Indiana's Weekly Record Highlights State Affairs and Local Oddities
Gov Hovey's control over state institutions faces Supreme Court scrutiny as Republicans dominate the court. Horses around Indianapolis suffer a malarial fever like disease with over 60 deaths awaiting a remedy. Indiana officials in Jefferson County jailed for defrauding the treasury. Madison election features a prominent 35 vote motif. Reports cover a magnetic spring near Mance, a severe hailstorm in Greenfield, and varied local feats from ministers, painters, and mariners, with dozens of towns noting notable events, accidents, and civic milestones across Indiana.
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Inpianapolis, Inc
Supreme Court
Hovey
Williams Wins Congressional Race In Carmi Area
Election returns from Carmi and surrounding regions show Judge J R Williams defeating Ridgeway by about 3000 votes. Williams carried Carmi city and township by 100, a Democratic gain of 175, White County likely near 1000 for him. The report notes various local items including a lottery scam, Lincoln post office plan, and weather damage to Mattoon shops.
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Madison, Mandison, Inc
Cal Cisco
al Steele
Marshal
Roberts
Carmi
J. R. Williams
Ridgeway
Williams
White County
Lincoln
I. B. Curran
Alton
Geo. Washington
Samuel Weaver
Albion
Mattoon
Clay County
Chicago
Embarrae
Little Wabash
Olney
Indianabook reform battles anti monopoly ring in Indiana
Indiana text book reform faces a powerful ring led by Van Antwerp Bragg Co. The firm spends heavily to thwart the new education law, circulating materials to trustees teachers pastors and editors to sway opinion. The Sentinel warns of deliberate obstruction and calls on the State board of education to enforce the reform.
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Indianarrotis, Inc
van Antwerp, Bragg & Co
Indiana
Sentinel
Ring
News and Journal
the Sentinel
LaFollette
State Board of Education
Notes and News items from across the United States
A miscellany from May 20 highlights a Kansas City teacher seeking a full set of government blanks for civics lessons, plus shorter notes on a Jersey City theater fire scare, a Portland man losing and later finding a $20 gold piece, sea lions nuisance on the California coast, a Wilgon county prank wrecking the teacher's dignity, a Georgia swarm of bees invading a home, and broader notes on fruit and forest planting, rail fatalities in Britain, a Montana constitutional majority, Nebraska boy to girl ratios, Florida vegetable success, long feet in Hart county Georgia, Americans traveling to Europe, Kansas towns with female mayors, chinch bugs in Wisconsin, and Florida peach shipments.
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Jersey City
California
Wilgon County
Kas
John Franklin
Athens
Kanena
Great Britain
Colfax County
Neb
Bes
Florida
Hart County
Europe
Kansas
Wisconsin
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Jacob Breith
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Samuel Richards
Martin Ocker
Fort Wayne
Hannah Whistler
Carroll County
Martin Flush
Pleasant Valley
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Peru
Harriet Kaler
Franklin County
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Arthur Bealer
Laporte County
Center Point
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Marshall County
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Richmond
Laporte
Manitou
Rochester
Wabash
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White River
Columbus
Randolph County
Lou Gifford
Cynthiana
Morgan County
John Perry
Marion
Aurora
H.S. Bennett
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Crawfordsville
Union County
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Columbus Hird
South Bend
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Eugene S.thrall
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Charles A. Parke
William H. Owen
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Breith
BANK
Jerry New Harmony
Illinois
Cairo
New Orleans
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