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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1909
Page
6
The ad promotes a mid-summer sale offering 25 percent off summer clothes. It argues the discount relieves the burden of choosing summer suits and enables men to buy stylish, affordable garments for the season. Prices highlighted include 15.00 reduced to 13.50.
Summer hat shoppers rejoice as all straw hats in the store go on sale at half price. Every straw hat priced five dollars three dollars one dollar and fifty cents is cut to half, including panamas and last season stock. Investors who waited for the right moment now find big savings.
City Democrats met in Zinkan hall to elect officers and set a July primary. E E Forsythe won the chairmanship by acclamation amid factional maneuvering led by Hugh O Neall and Colonel Spencer. Plans for a July 28 convention and ward boards were discussed as candidates and platforms emerged.
George Krapp a fireman with Hook and Ladder Company 30 secured from Supreme Court Justice Blanchard an order allowing him to change his name. He argued the name caused humiliation as people linked it with the gambling game craps and taunted him with phrases like come seven come eleven and how's the play
Adam Woerner recalls a light snow around a Fourth of July about 45 years ago in New Albany. He says attendees at the Apple Tree Garden picnic, hosted by a German society, wore coats borrowed from men to stay warm. He notes most attendees are dead but survivors could verify.
The three Harriman children Mary Caroline and Roland boarded the North German Lloyd steamer Kroonprinz Wilhelm bound for Europe yesterday. Their father E H Harriman was not listed aboard and the voyage was noted in New York dispatches. The Harriman secretary Charles C Tegethoff accompanied the party.
At the pier a man handed Roland Harrison a $100 dim and Mr Tegethof delivered a $1,000 envelope from Harriman's offices to Harriman’s son who returned the $100 to his father’s secretary. The children will join their father in Europe and take four boxes of cigars he favors.
Uncle Levi Haines of Carmel lies near death at his home east of town after the death of his wife several weeks earlier. The aged man, married sixty one years, said he wished to die and refused nourishment for two weeks, believing life prolonging measures pointless.
In East St. Louis on a Tuesday afternoon a pistol duel with a dozen detectives left a Black man dead and two bystanders wounded. The fugitive traded a horse and cash before police opened fire, driving him into a mule pen where the shooting continued.
Floyd Keller a circuit clerk in Montgomery West Virginia owns a young bulldog that protects and tends a brood of incubator chickens. The dog leads the hen group and helps rear them, amusing Keller and his friends with this odd sight on the farm.
Fragmentary description of a cat herding chickens to the barnyard searching for worms and greens. The cat wakes to alert with barks and climbs a fence to raid the clerk’s bed for tomatoes and other edibles, then returns to nap with the well fed chickens.
Indianapolis July 7 The indictment in the state against O A Cigarette Baker once linked to a bribery attempt to sway Representative Ananias Baker over the Parks and cigarette bill of 1905 was dismissed on motion by Prosecutor Hooten. Cigarette Baker, once a fugitive, later died in Toronto after living in France for years. The case collapsed as key witnesses had died and the five twenty dollar bills seized by the court remained unclaimed by Baker, with questions over their fate and possible charitable disposition.
Residents of the North Shore nickname the twelve year old son of the president Strenuous Charlie Taft. The youth is noted as a rambunctious outdoor life lover and sports enthusiast, drawing public notice for his energetic lifestyle.
The unnamed youngster, son of the nation’s leader, has quickly made himself busy in the summer capital. He has mingled with summer folk near the Taft cottage and at motor boat races yesterday urged two men to hurry. Mrs Taft stays quiet with a few intimate friends on the veranda. Miss Maibel Boardman of Cincinnati assists Mrs Lewis Mora with Charlie. Many visitors left cards yesterday.
In a series of appeals heard yesterday nearings v appeals 1TUnddgesdmenis, Western Union, and telegraph firms led by Perkins sought reductions claiming assessments overstated earnings. Other companies including Dinwiddie and Gary railway, Springport Rural Telephone, Louisville and Northern railway and Light, Citizens Natural Gas and Water, Shelbyville, Harbor Belt railroad, and Notland Gary Line pursued lower values.
In Harrison township Vincennes Mr A M Kirk sold his family farm and burial ground. The purchaser asked for bodies to be removed. Mr Kirk complied. His father James Kirk was buried in a metal casket forty three years ago. His face features and upper body were found well preserved.
A car sped down Wilkesharre mountain killing Mrs James Hughes and fatally injuring Miss Laura Cannon. James Hughes and the chauffeur were slightly hurt as the vehicle crashed after a steep descent and a sharp curve, ending against an embankment.
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