Australian Law to be Supplanted By Registration Reform
A proposed Minturn bill would overhaul Indiana primary rules with three registration days before the election, strict party definitions, and separate ballots. It also outlines voting machine trials, expenditure reporting, and penalties for false statements, plus a path for petitions to nominate candidates. The INDICATOR notes an earlier Poultry & Pet Stock show in Laporte with record crowds and strong Westville exhibitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minturn
Secretary of State
Indiana
Board of County Commissioners
Common Council
Board of Trustees
Poultry & Pet Stock Association
Indianapolis
Chicago
Laporte
James Thomas
Wm. Trost
E. J. Horton
Mr. Horton
Plymouth Rock
Weastville
J. F. Cathcart
Adda Brooks
Jas. C. Thomas
K. J. Gorton
A. J. Hutton & Son
G. C. Flegel
Cary Frame
E.I. Reynolds
Sadie Reynolds
Westville
Catarrh Cure Claim Promises $100 Reward for Failure
The advertisement asserts a cure for catarrh, describing its internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward to anyone not cured, claiming the treatment strengthens the constitution and heals the disease at all stages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ifall
Haiti
Bailey's Dyspepsia Tablets Offer Quick Relief
The Lakeside Medicine Co presents Bailey's Dyspepsia Tablets promising fast relief from stomach distress and a permanent cure. Each package carries W. J. Bailey and is priced 25 cents postpaid. Sold by E. T. Scott in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey
W. J. Bailey
Lakeside Medicine Co
Chicago
E. T. Scott
Peter Sherman
North Stratford
N. H
Bailey's Laxative Tablets advertise health benefits
An advertisement questions constpation symptoms and urges laxative use to purify the body. It claims Bailey's Laxative Tablets restore energy, clear the complexion, and provide a fresh morning feeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bailey's
Pokagon Sues For Lands Claim In Laporte Case
Charles L. Pokagon son of a Pottawattomie chief travels from St. Joseph to Laporte Indiana to pursue legal possession of a land tract spanning the city site. He cites 1836 and 1846 treaties and a Washington commission report while asserting a perfect title and long, likely contentious, legal contest. He resides in Hartford Indiana and is described as full-blood and educated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dream
St. Joseph
Michi
Chicago
Charles L. Pokagon
Pottawattomie
Laporte
Cheif Pokagon
Pottawattomies
Pokagon
Oil Boom Hinted In Galena Township Oil Lands
The Standard Oil company had listed lands in Galena township as oil producing territory after emissaries courted local landowners months ago. A pond spill at the Barnes farm rekindled interest and a new company may be formed to drill an experimental well on the old Morrow farm with Governor Nye and M R Sutherland named as stockholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galena Township
Standard Oil Company
Barnes
Michigan State Line
Old Morrow Farm
Nye
M. R. Sutherland
Jurors Drawn for the December Term Court
The grand and petit jurors for the December term were drawn Monday morning. Grand jurors include A. B. Austin, Joseph Bailey, Hiram Phillips, S. Beatty, A. P. Hunt, Henry Warkentine. Petit jurors include Henry Tanger, E. F. Grischow, A. D. Barnes, John Kerr, Thomas Coury, William Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Austin Joseph Bailey Hiram Phillips S. Beatty
A. P. Hunt Henry Warkentine
Nickle Plate offers student holiday round trip fare
The Nickle Plate Road provides students with a special round trip fare for holidays. Tickets are sold the day school closes and the day before, valid returning to and including the day school reconvenes but not after January 1 1901. Available only to students with certificates from the head of school. Written or phoned via nearest agent C A Asterlio T P A Fort Wayne Ind 272 34 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A Asterlio
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Excursion Ticket Sale For Daily Express Trains
Tickets go on sale December 22 to January 20 at a fare and a third for round trips. Return validity until January 2 on any Daily Express route where trains stop. Contact C A Asterlin T P A Ft Wayne Ind by wire phone or at nearest agent 270 34 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Asterlin
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Your Stomach and Liver Health Boost with Dr. King's Pills
Advert appears to promote Dr. Kings New Life Pills claiming they improve strength, mental clarity, and ambition. A 235 cent box is advertised as renewing one’s vitality, sold by E T Scott druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte Argus-Bulletin
J. E. Conboy
Lansing
Mich
Wolverine
Cowboy
South Bend
Michigan City
Plymouth
Chamberlain
K. T. Scott
Annual Canadian Excursion to Canada by Wabash Train
Wabash announces an excursion offering one fare for a round trip to all points in Canada on the Wabash routes to Canada east of Chatam. Tickets for the trip are available with further details through Ross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash
Canada
Wabash E'R
Canfield
Chatam
Ross
Weather and social happenings in Spagete County
Modest weather with milder temperatures follows last week’s cold snap. Local notes report church social at El Dolman’s Wanatah home, surprise party for Mrs. W. Burkhart in Holmesville, visits by Edward Lucas, Anna Bowers visiting her parents, and a Christmas Eve dance at Foresters Hall with invites to all townsfolk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. Powell
el Dolman
Wanatah
W. P. Burkhart
Holmesville
Foresters Hall
Vast Kankakee Marsh to Host Major Oil Refinery Plans
Oil experts predict the Kankakee marsh will become a vast oil field rivaling Virginia runs. Companies have secured most leases, pipelines and derricks expected, with Indiana rising to a top oil state status as crude moves to asphalt and heating fuel markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Kankakee
Virginia
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Bend
Wanatah Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Health
Wanatah notes guest visits from South Chicago and Valparaiso. Local residents attend business and insurance matters in nearby towns. News covers illnesses, deaths, and a newborn, with several residents traveling to Chicago, Westville, Hamlet, and Laporte.
Drainage Plan for Kankakee River Region Proposed
The attorney general urges a statewide survey of the Kankakee region to study drainage options. He opposes a massive ditch project and favors dredging the river channel to allow unobstructed water flow, reducing marshland flooding for most of the year.
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Kankakee
Govenor
Kankakee River
Careful Cough Remedy Ad Reflects 1920s Drug Claims
An old public notice touts a laxative Bromo Quinine tablet remedy promising a cure or money refund. It highlights E. W. Grove’s signature on each box and prices the product at 23 cents, reflecting era drug advertising practices.
Inmate Totals Across Indiana Charitable Institutions
The four insane hospitals report 3 722 inmates costing the state 417 000 for last year. The Lafayette soldiers home 636 inmates. Knightstown orphans home 630 youths. Indianapolis deaf and dumb asylum 336 inmates. Fort Wayne feeble minded children home 647. Plainfield boys reformatory 550. Indianapolis girls reformatory 150. Total inmates 6 830 dependent on county taxes.
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Lafayette
Soldier’ and Sailor’s Orphans
Knightstown
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Boy’s Reformatory
Plainfield
Girls’ Reformatory
What Shall We Have For Dessert
A family daily question answered with a quick Jell-O dessert. Prepared in two minutes with no baking, simply add hot water and set. Flavors include lemon orange raspberry and strawberry. Available at your groc stores for 10c per package.
Holiday excursion rates special on Wabash R R
Christmas and New Years Holiday rates issued for travel on Wabash R R. Round trip fare set at one and one third the regular fare. Tickets valid December 22 23 24 25 31 and January 1 1901 with return through January 2 1901. Agent A A Ross signs.
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Wabash R. R
A. A. Ross Agt
Pacific Express opens evening pickup for Chicago livestock
A. A. Ross announces Pacific Express will accept shipments of livestock and dressed poultry into Chicago for early morning market. Shippers are urged to bring their consignments in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Express
Chicago
A. A. Ross
Holliday Excursion Rates on Nickle Plate Travel
Holiday excursion fares are offered on the Nickle Plate road for December 22 and 24 25 31 and January 1 with return by January 2 at one third fare for round trip. The Mexicar excursion departs Chicago January 22 with low rates. Contact agents including C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne at listed numbers.
One Way Settlers Rates to Southern Points
Wabash Railway will sell one way settlers tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to points in Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi North and South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia. Further information apply to ASAL Ross Agent.
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Wabash Ry
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Asal ‘Ross, Agt
Care Croap Brief Mentions Mr Gray Near Amelia
A clipped item notes Mr. R. Gray residing near Amelia in a short local notice. The fragment provides limited context and no further details on events, dates, or actions.
Divorces Filed Over Cruelty and Threats in Two Cases
Nancy E Highly sues La fayette Highley for divorce alleging drunkenness abusive language violent blows and threats to shoot him. She seeks $1000 alimony and notes real estate worth 2000 and personal property 500. Mary C Albertson sues Arthur C Albertson for divorce citing cruel treatment drunkenness and an alleged attempt to sell his wife. She seeks custody of son William a weekly support of 2 and attorney fees 25. Both actions filed in circuit court with local connections to Indiana cities and counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Nancy E. Highly
Lafayette Highley
The
Herald
Chicago
Mary. C. Albertson
Arthur C. Albertson
Laporte County
Michigan City
Samuel Wringer
William
Albertson
George B. Mills
Monon
Laporte
Revised Wabash timecard and local notices
The issue prints the revised Wabash timecard and notes changes. Local notices include a wanted competent housekeeper, sale of two second hand book cases by the Ladies' Home Library Association, and funeral arrangements for Mrs Ira S Carpenter. Also updates on residents, military service, and health cures from E T Scott and Scott articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Library Association
Ira S. Carpenter
Carpenter
Michigan City News
W. B. McCord
Valparaiso
Bart
Mary A. Struthers
Westfield
Mass
W. H. Struthers
Mr. Struthers
Also Mentioned on This Page
Laporte Poultry Show
Buff Plymouth Rocks
E. J. Reynolds
White Plymouth Rocks
Hutton & Son
Silver Wyandottes
Button & Son
Thomas Baird
White Wyandottes
G.C. Flegel
Hutton
J.F. Cathcart
Wu. Trost
James C. Thomas
Lucy Reynolds
Nickle Plate Road
Spagete County
Bigelow
Otis
WN. Helen
Tena Machier
Julius Conitz
John Pritch
Pritch
Ei Vergin
Dr. Crawford
Hanna
Joseph Gruse
Henry Rosenbaum
Ed Mitzner
Mitaner Bro’s
John Terry
Lou Gallert
Gertrude Mack
W. A. Jones
Charles Cole
Etter
Willow
Hamlet
Minnie Mitzner
Thomas Hubbard
Lou McCurdy
Fred Mit
Lon Brooks
Frank Osborne
Nee
Mr. R. Gray
Butlerville
Indianapolis News
William Barnes
Slate
Valparaiso Normal
Porter County
Guy .O. Clark
Union Mills
161St
Indiana Volunteers
War Department
Charles Nichols
Hitchcock Chair
Logansport Asylum
Argus Bulletin
Will Smith
Pine Lake Avenue
Scott
Scott’s. DeWitt’s
Thos. R. Jessup
Richmond
Indiana Odd Fellows
T. A. Whorwell
E. T-Scott
DeWitt
Laporte and Michigan City Company
Green Dredging Company
John Gardner
James Mann
Episcopal Churches
New York City
John Hazen White
Missionary Society
William Reinhart
John B. Reinhart
First Cavalry
United States
Niobrara
Neb
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