Congress Convenes For Short Lame Duck Session
Both houses open the final session of the sixty-second congress with a heavy focus on appropriation bills. Major agendas include the legislative and district budgets, with a placeholder for naval and post office funds as Congress prepares to adjourn for holidays.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Wilson
District of Columbia
United States
Democrats
White House
Harvester Trial Ends As Government Seeks Records
Chicago witnesses summarize preclosures of price fixing and competition destroying methods used by International Harvester. Assistant Attorney General Edwin P. Grosvenor presses for reports and letters, giving two weeks to produce papers. Tomorrow shifts to St. Louis hearing and continues in two weeks.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
Edwin P. Grosvenor
Derailed New York Central Train Leaves Most Passengers Unhurt
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports that New York Central Train No. 453 derailed near Hoffmans seven miles west of Schenectady at 60 mph. About 200 passengers were shaken but none seriously injured. only the dining car chef sustained broken ribs and was hospitalized. The rear-track journal on the engine tank broke, dropping the track to the rails and causing eight of nine cars to derail.
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Western
Union News Service
Albany
N. Y
New York Central
New York
Hoffmans
Schenectady
Skaters Drown After Ice Breaks on Lake Near Scranton
Adelbert Reynolds and his family skated on Ear t Lake when the ice gave way. Reynolds saved his two daughters but his wife, son, and nephew vanished. After an hour the bodies of the missing relatives were recovered.
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Scranton, Pa
Adelbert Reynolds
Eart Lake
Reynolds
Engagement of Don Dia and The Quakeress in Boston Cat News
Mrs George G Braxton of 27 Leicester Street Brighton announced that Don Dia a newly arrived English silver chinchilla cat proposed to her cat The Quakeress who accepted The lighthearted society note highlights a social engagement among pets reflecting Boston Mass currents in domestic life.
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Boston
Mass
George G. Braxton
Leicester Street
Brighton
Don Dia
America
Girl Amy Temple Found Dead in Chester Yard
The body of seventeen year old Amy Temple a waitress at a boarding house at Fifth and Crosby streets was found in a rear yard in western Chester this morning. She was partly disrobed and evidence suggests assault and strangulation as the cause of death.
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Chester
Amy Temple
Fifth and
Crosby Streets
Findlay Children Rescued From Thin Ice on Blanchard River
In Findlay Ohio Patsy Nutter eight and John Nutter twelve were pulled from the Blanchard river nearly lifeless after attempting to skate on unsafe ice. Firefighters and rescuers revived the children and transported them to a hospital for treatment.
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Findlay
Ohio
Patsy
John Nutter
Blanchard River
Cincinnati Market Prices for Wheat Corn Oats and Livestock
Market report lists prices across commodities including Wheat No. 2 red at 1.07 per bushel, No. 3 red and other grades, Corn White and Yellow varieties, Mixed, Ear types, Oats and Hay values, Poultry prices by weight, Eyes, Cattle and Bulls ranges, Calves logs and fat sows, Sheep Lambs and related stock. Includes figures for each grade and category.
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Turkeys, Young Funder
Bologna
Actress Shot Shocks London as Murder Case Unfolds
London crowds were stunned by a vaudeville shooting that left Florrie Mackintosh dead. Police say the suspect is the wife of American ragtime singer Pake Gros, a colored performer, with Gros and his spouse under suspicion as the case develops.
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London
Florrie Mackintosh
Pake Gros
Gros
Corner Stone Laid for Evansville Masonic Home
Lodges from Southern Indiana Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky attended the corner stone ceremony for Evansville’s new Masonic home to cost about 100000 dollars and be completed early next year. J W Dunbar of New Albany past grand master Indiana led the services with S W Douglass of Evansville assisting. Rev John Boden delivered the address. Knight Templars and other Masonic bodies officiated.
Trial of Thomas Howard for Yopp killing opens in Putnam court
The September 7 trial in Putnam circuit court pits Thomas Howard age twenty against the charge of killing Roscoe Yopp a paroled Indiana reformatory inmate. Howard claims self defense after a drunken confrontation with Yopp and Roscoe Boone.
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Greencastle
Thomas Howard
Roscoe Yopp
Indiana State Reformatory
Putnam
Howard
Yopp
Roscoe Boone
Boone
Death Mystery in Colfax Soldier’s Death
The coroner’s report on George Allison an old Colfax soldier says death on October 26 resulted from chloral hydrate or knockout drops. Mrs Allison woke to his heavy breathing finding him dead before a doctor arrived. Stomach contents contained lethal chloral hydrate. Grand jury may investigate.
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Frankfort
Marion Carter
George Allison
Colfax
Allison
Tramps Like Seymour Plan Jail Breaks Curb
Hundreds of professional tramps visiting Seymour have found a way to beat the high cost of living by violating minor laws to land sentences in the county jail. Chief J T Abell cites the jail system as the cause with prisoners getting meals and lodging. police aim to keep tramps out while agitation grows for a rock pile.
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Seymour
J. T. Abell
Watches Doctor at Work in South Bend Hospital
John W. Fitzgibbon, manager of the Conservative Life Insurance company, lay on the operating table for four hours unable to use anesthetics due to a weak heart as surgeons opened his neck wall to remove a throat growth and install a new tube. He is expected to recover.
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South Bend
John W. Fitzgibbon
Life Insurance Company
Aged Couple Lose Store Home In Lakeville Fire
In a $10,000 blaze at Lakeville ten miles south of South Bend Philip Ducomb, eighty, and his wife lost their general store and home and all possessions. Volunteers rescued the couple but the property was destroyed. the town barely survived the blaze after a hard fight.
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South Bend
Lakeville
Here
Philip Ducomb
Bucket Brigade
Eight Cows Die in Farm Barn Fire Near Greensburg
A large barn on Mrs. Mary E. Helmith’s farm six miles northeast of Greensburg burned, killing eight cows. Loss totals 2500 dollars with 1200 dollars insured. The fire was discovered shortly after a man was seen fleeing the structure.
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Greensburg
Mary E. Helmith
Farmer and Doctor Taken In Chesterton Death Case
Arrests of William Greening a young farmer near Chesterton and Dr J H William Meyer follow the death of Mrs William Greening. The charges relate to an alleged operation connected to her death, a sensation that has lingered for several days.
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Laporte
William Greening
Chesterton
J. H. William
Swife
Greening
Das
Orphans' Home dissolves in Grant county after 26 years
The Grant County Orphans' Home association, after twenty six years of service, will surrender wards to the board of children's guardians and property to the county. Notices signed by Emma C. Hutchison and Mary T. Buchanan state the dissolution follows criticism by guardians and charities. Fire news from Lakeville describes a bucket brigade saved by auto chemical, with losses around six thousand dollars. Other items cover Shelbyville Sunday School convention, Rennselaer stockyards accident on the Hoosier Limited, missing Balford Weighoff of Columbus, and Indianapolis music teachers meeting notices.
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Marion
Grant County Orphans’ Home Association
Emma C. Hutchison
Mary T. Buchanan
Board of County Commissioners
Grant County Board of Children's Guardians
Orphans’ Home Association
Board of Children’s Guardians
Board of Charities
South Bend
Lakeville
Philip Ducomb
Shelbyville
Shelby County Sunday School Association
Frank
N. Palmer
Winona
Lake
J.W. Halton
Guy Webb
Bertham Tucker
J. A. Zeller
Leone Kenton
Frank Ewing
Ora.McDaniel
Charles Harrison
Lois Rutledge
R. F. Boger
J. C. Voris
Columbus
Balford
Weighoff
Harry
E. Weighoff
Portland
Ore
Chicago
Seattle
Henry Northrap
Indianapolis
Music Teachers’ National Association
Vassar College
New York
Indiana
Fritz Krull
International Musical Society
National Musical Association
Indiana Farm Course Delivers Men and Women Programs
A three day schedule outlines lectures and demonstrations on crops, soil fertility, poultry, dairy, and home economics. Notables include Otis Crane J C Beavers W R Palmer Alma Garvin and G C Borcherding guiding sessions with emphasis on practical farming, livestock, and kitchen lessons.
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J.C. Beavers
Indiana
D. C. Thompson
W. R. Palmer
Alma L. Garvin
Garvin
Otis Crane
Why the Train Was Late Over a Mother’s Parting at the Platform
A crowd recalls a delay caused by a railway guard delaying the signal for a farewell. A poor mother clings to her child as a couple adopt him, the boy crying “Mom mom mom” as the child is snatched back. The scene unfolds amid a crowded subway station.
Christmas shopping hints warn of late purchases
The column notes papers will print daily tips for early Christmas shopping but jokes that many will wait until payday to start. Readers are urged to begin sooner, as hints appear in several papers, with a light mockery of last minute shoppers.
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Penha‘Herald-Transcript
Springfield Union
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