Savannah remembers slavery as former slaves receive gifts
In Savannah a group of elderly former slaves gathered before City Hall to accept gifts from local businessmen on Bay Street. The scene evoked memories of a past where wealth was measured by the number of enslaved people owned, with women valued for sale and hotels like the Pulaski used to house and guard enslaved individuals.
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Avannah
Savannah
Bay Street
New Orleans
Richmond
Milledgeville
Chicago Slicker Tries to Hoodwink Crooks in New York
Leonard Anderson of Chicago, a self described detective, traveled from Norway with a disguise and claimed to carry 166 dollars. Two strangers attacked him near the steamship piers, stealing the money and injuring him with a blackjack before he was treated at a hospital and returned to Chicago.
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York
Leonard Anderson
Chicago
Norway
Gotham
Len
Anderson
Northampton Rooster Fends Off Coons in Hen Hennery Battle
In Northampton Massachusetts two coons and two prize roosters fought for breakfast at J J Kennedy King Street. A coon escaped after a rooster fight left one bird hors de combat and a tail injury on the other. Firemen recovered the surviving rooster and the coop is being guarded as neighbors lock coops and watch for more dawn unrest.
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Orthampton
Mass
Northampton
Masonic Street Engine Company
J. J. Kennedy
King Street
Mr. Kennedy
New York Women Drill For Possible War
Major Thiery watches as scores of women and girls drill in the Ninth Artillery armory on Fourteenth Street. General Milbank leads the American Woman's League for Self Defense with sword at side, while Col. Simonton and other leaders observe. The league plans to field women soldiers into potential conflict if war arises, even into Mexico if needed.
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York
Thiery
Ninth Artillery Armory
Fourteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
J. Hungerford Milbank
American Woman's League For Self- Defense
Col
Ida Vera Simonton
Africa
League
Milbank
Mexico
Hand Made Lace Decor: Simple Butterfly Motif Stitching
A guide to decorative hand made lace using a simple buttonhole stitch to form a butterfly motif. Shows transfer placement, outlining, satin stitching for body, and over and over stitches for feelers. Explains starting wing, row by row stitches, cutting away underlying fabric, and finishing with colored silks on linen or damask.
Armchair Tray Companion for Easy Access
A simple three piece wood contrivance fits over an arm to create a compact table for a glass, matches, ash tray and papers. It can be screwed together and covered with art serge or linen or cretonne, then finished with brass headed nails. Suitable for an invalid.
Silk bloomers gain popularity for all day wear
Article extols silk bloomers as convenient practical attire for outdoor and evening use. It notes Italian white and pale pink versions, plus inexpensive cotton crepe makes from 18 to 25 cents a yard. Two yards suffice for medium sizes with elastic at knee and belt for secure fit.
Caring for house plants and fern care tips
Practical horticulture notes advise placing thin raw beef near the pot to feed ferns and using diluted coffee as fertilizer. For yellowing asparagus ferns, reset with loam enriched by old manure and sand, plus daily sun. Use tobacco tea to combat aphids and mustard tea to sterilize pot soil.
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Aphis
Care of White Coats with a Ten-Cent Brush
A brief tip advises using a stiff white hand brush from a ten-cent store to clean white coats. Brushing against the nap removes lint and dirt, restores the finish, and makes the coat look like new.
Quaint Outline Tops Skirt Styles In Fashion Notes
Round full skirts gathered at the waist rise in popularity and are commonly paired with tight bodices laced or buttoned from waist to throat. The quaint silhouette remains striking and fashionable.
Man Under Arrest Indicted in Mrs. Brockbank Murder
Edward Berry, jailed for days in Jeffersonville, indicted for the murder of Mrs. Fannie Brockbank, the wealthy widow found dead weeks ago. Berry arraigned and pleads not guilty, held without bond.
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Jeffersonville
Fannie Brockbank
Edward Berry
Berry
Elkhart Woman Sues For Divorce From Rex Douglas
Hazel M. Douglas files for divorce in the superior court. Rex Douglas was arrested in Indianapolis on October 29 1915 and jailed by Federal Judge Anderson on a statutory charge. He was released March 30 and returned to Elkhart but has since disappeared with another woman.
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Elkhart
Hazel M. Douglas
Superior Court
Rex Douglas
Indianapolis
Anderson
Douglas
Confessed Stealing Pigeons in Alexandria Court
Adolph Horn confessed stealing fifteen pigeons from Cornelius Lemon in Alexandria. He said Ralph Gossett aided the plan to start a squad farm, but Gossett fled town on a freight. Horn was fined five dollars and costs and given thirty days in county jail.
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Alexandria
Adolph Horn
Cornelius Lemon
Ralph Gosset
Horn
Favorable verdict in Ritchey suit against Noble estate
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant in the case of Miss Elizabeth Ritchey of Greenwood against the Noble estate. Ritchey sought $5,000 for housekeeper and nurse services to Mr Noble for thirteen years, but the estate valued at $50,000 left her no provision.
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Franklin
Elizabeth Ritchey
Greenwood
Miss Ritchey
John C. Noble
Mr. Noble
Map of Lynn Section to cover 220 square miles in Indiana and Ohio
Four members of the United States geological survey are in Winchester making a topographical map of the Lynn section about 220 square miles. The area includes Winchester Lynn Ridgeville Union City and parts of Ohio counties coaxing precise boundaries and geographic details.
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Winchester
United States Geological Survey
Lynn
Ridgeville
Union City
Ohio
Jail inmate set fire in cell amid insanity arrest
Clinton April 24 John Ambrosini twenty six years old arrested on a charge of insanity set fire to his coat and bed clothing in his cell in the city jail The flames were extinguished before damage occurred but other prisoners were badly frightened.
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Clinton
John Ambrosini
Prominent Switchman Killed in Elkhart Yard Accident
Elkhart April 24 Walter Barn dollar thirty two president of the local branch of the Switchmen's union was instantly killed when he stepped from the footboard of a switch engine into the path of another locomotive speeding through the gravity yards.
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Elkhart
Walter Barndollar
Switchmen’s Union
Baby dies after swallowing jackstone in Pierceton
Warsaw April 24. Lester Cowell two son of Mr and Mrs Ray Cowell Pierceton is dead after swallowing a jackstone lodged in the throat three weeks earlier. An operation was required to remove it.
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Jackstone
Warsaw
Lester Cowell
Ray, Cowell
Pierceton
Rairick Ends Own Life in Water Tank Tragedy
Thomas Rast Rairick, 59, died by suicide at his sister Mrs. Emma Cheesman’s home near Markle Huntington county. He was brother of Samuel W. Rairick known as corn king of the county.
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Thomas Rairick
Self
Huntington
Thomas Rastrick
Emma ‘Cheesman
Markle
Samuel W. Rairick
Huntington County
War Veteran Injured in Auto Fall Near Home
Nelson Workey a seventy two year old former marshal and Civil War veteran was seriously injured in a fall from an automobile near his Hartford home. He suffered a fractured skull and authorities fear he will not recover.
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Hartford
Nelson Workey
Peru Girls Organize Rural Science Club
In Richland township the first domestic science club for young women in Miami county will be organized by Miss Lelia Gaddis of Purdue University. Fifty two girls have agreed to join.
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Peru
Miami County
Richland Township
Lelia Gaddis
Purdue University
Move for New Trial in Arter Murder Case
Attorneys for Jesse Lee Arter, the respondent found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, have filed a motion for a new trial in Muncie on April 24. The defendant killed Robert Hester.
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Muncie
Jesse Lee Arter
Robert Hester
Aged Man Kills Self in Lyons Residence
Thomas Wilson died by suicide using carbolic acid in Lyons. He had lived with Theodore Rainbolt for several years and left no family.
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Self
Lyons
Thomas Wilson
Theodore Rainbolt
Three Terre Haute Boys Arrested for Jessup Post Office Robbery
Three boys were arrested in Terre Haute on April 24 on charges of robbing the Jessup post office. A small amount of money and merchandise was reported stolen.
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Terre Haute
Jessup
Talks Between Scott and Obregon Aim To Shape Mexico Policy
Washington reports a planned conference between Maj Gen Hugh L Scott and Gen Alvaro Obregon to discuss Villa pursuit and US Mexican relations. Carranza’s envoy conveyed acknowledgment of the meeting while Lansing awaits a word on withdrawal notes. In Deming seven Villa followers were condemned to die May 19, one pleading for mercy.
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Columbus
Washington
Villa
United States
Mexico
Hugh L. Scott
Alvaro Obregon
Juarez
Scott
San Antonio
Tex
Obregon
Carranza
Eliseo Arredondo
Lansing
Baker
Arredondo
State Department
Rodgers
Mysterious Woman Leads Westinghouse Strike Riot
In Pittsburgh on April 25 a stylish young woman led 13 000 Westinghouse workers in the first riot of the strike. Several shots were fired and a striker and a detective were wounded. The female leader vanished, and the crowd claimed they did not know who she was.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Flora official sells Carroll courthouse for 115 dollars
Delphi Indiana April 25 William Kearns president of the Carroll county board of commissioners sold the county courthouse under the hammer for 115 dollars The building that has stood for over fifty years will be replaced with a new 171000 dollar structure
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Delphi
Ind
William Kearns
Flora
Board of County Commissioners
Carroll County Court House
Public Square
First Dinner for Dr Wellington Koo Chinese Minister
Secretary Lansing attended the first formal dinner hosted by Dr Wellington Koo the new Chinese minister. Many officials diplomats and members of Congress were present last night in Washington.
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Washington
Lansing
Wellington Koo
Congress
Food price spikes alarm residents in Denmark Washington
Consular advices from Copenhagen report sharp rises in Denmark food costs amid wartime strains. Prices for foods and daily necessities are said to have increased by about 30 percent, sparking concern over further climbs if the war persists.
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Washington
Denmark
Copenhagen
British Note Delivered on Neutral Commerce Protest
The British ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice presented Secretary Lansing with Britain's reply to the American protest over interference with neutral commerce. The note is a legal and technical defense of the sea policy.
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Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
Lansing
Weaver to Be Advanced in Army Rank
A house army bill provision would promote Brigadier General Erasmus M. Weaver chief of the coast artillery to Major General. General Weaver is an Indiana man.
Allied artillery pressure stalls German assaults on western front
London reports on April 25 describing increased artillery fire along the western front as Allied forces push to deter further German attacks. The intensified bombardment aims to blunt assaults and exhaust German manpower and matériel, signaling continued heavy fighting.
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London
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