Postmaster General to Dedicate Lincoln Building in Fort Wayne
Postmaster General Harry S. New will deliver the principal address at the November 7 dedication of Lincoln National Life Insurance Company’s new Fort Wayne building. Arthur F. Hall and Samuel M. Foster will also speak. Insurance officials nationwide plan to attend. A housewarming will follow the ceremony. The towered structure is called the world’s most beautiful life insurance building, occupying a city block with 260 feet front on Harrison street and 120 feet depth. Foundations were laid for fifteen stories with future floors planned.
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Harry S. New
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Mr. New
Arthur F. Hall
Lincoln National Life
Samuel M. Foster
United States
Life Insurance
Harrison Street
Pleasant Birthday Celebration for 84 Year Old Mrs Myers
Mrs Saloma Myers of the southwest town area marked a long life with a Sunday visit from her children and relatives. The 84th year milestone underlined years on the same Indiana homestead since 1855 and memories of early local life were shared with the family gathering.
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Saloma Myers
May Spend Winter Here in Silver Lake Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Judd Curtis from Akron visited their daughter Mrs. E. T. Baker and family on Sunday. They plan to spend the greater part of the winter in Silver Lake.
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Akron
E. T. Baker
Mrs. Curtis
Silver Lake
Mrs Jennie Rhodes Visits From Erie Penn
Mrs Jennie Rhodes of Erie Pennsylvania visited here last Saturday with relatives. She had been in Goshen and Claypool and then came here for the day.
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Jennie Rhodes
Erie, Pent
Goshen
Claypool
Summe visits and local residents noted
Mr and Mrs Frank Summe from Marion spent the week end visiting the Summe brothers and Samuel Summe’s family west of town. Lennie Eider and Earl Beigh from near Claypool were in last Saturday for business matters. Aaron Ramsey of South Whitley visited Friday night with his brother James Ramsey and family in the northwest part of town.
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Frank Summe
Marion
Summe Brothers
Mrs
Samuel Summe
Here
Lennie Eider
Earl Beigh
Claypool
Aaron Ramsey
South Whitley
James Ramsey
Richard Martin and the birth of animal protection in Britain
Richard Martin introduced the 1822 act against ill treatment of cattle in Parliament and led its passage. Known as Humanity Martin, he was an Irish nobleman whose law spurred a 1834 amendment banning bull and bear baiting and cock fighting. After his death, the SPCA was formed two years later with Royal approval, from which the American SPCA traces its origin.
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Richard Martin
Martin
George IV
Galway
Boulogne
France
British Isles
Society For the Prevention of
Queen Victoria
American Society For the Prevention of
Hook and Eye Fasteners Through the Ages
The hook and eye rose in popularity with Italy’s silk trade, boosted by water powered wire drawing. By 1890 sewn snaps with springs emerged for gloves and garments, evolving into a global industry. A Prague museum preserves early fasteners, tracing the long road from bone pins to modern snaps.
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Italy
Prague
Pyrennees
Elk Teeth Ornaments Reflect Native Customs in Decline
The exchange argues elk teeth were once worn by squaws from animals killed for necessity while braves wore bear claw necklaces. Now white men imitate the fashion, risking wasteful slaughter for trinkets. It urges understanding to curb demand and protect the elk, a prized game animal.
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America
Puzzling Phrases Highlight Classroom Parallels
A college professor discusses language drift noting how phrases like scholar and gentleman carry old meanings. He argues sincere effort matters more than labels and questions the class insult implicit in phrases such as poor but honest.
Safe openingRemark in Jefferson City Era
In Jefferson City the daily calm is unchanged by the casual refusal of safes and baggage locks to open. The paper notes the simple solution of sending to the penitentiary to borrow a safe blower for a few minutes to restore peaceful order.
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Jefferson City
Democrat'Tribune
Thomas C Day Loyal Treasurer Of Near East Relief
Indiana’s Thomas C Day serves as state treasurer for Near East Relief and has never taken a salary for his seven years in role. He personally covers travel expenses if needed while overseeing nearly 1 million dollars in donations with precise audits. Day also leads T C Day & Co and has a son Dwight H Day active in Presbyterian missions.
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Indiana
Near East
Thomas C. Day
T. C. Day
Mercy
Day
Near East Relief
Bible Land Children
Friends of the
Little Wards of the Relief Committee
Dwight H. Day
Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board
New York
Indianapolis Church Federation
T. C. Day & Co
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Silver Lake Lumber CO
Record Office
Silver Lake, Indiana
Robinson Crusoe
Crusoe
The
Mr. and Mrs. Judd Curtis
Pensylvania
Anuius
Amera
Hrasees Mosree
H R
George A. Brusa, Charles
Hanson
Notaries
Koscinako
Wabash Counties
Ira Leckrone
Silver Lake, Ind
Jefferson
National Medical Institute
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Chas. D. Jacobs
D. C
Ross College
North
Walnut Street
Manchester
Ind
Eel River
Rex
F.G. Fitch
Warsaw
Brush & Hanson
Titenkor
Renal Estate
Eoseluskof County
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