Aviators Moisant and Hoxsey Die in New Orleans Flight
Two famed aviators John B Moisant of Chicago and Arch Hoxsey of Pasadena die within moments of each other near New Orleans while attempting to land after flights in a aviation tournament. Moisant perished on a field after his Bleriot monoplane overturned in a heavy wind. Hoxsey crashed from about 500 feet as his Wright plane lost momentum in gusty air.
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PWO Air
John B. Molsant
Arch Hoxsey
Extraoinary
Molsant
Jas Naught
Hoxsey
Nod Molsant
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Tay
Continents
Mofsant
California
Moisant
Thusands
C. M. Hoxsey
Pasadena
Tal
Rome
Roy Knabenshue
Thomas Jackson
Wright Company
New Year Celebration Ends 1910 in Washington
Washington welcomed 1911 with whistles bells and explosive sounds at midnight. Crowds gathered for suppers dances and watch parties as the old year faded away amid cheers and sociability.
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Washington
New Year Customs Across Nations Seen In City Festivities
The article notes varied New Year celebrations worldwide with bells, whistles, and toasts, including resolutions and abstinence vows. It highlights Sunday observance as a holiday, city elite stores closing at noon, and altered post office and bank hours with limited deliveries and services.
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Jasny
John Barleyporn
Hanly to Speak in Washington at Methodist Church
Ex Governor J Frank Hanly, renowned Indiana speaker, will address Washington First Methodist Church in February under the Brotherhood auspices. A definite date is pending, likely February 19, and next Sunday Prof Horace Ellis of Vincennes University will speak there, welcomed by locals for his prior lecture.
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Hanly
J.frank Hanly
Indiana
Washington
Methodist Brotherhood
Horace Ellis
Vincennes University
Professor Ellis
Boiler Room Construction Underway at Seymour Roundhouse
Workmen started building the boiler room at the B. & 8. Ww. 1 roundhouse in Seymour. A new boiler and engine will be installed immediately to heat and power the roundhouse and nearby yard buildings, with employees unaware of the planned improvement until a notice was posted.
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Seymour
Amour
Inquest Held On Mrs. Sarah Sheets Death
Dr A H Halder coroner of Daviess county conducted the first inquest of the year on Mrs Sarah Sheets widow. Cause was cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs Sheets lived with her brother H N Brock three and a half miles south of Elnora. She died Sunday night at 9 40 aged fifty four.
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A. H. Halder
Washington
Daviess County
Sarah Sheets
Indiana hotelkeepers seek law to use hotel registers as evidence
The Indiana Hotelkeepers Association plans to ask the legislature to enact a law requiring hotel registrants to declare their intention to pay their bill. The proposed act would allow hotel registers to be used as documentary evidence by hotelkeepers prosecuting fraudulent guests.
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Indiana Hotelkeepers' Association
Hoteka
Christmas Cantata Performed by First Methodist Choir
The First Methodist choir presented Carrie B. Adams Reederer and King a Christmas cantata Sunday night at the regular service hour. The music was pretty and effectively rendered by a large well trained choir under the direction of Dr. R. P. Smiley.
Mayor's Report Summary May Month Violations And Cases
Mayor's report for the month lists violations of pure food laws and multiple assault charges. It notes two bastardy and associated cases, with two battery incidents and several related actions. Names and precise details are unclear due to fragmented OCR.
Joined Down And Out Club Insight From Fragment
Fragmentary report notes a St Louis incident on Sunday mentioning a bullet wound to a person identified as a son of Crab Or. The text indicates lack of something as a possible reason but remains unclear and incomplete.
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St. Louis
Helena of Italy Injured in Staircase Fall
The report notes Helena of Italy slipped on a staircase and injured her left arm while visiting, then went to her children's room to bid them good night. No further medical details are provided.
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Crazybone
Helena
Italy
Electric shoe shiner machines promise quick, neat results
An article extols patent electric shoe shiners that polish and dry shoes in under a minute. A nickel activates revolving brushes, spray adds polish, and a mirror helps customers check the shine. The device claims safe operation for all footwear including women's shoes.
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Clites
SISTER MEETS CIVIL WAR VETERAN AT MARION
Solomon Landess, 63, a Civil War veteran from Portland Oregon, visited his sister Harriet Parsons of Gas City for the first time this week. Parsons was born after Landess entered the Union Army. Landess later served as a regular and then worked as a government employee in Portland. After arriving in Gas City he grew ill and was moved to the Marion Soldiers Home hospital where he is now confined awaiting treatment.
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Marion
Solomon T.andress
Portland
Ore
Harriet Parsons
Gas City
Landess
Gnas City
Marlon Soldiers
Indiana Teachers Examinations Change License Rules
Changes to Indiana state teacher license rules require a current thirty six month license and passing science and education for a sixty month license. For shorter licenses twelve, twenty four, or thirty months, applicants need pass only one high school subject, down from five previously.
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Indiana
Retiring Prosecutor Hastings Heads Out of Office
The forty-ninth Judicial district ends E E Hastings two terms as prosecuting attorney. He will stay with Hastings Allen and Hastings and is replaced by Democrat F A Seal elected last November. Also retiring are W A Killion county commissioner A F Annen county surveyor and John A Sims, noted for honesty and competency in Daviess County administration under Republican rule.
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E. E. Hastings
Hastings
Hastings, Allen & Hastings
F. A. Seal
W. A. Killion
A. F. Annen
John A. Sims
Daviess County
Lengthy real estate transfer filed in Daviess County records
A detailed transaction records the transfer of railroad property from Southern Indiana Railway to Chicago Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway Company via a deed and multiple mortgages. The bundle includes a $7.537 million bond, a $20 million bond issue, and a $6.4 million bond component, with extensive page counts and county filings across Indiana and Minnesota.
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Recorder of
Daviess County
Deen
Henry ‘McCracken
Intana
Chicago, Terra Haute and Southeastern Railroad ’Company
Edward Daniels
Southern Indiana Railway Company
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railway Company
Girard Trust Company
Philadelphia
First Trust & Savings Hock
Louis Boisot
Indiana
Minols
Reorganization Talk Hits Republican Lines in Island State
Senator Bland endorses Will Hays of Sullivan as head of a post election committee to reorganize the party on a safe antisane basis. He cites Hays as a capable, trusted leader with strong support from all factions to unify the island Republicans and select a unifying state chairman.
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Oscar E
Mara
Congress
Toggether
Linton
Blan
Will H. Hays
Sullivan
Hays
Ang
Bland
Sailivan
Theisland
Senator Bland
State Committee i
Rewarded clerk receives $500 gift in Rochester story
Rochester report notes J Campbell, a store owner near Leeters Ford, honors faithful clerk Elmer Lewis with a $500 Christmas gift. Lewis, a harness maker and store helper for twenty years, has a clean record except for a twenty day illness-related absence. The celebration included a hotel dinner with local citizens.
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Rochester
J . Campbell
Leeters Ford
Here
Elmer Lewis
Lewis
Hag
Liquor Linked to Homicides in Alabama Report
A Garber report shows liquor caused 258 of 620 homicides in Alabama over the two years ending September 30, with 348 of 656 killings in the prior period. The attorney general outlines liquor as a contributing factor to many deaths.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Alex M. Garber
J “T
Racial tensions aid fatal Alabama homicide discourse
The passage analyzes a deplorable murder record in Alabama, noting a general prolific source of prime among the black population. It discusses friction from business relations between races and the white southern man's quickness to take offense and respond to insult, especially on matters of honor.
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Alabama
Freed from murder charges in Lancaster case
In Lancaster Missouri on January 3, Mrs. Alma H Vaughn and Dr. James R Hull were freed after the state declined to press charges against them. Judge Shelton denied a further continuance due to Dr Schweitzer’s inability to attend. Prosecutor Berger indicated his term expired and likely no further action will occur. The Vaughns had faced a lengthy probe tied to Prof John T Vaughn's 1909 death amid disputes over Schweitzer's findings.
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Lancaster
Alma H. Vaughn
James R. Hull
John T. Vaughn
Fircult
Berger
Adair County
Shelton
Vaughn
Hull
Paul Schweitzer
The
State University
Reiger
E. B. Clements
Macon
Medical Commission
Prrme
Kirksville
Five Markosavase Children Die in Minersville Fire
In Minersville near Pottsville Pennsylvania five children of John Markosavase died in a fire that destroyed three houses in the foreign quarter. Ages ranged from two months to eight years. The infant was burned severely and four others slightly burned. Officials say a New Year celebration by boarders and an overturned oil lamp started the blaze. The father, burned, tried to reach the children but failed. Rescuers were misled by language barriers as the mother and father fled.
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Pottsville
John Markosavase
Minersville
Marthasavage
Six Men Killed in Railroad Collision on Miller's Creek Branch
Six men died when a locomotive on the Miller's Creek branch collided with a passenger car on the main track of the Big Sandy railroad. The tragedy halted service and prompted investigators to inspect the wreckage for cause.
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Miller's Creek
Big Sandy
Bedford Couple Return Home After Holiday Visit
Mr and Mrs Edward Raymond return to their Bedford home after visiting relatives in the city during the holidays.
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Edward Raymond
Bedford
Repeal Likely As Indiana Legislature Opens
Indianapolis reporting that the state house session will move to enact the Democratic platform including county option repeal for Hanly, while redistricting looms. Analysts expect rapid action on liquor laws, child labor, and interurban safety as reapportionment and a Kern senate endorsement shape the agenda.
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Indianapolis
State House
Senate
Congress
Assembly
Indiana
Willi Probaly
Traction
United States
Kern
General Assembly
Not in Need of Money Says Boston Man
Louis Brandeis of Boston told the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads do not need more money. He argued that higher efficiency standards, not higher freight rates, are the paramount need for America.
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Interstate Committee Commission
Louis Brandeis
Boston
America
Indictments rise as Blair courts bribe takers tale grows
Judge Blair kept court late into Monday as Adams county Ohio election bribe takers confessed. Grand jury returned 183 indictments, bringing the total to 1,431. Women in St Simons and St Mary congregations raised 148.75 at New Year’s Eve supper euchre, proceeds to Sisters of Providence. Otto Stone visited Loogootee Sunday to see friends and relatives.
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Blair
Adams ‘County
St. Simons
St Maryg
New eYar’s
Sisters of Providence
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