three large handfuls of ground ivy in two quarts of wine to treat madness, described as an obstinate malady in that era.
Dr Wadenfield’s remedy claimed to cure sixty lunatics
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a remedy with salad oil boiled and applied as an ointment. It mentions shaving the head and warming the preparation to chafe the scalp. The text credits Dr Wadenfield with curing sixty lunatic persons.
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Wadenfield
Great Slaughter of Salmon in Okhotsk Sea
A traveler notes the salmon's perilous life cycle from infancy to death in the Okhotsk Sea region. Millions of salmon race upstream each year only to die before reaching the sea again. Sea gulls bears wolves and sledge dogs feed on the corpses as the rivers drain the exhausted fish.
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Id Smith
Frank Snoberger
E. L. Friel
S. C. Ray
Carroll County
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Echureh
A. Leetle
STORK
Beckley
Cal
Lester
Bush & Gerts
Chickering Bros
Bush & Lane
Nelson
Victor Crown
Clinton
Carl
J. C. Bridge
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Enquire
35 Tribune
Falk
Sally Pareles
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