Trustees Call For Blood in 1911 Legislative Fight
Indiana trustees meet in Indianapolis with about seven hundred members vowing hard campaign against lawmakers who opposed association bills. A new legislative committee from each district will lead district groups, backing higher salaries, abolition of advisory boards, and changes to township and high school laws. The group endorsed the state accounts board and uniform accounting law and set a July deadline to post bids for school supplies.
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Indianapolis
State Trustees’ Association
General Assembly
Association
Will Atkins
Evansvile
Frank Wkrack
Vincenne
Charlies Long
New Albans
Gilbert Henderson
Franklin
W. 8
Chesterton
Hleventh
E. B. Sutton
Macey
BE. Brinning
Fort Warne
A. of. Wiltrout
Warsaw
Krack
Henderson
Wiltrout
Shultz
United Action
Tone
Raads
Robert J. Aley
Wayne County Officers Are Elected At Agricultural Society Meeting
In Richmond the Wayne County Agricultural and Horticultural Society named J. C. Stevens as president, T Thomas Hileman as vice president, T. H. Kenworthy as treasurer, W. S. Ratliff as secretary, and C. W. Kine as corresponding secretary at its annual gathering.
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Richmond
Wayne County Agricultural and Horticultural Society
J. C. Stevens
T Thomas Hileman
T. HE. Kenworthy
W. S. Ratliff
C. W. Kine
Girl Unshaken in Charge in Floyd County Murder Case
Florence Myrtle Harris, principal witness against her aunt Pearl Armstrong, defends her story of poisoning George Armstrong. Prosecutor Bullett finds no motive or delusion shown. Stomach contents sent to Indiana University for analysis as coroner initiates lab tests.
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Laboratory of Chemistry
Indiana University At
Bloomington
Wolves terrorize families near Elkinsville forcing four farms to move
In Elkinsville area a feral wolf pack attacked Simon Helms and his son Edgar causing injuries and prompting four families to relocate. The animals also damaged local poultry, Leathering about a dozen chickens, as farmers gathered rifles to bring children home from school.
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Eelkinsville
Elkinsville
Simon Helms
Edgar
Helms
Here
Girl in Nightdress Boots Rural Fire Save
Miss Ethel Littie awoke to dense smoke and roused her grandparents James and Mrs Hemnbaugh. She then ran barefoot in night clothes to summon neighbors for help as pumps were frozen. Volunteers smothered the blaze with bedclothing. fire started from a defective flue at a home nine miles north of Washington.
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Washington
Ethel Littie
James Hemnbaugh
Thieves Loot Country Residence of Mrs Snyder
Thieves entered the Snyder home two miles east of town and carried away nearly all the household goods. Mrs Snyder had left for Florida for the winter. her son Herman Hughes found the house nearly empty with wagon tracks in the snow. Police in eastern cities have been asked to search for the culprits.
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Anderson
C. Snyder
Girls and Teacher Drown Crossing Creek After School Event
Laura Currans aged 19 and Alma Utterback aged 20 plus their teacher William Johnson aged 28 drowned while crossing Indian creek in a rowboat trying to reach home after a school social. Currans and Johnson were recovered.
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Bedford
Laura Currans
Alma Utterback
William Johnson
Indian Creek
Miss Currans
Johnson
Widow of cigar dept manager commits suicide after quarrel
Indianapolis report says Mrs David Weisenburg, wife of a wholesale drug company cigar department manager, killed herself by drinking carbolic acid after a furious quarrel with her husband who rebuked her for receiving a man friend in their apartment. Weisenburg had been visiting relatives in New York City.
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Indianapolis
David Weisenburg
Weisenburg
New York City
Pyromaniac Targeted in Evansville Fire Alarm Fraud
Police and fire departments enlist all central and private telephone operators in Evansville to locate the pyromaniac who is sending false fire alarms by telephone calls, as authorities race to detect the culprit.
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Evansville
Harvest of Ice Begins On Lake Front
Laporte Northern Indiana ice packers began harvesting ten inch ice from fresh water lakes. The work will employ up to 1,000 men across several counties and ensure large shipments of high quality ice to the Chicago market.
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Laporte
Indiana
Chicago
Fishermen use trolley wire to electrocute fish
Columbus fishermen along the Indianapolis Columbus and Southern Traction Company's road attach a wire to the trolley line and drop it into the stream. The electric charge stuns or kills fish, forcing them to surface for easier gathering by boats.
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Columbus
Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction Company
No Plows in Panama Zone. Soil Experts See Agricultural Potential
Washington reports Panama canal zone shows untapped agricultural potential yet lacks plows and farming. H. H. Bennett of the U S bureau of soils notes crude methods, hard soils, rugged topography, and limited equipment, with hope for school gardens to spur effort.
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Washington
Panama Canal Zone
H. H. Bennett
United States Bureau of Soils
Canal Strip
Panama
Canal Commission
Narrow London streets charm shoppers over wide thoroughfares
A Regent Street agent argues narrow streets aid business by fostering sociability and foot traffic, while wide streets like Oxford and Regent zones attract less commerce. A nerve specialist notes city folk crave crowds, citing emigrants who chose poverty in a crowd over wealth in lonely spaces.
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London
Regent Street
Bond Street
Cheapside
The
Strand
Oxford Street
Picadilly
Hyde Park
Prince's Restaurant
Park
Gayety Theater
Law Courts
Embankment
City
Westminster
Piccadilly
Green Park
Canada
Kansas baby crop declines in fiscal year
Topeka reports Kansas births fell to 23,850 in the last fiscal year from 25,980 the year before. Despite record corn, wheat and oats sales totaling 15 million dollars, the stork brought 2,130 fewer babies, per census bureau statistics.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Conductor Charles Flint Tours 1.2 Million Miles on Burlington
Conductor Charles Flint of Creston Iowa has logged about 1 216 800 miles in 48 years with the Burlington. He spent 40 of those years as conductor with one year subtracted for illness and vacations. If he traveled 100 miles a day since 1861 that figure reflects travels around the earth over forty eight times.
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Creston
Charles Flint
Burlington Road
Flint
Burlington
Hermit Couple of Blue Mountain Leads a Life Without Modernities
In Lynn township Allentown Pennsylvania Aug Betka 76 and Abigail Frey 73 live in a 10 by 14 foot log cabin with a dirt yard and rough stone wall. They survive on garden produce game baskets and occasional aid from county funds. Abigail has not left her cabin in 27 years after a traumatic event and has never seen a trolley car electric light automobile or railroad.
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Vincennes
Scott
Fort Wayne
R. B. Manna
Post-Office Department
Union Depot
Shelbyville
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Rushville
Anderson
Otto Lever
W. J. Waiman
Baltin
S & Chic
Oscar
Fred) Savage
Etta Burba
Mansfield
Allentown
Blue Mountains
Lynn Township
Jacksonville
August Betka
Abigail Frey
Blue Mountain
Tamaqua
Joshua Frey
Mrs. Frey
Mr. Frey
Joshua Lutz
Abigail
Walnut shipment boom positions Santa Ana as top U S walnut port
Walnut packing houses in Orange County project season shipments at 288 car loads, with 228 from Santa Ana making it the leading U S walnut shipping point. Associations control 65 to 70 more loads than last year, with totals for the season worth 610 000 to 640 000 dollars to growers and 200 000 dollars distributed by the Santa Ana association.
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Santa Ana
Cal
Fullerton
Anaheim
Placentia
United States
California
Santa Ana Association
John the Forerunner of Jesus Sunday School Lesson
Sunday School text outlines John the Baptist as herald of Christ and part of a six month solo ministry in Judea. It covers his birth, wilderness life, preaching in the wilderness, call to repentance, and the kingdom of heaven at hand.
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John
Christ
Judea
John the Baptist
B. C
Judah
Zacharias
Elizabeth
Jesus
Mary
the Baptist
Hall of Fame
Heaven
Maclaren
Matthew
Kingdom of Heaven
Jerusalem
City
St. Mark’s Square
Venice
Auto wreck brings $10 sale in Belleville
A. S. Callington of Westwood New York sold his $2,500 automobile for $10 after a collision with a truck left it badly battered. A local farmer bought the wrecked machine and planned to use some of its parts locally.
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Belleville
N. J
A. S. Callington
Westwood
N. Y
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State Association
State News N Brief
New Albany
Aiid
Leonardo
Kaiser Fredrich Museum
Kaiser
Panama Zone
RMITS
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