Christmas events and gatherings in Anoka area
A sequence of community notices covers a homecoming surprise for Edwin Busjahn from Michigan, Christmas plays at Anoka school, Santa Claus visit at Ninth Street Christian church, a marriage in Clay township, dances, and various club meetings. Activities include fundraisers, child parties, and a temple dancing club event with Byerly-Denbo orchestra.
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Santa Claus
Ninth Street Christian Church
Temple Dancing Club
Byerly-Denbo
Seventy-Four Teachers Listed for State Association
Superintendent A L Frantz published the county schools enrollment for the state teachers association. Seventy four names appear on the list, with many teachers planning to attend the Indianapolis meeting starting next Wednesday.
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State Teachers’ Association
A. L. Frantz
Indianapolis
Grover Sullivan
Ivyl Eldridge
Alice Bliss
Verla Schlegelmilch
Celia Pherson
Fred E. Thompson
Marvin Fultz
Hiram Harvey
Cassie Harmon
Ethel G. Nelson
Cordelia Swearingen
Harriet Harvey
Irma Hilbert
S. W. Harris
Clara E. Groner
F. G. Neel
Helen Minneman
Maude Britain
Jessy Blue
Mary E. Hurley
Gertrude Johnston
Wm. H. Haas
A. E. Bond
Gertrude Powlen
Ethel Davis
Mary J. Brown
Ruth Hendee
Dora Cragan
A. L. Buchanan
Russell Brandt
Fara Lee Gates
Nora Berkshire
Lena Finton
Ella Reider
J. G. Whitacre
Dora Metheny
Fern Metheny
Dottie Reese
Mae Reider
TE. EB. Rogers
Claud Shank
Harry Weaver
Alfred Guy
Dora Wilson
Ada Wrights
D. A. G. Coblentz
Emil Huffman
Hazel Kistler
Russell Snyder
Anna Hopper
Cleo J. Howard
Roswell M. Kaiser
Charles H. Reider
Clara Blackburn
Grace Oyler
Minnie Bruner
Margaret Schwartz
Iva Jackson
Clara Conner
Frank Lybrook
Fred Berkshire
Jacob Timmons
David Pumel
Nellie Richardson
Georgia Leffel
Lara McDonald
Hubert Anderson
D. T. Maupin
Imo Peter
Edna Wood
Ray Peck
Hallie Smith
Kfahn
Brookston Signs Street Lighting Contract With Wa bash Valley
Brookston in White county contracts Wa bash Valley Traction Company for street lighting. Thirty two lights of eighty candle power will be installed, with merchants purchasing electricity for store lighting.
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Brookston
White County
Wabash Valley Traction Company
Miss Louise Comstock Leaves Longcliff After Resigning
Miss Louise Comstock, who resigned as attendant at Longcliff, left yesterday for Louisville. She suffered a severely bruised hand while restraining a patient, and the member was dressed before she took the train home.
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Louise Comstock
Longcliff
Louisville
Temperance Meeting Set for December 31 at Elks Hall
An omini partisan temperance meeting is called for December 31 at 1 30 p m in the Elks hall. Hon Emerson E Ballard will speak. The gathering stems from the recent state event in Indianapolis.
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Elks’ Hall
Emerson E. Ballard
Indianapolis
Mrs Stoll to Visit Fort Wayne for Holidays
Mrs John Stoll of East Market Street will travel to Fort Wayne to spend the holidays with her mother and other relatives.
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John Stoll
East Market Street
Ft. Wayne
Purdy Guests at 2300 Broadway Home Visit
Mrs. Purdy and her husband from Sioux City are guests of W. S. Parks at 2300 Broadway, as reported in the local social column.
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Lmer Purdy
Sioux City
W. S. Parks
Broadway
Tribune prints Jap photos amid war mobilization
Wartime coverage features Japanese subjects as the Tribune presents photie plates highlighting the home front and mobilization efforts. The article emphasizes public interest and government messaging during the conflict era.
City urged to guard high tension wires after recent accidents
Electricians propose a full inspection of all city high tension lines in response to fatal and serious incidents. Wires to the George Larger and Henry Tucker homes on Broadway and Market streets sparked fires during a rainy wind, with no fatalities, prompting calls for overhaul and safeguards at dangerous spots.
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George Larger
Broadway
Seventh Street
Henry Tucker
Market Street
George Henderson
Tucker
Complete Xmas Plan of Clubs Seeks All Day Christmas Closure
Secretary C H Stuart of the Commercial Club releases a request from several city clubs asking that stores stay closed all day on Monday December 25 1911. Women’s Progressive Club Tourist Club Coterie Club Mothers’ Study Club support the measure noting larger stores have planned to close for the day.
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C. H. Stuart
Commercial Club
Women's Progressive Club
Coterie Club
Mothers’ Study Club
Permission sought for Y track extensions on city street lines
M F Mahoney for Ft Wayne and Northern Indiana Traction petitions the board of public works to grant the street car company the right to lay Y tracks at the ends of Broadway West Market and Miami avenue lines to accommodate new pay as you enter cars. Officials expect no delay in approval.
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M. F. Mahoney
Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Company
Board of Public Works
Street
Broadway
West Market
Miami Avenue
Wabash Wreck Suits Delphy Elevator Case in Carroll County
A $15,000 damage suit is filed in Carroll County against the Wabash railroad over a wreck that struck the Collin and Ryan elevator in Delphi. The October 7 incident is alleged to have occurred as the freight train exceeded Delphi’s speed limit.
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Wabash
Delphi
Collin & Ryan
Carrol County
Partnership to Run Old King Drill Shop Formed
John Taylor and Paul Kasch form a partnership to operate the King drill machine shop in the city. They have purchased new machinery and rebuilt the shop’s old equipment.
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John Taylor
Paul Kasch
Rebekah Lodge to Visit Monticello for Degree Work
Next Thursday the Jewell Rebekah lodge will travel in a body to Monticello where the local degree staff will confer degree work on candidates from the Eudora lodge. A banquet is planned as part of the event.
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Jewell Rebekah Lodge
Monticello
Eudora Lodge
Chiropractors Offer Free Exam At Logansport Office
T C Slater and Gertrude Slater promote the chiropractic system as the new method to eradicate disease by addressing its cause. They invite visits with free examination and analysis at their Logansport Indiana office located at 502 144 Broadway over Rodgers store, with listed hours from morning to evening.
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T. C. Slater
Gertrude Slater
Broadway
Rodgers Store
Logansport
Ind
Jewelry stolen from Hugh Smith drug store window
Thieves used a glass cutter to slash a large plate glass window and rifle a jewelry display at the Hugh Smith drug store on Sycamore street early yesterday. About thirty pieces valued at 125 dollars were taken including bracelets chains pins and tie clasps. One bracelet was recovered in a yard nearby. The theft occurred around 3:30 AM. no crew was present.
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Hugh Smith
Sycamore Street
Barnhart
Smith
Macedonia outrages prompt arrests and court martial
In Sofia today Premier Guechoff announced arrests in the Istib massacre inquiry and said those charged will face court martial. The incident followed a December 4 mosque bombing that killed twelve and injured twenty, linked to anti Christian riots in Macedonia.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
National Assembly
Macedonia
Guechoff
Istib
City Moves to Host National Democratic Convention
The hotelmen's association formed a committee to seek Democratic leadership support for bringing the National Democratic convention to the city. The panel will report tomorrow and aims to raise 150000 for convention expenses, with date and venue to be set by the Democratic national committee meeting in Washington on January 8 8.
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New York
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Hotel Grant Fire Leaves Guests Jumping From Windows
The Hotel Grant in Grant, Mich. burned today twenty miles north of Grand Rapids. Guests and staff fled by jumping from windows. Orcellus Seward, 84, leaped from a second story window and died. Hilda Brandt, 18, and Pearl Hardy, 20, waitresses, were seriously injured along with three others who suffered minor injuries.
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Grand Rapides
Mich
Grant
Grand Rapids
Orcellus Seward
Hilda Brandt
Pearl Hardy
DePauw students raise funds for endowment drive
In Greencastle Indiana on December 21 students from DePauw University including classes, fraternities and other groups work to raise the remaining 20 000 dollars needed to reach a 500 000 dollar endowment goal. To date supporters have pledged 380 000 dollars and President McConnell expresses confidence the goal will be met by the new year.
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Tribune
Greencastle
Ind
DePauw
McConnell
Bequest Report Quashed in New Orleans Wills
Michigan City Indiana reports a widow Mrs. Charles W Lay supposedly inherited 100 from Mrs S L Bullock of New Orleans who died after nursing her through yellow fever but a New Orleans dispatch finds no Bullock death list and no filed will.
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Tribune
Michigan City
Ind
Charles W. Lay
S. L. Bullock
New Orleans
Bullock
Marriage Is Annulled In Connersville Case
In Connersville Indiana Judge Gray annulled the marriage of Norman Chain to a girl identified as Mrs Norman Chain age fifteen after her father filed the petition. The girl had claimed she was eighteen to obtain a license and the couple wed two weeks earlier.
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Tribune
Connersville
Ind
Norman Chain
Gray
St. Louis
Kentucky man pleads guilty in Indiana attack case
Lafayette Indiana December 21 Nathaniel Towles a Kentucky Negro pleaded guilty to attacking Miss Iva OConnell He was sentenced to from two to fourteen years in the reformatory at Jeffersonville and was hidden in an automobile and taken to Crawfordsville then placed on a train to the prison
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Tribune
Lafayette
Ind
Nathaniel Towles
Iva O’connell
Jeffersonville
Crawfordsville
Vandals Deface Richmond High School Artwork
Richmond Ind December 20 vandals entered the new high school last night and defaced hallway walls with red paint on three floors. A bronze fountain by Janet Scudder at the art gallery entrance was damaged as authorities launch an investigation into the incident.
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Tribune
Richmond
Ind
Janet Scudder
Fountain county jury imposes record assault fine
Attica Indiana December 21 a Fountain county Circuit Court jury found Joseph Williams guilty of assault and battery on his daughter and ordered a fine of 800 dollars plus two months in the Fountain county jail marking the largest fine in the county's history.
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Tribune
Attica
Ind
Fountain County
Joseph Williams
Gary man convicted in bribery tied to heating franchise
Crown Point Ind Dec 21 Alder man Walter E Gibson of Gary Ind found guilty tonight of bribery in connection with the Gary common council passage of a heating franchise secured by Thomas B Dean of Louisville Ky, who was the state's chief witness. It is said to be the first conviction in which a dictaphone played an important part.
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Y Associated Press
Crown Point
Ind
Walter E. Gibson
Gary
Bomb scare at county courthouse in Valparaiso
In Valparaiso Indiana the county courthouse near the police headquarters was the scene of a bomb scare when a patrolman found what he called a bomb on the steps. Many onlookers claim the device was a fake.
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Tribune
Valparaiso
Ind
Court House
Two Suspects Identified in Middlebury Safe-Blow Attempt
Goshen Indiana December 21 Watchman Hughes, bound in a chair during a safe blow attempt at Henry Hixon's Middlebury office, identified two Auburn men tonight as his attackers. A search light taken from Hughes was found on one suspect and authorities believe the robbers were not professionals, having used twelve dynamite charges without entering the safe.
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Goshen
Ind
Hughes
Henry
Hixon
Middlebury
Auburn
France to unveil Rodin bust for Champlain monument
France opens public subscriptions tomorrow to fund a bronze bust of La Franc by Auguste Rodin. The sculpture will stand at the Champlain monument base, commemorating the French navigator who explored the lake named for him, with dedication planned next June.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
United States
la Franc
Auguste Rodin
Samuel de Champlain
Printing costs rise for high grade jobs
The notice states that high grade job printing costs should be priced no higher than ordinary work, with a reference to Phonar 312 today.
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Phonar
Christmas Furs Sale Offers High Quality at Discount
Christmas Furs out 1 2 Price touts the store as offering the very best furs in the city with exclusive lynx and mink sets. The note claims savings of 10 to 50 percent and urges customers to shop before Christmas as the store closes all day on Christmas. Multiple fur items and prices are listed to entice buyers.
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Edwin Busjahn
Ann Arbor
Michigan) University
Marie Busjahn
L. A
A. L
Anoka School
Hazel Powlen
Earl Demont
Clay Township
Alta Jordon
Culver
L. G. Souders
Dorcas Circle of Kings Daughters
Frank Carter
First Presbyterian Church
Masonic
Masonic Temple
Margaret Brookmeyer
Madaline Mahoney
Mildred Hatch
Srothy Martin
Tourists’ Club
Carl Kellar
J. C
India
Fowler
Iloh
E.C
Valley
The
Photie
City Electric Light Department
Chiropractic
Burns
Grant, Mich
Vandalia
Red
Gibson
Iceland
Fox
Red Fox P
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