Lockerbie Street Fair Opens With Riley Poem and Night Lights
The Lockerbie street fair blooms with electric signups and a crowd. James Whitcomb Riley attends and signs copies of his souvenir poem The Lockerbie street Fair. The event funds the Fresh Air Mission and features vaudeville acts, booths, and lantern decorations along Lockerbie street between East and Liberty streets.
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Lockerbie Street
East Street
East and
Liberty Streets
Fairview Park
Fresh Air Mission
James Whitcomb Riley
Holstein
Mr. Riley
Riley
Bertermann
East
Washington Street
Berterm
Mr ‘Riley
Emi
Lockerbieestreet
Eerbie-Street
Frank Lzer
Brn
Reus
Unes
Theaudeville
Roy Lane
Clair Segar
Russell Isor
Elizabeth Joyce
Hugo McGibeny
Ellia Levy
Clara Mills
Claude Miedhamer
Ruth Beissenders
Josephine Messing
Frank Daniels
Louis Segar
Julius Kiser
Isador Kahn
Ruth Kiser
Clara Solomon
Mildred Solomon
SP Lee
Bunny Jim
Edgard Kiser
Lockerbie
Kiser
Henry Runge
Albert Mannfeld
Theodore M.weiss
A. J. Mannfeld
Zoe Zoe
Settien
Trustin Igoe
Lavinia Oakes
Resignation of Lt Dunlop Filled by Election
City notes report the adjutant general accepting the resignation of Second Lieutenant Charlies H. Dunlop from Battery A and ordering the seat filled by election. Also listed are upcoming meetings: St Josephs Training School Club in the training school hall, Miss Anna Deans talk at 5 pm, Miss Lottie Caldwell solo, Master Raymond Hoffbauer performance, and Indo American Restoration League meeting at 3 pm at the Young Women's Christian Association with invitation for all interested in league work.
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Charlies H. Dunlop
St. Joseph's
Anna Dean
Wormren
Claysonia
Lottie Caldwell
Raymond Hoffbauer
Indo-American Restoration League
Nong
Young Women's Tian Association
League
Arrest of Charles Gates in Shelbyville on grand larceny charge
Shelbyville sheriff jailed Charles Gates, allegedly from Indianapolis, on a grand larceny charge. He is accused of looting several lawyers’ offices in Shelbyville and stealing secret watches and other valuables. City police were notified and are seeking further details on possible offenses.
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Shelby County
Charlies Gates
Indianapolis
Shelbyville
Gates
Treasury agent John Linck dismissed from service
John W. Linck a special agent of the Treasury Department living in Madison Indiana has been dismissed from the service. He has asked Indiana senators for support stating a misapprehension led to the action and that pending question should be reconsidered.
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John W. Linck
Treasury Department
Madison, Ind
Indiana
Escapes from Hospital by Convicted Offender
W H Baker, jailed for assault and battery on his wife and for beating Benjamin Smith during a family quarrel on June 19, escaped from City Hospital where he was sent from jail for illness. Police seek him as a dangerous man who vanished during dinner.
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W. H. Baker
Benjamin Smith
City Hospital
Baker
Unds
Butler Summer School Opens With Record Attendance
Butler College opens its summer school with higher attendance than any prior term. Most enrollees are Indianapolis teachers, seeking courses in history English and botany. The program includes exempted examinations for certain teacher credits and morning recitations from 7 to 1. Notable attendees and the Butler Collegian issue highlight commencement week, faculty changes, and the upcoming baseball captain.
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Butler College
Indianapolis
Kendall
Daisy Amick
Mould Anderson
Waveland
Dora Arnold
Greenfield
Calvin Baggs
Grace Berry
Fred Bidgood
Bertha Borst
Carrie Browder
Anna Byram
James Carpenter
Grace Clifford
Jane Colberg
Melvin Compton
Herbert Creek
Bessie Downey
Jennie Edgeworth
Celia Galvin
Facepolis
Missfield
Jennie Gorman
Ellen Graydon
Ezura_ Harper
Meredith Nicholson
Athenaeum Hall
Coan
A. R. Benton
Collegian
C. F. McElroy
Cleo Hunt
Guy Killie
O. E. Tomes
Gertrude Cronbach
Annie Heaton
Horace Russell
Ruth Allerdice
Pearl Forsythe
Robert Matthews
Pearl McElroy
Wilson
Rietz
Butler
Illinois State University
James L. Anthony
Electric railway equipment promises new motive power
Bion J. Arnold demonstrates an electro pneumaitc system in Lansing Michigan that aims to replace steam on small railroads and speedily adapt to transcontinental lines. The design uses a single phase alternating current motor, compressed air speed control, and energy storage to reduce energy waste and allow switching without powerhouse output.
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Bion J. Arnold
Lansing
Mich
Arnold
Alr
Indiana hotel keepers meet at Claypool banquet
Four-score business men of Indiana gathered in Marion for the annual Indiana Hotel Keepers Association meeting. Officers were elected, next year’s meeting set at French Lick, and a banquet at the Claypool concluded sessions with tributes from Senator Beveridge and other editors.
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Indiana Hotel Keepers’ Association
Bonifaces
Indiana
the Claypool
W. W. Turpin
Marion
Joseph E. Hennings
Anderson
George Fulwell
Indiana Hotel
Terry Cullen
Cincinnati
Denison House
O. H. Barrows
Paducah
Spencer House
H. J. Bohn
Chicago
Hotel World
J. E. Willey
The
Hotel Monthly
F. Melville Lewis
Cleveland
Hotel Life
Claypool
Lawrence
August Stocker
Lafayette
C. A. Bookwalter
Albert J. Beveridge
England
France
Germany
Russia
Siberia
Orient
Voodoo Roots in Santo Domingo Revealed by Ethnologist
Prof. Jesse Walter Fewkes recounts his West Indian journey uncovering the enduring power of voodoo in Santo Domingo Haiti and Haiti’s voodoo lineage. He visited the Columbus tomb and observed a culture where priest and papaloi wield fearsome influence across society from presidents to laborers.
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Washington
Christopher Columbus
Santo Domingo
Haiti
Hayti
The
Republic
Calabar
Whydah
Dahomey
Africa
Pagan rites and sacred objects in distant islands
The article contrasts a feeble Roman Catholic state religion with deep pagan practices in African traditions. It notes human sacrifices and cannibalistic rites beneath the surface, including snake worship and carved wooden idols. The keeper declines to explain the idol, guarding the sacred depictions from a white observer.
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Old Africa
Fate of Heppner Foretold A Rain Cloudburst Legend
The Philadelphia Record recounts Heppner Oregon perched in a mountain basin doomed to flood from a cloudburst. It explains how warm Pacific air meets cold mountain air, rises, cools, and releases heavy rain driven by cloud formation and atmospheric expansion.
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Philadelphia
Heppner
Ore
Blue Mountains
Pacific
Coast
Blue Ranges
Ocean
Schwab Sets Steel Boss Example Amid City Strikes
Assemblyman Butler praises Charles Schwab for overcoming a citywide work stoppage to build a three million dollar Riverside Drive home. Schwab reportedly buys a brickyard, hires scows and trucks, and negotiates with bricklayers to force them to work, showing how he can secure materials and labor despite unions and shortages.
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New York
Butler
Devery
Charlie Schwab
The
Steel Trust
Hudson
Schwab
Bricklayers' Union
Lohmann Rebuilds Galveston Wharf Front as Young Executive
H W Lohmann of St. Louis, thirty three, Western manager for James Stewart & Co, rebuilt Galveston’s entire wharf and warehouse system. From high school to chief draftsman, he rose with the Stewarts, proving a practical apprenticeship can rival formal university study. He now oversees major federal grade construction across the South and West.
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Galveston
H. W. Lohmann
St. Louis
James Stewart & Co
Lohmann
Gulf
James Stewart
Stewarts
Heig Architecture
Europe
Perils of butting In and public rebuffs in Chicago
Chicago Tribune exposes the social danger of interference as a policeman a husband and a ward society man clash with a prisoner and each other. The piece ridicules the meddler as a persona non grata and describes swift rebukes from various figures.
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Chicago Tribune
Nineteenth Ward Society
Ogden
Persistence of a meddler under a strange providence
The piece describes a relentless busybody who doles out unsolicited advice and rebukes from morning until night. His constant interruptions leave him with a black eye, a sore nose from repeated hammering, and torn, dirty trousers from being thrown downstairs daily. Yet he persists, claiming eternal tenure by divine decree at age 50.
Cleveland Family Portrait Highlights Child Rearing and Quiet Princeton Ties
The Philadelphia Ledger profiles Mrs. Grover Cleveland as an active village leader and document her four children Ruth Esther Marion and Richard Folsom. It notes their schooling at a cottage school connected to a professor’s sister and their Devon-era rural activities with a pony cart and stable life. The article recalls Cleveland origin in Caldwell New Jersey and confirms plans to stay in Princeton for university events before moving to Gray Gables at Buzzard's Bay for the summer.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Cleveland
White House
Westland
Ruth
Esther
Marion
Richard Folsom
Sara Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Armour
van Dyke
Richard
Mr. Cleveland
Princeton
Caldwell
Louisiana Purchase gold dollars and silver misperceptions explained
A Fair Bulletin report cites numismatic authority debunking claims that Louisiana Purchase dollars are silver priced at 3 in currency. It notes the centennial dollars are gold, minted since 1849, with limited issue of 250,000, half Jefferson and half McKinley.
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Congress
Act of Con
Thomas Jefferson
William McKinley
McKinley
Jefferson
United States
John Reich
Philadelphia
Mint
Charles E. Barber
Portrait of Roosevelt Headed by Chartrain Artist
Paris notes in Chicago Post compare Chartrain’s portrait of President Roosevelt with famed painters Carolus Duran and Bouguereau. Observers, including Mme Loubet, question likeness while praising Roosevelt as a man of action over eloquence. Edward VII’s eyes resemble a bird’s fixed stare, contrasted with Victoria’s gaze.
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Paris
Chicago
M. Loubet
Chartrain
Roosevelt
Carolus Duran
Mme. Loubet
Edward
M. Bouguereau
Mirabeau
Queen Victoria
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French Lick
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Heppsner
Schwab Way
MR. Lohmann
Galves
Ton’s Water Front
New York Letter
MR. Cleveland's
President Roosevelt
aBelle
Save the Bands
Frank F H. Carter
Massachusetts Avenue
Duffy's Mall
Peruna
Obe
Kodol
Graham
Finner
Marvel
Joseph Taggart
H. T. Hearley Vehicle CO
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Awning CO
Coke Een Eas
Iis
Rfpatre Bank
Mabel Casedy
Rees V. Prosser
Ostendorf
Fair Bank
Aa Centa
Columbus
Fairbanks, Morse & CO
South Meridian Street
Journal
the News of the World
Indianapolis Journal
the Carlsbad OF America
West Baden
Baden, Ind
Ind
Sentinel Printing CO
West Market Street
Lemcke
Indianapolia
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