Indiana News Wrap: Patents Trade Marks and Local Crises
Patent grants go to Alderson Downing Harley Harter Kreiner Lindsay Martin Medley Merriman Otto Silvius Thornburg for various mechanical and electrical inventions. Trade marks awarded to Eckart Packing, Harlan Products, and Schnull & Co. Multiple Indiana towns report storms, fires, crop updates, and public notices affecting road work, education, taxation, and defense efforts during 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Jason L. Alderson
South Bend
Ora S. Downing
Indianapolis
W. P. Murphy
Chicago
Arthur L. Harley
Ft. Wayne
General Electric Company
Russell L. Harter
Elkhert
Oscar Kreiner
Martinsville
Thomas J. Lindsay
Lindsay Auto Parts
Charles T. Martin
Wolcott
Inkwell
Wiliam W. Medley
Terre Haute
William E. Merriman
Richmond
Spring Motor
Henry J. Otto
Evansville
Ellis T. Silvius
Samuel M. Thornburg
Muncie
Fred Eckart Packing Company
Harlan Products Company
Schnull & Company
Hartford City
Blackford County
A. L. Donaldson
Horace W. C. Fostdick
Thad FE
State Board of Accunts
Walter Jordan
Madison Township
Jesse Hammonds
Jordan
Lawrenceburg
Allce T. Griffith
Indiana
H. H. Friedley
Petersburg
Hammond
Lake County Council of Defense
State Line
Baker
Illinois Council of Defense
Hammond x and
Burnham
Gary
Whiting
East Chicago
Shelbyville
Shelby County Board of Commissioners
State Council of Defense
Equor
Bluffton
Indiana Federation of Women’s Clubs
James P. Goodrich
Indianapolis Federation
John E. Moore
E. W. Barret
Ella Bagot Kehrer
Anderson
H. C. Durbin
Emogene Taft Lesh
Elma Wood
Winchester
Paul Jaqua
Portland
Wage increases for railroad workers approved by commission
The railroad wage commission report to Director General McAdoo proposes wage advances from 1 to 43 percent for about 1.94 million employees, totaling around 300 million dollars. The plan aims to reflect living costs with higher pay for most classes while preserving overall industry pay structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noblesville
Indiana
State Highway Commission
Clee
Hamilton County
Robert House
L. H. Wright
Otto L. Krauss
Clare
State Supreme Court
Bloomington
Indiana University
Indiana Club
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kapa Kappa Gamma West
Phi Kappa Psi
Lafayette
Home Economics Department
Purdue University
South Bend
War Savings and Thrift Stamp Committees
Indianapolis
Indiana State Council of Defense
Robert E. Wright
State Council
Evansville
Steinbach
William Habbe
Vanderburg
Ed Kraft
Prussia
Washington
D. C
Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
Richmond
Wayne County
Army Medical Corps
H. J. Ware
Zachary Taylor
Columbus
Cyrus R. Clevenger
Navy
Ralph Yeley
Edward Stadler
Frank Laurie
Gary
Pershing
Washington, D. C
Railroad Wage Commission
McAdoo
McAdée
Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Charles C. McChord
J. Harry Covington
William R. Wilcox
Europe
The
Wage Commission
New Inventions Highlight Emerging Industries
From all over reports on porcelain pyro meter tubes as a new industry and a Pennsylvania farmer as inventor of a glove worn device to tie knots. Italy bans mills making flour bread with less than 80 percent grain usage. tropical plants show luminescent flowers and phosphorescent juices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Italy
Norwegian agricultural college and stations run by government
The government of Norway maintains one agricultural college and three experiment stations. American electric fans are used to drive mosquitoes from the palace of the Caliph of Bagdad. An inventor combines a shaving brush with a rubber lather device on one handle. A dummy human figure connected to a registering device records boxing practice blows by position and force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government of
Norway
Bagdad
Germans Flee French Front as Allies Press Offensive Near Luneville
Allied patrols report German hamlet Cerviller abandoned near Luneville while Americans advance with quiet fronts and limited air activity. French take 100 prisoners near Kemmel as German artillery remains destructive. Casualties released total 96 names with 38 missing.
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London
France
Marshal von Hindenburg
Western Front
Daily Express
von Munckensen
Express
Hindenburg
Luneville
Ancerviller
Seichprey
Seicheprey Salient
Verdun
Americans Raid No Man's Land In World War I Scramble
Three Americans crossed into No Man's Land in the Luneville sector to spot a German sniper nest after American casualties. They confronted a German officer and twelve men, killed the officer and four soldiers, and seized the officer's papers with the enemy code and other vital information before withdrawing as German reinforcements arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Luneville
No Man's Land
Tornado Near Delwood Destroys Homes Hurts Residents
Harrisburg Illinois May 14 three persons near death and eight seriously injured as a tornado leveled nine residences and damaged barns near Delwood twelve miles southeast of Harrisburg late Sunday afternoon.
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Delwood
Harrisburg
Ill
Woman's Nerves Made Strong by Lydia Pinkham Remedy
A Minnesota woman reports relief from insomnia and nervousness after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the tonic as a forty year standard treatment for displacements inflammation irregularities backache dizziness and nervous prostration in women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham
Albert Sultze
Olmstead St
Winona
Three Kinds of Gentlemen in Ireland Past and Present
A discussion of Ireland’s social classes describes three types of gentlemen: the half mounted descendants of Cromwellian soldiers, the well born yet working classes from forfeited estates, and the honest landowning noble families tied to peasantry by their ancestral estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Imerald Isle
Not a Best Seller Showdown Over Synonyms at Bookshop
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt depicts a superior customer asking for a book of synonyms. The clerk replies that thousands of volumes exist and asks what is required. The boss is consulted as the clerk admits they may not carry any of Synonym’s works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham Age-Herald
Never Can Tell Salary Says Nothing About Character
A witty maxim notes you cannot judge a man by the salary he claims before his military service. It cautions against quick assumptions about character based on earnings.
It Is Never Too Late To Learn From The Past
A reflective note suggests that realizing one is slightly behind the times can prompt renewed effort and adaptation. It emphasizes humility and ongoing growth rather than resignation.
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U. S
War Department
New England
Paris
Orvillers-Sorel
Picardy
War Office
Mailly-Raineval
Amiens
Avre
NO Man’s Land
Illinois
Veriable Gosspounds
Emerald Island
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