Goethals on Panama Canal defense and fortifications
The article discusses Col Goethals assessment of Panama Canal defenses, noting forts near Taboga and Atlantic Pacific positions, jungle barriers, and the role of the Tenth Infantry. It covers possible landing points, clearance of inhabitants, and the balance of naval power versus shore batteries as protection against an armed assault.
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Culebra
C. Z
Panama Canal
Goethals
Atlantic En
Taboga Island
United States
Taboga
Empire
Canal
Panama
Atlantic
Pacific
Atlantic Ocean
Meeting Opens at Battleground During 21st Annual Gathering
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Northwest Indiana Conference opens its twenty first annual meeting at Battle Grounds with Mrs A L Briggs of Valparaiso presiding. New Hampshire greetings, settlement work for Gary, and gifts from the Methodist church noted along with committee appointments and musical offerings. The article details appointments to finance, press, nominating, courtesy and year book committees and lists several members from Indiana towns. It also reports G A R encampment funds and pardons for McFail and Rexroat.
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Indianapolis
Woman's Home Missionary Society of the
Northwest Indiana
Battle Grounds
J. A. Secor
Laporte
New Hampshire
A. L Briggs
Valparaiso
Robert Armstrong
Hammond
Hattie Kinney
C. T. Jewett
Terre Haute
B. F. Veal
Michigan City
Alex McHarry
Lafayette
George Ireland
Monticello
Monroe Bush
Lebanon
G. R. Streeter
Hanmond
C. G. Miller
E. W. Teague
Plymouth
Henry Ostrom
Greencastle
Grant Teeters
Myron Campbell
South Bend
H. L. Rank
West Lafayette
Mr. Plank
May Thomas
West Lafayette Auxiliary
D. M. Wood
Hollywood
Cal
Carrie Jarge
Delaware
C. E. Kendrick
Gary
Society
Alma Shultz
Methodist Church of
Guardsmen End Encampment at Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana National Guard closed its ten day midsummer encampment at Fort Benjamin Harrison with General McKee and staff departing. The signal corps led by Lieutenant Lynn Knowlton was first to leave amid minor injuries including a fatal shooting of Walter Dowell. Only fifty six of 1500 required medical care and no one was sent to the post hospital.
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Indiana National Guard
Fort Benjamin Harrison
McKee
Hospital
Signal Corps
Lynn Knowlton
Walter Dowell
Madison Company
Edwin Ball
Indianapolis
Madison
Dowell
John J. Boaz
Hospital Corps
Walter McKinney
Washington
Abel Lee
Fairbanks Hosts Indiana Republicans Dinner
Charles W. Fairbanks invited members of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association to a dinner at his North Meridian Street home on August 14. The invitation aims to include all Indiana Republican editors and other Republicans, with speeches planned and weather contingencies at his residence.
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Charles W. Fairbanks
Indiana Republican Editorial Association
North Meridian Street
Indianapolis
Fairbanks
Indiana
Contest for Boys at Fair Livestock and Grain Judging
The annual livestock and grain judging contest for boys at the Indiana State Fair will be held September 9. Last year 32 boys competed. more are expected this year. Winners receive Purdue School of Agriculture scholarships for the fourth time. Prizes: first $100, second $75, third $50, fourth $25. Eligible ages range from sixteen to twenty.
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State Board of Agriculture
Purdue School of Agriculture
Indiana
Indiana librarians hear lectures at Earlham College
Carl L Earnhardt of Indianapolis urged libraries to cooperate with newspapers to boost municipal reform. He cited cases where libraries providing information to the press spurred city government changes. He advocated democratic library administration and suggested smoking rooms to broaden appeal to men.
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Indiana
Indiana Librarians’ Summer
Earlham College
Richmond
Carl L Earnhardt
Indianapolis
Barnhardt
Indiana Manufacturers Urged to Fund Tuberculosis Fight
Tuberculosis costs Indiana over 15 million dollars annually and prompts an appeal to 400 manufacturers. Signed by Prof. Burrage and Walter D. Thurber, the letter argues consumptives lower shop productivity and spread the disease. The appeal copies a financial report since 1911 and urges greater funding to expand prevention work, noting Indiana lags behind other states and cities in anti tuberculosis spending.
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Indiana
Indiana Association For the Study and Prevention of
Prof. Burrage
Walter D. Thurber
Indiana Association
Thurber
Grand Rapids
Mich
Cincinnati
Citizens Automobile Company Incorporation Filed
Articles of incorporation show Citizens Automobile Company of Martinsville with capital of 25000 dollars and W E Hendricks W A Kennedy E I Poston G Cramer and Thomas A Hendricks as directors The Maple Park Amusement Company of Hancock County with capital 100 dollars and directors Charles McKenzie Caleb W Moncrief James E Sample and C M Kerrick.
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Citizens Automobile Company
Martinsville
Capital
W. E. Hendricks
W. A. Kennedy
E. I. Poston
G. Cramer
Thomas A. Hendricks
The
Maple Park Amusement, Company
Hancock County
Amusement
Charles McKenzie
Caleb W. Moncrief
James E. Sample
C. M. Kerrick
Brakeman Wilbur Pingnick Killed in Southern Railway Wreck
Fast freight No. 679 derailed four miles east of Princeton after a split switch. Wilbur Pingnick of New Albany died instantly as seven cars and fifteen more heavily loaded cars piled up. Engine and cars crossed the switch and overturned, causing seven cars to be demolished and several trainmen to escape with narrow injuries.
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Princeton
Wilbur Pinnick
New Albany
Southern Railway
Man Hangs Self After Heat Suspected in Fort Wayne
John C. Rost aged 75 eluded his wife, hanged himself in a rear barn, his mind thought deranged by extreme heat. A loaded musket lay by his body, suggesting a failed hanging. A daughter, Mrs. Ora Milligan of Indianapolis, is named.
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Fort Wayne
John C. Rost
Ora Milligan
Indianapolis
Plows Up Old Copper Coin in Zionsville Field
Hazy early Civil War era token unearthed by farmer H Starkey in a Zionsville field. One side bears Millions for Defense and Not one cent for Tribute with a star circle, the other shows a sailing vessel and the inscription Webster-Credit-19 41- Current.
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Zionsville
O. H. Starkey
Webster
Lebanon lunch stand owner held for assault on girl
Bert Hale, owner of a lunch and ice cream stand at Elizaville in Boone county, is under arrest charged with attempting to assault his sister in law Susie Quick age twelve. He said he had been drinking for four days and could give no account of himself.
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Lebanon
Bert Hale
Elizaville
Boone County
Susie Quick
Child Attacked by Bulldog in Princeton
Six year old Hugh Lane, son of B. I. Lane, was badly bitten by a bulldog at home in Princeton. Authorities seek the suspected mad animal as the child heads to Indianapolis for treatment, the eighth pasteur institute patient from Gibson county in three months for dog bites.
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Princeton
Hugh Lane
B. I. Lane
Indianapolis
Gibson County
Pasteur Institute
Object to Eight Hour Law Fort Wayne
Thirty laborers on Pennsylvania railroad construction quit, protesting the eight hour limit set by officials. they demanded to work eleven hours a day.
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Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania Railroad
Limited Car Crashes Into Flyer in Indiana Tragedy
A late Union Traction limited train collided with the Marion Flyer at Fortville injuring motorman Harrison Clark of Anderson with a crushed leg and possible internal injuries. A dozen or more passengers suffered bruises or cuts but none seriously enough to halt their journey. Clark was taken to an Indianapolis hospital.
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Limited
Flyer
Fortville
Union Traction Company
Runnig
Marion Flyer
Harrison Clark
Anderson
Indianapolis
Injured in Runaway Near Princeton
Mrs. Charles Garwood was severely injured when a horse and buggy ran away after a train frightened them at Pato ka Gibson county. She was hurled through a plate glass window of the Boerke restaurant and badly cut. her husband Mr. Garwood had only slight bruises.
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Princeton
Charles Garwood
Patoka
Gibson County
Mr. Garwood
Garwood
Boerke
Miners Fined on Michigan City Excursion Train
Ralph McKee and Frank McClusky, miners from Linton, were arrested on a Michigan City excursion train and fined under the new law governing drinking on passenger trains.
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Lafayette
Ralph McKee
Frank McClusky
Linton
Michigan City
Escaped Insane Asylum Patient Captured Near Terre Haute
Sheriff Wren and Chief Offutt tracked a man tied to the Garfield robbery rumors. The prisoner, named Johnson, admitted escaping from the Ohio state insane asylum in early April and had wandered the region since. He offered details to contact authorities and made no resistance.
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Crawfordsville
Frank Wren
Offutt
Terre Haute
Ohio State Insane Asylum
Johnson
State Commission Receives Proposals for Penal Farm Site
State farm commission, appointed by the governor, seeks a suitable site for Indiana's state penal farm. More than a dozen counties submitted bids and landowners from Shoals to Cloverdale offered farms. Proposals due by October 1, with site inspections planned after.
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State Commission
Indianapolis
General Assembly
United States
Goshen
Delphi
Logansport
W. H. Kart
State Farm Commission
Board of State Charities
Shoals
Greencastle
Vernon
Bedford
Martinsville
Brooklyn
Rochester
Greenfield
Morgantown
Huckskin
Cloverdale
Bank Cashier Loses $1000. Stolen En Route Recovered
Frank M. Laws cashier of the Versailles bank started to Milan with $1000 in an envelope. He lost the money early, but D. K. May found it on the street and returned it to the bank vault before Laws realized the loss.
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Versailles
Frank M. Laws
Versailles Bank
Milan
D. K. May
Fire on C E I Train Triggers Big Fire On Board
Terre Haute Aug. 4 A fire broke out aboard a Chicago and Eastern Illinois train carrying a large cargo of baled broom corn. A hose company stood by at Deming street and more apparatus was summoned as the blaze proved difficult to fight. Loss set at 2800 dollars.
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Terre Nlante
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Deming Street
Fears Arrest Prompted New Albany Woman Suicide
Mrs. Sarah Fakes Stockdale, 25, wife of Thomas Stockdale, died by swallowing carbolic acid in New Albany on August 4. Police, informed she knew of a robbery and were to question her, prompting the act when she was summoned to the station.
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New Albany
Sarah Fakes Stockdale
Thomas Stockdale
Eloping teens found living in cabin near South Bend
Raymond Fair, seventeen, and Mildred Gayman, sixteen, who vanished from South Bend three weeks ago, were found in an eight mile outlying cabin. They said they worked to earn money to marry, and were taken into custody by juvenile court authorities.
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South Bend
Raymond Fairchild
Mildred Gayman
Lightning Fire Saves Thirteen Horses At Mohr Barn
A barn owned by George Mohr southwest of Shelbyville burned, causing about 2200 in damage. Lightning sparked the blaze, with Mohr carrying 1200 in insurance. Thirteen horses were rescued from the burning structure. A separate lightning strike killed one horse from a team being driven to a milk wagon nearby. the driver Garner Heron and the other horse were unharmed.
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Shelbyville
George Mohr
Here
Garner Heron
Mr. Herron
Carriage maker Ray Socks Vanishes After Frog Hunt
Shelbyville residents scoured the Little Blue river from midnight to daylight for hours seeking the body of Ray Socks a local carriage maker who vanished after straying from a frog hunt party including his wife. Socks walked back to town believing the group had tricked him.
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Shelbyville
Ray Socks
Little Blue River
Purdue Junior Walter Gosswein Drowned in Texas
News arrives from Liberty Texas of the death by drowning of Walter Gosswein a Purdue junior who left college in May to join the United States survey boat Trinity He was twenty eight son of Prof J Gosswein formerly of Lafayette Lafayette Aug 4
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Purdue
Lafayette
Walter Gosswein
Liberty
Tex
United States Survey
Trinity
J. Gosswein
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