Lightning Rods Claim Insurance Endorsements
An advertising plea argues three of five barn fires are lightning related and 75 percent of insurer losses come from lightning. It promotes Dodd & Struthers lightning rods as endorsed by insurers and authorities, urging buyers to demand endorsements and proofs before purchase. It notes awards won and offers a free book by Prof. Dodd. Des Moines, Iowa.
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Dodd & Struthers
United States
Dodd & Bethia
Prof. Dodd
Red
Dodd
Dodd &Struthers
Des Moines
Iowa
Movement to Help The Farmer Fire Insurance Offer
An advertisement from Washington Indiana promotes the Continental Fire policy with new clauses and extended features. It claims special terms for expiring policies, offers to take existing Continental policies and issue two new policies for an extra charge, and highlights the McCord Agency acquisition.
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Continental Fire
McCord Agency
E. E. Forsythe
Wm. H. Kiefer
John H. McCafferty
Washington
Indiana
Fire at Kresges store kills seven in Cleveland
A noon blaze at the Kresges Fire and Ten Cent Store in Cleveland caused by fireworks explosions trapped clerks and customers. Seven bodies were recovered and many injured as relief workers and firefighters cleared debris. A boy named James Parker was identified among the dead. many others feared buried.
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Cleveland
Kresges
Ten Cent
James Parker
Amore
Ballard tragedy and city incidents across several reports
A fatal attack at 1125 Ninth Street leaves Mr Ballard dead and M J Carnahan’s father implicated as a suspect after a confrontation. the assailant fled north. Separate items note revolts in Paraguay, bank robberies near Keifer Oklahoma, a fatal streetcar collision in Los Angeles, a Morristown mill fire, a stormy death in Atlanta for Joel Harris, and various local incidents including a snake encounter in Princeton and a New York socialist convention nomination.
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Ballard
Ninth Street
Chicago
Peoria
Reservoir Park
Megro
Ballards
Denatured alcohol plant planned under Wilson direction
Omaha reports Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson directing a model denatured alcohol plant to be built in Washington. The project aims to demonstrate alcohol production from farm waste and to train up to 500 900 farmers in two years. The plant will travel to expositions and fairs across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
James Wilson
Washington
Lee
National Corn Exposition and Alcohol Plant Tour Plan
Report details the national corn exposition in Omaha December 9 to 19 with an estimated 300000 farmers attending, then touring colleges and Seattle for an Alaska trade alcohol demonstration. Congress funds 10000 for denatured alcohol demos and 1250 square feet of floor space is requested for the traveling plant.
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Wilson
J. Wilkes Jones
Mystery surrounds fatal home shooting in Lovejoy case
The report details a deadly shooting involving Mrs. Ellis and Ingle with conflicting accounts of who fired the fatal shot. A revolver found in a flower bed is cited, while authorities pursue the case amid arrests and a coroner's inquest. Friends fear for Mrs. Lovejoy’s safety after the incident and public figures in the city are concerned.
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Vincenews
Richard Lovejoy
Charles Ingle
Lovejoy
Ellis
Main Street
Ellis i
Ingle
Baker
Beckes
Hizer found guilty of second degree murder in Grass Creek
Rochester Indiana July 6 A jury convicts Alfred Hizer of murder in the second degree for the February killing of saloon keeper William Snyder at Grass Creek. He receives a life sentence after a brief retirement of twenty one hours. A motion for a new trial was filed.
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Frankfort
J. S. Morris
Georgetown
Commonwealth
Caleb Powers
Morris
Scott County
Goebel
Grant L. Roberts
Powers
Taylor
Charles Finley
Franklin Court
Rochester
Ind
Alfred Hizer
William Snyder
Grass Creek
Political and funeral notices and naval fleet movements abroad
The article notes party leaders favor Hitchcock to head Taft campaign with Hemenway opening Chicago headquarters. It also reports two misdirected funeral processions in Richmond, a US Atlantic fleet voyage toward Honolulu and Yokohama, and local tragedies including drownings in St. Louis and a tetanus risk in Cincinnati, plus a New York divorce perjury case tied to Rae Wood.
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Ment
George R Gheldon
National Committee
James A. Hemenway
Indiana
Chicago
Hitchcock
Taft
Senator Hemenway
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Lake Superior
St. Louis
Jamestown
Washington Realty Co., Agts
New York
Roosevelt
Peary
Pole
Springield
Blanche Ballard
Joe Games
Birmingham
Ale
AC. Ballard
M. J. Carnahan 'S
Buenous Ayres
Paraguay
Asuncion
Revolutionary Party
Legation
Emiliano Gonzales Naverro
Keifer
Frisco
Eatah
Los Angeles
Cal
Joseph Ollar
Morristown
CA. Patten
Joseph Dipe
Clem Correll
Atlanta
Peimaing
Joel Chandie Harris
Tio
Weat View
Thin
Harris
St. Anthonys Chapel
Father Rickson
Mr. Harris
Albert Howell, Jr
Samuel M. Taman
Forrest Adair
Roby Robinson
Lucian L. Knight
Andrew P. Stewart
Socialist Labor Party
Martin R. Preston
Nevada
Donald Munro
Virginia
Preston
Daniel DeLéon
Goldfield
Princeton
George ‘Mills
Mr. Mills
Howere
Don
Indianapolis
Oliver P. Stoner
Claypool
Gus Dreyer
Logansport
A. B. Dobbs
J. I. Baker
M. Siegel
Evansville
Chris Schadd
Grover Mundy
F. Decker
Supreme Court
Lafayette
John Bierly
Samuel L. Mitchell
Bierly
Petersburg
Charles Morton
William Morton
Washington Morton
Winslow
Port Huron
Mien
William T. Wilson
United Home Protectors Fraternity
Pittsburg
Pai
St. Nicholas
Millvale
Springs
William
Tait
Frank Hitchcock
Republican Committee
Richmond
Hollywood Cemetery
Miss Howard
Gordonsville
Crozert
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Walling
San Francisco
Sperry
Connecticut
Nebraska
Angelsland
Honolulu
Golden Gate
Japan
Yokohama
Manila
Amoy
China
Aden
Suez
Martin Brovinski
Harlem Avenue
Moline Creek
Linden Avenue
Cincinnati
George Ricker
Linnstret
Reinecker
Rae C. Wood
T. C. Platt
Senator Platt
Miss Wood
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