Indiana Jewelers Elect Officers At Annual Convention
J H Arnold of Columbus elected president of the Indiana Retail Jewelers association at Indianapolis closing session. Laporte selected as 1914 meeting place. Crawfordsville invited. Officers include Mullally first vice president and Cocktum second vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Arnold
Laporte
Indianapolis
Indiana Retail Jewelers’ Association
Bohemia
Oakland City
O. P. M. Squires
Charles G. Beckman
Kendallville
Walter Maller
Michigan City
Chris Hewig
Evansville
Philip Horr
Aurora
Congress
Committee of Trades
Steel F. Roberts
National Retail Jewelers’ Association
Indiana Association
J. E. Reagan
Baldwin Miller Company
Robert C. Abt
Chicago
A. W. Anderson
Neenah, Wia
Lake Wawasee
Indiana Pharmaceutical Association
Wawasee Inn
Lake Resort
Charles Hackett
Roanoke
F. H. Hubbard
Kokomo
E. W. Stahlhuth
Fort Wayne
D. H. Wallace
Petersburg
M. P. Schwartz
F. H. Carter
Travelers’ Pharmaceutical Association
John Slutz
Ford Rogers
Elkhart
Carthee Warner
Harry Kepler
Sugar Free Provisions Win in Senate Tariff Vote 1916
After a two day fight the Democratic senate caucus approved free sugar and free wool in the tariff revision. Free sugar passed 40 to 6 and free raw wool 41 to 6 with several senators voting against both measures.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
House
Hitchcock
Nebraga
Newlands
Nevada
Ransadel and Thornton
Louisiana
Shafroth
Colorado
Walsh
Montana
Chamberlain
Oregon
Ransdell
Thornton
Notable railway promoter and ambassador robbed in Europe
Washington dispatches report George Townsend, Chicago promoter and brother of Rep Edward Townsend, died by suicide in Kansas City. Malcolm A. Coles warns Japan may learn U S torpedo designs. A large Elk and Peabody plant blast in Buffalo kills several and injures many. Curtis Guild, U S ambassador to Russia, robbed of 1000 dollars cash and two 50 000 letters in Paris hotel burglary.
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Kansas City
George Townsend
Edward Townsend
New Jersey
New York
Malcolm A. Coles
United States
Japan
United States Navy
Buffalo
N. Y
Husted Muling Company
Elk and Peabody Streets
Paris
Parcel Post Stamps to Cover All Mail Classes
Postmaster General Burleson rules parcel post stamps will be valid on all mail classes starting July 1. Ordinary stamps including commemoratives will also be good for parcel post packages under the new order.
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Burleson
Washington
Gettysburg Veterans Hold Semi Centennial Reunion Camps
Gettysburg Pa July 1 veterans of Blue and Gray gather for the semi centennial marking the war’s greatest battle. More than thirty special trains arrive as 5 000 tents rise near Emmitsburg road with formal exercises planned and President Wilson expected July 4. Augustus Brown of Livermore Falls Maine is noted as the first veteran to die on the field.
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Gettysburg
Blue
Gray
Lee
Meade
Shenandoah
Harrisburg
Baltimore
Washington
Emmittaburg Road
Seminary Ridge
Pickett
Cemetery Ridge
Emmittsburg Road
Wilson
J. M. Schoenmaker
Augustus Brown
Livermore Falls
CURRENCY BILL REINTRODUCED IN CONGRESS DRAWS FIGHT
The June 28 report says the Banking and Currency Reform bill is referred to the banking and currency committee as work starts. It reinserts retirement of present bank notes within twenty years and replaces them with federal reserve notes. The plan eliminates a $500,000,000 reserve cap and uses 2 percent bonds refunded by 3 percent bonds. Country banks face a five percent reserve in vaults and five percent at the regional bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
W. E. Longley
Longley
Washington
House
Banking and Currency Committee
Wilson
Senate
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Regional Reserve Bank
Rumor Denied Of Sailor Killing In Antwerp
A report circulated that an American sailor from the battleship Illinois struck and killed a Belgian man named Bal thazzar Heinemann during shore leave in Antwerp. Commander Lloyd H. Chandler of the Illinois opened an inquiry and found the claim unproven. Antwerp authorities took no action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antwerp
Iinois
Balthazzar Heinemann
Llyod H. Chandler
Illinois
Counterfeiter Arrested in Dyersburg Detention
Federal authorities arrested farmer John B. Parker in Dyersburg Tennessee on a charge of making counterfeit money. Dimes and nickels cast from black tin and other heavier metals were seized during the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyersburg
Tenn
John B. Parker
Bribery Confession Ties City Officials to 3000 Bribes
Joseph A. Fansler, ex-East St. Louis council member, swore a written confession alleging he and six other city officials shared in two $3,000 bribes in 1912. The first paid by East St. Louis Interurban Railway for street tracks, the second by Alton & Southern for street crossings. Lambert allegedly delivered part of the money, and Fansler faces separate fraud charges unrelated to the bribery case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Joseph A. Fansler
St. Louis Ill
Elty Council
Charles Webb
St. Clair County
Illinois
Webb
Fansler
East
Alton & Southern
Charles 3. Lambert
East St. Louis
Lambert
John L. Flannigen
Railway Company
Hast St. Louis
Dunne Signs Suffrage Bill in Springfield New Jersey?
Governor Dunne signed the woman suffrage bill in the Capitol offices as leaders of the suffrage movement, assembly members, and legislation staff looked on. The act becomes law next Tuesday, marking the first time a woman would witness the emancipation signature with Mrs Dunne at his side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Dunne
Capitol
Forty-eighth General Assembly
Jack Johnson Flees to Canada and Plans European Fights
Reports from Montreal and Chicago reveal Jack Johnson, the well known boxer, admits plans to sail for Europe next Tuesday to fight in St Petersburg in September. Earlier Chicago dispatch notes he was fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year in Leavenworth federal prison for Mann Act violation, and has fled to Canada with his white wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Que
Jack Johnson
Europe
St. Petersburg
Chicago
Leavenworth
Kan
Canada
Immigrant train wreck in Canada kills thirteen and injures many
Ottawa June 27 A Canadian Pacific Limited railroad wrecks near Ottawa as three derailments send a train into the river. Thirteen immigrants from Scotland and Ireland are killed and more than forty are seriously injured while en route to the Canadian north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
E. Perial Limited
Acitia
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Columbus Man
Bloomington
William Lowe Bryan
Ora Hopper
Salem
Hea
Greathouse
Z. M. Smith
Purdue University
Homer L. Cook
Marion County
C. B. Tarkington
Columbus
A.M. E. Zion
Idiana
A. M. E. Zion
Jones’ Tabernacle
Philadelphia
Alexander Walters
J. M. Caldwell
G. W Ward
W. H. Weaver
Gurley Brewer
J. M. Holt
Christian Endeavor Societies
R. L. Bailey
Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Societies
Belle Street
Shank
Punne
Gov. Dunne
Margaret Haley
Sullivan
McKinley
Antoinette Funk
F. W. Kulck
Grace Wilbur Frout
Sherman Booth
Parcel Post
Mary
Emamiittsburg Road
Denies Tarslew
Ilinois
Adwnits
Councilman OF
ST. Louis, Ill
Johnson
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