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Harvey Gray of Galveston Cass county corn king orders gold enamel buttons for Cass county exhibitors and Hoosier committeemen at the Omaha national corn show. He argues improved farming raises yields and urges all citizens and businesses to support the Cass county display and prize prospects.
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Harvey Gray
Galveston
Cass County
Hanly
Omaha
Hoosier
Mr. Gray
National Corn Produce Company
Argentina
United States
Chicago
South
Central America
Indiana
Omahan
County Show Drive Aims to Boost November Exhibits
The article highlights ongoing county show preparations and the push for strong participation in November events. It notes the effort by Mr Gray and other commission members to secure big prizes and attract top exhibitors for county and state representations.
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Gray
Alder Buys Motorcycle For Rural Route Use
Larry Alder, rural route No. 5 carrier, becomes the third city carrier to buy a motor conveyance for rural deliveries. Frank Delanter earlier bought a motorcycle and Sylvanus Smith on route No. 3 ordered an automobile, with Smith awaiting delivery and planned first trips next week. Alder’s motorcycle is similar to Delanter’s and he may start today.
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Larry Alder
Frank Delanter
Sylvanus Smith
Smith
Alder
Delawter
Sipe to Resume Sunday Shows in Kokomo Again
George W. Sipe announces Sunday performances at the Dowling in Kokomo, with proceeds to charity. He has long run shows there, despite a bitter local dispute and past affidavits and injunctions. It remains unclear if he will repeat the same plan in this city.
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Sipe
Kokomo
George W. Sipe
Dowling
Citizens’ Committee
Sunday performances halted over row involving Sipe house
Police board took no action after a dispute over Sunday performances and proceeds to charity. The chairman, an attorney, was later identified as one of Sipe's attorneys, suggesting the matter was compromised by closing the house to avoid legal issues.
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Sipe
Rough Necks to Clash With Candy Legs at Spencer Park
The Rough Necks and Candy Legs meet Saturday at Spencer park at eight in the morning. Panhandle operators and switchmen join for the game with Shepherd umpiring and both lineups listed.
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Rough Necks
Candy Legs
Spencer Park
Shepherd
Copeland
Smith
Sullivan
Markle
Shaver
Tird
Veal
Chappel
Albin
Deaths and Funerals Groh and Bennett
The funeral for F. M. Groh was held yesterday from his sister’s residence with Rev. Johnson officiating. Groh, a former Panhandle yard master, was mourned by many railroad men and buried at Mount Hope. Frederick C. Bennett died Thursday in Eaton Ohio and will be brought to his Wabash Avenue home for funeral arrangements. he was a Civil War veteran.
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Wade H. Ellis
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Knox
R. H. Stevenson
Foraker
Resolutions Committee
American Federation of Labor
National Association of Manufacturers
James W. Vancleave
St. Louis
Republican Party
Samuel Gompers
Chicago
Denver
Ward trial draws Brown and Morgan county residents
Many people from Brown and Morgan counties travel to Bloomington to attend the trial of James Edward Ward charged with killing Joel McCoy and his son Frank at a northeast county wood chopping last November. The shooting happened near the Brown Monroe line.
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Bloomington
Ind
Brown Ad Morgan Counties
James Edward Ward
Joel McCoy
Frank
Brown
Monroe
Kaw River Flood Recedes Quickly After Rising
Kansas City reports the Kaw River flood is falling faster than it rose as Missouri allows a free outlet. The financial loss is small and within a week scarcely any trace of the inundation will remain.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Missouri
Harmony at Kentucky Democratic State Convention
In Lexington the Democratic state convention met at the Auditorium. Representative Owsley Stanley won the temporary chairmanship by acclamation and delivered a keynote urging harmony among delegates.
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Associated Press
Lexington
Harmony
Owsley Stanley
Second
Stanley
Hair as Health Index According to Dr Matsura
Modern doctors favor fingernails as health indicators but Dr Matsura of Tokyo argues hair shows even clearer signs of wellbeing. He notes hair growth and diameter shrink with poor health and says hair analysis can reveal health status before death.
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Matsura
Tokyo
Government as Undertaker in Macon Murder Case
Baltimore American reports that two laborers on a Macon Georgia post office project fought and one man was fatally shot. Government officials ordered burial on federal property and billed the treasury for 114 dollars with five dollars for carriage for the widow. A telegram instructed burial under treasury authority, stating the deceased was murdered in the building. Officials deny any conspiracy or complicity by the treasury.
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Amador
United States
Panama
Taft
Goethal and
Blackburn
Commission
Rogers
Panana
Commission of Electoral Inquiry
Obaldia
Arias
Colon
Los Santos
Macon
Treasury Department
Department
Treasury
Martians doomed to thirst in Ward’s distant forecast
Brown University professor Lester F. Ward imagines Mars facing a perpetual dry period with only pole circle waters and an aging world clinging to life. He notes Mars has about 1,000,000 more years of viability while Earth’s 24,000,000 year span remains ahead.
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Mars
Earth
Lester F. Ward
Brown University
Prof. Ward
Largest Building Stone at Baalbek Archaic Cyclopean Walls
The Acropolis at Baalbek features Cyclopean walls and the Trilithon blocks 65 64 and 63 feet long weighing about 750 tons. Arab fortifications sit above them and quarries nearby reveal massive stonework including Hajar-el-Huobia at 69 feet and 915 tons. M. de Saulcy estimates 40,000 men could move such a block. The quarry now serves as a necropolis for Baalbek residents.
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Acropolis
Baalbek
Hajar-el-Huobia
M. de Saulcy
Chinese Minister’s American Ways
The Chinese minister to the United States Sir Chentung Liancheng, a graduate of Andover and Yale, is fond of baseball and often attends games. He is a good player and features in a unique picture with his two young sons and friends. Tennis and horseback riding are also among his favorites.
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United States
Chentung Liancheng
Andover
Yale
Ex-President Cleveland Abandons Buzzards Bay Home
The former president appears to have left his Buzzards Bay summer residence for a home in Tamworth New Hampshire. He has spent the last two summers there with his family.
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Buzzards Bay
Cleveland
Tamworth
N. H
An Old One Mr Gatheremin and Miss Askitt Banter
A brief repartee recalls coin-collecting zest with quirky exchanges about Paris Latin Quarter. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer line hints at playful dialogue between two named speakers.
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Mr. Gatheremin
Miss Askitt
Paris
Seattle
Post-Intel
Black Bear and Cubs In Den Through March and April
A Forest and Stream writer notes the black bear bears from one to three cubs in a den during March and April. Hibernating five months, she briefly laps icy breath, then emerges to feed on bark and roots before returning to fish and hunt for moose, deer, porcupines, and carcasses as spring ends.
Wealth From the Pacific Salt Mining in California
California scientists and entrepreneurs are extracting salts from sea water to create industrial salts for export. The San Pedro Salt Company has begun producing salt of suitable quality and volume, selling to markets abroad as San Pedro’s port activity grows. Since last year coastal schooners have shipped over a thousand tons northward.
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Golden State
Pacific
San Pedro
Wytopitlock name spellers vex Bangor News notes at Pitlock
A Bangor News item lists the many quirky spellings of the Maine post office Wy topitlock in Reed Plantation Aroostook County. It notes the postmaster keeps a record of odd variants from Whitplock to Weetopedlock and mentions locals call the place Pitlock.
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Maine
Reed Plantation
Aroostook County
Witter Petlock
Witter
Bangor News
Jewish Soldier's Gallantry Earns Historic Commission
Sergt. Joseph Miller of the King's Royal Rifles, awarded the D C M and now commissioned lieutenant in the King's African Rifles Second battalion, becomes the first Jew to win the medal. During Somaliland service he rode through armed natives, killed four Somalis with his revolvers, drew attention to the British camp, and aided a besieged party.
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Joseph Miller
King’s Royal Rifles
King’s African Rifles
P. Cc. M
Somaliland
Miller
St. James
Women Refining Rome and Its Noble Residents
American and English women married to Roman nobles refined life in the Eternal City. They discouraged rough horseplay and practical joking, introduced open fireplaces and bathrooms, improved sanitation, and softened the behavior of the Roman nobility in the latter nineteenth century.
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Rome
Eternal City
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