Fall Festival Financing Hopes Rise in Richmond
Fall festival finance committee reports $3,490 raised with $8165 unreported from several districts. Merchants promise tenfold city spending during the three day event October 6 to 8. Extra efforts target east and manufacturing districts, with plans for advertising space sales and a decorating committee meeting tonight.
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Richmond
Main Street
Matt von Pein
South End
Harry Downing
North Highth Street
Cash Beall
Booth Highth Street
B. D. Game
North Eighth Street
Nimrod Johnson
Charles Hodge
North Twentieth Street
Ft. Wayne Avenue
North D_ street
Manufacturing
Bankers
Indianapolis
Terre Haute & Eastern Traction Company
George H. Knollenberg Co
Edward Harris
Thas
E. R. Thomas Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Fox
Odd Accident Involving a Monkey Wrench
T W Whitney a linenman was struck on the arm by a monkey wrench from a telegraph pole at the corner of South Ninth and A streets yesterday. He was knocked unconscious but the bone was not fractured. a small bruise remained. He was taken home by city ambulance.
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T. W. Whitney
South Ninth
A Streets
Whitney
Wrights aeroplane shatters world records at Fort Meyer
Orville Wright achieves a spectacular flight lasting fifty seven minutes and thirty one seconds at Fort Meyer, setting new world records. The aeroplane flies with average speed around thirty five miles per hour, gliding between twenty and one hundred fifty feet high under perfect conditions. The test is unofficial but witnessed by many experts, who report all prior defects remedied.
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Washington
Orville Wright
Fort Meyer
Bishops At War Upon Cannon In Broadside Publish
Eighteen Methodist Episcopal bishops unite in a Northwestern Christian Advocate symposium denouncing Speaker Joseph G Cannon over opposition to the Littlefield interstate liquor shipment bill and related temperance measures urging voters to defeat him for re election.
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National House of Representatives
Joseph G. Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church
Cannon
Littlefield
Northwestern Christian Advocate
Outline bill on county option in Indiana
Indianapolis Sept 9 The local option bill requires county commissioners to call a special election if 25 percent of legal voters petition. The measure is being prepared by state anti saloon league officers for the extra session.
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Indianapolis
Ind
State Anti-Saloon League
No healings by Jessup sub EOD in Indiana case
Prosecutor Jessup rejects public healings by Francis Schlatter calling him fake. Schlatter leaves Wayne County jetty for Indianapolis after lengthy dispute over licenses. Schlatter's agent claims Jackson Park healings proved real, while Jessup disputes clinical licensing and legality of exhibitions.
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Jessup
Richmond
Francis Schlatter
Indianapolis
Schlatter
Jackson Park
Wayne County
Mr. Jessup
Wayne County Medical Society
Foulke to Speak at Pythian Temple Tonight
William Dudley Foulke will address the political situation at the Pythian Temple tonight. Women are invited to attend the meeting. A large crowd is anticipated and many interesting statements are expected from the speaker.
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Pythian Temple
William Dudley Foulke
Foulke
Autoists May as Well Stay Home
The Greenville automobile club informs local motorists that rain before Sunday will cancel a planned trip to Richmond to spend the day at the Glen. Fifty or sixty autos are expected. Unclear if Wayne County club will host the visitors. One local auto man quips about throwing bombs in the air.
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Greenville, C
Harris to Speak on Industrial Future of Indiana at Commercial Club
Addison C. Harris of Indianapolis, a Wayne county native and prominent attorney, will address the Commercial club next Monday on The Industrial Future of Indiana. Harris will explain population shifts, rising city growth, and declining agriculture, predicting Indiana becoming a leading iron manufacturing state with widespread prosperity.
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Addison C. Harris
Indianapolis
Wayne County
Commercial Club
Harris
Indiana
John W. Kern
Haac
Mr. Harris
Haas
Clay
Union
Republic
Wayne County Civic League Opens Local Option Campaign
The Wayne county civic league announces a 7 3 o'clock campaign event at the court house lawn. Rev E G Howard will deliver a lecture titled A Forced Fight With the Liquor Foe, kicking off a series on county local option. If a county option law passes, the league plans to push saloon removal in the county.
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Wayne County
Hanly
Wayne County Civic League
Insurance effort boosts Richmond fire rates debate
The Commercial club directors reported partial success in pressuring insurers to revert to the old fire rate scale, amid inspectors visiting from western companies. They pledged to endorse the Young Men's Business club fall festival and turned over club rooms for the event. Sympathy was sent to J. H. Nicholson after a leg amputation.
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The
Commercial Club
Tnt
Richmond
Western Fire Insurance
Heles
Young Men's Business Club
McCarthy
J. H. Nicholson
Reid Memorial Hospital
L. B. Nusbaum
Michigan
Nicholson
Garfield School Changes Bring New Faculty Members
Garfield school announces fall and winter term changes led by principal N C Heli onimus. Classes shift to the gym due to rising attendance. Miss Catherine Reese joins to teach arithmetic and grammar at Finley, Wissler becomes Finley principal, J C Boggs from Greenville takes Wissler’s Greenville role, plus faculty reassignment: Miss Schultz to German, Miss Williams to English classics, W C Conrad to physiology and arithmetic, and Boggs to history.
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Garfield
N. C. Helionimus
Catherine V. Reese
Finley School
Wissler
Finley
J. C. Boggs
Greenville
Ohio
Richmond
W. C. Conrad
Boggs
Mr Nicholson Improves After Hospital Operation
John Nicholson, operated on yesterday at Reid hospital, is reported improving. Although not entirely out of danger, physicians do not anticipate any ill effects.
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John Nicholson
Reid Hospital
Miller Is Out Of Danger After Gall Stone Treatment
H. H. Miller was moved to hospital earlier in the week for gall stone treatment. His doctor reports he is out of danger and recovering.
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H. H. Miller
Sub Station 1 to be Located at Fourth and Main
Postal officials announce a new sub station at M. J. Quigley’s drug store at Fourth and Main opening October 1. The West End Business Men’s Club and courthouse officials sponsored the move. a box will be added when Quigley arranges its location. The south end petition for Bowing Bros. grocery sub station awaits bridge plans and further study.
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M. J. Quigley
Fourth
Main Streets
West End Business Men's Club
Court House
Quigley
Cty
Bowing Bros
South E Street
Stand-out Republicans block Cummins senate bid in Iowa
Des Moines reports 42 Republican legislators plus 45 Democrats opposed Gov Cummins for W B Allison's senate seat. They outnumbered 65 Republicans backing Cummins and vow to deadlock to keep him out. Leaders from across the state attended the legislative session and Republican judicial convention, but no settlement was reached.
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. B. Cummins
United States Senate
W. B. Allison
Cummins
Porter
Democrats puzzle Republicans as Indiana league plans unfold
Indianapolis September 9. Republicans and Gov Hanly back a rapid special session. Democrats reportedly plan to block the program with measures including a local option repeal and a metropolitan police repeal. Joseph Faulkner leads state talks while Gov Hanly vows to stump the state for temperance. Watson backs the call and pressures for a fair liquor stance.
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France
Wilbur Wright
Methodist Church
Greenville Club
Uccess
Miss Reese
Prof
MR. Nicholson
Adventuress
Bertha K. Gresham
Paul Amador
Panama
Amador
Quigley’s Drug Store
Cumming
Watson
Lake
Trix
Joseph Faulkner
Michigan City
Faulkner
James E. Watson
Hanty
Marshall
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