Commercial Travelers Association Convention Divides Indiana Members
Terre Haute hosts the Commercial Travelers Association of Indiana as 100 delegates gather for the twenty eighth annual session. The body reports 1 30 members and a $40 000 surplus. debates over death assessments delay action and a fifteen member committee is appointed to report in July. Frank Floyd is elected president. multiple Indianapolis leaders win director and vice president posts across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Commercial Travelers’ Association of Indiana
Charles A. Ross
Indianapolis
M. F. Madox
E. R. Robbins
Sore Ave
Frank Floyd
John Gardiner
J. T. Gardiner
James H. Newnam
E. M. Johnson
M. P. Lynch
Crawfordsville
John Krant
Frankfort
J. G. Thomas
Muncie
M. Lewis
Ma Tion
H. W. Hargan
Madison
Illinois Commercial Men's Association Meeting Highlights Mileage Plan
Eight hundred traveling men attended the annual convention at the Masonic Temple in Chicago. The railroad committee report urged securing interchangeable mileage within a year, marking the meeting as its notable incident. All old officers were renominated and reelected.
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Chicago
Ilinois Commercial Men's Association
Masonic Temple
Oil Firm Sells Wagons in Danville Suit Outcome
Standard Oil Company, named defendant by the city of Danville in a 100000 dollar damages suit, begins selling its wagons and city plant, with oil sold from Westville six miles away as the ordinance to remove the plant takes effect. In Lafayette, heirs’ fight over William Case estate continues as four doctors sue for expert services totaling 800.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Danville
Standard Oil Company
Westville
Standard Ol Company
Lafayette
Ind
William Case
American Spiritual Society
Drs. M. M. Larry
E. C. Davidson
George F. Beasley
W. 3. Walker
Moore
Two Indiana men sue trolley line after fall from car
Philip Simon and John Lawrence of near Andrews sue Fort Wayne and Southwestern Traction Company for 1000 each over injuries from December 18 incident when the trolley car allegedly ran at speed. They claim the conductor angrily assaulted them after Simon opened a door, pushing them from the car into a briar-strewn embankment. They were badly bruised and had to walk to Belden.
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Indianapolis Journal
Wabash
Ind
Philip Simon
John Lawrence
Andrews
Fort Wayne & Southwestern Traction Company
Belden
Simon
Grain Elevator Fire Destroys Shelbyville Elevator
A major blaze in Shelbyville Indiana last night destroyed the grain elevator owned by O L Means at about 6 pm. The structure burned to the ground and the 10000 bushels of corn stored there were lost. Means cites losses around twelve thousand dollars amid the historic fire in London, Shelby county.
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
London
Shelby County
O. L. Means
Means
Elevator Fire Destroys Wheat Stored In Hartford
In London EC, O. L. Means and M. R. Senowr saved the elevator but 6000 bushels of wheat were destroyed along with $3,000 insurance. Estimated loss runs about $4,000. Fire likely started from a hot box in a machine fan.
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London
O. L. Means
M. R. Senowr
Connecticut
Hartford
Near to Deaths Door Rev A B Oechtering Fails Health
The Very Rev A B Oechtering longtime Mishawaku parish priest received the last rites at St Joseph Hospital Fort Wayne Ind suffering from stomach cancer He is 66 a West Philadelphia native and has lived in America since age 19 His first charge was Delphi Ind before Mishawaku and Cavella parish duties.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
A. B. Oechtering
Mishawaka
St. Joseph Hospital
J. Oechtering
St. Mary's
Father Oechtering
Prospero us First Year Dividends and New Contracts
The Gas Belt Construction Company, Fort Wayne capitalists, paid a 10 percent dividend within its first year and will hand over the Muncie and Alexandria exchanges to local owners on New Year’s Day. It has contracted for a small exchange at Eaton and a metallic toll-line circuit among major Gas Belt cities, with toll-line profits reported as high as 30 percent. Acme Fence and Foundry in New Albany filed a deed of assignment to the New Albany Trust for creditors after inspectors rejected a Marine Hospital fence portion. liabilities are around 3,500 with assets about the same.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Gas Belt Construction Company
Muncie
Alexandria
Eaton
New Albany
Acme Fence and Foundry Company
New Albany Trust Company
Marine Hospital
Louisville
Spaunhurst
Institute of
Still
Sparnhurst Institute
Span
Stevenson Building
Fifth Floor
Indianapolis
Murderer Surrenders After Coal Miner Killing in Terre Haute
Leonard McGranahan a Burnett Vigo county coal miner shot and killed Milton Foster in Terre Haute Indiana. He surrendered claiming self defense. Nearby miners had recently killed a man in the same neighborhood and months earlier Lee Phillips was sentenced for life for a similar killing in the county.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Leonard McGranahan
Burnett
Vigo County
Milton Foster
McGranahan
Lee Phillips
Despondent Farmer Shoots Self Near Bloomington
Joseph Storms, 23, a Greene County farmer from near Cincinnati, shot himself this afternoon after a quarrel with his sweetheart. He used a loaded revolver and died from a bullet to the heart.
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Indianapolis Journal
Bloomington
Ind
Joseph Storms
Cincinnati
Greene County
Here
Asphyxiated by gas in Chicago visit tragedy
John Mahoney, his wife, and son John of Grovertown Indiana, visiting Mahoney’s daughter in Chicago, died or were injured from a cooking gas accident. Mrs Mahoney and the boy died. Mahoney hospitalized. Cause linked to Mrs Mahoney’s gas stove use. In Lafayette Indiana, 18 year old Harry Taylor seriously injured when shotgun discharged beside a tree north of the city. He was taken to Home Hospital in Lafayette. possible amputation and risk of death. Taylor is the daughter of a widow near Brookston.
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Chicago
John Mahoney
John
Grovertown
Ind
Mahoney
Josephine
Wentworth Avenue
Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Harry Taylor
Brookston
Here
Taylor
Bicycle found stuck on engine pilot in Terre Haute
Vandalia trainmen and Terre Haute police could not determine how a bicycle came to be lodged on the pilot of engine No. 181 when a freight from the east arrived on Christmas morning. The engineer and fireman denied striking a cyclist or picking up a wheel. Police and railroad yard men searched along the track but found no trace of a dead or injured rider, nor has the wheel been claimed.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Vandalia
Refuses to Collect Fees Spurs Justice of the Peace Dispute
M J Ruby, elected justice of the peace at the last election in Clinton Illinois, clashes with the prosecuting attorney over fee assessment. Ruby refuses to collect prosecutor fees, saying he will resign if forced to collect when not needed, while the prosecutor threatens a suit for uncollected fees. In Montpelier Indiana, Christmas night theft hits D A Koons, Lake Erie agent, robbed of overcoat, clothes, and $5. Powell, a paroled convict, suspected but later tracked to Muncie and captured by four officers before boarding a train to Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis Journal
Clinton, Ilad
M. J. Ruby
Ruby
Montpelier
Ind
D. A. Koons
Lake Erie
John R. Powell
Jeffersonville
Powell
Muncie
Indianapolis
Charity Ball for Orphans Home Draws Big Honor
Fort Wayne society held the third annual charity ball at the Wayne Club to aid the Orphans Home. Managed by Mrs. H. M. Foster and a committee, the event featured Japanese-inspired decorations and reported strong social and financial success.
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Indianapolis Journal
Fort Wayne
Ind
Orphans’ Home
Wayne Club
8. M. Foster
County fund drive nets projected receipts match last year
Crowded gathering lasting until 3 o'clock raised an estimated net total near one thousand dollars. Organizers expect receipts to equal or exceed last year’s figure, aiming to fill deficiencies that the County Commissioners will not cover.
Whitewater Lodge of Odd Fellows closes banner Richmond term
Richmond Ind Dec 27 The Whitewater Lodge of Odd Fellows finished its banner Richmond term with 35 new initiates and one card member in six months. The lodge also mourns deaths of prominent members including State Senator C C Binkley past grand master Edward H Eggemeyer deputy county treasurer and John H Likins Panhandle freight office treasurer.
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Whitewater Lodge of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellowship
C. C. Binkley
Edward H. Eggemeyer
John H. Likins
Panhandle
Thompson Milling Company Assigns for Creditors in Wabash
In Wabash Indiana on December 27 the Thompson Milling Company one of the city's oldest industries made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. John B Latchem was named trustee to dispose of the mill property and collect debts. The mill has operated at its present site since 1850 and its liabilities run into thousands owed to local creditors. Latchem aims to liquidate a substantial portion of the debts.
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Indianapolis Journal
Wabash, Ind
Thompson Milling Company
John B. Latchem
Wabash
Latchem
Christmas Shoplifting Ravages Elwood Stores
Elwood Indiana saw extensive theft during the Christmas week with Lederer Hone department store losing fur and goods worth zero dollars in the report Nusbaum Mashmeyer and Seshel jewelry shop among others affected stealing estimated at not less than one thousand dollars. Local belief points to home talent as the main perpetrators.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elwood
Ind
Lederer-Hone
Nusbaum & Mashmeyer
Seshel
Carter Sues Chicago Man Over 5000 Dollar Investment Scam
Dr V S Carter of Irvington Ind arrived in Danville to pursue criminal action against C W C Jackson of Chicago allegations claim Jackson took $5000 from Mrs Carter three years ago for investment but conversion to his own use is alleged State's Attorney Keeslar has yet to decide on issuing arrest papers for Jackson
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Indianapolis Journal
Danville
Ill
Carter
Irvington
Ind
C. W. C. Jackson
Chicago
Jackson
Keeslar
Jackman
Wabash Farmers Lease Oil Rights Amid Standard Oil Proposals
In Waltz township, farmers are leasing land to men claiming to represent Standard Oil. The proposal offers oil rights at one dollar per acre for six months with a renewal option after six months if the lease sum is paid in advance.
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Indianapolis Journal
Wabash, Ind
Waltz Township
Standard Oil Company
Gas line break found and repaired near Portland
A break in a main natural gas line four miles from Portland was located after a two day search and has been repaired. The incident disrupted supply to the city but service has now been restored.
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Indianapolis Journal
Portland
Ind
Greencastle businessman Goulding dies of apoplexy
William O Goulding a longtime Greencastle businessman died this afternoon at his North College avenue home from apoplexy. Born in Massachusetts he moved to Greencastle as a boy and entered the sawmill trade. He was over seventy. Funeral details were not announced.
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Greencastle
Ind
William O. Goulding
North College Avenue
Massachusetts
Shelbyville
Wesley Thomas
Vincennes
Frederick Vollmer
Knox County
W. H. Vollmer
Local Trustees Change in Vermilion County
Trustee Goff resigns in Highland township and J H Bryant is appointed to fill the term. The switch from Democratic to Republican control shifts Vermilion county trustees and secures a Republican county superintendent. Other items note a golden wedding in Centerville, a Shelby County Bar meeting with John W Kern, a hand amputation from a corn shredder near Salem, New Haven oil prospects, two burglaries in Connersville, and a Kokomo fire destroying a farm home with $2,500 loss.
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Clinton
Goff
Highland Township
J. H. Bryant
Sapa
Vermilion County
Richmond
Allen F. Godwin
Centerville
Shelbyville
Shelby County Bar Association
Christian Church
John W. Kern
Indianapolis
Salem
Chris Zink
Fort Wayne
New Haven
Standard Oil Company
Connersville
Buckley House
Kokomo
George Fisher
Lands of Gold and Marble in Bungonia NSW
World’s Work describes Bungonia seventeen miles from Goulburn in southern New South Wales as an exceptionally fertile arulan country with potential gold districts. It highlights limestone and marble caves near Mardulan, the Belfry entrance chamber, a 180 foot shaft, windlass rope descent, and extensive unexplored subterranean passages awaiting systematic exploration amid a historically dangerous undertakings.
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Goulburn
New South Wales
Bungonia
Yacqua
Spring Pond
Terrara
Italy
Mardulan
Remarkable Bungonia and Terrara Caves Described in Detail
The article details cave passages near Bungonia and Terrara, describing vertical walls, semicircular roofs, and smooth chiselled surfaces. It notes stalagmitic basins filled with water, numerous stalactites, watercourses, rope-required drops of up to sixty feet, and a vast chamber with a blue limestone roof and white marble veins.
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Bungonia Caves
Marulan
Terrara
Railway Disaster Ends in Fatal Wreck Near Wanstead
A snowbound Grand Trunk line wreck killed Ed De Deans and Lottie Lynch and left others injured as a wrecking train from Sarnia and later London surgeons worked amid a snowstorm. Twenty-five bodies were recovered, with two unclaimed, as investigations focus on a missed clearance order to pass Wanstead. Coroner Dr. A. E. Harvey ordered a jury to probe the cause while trains were cleared and the injured moved to Victoria Hospital.
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Sarnia
London
Grand Trunk
Victoria Hospital
South Street
Detroit & Lake Erie Railroad
Trong
Ed de Deans
Prescott
Ont
Lottie Lynch
Port Huron
Mich
Coegrenn
Pacific Express
Wanstead
Wilson Morton Was a Manufacturer in Chicago
Wilson Morton served as president of the Morton Company a Chicago manufacturer He arrived in 1883 as a representative of the Canadian element and led the Canadian exhibit at the world fair in Chicago
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Chicago
Wilson Morton
Morton Company
Canada
Graphic Account by Hessel Quinn Dr Basil Harvey Plight
London Ontario dispatch details Russell Quinn of Chicago describing a collision near Wanstead. He recounts hearing the crash and slipping into darkness as he was about to sleep, noting the rapid onset of the disaster and the immediate aftermath.
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Hessel Quinn
Basil Harvey
London
Ont
Russell Quinn
Chicago
Wanstead
Recount of Train Collision Survivors Describe Harsh Aftermath
Dr Basil Harvey of Chicago recalls being pinned under wreckage with an iron beam across his head and dying cold as water steam burned his hands. William Morris of Sarniarelates freeing passengers, Mamie his daughter escaping via broken window, and fracturing his arm during the crash. A C Clark notes the engine bore the brunt of impact while the second coach avoided telescoping. The accident caused many head and upper body injuries with no amputations.
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Ike
Basil Harvey
Chicago
Mr. Morris
Mamie
Liberty
A. C. Clark
Sarnia
Miscarriage of Orders Causes Wanstead Wreck Disaster
Conflicting reports trace the fatal collision to a chain of misapplied orders. Dispatcher Kerr sent No 5 to pass a freight at Wanstead before the express, but Wyoming station reported the freight remained. Canceled meeting orders and missed interception left Conductor McAuliffe with a clear road to Wyoming, culminating in a wreck that could not be stopped in time.
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Wanstead
Master of Transportation
Price
Watford
A. E. Harvey
Andrew Carson
McAuliffe
The
Express
Port Huron
James Kerr
London
No. 5
Three Die as Illinois Central Train Collides in Caneyville
Fast passenger train No 104 bound for Cincinnati from New Orleans collided with a work train at Caneyville eightfour miles from Louisville. Three men were killed and two injured. Killed were Robert Smith engineer, Elizabethtown Ky Thomas Bell fireman Louisville W O Roberts fireman Central City Ky. Injured were Louis Koffer engineer Louisville and John Bandett passenger Louisville. The baggage and passenger train crews suffered blunt injuries as the trains derailed and one engine was demolished. The crash happened after the passenger train left New Orleans Friday morning and was due in Louisville at 745 this morning.
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Louisville
Illinois Central
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Caneyville
Robert Smith
Elizabethtown
Thomas Bell
W. O. Roberts
Central City
Louis Koffer
John Bandett
Trolley Car Wreck Leaves One Dead in Atlanta
A College Park Blue-line trolley car derailed near West End and crashed into a brick building. One white man, Cannon Forbes of Colkirk, is believed to be dying. Seven other white passengers were injured, with colored passengers also sustaining minor injuries. Other injured include J G Davis, J J Goodrum, E P Cherry, W Bert s, T B Ferris, R Withelt, L E Jones.
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Atlanta
College Park
West End
Cannon Forbes
Colk ‘Ik
J. G. Davis
J. J. Goodrum
Weare
Coroner's jury probes freight wreck near Trinidad
The coroner's jury examined ten witnesses including conductors Bronson and Harriman in a Trinidad Colorado inquiry into a Wednesday freight collision. Lost evidence and a torn sheet bearing a crucial date hindered the yard office’s ability to locate a vital bearing in the case.
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Trinidad
Col
Here
Bronson
Extra
Harriman
Westbound Train Delayed Leaving Pittsburg for Cleveland
A westbound passenger train departed Pittsburg at 11 last night bound for Cleveland but the journey faced delays. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR text, with possible notes on schedule changes or minor disruptions affecting arrival times.
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Cleveland
Pittsburg
Engine and trolley car collide in multiple cities
Train and trolley collisions leave one dead and several injured across Baltimore and Ironton. In South Baltimore a switch engine struck a trolley, crushing a man beneath the car. Five women suffer broken limbs. no passengers hurt. In Ironton a Detroit Southern train hits a Camden Interstate tram, overturning the traction car with no serious injuries. Emma Brady of Dayton, carrying a two month old babe, was tossed but uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Allen
Man
Albert Thornton
Edward Each
Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio
Ironton, O
Detroit Southern
Camden Interstate Railway
Emma Brady
Dayton
Freight train collision near Dodson claims one life
A dead end collision between two Missouri Pacific freight trains a mile south of Dodson killed brakeman T. P. Norton of Sedalia Missouri. Injured were engineer William Bedell badly scalded, brakeman Spaulding with a head cut and arm gash, engineer J. W. Hill badly bruised, and both firemen slightly hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paola
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Dodson
T. P. Norton
Sedalia
William Bedell
Spaulding
J. W. Hill
The Lansing Skull debated by geologists in Journal of Geology
The Lansing Kansas skull case questions whether remains are natural or a fraud. Prof Chamberlin argues recent deposition shaped by floods and Missouri River activity, challenging glacial-age origin. Upham and Winchell disputedly favored late glacial soil. Chamberlin urges temperate, careful assessment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Journal of Geology
T. C. Chamberlain
University of Chicago
Lansing
Kan
Calavras
Concannon
Americanist Congress
Smithsonian
Upham
Winchell
Chamberlain
United States Engineers
Missouri River
Concannon Farm
Chamberlin
Dakota
Lansing Deosit
Chicago
East
American
Missouri Valley
The Man of One Idea
The Kansas City Journal highlights Dr. Lorenz famed for infantile disease work and surgical feats. It praises his single guiding idea to reduce ential dislocation in children, likening his approach to Columbus with the egg and noting enduring success from focused effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Journal
Lorenz
Columbus
Peloos
Equalizing Principle of Life Elevates Labor Over Luck
The passage argues that success is earned through hard work, not luck. It contends only a few possess brilliant talents, while most lack innate gifts. belief in labor's efficacy keeps ambitions alive and drives beneficial activity in the world.
Christmas bargains offered by New York Children’s Aid Society
Harper's Weekly notes attractive Christmas offerings by the Children’s Aid Society of New York. For 5 dollars, the society will place a homeless child in a country home. 30 dollars funds training for a homeless street boy. 1000 dollars provides an income to place two homeless children yearly. Gifts of clothes shoes toys and reading matter welcomed. The society runs over thirty enterprises in New York with more than 500 beneficiaries, facing greater burdens due to rising foreign population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Weekly
Children's Aid Society of
New York
Barbers Share Christmas Tips in Philadelphia Shops
In Philadelphia bar ber shops enforce a no gratuities rule most days but on the day before Christmas the rule is suspended and the proprietor turns over all receipts to the barbers. Each barber earns from customers a sizeable tip, with each doing at least ten dollars of work and receiving the customers’ generous fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
New planes at £165 and up at Wales’s
New planes at prices from £165 and higher appear in Wales market roundups with limited details and no further sales data. The item list lacks context, dates, or vendor names.
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Wales
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