Alma Mater And Old Chums In Latest Tale
Indiana author David Graham Phillips, once a De Pauw student and Beveridge classmate, visits Indiana sharing memories and discussing his upcoming novel. He praises Indiana education and notes his West-to-East career as a reporter and writer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Beveridge
The
Denison
Old College
de Pauw
David Graham Phillips
Mr. Phillips
Senator Beveridge
Saturday Evening Post
Indiana
de Pauw University
Old Asbury
Scarborough
City Council to Fast-Track New Wing Funding
Mayor Holtaman announced a special city council meeting, likely Saturday or Monday, to rush through a ordinance funding the use of the new wing of City Hital. The measure is with the finance committee and due by Saturday. A Dunlap silk hat appears as a Christmas present from Seaton's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holtaman
Hital
Finance Committee
Girl Tells Judge of Crust Diet and Hardship
Sixteen year old Lulu Merrick testified in Police Court that she walks three miles to work and back daily with no breakfast, living on stale bread and molasses bought for 25 cents a barrel. She is one of William Merrick’s eight children in a Merrill Street cellar home. The judge will announce a decision Saturday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Phillips
New York
Miss Scudder
Terre Haute
Luxembourg
George Gray Barnard
Madison
Phillips
Lulu Merrick
William Merrick
Merrick
Merrill Street
Evangelical Alliance Announces Week of Prayer Program
The Evangelical Alliance led by Lean der T. Chamberlain of New York issues the prayer week schedule from January 3 to January 10 1904 with sermons on themes such as the Kingdom of God prayer intercession the Church missions the family schools and the enthronement of Christ plus a Luke 11 quotation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Evangelical Alliance
Leander T. Chamberlain
New York
Kingdom of God
Church of Christ
God
Christ
Mays Escapee Recaptured After Jail Break
Louis Mays, trusted with jail keys, escaped from the county jail last Wednesday and was later captured in Hamilton, Ohio. A $25 reward had been posted. he was identified by the chief of police while mailing a letter, and an attempted getaway ended when he fell and was apprehended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Mays
Hamilton
The
En Ice
Buyer of Consumers' Lease Under a Ban
The secretary of state will proceed against Commonwealth-Jewell Oil Company of Chicago for failure to comply with the foreign corporation law. The firm, after acquiring 2,000 acres of oil leases from Consumers' Gas Trust Company, paid $125,000 in October but did not file duplicate articles or pay the required fee. The action centers on nonregistration and nonpayment under Indiana law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth-Jewell Oil Company
Chicago
Consumers’ Gas Trust Company
Secretary of State
Mayor and His Helpers Pose Before Camera
City Hall offices pictured by itinerant photographer who enters briskly, promises free portraits, seats clerks at their desks, and uses a green light device. About a week later he returns asking 25 cents each for a photograph of the official portraits.
Hobson Visits City Amid Bob White Maidens Interest
Captain Hobson arrived yesterday to visit Mrs. Carey on North Meridian Street and departs tonight for the East after a dinner with Mrs. Coleman. He recently lectured in Kokomo and Peru on his tour, remaining unfazed by flirtations from chorus girls. He also wrote to Galveston’s mayor about George F. Philips and included a check to start a relief fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Pearson Hobson
John N. Carey
North Meridian Street
East
R. M. Coleman
Captain Hobson
Kokomo
Indianapolis
Bob White
Comny
Santiago
Hobson
Peru
Galveston
Tex
George F. Philips
Merrimac
Philips
State Board of Education to Seek Bids for Textbooks
At a recent meeting the Indiana State Board of Education voted to advertise for bids on geographies arithmetics readers and copy books for public schools. Current publisher contracts expire next year and an Attorney General opinion found the 1920s revision arrangement illegal. Bids open January 14 with an award to follow. The Indiana School Book Company led by Edward Hawkins already supplies the readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
Indiana School Book Company
Indianapolis
Edward Hawkins
Hadley
Board of Education
Greenfield
Cambridge City
Mount Vernon
Muncie
Andrews
Lima
Hobson Plans Relief for Merrimac Hero
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Peru Indiana December 10 Captain R P Hobson while here on a lecturing tour sent 350 to the mayor of Galveston Texas calling his attention to the disability of George F Philips of Galveston who was the machinist of the Merrimac and asking that a land be raised for the man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Peru
Ind
R. P. Hobson
Galveston
Tex
George F. Philips
Merrimac
Methodists Made Corporation Members Trustees for Deaconess Hospital Increased to Eighteen
Organizers of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital and Deaconess Home filed amended articles with the secretary of state. Every member in good standing of the Methodist Church will be a member of the hospital. Eighteen trustees are named with three elected by each Indiana conference, two by each Woman's Home Missionary Society, and three by those selected at a meeting. Also notes Two Scioto Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, and the Abendroth Paste Company of Indianapolis filing articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips
Indiana
Indianapolis
de Pauw
Princeton University
Europe
New York
Mr. Phillips
East
Booth Tarkington
Mr. Tarkington
Ndiana
Rena
New York World
London
Dana
New York Sun
Richard Harding Davis
Davis
Methodist Episcopal Hospital
Deaconess Home
Methodist Church
Snare
Woman's Home Missionary Society
Scioto
St Josephs Training School Girls Entertain Dec 14 Program
The St Josephs Training School girls present an entertainment Dec 14 featuring Entr Acte Let Our Voices Be Glad chorus drama The Witch of Rosenburg and musical offerings including The Bells of St Marys. Cast includes Countess Anna Von Rosenburg King Bertha and teachers and students in various acts with instrumental duets and a final tableau. Also mentions Herrons Watches jewelry and a Big Four Route holiday excursion with a special train from Indianapolis Union Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph's Training School
Eee
Witch of
Rosenburg
Newman Frau Plumper
Frau Semmel
Fray Zucker
Theip
Bells of
St Mary's
Rodney
Anna von Rosenburg
King Bertha
Cochran Lotte
Riley Gretchen
Sullivanne Witloughee
Cavanaugh
T. Thompson
A. Hegarty
G. Garrity
Serene Jogs Dadnee
M. Wiliams
M. King
Indian Club
M. ‘Segward
M. Connor
Central Passenger Association
Big Four
East Washington Street
Union Station
H. M. Bronson
Detective Visit Prostrates Wife in Divorce Case
Judge Allen granted Ida Tansel a divorce from Alfred Tansel after she testified to repeated abuse and a revolver threat. She also said detectives visited their New Augusta home regarding a flour theft from a Big Four freight train, causing nervous strain. alimony of $100 was awarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tansel
Right of Way Ask Set For Riverside Park Vote
The Park Board will review a rail line right of way across Riverside Park at 10 o clock this morning. C N Helwig vice president of the Indianapolis Logansport & Chicago company will meet the board to present a counter proposition. The park commissioners asked 25000 dollars for the right of way and the railroad firm contends the sum is too high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis, Logansport & Chicago
Riverside Park
Park Board
C. N. Helwig
Park
Park Commissioners
Riverside
Weather Bureau to broadcast morning forecasts statewide
The Weather Bureau plans to telegraph forecasts to Lagrange and forward them by wire to Shipshewana for distribution to rural telephone patrons in that area and nearby Millersburg Middlebury. Rural customers will receive the 10 o'clock forecast each morning by telephone in the same manner as other regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Lagrange
Shipshewana
Millersburg
Middlebury
Mitchell Declares Colorado Miners Will Fight to End
United Mine Workers president John Mitchell arrived at the union headquarters after three weeks in Colorado. He warned southern miners may not return to work soon while northern miners are back. Mitchell travels to Washington for AFL meeting. Three UMW leaders discussed district conditions and wage-cut rumors, denying reports of a 20% wage decrease next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Colorado
Mr. Mitchell
Washington
American Federation of Labor
Joe Vasey
Whitwell
Tenn
George W. Purcell
W. R. Paisley
Pratt City
Vasey
Coal Creek
Rockwood
Dayton
Mitchell
Tennessee
Omy
Secreta Wilson
Terre Haute
Wilson
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J. Guy Haugh
Sas
Pennsylvania ST
New Post
J.C. Sipe
W. B. Fletcher
North Alabama Street
East Market Street
East Washington
Carl L. Rost
North
Ilinois Street
Claypool Hotel
Wimmer, Optician
Nobel’ Hygienic Institute
North Illinois ST. Y
M.C. A
Dodds
the Sunday Journal
Home
Albert J. Beveridge
Council
Seaton’s
Girl
Father
Mays
Trusty
Indiana Foreign Corporation Act
Charles Mayer & Company
W. Washington St
Mayor
Methodists
Deaconess Hospital
K. Barbour
Nasotseee
J. Sullivan
M. Games
Glory To God
E. Svorshnelier
M. Williams
Herron’s
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Peoria
Columbus
Cleveland
Buffalo
D. RY
Rushville
Indianapolis Union Station
N. Illinois Street
J. Allen Johnson
Ohio St
Schuller’s Wine House
Coburn Coal CO
Ida Tansel
Bureau
Wulschner
C. Bernloehr & Bros
Waltham and
Elgin
Juliusc Walkston
Merchants’ Association
Tiffany Favrileglass
Meloiis C. Tiffany
Tiffany Furnaces
Long Island NY
Paris
ST. Petersburg
Panamerican
Charles Mayer and Company
J. H. Reed
Reed
Indianapolis Fire Insurance Co
John H. Holliday
the Torrey Exploration Company
Denver
Cubcaco
Monatinock Building
Omana
Board of Trade
Indianapolis Gas Co
Pennsylvania Street
Garland Stores
Willig’'S Furniture Store
West
Washington St
H. T. Conde CO
West Washington Street
GORA
WM. H. Block CO
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