Eight Buildings Burned in Roselawn Fire Including Hotel
A midnight blaze in Roselawn destroyed eight buildings totaling about 25 000 in value with little insurance. Fire consumed Hights saloon livery barn I M Best residence Roselawn hotel Steele store Mellinger lumber office and yard and stock. Nine horses and two cows perished in the livery barn. I M Best household goods were ruined as the family escaped in night clothes. Origin of the fire is unknown.
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Roselawn
Jack Seifers
I. M. Best
Convict Boys of Killing Two in Montana Case
Indiana youths Walter and Milo Long, sons of a Wa bash County farmer, are found guilty of second degree murder for the Culberson Montana killings of John A Hayes and his daughter. Hayes had won a Montana land dispute against the Longs two years earlier. A mob executed the couple during a feud. John W Long had the bodies exhumed and bullets removed, denying the sons fired the shots. an appeal is planned.
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Indiana
Montana
Walter
Milo Long
Wabash County
John A. Hayes
Culberson
Mont
Long
Hayes
John W. Long
Druggist in Kendallville Survives Severe Choking Incident
Frank Toby a Sturgis Michigan druggist attending Kendallville fair choked on meat at the Kelly cafe. Kendallville doctors worked for hours to save him. he later faced heart trouble but was said to be improving and may recover.
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Kendallville
Frank Toby
Sturgis
Mich
Convict a Detective Killer in Indiana Court
Jury returns guilty verdicts for Henry McDonald after he shot Detective Dwyer in a Terre Haute courtroom last April and is found guilty of dynamiting a church and two stores in Sanford. He gets a sentence ranging from two to twenty one years for manslaughter amid a defense claiming impulsive insanity due to perceived persecution.
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Indiana
Henry McDonald
Dwyer
Terre Nante
Sandford
Doll leads to discovery of Logansport child tragedy
Mary Buchanan, two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Chester Buchanan, vanished from a Logansport area farm yard. After an hour long search her body was found in a cistern beneath a ragged doll floating on the water signaling the tragedy.
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Mary
Chester Buchanan
Logansport
Tragic Fire Claim Six-Year-Old Grigsby Girl
Six year old Vern Grigsby daughter of Mr and Mrs Luther Grigsby near Wadenville died after her clothing ignited while she tried to light a gasoline stove. She lived only a few hours after the accident.
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Vern
Luther Grigsby
Wadenville
Zion's Lutheran Church Silver Anniversary Held
The Zion's Lutheran church in Fort Wayne celebrated its silver anniversary with fitting ceremonies. Services lasted the entire day. The present pastor is Rev. Henry Luehr.
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The
Zion's Lutheran Church
Fort Wayne
Henry Luehr
Evansville High QB Tudsom Worsham Severely Injured
Evansville high school football team star Tudsom Worsham suffered a broken collarbone while making a tackle during the game. The injury halted play and required medical evaluation.
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Tudsom “Worsham
Evansville
Reverend Kent Takes St Pauls Rectorate in Laporte
Rev Lawrence R Kent of New York has become the rector of St Pauls Episcopal Church in Laporte. The t year old son of Luthér Grigsby died in Poseyville after his clothing caught fire from a gasoline stove. The Supreme Court ruled that certain gambli ng paraphernalia and ten stables in raids on French Lick gambling places should be held by the sheriff and destroyed under law. IDMagsenaj, accused of embezzling 1500 while deputy county treasurer in Warsaw, was acquitted by jury on Judge Van Fleet instruction citing no evidence of any one cent taken.
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Lawrence R. Kent
New York
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Laporte
Luthér Grigsby
Poseyville
Supreme Court
Gambk
Seitwy
French Lick
Gamae
Sheriff Range
Pat
Intobesb
Idmagsenaj
Warsaw
van Fleet
Massena
Sadia
Apolis
Tee Te
Michigan Forest Fires Threaten Millions of Acres and Livelihoods
The Michigan forest fires of the year have burned an estimated two million acres, destroying 3.44 to 4,000 acres of timber within the state forest reserves. Losses include timber, farm dwellings, and villages, with total costs near 10 to 30 million dollars and hundreds of lives lost historically. The fires leave blackened land, depleted soil, and widespread destitution, while the spectacle of flames and smoke continues to awe observers from a distance.
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Michigan
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Prof
Roth
Michigan Forest Reserve
Political Musings and Global Patter in a Chaotic Page
A scrapbook of disjointed news and opinions mentions election jostling in the United States, cholera shadows in Manila, airship fantasies, and whimsical asides about China France and the Wrights. It blends satire, foreign notes, and oddities without a single clear event.
AMs Horn Blasts Moral Proverb Collection
A compilation of aphorisms and maxims urging repentance, hard work, humility, and practical morality. Warnings about sin, the value of honest effort, and reminders that virtue is proved through action and character rather than appearances.
Wit and Wisdom From Youngsters A Humorous Riff
A humor piece compiling questions and quips from children and a teacher. Jokes cover arithmetic concepts like leagues and earth shapes, with responses from little characters such as Tommy Hattie Edgar Margie Marie and Flora, highlighting playful misstatements and innocent perspectives.
Paris Welcomes 290-Pound American Actor Rapley Holmes
The New York Herald reports Rapley Holmes, 6 ft 2 in and 290 pounds, touring Europe and staying at the Elysee Palace hotel in Paris. Known for The Man of the Hour, he charms crowds in Vienna Budapest and beyond while noting a Hungarian boy’s remark about his size.
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Rapley Holmes
Paris
Elysee Palace Hotel
New York Herald
Vienna
Budapest
Holmes
America
George Broadhurst
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Danube
Switzerland
Not Safe for Any Kind of Watchfulness Says Figure
A fragmented quote warns that someone who copies another’s work rather than doing it themselves is not safe. The garbled text references flattery and imagination as factors in judgment.
Cubs Triumph Over Tigers In Five Game World Series
The Chicago Cubs defeated Detroit Tigers 2 0 in Detroit to clinch the World Series title. The Cubs won four of five games, outlasting the Tigers with strong defense and timely hitting led by Evers and Chance. Attendance and receipts are noted for the series and players’ shares.
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Detroit
Chicago
Cubs
National Commission
Fach
Ceneeeeeteese
Tigers
Ceees
Monarchs
Chicago faces hunger among city children in school and home
An investigating committee reports 5000 hungry schoolchildren in Chicago and 10000 more at home. The Board of Education cannot legally provide meals but will aid rooms and equipment for philanthropies. Parents, long unemployed, seek relief and some oppose free meals, arguing aid should come to homes.
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Mittee
Chicago
Board of Education
South Water Street
Mysterious Omaha Murder Hearing Details Emerge
In Omaha, Charles Edward Davis faces trial for the Septet 2 shooting of Dr. Frederick Rustin after five days in custody. Bail at 10000 dollars was posted. Mrs. Rice testified she planned a joint death by own action with Rustin and claimed he urged murder by poison to secure insurance.
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Charles Edward Davis
Frederick Rustin
Omaha
Rice
Rustin
Davis
Dr. Rustin
Economic impact of consumption and public concern
The article cites Yale professor Irving Fisher estimating tobacco-like consumption costs at over a billion dollars annually in the United States with 138,000 deaths each year. It discusses the personal and societal losses, cites a potential $5.5 billion investment to save lives, and notes related investigations into Panama Canal rights funding and ongoing pure food law debates and Wright trial flight observations at Fort Myer.
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United States
Irving Fisher
Yale
Tuberculosis Congress
Prof. Fisher
Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Fort Myer
Navy Department
Minnesota and national education notes from the era
Hamline University raises ten thousand dollars for a gymnasium and aims to double it. St Paul supt Heeter and the school board consider sending four or five teachers to England on reduced pay. Sons of Veterans back a Mason City college expansion for veteran families. Butterflies sold to Field Museum for twenty thousand dollars. Minneapolis labor union seeks a night school in electrical subjects at the university. No secret societies among Minneapolis high school pupils per Dr. Jordan. Lincoln school strike by sixty white pupils in Topeka protests racial exclusion. risk of spread. James J. Hill donates six thousand dollars for a Harvard and Delaware streets building at Minnesota College. Immigration inquiry team visits the University of Minnesota and other schools amid nationwide concern.
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Hamline University
St. Paul
Heeter
England
Sons of Veterans
Niagara Falls
Mason City
Iowa
Minneapolis
C. M. Jordan
Minneapolis Board of Education
Lincoln
Topeka
Exa
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Chung Men Yew
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Charles E. Davis
Jerome
William Nelson Cromwell
Panama Canal
Alexander FE. Bacon
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Balanced Cable Crane Company
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Secretary of the Navy
Robert Conklin
United States’ Naval Training Station
Newport
Woodward Phelps
Ibéy
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W. F. Stewart
Hoosdvelt
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