Visiting residents fill city with holiday greetings
A string of visitors and locals arrive in the city for Christmas and holidays. Ed Findling tours Indianapolis. numerous people from Vincennes Martinsville Loogootee and Evansville plan or make trips home. Prof Hamlet Allen returns from Petersburg and Dr T S Probert arrives from Petersburg to spend the holidays. Numerous others, including Miss Eula Hortall, Harry Frecht, and John Anderson, travel to Cincinnati Seymour Terre Haute Kokomo and Indianapolis to visit relatives or study over Christmas.
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Agiss Louise ‘Johnson
Vincennes
Joe Genit
Chicago
Patterson
William Kelly
Loogostea
Eula Hortall
Evansville
Harry Greenway
Sarah Boston
Kentucky
Charles Boston
I S. E Patterson
Harry R. Lewis
Vincenges
Gorby’ oFraed
T. Ie
Spink
Medical College
Otis Priteheri
Sunny South
Sothern
Mary
Harvard
Cincinnaula
College of Manc Dura
Lulu
Lizzie
Hicks
Kokomio
Louisville
John Hair
Harry
Earl
Pana
Will Waggoner
Cincinnati
Henry Aay
Edward Spraul
Morristown
Ind
Luja: Johnson
Summer
X Ross, Smith
Edith Johnson
Ava, Hamersly
Indiana University
Jack Drake
Temple |Court
Sullivan
Myrtle
Josie Robinson Ho
Indlianapolis
Frank
A. Collyeb
Branklin Ky
iColyer
Tra G.'Burlingarde
Katharine
Rut
Pana, Hi
Silk thieves rob Laporte dry goods store again
Laporte Indiana December 24 theft report says Julius Barnes & Co. dry goods store was invaded for the second time that year. About $500 worth of finest silk and a $450 sealskin jacket were stolen in a Sunday morning robbery.
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Laporte
Ind
Ieeg
Julius Barnes &Co
Expert Witness Modifies His Opinion In Pettit Case
In Indiana reports expert Dr Hillis revises his stance on strychnine evidence in the Lyda poisoning case. He found less than half a grain in William Lyda and no strychnine in embalming fluid, altering interpretations from the Pettit trial.
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iMonticello
Pettit Wite
Lydan
Hillis
William Lyda
Local notices and ads from Washington in late 1900
Contains a public notice from the Knights and Ladies of Honor electing three trustees for a lodge, a formal election call from the Union Building and Loan Association, a dessert recipe plug for Jell O, and a note on a new portable fire extinguisher by Thomas McCauley. Mentions Ezra Mattingly, M. F. Burke, and Evansville editor B. Carleton.
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Knights and Ladies of Honor
Gaid Lodge
Protecton
Washington
Eaton B
Police Court News from Tuesday Arraignments and Fines
The court handled several intoxication cases with simple fines or bonds. Kellams fined one dollar plus costs. Creager fined two dollars after a hotel confrontation and later armed clash. Ed Healy fined one dollar with costs. Alf Harrod bound over to circuit court with $100 bond after alleged coat theft. Deputy Sheriff McCracken took Charlie Barton to the Insane Hospital in Indianapolis.
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Squire
Kellams
William Creager
Squire Streeter
James L. Marting
Jime Ed Healy
Alf Harrod
Squire Kellams
Matt McCracken
Indianapolis
Charlie Barton
Insane Hospital
Coroner's Inquest Finds Accidental Gasoline Burn Death
Coroner C. E. Trainor of Davids County Indiana held an inquest on December 13 1900 into the death of Mrs William Cleary of Washington Indiana. The verdict found she died from burns received while cleaning clothing with gasoline at home around 1 PM and the death was accidental with no blame assigned. She was a white American mother of two children aged three years and nine months.
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Mra
Williams Cleary i
C. E. Trainor
Dee
Caine
C.F. Trarson
Bi ‘Sr Frit
Electric Bitters Cured Woman's Stomach and Liver Ailment
Mrs I B Hunt of Lime Ridge Wisconsin faced a dire stomach trouble and yellow jaundice from gall stones. After doctors failed to help, she used Electric Bitters and fully recovered. This stomach liver and kidney remedy claims to cure dyspepsia loss of appetite and more. Sold by J Ni Jónes, druggist for 50 cents with guarantee.
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Lime Ridge
Wis
Punctual Star lard School Pupils Noted for December
Punctual pupils at Star lard schools for the month ending December 24 include May Dodson Libbie Aikman Bert Agan Troy Keith Helen Aikman Charles Dayton Daniel Smead Edgar Wilson Roy Smead and Ethel Keith. LaFayette Gitrey, Teacher. A testimonial praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from Thomas C. Bower Glencoe Ohio. Let Me At the Christian church hosts a New Year Eve supper December 31 with meals and a program inviting all to attend.
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Starlard
May Dodson
Libbie Aikman
Bert
Agan
Troy Keith
Helen ‘Aikman
Charles Dayton
Daniel Smead
Edgar Wilson
Roy Smead
Ethel Keith
LaFayette Gitrey
Chamberlain
Thomas C. Bower
Glencoe
The
Christian Church
Death Near: Elgin Man Seeks Cure for Wife’s Cough
Overstreet of Elgin recalls his wife suffering with a wasting cough and lung disease. A doctor suggested Dr King’s Discovery and persistent use allegedly saved her life. Advertises remedies for coughs colds bronchitis asthma and throat and lung diseases with trial bottles offered.
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Overstreet
Elgin
Temi
Bata
Je N. Jones
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