Empire Theatres Offer Parisian Widows and Notable Acts
Empire patrons will be entertained at the matinee and through the week by Weber's Parisian Widows. Mme Bernhardt and M Coquelin attend L Aigion at Englishs Opera House Tuesday night March 19 with front seats sold at premium. Florence Mars the remarkable whistler returns after a triumph at the Elks entertainment last night. Doc the baby elephant and Big Liz the monster elephant draw crowds at the Zoo. Madeleine Lucette Ryleys My Lady Dainty features Kelcey and Shannon with Shannon praised as at her career peak. A. O. Dun the ventriloquist also performs amid varied vaudeville offerings.
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Empire
Weber
Mme. Bernhardt
M. Coquelin
Opera House
Florence Mars
Whistler
English
Opera
Miss Mars
Madeleine Lucette Ryley
My Lady Dainty
Mr. Kelcey
Miss Shannon
Milas Shannon
Remarkable Gains From Grape-Nuts Food Across Families
A Chicago reader testifies that Grape-Nuts helped a three year old recover from stomach issues and grow strong, while another stomach patient reports no headaches and a 16 pound gain in a year. The Postum Cereal Co. promotes the cereal as easily digested and suitable for the weakest stomachs, with endorsement from multiple local customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Firet-Claas Grocers
Postum Cerea! Co
Lid
Batue Creek
Sunshine of Paradise Alley at Park Theater Promises Whimsical Enjoyment
The Park Theater offers The Sunshine of Paradise Alley this afternoon and through the week. The same cast from a past higher-priced production returns with Phia May Sunshine and Mrs. Charles Peters as leading ladies, along with Helen Taney Grace Kimball John Walsh W J Sully and John J Flynn. George F Annand to sing The Holy City as the Verdi Ladies Quartet performs new songs.
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Paradise Alley
Park Theater
Phia May
Sunshine
Charles Peters
the Lamplighter
George F. Annand
Holy City
Verdi Ladies’ Quartet
Social notes from Mrs. Smith to society and travel of residents
Mrs. Ralph Smith will host cards tomorrow afternoon. Many social engagements follow, with guests in town from Cincinnati and Chicago. Multiple weddings, engagements, and forthcoming dinners mark a busy social season, including a wedding at Hillside Avenue and preparations for trips to New York and Europe.
City News Notes: Lectures Consul Appointment and Local Incidents
Rev J Cumming Smith spoke in Noblesville last night. Charles B Rodgers of Shoals now US consul at Zanzibar replacing Mansfield. Joe Tobin, a saloon keeper, was arrested for permitting card games. Pastor Rev George M Smith left Moore's Hill for his mother Eliza beth Smith's death. The body of T W Johnson arrived from Brooklyn and funeral held at Christ Church with burial at Crown Hill. Henry Eitel leads a funding effort to add to Mrs Long's Lincoln statue gift at University Park. several wealthy citizens want to increase the sum as Mrs Long’s wishes are undecided.
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J. Cumming Smith
Noblesville
Presbyterian Church
Charles B. Rodgers
Shoals
Martin County
Mr. Rodgers
United States
Zanzibar
Robert E. Mansfield
Joe Tobin
George M. Smith
Hallplace Methodist Church
Moore’s Hill
Ind
Elizabeth Smith
Moore's Hill
T. W. Johnson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Flanner & Buchanan
Christ Church
Crown Hill
Johnson
Brooner Stock Company
Henry Eitel
Union Trust Company
Henry C. Long
University Park
Abraham Lincoln
Ray Sentenced In Shelbyville Conspiracy Fraud Case
Special Judge Lex J. Kirkpatrick overruled a new trial motion and sentenced George M. Ray to Michigan City prison for not less than two nor more than fourteen years with a $10 fine. The ruling upheld juror affidavits supporting reputation, explained conspiracy as surplusage, and stressed criminal intent to defraud. Ray remained in town after sentence as deputies enforced the order.
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
Lex J. Kirkpatrick
George M. Ray
Michigan City
Kirkpatrick
Ray
John W. Carson
Supreme Court
Eiteks Bell
Tolks
Sherifteesas
Chester Luther
Indiana Obituary: William H. Sims Dies in Goshen
William H. Sims, a prominent Indiana educator and former Goshen superintendent, died at 56 from grip and diabetes after returning from Wakarusa. His wife and Christian Science beliefs influenced care. son Charles Sims had a doctor call, but no medicine prescribed. Butterworth obituary notes Moses E. Butterworth, pioneer gold seeker and Laporte founder, died in Chicago of heart neuralgia. born 1820 in Harveysburg Ohio, traveled west for gold during the gold fever era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart
Ind
William H. Sims
Goshen
Wakarusa
Charles Sims
Chicago
Moses E. Butterworth
Laporte
Harveysburg
Mr. Butterworth
Pacific Coast
Plains
Brown and Walker Obituaries Reach Local Era
ELKHART IN March 6 William Oliver Brown Jr died at his son Walter Browns home on his 82nd birthday. A Staten Island native he moved to Toledo then became a pork packer and revenue collector during Lincoln's era. Later life spent in Elkhart. PRINCETON IN March 6 David Walker prominent citizen died in a tailor shop from heart trouble. Born in England he trained for the Church of England and came to America, settling in St Louis before moving to Princeton.
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Elkhart
Ind
William Oliver Brown, Jr
Walter Brown
Staten Island
New York
Toledo
Lincoln
President Frye Resigns and Plans Independent Plant
H C Frye resigns as president of National Glass Company citing stockholder opposition. He proposes building an independent Rochester plant while keeping National Glass holdings, with resignation effective April 1. Sanspareil Glass Company in Hartford City closes plant, laying off 150. Flint glass trade weak. Millgrove plant resumes two shops as prices plunge in the war for business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
H. C. Frye
National Glass Company
Frye
Rochester
Cambridge
Indianapolis Journal
Hartford City
Ind
Sanspareil Glass Company
Millgrove
Death of Terre Haute teamster after lynching agitation
George Woods a 31 year old teamster who became convinced a mob sought him for lynching. He was jailed for safe keeping and died of apoplexy. He had tried to shoot a passerby. a brother in law confiscated his shotgun. A rumor says Ward’s relative plans retribution against a neighbor who informed to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
George Woods
George Ward
Miss Finkelstein
Ward
Clark County Mystery Shrader Missing After Holding $1500
Jeffersonville Indiana March 6 Robert C Shrader a known local youth vanished Monday evening with 1500 in his pockets. He hired a horse and buggy to say goodbye to relatives and was en route to Rockford Kansas to start a shoe business. A bloody buggy robe was later found along the pike and identified as from Shrader’s rented rig as police investigate foul play.
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Indianapolis Journal
Jeffersonville
Ind
Robert C. Shrader
Shrader
Utica
Moncey Ae
Guardian
H. A. Burtt
Rockford
Bugsy
Threat to kill owner prompts security measures in Indiana
A note threatened to kill Alex Killion and his entire family unless he hid $1,500 in a glass can in a culvert. He, aged 85, has guard hired and plans to seek a detective to find the conspirators. Separately, a house fire near Winchester, Indiana, destroyed all contents with two sick children at risk as wind and cold hampered rescue efforts. In Wabash, a divorce suit was filed by Dr Will H Stephenson against Mrs Etta Stephenson, citing cruel treatment and bias against his three daughters. the couple are part of the Mendelssohn quartet touring the U S.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Ind
Alex. Killion
Daviess County
Winchester
Charles Brown
Wabash, Ind
Wabash Circuit Court
Will H. Stephenson
Etta Stephenson
Soldier dies after burns in Matthews glass factory incident
Marion scene reports Theodore Crouch age veteran and former Soldiers' Home member died from severe burns received while warming near a furnace in Matthews glass factory. He belonged to Company K of the 132nd Indiana Infantry. The Kokomo item notes brothers John and Albert Croussore dispute over a fence line ending in a unique odd rail split between them with both receiving half of the rail after reconciliation.
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Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Theodore Crouch
Matthews
Indiana Infantry
Kokomo
John
Albert Croussore
Albert
Fire destroys farm home near Salem with no insurance
In Salem Indiana, the new Edward Link farm house two miles northwest of town burned Tuesday night, consuming the building and its contents. Loss estimated at 2500 dollars. Mr and Mrs Link escaped when hot ashes in a nearby barrel sparked the fire. no insurance coverage.
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Indianapolis Journal
Salem
Ind
Edward Link
In Junction Granted Against Gas Belt Tortpedo Co
In Alexandria on March a Superior Court granted an injunction against the Gas Belt Torpedo Company and Alva Painter to prevent further action. The order aims to halt alleged activities pending further hearings and resolution of the case. Legal action proceeds with court oversight and potential additional filings by the plaintiffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Alexandria
Ind
Gas Belt Torpedo Company
Alva Painter
Court halts nitroglycerin factory near dangerous warehouse
A restraining order blocks the Indiana Nitroglycerin and Torpedo Company from manufacturing nitroglycerin pending suit. Local farmers near the rural warehouse storage site fear another explosion after a previous blast weeks ago near Ere.
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Indiana Nitroglycerin and Torpedo Company
Moore firm lands Danville Soldiers' Home chapel contract
S C Moore and Son of Kokomo Ind won the award to erect a chapel at the Danville First Soldiers Home for 85000 dollars. A unique bid twist had both Danville firms using the same first name Edward for the son, causing initial mix ups in letters and checks between the two firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Kokomo
Ind
S. C. Moore & Son
Danville
C. Moore & Son
Edward
Boone suit filed over saloon liquor and death at McCarty’s
In Marion on March 6 Mrs Rosella Boone and eight children filed suit in Grant Circuit Court seeking 2000 damages from saloon keeper James McCarty near the Soldiers Home. Plaintiff alleges McCarty sold liquor to her husband while drunk. John R Boone, husband of the plaintiff, was found dead in a vault behind McCarty’s saloon weeks ago. Also from South Bend on March 6 Mr and Mrs L S Noble of Goshen will mark their sixty second wedding anniversary March 26. The sixty second anniversary of Mr and Mrs R D Benham of Goshen will be celebrated in May.
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E. C. Thompson
Florida
Molly Frank
Greencastle
A. N. Towles
W. D. Howe
Butler
Purdue
Jean Blair
Maud Barrett
C. A. Rodney
Chicago
Sue Rodney
Mabel Mullen
Student Volunteers
Butler Association
Irvington Woman's Club
Romaine Braden
Ritter Avenue
Orville Carvin
Clara Forsyth
Jessamine Armstrong
Lulu Keller
Clara Woody
Pearl McElroy
Maud Nebeker
Indianapolis Journal
Marion
Ind
Grant
Rosella Boone
James McCarty
Soldiers Home
John R. Boone
McCarty
South Bend
Multiple Local Notes From Indiana and Nearby States
A compiled slice of 19th century notices reports J G Robbins & Son buying a Shorthorn heifer for 400 dollars, church calls accepted, electrical franchise requests deferred, wheat crop devastation claims, thefts of two record draft mares, temperance remonstrances against a saloon license, heating plant contracts in county jail, a sign injury to Viola Allen, measles confusion, a road subsidy appeal by Wabash businessmen, Union Traction expansion plans, a horse theft arrest, exoneration celebrations for A T Hert, record low temperature, Carnegie pledge for an organ, a fatal fire accident, a 5 dollar bounty reward, bank case continuance, and a veteran lawyer's illness.
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J. G. Robbins & Son
Horace
E. K. Thomas
Mary
Glenwood
Kansas City
William Frazer
Brazil Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church
Elkhart
Dayton
Richmond
Wayne County
Washington
Davies County
Ellison Willams
Nee
Sugar Ridge
Clay County
Mack Clark
Ashboro
John Fitz Maurice
Winchester
Viola Allen
Alexandria
Knightstown
Indianapolis
New Castile
W. A. Christy
Marion
Sweetser
Converse
Peru
Howard White
Howard
J. B. Dyer
A. T. Hert
Indiana Reformatory
New Albany
Madison
T. J. Clark
Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington
Andrew Carnegie
Steel King
Perry Peele
Matthews
Grant County
Scott County
Jacob Degarn
W. T. Richey
Edmond Palmer
Pees
Ashley, Ill
Nashville
IL Palmer
M. H. Kidd
Wabash
Saat Eras A
Seymour man lands heating plant contract for 2 19
Bevins of Seymour secured the contract for the heating plant at 2.19 dollars. A Richmond suit challenges the validity of the will of Mrs. Anna L. Bickle widow of Judge William Bickle, dated thirty five years ago before the testatrix went non compos mentis. The estate worth 75 is devised to a niece, a nephew sues for partition. Farmers and Merchants Bank of Cicero has moved into a new three story brick building occupying the first floor with offices on the second and a Masonic room on the third. E M and J Hinshaw are president and cashier.
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Bevins
Seymour
Richmond
Anna L. Bickle
William Bickle
Testatrix
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Cicero
Bank
Masonic Room
E. M. and
J. Hinshaw
Telegraph Miscellany Highlights From Global and Local News
Charles T. Yerkes and family sailed from New York to Liverpool aboard the Teutonic. A Dallas cottonseed oil mill plant suffered a fire causing insured losses. Oismois official J. C. Ware, near death after a stroke in Champaign. Colligion tunnel fire at Apex suffocated several workers. A Union Pacific freight collision near Columbus, Nebraska killed John Mendall and injured his nephew. Arrests in Louisville over bond schemes involving North Panberland Manufacturing. Lancaster gas supply collapse disrupts industry and transit. Knights of Columbus National Council broadens presence in the South with purely social councils. Cooperative Mutual Insurance session in Columbus reports progress and delegates. Philadelphia Health chief notes tuberculosis deaths at 2,717, urges action. Chicago Institute consolidates with University of Chicago, enriching pedagogy and teacher training with a 1 million dollar endowment led by Colonel Parker.
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Charles T. Yerkes
New York
Liverpool
Teutonic
Trinity Cottonseed-Oil
Dallas
Tex
J. C. Ware
State Pure Food Inspector
Oismois
Champaign
Mole Pile
Apex
Cole
W. Bellows
Don McNeerny
W. H. Coltrin
Union Pacific
Columbus
Neb
John Mendall
Iowa
Washington
John King
W. Greer Camll
Denver
E. G. Beatty
Louisville
P. Gait Miller
Pane Berland Manufacturing Company
Robert Kilgore
Lancaster
Lancaster T. Company
Knights of Columbus National Council
New Haven
Conn
Louisiana
Florida
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Alabama
Arkansas
Texas
National Association of Co-operative Mutual Insurance Companies
J. Lewis Goode
Philadelphia Bureau of Health
Cago University
Mra
Emmon Blaine
Chicago Institute
University of Chicago
John Wey
University
Colonel Parker
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Gioods
Anderson
Pettis Dry Goods Co
Paul Fl. Krauss
East Washington St
W. H. Messenger
J. FP. Mullally
Monument Place
Indiana Dental College Department of Dentistry
University of Indianapolis
W. Cor
Delaware and
Ohio Streets
Psraond AS
Zoological
Zoo
Big Liz
Doc
A. O. Duncan
Arthur W. Fanning
UW Throop Street
Fanning
Postum Cereal Co
Mr. Duncan
Elks
Personal and
Ralph Smith
John Candee Dean
Chapman Williams
Margaret Kingsbury
Lillian McFarlane
Monticello
William T. Brown
Ad F. Miller
L. W. Waithwright
Brenneke Academy
Charles Martindale
Victoria
Harry E. Drew
Miss Brecount
Cincinnati
Erdiitz
Charles W. Merrill
William J. McKee
Europe
Blanche Cox
Salvation Army
Ladies of the
Research Club
H. T. Conde
Broadway
William Fortune
Woodruff Place
Miss Hussey
Mr. Stead
London
E. C. Atkins
Miss Atkins
Miss Carpenter
Miss Fenton
A. M. Robertson
William W. Buchanan
Josephine Buchanan
William J. de Vol
Lebanon
William H. Brown
Columbia Club
Brown
Miss Munich
Charles Railsback
J. W. J. de Val
Ross Hamilton Wallace
North Meridian Street
J. H. Clark
Zollinger
Mera Tousey
William E. Sharpe
The
Martens
Morris Black
Symphony Orchestra
Henry Mangers
Hillside Avenue
Bessie Martin
Frank Wimmer
Mr. Hammond
Hillside Avenue Church
Solomon C. Dickey
College Avenue
Stevens
George Ier
James Statesman
Eru
Henry Severin, Jr
German House
German Literary Club
Miss Bierbaum
St. Louis
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Alma Bachman
Kipp
May Wright Sewall
Peing
Malaine Hussey
Alfred Stead
Sewall
T. C. Day
A. P. Spruance
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Ovid Butler Jameson
George F. Adams
Frank Nicholas Lewis
Mr. Bread
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Ethel Beatrice Carpenter
Propylaeum
Orlepp
Hastings
Miss Orlepp
Chopin-Wilhelmj
Ferdinand Laub
Cuba
A. G. Cox
Henry Jameson
First Baptist Church
Leo B. Riggs
D. M. Parry
Henry Eltle
J. D. George
Thomas J. Villers
Rigas
Villers
Greene V. Woolen
J. D George
Edgar Foster
D. H. Parry
A. A. Barnes
R. O. Hawkins
C. Atkins
O. J Dearborn
Arthur Jordan
Abram Wagner
Frank Atkins
Lois Dyer
Rousch
Viola Wy- Mans
Mary Maxwell Knippenberg
Elma Woollen
Lillian Atkins
Louise Carroll
Frank Fitzgerald
Jennie Holloway
Emma Atkins
Mary Minor
A. D. Johnson
Harriet Eitel
Cora Parry
Orren Woollen
Gertrude Minor
Sarah Foster
Agnes Neighbor
Eille Holle
Gertrude II
Sarena Hogan
Lulu Coates
Bertha Bosart
Riggs
Arthur Preston
Belleville
Ont
Woodstock University
MacMaster University
Toronto
Toronto Conservatory of Music
Belleville College of Music
Vogt
North
Pennsylvania Street
Irving Swan Brown
Worcester
Mass
John H. Holliday
Augusta Lynch Mason
George G. Tanner
Henry Lane Wallace
Knippenberg
Win
May Shipp
Bermuda
Irvington
W. F. Kelly
Mary Deputy
Emma Johnson
Edna Wallace
Georgia Galvin
Nelson Bratton
John Tibbett
Walter Kelly
Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity
Burgess Hall
Grace Gookin
New York City
Retta Barnhill
Carrie Howe
Ethel Cleland
Anne Butler
Verna Richey
Helen Downing
Essie Hunter
Elizabeth Wink
Edith Longley
Ruth Braden
Georgia Wickler
Elizabeth Poulson
J. Anna Carpender
T. C. Howe
Philokurian Literary Society
Philokurian Hall
City News Notes
Shelby
Ysis
Daviess
Pat Crowe
Indiana
Cator
Mosee
E. Butterworth
Enty
Clark County
Robert Shrader
Too Much Moore
Publican
Indiana Notes
Telegraph Miscellany
Jweeee
DR. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
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