Indiana Tuberculosis Victory Report Spurs Public Health Drive
The Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis announces that 9,043 Indiana citizens have been saved from premature deaths over fifteen years. In 1915 alone 1,248 lives were saved, equating to one life every fourteen point five three hours. Folks are urged to follow health rules and request educational literature at the Tuberculosis office in Indianapolis.
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Indiana Society For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Indiana
Lebanon
Lawrenceburg
Wisconsin
Public Savings Bldg
Indianapolis
Local notices and life events in Royal Centre area
Miss Bessie Dolezal spends a week in Chicago as a vacation. A girl born to Editor Schricker and wife at Knox Sunday night. Mrs. John Dell returns from Hammond visit. G W Schricker family toured Valparaiso Wanatah and Knox. Frank Burbank visited Peru and his son Phil. Duane Schuyler owns a Shetland pony bought from savings. Pat Welsh’s rink and dance hall at English Lake progresses. Ladies Aid Lutheran market at New Port July 15. Millard F Miller of Detroit visited here and Round Lake. learns his father died. Abram Gant dies at Denham aged 12 years 11 months 26 days. Civil War service noted. Pan Handle railroad to build passenger shed at Winamac. Royal Centre urges equal treatment for North Judson discussions.
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Bessie Dolezal
Chicago
Editor Schricker
Knox
John Dell
Hammond
G. W. Schricker
Valparaiso
Wanatah
Frank Burbank
Peru
Phil
Duane Schuyler
Pat Welsh
English Lake
Kankakee
Ladies Aid
Lutheran Church
Neuport
C. Millard F. Miller, of Detroit, Mich., Brother of H. C. Miller
Round Lake
Wm. Miller
Abram Gant
Denham
Franklin
Ind
Co. F. 101St Ind
Denham Cemetery
Pan Handle
Winamac
Pan
Royal Centre
Logansport
North Judson
Ruling Requires Windows in Rural School Wagons
State Superintendent Greathouse ordered that school wagons in rural districts have side windows for protection and must be well ventilated and heated. A Jan 28 collision in Bango township Elkhart county, involving the Twentieth Century Flyer, killed horses but left children unharmed. Parents there appealed for safe conveyances and were only now informed of the new law.
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Greathouse
Bango Township
Elkhart County
Wise Counsel And Wedding Notices In A Rural Indiana Paper
A collection of quips on advice from varied traders plus local notices from Starke county Indiana. Earl Schuyler attended a Purdue schoolmate wedding in Indianapolis where he served as best man. The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs plan a July picnic at Bass Lake Country Club with county three-link orders invited. John Tucker of Leiters Ford wed Mrs Alma Gunn of Plymouth and moved to Plymouth. congratulations are extended.
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Walt Mason
Earl Schuyler
Purdue
Lawrence Vanderver
Indianapolis
Earl
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Starke County
Bass Lake
Judson Fitzpatrick
Francesville Tribune
Country
D. O. Porter
Frank Vik
George
Rose Vik
Frank Krestan
Chicago
Joseph Vik
Jas. Kalina
Christina Vik
Francis Krestan
Vik
John Tucker
Leiters Ford
Plymouth
Tucker
John
Alma Gunn
Dream Reed? Woman’s Dream Leads to Murderer Discovery
Mrs. Rollo Moorehouse of Porter county reported a Friday night dream of a body in a water hole near Baum's bridge on the Kankakee River. She found the drowned man, Wm. Decatur Lyon of Wheatfield, Ind., dead from head wounds, and police seek clues in the murder case.
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Decatur Lyon
Wheatfield
Ind
Baum
Kankakee River
Porter County
Lyon
Rollo Moorehouse
Loren Lewis
Picking On The Letter E
An opinion claims the letter E is unlucky yet essential. It argues E appears in wealth and peace and marks existence and honesty while noting its absence would erase meat life heaven and love. The piece humorously lists words connected to E across printing editing and typography.
New baby at Childs home near Aldine
Local birth announced for Mr and Mrs Clarence Childs with a newborn boy born Saturday near Aldine. Epworth League Ice Cream social listed at Dr Fisher's lawn Friday evening July 14. News notes describe the 1st Regiment Indiana National Guard departure for the Mexican border from Ft Harrison with 1500 plus men and several Knox county officers failing physical tests.
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Clarence Childs
Aldine
Winamac
Ft. Harrison
Dahlke Home Robbed in Widespread Late Evening Burglary
The Dahlke residence was broken into last Wednesday between 7 and 9 pm. Drawers and trunks were searched for cash while a lodge dues fund disappeared from a library table drawer. Only shoe imprint under the pried window and odd behavior noted, as untouched jewelry and coins contradicted the raid.
War letters and community notices from Glenievit area 1916
A South Dakota letter to the editor from Mrs. J. E. Burns describes farming prospects near Glenievit including rain, crops, springs, coal vein, and a stone house. Additions report Hammond beating Knox 3 1, visits in Hammond and Gary, and a long military letter from Augustine Dusek in Fort Harrison about Indiana National Guard mobilization, border plans, and life of rookies en route to Texas Brownsville.
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Glenievit
S. Dak
Dakota
Burns
J. E. Burns
North Judson Ice Cream Parlor Praised In Trade Note
A Chicago trade magazine highlights North Judson Indiana business for bold local advertising. Cesare Pickell’s North Judson Ice Cream Parlor touted Bunte Cough Drops in the North Judson News, selling 2640 five cent packages versus 20 last year, as an example of “being wide awake.”
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Chicago
North Judson
Indiana
Cesare Pickell
Pickell
Maxwell Motor Co opens positions for employees enlisting in Mexican crisis
Maxwell dealers receive notice from Detroit dated July 1 1916 stating that any employee with four months service who enlists or has enlisted for the Mexican trouble will have positions held. The company will continue pay to those supporting dependents at one half of their present salary for one year unless government provisions are made earlier. Walter E Flanders signs as President and General Manager.
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Indiana
U. S
Howe
Signal Corps
Texas
Brownsville
Villa
Maxwell Company
G. A. Spenner
Maxwell
Detroit
Mich
Maxwell Motor Co., Inc
Big Loss In Postage
A 40 percent misaddressing rate plagues the postal department, with business men foremost in errors. In large cities letters lack street addresses, while smaller towns omit town location. The misaddressed mail wastes time and funds, costing up to 85000 dollars monthly in major cities and hitting smaller areas similarly.
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Adda
Postal Department
Be Square and Just to All A Simple Creed
Poem reflects on death and the afterlife with a simple creed: be square with fellow humans, kind and just, regardless of religious dogma. The speaker expects no dire fate if living rightly, hoping to earn a humble, noble immortality rather than ornate rewards.
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Walt Mason
Alfalfa success highlights idle land value in Starke County
Mr and Mrs Wazeka of Chicago visit the Vanoskeys while Frank and Joe Prochaska from Chicago spend the week with the Wesselys. Tom Atherton yields a half ton of alfalfa from fourteen a cres and plans two more crops this season, noting its value at eighteen dollars per ton and urging farmers to grow it on sandy soils.
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Tom
Starke County
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