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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
6
German Advances Near Riga After Grodno Fall
German forces capture the Lennwade bridgehead northeast of Friedrichstadt, nearing Riga as Grodno falls to the Germans. Rumors of peace are denied by London officials, while Vatican support backs diplomatic efforts to end the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grodno
Poland
Riga
Petrograd
Lennwade
Friedrichstadt
Fortunes and tricks at a Chicago gypsy parlor
Stuart Peterson a Nebraska farmhand and complaint against Dr Faulbaum left the police station and visited a Madison street fortune teller. The gypsy queen took his money with a string of disappearing silver and paper cash claims and Peterson decided to seek a warrant after the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Peterson
Nebraska
C Desplaines Street
A. W. Faulbaum
Madison Street
Peterson
Desplaines Street
New York Police Learn Wigwag Signaling For Riots Or War
New York police train in wigwag signaling atop city buildings as part of a war readiness plan. Police Commissioner Woods initiates a system linking headquarters to all precincts using flags heliographs and signal lamps. Harbor police adopt Navy Morse code under Quartermaster Brauer at the navy yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EW York
Municipal
Woolworth
Police Department of
New York
Signal Corps
United States Army
Woods
Navy
Quartermaster Brauer
Navy Yard
Counterfeit Mexican Money Printed in Frisco
A surge of counterfeit Mexican currency circulated in San Francisco and across the border, printed with consular authorization and distributed by lithographers and other printers. U.S. and Washington authorities say they cannot stop its production as it is not government issued money. Villa vowed executions for anyone caught with the bogus notes, and several such killings have reportedly occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AN Francisco
San Francisco
Washington
United States
Man Found Living in Philadelphia Sewer
Michael Machill was found sleeping in a dead end of an unused eight foot sewer at Torresdale Avenue and Cottman Street. He had lived there about a week, entering through a manhole and building a rough bunk with a board table. Police discovered him after a Tacony officer received a phone alert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Machill
Torresdale Avenue
Cottman Street
Machill
Mager
Tacony
Tang
Indiana Mary Reunion Holds First Meeting in Noblesville
Prizes awarded at the first Mary reunion in Indiana at the Second Ward School Noblesville. Mary Lackey four months youngest Mary present and Mrs Mary Albert eighty four oldest. Several Marys with large families, heaviest and lightest Mary listed. 1916 reunion planned for Indianapolis with organizers Mrs Mary Draper and Mrs Mary Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noblesville
Mary's
Indiana
Second Ward
Mary Lackey
Mary Albert
Mary Burris
Greentown
Mary Pickett
Cicero
Mary Bader
Mary Shoemaker
Sheridan
Mary Driver
Lapel
Mary Hunt
Indianapolis
Mary
Mary Draper
New Jersey Street
Mary Smith
Washington Street
Mary Logg
Biloxi
Mary Heller
Mary Wicker
Mary Pettijohn
Noblesville Marys
Richmond Sues Light Company Over Outside Service
The city of Richmond sues Richmond Light Heat and Power to stop using streets to set poles and string wires, arguing its franchise covers local customers only. The company has served New Paris Liberty Brookville and other towns within thirty miles for years, with no prior city objection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Paris
Liberty
Brookville
Flora Voted Next Reunion
The thirty third annual reunion of the One Hundred and Fifty Fourth Indiana volunteer infantry drew over one hundred veterans and guests in Flora Lebanon on September 4. Dr C S Scholl of Logansport and Confederate veteran spoke as a key figure and honorary member. The 1916 reunion is set for Flora with officers elected: President Lewis S Myer Flora vice president E M Board Covington secretary treasurer A N Grant Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora
Lebanon
One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Regiment
Indiana Volunteer Infantry
C. S. Scholl
Logansport
One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth
Indiana
Lewis S. Myer
E. M. Board
Covington
A. N. Grant
Indianapolis
Larceny Charge Dropped for Harry Sudlow
Harry Sudlow twenty six son of Cromwell family in Cromwell who was jailed in South Bend on larceny charges will not face prison. Jeweler Charles Schnell was repaid 140 by Sudlow through a pawnbroker, and the prosecution was dropped after the ring valued at 380 was returned. Sudlow allegedly pawned the ring while intoxicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Harry Ludlow
Cromwell
Charles N. Schnell
Sudlow
Fortieth Indiana reg iment reunion held in Franklin
The forty-first reunion of the Seventieth Indiana regiment was attended by 55 members and over a hundred guests. A dinner was served by the women of the Christian church. Welcome address by Dr Columbus H Hall, former Greek head at Franklin College. George W Grubbs, vice-president of the regimental association, spoke for the veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Seventieth Indiana Regiment
Women of the Christian Church
Columbus H. Hall
Franklin College
George W.grubbs
Bloomington Considers New Waterworks Plan With Out-of-Town Plant
The public service commission will revisit the Bloomington waterworks proposal with a September 21 meeting at the statehouse in Indianapolis. The plan by Mayor John G. Harris and the city council envisions an out-of-town company building a pipeline and power plant and renting it to Bloomington for ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Public Service Commission
Statehouse
Indianapolis
John G. Harris
Fugitive Falls Into Cave After Police Pursuit
Evansville reports Jesse Cornelia, twenty, attacked John Jarboe, eighteen, over a girl. In the escape attempt Cornelia fell eighteen feet into a sandstone cave in the city’s west end, but was unhurt when found. Jarboe’s injuries were not fatal and he will recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
John Jarboe
Jesse Cornelia
Jarboe
Peace overtures and Catholic hopes stir wartime talks
London reports hint that Germany may seek proper peace overtures while the public remains cautious. In Washington Pope Benedict XVI urges US to press belligerents toward a peace conference, with President Wilson’s diplomacy and Samuel Gompers signaling labor support for peace efforts amid the looming winter campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Gibbons
College of Cardinals
Wilson
Washington
Pope Benedict
Vatican
Europe
Rome
Pope
United States
Gompers
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Friends of Peace
British Submarine Crew Destroys Bridge in Marmora Area
Athens reports a daring British submarine operation in the Sea of Marmora. Part of its crew landed at Kretzou on the Gulf of Ismid and dynamited the Gebize bridge on the Haider Ismid railroad. Turkish guards were killed and the bridge badly damaged, but the team retreated to their boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Sea of Marmora
Kretzou
Gulf of Ismid
Gebize
Haider Ismid
Constantinople
Greatest Artillery Duel On Franco German Front
Paris reports the world's greatest artillery duel continues day and night on the Franco German front. Officials say French bombardments aim to open a path for a general assault while mines detonate causing severe damage to German works near Vauquois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Vauquois
Tennessee mob set ambush as deputy shot in Dresden
In Dresden Tennessee a white mob lynched a Black person after a deputy sheriff was attacked. The incident drew police reaction and heightened tensions in Lauderdale County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden
Tenn
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Loutsk
Asia Minor
Atalla
Mercina
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von Strantz
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von Fabeck
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Yanushevich
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Nicholas
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Crane Valve Company
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Standard Oil Company of
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Rochester, Ill
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Os ‘Harriman
J.S. Smith
Roe
Donaldson
Brownsville
Tex
Elizabeth F. Mohr
Providence
R. 1
Ernest Roeder
Thomas Taggart
Joseph E. Bell
W.H. Hickhorn
Ind
Washington I. James
Hingham
Mass
James Harmon
Robert Williams
Harmon
Sing Sing
Ossining
N. Y
Lewis Roach
Montgomery
Antonie Salemme
Monroe County
William Perry
Pasquale Vendette
Kings County
Thomas Tarprey
Honolulu
T. H
Milford Martin
Joe Deberry
Murphysboro
Ill
Sheriff White
White
Chicago Board of Education
Loeb
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
Grand Rapids Press
The
Street Railway Company
Reed’s Lake
Grand Rapids
Mich
Paris C. Jameson
Arthur G. Hunter
Paul W. Weston
J. Harvey Smith
Garrison
Daniels
Congress
America
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Kentucky
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France
Hague
Chicago
Mexico
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Philadelphia
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TER
Veterans At Franklin
U. S
Lynch
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