Record of Indiana state charity gains and new institutions
The Indiana board of state charities reports 14 119 inmates in 19 institutions on September 30 1915 with daily attendance 12 524. The state farm grows to 604 prisoners and 1 174 inmates from 73 counties. focus on mental defectives and penal institutions expands care capacity. Governor Daily names Daily to reformatory trustees and Indiana Historical Commission contracts Cass for centennial cinema depicting Indiana history.
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Indianapolis
Board of State Charities
State Prison
Reformatory
Woman's Prison
State Farm
State Board
Southeastern Hospital For the
Newcastle
Richmond
Colony Farm
Indiana Historical Commission
R. M. Cass
Indiana
National Patriotic League of
Washington, D. C
Cass
National Patriotic League
National Exhibit Company
Indiana Centennial Celebration Association
Portage
Kankakee
Vincennes
Francois Morgane de
Northwest Territory
England
Virginians
United States
Father Gibault
George Rogers Clark
William Henry Harrison
Tecumseh
Fort Wayne
Fort Harrison
Terre Haute
Pigeon Roost
Harrison
Tippecanoe
Prophetstown
Corydon
Lafayette
Jeffersonville
Morton
Lew Wallace
Indiana Among States With Low Death Rates in 1914 Record
A Washington report on U S mortality 1914 compares 1901 05 figures with 1914. Indiana’s overall death rate 12.9 per 1000, lowest since mortality data began, trails cities like Denver and Los Angeles. Indianapolis white rate 15.2, colored 23.6. Chicago 14.2, Louisville 16.5, Cincinnati 16.
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Indiana
Bureau of the Census
Washington, D. C
United States
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
Maine
New Hampshire
Denver
Colo
Los Angeles
Cal
Indianapolis
Chicago
Louisville
Cincinnati
Zimmerman slashed while attempting peacemaking in quarrel
Anderson Andrew Zimmer, a grocer, was slashed three times with a razor when he tried to mediate a quarrel between two men he did not know. In Frankfort, Judge Joseph Combs sentenced Charles Lawson to two to twenty one years in the state reformatory following Lawson's conviction of manslaughter.
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Anderson
Andrew Zimmer
Frankfort
State Reformatory
Charles R. ‘Lawson
Joeph’. Combs
Lawson
Alaghter
Indiana Brevities Snapshot of 1915 Events
Across Indiana reports include Bicknell-Elmer Cross a 40 year old miner dead after a mine cage collapse. plans for a January evangelistic drive in Indianapolis. the 65 year old Clarissa Talkington found dead by hanging near Elizabethtown. John W. Call a Gary postmaster and former mayor of Elwood dies. Dr. John T. Paxton perjury indictment quashed in Rushville. Ninevah rural beautification project led by Purdue officials.
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Rushville
Blair
Franklin
C. G. Sayers
Purdue University
Glenn Hillis
Johnson County
Christian Church
Ninevah
Terre Haute
Joseph Daugherty
James J. Daugherty
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Daugherty
Hubert Kintz
Indianapolis
Thomas E. Stukey
Federal
Treasury Department
Indiana
United States
Sabine
North Carolina
Bloomington
Robert W. Miers
John G. Harris
Good Roads Machinery Company
Fort Wayne
Thomas R. White
Bedford
Joseph McBrayer
Hazel Allison
McBrayer
Augustus Allison
Arkansas
Black Mountain
N. C
Leavenworth
James Gossom
Joseph Topak
Topak
Bobich
Brother from California Sleeps on Oklahoma City Lawn
John McElwain traveled from California to visit his brother Thomas after 20 years apart. He slept outside on Bermuda grass with his head on a handbag, mistaken by Thomas who did not recognize him. Police were called before the brothers clarified the visit. Tom offered cigars and drinks to calm the officers, and John was given a bed in the house or sleeping porch thereafter.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
John McElwain
California
Thomas
John
Tom
Neck Breakage during Secret Order Initiation
Pat Thomas Leon Reed twenty one died at his Olanta home after an initiation accident in a secret order. He walked blindfolded on a plank and was tossed into a blanket. on the third toss he struck his head and broke his neck. A coroner's jury ruled accidental death and exonerated the order members.
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Dubois
Pat Thomas Leon Reed
Olanta
Clearfield County
Reed
Order
Young Reed
Modern Robin Hood in Red Sweater Sought After PG County Robbery
Ammendale Maryland report of a highwayman who stopped Mabel Jacobson near Hyattsville after robbing her of a purse containing five dollars. He returned the purse saying he would not rob the poor, and sheriff Thomas Garrison and W. W. Bush are seeking him.
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Ammendale
Robin Hood
Thomas Garrison
W. W. Bush
Hyattsville
Prince George County
Mabel Jacobson
Brother Shoots Sister During Play at Home in Coalburg
In Coalburg Ohio Frank Caccaville twelve. shot and killed his ten year old sister Carmel when she refused to obey during a game of school at their home. The father fled to the woods but was caught by authorities.
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Coalburg
Frank Caccaville
Carmel
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State OF Indiana
State Board of Charities
Names Daily
Ralston
Thomas A. Daily
Edwin M. Lee
The
Indiana Reformatory
Paris Crossing Canning Company
Paris Crossing
New Augusta
Independent Telephone Company
HH. &D. Company
Goodland
Mercantile : Insurance. Corporation
Capital
William E. Landers
News OF the
Smithfield Market
London
Winter Reigns
Fighting Front
Europe
France
Gilgandra
Australia
Sydney
Washington
Anita ‘Kite
Sur- WW
Ss. N
Russia
Brother John
Lodge
Maryland
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