Local High School Class of Seventeen Prepares for Commencement
The largest senior class at the local high school 17 graduates—nine girls and eight boys—will participate in a schedule of events starting with a Baccalaureate at the Methodist church next Sunday. Rev J F Noll will address the class with Miss Pamelia Payne directing music. A union service will involve city ministers. The Junior reception occurs May 20 at 8 30 p.m. at the city hall. Commencement on May 22 features Dr Elmer B Bryan Franklin College president as speaker on The Gospel of Work. Alumni will host a reception May 22. Class officers are Murl Tewksbury president, Mabel Gilbert vice president, Blanch Mason secretary, Weart Gray treasurer. Class colors are old gold and black. flower sweet pea. The seniors will present themes in the school assembly room as the final capstone.
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Methodist Church
J. F. Noll
Hartford City
Montpelier
Pamelia Payne
Mousic
Charles Watts
J.G. Hoy
Myers
Elmer B. Bryan
Franlin College
Bryan
L.E. Kelley
Prin. L.L. Gooding
Charles A. Clay
Effie M.niles
Murl Tewksbury
Mabel Gilbert
Blanch Mason
Weart Gray
Besse Burns
Mary Hanrahan
Carrie Koenig
Davis
Comptroller Mets Promotes Interstate Prosperity Congress
Empire City's Comptroller Herman A. Mets of New York leads promotion for the Commercial Travelers Interstate Prosperity Congress to be held in New York City on August 14 and 15. He cites broad support from business leaders nationwide and urges optimism to revive countrywide prosperity amid stock market downturn.
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Herman A. Mets
New York
Commercial Travelers’ Interstate Prosperity Congress
New York City
United States
Congress
River Styx
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Portland
S.C. Mead
Merchants’ Association of New York
Metz
William Hage
Prosperity Congress
Commercial ‘Travelers’ Association
Svhose
Columbus
Commercial Travelers’ Protective Association
St. Louis
William McCarroll
New York Board of Trade and Transportation Association
Public Service Commission
Danish inventor Knudsen promises wireless typesetting in London
Hans Knudsen, the Danish inventor known for liquid air and wireless photography, claims a new wireless typesetting device will publish 3,000 words an hour from Paris to London. He demonstrates sending king and queen and Kaiser photographs through walls and says he can transmit criminal fingerprints across the Atlantic.
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Ates
Paris
London
Hotel Cecil
Hans Knudsen
Mr. Knudsen
New York Times
Farm for Humming Birds in New York Suburb
Miss Gwen dolin Brooks of New York City plans to raise humming birds at a newly bought farm in Central Islip, New York. She will specialize in the ruby breasted species, selling the tiny birds as pets after testing their health. Brooks notes the birds migrate between South America and North America and require ample space and honey plus insects to thrive.
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Gwendolin Brooks
New York City
Central Islip
N. Y
South America
Tropics
Miss Brooks
Dynamite Set To Kill Panther Near Madrid Maine
Joe Dvignard, famed hunter and guide, hired to remove a female panther that has haunted the Madrid area since last fall. The beast, about four feet long and two and a half feet high, has attacked locals and driven cancellations of church socials. Hunters tracked the panther to a large cave. they fear remaining after dark. Dvignard plans to blow the cave with dynamite then force the animal into an open fight.
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Joe Dvignard
Madrid
Dignard
German Students Move to End Compulsory Drinking
A movement among some German university graduates aims to abolish compulsory drinking by student corps. Currently abstainers are admitted, but initiates are required to drink until nearly intoxicated during initiation rituals.
The Gall of the Spring and the Wand Summons Love
A fragment poetic piece describes May the magician touching earth with wand to stir meadow and stream while winter winds retreat. It calls to grasses and flowers to hasten away with the speaker’s beloved in ecstatic flight, though the verses are garbled.
Assistants Seek Civil Service Status in Indiana Post Office Rally
A May 6 meeting at the Denison hotel in Indianapolis formed a State Association of Indiana Assistant Postmasters led by Frank Amos Logansport John E Clark Marion and George L Haymond IncIe They aim to boost member interests and improve postal service including placing assistants under civil service and seeking higher compensation while retaining duties. The effort has backing from state postmasters and the postmaster general.
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Indianapolis
Denison Hotel
Indiana
Frank Amos
Logansport
John E. Clark
Marion
George L. Haymond
Incie
Civil Service
Skilled car thieves operate along Lake Shore line
A May report from Mishawaka Indiana details a gang stealing high value goods from shipments along the Lake Shore railway between Chicago and Buffalo. John Herzog, a shoe merchant, reports losses totaling over 3000 dollars in three months, including shoes shirts and men’s wear. Failing shipments and broken crates are noted, with eight cases short in a $1500 shoe consignment last week. Despite a hundred detectives, no arrests have been made.
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Mishawaka
Ind
Lake Shore
Chicago
Buffalo
John A. Herzog
Fire Devastates Walkerton Business District
A large blaze in Walkerton Indiana on May 6 destroyed seven buildings in the main business area including J K Byrer’s furniture store causing about 25000 in losses with 12000 insured. The fire spread from the Uyver store to several frame structures and finally the Star hotel where guests were awakened and aided in subduing the flames.
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Walkerton
Ind
J. K. Byrer
Main Street
Uyver
James
Histories
J. EB. Sanders Jewelry
Granger & Son
Star Hotel
Mishawaka Men In Controversy Over Fort Wayne Fire
Frank Doojittie and his brother John, recently returned from five years in the regular army, become involved in a dispute linked to the New Avelline hotel fire at Fort Wayne. Frank is forty.
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Mishawaka
Ind
Frank Doojittie
John
Aveline
Fort Wayne
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Endorsed for Chronic Cough
The advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery with glycerine as a safe antiseptic and medicine for indigestion catarrh and chronic coughs. It warns against unknown substitutes and urges buyers to demand KNOWN COMPOSITION remedies backed by forty years of cures.
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Sage
Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Noted breeders and speed horses in early 20th century stock ad
Breeder details horses Fastline Online No. 18225 and Iova C include 4 year speed records 2:04 and 2:11 for two year olds, plus seven trotters and forty-one pacers. Mentions Pocahontas Sam No. 019 and Redbuck No. 017 bloodlines, with many offspring and speeds cited. Breeding terms list $15 cash or note and insurance on foal status. mare prices and stock descriptions noted amid ornate pedigrees.
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Fastline
Online
Iova C
Cartine
Pocahontas Sam
Pocahontas Boy
Tom Rolfe
Redbuck
George Bell
Bellair
Tam Iova
Lady 5
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Herman A. Metz
Empire City
Long Island
Beast
Soi
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Assistant Postmasters’ Association
Ito
Lake Shore Railway
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