Indiana State News City Highlights and Accidents
In Muncie a three year old fell under sand from a 40 foot bank but was rescued unhurt. Wabash saw a brakeman killed in yards. Cannelton builds electric water works. Leavenworth to sink artesian wells. Danville farmer Axey Armstrong injured cutting hay. Winsey Hawkins badly torn by a bull. Bugs plague bags near New Richmond. wheat yields 25 to 35 bushels. Indianapolis field averages 44 bushels per acre on Glen Flora. Fire damages Curietran Bros. mill in Indianapolis. A boy and his mother injured when a wagon wrecks near Connersville. Thomas M Browse dies at Winchester at 62. Noblesville secures boiler works with bonus. J. W. Chambers and others appointed fourth-class postmasters. County fairs and local accidents mentioned across Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
James Lewellen
Kistier
Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway
Wabash
Cannelton
Leavenworth
Clark County
Axey Armstrong
Danville
Winsey Hawkins
Hawkins
Mr. Hawkins
New Richmond
Montgomery County
Mooresville
Emil Wulschner
Indianapolis
Glen Flora
Curietran Bros. Ds Co
Harvey Allen
Monrovia
Parry County
Rockport
Indiana
A. L. Broadrick
New Brunswick
Moone County
J. W. Chitwood
J. W. Chambers
Shepherd
Mary E Swails
F. Wallerman, Jr
Westphalia
Knox County
C. Stein
J. Pror
Kisarry
Wabash College
Tom Shanahan
Princeton
Arthur
Michael Measersmith
Crawfordsville
Chicago
Toonston Tsexson
Justice of
William Miner
Saline City
Miner
Jackson
J. M. Bower
Washington
Connersville
Jessie F. Elliott
Alquira
Thomas M. Browse
Winchester
Lincoln
Congress
W. M. Lowrewiss
Cicero
Noblesville
Quincy
Owen County
Bustling Old Maid Hid Fortune in Dress
Miss Maggie Schutt of Derry Pennsylvania died at sixty five and left a secret stash of money in a bustle. After her funeral relatives burned clothes but Jennie Bennett opened the bustle to find a hoard valued at nine thousand dollars in old and new bills gold coins and silver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Schutt
Derry
Bennett
Kate
Jennie
Wolves of France and the bounty on wolves in 1889
A Paris correspondent describes France’s wolf bounty system dating to 1889. Detailed rewards depended on age, sex, and whether the wolf attacked a person, with payments of 40 to 200 francs. The Dordogne and Charente departments saw many wolves killed, and local lords hunted them under royal to republic change, with ears and a fore paw delivering the reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Rousseau
England
France
Paris
Dordogne
Charente
Prince de Joinville
Friendship rings flourish as jewelry becomes common practice
The article notes a surge in jewelry use among women with many wearing multiple rings. The friendship ring, often featuring emeralds, opals, pearls, or amethysts, is widely worn by young and old alike. Giving a ring no longer implies engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Leading Story Anthology Highlights From The Wide Awake
The August Wide Awake presents a Lafayette reminiscence by Sarah O. Jewett titled Pegs Little Chair with Garretts full page illustration. It features The Brides Bouquet and The Silent Lie plus Pokeberry Juice and Mullein by Kate Upson Clark. Additional pieces cover natural history, polo tales, Alaska boys, serials, poems, and veranda reading pieces, from publishers D Lothrop Boston. subscription two dollars forty cents yearly, specimen offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
America
Sarah O. Jewett
Peg
Garrett
Kate Upson Clark
Mr. Brown
J. Loxley Rhees
Will M. Clemens
Mrs. Hall
Louisa Lyndon
Imperial Guard
Madame de Meissner
Legation
Alaska
Marietta
Kate Putnam Osgood
Maria Johns Hammond
Eli Shepperd
Jane Ellis Joy
Richard Burton
Veranda
Margaret Patty
William Claflin
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Pope
Twickenham
D. Lothrop Company, Publishers
Boston
Burning Diamonds Show They Can Be Burned in Heat
In 1694 experiments showed diamonds could burn when exposed to intense heat. Accounts cite experiments by Francis I and Parisian burnings, with chemists Macquer and Lavoisier explaining that diamonds burn in oxygen. An anecdote notes a photographer failing to expose his plates because the shutter wasn’t opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmos III
Francis I
Paris
LeBlanc
Macquer
Streeter
Mr. Streeter
Maillard
Lavoisier
St. Louis Republic
The Girls of Winnipeg and a Wilder Anecdote
The piece recalls Canadian beauty seen in Winnipeg with praise for local young women and hints at the Hudson Bay Co. store as a place to view attractive Canadians. It also recounts Marshall P. Wilder telling a racy joke in New York about a Black storytelling figure and a hammering thumb nail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Prairies
Rosalie
York
Hudson Bay Co
Blackwood’s Magazine
Marshall P. Wilder
New York
Burlington Route Expands Pace and Patronage Across Americana
The Burlington Route C B and Q R operates 7000 miles with termini in Chicago St Louis St Paul Omaha Kansas City and Denver. It promotes speed safety comfort equipment track and efficient service as peerless. The paper notes gains in patrons while none are lost and features an aside about Jigsby losing his mind.
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Burlngton
B.&q.r
Chicago
St. Louis
St. Paul
Omaha
Kansas City
Denver
Burlington
Carters Little Liver Pills and Other Remedies Featured
Promote remedies like Syrup of Figs and Glenns Sulphur Soap with claims of health benefits and easy use. Mentions Carter's Little Liver Pills as a prompt cure for headaches liver troubles and biliousness. Includes quips on modesty and wit from various newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Carter
Favorite Prescription for Women Care and Remedy
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic and nervine for young women entering adulthood. It claims to strengthen the system, regulate functions, and cure delicate female ailments, offering a money back guarantee if unsatisfied with its results.
Through Sleeping-Car Service To Mackinaw Restored
Through sleeping car service on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and Michigan Central lines resumes for the season. Cars depart Cincinnati daily except Saturday at 10 PM, reach Mackinaw at 6 40 PM the next day. Tickets via C H D or E Q McCormick, Cincinnati. MAL flirts are to be degit with at water ing places this summer. Let no silly man escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackinaw
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Michigan Central
Toledo
Detroit
Fairy Island
Lake Resorts
E. Q. McCormick
Mal
N. O. Picayune
August Flower Support From Kent County Sheriff
The Kent County Sheriff J W Fennimore of Dover endorses August Flower after years of use in his family. He describes sick headache with back head pain, fullness after eating, sour stomach and vomiting relief from August Flower and recommends it for dyspepsia. G G Green sole manufacturer Woodbury New Jersey USA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Fennimore
Kent Co
Del
Dover
G. G. Green
Woodbury
New Jersey
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Jigsby
Indianapolis Journal
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Hill
Ter
Swirr
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury, Mass
Kennedy
U. S
Canada
Whitman
James Pyle
Jones
Jones “Cays
Binghamton
Patrice O'F
Washington, D.C
Avery Fine Pee
A Bunny & Eaton
Sth Ave
N.Y
Clery
Dunch
Sappho
H. Sraxaxe
Superior 81
W. Baker
Rovers Everywhere
W. Baker &Co
Dorchester
Mass
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