Battle over Baillytown Cemetery in Porter County
In Valparaiso Indiana a long running dispute erupts as 24 residents sue to halt cattle trespass on Baillytown Cemetery. The injunction targets Carl John and Ansonia Danielson who own the three acre plot including the graveyard. Judge Grant Crumpacker granted a temporary restraining order for the plaintiffs.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Balllytown
Westchester Township
Calumet River
Porter County
Baillytown
Joseph Bailly
Porter
Carl
John
Ansonia Danielson
Danielsons
Grant Crumpacker
James J. McGarvey
Crumpacker
Lake Michigan
Calummet
Bailly
Potash Search in U S Yields Encouraging Early Results
Initial tests by Commerce and Interior departments to locate domestic potash show promising signs though beds may lack current commercial value. Core drilling on public Eddy County New Mexico land found about 50 beds with 2 percent or more potash between 88 and 1770 feet, in a 1847 foot hole. Fourteen beds range 1 inch to 6 feet 2 inches thick and contain 3.10 to 16.47 percent potash.
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U. S
Washington
Commerce and Interior Departments
United States
Interior Department
Eddy County
New Mexico
Long Island Rail Road Defends Smoking Policy
The Long Island Rail Road states that male puffers objecting to women smoking in smoking cars will receive no sympathy from the railroad.
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New York
Long Island Railroad
Judge Upholds Girls Right to Kiss Youth
Judge F E Bradley of Lytham ruled that a sixteen year old girl may kiss after a bicycle ride with no disgrace. The case involved a mother and daughter charging assault by a neighbor who objected to the kiss. The neighbor was fined.
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London
F. E. Bradley
Lytham
Women more ill than men in Hagerstown study
Dr. Edgar Sydenstricker of the U.S. Public Health Service reports in Hagerstown Maryland that females show a higher overall illness rate than males over two years. The female to male morbidity ratio is 13 to 1 for all ages, rising after adolescence, with lower rates for external causes and higher for respiratory infections.
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Washington
Edgar Sydenstricker
United States Public Health Service
Hagerstown
Sydenstricker
Historic Clock Runs On After 312 Years In Peoria
A clock owned by James R. Harrison of Peoria is claimed to be the oldest in Illinois still in use. Brought from England before the War of 1812 it witnessed both the War and Civil War era Virginia. During the Civil War an eighteen year old Union sympathizer used it as a hiding place to escape Confederates until the clock toppled and broke, then was repaired and has run since.
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Howe
Hortense
Joseph Wicker
Deep River
Lake County
Baillys
Bailly
Jesus Christ
Westchester Township
Baillytown
Ths
Frances Howe
Arthur J. Bowser
Chesterton
Ind
Bowser
Bally
Mr. Bowser
Danielsons
Emma C. Huston
James L. Huston
Los Angeles
Peoria
Jil
James R. Harrison
England
Virginia
Fast Clock Saves Buenos Aires Workers From Blast
Two hundred Buenos Aires work men owed their lives to a clock that was five minutes fast. They filed out of the drug manufacturing plant five minutes early, and when the last man departed the building exploded, damaging the structure.
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Buenos Aires
The Girl He Didn't Know and a Desertion Mystery
Bartlett pursues a pheasant hunt that uncovers a deserter hiding in rocks. He mentors the young man, persuading him to enlist and face consequences. On departure to the front, the passerby drama resolves as the girl he met on the slope and the deserter’s family celebrate his decision and goodbye.
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Bartlett
Baz
Glaece
Jim
Helen Westlake
First Express Founder Harnden Pioneered Mail Transport
William Frederick Harnden of Boston became the first to enter the Hold of transporting articles by express carrier. He began his first trip from Boston to New York on February 23, 1839 with a small valise and soon expanded to Philadelphia by hiring two carriers.
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First Express Company
William Frederick Harnden
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
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