Indiana News Briefs Chronicle Local Posts and Losses
Evansville employment bureau placed 4 628 men in jobs from April 13 1918 to March 23 this year. Supreme court ruled 1915 trading stamps law unconstitutional and reversed Decatur circuit court. McBeth Evins Glass in Marion repaired factory and resumed with 700 workers. Purdue plans a $150 000 women’s building. Fayette county drainage demand exceeds supply. One Hundred and Thirty-ninth artillery to receive silver rings from donations. Wayne county veterans seek better jobs after service. Fire destroys barn and stock. loss about 10000.
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Evansville
United States Employment Bureau
Supreme Court
Decatur
McBeth Evins Glass Company
Marion
Winthrop E. Stone
Purdue University
Purdue
Fayette County
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Artillery
Columbus
Wayne County
Uncle Sam
Ray Jessup
Alexander
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Fred A. Sims
W. C. Harrison
Edward J. Fogarty
Michigan City
Fogarty
Lewis Fuller
Goshen
John V W. Fuller
Michael Mellin
Alexander Cota
Walcott
White County
Monon
Samuel Graves
Mellin
Methodist Episcopal Church
Seymour District
United States
Indiana
Green River
Kentucky
William Bichler
Bichler
Big Four Railroad
From the Pencil's Point Wit and Social Observations
Wise people respect the man fools respect good clothes. Hush money speaks for both parties in the transaction. Friday is as unlucky as any day. Necessity knows no laws and extravagance follows. True friendship between women is doubted by most men. A nutmeg may be great but will meet a grater. Do not deem a task impossible if you cannot perform it. Providence helps fools by giving them wives to look after them. Do not break your word unless a hyphen fits. Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. Soon sober second thoughts give way to a dark brown taste and a headache. Railway lunch counters give only ten minutes for refreshments. Some laugh at a woman buying gum then spend on an imported cigar.
Out of the ordinary and curious facts list
A varied collection notes rain patterns and oddities from cooking rats to lizards as food. It mentions the Jordan River length, rain yields per acre, Brazil nuts per pod, Louis XIV drinking French coffee, and the high price of coffee at the time, among other curious points.
Kipling on Work and Personal Responsibility
The passage urges doing one’s own work and living life in one’s own way, stressing responsibility for self. It argues mastery of materials over servility and warns that trivializing work leads to personal downfall, with fearlessness and integrity as core rules.
Examination Misfits A Condensed Glossary
A compact glossary-style excerpt defines bones as keeping the body together and skin as holding the body in place and containing blood. It distinguishes true and false skin and notes orbit as where Earth remains, fog as a cloud near the ground, climate as both cool and warm, and hops as made of poppies.
Elevator Operators Favored are Women for Morning Cheer
Managers of tall buildings favor keeping feminine elevator operators arguing that girls are less grouchy in the morning after nights out. They are seen as more conscientious about accurate floor stopping and pausing only briefly at the top floor for a cosmetic touch, if at all.
Girl Escapes From Bandits Off Texas Coast
Nellie, a girl held on a rocky island by smugglers for years, reached Rockport Texas in a small fishing boat after signaling distress. Authorities plan to search surrounding islands to locate the bandits and learn her true family ties.
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Texas
Rockport
Tex
Nellie
South America
Iowa farmer duped by Chicago confidence men
Frederick Kunz of Sioux City traveled to Chicago after a stranger posed as a millionaire fare dealer. He agreed to buy chips and throw a game, but four detectives arrested George Billings and Everett Moline before the plan could proceed, with Kunz tipping off police.
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Chicago
Frederick Kunz
Sioux City
LaSalle
Farmer Kunz
George Billings
Mr. Kunz
Lincoln Park
Zoo
Chief Mooney
Billings
Moline
Hair Clipping Thief Strikes Passaic Woman
Mrs. William Hawthorne of 422 Harrison Street reports a night intruder entered her bedroom, clipped off her long hair, and left a pair of scissors and a $20 tin box missing. Police found a jimmy mark on the kitchen window and noted Mrs. Hawthorne felt sick upon waking, suspecting chloroform.
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Passaic
N. J
William Hawthorne
Harrison Street
Conscience Balm Prompts $1000 Payment to Freeman Relatives
In Bloomington Indiana territory an elderly man paid $1000 to Mary Kable and her sisters H B Henkel and G A Hulett for a 1869 bargain linked to sheep doomed by disease. Dohrt saved some sheep and sent them west forming a fortune now returned as promised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Mary Kable
Virden
H. B. Henkel
G. A. Hulett
Sangamon County
Peter Freeman
Freeman
William Dohrf
Missouri
Dohrt
Montana
Baby's Hand Bitten Off by Pet Hog in Asheville Home
Infant child of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bridgeman attacked by a pet hog in the Asheville North Carolina home. One hand was chewed off and the other mangled before help could arrive. The mother found the baby in the yard being shaken by the animal.
Judge Prescribes Cure for Alleged Confidence Man
In Detroit Frank Hayes known as a confidence man told officers he was too tired to move on. Judge Heston ordered 60 days rest in the work house as his sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Frank Hayes
Heston
Some Thief in Kansas City Strips Coal Load
Local report recounts a thief in Kansas City Missouri who broke a barn door lock at the Baltimore and Ohio Coal company and stole a wagon load of coal then returned the horses and wagon. The incident highlights a bold theft amid quiet industrial activity downtown.
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Kansas
City
Baltimore & Ohio Goal Company
Effects Bureau Restores Soldiers Belongings to Kin
The effects bureau, based in Hoboken since March 1917, returns soldiers’ items from battlefields to their next of kin. So far 6 181 packages received for deceased soldiers with 2 872 disposed of and 3 309 awaiting action. In the last week 20 tons of material were stored for disposition.
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Ashington
France
Bureau
War Department
Effects Bureau
Mann Tells War Story About a 25 Cent Refund
In closing days of congress Representative Mann recalls a demand from the army quartermaster for 25 cents from Private Frank W. Tillman. Tillman, who served in France and rose to first lieutenant, refunded the money after transferring baggage on a railroad. Mann says the government has “the cake” for being mean to a soldier. The audience laughed and applauded as the tale underscored hefty wartime appropriations.
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Effects Quartermaster Department
Hoboken
Congress
Mann
Illinois
Quartermaster General of the Army
Frank W. Tillman
U. S
Huh Mule LO Dultueiu
Dayton
Big Four Railroad
Ohio Electric Road
Fairfield
Republic
France
Inconceivable Monroe Doctrine Question in Haiti War Context
A historical quote on the Monroe Doctrine touches on Latin American allegiance as a hypothetical. The text recounts 1861 Santo Domingo’s return to Spanish rule, Dominican Republic independence in 1844, Santana and Baez leadership, 1861 annexation to Spain, Napoleon III’s intervention in Mexico, Maximilian’s empire, and eventual restoration of independence in 1865 with U S vetoes and later Juarez’s 1867 presidency.
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Wilson
Leagues of Nations
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Don Pedro Santana
Santana
Baez
Spain
United States
Napoleon III
Republic of Mexico
Archduke Maximilian of Austria
Grant
Republic
Mexico
Maximilian
Benito Juarez
Why French Is Now the Language of Diplomacy
The article traces how French became the universal language of diplomacy from Latin in 1739, highlighting Louis XIV and the spread of French through émigrés. It cites Vienna 1815, Berlin 1878, Madrid 1906, The Hague 1905 and other conferences as examples, arguing clarity as the core reason.
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Belgrade
Louis XIV
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