Verona Bombings toll and war office claims
The Rome war office reports three Austrian planes dropped fifteen bombs on Verona killing twenty eight and wounding thirty one. An Italian steamship Bosnia was sunk by a submarine flying Austria's flag with lifeboats landing and one boat's fate unknown. Various European moves and resignations ripple through London Paris and Washington as war expands.
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Verona
Italy
War Office
Rome
Bosnia
London
Ancona
Milwaukee Coeds Learn Budgeting in Domestic Science Course
In Milwaukee high schools a sophomore in the South division demonstrates the household arts program by budgeting a yearly $500 income for a family of five. Students divide funds for rent clothes and food and plan weekly menus to maximize nutrition within the limit.
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Milwaukee High School
Milwaukee
Attorney General Stotsenburg Named Indiana Leader
Evan B. Stotsenburg of New Albany, a ten-year legislator and prominent lawyer, is named by Governor Ralston to succeed the late Richard M. Milburn as Indiana attorney general. He will serve the unexpired term, pursue the primary law in court, and reduce his salary to 5000 while directing $2500 to Milburn’s widow.
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Richard M. Milburn
Indianapolis
Evan B. Stotsenburg
New Albany
Indiana
Ralston
Stotsenburg
Milburn
Mr. Stotsenburg
Vincennes
Railroad Commission
General Assembly
Grand Jury to Hear Evidence in House of Mystery Case
In South Bend the St. Joseph County grand jury will hear evidence on at least one charge linked to the J. H. Quilhot House of Mystery case. State's Attorney Montgomery confirms discussions about charges involving Quilhot’s relationship with a South Bend woman and says evidence is in hand. Civil suits seek restitution of 100,000 in real estate allegedly transferred since Quilhot’s marriage.
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Grand Jury
St. Joseph County
South Bend
Battle Creek
Samuel Parker
Ore & Geyer
Quilhot
Montgomery
Kansas City Business Men Are Becoming Sylphs
Visitors to Kansas City note mid dle aged businessmen gaining sylphlike figures. Dr J A Reilly prescribes stationary running with a wall brace to return waistlines. Start with 50 steps daily, increase by tens, aiming for 3 4 minutes of running in a week and a ten day change.
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Kansas City
Doc
J. A. Reilly
Kansas City Athletic Club
Doc” Reilly
Mother Nature
Santa Claus
Penguin at New York Aquarium Puzzles Visitors
Visitors wonder when a penguin became a fish as a New York aquarium resident, found aboard a Chile cruise by W D Swartridge. The bird, housed with fish and later crocodiles, eats herrings and spends days on the gravel roof, unable to fly and calm, with staff humor about fur-inspired fashion.
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York
Aquarium
Chile
W. D. Swartridge
Voice Culture for New York Subway Guards
Interborough researchers train subway guards at West Farms to shout station names clearly in one breath. Diverse trainees from truck drivers to longshoremen practice singing off local stops from Bridge to Fourteenth Street to cut through underground noise. The method aims to normalize various dialects into a uniform Americanized delivery for Astor Place and other stops.
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York
Interborough
School of Instruction
West Farms
Astor Place
Fourteenth Street
N. Ote
Long Distance Marriage in Jeffersonville Ceremony
Miss Blanche Henning Drosta married Charles Francis Miller in a telephoned ceremony at 429 Locust Street Jeffersonville. Reverend W C Wood of Paragould Ark conducted the service with witnesses listening via long distance operators and two telephone receivers in the parlors. the ceremony lasted three minutes and thirty seconds and toll charges totaled 2 65 dollars.
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Jeffersonville
Missi Blanche Henning Drosta
J. H. Drosta
Charles Francis Miller
Louisville
Locust Street
W. C. Wood
Paragould
Ark
Miss Holland Drosta
New Albany Man Named Attorney General of Indiana
Evan B. Stotsenburg of New Albany is appointed by Governor Ralston to fill the unexpired term of the late Richard M. Milburn as Indiana attorney general. Stotsenburg, active in state legal affairs, aided the office during Milburns illness and is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for the post in 1916. The attorney general staff is expected to remain unchanged.
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New Albany
Indianapolis
Evan B. Stotsenburg
Indiana
Ralston
Richard M. Milburn
Stotsenburg
Ilburn
Canners Elect Officers at Indiana Association Meet
Resolutions adopted at the Indiana Canners association annual meeting at the Claypool hotel express sorrow over the death of Richard M. Milburn attorney general. Milburn had business ties to canning years ago and served on the association’s executive committee. Nick Hutto Sharpsville was elected president F F Wiley Holm burg vice president and Harry Mc Cartney Greenwood secretary treasurer
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Canners
Indianapolis
Indiana Canners'’ Association
Claypool
Richard M. Milburn
Milburn
N.ick. Hutto
Sharpsville
F. F. Wiley
Holmnburg
Harry McCartney
Greenwood
Institute Closes District Sunday School Program
The Muncie district of the Methodist Episcopal church concludes its annual Sunday school institute here on November 15. Speakers include Rev. W S Bovard superintendent of adult Sunday schools, Rev. James S Thompson teenage department head, and Mrs Mary Foster Bryner elementary division head of the International Sunday School association.
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Anderson
Muncie
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. 8. Bovard
M. B. Church
James 8. Thompson
General Board of Sunday Schools
Mary Foster Bryner
International Sunday School Association
Has Seven Brothers in War
Rushville November 15. Rev D L Milligan pastor of the Christian church at Arlington Rush county reports seven brothers fighting for the Allies four soldiers and three in the navy One was shot in the back and knee in France but will recover None of the brothers are together.
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Rushville
Rev
D. L. Milligan
The
Christian Church
Arlington
Rush County
France
Meek Named to Indiana Soldiers Home Trustees
Governor Ralston appointed James S. Meek of Indianapolis to the state soldiers home at Lafayette board of trustees to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Nathaniel D. Cox of Spencer. Meek served as a captain in Company H Ninety-seventh Indiana regiment.
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Indianapolis
Ralston
James S. Meek
State Soldiers’ Home
Lafayette
Nathaniel D. Cox
Spencer
Meek
Ninety-seventh
Indiana Regiment
Auditor Indicted for Embezzlement in Vigo County
Terre Haute Nov 15 Thomas Ferguson county auditor elect of Vigo county was indicted by the grand jury charged with embezzlement of funds of the civil and school township of Lost Creek.
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Terre Haute
Thomas Ferguson
Vigo County
Lost Creek
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