Paoli Pike Drives Support For Dixie Highway Route
Over fifty boosters from Bloomington to Palmyra toured New Albany to advocate the Paoli pike as the Dixie highway route. Speakers highlighted scenery, local attractions, and side trips, while New Albany promised neutral support and planned clean-up ahead of Indiana commissioners’ visit.
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Bloomington
Bedford
Orleans
Mitchell
Paoli
Fredericksburg
Palmyra
New Albany
Salem
French Lick
West Baden
Wyandotte Cave
Marengo Cave
Old Capital
Corydon
C. 3
Balthis
New Albany Automobile Club
George H. Hester
Raymond C. Ellis
Palthis
Floyd County
Automobile Club
Hester
Clyde Martin
Indiana
George B. Wright
Campaign headquarters opened in Dennison Hotel Indianapolis
Charles M. Zink of New Albany opened campaign headquarters in the Dennison Hotel in Indianapolis for state secretary and treasurer of the Indiana division Travelers Protective Association. Post Q members, supporters, and about fifty from New Albany plan travel to the convention city.
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Dennison
Indianapolis
Charles M. Zink
New Albany
Indiana
Travelers’ Protective Association
Post Q
Zink
Convention City
Haines Wesley Sues Traction Co for 2500 Damages
Haines Wesley has filed suit in the circuit court against the Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company for 2500 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained February 7 by a fall while attempting to board a street car on East Spring near Vincennes Street.
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Haines Wesley
Louisville and Southern Indiana Traction Company
East Spring
Vincennes Street
Beatrice Jones Ill at Home of Mother in Silver Grove
Miss Beatrice Jones remains seriously ill at the home of her mother Mrs H F Gulitz located at 104 Oak Street in Silver Grove.
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Beatrice Jones
H. F. Gulitz
Oak Street
Silver Grove
Germany Defies U S on Submarine Warfare Policy
A New York World dispatch cites Washington reporting Germany will defy US demands and keep its submarine campaign. The Kaiser's government plans a polite refusal to desist, continuing to destroy belligerent ships without warning and warning Americans abroad that travel under other flags may be fatal.
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New York
the World
Washington
Germany
United States
Wilson
Ejects Man From Embassy Over Abusive Remarks
United States Ambassador Gerard ordered the forcible removal from the American embassy of Maurice Somborn European director of the National Sweeper company Torrington Connecticut and Marion Indiana for abuse against President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan. Somborn a naturalized German American called at the embassy and claimed Bryan had accepted British bribes. He refused to go when ordered out and was then removed.
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Berlin
Hague
London
United States
Gerard
Maurice Somborn
National Sweeper Company
Torrington
Somborn
Death of John D Rakestraw at 31 after long illness
John D Rakestraw aged thirty one died Saturday at 4 am at his parents home 16 Vincennes street after a long illness of tuberculosis He leaves a wife and one child Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 30 o clock
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John D. Rakestraw
George Rakestraw
Vincennes Street
Farm statistics reveal land use and yields for New Albany township
Henry Handy reports land quality evenly split among good, medium and poor. The 558 farms cover 20 568 acres with 1 600 leased and 4 257 pasture, 3 624 timber, 636 orchard. 1914 crop totals include wheat 13 586 bushels and corn 32 631 bushels from 3 014 acres. Livestock and products are valued across cattle hogs sheep milk eggs and butter.
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Henry Handy
New Albany
State Bureau of Statistics
Indianapolis
Handy
Indiana University receives record $160000 gift for research
Dr. Luther Dana Waterman of Indianapolis donates 100000 dollars to Indiana University with a long term condition that income equals 5000 dollars annually, totaling 10000 dollars for scientific research in Indiana University facilities. Gift funds broad, not for a specific field.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Luther Dana Waterman
Indianapolis
William Lowe Bryan
University
Indiana
Bryan
Waterman
Dr. Waterman
J. W. Fesler
Twenty Fourth Epworth League Convenes at Marengo
The New Albany district Epworth League of Indiana Methodist holds its 24th annual convention at Marengo Methodist Church on June 2 and 3. Delegates will tour Marengo Cave and hear a lineup of devotions, addresses, and reports from leaders in New Albany Corydon Tell City Newtonville and other communities. The program features talks on life work citizenship temperance and church growth with evening street meetings and a cave devotional led by Rev. Lahue.
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New Albany
Epworth League
Indiana Methodist Conference
Marengo
Marengo Cave
Mr. Lahue
Leavenworth
Lillie Gatchel
Tell City
Fannie Morris
Newtonville
Valentine Deich
Wingate
W. H. Howerton
L. F. Ulmer
W. J. Hawkins
G. W. Holmes
Birdseye
Emma Stewart
Dale
F. W. Hart
Salem
Ida Crosby
New Salisbury
Cecil Katterjohn
Huntingburg
the League
Rena Bowen
J. Raymond Schmidt
Indianapolis
J. S. Washburn
Corydon
Walker
L. T. Freeland
Princeton
O. E. Haley
W. G. Clinton
D. D
Carthage
Will of Joseph Keehner Probate Filed in County Clerk's Office
The will dated February 18, 1915 leaves the entire estate to wife Mary Keehner who is named executrix with daughter Mary Keehner as executrix. Witnesses are Charles Day and J. B. James. The probate was filed last Saturday in Floyd County. Floyd county bar adopts circuit court procedural rules appointing a committee with Judge Paris and Judge Dowling to lead reforms.
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Joseph Keehner
A. V. Johnson
Mary Keehner
Charles Day
J. B. James
Floyd County
Floyd Circuit
J. M. Paris
A. Dowling
Wilson Proposes Firm Note to Germany Over Lusitania
Washington reports President Wilson has drafted a strong note to Berlin demanding two concessions: reparations for American lives lost and protection for American vessels, plus a modified submarine program to prevent future outrages. The note seeks to deter war without declaring it, relying on international law and humanitarian grounds.
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Washington
United States
Germany
High Seas
Berlin
Wilson
Mrs Geisler Returns Home From New Albany Visit
Mrs B M Geisler returns to Hartford City after visiting M E Gable and other relatives in New Albany.
May Festival Music Program Sets Two Nights of Concerts
New Albany readies for the May Festival of Music on Monday and Tuesday with final rehearsals underway. The program lists Schubert, Debussy, Gounod, Bizet, Bruch and Mendelssohn works, plus Elijah and a Beethoven-like concertante, featuring Miss Ruth Willis Brown and Earl Hedden among soloists. Tickets remain available through chorus members, the Grand box office, McDonald Stockdell’s, and Hast End Pharmacy.
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New Albany
Schubert
Moderato
Lia’s
Debussey
Carl Shackleton
Ich
Nicht
Elijah
Mendelssohn
Flora Marguerite Bertelle
R. K. van Pelt
Noble Mitchell
John Peterson
McDonald-Stockdell’s
Hast End
Armour Grain Company Sued for Damages Over Undelivered Wheat
A Hamburg firm sues Armour Grain Company of Chicago in New York Supreme Court seeking 200 174 dollars in damages for failure to ship 454 000 bushels of winter wheat valued at 495 872 dollars ordered before the war to Germany. Dynamiters damage the Rimeaur bridge over the Mississinewa River at Winchester Indiana. names of the dynamiters are unknown.
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Armour Grain Company
New York
Chicago
Germany
Supreme Court
Hamburg
Winchester
Ind
Rimeaur
Mississinnewa River
Judge bans London film of Ritchie Walsh fight
Judge Hough in New York district court ruling says the London contest between two lightweights was a prize fight and a pugilistic encounter and bars the films from entry. If not reversed on appeal, Johnson Willard films cannot be imported.
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New York
United States District Court
Ritchie Walsh
Hough
London
Johnson-Willard
Attorney Under Arrest In Indiana Fraud Case
Robert V. Baker a twenty five year old attorney is under arrest on a charge of issuing fraudulent checks. He allegedly passed checks for small amounts in Anderson and Alexandria. He formerly lived at Lapel.
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Anderson
Ind
Robert V. Baker
Alexandria
Lapel
Goliath Torpedoed in Dardanelles. 500 Lives Lost
London reports the British battleship Goliath torpedoed in the Dardanelles with 500 fatalities. Twenty officers and 160 seamen were saved. A British submarine penetrated the straits and sank three Turkish boats.
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London
Dardanelles
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Dixie Road Boosters
Paoli Pike
Open Campaign Headquarters
Chas. M. Zink
New Albany Township
State University
Epworth
O. B. Young
Milltown
Nettie Genung
Ruth Walk
Harry Kemp
C. K. Swartz
J. M. Walker
New al
Bany
Harry A. King
Moore’s Hill College
Myers McKinney
Moberly
Margaret Eisele
Cecil Miles
Solo
C. D. Wilson
von Frlitz
Douglas Webb
Bizet
F. Mendelssohn
Ruth Willis Brown
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