Atkins Switch Contract To Be Revised For Board Action
Anderson Commercial Club pushes Atkins Co to move to Anderson with Jackson Park land offered for 21 acres to connect with Big Four, Pennsylvania, Midland and electric lines. The revised switch contract may be signed by the board mayor and company officers, with late night car switching restriction. Robert Martindale owns the Jackson Park property and declined to discuss its status. The switch contract goes to the council Monday night for action.
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Atkins
Lome
Board of Public Works
Bookwalter
Atkins Company
Booth Street
Commercial Club of
Anderson
Jackson Park
Big Four
Pennsylvania, Midland and Electric Lines
Atom Company
Robert Martindale
City weighs inspection ordinance for weights and measures
Mayor Bockwalter signed a new weights and measures ordinance ordering an inspector and assistants. Public has three months after four weeks of publication to comply before penalties. City Attorney to advise on appropriation. funds may not be available until January. over applicants seek the inspector post at 1.5 dollars yearly.
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Bockwalter
Iso
Jose
Mayor threatens action if interurban firms fail to act today
Mayor Bookwalter said he will notify the interurban companies that the recent conference was not merely talk and that reads must act. The Board of Public Works awaits the firms to specify desired terminal streets and other arrangements before ruling on removing car tax provisions from the franchise. The administration will push for a quick settlement. A conference between interurban lines led by President McGowan and local shippers is likely early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bookwalter
Board of Public Works
Terminal Station
Interiurban
McGowan
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Abstract of Title for North South Street Property
The Board of Public Works received an abstract of title to North South street property, recently fenced by the Indianapolis Gas Company. It claims title by purchase from the Pennsylvania road years ago. The land, valued around $40,000, was thought reserved for either a passenger depot or alternate use if not used for a station. The abstract goes to the city attorney for investigation of the gas company’s right to the land.
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Board of Public Works
North South Street
Indianapolis Gas Company
Pennsylvania Road
Madison Road
Aes
Pene Place
Cain
Sinking fund contract awarded to Central Company
The sinking fund control is awarded to Central Company as depository. It offered 3 percent daily balance interest with a contract expiring June 193? The commissioners will deposit the entire fund of 13,818 and additions during the year, with terms likely increasing the fund over the year.
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Breunig
A. Q. Jones
C. F. Coffin
City seeks opinion on railroad liability for viaduct repairs
The mayor asked City Attorney Joss to advise whether the city can compel railroad companies to repair the viaduct at Alabama Street. The street was closed when the viaduct was built and standing engines beneath it have caused damage. Repairs are urgent, but the mayor favors avoiding city expense if railroads may be responsible.
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Joss
Alabama Street
City News Notes
Mrs Angie Smith asks police to assist her absent husband Clarence Smith who has not returned since Saturday. Ada Schonacker reports a home burglary with $5, two diamonds, two amethyst rings and a watch taken. Court and society notices include Ladies Aid Society gathering and State Board of Education meeting for high school study.
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Angie Smith
West Twenty-ffth
Clarence Smith
W. A. Heath
John Haneman
Ladies’ Aid Society
English Lutheran
State Board of Education
Endent Jones
Allen McBride
Holt Company
Ada Schonacker
East Fifteenth
Tribe of
Monument Place Hold-Up Involving Turk Vendor
Ethousine Roinder a Turk at 407 East Market street says two men robbed him of 850 in a midnight assault near Monument place in front of Horace Wood's stable. A hit to the mouth and a blunt blow to the head were followed by theft from an interior pocket before Bicycle Policemen Hull and Griffin arrived.
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Ethousine Roinder
East Market Street
Hull
Griffin
Appeal to Citizens for Arsenal Grounds Purchase
Mr. Dickey of Winona Society appeals to Indianapolis citizens for about 100000 to buy the arsenal grounds for the Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute. The plan envisions a national, tech focused school with a substantial endowment, managed by prominent directors and endowed to about 2000000. The note lists executives and officers, urges prompt action, and records no decisive move by the Commercial Club committee.
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Arsenal
Winona Agricultural and Technical Institute
8. C. Dickey
Winona
Dickey
Pittsburg
Winona School
E. A. K. Hackett
Fort Wayne
Ind
R. M. Russell
H. J. Heinz
John Balcom
Indianapolis
M. L. Haines
J. Wilbur Chapman
New York City
J. H. Holliday
New York
Sol C. Dickey
City
H. E. Dubois
Kansas City
George W. Brown
Brown
Arsenal Grounds
Commercial Club
A. C. Harris
P. H. Jameson
Scot Butler
W. C. Bobbs
George Hunt
H. A. Brown
Brilliant Ball of Fire Over Denison Hotel Area
Pedestrians along Pennsylvania Street near Market and Ohio around 1 am witnessed a blueish white ball of fire appear in the sky and fall north of the Denison Hotel. The light brightened as it neared the ground and a search along Ohio Street and Massachusetts Avenue found nothing. Amateur astronomers offered meteor as the likely explanation.
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Pennsylvania Street
Market and
Ohio
Denison Hotel
Ohio Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Ostendorf’s Concert Band To Feature Fair Bank Week
Ostendorf's concert band of thirty five musicians and six soloists presents one of the season's best programs at Fair Bank this week. Repeats of the same poems from Monday and last night, with a full change tomorrow. A patriotic concert of marches slated for July afternoon and evening, no Saturday afternoon show, last half week program on Saturday night, plus a July 4 fireworks display.
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Ostendorf
Fair Bank
Father and Son Reunited In Stockton Inquiry
Superintendent Taffe received a letter from Horace A. Davis of Stockton seeking information about his father Richard C. Davis. The man said he was taken from his father at age three. Richard C. Davis was found yesterday at the Big Four freighthouse employed as an inspector. He had no prior trace of his son until now and was delighted.
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Taffe
Horace A. Davis
Stockton
Cal
Richard C. Davis
Big Four
Publisher George Walker Moves Indiana Monthly Name Change
Crawfordsville editor George Walker, publisher of the Union, will relocate his office to this city and rename his magazine to the Indiana Monthly. The move marks a transition in publication title and location.
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George Walker
Crawfordsville
The
Union
Indiana Monthly
Mont Pelee Not Yet Quiet in Martinique
Fort de France July 1 The situation with volcanic disturbances from Mont Pelee grows more reassuring though intermittent eruptions continue. Authorities report ongoing but diminishing activity and no immediate danger to residents.
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Mont Pelee
Fort DE France
Island of
Martinique
Record Price for Cattle Auction Sets New High
Kansas City news notes a herd of two year old black cattle averaging 1.26? agay per 26 per 100 pounds, marked as the highest price on record. The fragment cites a market record price per hundredweight and highlights the notable peak in late July.
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Kansas City
None but the Brave by Hamblen Sears
A serialized wartime tale follows Lieut Merton Balfort of the Continental Army as he plans to abduct Benedict Arnold and Hazeltine to safeguard West Point. Balfort befriends Acton and Captain Atherton amid a risky duel, shifting loyalties, and a royalist cafe gathering with Prince Henry, Major Sproat, and Dr Low in a tension-filled chapter set around New York's harbor defenses.
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Merton Balfort
Continental Army
Deborah Philipse
George Washington
Benedict Arnold
Andre
West Point
Washis
Hageltine
Washington
Balfort
New York
Arnold
Hazeltine
Argyle Bartlett
Boston
Acton
Curtis
Newark
Clinton
Hauzeltine
Baron Reidesel
Mr. Merton
Deborah
Beaver Street
Princess
Queen Street
Cherry Street
Rutgers
Corlear’s Hook
Long Island
Manhattan
Dr. Low
Prince Henry
Sproat
Purdy
Atherton
Low
General Washington
Gentemen
Oper
Henry
Frank
Prince
Guelph
Fercely
Fraunce's
Rutgers Street
Walton
Europe
Merton
Confederates and the Boers Compared by Southern Paper
The Atlanta Constitution notes the Boers mirrored the South in civil conflict with the North. It argues economic strength, not military weakness, ended the Civil War and that Boers fought for independence, accepted alien sovereignty, and may gain prosperity and protection through peace and reconstruction.
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Atlanta
Eral
Ie Abbott
Paul
Theers
Why the Kaiser Is Uncrowned
Boston Journal notes that imperial nephew in Berlin attracts interest for a coronation while the German Emperor remains uncrowned. A common explanation cites Austria holding the original German Emir crown in Vienna and not permitting its departure.
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Boston Journal
England
Berlin
Austria
Vienna
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Anderson Commercial Club
Weights and Measures
South Street
City News Notes
Fund For Arsenal Land
MR. Dickey
Winona Society
Hamblen Sears
Lfe
Hell
Rob Curtis
Frank A. Munsty
Dodd, Mead & Co
Jacks
Southern Paper
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