Weather forecast summary for Midwest and nearby states
Forecasts for Wednesday and Thursday vary by state with fair conditions in Indiana and Kentucky on Wednesday, showers and cooler nights across the region, and west to north winds. Lower Michigan and Wisconsin expectations show fall or cooler trend with showers in some areas. Nebraska and Nebraska-like regions note showers Wednesday and warmer Thursday. Blythe notes mean temperature and total precipitation for June 2.
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Washington
Indiana
Porthon
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Thurs- Nebraska
West
East
Bar
Messeum
W. T. Blythe
Movements of steamers June update across ports
June notices list arrivals and departures for multiple steamers. Penny from Halifax and St John’s N F reached via. Carpathia due New York. Nordland from Philadelphia passed to Queenstown and Liverpool. Kaleer Jim II sails to Bremen. Aurania sails to Liverpool. Zealand arrives Antwerp from New York. Kaiser Wilhelm der G arrives Bremen from New York. Minnehaha arrives London from New York.
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Penny
Halifax
St. John's
N. F
Carpathia
New York
Browhead
Nordland
Philadelphia
Queenstown
Liverpool
York
Bremen
Aurania
Isle OF Wight
Antwerp
Tarifa
Weimar
Naples
Genoa
Kaiser Wilhelm der G
London
Zealand
Body of Kincaid Found Hanged After Mob Action
In Cleveland Mississippi a body described as Kincaid, a Black man once linked to a long-ago incident involving John Brock and George Stoakley, was found hanging in a swamp. A mob gathered at Rubeta as a deputy sheriff, Riddle, agreed to return with the prisoner, but failed to do so. An order signed by Riddle directing delivery to a bearer named Jackson was carried out, and the body was found in the swamps today.
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Cleveland
Miss
Kincaid
John Brock
George Stoakley
Rubeta
Ace
Uty Sherif Riddle
McGuire
Riddle Promis
Riddle
Jackson
Train collision near Los Cerrillos kills Fireman Engle
A Santa Fe fast freight east bound collided head on with a work train in a deep cut three miles west of Los Cerrillos. Fireman J Engle of Las Vegas was killed instantly. Fireman Hedding of Las Vegas injured along with two others. Both crews shaken as trains wrecked at high speed on a curve.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Banta Fe
Los Cerrillos
J. Engle
Las Vegas
Hedding
Tugboat Disaster Claims Three Lives Near Peller Chemung
Buffalo reports a tug named Inked or Inkes ran down near seven this morning, drowning three crew members: Capt. Whelan, Andy Shafer, and steward Eddie, with engineer James T. among the missing. Rescue: tug Frank 8 Butler picked up others from the water.
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Buffalo
W. Cheng
Capt. Whelan
Andy Shafer
Steward
Eddie Fireman
James T
Gfreman
Frank
Butler
Pennsylvania libel law denounced in Atlantic City
The International League of Press Clubs met in Atlantic City on June 2 denouncing the Pennsylvania libel law. A resolution by FE. A. McSwigan was adopted unanimously calling upon all persons to work for its repeal.
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Atlantic City
N. J
International League of Press Clubs
Here
Pennsylvania
FE. A. McSwigan
Local fraud case yields multiple guilty pleas
June B. Fore and Luigi Casani appear in a newly uncovered fraud ring case. Several indicted individuals were arrested and all pleaded guilty as the investigation progresses.
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Fore
Luigi Casani
Hila
Dr Armstrong Dead After Long Service In Politics And Medicine
Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Camden Indiana June 2 Franklin Armstrong died at his home this afternoon at 3 oclock. He suffered a paralysis stroke fourteen weeks ago from which he never recovered. He was born in Wayne county and moved to Carroll county as a youth. He taught school at twenty and earned his way through college, graduating from the Ohio Medical School in Cincinnati in 1847. A lifelong Republican he was elected to the State Senate in 1865 the first Republican from Carroll Canton counties. He served three sessions and backed key bills including the ratification of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. He later served six years as manager of the Female Prison and Reformery. He was active in the State Medical Association. He had four children William Armstrong Henrietta Dillon and Miss Bright and Grace Armstrong. Funeral at home Friday with burial in Camden Cemetery.
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Indianapolis Journal
Camden
Ind
Franklin Armstrong
Armatrong
Wayne County
Carroll County
Ohio Medical School
Cincinnati
Indianaipolis Daily Journal
Carroll
Canton
State Senate
O. P. Morton
D. D. Pratt
United States Senate
Baker
United States
William Armstrong
Galveston
Henrietta Dillon
Bright and
Grace Armstrong
Indiana
Camden Cemetery
Elwood
McCloy Company
Macbeth-Evans
Elkhart
Jacob Werntz
Rebecca Shuman
Pennsylvania
Auburn
Werntz
Fiftyninth Indiana
Indianapolis
Delphi
Monroe Township
E. G. Kitzmiller
Deer Creek
Burlington
Monroe
New Albany
William Shaw
Carlisle
Washington
Shaw
Jeffersonville
Portland
Thomas A. Benson
Knox Township
Wabash
Frederick M
Amelia Bechtold
North Manchester
William H. Shaffer
Lawrenceburg
William Bellew
Emma Noel
Aurora
Bellew
S. W. Glass
Bloomington
William
Calvin Neal
Monticello
May Scott
William Scott
St. Louis
Spencer
Tony Livingston
Fannie Freeman
Longtime Whitley County resident Washington Jones dies
Columbia City Ind June 23 Washington Jones aged 89 a longtime Etna township resident died at his farm home He was born December 8 1816 in Centreville Wayne County He left a widow and three sons He was a lifelong Baptist Church member. Local obit notes multiple regional deaths.
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Columbia City
Ind
Washington Jones
Etna
Whitley County
Mr. Jones
Centreville
Wayne County
Indiana
Edinburg
Harvey Lewis
Newtor
Ala
Evansville
Christopher Roeder
Warrick County
Stanley
New Castle
George Swartz
Henry County
Company C
Thirty-Sixth
Indiana Infantry
Lewisville
Madison
Drusilla Lanier Cravens
John R. Cravens
J. F. D. Lanier
Portland
George FE. Graves
Jay County
Penninle
Winchester
Cass County man hunt pursues ex convict Willard Herrell
Panhandle detectives sheriff’s from two counties and police from three cities joined farmers in a man hunt for Willard Herrell an ex convict who has terrorized Cass and Miami counties for twenty four hours He vowed to not be taken alive and the pursuing group planned to shoot if within range After shooting at travelers at a Lake Erie depot and wrecking mirrors in a saloon he fired on many people on the way home and warned John Shively who testified against him in a prior murder case and fled Shively escaped by leaping a barbed wire fence as bullets flew through a passenger train window
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Indianapolis Journal
Logansport
Ind
Panhandle
Willard Herrell
Cass
Miami
Herrell
Lake Erie
Bunker Hill
John Shively
Shively
Thought He Was an Ox in Death and a City Salary Prank
Edward Stanton aged eighty died in Kokomo after a lifelong delusion he was an ox and ate grass in fields until death. Autopsy planned. In Lafayette, City Council raised Street Commissioner Edward Sheehan’s salary to 1100 by error after clerk copied the wrong amount from the 19th salary list, a joke on his supporters and the finance committee.
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Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
Edward Stanton
Lafayette
Edward Sheehan
Sheehan
Haywood
Street Commissioners
Alder
Finance Committee
Repairs Begin on Historic College Avenue Church in Greencastle
Workmen started extensive repairs on the College avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Greencastle Ind at a cost running into thousands. The church, among Indiana’s oldest, sits beside DePauw University on a commanding campus site. Its large membership and student body make it a leading congregation in the state.
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Indianapolis Journal
Greencastle
Ind
College-avenue Methodist Episcopal
Joyce
de Pauw University
Body Identified in St Joseph River Death
Elkhart Ind June 23 The body recovered from the St Joseph river Monday afternoon is identified as William Gillen alias Elvered of South Bend by his father Edward Gillen who confirmed the finding late Monday night. The deceased had been suffering a fever and wandered from home Tuesday.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
St. Joseph River
Waliam Gillen
Atlas Elvered
South Bend
Edward Gillen
Osce death under coroner's inquiry near Gatty
A man aged thirty four was last seen alive at Osce six miles west on Saturday. Coroner Kells found no wounds on the Gatty. The report notes the deceased’s age and questions surrounding the death.
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Osce
Kells
Fire destroys Bauer barn near Evansville
A large barn and several outbuildings on John Bauer’s farm near Evansville were burned last night. Loss estimated at $2,000, largely insured. Investigators suspect incendiary origin.
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Indianapolis Journal
Evansville
Ind
John Bauer
Mrs Mary Schrock Takes Own Life in Lagrange
In Lagrange Indiana on June 23 Mary Schrock wife of Otis Schrock hanged herself with a sheet from a bed post. The young woman a 1900 high school graduate and daughter of the late John Cox ex county surveyor had been demented for three weeks after returning from a sanitarium.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lagrange
Ind
Mary Schrock
Otis Schrock
Medical
Indianapolis
Unknown Young Man Killed On Big Four Line Near Pittsboro
Danville Indiana June 23 an unidentified man about twenty fell from an east bound freight on the Big Four near Pittsboro. His body was cut in two with severed remains found on opposite sides of the track. Trainmen reportedly did not learn of the accident until reaching Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis Journal
Danville
Ind
Peoria
Pittsboro
Indianapolis
Prominent Lawrenceburg Citizen Struck by Train
At about 9 am a passenger train struck George A. Roberts on the B. and O. S. W. Railway tracks in northwest Lawrenceburg. The eighty five year old man, a longtime prominent figure in the town, sustained injuries that may prove fatal.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lawrenceburg
Ind
George A. Roberts
Roberts
Wabash Passenger Train Derailed in Peru. No Serious Harm
A Wabash train derailed near Grant street in Peru, Indiana, with minor injuries. Engineer Walter Nall and fireman W Merdith escaped with bruises as cars left the track but passengers remained unharmed. A new train was assembled to carry people mail and express onward.
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Indianapolis Journal
Peru
Ind
St. Louis
Toledo
Walter Nall
Grant Street
Nall
W. H. Meredith
Local sportsman injured by stray cartridge near Pine Lake
Nick Klassen, a noted athlete from Laporte, was seriously wounded at Pine Lake grove when a loaded cartridge near a gasoline stove heated and fired, the bullet lodging in his side. The attending physician reports he will recover.
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Indianapolis Journal
Laporte
Ind
Nick Klassen
Pine Lake Grove
Klassen
train strikes two men in Indiana. one killed
In Mitchell, George Eisler, 68, was instantly killed when struck by an express train at Tunnelton while walking along the track. He was hard of hearing and did not heed the engineer’s repeated whistle signals. A La Crosse switch engine accident left James Bragg dead. coroner investigates two deaths amid brake failure on a Pere Marquette box car.
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Indianapolis Journal
Mitchell
Ind
George Eisler
Tunnelton
Here
W. Fast Express
Laporte
James Bragg
Henry Spier
la Crosse
Gretersay
Boswell
Diaz Nomination Eases Mexican Political Tensions
Mexico City June 3 The nomination of President Diaz for the next term before the national Liberal party is received with widespread satisfaction. Business leaders foresee a lull in political agitation until next year’s election and believe the Diaz nomination ends factions and cabals and removes succession from conjecture.
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Mexico City
Diax
National Liberal Party
Diaz
Carroll County Gravel Road Elections Conviction for Criminal Assault
General Indiana news briefs from Elwood to Edinburg report factory closings and subsequent optimism for resuming six week vacations, local marriages and anniversaries, a gravel road election in Monroe township, a fatal assault case in Lawrenceburg, and other county occurrences including a shipwreck and a bank cashier's illness.
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Carroll County
Suits To Be Dismissed In Terre Haute Traction Clash
Special to 8 Indianapolis Journal Crawfordsville Ind June 23 The injunction suits over street rights between Indianapolis Northwestern Traction and Consolidated Traction were heard six hours by Judge Stimson. Hearing postponed to July 6 with lines enjoined. City Council ordered sale of the city against the Northwestern Traction dismissed and cross-complaint to be dropped. Mount denied being counsel for Consolidated and called Thomas a liar. Mayor urged order as Mount’s behavior drew rebuke. Over half the city voters petitioned dismissal.
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Indianapolis Journal
Crawfordsville
Ind
Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Company
Consolidated Traction Company
Stimson
Terre Haute
Northwestern
Consolidated
Thomas
Mount
Traction Merger Plans Unveiled In Anderson
Anderson Ind June 2 An announcement says Union Traction Company will lease property of Union Traction Company at a stockholders meeting in Anderson next week. The merger will unite all traction firms with a nine year lease new shops and barns to be built. The holding company will issue 5 million dollars in bonds and 5 million dollars in capital stock immediately and extend lines to Elwood and New Castle.
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Indianapolis Journal
Anderson
Ind
Union Traction Company
Indiana Union Traction Company
Elwood
New Castle
Bridge over Big Four Railroad completed at Fairland
Shelbyville Indiana June 23 The viaduct over the Big Four Railroad at Fairland built for the Indianapolis Shelbyville and Southeastern Traction Company is finished and ready for service this week The structure began last fall is iron about 120 feet long with a grade of four feet to 100 and cost around 35000 dollars
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
Big Four Railroad
Fairland
Indianapolis, Shelbyville & Southeastern Traction Company
Receivership Begun for United States Locomotive Corp in Chicago
In Chicago creditors began bankruptcy proceedings against United States Locomotive Corp, with Judge Kohlisaat naming Edwin C. Potter as receiver for the Illinois firm and its Hammond Indiana plant. Potter also named receiver for Torbert & Peckham, former owners, while Peckham denies any stake and says he is solvent.
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Chicago
United States Locomotive Corporation
Illinois
Hammond
Ind
United States District Court
Kohlisaat
Edwin C. Potter
Potter
Torbert & Peckham
John M. Duffy
Frederick A. Peckham
Peckham
Torbert
Pennsylvania
Wabash Railway
Flour Machine Claim Revolutionizes Roller System
An inventor introduces a flour machine eleven feet long and six feet high with seventy feet wide, claiming it will replace the ordinary roller system. It would process fifty barrels daily at about one third the cost, and the venture will employ many workers.
Nearing a Settlement in Lafayette Carpenters Strike
In Lafayette Indiana after six weeks of idle work the carpenters strike shows signs of settlement. Both sides have conceded points and a better feeling prevails. The strike committee reports progress and has arranged with several contractors whose workers have returned to work, reducing wage losses into thousands of dollars.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Ind
Small New Albany Strikes Create Labor Tensions
In New Albany Indiana on June 3 a group of linemen at Cumberland Long Distance Telephone Company walked out demanding recognition of the electrical workers' union and refusing to hire nonunion men. The company maintained a nondiscriminatory hiring policy and kept workers from crossing the picket line. Also section hands on the Southern Railway, earning about one dollar per day, struck for higher pay and quit when their demands were refused.
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Indianapolis Journal
New Albany
Ind
Cumberland Long Distance Telephone Company
Electrical Workers’ Union
Southern Railway
Hellman Machine Company wins injunction in machinists dispute
Evansville Indiana June 2 The Hellman Machine Company obtained a temporary injunction against members of the machinists union for alleged interference with workers and threats to the business. The case will be heard on Friday.
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Indianapolis Journal
Evansville
Ind
Hellman Machine Company
Jewel theft at Hotel Melrose leads to arrests in Chicago
Chicago police arrest Charles Relnlein and John Erghart charged with stealing jewels worth $15,000 from a Hotel Melrose safe in Los Angeles in 1902. Relnlein, a former hotel clerk, and Erghart, a bell boy, allegedly broke the box and hid the loot. Both men confessed and are in custody.
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Chicago
Charles Relnlein
John Erghart
Melrose
Los Angeles
Cal
Reinlein
Erghart
J. E. Webster
Brooklyn
N. Y
Victoria Hotel
Grand Pacific Hotel
Rebellion in Kwang-Si Reports Grow More Grave
Shanghai dispatch quotes North China Daily News on a telegram from Kwang-Si saying the rebellion is increasing and dangerous. The imperial army is too weak to defend key cities. Chung-Chou in Taiping-Fu prefecture is besieged and relief is required at once. Wu the prefect appeals to Governor Wang Chi Hiung. Ho Tai Sai and Major General Pan are ordered to raise forces. Chung-Choun lies twenty miles east of the Kwang-Tung border near Taiping-Fu.
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Shanghai
Victoria
B. C
Kwang-Si
North China Daily News
Chung-Chou
Taiping-Fu
Kwang-8i
Wang Chi Hiung
Ho Tai Sai
Pan
Chung-Choun
Kwang-Tung
Annamese
Prizes Awarded in Indiana Knights Event
National Knights of St. John convention in Columbus Ohio held one business session with officers reports and committee appointments. A prize drill at Neil baseball park awarded Evansville commandery $40 in gold, Lancaster $150, Lawrenceburg $75, and Rochester No. 43 $100, with extra $3 to Lancaster for distance and parade. Delegates attended Olentangy Park Theater. Paul Du Chaillu funeral services held in New York with society delegations. interment at Woodlawn tomorrow. Dr. Nelson Henderson of Lakeside Hospital died in Chicago from septicemia after an operation. Sir Joseph Whitwell Page, MP for Durham City and Northwestern Railway chair, died in London.
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Columbus
The
Knights of St. John
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Auxiliary
United States
Whesden
Rochester
M. J. O'Neil
Pennsylvania
Snigier
Michigan
George A. Miller
L. Edgar Orendorf
Dayton
Neil Baseball Park
Lawrenceburg
Evansville
Ind
Lancaster
Evansville Commandery
Lancaster Commandery
N. Y
Olentangy Park Theater
New York
Paul du Chaillu
Park Presbyterian Church
American Geographical Society
Swedish Benevolent Societies
Brooklyn
du Chaillu
Woodlawn
Chicago
Nelson H. Henderson
Lakeside Hospital
Henderson
London
Joseph Whitwell Page
Durham City
Northwestern Railway Company
No Sign of a Fight Over Trust Control
Special to the Indianapolis Journal from Terre Haute on June 23 notes a new independent distillery being built in Terre Haute and Woolner to build another at Peoria. The trust has not controlled the market for a year and will likely hold under 30 percent of spirits output. Trust leases expire next month and stock lingers at cents on the dollar. The trust may shift to Kentucky bourbons and distribution.
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Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Ind
Woolner
Peoria
Kentucky
Col John L Vance to Visit Evansville for On to Cairo Movement
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Evansville Ind June 23 Col John L Vance president of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association will visit Evansville July 7 Extensive preparations for his reception are under way and association members along the lower river hope to make the visit a milestone in the on to Cairo movement He will confer with association men to set the time for the two days convention to be held here in the fall and will also hold brief meetings at Henderson and Owensboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolls Journal
Evansville
Ind
John L. Vance
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Lower River
Cairo
Vance
Henderson
Owensboro
Wayne County Board of Review Returns Corporate Assessments
Richmond county records show Davis & Taylor Carriage Company 32.40 Richmond Safety Gate Company 8,0 Wayne Works 51550 Westcott Carriage Company 19490 Union Ice Company 910 Richmond Athletic Association 13600 Richmond Overall and Shirt Company 20. This reflects a net gain of 19610 from last year plus 2.92 percent new assessment.
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Wayne County Board of Review
Davis & Taylor Carriage Company
Richmond Safety Gate Company
Wayne Works
Westcott Carriage Company
Union Ice Company
Richmond Athletic Association
Richmond Overall and Shirt Company
Woman Injured in Runaway Recovers in New York
Mrs Henry Siegel injured in a runaway yesterday is reported recovering today. Jewelry worth 3000 valued at time of accident was lost by Mrs Siegel and later found by coachman J R Hegeman who returned it to Mrs Siegel and received a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Siegel
Eeer
Sue Siegel
J. R. Hegeman
Metropelital Life Pees Company
Mra
Indianapolis bids for Laporte incubator plant move
In Laporte C O Hughes and J W Alvis of an Indianapolis industrial group urged Oliver P Scott to relocate his incubator plant to Indianapolis offering funds and help to build a large plant or finance a $50,000 stock company. Lafayette is also pursuing the project.
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Indianapolis Journal
Laporte
Ind
Indianapolis
C. O. Hughes
J. W. Alvis
Oliver P. Scott
Scott
Lafayette
Six Persons Injured In Louisville Street Car Collision
Six persons were injured when a locomotive struck a West Walnut street car on the Pennsylvania tracks at Fourteenth and Walnut streets in Louisville. The engine hit the street car on its side as it crossed the tracks. None of the injured are expected to die.
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Louisville
Fourteenth and
Walnut Streets
West Walnut Street
Pennsylvania
OIL WELL SUPPLY CO TO MOVE OPERATIONS TO PARKER
The Oi) Well Supply Company will relocate its offices and supply store from Anderson to Parker after three years in the Indiana oil fields. Carl Shelly of Anderson will oversee Parker operations as the firm shifts its center of activity. Hartford City reports Charles Rife organizing a factory and manufacturing venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Anderson, Ind
Indiana
Parker
Madison County
Carl Shelly
Anderson
Harvard Graduate Lawyer Shoots Self on Long Island
Herman F. Robinson, a young Harvard graduate and New York lawyer, committed death by own action by shooting near Fort Pond Bay station on Long Island. He left a note indicating where his body would be found. it was discovered today. The Robinson family knows of no reason for his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herman F. Robinson
Beverly Robinson
Fort Pond Bay Station
L. 1
Young Robinson
Harvard
Harvard Law Classifies Law in Four Branches
The Harvard law school Brief mocks four law branches as Common Law Equity Standard Oil law and Lynch law. It critiques their notes and roles, noting humor in the mischief, with a future course by Mortgagee Brown and the west room prepared with water glass.
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Equity
Standard Oil
Lynch Law
Harvard
New York Telegram
Harvard Law School
Harvard Lawr School
Ames
Fed
Brown
Washington Letter on Exposition Series Postage Stamps
The Post Office Department mulls an Exposition Series stamps for the St Louis Purchase Exposition. Denominations may be 1 2 and 6 cents with no exposition name on the face. Designs reportedly feature Napoleonic imagery linked to the Southwest Territory negotiations.
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Washington
Post Office
France
Napoleon
Chicago
Isabella
Robert R
Heart Cure Receives Endorsement From Health Seeker
A six foot tall, 300 pound man recalls how Dr Miles Heart Cure revived his health after doctors deemed his heart condition incurable. He reports lasting improvement over eight years and urges others to try the restorative nervous system tonic, noting the free book offer and withdrawal from regular practice.
Roosevelt Exclusion on Exposition Stamps Sparks Debate
The Post Office Department bars one living American from appearing on exposition stamps. Roosevelt is thus not depicted on stamps issued for the exposition, which will be released when the fair opens and withdrawn at closing to boost collector value.
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Chase
Napoleon Bonne
Post Office
Roosevelt
Diplomat’s Funny Blunder in Washington Drawing Room
A Kansas City society woman recalls a Russian diplomat visiting a U.S. senator in Washington. He misused English wording at parting, saying cockroached instead of encroached, then corrected himself with humor about gender forms. The hostess and guests keep retelling the anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Journal
Kansas City
United States
Washington
Hha
Theu
Ghost of Van Antwerp's Wood Haunts Westchester Club
New York letter reports Rob ert Fuller and neighbors Charles and Mrs Willis sighting a ghostly woman on the porch near the Van Antwerp estate. Fuller’s nerves shattered, he fled indoors fainting. Mrs Fuller screamed as daylight neared. The Willises lit lamps and stayed up, terrified by a distinct ghastly outline. A former resident, Mrs Quinlan, went insane years ago after a similar sighting and is now in a sanitarium. Local lore ties the ghost to a long-ago servant who fell near a sunken well and curses the well, with the servant said murdered and her body hidden in a pond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Philadelphia
van Antwerp’s
Westchester Country Club
Robert Fuller
Eastern Boulevard
Charles Willis
Fullers
Pepuae
Fuller
Willis
Johanna Quinlan
Willises
Westchester
van Antwerp
Judge in St Louis rules wife may take funds from sleeping husband
A Chicago Tribune report notes a St Louis judge’s puzzling ruling allowing a wife to abstract money from her husband while he sleeps and questions the wisdom of men on the bench. The piece mocks judicial bias and foresees a possible ruling linking marriage to grounds for divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
St. Louis
Vorce
Captain Ewen Arrives in Louisville Seeks Testimony
Captain B. J. Ewen reached Louisville from Lexington amid fears of assassination. He plans to stay while seeking employment and to testify in the Jett and White trials at Cynthiana, and he has tentatively accepted a home offered by Mrs. Mary Shreve Ranson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
B. J. Ewen
Lexington
Jett and
White
Cynthiana
Mary Shreve Ranson
Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition Filed by Thomas B. Anders
Thomas B. Anders of Shelbyville filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in federal court yesterday. The reonfectioner lists Danvillean creditors and a total debt under a million dollars, with personal property valued at about one million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas B. Anders
Shelbyville
Anders
Hils
Democratic ticket slate for councilmen at large announced
William P Dalton and Pettijohn announce candidacy on the Democratic ticket for councilmen at large. Oliver Conger withdraws from the same nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P.dalton
Pettijohn
Oliver Conger
Grover Declares He Will Not Leave Privacy of Library
Grover stated he would never be induced to leave the privacy of his library while he had strength, though he could not say how long that strength would last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Grover
Mr. Bryan's Isolation in Grand Rapids Herald
Chinese financiers push abandonment of the gold standard. If they succeed, Mr. Bryan would be splendid in his isolation according to the Grand Rapids Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bryan
Grand Rapids Herald
Fragmentary note on a Constitution and learning
A fragmented OCR fragment mentions a Constitution and a desire to learn the true time wardness of the Lebradean borean. The text is incomplete and difficult to interpret.
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Milwaukee
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Lawrence C. Hull
Shortridge High School
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Big Four Road
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General Indiana News
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Wiley
Charles Murdock
Charles Taylor
Ses
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Farmers’ National Bank of
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Wayne County Assess
Hartford City
Charles Rife
H. F. Robinson
Long Island
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