County Board Reports Buildings In Good Repair In Daviess
The Daviess county board of charities and corrections reports jail orphans home and poor farm buildings are in good condition with solid management. Recommendations include enlarging jail basement space for arrestees, repairing down spouts, improving drainage, and restricting noisy prisoners from the sheriff’s corridor. The orphans’ home is well kept with separate sexes, clean clothing, adequate food, and active schooling for thirty eight inmates. A new building for the poor farm is advised. the main building is sanitary and twenty one inmates remain at the asylum. The board members are Henry F. Vollmer James W. Baker Mrs M S Hastings Mrs Flora W Beitman and Josiah J Allen.
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Daviess County
Theingtron
Washington
Board of Charities
Henry F. Vollmer
James W. Baker
M. S. Hastings
Flora W. Beitman
Josiah 3. Allen
Kaiser's daughter snubs expensive dress buttons
Berlin reports Princess Victoria Louise at the autumn fleet review. She balked at 25 cent buttons, saying she must ask the Kaiser. The dressmaker waited for his decision, and the princess noted the buttons were too dear and that extravagance was not allowed.
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Berlin
Germany
Victoria Louise
Papa
Business men seek to prevent remaval for district office
A group of Cincinnati business leaders met yesterday with entertainment officials to discuss preventing removal of district officers and staff. They hope a conference with Superintendent Bent, slated for Tuesday morning in Washington, will avert forced transfers and protect local trainmen and clerks.
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Rolie Russell
Nui
Jepsau
M. Carninhsim
Helen
Jay
CineTypack
J. AB. Carath
Cincinnati
Prohibition of "Please" on Phones Sparks Indiana Opinion
An Indianapolis News critique argues against hooting down politeness by telephone. It notes Indiana usages and contrasts courtesy with honesty as the best policy, while mentioning Pennsylvania as possibly sharing the view.
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Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Ridge sues over traded sick horse for mare
Thomas Ridge alleges John Hubbs sold him a sickly mare while claiming the horse was healthy. Ridge says he traded a stallion valued at $60 and seeks sixty dollars in damages in a case filed in circuit court. Ridge states the mare died after the transfer, and the horse was misrepresented as sound.
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Thomas
Ridge
John Hubbs
Thomas Ridge
Hubbs
Barber Restraints Parade as Otto Wien Faces Murder Charge
Otto Wien, jailed at Crawfordsville for his wife’s murder, is shaved with his hands cuffed behind him after barber refused otherwise. The prisoner shows no remorse as grand jury proceedings loom, three weeks after the killing.
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Otto Wien
Cawfordsville
Walken
Walker
Preachers' Union Sets Funeral Price Scale in Kansas
Kansas preachers form a union to advocate funeral price scales and push for a state law. An itinerant minister was unpaid travel and meals after a funeral in a small town, prompting a Ministerial Association meeting that adopted the union funeral wake scale.
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Kansas
Serides
Taft’s view on lobby control dominates Roosevelt critique
The piece cites Taft in Portland asserting the Roosevelt administration faced several issues, with regulation of interstate commerce railways under government supervision as the top priority. It notes Democrats had proposed similar aims in three consecutive platforms, contrasting Republican positions.
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Portland
Ore
Taft
Didi
Theodore Roosevelt
Republi
Bit by horse leaves Claude Fairhurst with elbow wound
Claude Fairhurst of Plainville sustained a painful elbow wound when a horse bit him at the Gates Lundergan barn. The teeth cut the vein and the joint area, the injury caused active bleeding and risk of stiffness.
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Claude Fairhurst
Plainville
Mr. Fairhurst
Lundergan Barn
Peek
Ex Mayor W. P. Ellis Injured Working on Monumental Project
The elderly former mayor W. P. Ellis cut his calf with an adz while helping make a new derrick for the Washington Monumental Company. The two inch gash bled, but the injury is not serious. he was taken home to recover.
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W. P. Ellis
Washington Monumental Company
Fr. Emi
Q Cah
There Will Be Light Tonight Says Plant Chief
Superintendent Halphenstine of the electric light plant reports enough material arrived from Fort Wayne to resume full service. A night and day effort by workers is expected to restore machinery to operating condition by 6 o clock this afternoon.
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Halphenstine
Electric Light Plant
Fort Wayne
Indiana State Fair Sets Attendance Record
At Indianapolis the five day event drew about 175000 visitors, surpassing last year by over 20000. Gate receipts reached around 33000 on Thursday, with total fair income from entrances and booths exceeding 10000. Over 2000 workers earned booth privileges, and about 230 stands sold snacks and souvenirs with 76 dispensing hog meat products.
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Indianapolis
Bootha
A Peep Into County Past Logan County Dream Fades
A local history piece recalls the proposed county of Logan formed from Daviess Martin Sullivan Knox and Vigo counties centered on Owl Town Eldora. Senator William Turner pushed a bill to create a 400 square mile Logan with Owl Town as seat, but the plan failed and Logan never became law.
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Miartin Nugent
Elabye Township
Logan
Logan County
Knox
Greenet
Silittan
Daviess County
Elmore
Laogan
Black Hawk
Gutabde
Ilands
Owl Town
Elnorns
Wiliam ‘Turner
Daviess
Martin
Eldora
Tseat
Turner
Irregular Chronicle Fragments From Oregon Region
The passage notes grain and cotton trade flows via canals to Memphis and New Orleans, hogs and venison shipped, abundant deer in nearby waters, and land under cultivation yielding crops. It mentions Mr and Mrs Jarrey Berry and daughter visiting Eli Perry in the township, Perry having moved to Oregon twenty years earlier. The Oregon region described is a day’s drive from the coast with prunes hops wheat and barley in crops.
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Eyranger
Memphis
Vickxbugs
New Orleans
Wis
Jarrey Berry
McMimile
Oregon
Eli Perry
Perry
Barney
Jacob Sam Dead Widow and two children mourned
Jacob Sam age thirty three died at Woodmere morning. The body will arrive in the city at another hour. Mr Sum lived in Washington for years after service in Germany. He leaves a widow two children Anton and Maggie. Funeral services at Marys church at 8 oclock Monday morning. Burial at St Johns.
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Jacob Sam
Aisty
Woodmere
Mr. Sum
Germany
Washington
Brotera
Desidert
Matt Sum
John B. Young
Anton
Maggie
Argst. Mary's
iBurial
St. John’s
Courtney Sells Farm in Harrison Town and Transfers Residence
Court’s sale of a 120 acre farm in Harrison town to James Sordan. Sordan also transfers two parcels of residence property to Courtney as part of the deal. The Pearl Street parcel is valued at 1,800 dollars and the First Street parcel at 1,250 dollars.
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Madigton Courtney
Harrison Townsam
James Sordan
Mr. Courtney
Pearl Street
Nouthas First Street
Banker Visits The Capital
A banker visits the capital city to discuss financial matters and reviews a capital ticket during a routine tour of banking facilities and state offices. The visit underscores ongoing discussions about capital finance and local economic needs.
Miser’s mutilated hoard to be redeemed in Washington
Oscar W. Bhryer, cashier of Bloomfeld Savings Bank in Alcon Greens Indiana, arrived in Washington with 25 060 to 30 000 in damaged bills believed to be the fortune of a miser. He reported losing his pocketbook containing 35 in cash plus papers and checks. A detective was assigned. The money, rescued from a stash hidden by the miser, had been scorched or burnt when his wife burned a stash of papers in a stove grate. Bhryer was asked to come to redeem the bills at the treasury department, alongside related deposit tickets and a life insurance receipt and return ticket.
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Treasury Department
Shryer
Ais
Behryer
Washington
Mr. Shryey
Citizens’ State Bank of Bloomfield
Northwestern Life Insurance Company
Petersburg School Delays Hit September Opening
VanHoy and Son of Loogootee are contracted to build a new Petersburg school by September 4. The project is only half finished and unlikely to meet the deadline, with a daily bond of 50 dollars for every day past due.
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VanHoy & Son
Loogoctee Contractors
Faffing. Iq
Sthee Housa
Petersburg
VanHoy
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Monumental Company
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Fnters
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