Indiana State Fair to Offer 66044 Prize Purses
The Indiana state fair in September opens entries August 23 with a premium list totaling 66044.50 in prizes across horse cattle sheep swine and other departments. Night shows prize money tops 5000 with a silver cup from the American Saddle Horse Breeders Association. A poultry expansion and larger horse show are planned, plus Progressive party events and literacy figures for Indiana urban areas are noted.
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Indianapolis
American Saddle Horse Breeders’ Association
Colosseum
Charles Downing
Indianapolis Business Men's Party
Troops Sent to Michigan Copper Region as Strike Sparks Civil Unrest
Governor Ferris ordered 2 400 National Guard troops to the copper country to quell disturbances by about 15 000 striking miners. Deputy sheriffs were attacked and stripped of their stars, prompting mobilization across Houghton Keweenaw and Calumet areas as mines halted operations.
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Mich
Ferris
Michigan National Guard
Adjt
R. C. Vandercook
Houghton
Ke- Wweenaw
Calumet
Western Federation of Miners
Upper
Michigan
Calumet and Hecla Company
U S Takes Action After Dixon Shooting At Juarez
United States immigration inspector Charles B Dixon Jr was shot by Mexican federal troops at Juarez while on duty He was jailed and then released to a hospital in El Paso Following a Washington demand Consul Edwards pressed for immediate arrest and punishment of the perpetrators The incident prompted high level US policy review under President Wilson and Secretary Bryan with orders to detain witnesses for testimony
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Tex
T. D. Edwards
Juarez
Mex
Charles B. Dixon, Jr
United States
Dixon
Edwards
Arthur Walker
Castro
F. W. Bershire
Berkshire
el Pago
Washington
United States Immigration
Charles B. Dixon
Wilson
Mexico
Bryan
Ed‘da
Marshall Likes Job Asserts Entitled to Settle Conditions
Tom Marshall of Columbia City Indiana said he liked the job of vice president and praised the senate and its members as fine fellows from both parties. He spoke while a guest of the Loyal Order of Moose in Chicago at a banquet before Mooseheart university cornerstone events near Aurora.
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Chicago
Royal Order of Moose
Tom” Marshall
Columbia City
Ind
United States
Loyal Order of Moose
Industrial University
Mooseheart
Aurora
Marshall
Indiana
Debt dispute over 14 million spans states and politics
Washington reports a 14 million dollar debt dispute as Virginia seeks payment from West Virginia. Nearby reports include Oliver Peyton’s escape using braces as tools in a cell, Brock Saskatchewan fire destroying a town, and the death of Ransom Doney, Mexican War veteran aged 87 in Monmouth New Jersey.
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Virginia
West Virginia
NePherson
Kan
Toole
Oliver Peyton
Kindersley
Sask
Brock
Tex
Galveston Beach
Philadelphia
Suyle
Burnside Breaks Altitude Record Over Chicago Flight
A Bath dispatch reports Frank Burnside of Oneonta capped a 12 950 foot ascent in a six mile circuit, beating Lincoln Beachey’s 11 680 foot American altitude record set in Chicago. Burnside flew a biplane for one hour and forty six minutes.
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N. Y
Bath
Frank Burnside
Lincoln Beachey
Chicago
Burnside
Oneonta
Inspecting Packing Plants Under Federal Supervision
Washington reports that meat packing establishments in Chicago St Paul Milwaukee and Indianapolis will be inspected by the agriculture department. Dr M P Ravenel of the University of California will lead the inspections and he is also linked with the Wisconsin State University as a bacteriology expert.
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Washington
Chicago
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Department of Agriculture
M. P. Ravenel
University of California
Tokyo News Accuses Japanese Cabinet of Weak War Cag
Leading newspapers in Tokyo accuse the Japanese cabinet of lack of clear war guidance and policy in the latest dispatches. Officials deny claims and pledge stronger measures.
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Tokyo
Senate inquiry hears Mulhall confession echoed by Lodge
The senate lobby committee resumes as Senator Lodge rebuts Mulhall’s claims about the National Association of Manufacturers. NACM turned over nearly 200 000 letters to investigators, carried in sixty five cases to Washington, as officials dismiss the probe as politics.
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Senate Lobby
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Martin M. Mulhall
National Association of Manufacturers
Mulhall
Senator Lodge
Senate Committee
New York
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Manufacturers’ Association
Kirby
J. P. Bird
Association
J. T. McDermott
Milneis
I. H. McMichael
House
McMichael
McDermott
Bird
Flyer Blows Up Warship Over Guaymas Harbor
An insurgent report states the French aviator Cridler Masgon dropped a bomb that destroyed the gunboat Tampico over Guaymas harbor. Tampico, built 1903 at Elizabeth, N J, measures about 200 feet long with a 30 foot beam and ten feet draft. The ship carried four 4 inch and six 6 pounder guns and two torpedo tubes.
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Nogales
Art
Tampica
Guaymas Harbor
Cridler Masgon
Elizabeth
N. J
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