Nelson Attractions Show Week of Entertainment
The Nelson theater hosts Wilson Uncle Josh Perkins and The Honeymoon with Morgan's Comedians in Logansport. Madame Butterfly returns with 165 performers April 1. Wedded But No Wife praised by Miss Hila Morgan and Mr E B Bonner. Madame Gertrude impresses with telepathy feats. Pardners For Life tonight and Bootsblacks Quartet added at Crystal theater.
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al HB
Wilson
Josh Perkins
Cohan
Hila Morgan
E. B. Bonner
Morgan
Logansport
Gertrude
The
Nelson
Wife boosts husband for state statistician nomination
Delphi, Ind. March 16. Mrs. J. L. Peetz wife of the Monon News editor urges support for her husband in a state statistician campaign casting him as free from vice and faithful to marriage vows. She vows to campaign on foot if needed and notes the risk of defeat but values the office.
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Mr. Peetz
Statistician
Lfe
Gassidy Fined After Assault Case in City Court
Pat Cassidy cut Steve Smith in a Monday incident and appeared before Judge Smith yesterday. Cassidy pled guilty and paid a total fine of $1 plus costs. A nine pound baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. Sloop.
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Pat Cassidy
Steve Smith
Ira J. Sloop
Pay Car Schedule For Panhandle Supt Geer Reports
Pay car will arrive in the city on the 18th inst and begin paying at once. Departments to be paid include Office and station men trainmen yardmen on Wednesday and remaining trainmen night roundhouse men freight station employees store room and carpenter shop staff on Thursday. Car leaves Friday at 7 10 a m for Effner returning in the evening and again Saturday at 6 30 for Converse en route to Muncie. Total cash to be distributed is 150 000, about 10 000 less than last month due to changes under the new law increasing expected cash next month.
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Supt
Geer
Panhandle
Effner
Converse
Muncie
Fireman Hurt As Coal Fork Crushed Foot
Fireman B. H. Ingleman of the Indianapolis and Louisville Panhandle division was injured when a coal lump fell from the tender, crushing his foot. He received medical care and will be off work for some time.
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B. H. Ingleman
Indianapolis
Louisville
Panhandle
Panhandle station closed. prepaid freight required
The Stockport agency near Muncie on the Panhandle has been closed by the company and made a prepaid station. It is the last station to close after new dispatcher work rules took effect this month. All future freight to the point must be prepaid.
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Stockport
Muncie
Panhandle
Valley Lines officials tour tracks damaged by high water
General Manager C. D. Emmons and Supt. of Transportation R. T. Gunn of the Valley lines visited the city yesterday afternoon while en route to Lafayette to inspect sections of tracks damaged in places by high water.
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C. D. Emmons
Valley Lines
Supt. of Transportation
R. T. Gunn
Lafayette
Hire New Men For City Street Car Service
The local street car company hires new men for the city service. Few dismissals reported by Supt. Ryder for unsatisfactory work. New recruits named: L. W. Smith, W. H. Waite, George Altice, and Charles Reed. Reed was night tender at the barns on Seventeenth Street and formerly a motorman at Saginaw, Michigan.
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Supt. Ryder
L. W. Smith
W. H. Waite
George Altice
Charles Reed
Reed
Seventeenth Street
Saginaw
Mich
Electric distant signals to operate at Kentland interlocking
Automatic electric distant signals built by the Panhandle for the Kentland interlocking plant will go into operation Friday. The new system will enhance the existing train signaling at this location.
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Panhandle
Kentland
Panhandle and Vandalia rail workers face illness and pay car movements
Motorman C. L. Berry is off duty due to illness while Panhandle conductor Will Shaver returns after four months. Currency distribution starts March 18 with the Vandalia pay car due March 19. About $65,000 will be paid out locally, trains run on schedule, and repairs completed. Ted Anderson recovers from an injury and Culver academy observes Lent with a special Vandalia train. Engineer Hutchinson remains critically ill, Ward Hubbard to visit lines.
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C. L. Berry
Wabash
Vandalia
Panhandle
Ted Anderson
Culver Military Academy
Clymers
Chicago
Hutchinson
Ward Hubbard
J. U. T. Company
Police Panhandle bulletin posts safety law on railroad hours
Supt Geer posts a notice on the Panhandle bulletin board announcing a law to promote railroad worker and traveler safety by limiting hours of service. The notice asks employers to follow the law and requests public reporting of any violations to officials.
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Supt
Geer
Panhandle
End of Kentucky tobacco war expected after negotiations
Lexington March 10 negotiations between the American Society of Equity and the American Tobacco company near completion. The deal would see the company buy 80 million pounds of 1906 crop at 15 cents per pound for the first million, with option on rest. If finalized, independent embargoes on crop production may lift and raids by night riders could end. Mayfield report: J J Albritton finds a bundle of switches and rope at his door, tied with a hanging knot. he had joined Burley association last year and recently sold his crop to an independent buyer.
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American Tobacco Company
The
Tobacco “Trust
Burley
Mayfield
J. J. Albritton
Old Baltimore
Wingo
Albritton
Burley Association
Duke Seeks Divorce After Fifty Years of Waiting
Hamilton Ohio March 10 William Duke of Oxford a former eccentric bachelor who searched for a wife for over fifty years via ads married a Kansas City widow fourteen months ago. On his seventy eighth birthday he asked Probate Judge Hartkoff to dissolve the marriage saying she wishes to return to Kansas City to live with a married daughter. He offers to pay her way and asks court to supply two divorce papers for both sides and to cover costs. Duke has long corresponded with thousands of women.
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Elor
Kansas City
Hartkoff
Duke
Packing house plans by Gurkee for W C Routh project
W. C. Routh and Sons anticipate completing plans for a new packing house and set a contract soon. Architect Gurkee of Indianapolis draws the plans. Estimated cost of the new buildings is about $20,000.
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Gurkee
Indianapolis
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