Flood, Love, and a Legacy at Barraclaw
In Barraclaw, the rising river threatens a levee and six Alders children after Amanda dies. Miss Josie refuses at first but helps Jake and the parson shelter the family. As floodwaters rise, a license arrives and Josie finally accepts love, marriage, and Mrs Alders’ rightful place beside the family.
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Jake Alders
Wash Evans
Waters
Father Messasable
Anke
Amanda
Jake
Josie Tierr
Josie
Barraclaw
Miss Josie
Duke
Hall oWell
Mandy
Bayou
Brother Alders
Tom
Grayson
Rod
Jemina
Alders
Lens
Pather Messasahe
Blood-Stained Garter Clue in Missing Girl Case
The disappearance of Kia Saunders, sixteen, last Monday prompts officials to suspect foul play after a blood-stained garter, found on White river banks by George Saunders, father of Ella, suggests a struggle and possible murder.
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Anderson
Kia Saunders
White River
George Saunders
Ella
Bridegrooms Mysterious Absence Shocks Richmond
Richmond Ind Sept 3 Seth Lew is a well known young man missing from his home for a week. His wife, bride of under a year, has asked police to aid in the search. Family and friends cannot account for his sudden departure.
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Richmond
Ind
Seth Lewis
Lewis
Free gravel road petitions surge in Anderson County
In Anderson Indiana on September 3 a total of eighty nine petitions for gravel road improvements under the new law are filed with more expected. Projections show about 200 miles of roads to be improved at roughly 2080 dollars per mile with costs paid to adjacent farmers. The county’s total outlay may approach half a million dollars, boosting local farm property values substantially.
Race War Imminent in Poseyville Indiana
A construction firm imported fifty Black workers to repair rock roads. Locals posted notices demanding they leave or be dynamited. Authorities set guards to protect workers as threats escalate after a Black man’s home was burned and an employer warned.
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Poseyville
Ind
John Lyles
S. A. Thompson
Gibson County
Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference Opens at Attica
Attica Indiana September 2 The fifty seventh annual session of the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened here with 980 pastors three bishops and about sixty lay delegates presiding Bishop Joseph F Berry of Punfab leads a roster that includes Bishops W D Warne India J D Liartzell Africa and Dr H A Gobin president of DePauw University.
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Attica
Ind
Northwest Indiana
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Joseph F. Berry
Punfab
W. D. Warne
India
J. D. Liartzell
Ligonier Postmaster Hiram Goodspeed Ends Life Attempts
Goshen Indiana September 3 Hiram Goodspeed longtime postmaster of Ligonier made three suicide attempts over burden of sequestered taxes totaling several thousand dollars The man tried to shoot himself planned to stand before a train and was prevented from leaping from a third story window authorities noted the tax discovery weighed heavily on his mind
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Goshen
Ind
Hiram Goodspeed
Ligonier
Ele
Goodspeed
Auto struck by train near Hammond injures three
E F Bullis of Lord & Thomas Chicago and his ten year old son plus Mrs Cresmer of Chicago were hurt when a train south of Hammond struck their auto. Bullis suffered a spinal injury, the boy internal injuries, and Mrs Cresmer knee injuries. None of the injuries are expected to be fatal.
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Hammond
Ind
E. EF. Bullis
Lord & Thomas
Chicago
W. T. Cresmer
Bullis
Forty-seventh Indiana Regt Reunion Held in Bluffton
Huntington Ind Sept 3 The next reunion of the Forty seventh Indiana regiment of Volunteers will be held at Bluffton Ind Y Sturgis of Bluffton was named president More than 200 veterans who fought under General James R Stack gathered here and ended the program with an automobile excursion around the city
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Bluffton
Huntington
Ind
Forty-seventh
Indiana Regiment of Volunteers
Ok. Y
Sturgis
James R. Stack
Man Killed by Interurban Car Near Waldron Bridge
Shelbyville Ind Sept 2 Matthew Bueh aged sixty five was instantly killed by an interurban car while seated on the Wheeler bridge near Waldron. The car struck him and threw him down the embankment.
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Gaught
Shelbyville
Ind
Matthew Bueh
Wheeler Bridge
Waldron
Quarrel Ends in Suicide in Decker County
Harley Smith aged nineteen of Frichton in Decker County killed himself with a gun after a quarrel with his sweetheart Miss Ragfuer. The incident occurred near Decker on September 3.
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Decker
Ind
Harley Smith
Frichton
Miss RaGfuer
Ted
Black Hand threat leads to confession in Iowa case
Twenty year old Earl Stitt is jailed on a confessed charge of sending a black hand note to his uncle H Edward Nail in German township Iowa demanding 500 or death and threatening forty four farmers. He planned to net 22500 on Sept 5 but his scheme faltered after Nail alerted authorities and Stitt admitted a Chicago influence.
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Earl Stitt
H Edward Nail
German Township
Stitt
Johnson County
Mr. Nail
Chicago
Wncle
NECRO'S BRUTAL DEED INDIANA FARMHOUSE ATTACK
Sheriff William Eddington and a 100 strong posse hunted White River bottoms for an assaulting negro seen near the Sanders farm three miles from Broomfield. Mrs Sanders was found unconscious in a cornfield after a baby’s cry drew the husband to the scene. No suspect captured. Public agitation runs high.
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Broomfield
Ind
Willian Eddington
White River
George Sanders
Sanders
Aunt Mandy the Washing Lady and Her Two Husbands
A New York Times excerpt humorously recalls Aunt Mandy an East Orange washer who marries again after her first husband dies turning a private condolence into a comic exchange. She declares the death natural and later boasts a second marriage as good as or better than the first.
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Mandy
Aunt Mandy
New York Times
Division of Labor as a Sociologist Visit
A warden questions a visitor at a penitentiary about his purpose while the caller clarifies his goal is to study inmate life and conditions rather than writing fiction. The exchange explores whether he is a detective, journalist, or sociologist and concludes his brother is the sociologist.
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Sunday Papers
Chicago Tribune
Milkman defends cows as sad over grass shortage
A customer complains about milk quality. The milkman replies cows lack grass feed this season and openly laments their misery. The woman retorts that she hopes the cows do not shed tears into her milk can.
Garver Estate Administrator Named In Hamilton County
Notice declares Alva V. Garver appointed administrator of the estate of Jonathan A Garver late of Hamilton County Indiana deceased. Estate described as solvent. August 35th 1908 Griffin attorney for administrator.
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Circuit Court
Hamilton County
State of
Indiana
Jonathan A. Garver
Alva V. Garver
Charles WM. Grifin
Atty
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