Indianapolis to Install New Fire Alarm System by Gamewell
Indianapolis plans a complete fire alarm upgrade costing 42 200 after a sole bid by Gamewell Company. The contract, signed after a long mayoral meeting, requires five year guarantee and completion within 165 days from March 4, with a probable 40 000 bond to secure performance.
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Indianapolis
Gamewell Company
Board of Safety
Taggart
Barrett
Holderman
Webb Chandlee
Con
Game‘well Company
Hyde
Gaid
Resolution Against Inclosing St Clair Park In City Ordinances
A City Council debate centers on a resolution urging Governor Durbin to veto a bill that would close St Clair Park and fence it in. The measure argues protecting a breathing space for residents and electric street railway riders, prompting concern over access to public parklands.
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St. Clair Park
Albert Daller
Durbin
Marion County
Indianapolis
Indiana Senate
Senate
Goodwine
City Council Deliberates on Amendments and Public Works
The council debated an amendment to the Goodwine bill and adopted a state of opposition to a proposed resolution. Knight and Perrott opposed the measure. Perrott argued against exclusion of residents from St Clair Park, while Durbin was urged to act. The body also moved to void a contract with Home Heating and Lighting Co for non-start within ninety days. A table vote followed.
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Perrott
Goodwine
Durbin
Knight
North Meridian Street
St. Clair Park
Negley
Board of Works
Home Heating and Lighting Company
Mile Square
Bergnauer
Daller
City Board of Health
Billingsley
George Merritt
Thomas D. Gregg
Maas-Niemeyer Lumber Company
Twenty-first Street
Committee On
Taggart
Council
Holmes Avenue
Miley Avenue
Richland Street
West Indianapolis
Road projects planned by board of works petitions filed
Petitions filed for traffic improvements include a four stone crossing at Miley avenue and Market street and the opening of Sixteenth street from the first alley east of Milburn street to the west line of Burkhardt's addition.
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Board of Works
Dexter Street
Ed Schurmann
Bemis Bug Company
Barth Avenue
Miley Avenue
Market Street
Sixteenth Street
First Alley
Milburn Street
Burkhardt
Marine Band to Visit Indianapolis for March Concert
A Washington dispatch reports the United States Marine Band will play in Indianapolis as part of a shortened tour. The band, now 72 accomplished musicians under German conductor Herr Santelman, received congressional funding to hire top talent. The concert is set for Tomlinson Hall on Wednesday night, March 27.
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Washington
United States Marine Band
Indianapolis
Congress
Herr Santelman
Marine Band
Tomlinson Hall
Thirkeld Urges Education For Negro Laborers In South
Dr. W. P. Thirkeld, secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, told Union Ministers' meeting that the negro is a valuable peasant laborer and should be educated in higher industrial sciences. He argued removal of six million blacks would provoke greater uproar than Appomattox and tied black welfare to Southern prosperity.
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W. P. Thirkeld
The
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society
Union
Capentry
South
United States
Appomattox
Candidates Chosen for Police Pension Board Vacancies
Police force members at a joint roll call selected Capt. Dawson Peter Huhn William Larsh and William Milan as candidates for the pension board. The election will be held at headquarters Monday next from 2 pm with Sergeant Lowe Custodian Joe Stevens as election judges and Martin McGuff as clerk.
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Dawson
Peter Huhn
William Larsh
William Milan
Police Pension Board
Oe Hagerman
Lowe
Joe Stevens
Martin McGuff
DetroIt Man Charles F Harris Arrested for Shooting Officer
Charles F Harris, colored, of 11 Bright Street, Detroit, is under arrest in Detroit charged with shooting a police officer. He is believed insane, though his family knows nothing about it. He previously worked at the Bates House and left last week after two days at the Grand Hotel.
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Charles F. Harris
Bright Street
Detroit
Mich
Bates House
Grand Hotel
Insurance Companies Advertise Indoors Fire Coverage
Insurance firms promote Inde against risk, tout prudent handling of fires and protection for buildings. A report from the inspector notes fire occurrence, and Indianapolis Fire Insurance Company offers to insure, with John M. Spann as secretary at 148 Hust Market Street.
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Joss Rai
Ben Seciate
Prudent
Area la Ngaoa
Indianapolis Fire Insurance Company
John M. Spann
Home Office
Hust Market Street
Tales of Cruel Treatment at Indiana Industrial School
The Indiana Industrial School for Girls and Woman's Prison hearing resumed with Flora Justus recounting a whipping of Nora Harden. Witnesses defend Kerr Keely as kind, noting punishments were not excessive and many girls were disciplined for fights, swearing, or disobedience.
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Indiana Industrial School For Girls and Woman's Prison
Keely
Flora Justus
Nora Harden
Harden
Margaret Fleming
Miss Keely
Fannie Kieth
Tution
Miss Darwin
Indianapolis
Flora Crawley
Zoa Dare
Chambers
Levi Wood
Instituton
Laura Ream
Thomas Barnett
Lise A
Parks and Boulevards Lecture Explores City Parks Value
Professor Zueblin spoke at the Manual Training School on Parks and Boulevards defining boulevards as park like streets with central grass plots and trees. He argued historic spots should be preserved as parks and described five park types from small squares to vast regional tracts. He compared park systems in Washington Boston New York and Chicago noting Chicago's system improving and urging public support for well located, well managed parks benefiting all classes.
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Zueblin
Manual Training School
Washington
New York
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
New Geyser Breaks Loose at Yellowstone Park
Telegram from Mammoth Hot Springs reports a new geyser event at Lower Geyser Basin. At 5 AM February 19 James King, winter hotel keeper at Fountain Motel, was awakened by a loud blast causing significant shock and rattling in the Fountain Hotel.
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John E. Turner
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Mammoth Hot Springs
Lower Geyser Basin
Yellowstone Park
James King
Fountain Motel
Fountain Hotel
New geyser erupts in park to 15 feet height
Mr King notes the new geyser located about 20 yards south of Fountain Geyser first erupted for an hour and a half. It expelled a hot water jet five feet in diameter to a height of several feet, claimed as the greatest geyser in the park.
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King
Suspect Arrested in Marion Murder Case
Will Woods, a colored man, was captured at 300 Toledo street by Detectives Wallace Holtz and Morgan for the murder of Irving Dye in Marion. A Brazilian girl’s tip led to Woods admission. Clarence Butler, with Woods, was charged with loitering. warrants for serious charges may follow.
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Will Woods
Marion
Ind
Irving Dye
Toledo Street
Wallace, Holtz and Morgan
Brazil
Woods
Dye
Clarence Butler
Board of Trade Votes for New Quarters and Committee
The Board of Trade, urged by tenants petition, decides to seek new quarters and appoint a five member committee to locate a site and appraise the old building. The group also plans a special meeting before the next regular session. The board also opposes a proposed shipping liner tax and backs a Senate bill enabling boards of trade to create a mutual mortuary fund for members.
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Board of Trade
D. M. Parry
Parry
United States
London
Congress
Winter Wheat Millers’ League
Senate
Layman
Boards of Trade
House
English Hotel Company Formed In Purchase of Hotel English
A final meeting declared stockholders and incorporators for the English Hotel Company. Henry W. Lawrence presides with George G. Tanner as vice president and Dr. Franklin W. Hays as secretary treasurer. Eight others join the board. $80,000 paid in. Captain William E. English to settle between Interstate Hotel Company and new owners. Remaining $235,000 to improve service and fittings. English will fund further enhancements. Structural plans not yet drawn.
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English
Ernest H. Tripp
Henry W. Lawrence
Louis G. Deschler
Albert A. Barnes
Albert Lieber
A. A. Barnes
George G. Tanner
Hays
William E. English
Interstate Hotel Company
Hotel
New Come
Captain English
Hotel English
Dr Williams Charges Board Over Clerk Pay and Fees
Dr. W N Williams seeks Senate inquiry into State Board of Medical Registration and Examination alleging illegal clerk salary excess and improper attorney fees. Board disputes claims. deputy auditor notes funds are continuing and not year bound. hearings cite 1897 and 1909 law changes. temporary certificates and special counsel funded from board funds. governor's office and auditor records consulted.
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W. N. Williams
United States Army
State Board of Medical
Senate
Johnson
Montgomery County
Committee On Public Health
Williams
Martin
State Medical Board
Auditor of State
Indiana
Marion County
Ard
Sheriff seeks governor’s requisition for return of bunco gang
Elkhart county sheriff applied to Governor Durbin for a requisition on Illinois for the return of John Talbott Charles McNartney and William Reynolds charged with bunco steering. They allegedly induced a man to bet 1000 on a fare game promising 4 to 1 and he lost all. The men are jailed in Chicago and to be taken to Goshen Indiana for trial.
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Elkhart County
Durbin
Ilinois
John Talbott
Charles McNartney
William Reynolds
Henry E. Allott
Chicago
Goshen
Ind
J E Gibson's Bankruptcy Filing Details Assets and Liabilities
J E Gibson & Co of Logansport filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of 29631 and assets of 27117. Partner John E B Redmond also filed a petition showing 7024.47 liabilities and 3550 assets. Gibson was previously linked to a Mississippi public contracts scandal.
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J. E. Gibson & Co
Logansport
John EB. Redmond
Gibson
Mississippi
Dunlap Hats at Seaton's Hat Store and Supplies
Seaton's Hat Store promotes Dunlap hats with feed oats and equipment from United Typewriter and Supplies Company at Monument Place and East Market. Loni Coleridge quotes ordering fifteen dozen Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Wine, praising it after trying it locally.
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Densmore
Yost
United Ypewriter and Supplies Company
Monument Place
East Market
Loni Coleridge
Series of Lectures for Sunday-School Teachers at United Brethren
Miss Georgia Alexander, supervising principal of district No. 4, Indianapolis public schools, opens a series of talks at First United Brethren Church this evening at 8. The topic is The Art of Study followed by a lesson-prep question box. Subsequent talks cover Imagination in Teaching, Systematic Teaching, and Class Interest with speakers from schools 8, 38, and 4h. Admission is free. all Sunday-school teachers and interested persons are invited.
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Georgia Alexander
Indianapolis Public Schools
First United Brethren Church
Amy B. Algeo
Clara Washburn
United Brethren
Interurban Franchise Request Reaches Clinton County
The Indianapolis and Frankfort Interurban Electric Railway Company seeks a Clinton County franchise. Local representatives are Fred Joss, William P. Herod, and John D. Thompson. Backed by eastern capital, the firm plans a line linking Delphi and nearby towns with Indianapolis. The company will request county rights for the project.
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Indianapolis and
Frankfort
Wulschner's Offers New Piano at Discounted Price
Local store Wulschner's advertises a new piano priced at 23 dollars, now available for 16 dollars. The deal highlights a substantial savings and invites customers to visit the shop for purchase details and availability.
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Wulschner
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