Silver Medal Said to Belong to Indian Chief Relic in Cass County
A pure silver medal dated 1829 honoring Andrew Jackson is owned by J P Webster of Market Street, a former jeweler at 2216 North Street. The piece bears a Jackson bust on one side and a peace and friendship motif with a pipe and tomahawk on the other, once worn by an Indian chief connected to local treaties. Webster values it highly and has refused offers, believing it unique to the region.
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J. P
Cass County
William R. Davis
Logansport
Davis
Andrew Jackson
Mr. Webster
Webster
Beaver Creek Coal Promises Best Soft Coal Prices
Classified ad offers all kinds of coals with current winter prices. Encourages comparing prices and notes Beaver Creek coal as the best soft coal. Signed by John Hedde at 432 Hight Street, phone 1700.
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Beaver Creek
John Hedde
Hight St
Atlas lump coal and egg coal price sale notice
Cold winter coming prompts Independence Coal Co to urge buyers to lock in October delivery by quoting summer prices on Atlas lump coal for heaters and egg coal for cook stoves. Phone 144.
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Independence Coal Co
Big sale at No 317 Market Street this Friday and Saturday
Local sale promotes new comforts and clean goods with emphasis on bargains. Customers are urged to attend Friday and Saturday at No 317 Market Street to shop.
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Market Street
Grand display of china and bric-a-brac prizes
The Boss highlights a grand display of fancy china and bric-a-brac suitable for card and club prizes and wedding gifts.
Local notices and personals from a city paper
Multiple short items list people moving, traveling, and seeking services. Notes include Dr. Kendall of Chicago guest hero, William Witters and Canadian buyers leaving for Canada, dancers to ride owl cars on Fridays, rooms for rent at 10 Canal street and 924 Erie avenue, Hadley and Co. furniture offerings, a funeral party in town, and speeches by Judge Nelson. Also mentions Miss Pauline Ollinger’s visit to France and trips by Mrs. Stimis and family.
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egEs
Canal Street
Presser
Clothing Hospital
McCaffrey
Erie Avenue
William Witters
Canada
D. J. Reagan
Indianapolis
C. B. Purcell
Clarence Jones
Mont. Swigart
Verman Gross
North Judson
Leopold Stern
New York City
Louis
Julius Rothchild
C. M. Custer
Care Tribune
Nelson
Trades Assembly
Court House
Hadley & Co
J. J. Cain
Lockwood Street
Waukee
Joseph Graffis
Omaha
Chicago
J. B. Shultz
John Kern
Pauline Ollinger
Geo. Olinger
France
Mr. Young
Socialist Labor Party
Fourth and
Broadway
H. C. Howell
Enterprise
A. Stimis
T. H. Wilson Publishing Company
Salt Lake City
Utah
City seeks bids for pipe fitting at electric light plant
At yesterday’s board of works meeting, bids were authorized for pipe fitting at the electric light plant and for drayage, due November 5. Specifications for the pipe fitting are available at the controller's office. The pipe fitting contract was not included in the general remodel contract for the electric light plant.
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Board of Works
Electric Light
Drayage
Electric
Thirty Acres of William Powell Land Destroyed by Fire
Prairie fires threaten farmers with low ground. William Powell’s thirty acres of muck land in Bethlehem township burned for weeks, soil destroyed to ten to fifteen feet. At Mort Matthews farm near Fulton, five gas-powered water pumps flood low land, wells working day and night, and the fire is checked with hope of extinguishing before further damage.
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Bethlehem Township
William Powell
Fulton
Mort Matthews
Matthews
Suit filed over raffled hard coal stove dispute
Otto Pursch sues Mrs. Louise Holley in Justice Graves court to repurpose a hard coal heating stove won in a youth raffle valued at fifty dollars. Holley contests the raffle claiming the operator had no title. The suit is brought by Pursch's next friend Alfred Pursch as Otto is underage.
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Otto Pursch
Court of Justice
Pursch
Alfred Pursch
Engineer Charles Crain Home Damaged By Kitchen Fire
Fire started from a spark in the kitchen stove damaged the residence of Panhandle engineer Charles Crain at 1523 High Street yesterday afternoon. The kitchen roof burned away and fire officials reported it had gained headway before the department arrived. Crain was asleep and awakened as the blaze raged.
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Panhandle
Charles Crain
High Street
Mr. Crain
Authorized use of Western Union wires for Michigan fire relief
A notice states that the company offers free use of Western Union wires for relief messages to Michigan fire sufferers when filed by public officials or duly constituted committees. Signed by Co. MASSINA, Manager.
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Western Union
Michigan
Taft Address Rally Trip From Logansport
Republican rally excursion to Marion for a meeting addressed by Hon. Wm. H. Taft. The trip departs Logansport on the Pennsylvania lines with a round trip organized by an agent.
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Republican
Marion
Wm. H. Taft
Logansport
Pennsylvania
Crystal theater offers week features and local notices
Week of events and ads in Crystal theater listing show times and promotions. Local residents Cronin, Sifrer, and others plan travel to Chicago and Indianapolis. Price notes include Fancy Greening apples 25c per peek and McCaffrey furniture deals.
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Frank
E Paso
Tex
Robert
D. M. Flory
Hazel Lee
Miss Bennett
Kokomo
Hadley & Co
Minnie Poole
South Bend
Indianapolis
H. L. ‘Tippett
St. Louis
Logansport
Underwear Co
H. W. Engliebrecht
Louisa
Louisville
Ruhlman
H. E. Albert
Marion
Kirk . Stevens
Los Angeles
Cal
Helm Street
George Hunter
Peru
Holiday Vacation Moves Up This Year in Local Schools
Pupils will get a Christmas break a week earlier to allow those who wish to secure holiday clerk jobs. The board plans reopening on January 2 with three weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving holidays shortened to Thursday and Friday. Teachers and pupils praise the extra preparation time.
Political campaign week to feature Kern Beveridge and guests
Elkin precincts host a week of political events with John W Kern the Democratic VP nominee arriving Tuesday along with a party of noted orators including Henry James Weaver and Senator Gore. Senator Beveridge speaks the same day as Kern and Fairbanks is expected Monday with Marshall also on the schedule.
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John ‘W. Kern
Kern
Beveridge
Henry
James B. Weaver
Ollie James
Kentucky
Gore
Oklahoma
Traction Line
Elks Band
Court House
Mr. Marshall
Fairbanks
Busy political week looms with key dates
The schedule notes a highly active political week with events anticipated on the 28th or 29th. The timing suggests significant activity and potential developments across local and regional governance.
Boy Threatened with Lockjaw After Chain Attack
Cornelius Coughlin thirteen year old son of Mrs Ella Coughlin 114 Helm Street was struck by a chain thrown by a Routh Packing plant employee as a crowd watched a hog catching incident at the plant in early September. He was removed from school because his eyes were affected and now faces serious risk of lockjaw. The incident occurred when the man failed to catch the hog and his anger led to the throwing of the chain.
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Ella Coughlin
Helm Street
Routh
Coughlin
Whisky Bottle Found After Sixteen Years At G ford
Bert Lyons Ed Lewis and Rolla Mason drifted a whisky bottle into a Cutler Indiana stream sixteen years ago. The bottle carried their names and a paper note. A Linden Avenue woman later learned her mother found the bottle and kept it for about a year.
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Bert Lyons
Ed Lewis
Indianapolis
Rolla Mason
Chicago
G” Ford
Cutler
Ind
Mr. Lyons
Mrs. Holbrook
Linden Avenue
Money saved on food of good quality advert
Etnire at 301 Market Street invites customers to test savings on good quality groceries this pay day and promises to save money with a trade. Phone 216.
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Etnire
301 Market Street
Husband seeks plain divorce after wife's elopement
William D. Benson filed for divorce in circuit court alleging his wife ran away in September 1908 with another man taking $100 saved. He seeks dissolution of marriage from Mary E. Gravel administratrix duties noted for Ade line Zieder and John Henry estates, plus custody of three children. Other court actions include appeal by Logansport Credit Exchange against Ida B. Spahn and injunction consideration involving Panhandle against A P Watkins and A P Reid.
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Mary E. Gravel
Adeline Zieder
Catherine Ross
John Henry
Logansport Credit Exchange
Ida B. Spahn
Circuit Court
Court of Justice Reid
Ella
Anna Weaver
Larry
the Panhandle
A. P. Watkins
A. P. Reid
Lincolnn
Deaths and Funerals Notice
Orla Bonsman of 2329 North street mourns Omer Culy nine of Modoc Indiana. Funeral Friday in Modoc. Margaret Holmes 40 of 901 Twentieth street dies at noon. Body shipped to Pulaski Friday on the 1 40 Panhandle.
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Culy
Mirs
Orla Bonsman
North Street
Omer Culy
Modoc
Indiana
Bonsman
Holmes
Margaret Holmes
Twentieth Street
Pulaski
Panhandle
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Ray Malay
Linton
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Ruth Yantis
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Facay AS
Holden
Crain
FOR
Relief Fund
Co. Massina
Aldine
Martin P. Pryor
Horace Pryor
Jefferson Township
J. W. Shinn
H. H. Snyder
South Side
Mary Snyder
Winamac
Snyder
John Wortham Hall
Prof. Hall
McBride
D. C. Justice
Isaac Shideler
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons
H. C. Linville
Royal Arch
Hel
Otto ‘Shoe Repairing ‘Department
Rock
Otto Shoe & Clothingco
Elkin
Gether
Beveridge, Fairbanks, Marshall Kern
Nui
Boy
Cornelius Coughlin
William D. Benson
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