Northern Indiana Flood Closes Factories and Endangers Homes
Severe flood idles several plants including the Wabash paper mills and foundry and the Bessley Walter cabinet factory. In the city about forty homes are uninhabitable amid rising water. Two women, Mrs. Samuel Ramsey and Mrs. Margaret Guynn, are critically ill in water-surrounded houses and cannot be moved safely.
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Wabash Paper Mills
Wabash Cabinet Factory
Wabash Manufacturing Plant
Bessley Walter
George Barcus & Co. Foundry
Samuel Ramsey
Margaret Guynn
Wanatah Flood Prompts Threat of Dynamite Outlet
A Wanatah Indiana flood wrecked part of the town and caused about $5,000 in damage. Stores flooded and dozens of families fled to higher ground as merchants threatened to blast tunnels under the Pennsylvania railroad to relieve water. The town remains under vigil as residents monitor the situation.
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Laporte
Ind
Wanatah
Tracks In Danger As Floods Hit La Porte County
Recent rains and thaws flood La Porte County Michigan City reports many bridges out and danger to the Pennsylvania and Monon tracks. Wanatah streets flood business houses and homes, water at levels not seen in thirty years. Waterford mill ponds overflow threaten mill dams and dikes.
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Michigan City
Ind
Laporte County
Monon
Wanatah
Waterford
Water Swamps Tracks Halting Kendallville Trains
Heavy rains washed away fifty feet of Toledo and Chicago Interurban tracks half a mile south of Kendallville Indiana causing four feet of water on the right of way and forcing car service to halt. A washout on the Lake Shore line four miles east delayed eastbound trains until repairs ended tonight.
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Kendalville
Ind
Toledo and Chicago Interurban Company
Here
Lake Shore Railroad
Death sentence passed in Stoessel case
St Petersburg March 6 The verdict in the Lieut Gen Stoessel court martial for surrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese was formally pronounced today It is believed Emperor Nicholas will likely commute the sentence The court also annulled the reprimand against Lieut Gen Fock due to the remoteness of his offense
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Nese
Nicholas
Fock
New Trial Request in Doyle Case Claims New Evidence
In Anderson Indiana on March 6 a motion for a new trial was filed in the Doyle case. Doyle convicted of attempting to murder his sweetheart Miss Lida Scott by cutting her throat. The motion cites four issues with the sensational claim that Miss Scott carried a concealed razor a week before the tragedy.
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Anderson
Ind
Doyle
Lida Scott
Olympic rink to close on Broadway for season
The Olympic rink on Broadway will close tonight as Frank Bush completes preparations for a new rink opening at the park. Remaining basketball games this season are expected to be moved to the YMCA gymnasium.
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Broadway
Frank Bush
Park
Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium
Public Auction Planned for Logansport Ice Plant
Sheriff Beckley schedules public sale of the Logansport Ice and Cold Storage plant between 10 and 4 on March 28. The facility was placed in the hands of a receiver after a series of quitclaims for notes and mortgages.
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Sheriff Beckley
Logansport
Fernalds Visit from Maine Stop Here
E. W. Fernald of Presque Isle Maine is visiting with W. L. Fernald of Market Street during a brief stay in town.
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E. W. Fernald
Presque Isle
Maine
W. L. Fernald
Market Street
Clarenceville Fire Incident Leaves 36 Boys Safe
A fire at a Clarenceville suburb of Detroit burned a building last night as 36 boys escaped. Superintendent Lane directed the evacuation and leaped from an upper window but sustained only minor injuries.
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Clarenceville
Detroit
Lane
Recovery of all bodies in Collinwood school fire
Cleveland report states Katherine Weller is positively identified among the victims. With 23 bodies still unidentified and 167 recovered, officials believe the total death toll will remain at 167.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Katherine Weller
Collinwood
Money for Stricken Families in Collinwood Fire
A bill in Columbus seeks 25000 dollars relief for families who lost children in the Collinwood school fire with a 400 dollar limit per family. Governor Harris reads sympathy telegrams from Cleveland Mayor and Collinwood officials as Chief Inspector Morgan heads to Collinwood to review the ruins.
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Columbus
Ohio
Collinwood
Harris
Johnson
Cleveland
John H. Morgan
Forest chatter of monkeys and wild beasts in jungle study
Prof. R. L. Garner spent years in African forests studying animal communication. He notes monkeys converse and some animals speak at times, while carnivora depend on scent and hunt mainly at night. Chimpanzees vocalize, gorillas occasionally chatter, and elephants and hippos trumpet and bellow in daylight or night.
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R. L. Garner
Africa
Garner
Runaway Boy Returned From City Journey
Erskine Holt aged 14 was sent back to Muncie yesterday after fleeing home. He travelled toward the city Thursday evening, walked part of the way, then met an uncle who gave him fifty cents for car fare to the city.
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Erskine Holt
Muncie
Miss Blanche Duffy Off Duty Illness Absence
Miss Blanche Duffy of McConnell Jenkines Jenkines and Stuart is off duty due to illness. Miss Zoe Quaintance of Winfield's office assists during Duffy's absence.
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Blanche Duffy
McConnell, Jenkines
Jenkines and
Stuart
Zoe Quaintance
Winfield
Miss Duffy
Revival services proceed at Evangelical church
Rev. L. S. Fisher preached to start the protracted meeting at the Evangelical church Thursday evening. Rev. J. J. Wise of Kokomo is conducting services for the rest of the week.
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L. S. Fisher
Evangelical Church
J. J. Wise
Kokomo
Charles Baker to Begin Court House Decor Contract Work
Charles Baker will start decorating the court house as soon as the contract is properly signed. The action follows award of the decorating contract and formal execution by the parties.
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Charles Baker
Court House
Death toll reaches Lancaster through mother in law loss
Dr Eversole received word yesterday that his mother in law has died in Lancaster Ohio.
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Eversole
Lancaster
Mr Hand of Argus Guest of J G Fisher of Biddles Island
Mr Hand representing Argus is the guest of J G Fisher on Biddles Island. The brief social note places two individuals and a location in a late 19th or early 20th century community context.
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Mr. Hand
Argus
J. G. Fisher
Biddles Island
Lilley Testimony Alleges Electric Boat Lobbying Taint
The report recounts Lilley admitting an interview and charging that Electric Boat and Holland interests funded campaigns and pressured Congress to influence submarine contracts. It notes Frost and others frequenting Washington, senate amendments, and calls for an impartial probe to expose corrupt methods and suppression of competition.
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Electric Boat Company
Congress
House
Lilley
Holland Company
Sugcessors
Washington
Holland Boat Company
E. Creecey
Eppa Hunter
United States
M. C. Butler
Co. S. McNeil
W. R. Kerr
Elihu B. Frost
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Electric Company
Naval Committee
Navy Department
Electric and Holland Companies
The Artist's 1000 Franc Portrait Torture
In Illustrated Sunday Magazine a young starving artist lands a 1000 franc commission from an elderly spinster. Francois laments the week of study ahead as a friend realizes the price of beauty may exact severe daily scrutiny.
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Francois
Melvin
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Convict Genius Improves Melbourne Gardens Fountain
In Melbourne Parliament gardens a stone fountain shows a convict William Stanford as its maker. At 21 he joined bushrangers, earned 21 years in prison, then impressed Col. Champ and Melbourne’s top sculptor. A pardon followed, launching Stanford as a premier Melbourne sculptor.
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Melbourne
William Stanford
Stanford
Col. Champ
Hog labor and a tale of swine driven work
A venerable Chinese laundryman jokes that hogs do not work in China while noting they work as beasts of burden in Ireland and Germany. The piece recalls Abraham Lincoln’s stories of labor in Indiana and Illinois and describes frontier chimney and cabin building using swine as a mortar source.
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China
Ireland
Germany
Abraham Lincoln
Indiana
Illinois
Look Forward Forget Your Faults and Failures
The Outlook urges moving beyond past sins to learn from them and use history as a guide. It encourages forgetting what lies behind while using past journeys as a journal to chart a forward course.
Doncaster Cook Delivers Pudding Miscount
A Christmas savory pudding ordered for a goose was missing at table. The mistress learns only she and the cook like it, and the five year servant claims no one else in the house shares the taste.
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London
Doncaster
Jane
Marm
Kissing Feet Across Ages and Empires
A historical note outlines a long tradition of kissing feet or garments as a mark of honor from ancient Egypt Greece and Rome to the Ottoman sultan. It recalls a Briton king’s dramatic rebuke of a Roman monk and describes ranks of homage from high officials to common people as depicted in the Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
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Pontifex Maximus
Turkey
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Chautauqua Draws Crowd Then Circus Arrives
In a Georgia town of about 6000, a Chautauqua gathering last summer drew large crowds from day one. A circus operator with a steam merry go round set up midway between town and grounds on the second day. A country youth, Ezzy, said he rode the ride nine times and praised the event.
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Georgia
Ezzy
Word Curiosities and Alphabet Pangrams
A New York Press note discusses a seven word pangram using 32 letters to cover the alphabet Burst fed jingle quip vim hack zyxomma and cites two eight word sentences that include all letters Quick brown fox jumps over the hazy dog and Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs as common typewriter tests.
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New York Press
Hypnotism Origins and Liebault’s Pioneering Work
The New York American traces the birth of modern hypnotic suggestion to Liebault of Nancy, praised as the father of therapeutic suggestion. After years of practice he published in 1866 but faced ridicule until 1878 when Charcot studied hypnotism. Bernheim’s 1884 work boosted Liebault’s lasting reputation.
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Liebault
Nancy
Charcot
Bernheim
New York American
Cheap Home Made Barometer
A weather man described a cheap home made barometer using a 15 inch string soaked in salt water. After drying a weight is hung and a mark shows the height. The device is said to be as accurate as a $100 instrument with the weight rising in wet weather and falling in fine.
Emancipation and Fear of Public Opinion
A meditation on breaking idols and the persistence of fear. Emerson questions what emancipation means when the inner tremor before public judgment remains, whether from ancient gods or modern doctrines, and asks what value the change has if anxiety still governs belief.
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Neptune
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those Early Marriages in a Page Turning Moment
A frightened bride clings to her husband asking if they are still wed. He reassures, but she predicts danger as the plot promises two thrills per page. The narrator notes a novel must reach 400 pages to fit the class Puck price.
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Puck
Yale Men Take to the Law In Shifting Occupation Trends
Yale statisticians chart a century of graduate careers showing a drop in ministry from about 39 percent at the century start to six percent since 1865, with law and medicine stable. Doctors around ten percent, teaching and science rising to 11 percent, and business now drawing about one third, while farming declines.
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Yale
Trouble With Modern Child Discussed In Milwaukee Lecture
Misa L. E. Stearns urged giving children space to be children at a Milwaukee lecture on the Thankless Child. She cited a party with eight year old hostess gifts and a child arriving in a carriage with a footman to illustrate modern burdens. She compared this to Ruskin who had four toys yet formed a lifelong interest in architecture from early play.
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Misa L. E. Stearns
Milwaukee
Smaggiest Birds the Bravest
A whimsical account describes hummingbirds as fearless, entering open windows for flowers and even attempting to feed from a hat. It notes their fragility indoors, the futility of keeping them in captivity, and the danger of glass injuries in greenhouses.
The Proud Maid
A North Woodward avenue family hosted English novelist Robert Barr for dinner. The maid, proud to serve him, expressed hope she might one day wait on Shakespeare, remarking she was the first famous man she had attended. The exchange aired in the Detroit Free Press.
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Robert Barr
Woodward Avenue
Barr
Shakespeare
Detroit Free Press
Obscure Art Dialogue Sparks Guesses
A musician criticizes an unfamiliar composition while Mr. Comrox admits confusion. He explains that the piece keeps him guessing with three questions about its creation, purpose, and reception.
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Mr. Comrox
Amenities of the Fair Sex skit dialogue
Mrs A says Mrs C is hypocritical as she tried to get her to speak ill of Mrs B. Mrs B confirms. The exchange centers on a request to reveal true opinions, exposing suspicion of insincerity among friends.
Flattery Sparks Talk of Macaulay Between Caller and Editor
A caller accuses a morning editorial of imitating Macaulay. The editor deflects with a witty remark about flattery and clarifies the caller’s intent. The exchange centers on literary style and mutual banter.
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Macaulay
Long Island Hackman of 50 Years Dies at Depot
A Hempstead hackman who served the town for more than five decades passed away after years of ferrying passengers to and from the railroad. One commuter recalled his half century of to and fro travel as the man rested near the depot and muttered about seeing queer things.
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Hempstead
Long Island
Skeletons in Italian Monastery Room Up to Ceiling in Abandoned Abbey
In Carlentini Italy workers opened a sealed door behind the sacristy at an abandoned monastery finding more than four thousand human skeletons stacked to the ceiling in a room. Locals say monks secretly used the space for burial when church grave capacity ran out to preserve income.
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Carlentini
Italy
Syndic
Campo Santo
Strong men needed to lead the new business era
Washington Gladden argues the current generation must be better, bigger, and braver than the last. He insists ethical standards in finance must rise with the growing business load to avoid chaos, demanding higher justice, equality, integrity, and trust across communities.
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Washington Gladden
Still Accepting Bouquets
Mr. Squig grumbles to Horace about stage glamour and chorus girls. He recalls his younger days and dismisses modern actresses as less fascinating, while Horace defends today’s performers.
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Mr. Squiggins
Horace
Letter Writing Keeps News Fresh for Busy Correspondents
A reader explains using a notebook to record brief notes and jokes for specific friends. When writing letters, ready scraps of news keep messages vivid, and the writer finds letters more interesting now.
A Road to Happiness
A Victorian note contrasts English and American women in marriage. The English girl is seen as simplifying desires while the American wife demands what she wants and often gets it, though the American husband prefers to refuse.
Mount Vernon Named After Admiral Vernon
Side Lights on History notes that the Washington estate was renamed Mount Vernon in honor of Admiral Vernon. Maj. Lawrence Washington tells George he must stand for it as future Americans honor the spot as a shrine to liberty. The scene ends with George's stern, commanding expression.
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Washington
Mount Vernon
Admiral Vernon
George
Maj
Lawrence Washington
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