Graveyard insurance scam eyed by Indiana towns
A Indianapolis unit notes letters from Tipton, Hamilton, Cass, Grant, Tippecanoe, Johnson, Morgan, Bartholomew and Vanderburgh counties about graveyard insurance operatives from Pennsylvania. It condemns the practice as gambling style life speculation and cites Indiana case law and failed legislation to curb the schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Hamilton
Cass
Grant
Tippecanoe
Johnson
Morgan
Bartholomew
Vanderburgh
Pensylvania
The
Goo Will
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Supreme Court of Indiana
Franklin Life Insurance Company
Hazzard
Insurance Commission
Howgate's Rise and Wealth under Myer System Unraveled
Washington correspondent recalls Captain H W Howgate born in England who rose through volunteer and regular Army service, aided by General Myer. He amassed vast District real estate wealth via Signal Service funds, siphoning money for salaries, supplies, and telegraph bills while maintaining lavish liaisons and a Potomac steam yacht before his methods drew scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Woods
Myer
Howgate
United States
W. F. Drum
Ramsey
Michigan
H. W. Howgate
Washington
Boston Herald
Regular Army
Myer Ver
Twentieth Infantry
District of Columbia
Signal Service
Congress
Burrill
Chelsea
Potomac
Virginia
North Carolina
Taxing Church Property and Public Duty
Edward Everett Hale argues in North American Review that historic New England churches served town needs and public education. He compares private chapels to public institutions and calls for taxing churches that function as public charities while crediting those that aid reform and welfare with their public gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
North American Review
New England
Greece
Rome
Hale
Christ's
A Southern Paper on President Garfield
The Vicksburg Mississippi Herald notes Southern admiration for Garfield while acknowledging party unpopularity in the region. It stresses condolences for the wounded president and hopes for his recovery, reflecting a shift in sentiment amid national crisis.
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President Garfield
Vicksburg
Miss
Garfield
United States
James A. Garfield
White House
A Business Girl Tells a Dental Mischief Tale
A Ithaca Journal humorous note recounts a dentist near Ovid who kissed a handsome patient after extracting four teeth. The sedate ruse ends with the patient leaving a bill showing $2 for the teeth and $1 for each kiss, prompting payment of the balance.
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Ovid
School Hours in Germany England and France in Education
The Journal of Education compares weekly hours spent in English, German and French secondary schools. It finds English pupils average about twenty six hours weekly, with German and French schedules longer, classics dominating study while science grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Journal of Education
England
Stolen Sermon Exposes Ordination Candidate
In Scotland a young man faces ordination before the presbytery with Principal Robinson as moderator. Both examination and sermon pass, but the moderator reveals the sermon is not the man’s own. The candidate admits he copied a sermon he heard Robinson preach, then wrote it from memory and presented it today. The moderator is left with the awkward admission.
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Philadelphia
Miss Lillybilly
Mr. Polo
Miss B
Ceres
Marguerite
Scotland
Robinson
Straizhi
Buckeye Mwf’g CO
Marion
Ohio
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Graveyard Insurance
Indianapolis News
Ithaca
Journal
Fitz-Green Halleck
Jane Stuart
Gilbert Stuart
Newport
Nashville American
South
Iowa
Monitor
Glasgow News
Deadwood
Colorado
Germany
France
Hardware Headquarters
J. J. Elowe
South Side
Sullivan
Machinry
Oliver
Richmond
Pittsburg
Champion
Reaper & Mower
Studebaker Farm Wagon
Climax Corn Planter
Cassady
J.F. Hoke
Ind
P. McEneney
Sullivan,nd
Commercial Row
Terre Haute
J. P. Stratton
Pfevers,&c
J.P. Watson
Christian Church
Troy
Singer Manufacturing CO
the Singer Manufacturing Co
Union Square
New York
Gen Vandels & Co
Beekiun St
N.Y
M. L. Byrn
Nassau St
N Y
E. A. Wilson
Penn St
Williamspurgh
Tome
Williams
Hilwackee
Wis
John B
Ogden
Cesiar Stran
Castings
J. A. Parker & Bros
Prof
Harris
Harris Remedy Gg.mfg
ST. Louis
Ene
Poe
Florence Machine CO
Florence
Mass
GEO
BENT
Jackson St
Chicago
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