Indiana’s Week On The Counterfeit Dollar Flood
A flood of counterfeit ten dollar notes floods Indiana cities. U S detectives link the bills to an 1878 St Louis island printing nest. Banks taken in, $30,000 previously captured, plate escaped. Meanwhile state headlines: court-freezes Evansville Indianapolis reforms, Oklahoma bond wave, and rural notices from towns like Warsaw Madison Huntington Lafayette and Terre Haute report local incidents, crimes, and civic projects.
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Inpranavo.is, Inc
U.S
St. Louis
Evansville
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Federal Court
Woolf
Hovey
New York
Washington
Thomas Lane
White County
Rockville
Vincennes
Sullivan
Terre Haute Rifles
Indiana Legion
Valparaiso
Starke County
Pike County
Terre Haute
Winchester
Oakland City
Indianapolis Art Association Exhibit Opens at Masonic Hall
The Indianapolis Art Association holds its annual exhibit at Masonic Hall through May 18 featuring 200 paintings by leading American artists. Watercolors, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and scenes including a notable sea view by Tyler and a Norwich Connecticut landscape by Hamilton Gibson are on display. Tea and music are provided daily by association members, and the hall stage is set with Japanese tea garden decor.
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Indianapolis
Ind
The
Art Association
Masonic Hall
America
Tyler
Atlantic
Norwich
Conn
Hamilton Gibson
New England
Over the River and Local Notes Mix in Illinois Dispatch
A Kiamundy dog separates two fighting boys and drags the larger away. In Keithsburg text-books are school-board supplied. Belleville glass works employ 98 men and boys earning 1600 weekly, making 14400 beer-bottles daily. A.Princeton girl Elia Hill, 18, attempts suicide after heartbreak. Squire Hancock pays a court claim to avoid trial. Shawneetown reports large game-fish catches. F.M.B.A. reports 48 lodges and 1067 members in Wayne county. Phillipstown votes prohibition. its saloon goes to Carmi. Granville gym offers free shows. Illinois Central bans liquor into Iowa. F.M.B.A. has 1300+ members in Clay county. Olney remarks Chinese laundry. Washington scene: president flooded with office petitions from claimants citing grandfathers and a south-origin claim.
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Carmel
Keithsburg
Belleville Glass Works
Elia Hill
Princeton
Shawneetown
F.M.B. A
Wayne County
Phillipstown
Carmi
Granville Gymnasium Club
Illinois Central
Iowa
Clay County
Olney
Indiana Text-Book Reform Faces Trust Opposition
The Indiana text-book reform faces organized resistance from a powerful school-book trust. Critics report violations by officials, circulation of anti-law propaganda, and a funded effort to render the new law inoperative. The Indiana Sentinel exposes the circulars by Van Antwerp Bragg & Co and warns the state board must stay vigilant in enforcing the law.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Union
van Antwerp, Bragg & Co
Indiana School Journal
Indianapolis Journal
New England Journal
Sentinel
Indianapolis, Inc
the Sentinel
Local Itemas and Social Notes From Lafay ette Journal
Lafay ette Journal reports J W French editor and Miss Mollie Stewart wed at Fort Wayne last week. They plan a visit to Posey county and an informal reception May 7. Washington inaugural centennial observed with a large Methodist church gathering and orators predicting 1 452 000 000 population at end of second century of the Constitution. Reports on horses running away, town ordinances, school book debates, stock center status, commencement seats sale, church plans, weather impact on corn, mayoral candidates, and school days.
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J. W. French
Lafayette Journal
Mollie Stewart
Fort Wayne
French
Posey County
Jim
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Lowell
Philadelphia
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Brussels
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Ino
John A. Wilhelm
Queensware, Glassware, &c
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Pe RD & Bennett
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3D Ward
WM. Read
E.R. Sxevirynen, Jr
J. C. Miller
New Harmony, Ind
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John L. P. McCune
C. G. Hudson
Warsaw
North Indiana
Madison, Inc
Oliver Shepherd
Jennings County
Heruart, Inc
Jonathan Coleman
Huntington, Inc
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Lafayette, Exp
Morris Wolf
Wm, Coon
Anderson
Emma Fisher
John Barrett
Albion Skinner
Allen County
Holden
Columbus
Madison
Nate Gorman
Peru
Lee
Shelbyville
Petersburg
Tippecanoe County
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Lafayette
J. Hamilton
Shoals
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Negro Military Company
Ed Carver
Madison County
New Albany
Omer Miller
Miami County
Boone County
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Wells County
Grant County
Vanderburg County
Robert Lancaster
Princeton Negro
Snailtown
Michigan City
Murphy
Logansport
Laporte
Terré Haute
Huntington
Greene County
Muncie
Kankakee
Ripley County
Brazil
W. L. Douclas
Congress
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Sohn Walz
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Alfred Dale Owen
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Indianapolis Art Association
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White-House
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Methodist Church
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