Indiana Ratifies Woman Suffrage and State News Roundup
The Indiana legislature ratified the federal amendment, making Indiana the twenty sixth state to do so, with 43 to 3 in the senate and 90 to 0 in the house. The state also discusses a war memorial site plan, a public work audit totaling 8224.48, high influenza illness in South Bend, and various local and statewide notices including elections, law actions, and agricultural reports.
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Wabash
Roann Co-operative Shipping Association
Pawpaw Township
Indianapolis
Indiana
Senate
House
Meridian
Pennsylvania
Vermont
North Streets
Citizens’ Committee
Jesse E. Eschbach
State Board of Accounts
Goodrich
Attorney General’s Department
South Bend
Lawrenceburg
Charles A. Lowe
Dearborn
Lowe
The
American Legion
Vincennes
Raymond
Springer
Jeffersonville
Clark County
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Indiana Supreme Court
Western Union Telegraph Company
Chicago
Fort Wayne
Ind
Terre Haute
Indiana Coal Fields
Clinton
Linton
Sullivan
Brazil
Bicknell Fields
Clinton Fields
Monon
Evansville
Notre Dame University
Gary
Charles Greenwald
Lafayette
Preston Moody
Fremont
Steuben County
Purdue University
Vernon
Jennings County
Muscatatuck
Sand Creek
Grahran Creek
James P. Goodrich
Tauglog
Wayne Colony
Eastern Hospital For the Insane
Colony Farm
New Albany
New York
Bloomington
Broadway
William Lowe Bryan
Indiana University
Hoosier
St. Joseph County
Chamber
Bedford
South Central Superintendents of Schools Research Club
Spencer
Fred Bourns
Greencastle
Edwin C. Dodson
Martinsville
Willis Holman
E. BE
Ramsay
Charles P. Kellar
Mitchell
J. H. Stupp
Washington
R. N. Threy
Orleans
L. L. Hoover
Salem
McKinzey
E. W. Montgomery
Edward Lux
Shelby County
Indiana Corn Growers’ Association
Flo
Peter J. Lux
Waldron
Johnson County
State Prison
Reformatory and Woman’s Prison
Amos W. Butler
Indiana Board of State Charities
Postscript Highlights From Early 20th Century Innovations
Reported vast iron ore deposits in Transvaal. A police fingerprint photograph camera with built in lights is described. A bulb syringe for cleaning pipes gets a patent. A German firm markets a serial bosom paper shirt that peels a fresh front daily. Stamp issue total near 2,000 since December 1918, with about 1,500 from new European states.
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Transvaal
Escaped Armenian Girl Refugee Tale Reaches New York
Miss Vartenousch M Karagheusian the first Armenian girl freed from Arab slavery arrives in America after rescue by Near East relief. Tattooed with the mark of slavery, she endured a Turkish march, survived, and reached Beirut then New York where her brother John Karaghousian, a Minneapolis rug merchant, meets her.
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Miss Vartenousch
M Karagheusian
America
Near East
Miss Karagheusian
Vartanousch
Jerusalem
Beirut
New York
John Karaghousian
Minneapolis
Seminole Indian Customs and Self Enforced Law
Seminole Indians enforce their own laws with penalties including banishment and even death. A recent enforcement case involved the hanging of a Seminole wife of a white man and the destruction of her child by other Seminoles, highlighting strict tribal rules against intermarriage and maintaining blood purity.
Hall of fame for trees opens. largest shade tree debate grows
The American Forestry association inaugurates a hall of fame for trees to honor famous specimens. Notable entries include the Liberty tree at St John’s Annapolis, the Wil liam Penn Treaty tree, the Huntington elm, the Wye Mills Oak, and others. Nominees claim larger spreads and circumferences across Indiana California Georgia and Ohio.
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Washington
Oberlin
Oberlin College
Huntington
Ind
Long
Dumont Kennedy
Crawfordsville
Wye Mills
Easton
Lisbon
Ralph G. Smith
Circleville
Logan
C. C. Royce
Army Adopts Polo as Peace-Time War Drill
The War Department announces polo will be encouraged across the army to develop horsemanship and daring. Division camps training centers and regimental posts will host teams. A central polo committee will coordinate activities with the American Polo Association and issue polo mounts equipment and instructions on matches and training.
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War Department
Chief of Staff
American Polo Association
Wired wireless to link continents via single wire system
Maj. Gen. George O. Squier previews a "wired wireless" method allowing 10 to 50 conversations to run simultaneously over one wire. Long distance calls from Argentina to Alaska could become routine as currents travel near the wire, improving reliability and secrecy.
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George Oo. Squier
Army
Argentina
Alaska
Telephone and Telegraph Companies
Squier
The Frost on the Pumpkin Figures in Kentucky Talk
A passage from the Congressional Record quotes Representative Thomas of Kentucky describing adjournment in rustic terms. He praises a country feast of ham, lye hominy, biscuits, blackberry jam and possum, then invokes memories of rural life and sleeping in a log stable.
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Congress
Thomas
Kentucky
Congressional Record
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Atlantic
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Ernest Lockwood
Lockwood
France
Constantinople