Cork Leg Oil Company Opens Adams County Wells
The Cork Leg Oil Company formed yesterday with secretary The directors include H. B. Smith B. F. William F. Wober A. C. Metcalf and Ralph Bamberger. It has claimed 90 acres in Adams county and reports a gusher started producing one day. The first well reportedly pours oil and the company had raised 93000. contractor BL P drilling has a cork leg and his fare is noted. The company is capitalized at and plans twenty wells.
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Orne Cork Leg Oil Company
H. B. Smith
William F. Wober
A. C. Metcalf
Ralph Bamberger
Adams County
BL P
Shippers' Protective League Forms in Indianapolis
Representatives of Indianapolis shippers organized the Shippers' Protective League of Indiana at the Commercial Club to push for fair car service from railroads. James T. Eaglesfield serves as president with A E Bradshaw as vice president and C R Jones as secretary. The group plans bi monthly meetings, a 25 member quorum, and will seek court action if railroads fail to provide satisfactory service.
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Shippers’ Protective League of
Indiana
Shippers
Indianapolis
Commercial Club
James T. Eaglesfield
A. E. Bradshaw
C. R. Jones
M. 8. Huey
Oran M. Pruitt
J. A. Schumacher
N. F. Owings
Frank M. Dell
C. A. Schrader
E. W Bassett
F. M. Shaw
John George
Edward O'Connor
Euglesfield
Huey
Pruitt
Bassett
Bell
Jones
Shippers’ Protective League
Eaglesfield
Bradshaw
Dell
Jackson Landers
Mr. Owings
Herman Schulz
League
Commercial Club Plans to Advertise Indianapolis City
The Commercial Club released a new pamphlet designed to promote Indianapolis as a residential and manufacturing hub and convention city. The brochure highlights hotels parks and a 600 mile radius reach showing vast potential markets. The club also notes bond debt reductions and debt payments totaling 102000 after recent transfers and 5500 this year.
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Commercial Club
Indianapolis
United States
America
The
Factory Inspector McAbee Targets Small City Hotels
Factory Inspector McAbee plans to prosecute management of smaller city hotels for violating the law requiring fire escapes. He has warned several proprietors to comply or face formal charges, citing delays and danger to about 500 people in upper floors. He notes the Claypool Hotel, a fireproof building, needs fewer escapes but will be inspected soon.
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McAbee
Claypool
Indiana Horticultural Society Meets At State House
The annual Indiana Horticultural Society session opens at the State house and will run two days. W H Collingwood editor in chief of Rural New Yorker will be their guest and discuss how fruit is handled in the New York market.
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The
Indiana Horticultural Society
Statehouse
W. H. Collingwood
New Yorker
New York
Bold Robbery At Michigan Lumber Office Breaks Safe
Two men forced entry at 929 East St. Clair, cracked a steel cash box containing about 9 dollars, and fled after gunfire. Earlier, a broom factory break in sought a blown safe but found an open sign and took 250 pennies from a small box. Desks damaged.
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Michigan Lumber Company
East St. Clair Street
A. W. Prince
Lumber Company
Augustus
Henry Coburn
Binager & Beinert
Editors of Indiana to Gather at French Lick
Newspaper men from central and northern Indiana, many with wives, travel to French Lick for Thomas Taggart’s entertaining of Democratic and Republican editorial association members. About 300 to 400 guests expected, with drives through Orange County hills and a Thursday night ballroom musicale led by Miss Bertha Schell Schmidt and Mrs Gertude Fugate.
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French Lick
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Taggart
Orange County Hills
Bertha Schellschmidt
Gertude Fugate
Indianapolis
Famous Cartoonist John T McCutcheon to Lecture at Boys' Club
Chicago artist John T McCutcheon will give a lecture titled Newspaper Cartoons at the Claypool assembly room on December 8. He will illustrate with drawings. Proceeds benefit the Boys' Club. tickets available at Huder's Pharmacy.
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John T. McCutcheon
Chicago
Boys’ Club Entertainment
Boys’ Club
George Ade
Claypool
McCutcheon
Huder
Eighteen Years In Office Postmistress Out of Job
Rural mail service in Indiana drives small post offices out of existence. Gallaudet post office in this county closed yesterday, ending Mernerva C Kemper’s eighteen year tenure as post mistress. The move foreshadows more closures as the rural network expands. In police court, William Cannon, a sixteen year old, faced arrest for stealing a chicken but was dismissed after a judge’s stern lecture following a prior record.
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Indiana
Gallaudet
Mernerva C. Kemper
William Cannon
Virginia Avenue
William
Sig Schoen
Buchanan Street
Cannon
Herron's Engraved Plates and Cards at Moderate Prices
The latest styles in engraved plates and cards offered at moderate prices at Herron's.
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Herron’s
Ambulance service for horses planned by Dr Jacobs
A veterinary surgeon Dr F F Jacobs will establish an ambulance for sick and disabled horses at 526 East Washington Street before week end. The two horse vehicle is nearly finished with a bed nearly ground level to reduce pain during transfer. The note recalls horses previously killed in street accidents due to lack of proper conveyance.
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F. F. Jacobs
East
Washington Street
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