Scribner's Holiday Issue Showcases Child Themed Works
The issue features color and black and white illustrations by Smedley and Rosa Bonheur, with stories by Bret Harte Mark Twain and Eleanor Stuart. It highlights childhood themes, poems, and letters including New Light on Parthenon Sculptures and a Paris Revolution article. The Cleveland police barred the Liberty Association from holding a meeting in a hall.
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D. Howells
Milton
France
Santa Claus
West
Emerson Hough
Brady
USA
Thackeray
United States
Grant Willison
Moley
Roosevelt
Flynn
Elliott Flower
Blackgum Ag
Stockton
Gelett Burgess
Elizabeth Cherry Waltz
Harper's Magaazine
Maurice Hewlett
Albert Sterner
Hmert
Richard
Smedley
Bret Harte
Colonel Starbottle
Rosa Bonheur
Mark Twain
Sarah Orne Jewett
Bishop Potter
E. C. Martin
Judith Page Rives
Azores
Robert Louis Stevenson
Companeor
Scribner
Albert White Vorse
Arthur Cossiett Smith
Nora
Earl of Vauxhall
Cardinal
William Henry Bishop
Oliver Horn
F. Hopkinson Smith
Oliver
Eleanor Stuart
Madame le Bau
Benjamin Paul Blood Furnish
Thyreus
Ilustrati
Andre Castaigne
Octavius
Actium
Cleopatra
Antony
Josephine Peabody
Adirondackas
John R. Spears
Jules Guerin
Traveling salesman T. B. Waters dies in Lafayette fall
T. B. Waters, a traveling salesman for N. D. Dodge & Bliss Shoe Mfg Co of Newburyport Massachusetts, and Toledo Ohio home, fell from a third floor window at the Lahr House in Lafayette Indiana. He was about 48 and found on the cement sidewalk with neck and both legs broken. The night had been restless after a milk punch and a warning that he was not feeling well. The Knights Templars took temporary charge of the remains and a sister in Delta Ohio was notified.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Ind
T. B. Waters
N. D. Dodge & Bliss Shoe Manufacturing Company
Newburyport
Mass
Toledo
Lahr
Delta
Waters
Knights Templars
New Clubhouse for Purdue Presented by Student Drive
Purdue University in Lafayette announces two major needs nearing fulfillment. Mrs Eliza Fowlers gift of 60000 funds an assembly hall, while a dedicated athletic clubhouse for Boiler Makers is planned as a near-term reality. The class of 193 pledges 1300 toward the club house with other classes joining to raise similar sums and provide living quarters training facilities and a training table in the building for future Purdue teams.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Eliza Fowler
Boiler Makers
Purdue
Chapter of Accidents in Terre Haute District Claims Several Lives
A wave of mishaps in Terre Haute Indiana begins with 12 year old William Laney crushed by logs after a wagon turn. Otis Goodman 26, switch tender in Vandalia yards, killed when run over by a box car. Three youths in a Wabash river boat capsize. Arthur Davis drowns. Willis Turnbaugh injured in a vat of boiling mash at Majestic distillery. In Jeffersonville John Dunn fatally wounded by a gun discharge. Bertha Lentz and Dunn had married two weeks prior. William Semontes severely injured when a king bolt breaks, wagon overturns on him.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
William Laney
Joseph Laney
Rosedale
Otis Goodman
Vandalia
Mrs. Pierson
North Eighth Street
Wabash River
Arthur Davis
Cliff Chamberlin
Bowman
Davis
East End
Willis Turnbaugh
Majestic
Jeffersonville
John Dunn
Dunn
Bertha Lentz
William Semontes
Eight Young Women Enter Sisters of Providence in Indiana
Eight young women at St Marys of the Woods renounced the world and took vows with the Sisters of Providence. Bishop Chatard presided, assisted by Rev McBarron and Rev Wolfe and Rev Riehle. Home addresses include Indianapolis Saginaw Fort Wayne Lafayette and Chicago among others.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
St. Mary's of the Woods
Order of Sisters of Providence
United States
Chatard
McBarron
Evansville
Wolfe
Riehle
St. Mary's
Helen Elizabeth
Honora Cummings
Indianapolis
Cecilia Theresa
Helen Michale
Saginaw
Mary Theodora
Mabel Rondot
Fort Wayne
Mary Theresa
Cecilia Schie
Lafayette
Laurina
Elizabeth Travers
Indiana
Dolorosa
Honora Riller
Ayton
Amadicus Marie
Mary Golden
Chicago
Constance Marie
Helen Fehy
Greensburg tract franchise granted with safeguards
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Greensburg Indiana December 8 The Shelbyville Greensburg and Batesville Traction Company win consent to street use for fifty years with limits on streets freight and passenger service and price parity with other Indiana lines The city to receive 15 dollars for the privilege and fifteen days to decide The report notes council edits preserving safeguards Richmond Indiana December 8 Daniel G Reid and William B Leeds prominent tin plate collectors recall the city and have supported the Marcant Smith Home for Aged
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Indianapolis Journal
Greensburg
Ind
Shelbyville, Greensburg & Batesville Traction Company
Richmond
Daniel G. Reid
William B. Leeds
Sr Leeds
Ben
Marcant Smith
Local notes detail charities and court suits across Indiana towns
Ida M. Mikels sues Geo W Mikels for 1018.05 unpaid wages earned as teacher 1896 1899. Curtis McCoy sues Big Four Railway for 4000 damages over fire to warehouse near McCoy Station. George Kneller 10 drowns while testing ice at Diffendorfer Yontz lake in Columbia City. Knights of Pythias district meeting planned at Salem with notable members. Jesse Moore paroled convict causes scene en route to Michigan City prison. Farmers Institute sessions attract Dr Curryer and Mrs Bates with focus on Home life. John Parks farmer dies by self inflicted gunshot in Paoli. St Patrick's hall dedication costs 3000 in Terre Haute. Arthur Gobble dies after shooting his father and himself in Lebanon. Alvin Delong marks 50th anniversary in Lafayette. Terre Haute Y M C A buys Terre Haute Club property for 160000. Alexander Pickel dies in Greencastle. Edwin Kimball dies in Portland Oregon formerly of South Bend. Barton Hall dies in Covington. Charles R Maratt expected as Richmond police commissioner. Wayne county tax boosted by subsidy for C B M line. Vaudeville actor Walter Elliott touring Europe.
Public notices from Jeffersonville and Terre Haute
Jeffersonville faces monthly license revenue losses after the attorney general halted nonresident marriage licenses. Terre Haute reports the city schools inviting Senator Beveridge to speak at January high school graduation. Salem hosts the Washington County teachers seventh annual meeting with Dr George A Noel of Chicago presenting on The Model Young Woman.
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Fayette
Jeffersonville
Terre Haute
Beveridge
Salem
Washington County
George A. Noel
Chicago
Grain for the Hungry Famine Relief Reported
Five and a half million poods of winter grain and three million summer grain have been purchased and sent to needy districts, pushing total grain purchases beyond sixteen million poods with over 10 million roubles spent. Famine relief funds total about 14.2 million roubles, while official estimates were reduced as conditions worsen in Asiatic Russia.
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Associated Press
ST. Petersburg
Ministry of the Interior
Russia
Petersburg-Viatka
Bologoye-Siecnitz
Annual Statement of Ned Balance in General Fund Oct 1900
The document lists extensive receipts and disbursements across Indiana state accounts for October 1900 including current state tax delinquent state transfer from benevolent institutions earnings from prisons and reform schools federal and county receipts for inmate clothing and various state department expenditures. It aggregates totals for receipts and disbursements across multiple agencies and boards.
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Eer
Benevolent Institution Fund
Indiana
United States
Supreme Appellate Court
Central Insane Hospital
Deaf and Dumb Institu- Reform School For Boys
Eastern Insane Hospital
State—Trust
Reform School United States
Southern Insane Hospital
Northern Insane Hospital
Apmings
Deaf and Dumb
Reform School For
Building and Loan Land Department
Commissioner of Fish and Game
State Board
Secretary of State
Reform ‘School Board
Reform ‘School For
Board of Charities
State Board of Pharmacy
Exwicca
Rate Board of Education
State Library
Woman Shot by Highwaymen Near Parsons Avenue
In Columbus Ohio on December 8 early morning Mr and Mrs Philip Merrill were stopped by three highwaymen on Parsons avenue. Merrill spurred his horse. the criminals fired. Mrs Merrill was struck in the head and is in a critical condition. The assailants escaped.
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Columbus
Philip Merrill
Parsons Avenue
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and medicinal ads
An 19th century page advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming it calms teething, soothes gums, and cures diarrhoea with a 35 cent price. It also lists Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar with warnings against consumption and a Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one minute. A Christmas tale mention invites purchase of a souvenir edition by Benj F Buchanan of Rising Sun.
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Mifilions Etkens
Peter
Hale
Blue Jeans
Benj. F. Buchanan
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Diffendorfer & Yontz
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Jesse Moore
Michigan City
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Successful Farmers’ Institute
Farmers’ Institute
J. C. Curryer
Mankato
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Father Schnell
Arthur Gobble
Lebanon
Charleston
Gobble
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Dee
Alvin Delong
Main Street
Legion
Greencastle
Alexander H. Pickel
Carpentersville
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Portland
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Studebaker Bros
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Indiana Notes
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Durbin
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Rk Man
Wavere
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Amsterdam
Major van Tets
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Thomas Teignmouth Shore
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London Times
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Hungary
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