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Local Newsstand and Bookstall Addresses Listed
A concise directory lists newspaper outlets and bookshops across multiple cities. It names stores in New York Chicago Cincinnati Louisville St Louis Washington Denver Dayton Columbus and other venues including Union News Company and J B Hawley & Co with street addresses and notable landmarks.
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Journal home mail service offers summer forwarding
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Advices from coal region amid tension threaten violence
The article notes rising tensions in the anthracite coal region with potential government action by injunction if strikes persist. It also covers labor fears, gas pricing politics, Cuban cabinet changes, and comments by figures like Secretary Shaw and President Roosevelt, ending with a Post Office Department audit suggestion to prevent fraud.
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New Jersey Federation of Labor
Rail mail payments cut to curb department deficits
A discussion outlines two remedies for a yearly department deficit near 3 million dollars. The auditor favors halting free distribution of congressional documents and department reports, and trimming railroads’ mail carriage payments. Reducing rail subsidies is seen as the more practical choice, given long standing overpayments to lines.
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Bureau of Education
Agricultural Department
Smithsonian Institution
Reception to President Roosevelt in Indianapolis
The piece urges a nonpartisan, formal welcome for President Roosevelt during his September 2 visit to meet Spanish War veterans. It recalls a 1887 Cleveland visit and Indianapolis’ bipartisan preparations with a council on arrangements, a grand marshal, and a city parade, stressing unity across parties.
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Indiana
Secretary Shaw Seeks Targeted Tariff Revision
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw spoke in Morrisville Vermont outlining a tariff stance aligned with protectionist goals and the Iowa platform. He rejected broad revision while warning against policies that foster trusts and pauperism, stressing policy flexibility for industry needs.
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Shaw
Morrisville
Friends of Protection
Republican Party
Iowa
The Local Fuel Problem in Indianapolis
The piece condemns municipal handling of the natural gas issue in Indianapolis, insisting the shortage and waste have been brewing for years. It argues officials and many citizens ignored the growing crisis, noting the gas supply was failing and could not meet demand at reasonable rates.
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City Gas Meter Fight Stalls as Cold Weather Nears
The piece laments city officials clashing with gas companies over meter deployment, warning of gas shortages and costly retrofits if a slow policy persists. It urges passage of the meter ordinance to avoid a shutdown and costly rebuilding, while noting public pressure and business realities. It also comments on oleomargarine politics, butter coloring, and calls for broader civic fundraising for arsenal grounds and education.
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The Humorists and Satirical Jests in Brief
A compilation of humorous exchanges and quips from various papers, including lines about new socialites, a money speaks moment, a servant’s mishap with a doormat, Aggie’s cookie prayer, a rider on automobiles, an umpire’s admission before St Peter, and a brisk wager for return to a bench.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
St. Peter
Circus Tent Blown Down in Windstorm at Onawa
A severe wind and rainstorm hit Onawa Iowa this afternoon causing damage to small buildings and crops. During a circus performance the main tent collapsed but only minor injuries were reported.
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Rainfall Causes Cedar Rapids Damage Exceeding 100000
A rainfall of 1.79 inches in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last night washed out street railway tracks, damaged lawns, bridges and sidewalks, flooded basements and cellars, and caused damage estimated from $100,000 to $100,000.
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Epidemic of personal crisis reports
Sharpsville woman kills herself and her baby, Bedford man attempts suicide, and a Fayette County farmer dies after chloroform exposure. The items reflect tragic personal crises in the era with names and places highlighted for public notice.
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Culver School Gypsies Steal a Knox County Boy
A Lafayette strike thread and a string of small accidents are reported as news from Indiana. In Sharpsville Mrs. Cattie Romack killed herself and her baby after a failed act of self harm. The tragedy was witnessed in Kokomo by John Galbreath who found the door barred. The Romack family had roots in Tipton county and Kokomo society. Additional reports cover a suicide attempt by Frank Wright in Bedford and the death by chloroform of John Caldwell, a Connersville farmer.
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Thulman & Levi
Despondent Injured Man Swallows Morphine in Marion
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports Benjamin Cooper, a man who lost both legs in an earlier accident, swallowed a large dose of morphine tonight and is in a serious condition.
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Marion
Ind
Benjamin Cooper
Redkey Town Council Grants Franchise to Traction Co
Redkey Indiana Aug 19 by unanimous vote the town council granted a ninety nine year franchise to the Muncie and Portland Traction Company to use city streets for tracks. Company ownership includes G O Driscoll president J H Leffler Frank Snyder Truman Boyd and John Detta more of Portland. Albany council to be approached next Monday for a similar franchise. Madison Indiana Aug 19 Colonel A S Berry from Kentucky and Westinghouse chief engineer Lyman arrived Milton Kentucky and toured the river bank seeking two surveys from Carrollton to Louisville.
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Muncie
Ind
Redkey
Muncie & Portland Traction Company
Traction Company
G. O. Driscoll
J. H. Leffler
Frank Snyder
Truman Boyd
John Dettamore
Madison
Cincinnati
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Berry
Kentucky
Lyman
Westinghouse
Milton
Carrollton
Indianapolis Southern Plans Bloomington Franchise Route
Bloomington dispatch notes Indianapolis Southern officers will visit Thursday to arrange city franchise details. The line would enter from the north, run south along Madison Street to Fifth, then parallel the Monon road. The railroad seeks right of way through eastern Monroe County and one township in Brown.
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Bloomington
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Indianapolis Southern
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Fifth
Monroe County
Brown
Railroad plans to lay new track near Franklin Indiana
A party of surveyors works along the east side of the Pennsylvania track between Franklin and Indianapolis. Report says the railroad company will lay new track with new local service and rates to compete with the interurban line.
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Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Columbus Star to Rise as New Morning Paper
In Columbus Indiana Alonzo Allison and his son George A Allison acquire the defunct Columbus Star and plan a Sept 1 launch of a new morning paper. Politics undecided between Democratic or independent. Columbus now has three dailies and five weeklies. Fort Wayne will add a Potter perfecting press Sept 1 under Bicknell management with Lane Griswold and Randall joining the staff and expanded telegraph facilities.
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Columbus
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Alonzo Allison
Brown County Democrat
George A. Allison
Columbus Star Outfit
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Fort Wayne News
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Potter Perfecting
Charles R. Lane
Fort Wayne Gazette
Griswold
Terre Haute Tribune
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Lafayette Traction Strike Ends in Massive Night Demonstration
In Lafayette Indiana a major labor action drew every local union into a night demonstration. About 90 working men and around 900 sympathizers gathered with a band and torches, signaling strong union support and solidarity in the city.
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Mne
Street Car Strike Sparks Densely Packed Crowd at Courthouse
A large crowd filled the courthouse square as Vice President W H Jacobs of the National Association of Street Railway Men spoke, followed by local union president Henry Ballard and ex Representative Alvin A Reser urging settlement. Two men, Ira Morgan and Joseph Woosham, were arrested for obstructing tracks with planks. The strike triggered few passengers on street cars. service shifted to hacks and buses toward Soldiers Home and Monon shops. Police stay vigilant for unrest.
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W. H. Jacobs
National Association of Street Railway Men
Henry Ballard
Alvin A. Reser
Ira Morgan
Joseph Woosham
Monon Railway
Slater
Monon
Culver Naval School closes first session at Culver
Culver Summer Naval School ends its initial session at Culver Indiana with training in boats navigation seamanship and swimming and light academics. Closing events featured cutter and shell races swimming and boat drills on chartered steamers. Cadet Lyons of New Jersey captained the second cutter to victory while Cadet R Hackney of Indianapolis led the first cutter to win the shell race. Cadet Sanborn of Chicago won the swimming race and Cadet Harron of Crawfordsville earned a gold medal for track work.
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Culver
Ind
Culver Summer Naval School
Cadet Lyons
New Jersey
R. Hackney
Indianapolis
Sanborn
Chicago
Harron
Crawfordsville
Hibernians hold Indiana biennial convention in Anderson
Ancient Order of Hibernians of Indiana begins its biennial convention in Anderson with over three hundred delegates arriving. A solemn high mass was held at St Mary’s Church, followed by a welcome address from Mayor Dunlap. Delegates toured gas belt cities by trolley and a reception occurred at the C K of A hall. The Dies' Auxiliary met with Mayor-elect Forkner addressing the opening.
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Order of Hibernians of
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Forkner
Three Men and Boy Burned in Traction Engine Accident
In Marion Indiana this morning a traction engine passing over a bursting gas main caused an explosion and fire. George Hiatt of Michaels suffered serious burns to head face and arms. Roy Titus a boy received severe burns to hands and face. George Morris was seriously burned to face and hands.
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Marion
Ind
van Buren
George Hiatt
Michaels
Roy Titus
George Morris
Madison man learns son William killed in McCook
Henry Francis co of Madison received a telegram reporting the death of his son William, a railroad engineer, who was killed at McCook Nebraska.
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Madison
Ind
Henry Francisco
William
McCook, Neb
Stolen Gypsy band recovers boy in Indiana chase
A band of Gypsies abducted eight year old Benjamin F McIntyre Jr near Edwardsport Indiana. Sheriff Summitt and deputies trailed the group, intercepted a portion of the band but found no trace of the child at first. The father pursued and recovered his son as dusk fell in the county’s northern region. The boy was reportedly content with the kidnappers during the pursuit.
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Vincennes
Ind
Benjamin F. McIntyre
Edwardsport
Howe abandons Lafontaine glass works plan over indifference
Wabash Ind Aug 1 M 8 Howe of Wabash and associates proposed to build a glass works at Lafontaine on the condition of a bonus and free land. At a public meeting last evening, marked indifference led him to abandon the plan. The works would have employed seventy men.
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Howe
Wabash Associates
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Shelby county fair to be held despite smallpox rumors
Reports spread that Shelby county fair would be canceled due to smallpox, but no cases have appeared in Shelby city or county for weeks. The Shelby County Joint Stock Agricultural Association will hold the fair on September 26 as planned. Albert Spaker, 25, a Panhandle Railroad fireman, was killed at Hebron Porter County this morning after being crushed under a locomotive. He lived in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Valparaiso
Albert Spaker
Panhandle
Hebron
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Decatur
Charles Girod
Berne
David Swartz
Girod
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Marion
Indiana Photographers’ League
Grant County
Parker City
Minnie Moulton
Moulton
Vincennes
Harte Robbery Case Dismissed in Valparaiso
Valparaiso Indiana August 19 The case against Miss Kittle Harte the domestic arrested for robbing Mrs Stonebruner's house was dismissed this morning by the State. The prosecuting witness has decided to drop the matter.
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Valparaiso
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Kittle Harte
Doctor Hibberd improves after illness at eighty six
Dr James F Hibberd ex president of the American Medical Society is reported much improved in Richmond Ind today He is eighty six years old has practiced medicine for sixty two years and remains at work Also Portland Ind reports Ohio and Indiana Oil Company leasing over 70 acres in Pike township and Ohio Oil Company acquiring 1000 acres in Wabash township
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Salem Teachers Institute In Session With Noted Instructors
Salem hosts a week long teachers institute featuring Prof Earl Barnes formerly of Stanford University W W Pfrimmer Miss Grace Pron a pupil of Prof Edward Nell and Clarence Forsythe from Indianapolis as music instructor J W Cravens Bloomington Prof Charles Morris of Vincennes and H Mitchell of Salem also among the teachers.
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Grace Pron
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Clarence Forsythe
Indianapolis
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Bloomington
Charles Morris
Vincennes
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Oscar B. Todd
Battle Ground
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Delphi
Joseph Thompson
Tippecanoe
Carroll
Liberty
Union County
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T. G. Alford
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Guy Porter Benton
Miami University
Samuel Adams
Bergstrom
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Crawfordsville
State Lodge of Colored Masons
D. W. Caine
Seymour
Charles H. Lanier
Fred Blake
Terre Haute
H. V. Eagle
Portland
James Wheeler
Geneva
Rockport
Anderson
C. F. Heritage
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Beveridge
Indiana
Senator Beveridge
Frederick Landis
Richmond
Wayne County
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Louis Schrote
Delaware
N. A. Terwillegar
Franklin
Utterbach
Fair Grounds
Joseph Utterback
Leavitt Found Dead in St Louis From Carbolic Acid
The body of David F. Leavitt a 62 year old coffee broker and treasurer of the Episcopal diocese of Missouri was found at his residence in St Louis. The coroner ruled death by his own hand with carbolic acid and it is believed he took his life yesterday after a period of ill health.
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Richmond Doctor Dead at 56 in Indiana
Dr Joseph Lutzi of Richmond Indiana died late last night at age 56 after years of palsy. Born in Butler County Ohio he studied at Western Reserve Ohio Medical College and Farmer’s College Cincinnati. He practiced in Venice Ohio then moved to Richmond about 25 years ago. He spoke German French and Spanish and wrote tariff articles. A widow survives with funeral set for Wednesday. body to Venice Ohio for burial. Wayne County Medical Society to pass resolutions Wednesday.
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ZUMSTEIN DIES IN MANILA BEFORE WEDDING
Prof Rudolph Zumstein who left LaPorte to teach in Manila died July 18 in the Philippines at age twenty two. He had become engaged to Miss Jeanette Williams of Denver after meeting at Colorado University. The wedding was to occur the next afternoon but he died of cholera at 1 o'clock that day.
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Death of Dr John Simison Rom ney Indiana physician and Methodist worker
Dr John Simison longtime Romney physician and prominent Methodist Church worker in Laflayette area dies at home after three weeks illness. Born in Columbiana county Ohio in 18M he studied at Atwater Academy and Ohio Medical College before settling in Romney in 1851 where he practiced over 50 years.
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Buckson's Son Killed in Philippines Ambush
Bluffton Indiana reports J M Buck wealthy handle maker learns his son Carl aged twenty was killed in the Philippines on July 13. He and another private soldier were riding when ambushed. Carl Buck was hit by four bullets and died instantly.
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Madison judge hears death of cousin in cholera outbreak
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Madison Indiana August 19 Judge Jerry Bear learned that his cousin Carroll R Bear a Methodist missionary in Manila was dead from Asiatic cholera.
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Madison
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Jerry FE. Bear
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Notable Indiana Obituary Snippets From State Notices
Joseph Strickler, 62, dies in Spiceland after Civil War service with Wheeler’s staff. Burial in New Castle. Mrs. John Jonas, 59, hotel owner of Hotel Jonas in Seymour, dies. husband gravely ill, confined for seven months. Elizabeth Kauffman, 81, Goshen resident for over a century, dies of paralysis at home. Dr. A. T. Cole, 33, Marion physician, dies at his parents’ Elwood residence.
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Goshen
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Marion
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Elwood Chry
Gen Smith A True Soldier In Portsmouth Reception
Gen Jacob H Smith was honored at a public reception and banquet in Portsmouth Ohio attended by over seventy citizens. In his brief address he said he has been a soldier for forty years and duty to country and flag guides his actions across Cuba the Philippines and distant lands. He defended carrying out orders and accepting criticism as part of a soldier’s training.
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Indiana Boy to Be a Middy Class of Eighteen Sixty
ANNAPOLIS Md Aug 19 Thirty one candidates passed mental examinations for entrance to the Naval Academy class of eighteen sixty Among the candidates is Worth W Foster of Indiana The academic board has reviewed forty six examination papers to date and names a promising recruit from Indiana as part of the roster</analysis>
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