Daviess County Poor Asylum Labeled Disgraceful
The board of state charities report for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1911, harshly condemns the Daviess county poor asylum north of Washington as old, inadequate and in need of a new building. It notes poor sex separation, a basement sitting room for a crippled inmate, and overall squalor while praising the Daviess county jail as fair with focused prisoner classification and sheriff cooperation.
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Board of State Charities
Daviess County
Washington
Local Household Notes and Visitor List
Household items from Concord include James Mallette and family Joseph Mallette and family Plainville and Walter Ritter with Walter Mallette hosting Sunday visits. Various visits and family ties noted with Arney Gough Mallette Brown Rosenberry and others. A lightning incident killed a 50 cow for Frank Brown Sunday evening.
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James Mallette
Joseph Mallette
Plainville
Walter Ritter
Walter Mallette
Frank
Healy Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Daviess Court
The jury convicts Harry Healy of manslaughter in the killing of Robert Walker, Montgomery marshal, February 26. Judge Ogden orders the verdict read aloud as Healy and John Healy await sentencing, with Healy sent to Jeffersonville for two to twenty-one years and committed to the Indiana reformatory due to youth.
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Siefer
Oxden
Daviess Circuit Court
Harry Healy
Robert Walker
John
Gregory
Kiefer
Ogden
Healy
Jeffersonville
J. H. McCafferty
Southwestern
Township Trustee Spurs Weekday Ship Business in Odon
The Township Trustee will conduct two ship business sessions on each weekday in the Odon office with ware rooms located on the west side. Fridays are set aside for poorer business.
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Odon
Business education ad targets time and money savings
A promotional notice from Indianapolis detailing President 499 E J Heeb of the Indianapolis Business University and Consolidated Colleges offering shorthand bookkeeping and professional law courses to save time and money. The ad urges readers to act now and arrange enrollment.
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E. J. Heeb
Indianapolis
Consolidated Colleges
Pres., Consolidated
National Correspondence Schools Ad in Indianapolis
An advertisement for study in law illustration shorthand penmanship bookkeeping and pharmacy by mail or in resident schools at National Correspondence Schools located at 35 N. Pensylvania St Indiana polis.
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National
N. Pensylvania St
Indiana
Corot Hat Landscape Transforms Tragedy Into Art
A Corot relic on display shows a gray high hat containing a landscape painted into its crown. The blue silk lining becomes a summer sky over water, trees, and a Saracen tower. The scene arose from a friend’s hat receiving a paint-stroke mishap.
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Corot
Champs Elysees
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R. E- Olds
Reo the
L. Cooper
M. Cooper
Daviess
Monty
Sheriff's Residence
Concord
Mrs
Lawrence Clodfelder
Mr. Wright
Jackson County
John Arney Jr
Agnes Hackler
Sadie
Lena
Mallette
Albert Gough
Elmer Mallette
Henry Byrer
Edith Wilkey
Edith Andis
John Arney
Lee Resler
Wesley Brown
Liberty
George Rosenberry
Roy
Wm. Chambers
Sun
Tenna Bolding
Baile
Charles &. Gregory
Foreman
John Healy
Court
Heeb
Sity
H.C. Tolliver
Elnora
West Quarter
Section
Town
Range
R. J. McCallian
Twp
Indianapolis Business Uni
Polis
Odell X Callahan
Surance
QO. O. Laughlin
W.R. Neeriemer
Odon, Ind
Chicago, Terre Haute
Eastern Ry. Co
Terre Harrisonvills
Linton
Beehonte
Elsora Odon
Bedford
Ar Seymour
Oute
Business College
Alany
Usiness Universit
N. Penn, St
National Fire Proofing. Company
Huntington, Indiana
Artie Luallean
Ind
G. W. Henderson
Tater State
Co-operative
Shively
Ed Hubbard
Bert Jolliff
Oden
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