News by Telephone Local Items and Updates From Grace Hill May
Grace Hill May 8 news reports survivors in crisis, J M Lewis visiting Washington, Robt Engle gravely ill with appendicitis, Dr Parks and Davenport specialist assisting. May rainfall totals 1 inch with 0.58 yesterday. Tailor J Wilmet praised for free band uniforms work. regarded as rising city tailor. G T Auld to Chicago, A J Morgan from Clay in town, Mrs Chas McLaughlin and child from Crawfordsville. Wm Blair elected bank president, O M Keck vice president. Will H Graham improving in Chicago and expected home soon. Bicycle ad touts bike over horse. frugal joke. New Albany skeleton with chained hands found along riverbank, suspected recaptured slave. Ta Tasman Brown inmate killed by fellow prisoner Tubbs after an altercation. George Kuhn struck by lightning in Davenport. instant death. In Muncie area Republicans win Albany Eaton Farmland tickets. Normal City and Muncie suburbs go to Citizens.
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First National Bank
Wm. Blair
O. M. Keck
Will H. Graham
Chicago
New Albany
Ind
Alton
John Scheckel
Real Estate Transfers And Local Notices Collide
Property transfers list Lena Crone to David Crawford and others for multiple lots along Wash Cedar Dutch Creek and Bog River regions. A postmaster's warning note, plus family arrivals and contractor updates, appear amid a jumble of names and sums in this community notice.
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Lena Crone
David
Crawford
Mary V Lost
John
Enfield
Baby Knows Comfort of First Class Plumbing
A local plumbing firm touts its materials and methods as the path to a “good all over” feeling after a bath. The ad highlights reliable appliances and emphasizes the company’s known high quality to patrons.
Relief Work at Jacksonville Provides For Destitute
Relief committees significantly eased the distress in Jacksonville Pin May 8 as food clothing and shelter were provided to those without. City and county officers reopened temporary offices and relief tents crowded the center while twelve carloads of provisions arrived from New York. No more dead bodies found and a systematic search has not yet begun but the situation improves.
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Jacksonville
Pin
New York
Herron to Offer No Defense at Church Trial in Grinnell
Grinnell church council members say Professor Herron will offer no defense at the trial and that only repentance and remarrying his wife could avert expulsion. Keokuk reports Herron has married Carrie Rand, with the union occurring weeks after a divorce decree was granted to his former wife.
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Grinnell
New York
Herron
Council of Churches
Keokuk
George D. Herron
Carrie Rand
Mra
BE. D. Rand
Woman Sees Premonition Then Learns of Relatives’ Deaths
A Muncie woman, Mrs Ella Cothran, believed a vision of her daughter foretold bad news as she rushed to Newport Ky for a relapse in illness. She later learned both her father and mother in Ohio had died, then found her daughter improving after treatment. The item blends a personal warning with a series of unrelated sports and transport notices.
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Muncie
Ind
Ella Cothran
Newport
Cincinnati
Cardus
Mitchell
Cardui
Williq Mitchell
Ladies’ Advisory Department
Chattanooga Medicine Company
Chattanooga
Tenn
Notable Deaths and Marital Plans Reported in News
The item notes several disparate events: German count Joseph Joerge’s suicide in Hoboken, Miss Mary Daly and James W. Gerard to wed on June 4, Bishop Hacquard’s drowning in the Niger, ex-president Prado dead, Alderman Vowers denying he will quit Chicago, Boer prisoners bound for Bermuda, Havana chatter on a Washington commission, and a nine hour strike involving nearly 2000 workers on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western.
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Joseph Joerge
Hoboken
Mary Daly
Marcus Daly
James W. Gerard
Hacquard
Niger
Mariano Ignacio Prado
Peru
Alderman Vowers
Chicago
Bermuda
Havana
Washington
Delaware, Lackawanna and
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