Hoosier Happenings and Local News Notes
Hoosier Happenings reports on Laporte County youth Harold C Barr of Washington township gaining attention for corn yields at Purdue. He raised 119 bushels on one acre and scored 100 on ten ears at the county contest, matching expert-level work. In Jasonville Midland residents discuss Mrs. William Watson’s December marriage to a St Louis man and his death in a poker quarrel. She filed a 10000 damages suit against saloonkeeper Davis, likely to be dismissed. husband’s name not revealed.
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Washington Township
Laporte County
Young Barr
Jasonville
Midland
William Watson
St. Louis
Louis Shulley
Notre Dame Senior Class Plans Spring and Summer Plays
The University of Notre Dame drama season includes Richelieu on Easter Monday with Joseph A. Dwan of Chicago in the title role and a lawn performance. As You Like It follows in May and a June farce by J Leo Coontz. Cast includes M J Kenefick of Michigan City Robert A Kasper of Evansville and Homer S Warren of Chicago. An electrical engineers club with Dwan as president is formed.
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Notre. Dame
University of Notre Dame
Richelieu
J. Leo Coontz
Joseph A. Dwan
Chicago
M. J. Kenefick
Michigan City
Ind
Robert A. Kasper
Evanston
Homer S. Warren
University
Mr. Dwan
Home for Aged Methodists in Warren
The Chopsons of Warren offer 50000 to found a state home for aged Methodists on condition that 50000 more is raised from Methodists. Warren has accepted and arranged a 5000 contribution. The project aims to begin with a 100000 endowment.
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Wabash
Chopson
Warren
Criger to Coach Notre Dame Baseball Team
Lou Criger catcher for the Boston Americans will coach the Notre Dame baseball squad this spring. He starts next Monday and will coach until the opening of the American league season. Criger appears in fine condition after a poor previous season.
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Criger
Notre Dame
Lou Criger
Boston Americans
Resigns Due to Ill Health at Dubois County Bank
Frank Joseph, cashier of the Dubois County State Bank for about two decades, resigns because of health issues. Directors have not accepted the resignation, hoping he may recover, with John Sermersheim acting as cashier in his absence.
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Jasper
Frank Joseph
Dubois County State Bank
Joseph
John Sermersheim
Calvert and Bridges Washed Out by Heavy Rain
Rain caused washouts on seven North routes including Vernon and damaged bridges. Travelers faced detours as streets flooded, with crews assessing washouts and repairing disrupted transit in the area.
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Calvert
Vernon
Long Married Couple Still Active in Richmond
In Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Carpentier near 73 years of marriage live in fair health and stay active. He nears 96, she is slightly younger. They attend Quaker meetings weekly, having served Earlham College together. They remain devoted to the faith and wear distinctive Quaker garb.
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Richmond
United States
Walter T. Carpentier
Carpenter
Earlham’ College
Receiver Appointed for 1904 Georgia Colony Trust
George F. Mull, an attorney, named receiver for the 1904 Georgia Colony company run by Philander H. Fitzgerald. Plaintiffs say Fitzgerald raised about 70 000 dollars to found a Georgia colony, gave stockholders land valued by their subscriptions, spent 20 000 on property, and concealed the rest to defraud. They seek a judgment against Fitzgerald and to restrain him from leaving the state. Fitzgerald was federally indicted for mail fraud linked to the colony.
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Indianapolis
George F. Mull
Georgia Colony Company
Philander H. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Georgia
Federal Grand Jury
Colony Company
Plan to Change Districts in Indiana Leaks
South Bend reports a proposed plan by leading legislators to redraw Indiana districts. A bill would shift Laporte county into the Thirteenth and move Starke county to the Tenth. Laporte is Democratic while Starke is Republican under Rep. Brick, and Crumpacker would lose Laporte. The move could threaten Brick if he runs again.
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South Bend
Indiana
Laporte County
Starke County
Brick
Crumpacker
Bigamist's Wife Cut Off in Strunk Case Verdict
Verdict in the Strunk case declares Jennings Myers Strunk of Akron Ohio the legal son and sole heir of John C Strunk of Mishawaka Indiana. The 43 year relationship is labeled nonmarital and the wife who helped acquire property is disinherited due to lack of legal marriage.
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Bigamist
Laporte
Strunk
John C. Strunk
Mishawaka
Niles
Mich
Jennings Myers Strunk
Akron
Jennings Myers
Fire damages Rushville Home Furnishings building
Fire on the fourth floor caused by defective wiring flooded the top floor and caused about 20000 dollars in losses mainly from water. Insurance partially covered. This is the second fire in three years from the same cause.
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Rushville
Kingston Earthquake Evacuates Jamaica as U S Ships Leave
Reports from Kingston describe a devastating earthquake that wrecked streets and caused widespread death figures around 450 known dead with estimates reaching 1000. Rear Admiral Davis faced Swettenham’s objection to American aid as battleships Missouri Indiana and the Yankton sailed away after delivering relief.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Davis
Train Disaster Kills Twenty-Four in Indiana and Illinois
In Terre Haute Indiana a Big Four passenger train No 3 was blown apart by a powder car explosion near Sandford Indiana. Twenty four dead and at least thirty five injured with victims found mutilated amid wreckage and fire. Two other wrecks near Fowler Indiana left thirteen dead after a head on collision.
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Ill
Chas. Gosnell
Paris
Claude Steele
Sandford
Ind
A. A. Hicks
Dr. Haslett
Grand View
Frank Fielder
Findlay
Mary Earhart
Terre Haute
H. Blakely
John A. Bowen
Mattoon
A. Kuykendall
James Kenton
Kiever
Bud Wolfe
Wolfe
Here
William Thompson
Wm. Davis
Vermillion
Tll
John Franklin
Ashmore
A. D. Hector
Elbridge
Welch
Jarred of Mattoon
Dense Fog Triggers Fatal Big Four Collision at Fowler
In Fowler Indiana a dense fog prevented the engineer from seeing semaphore signals guiding a westbound Big Four freight. The train dispatcher, fearing an unseen block signal, fired shots with a revolver to warn the crews, but the collision occurred moments later as both trains plowed into each other. Firemen aboard the trains were injured.
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Fowler, Ind
Poth
Bone Cabin of Wyoming Built From Fossil Remains
A zoologist calls the Bone cabin near Medicine Bow Wyoming the world’s queerest house. Its foundations are constructed from fossil bones including diplodocus jaws brontosaurus teeth ichthyosaurus vertebrae and more. A Mexican sheep herder reportedly gathered bones from a river bar and built the famed cabin.
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Wyoming
Medicine Bow River
Pennsylvania Capitol
America
Pang ont Fea ae ee be donn dina aha case Te
Pang ont Fea reports a case file update with unclear details. The fragmentary text mentions a legal matter and potential action but lacks identifiable entities or dates.
Household Friend Peruna Almanac Ad
Peruna proclaims itself a household friend in over a million homes and growing. The old remedy claims to cure catarrhal diseases of head throat lungs stomach kidneys bladder and female organs. Ask your druggist for the Free Peruna Almanac for 1907.
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Peruna Almanac
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Lafayette
Corm School
Purdue
Harold C. Barr
Will Te
Man
Wife
City
London
Hamburg-American
Direct Mail
Royal Mail Steamship Companies
Rear Admiral Davis
Big Four
Bretch
Fowler
Peruna
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