Indiana State Fair Awards 66044 Prize Total
Indiana fair plans week of September 8 with concessions and exhibits open. Premiums total 66044.50 across horse, cattle, poultry, sheep, swine, dairy and arts, with night shows expanded and new poultry house added. Reports show low illiteracy in Indianapolis compared with regional cities and national averages.
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American Saddle Horse Breeders’ Association
Colosseum
Charles Downing
Founders' Day marked by Progressive party celebration
Indiana Progressives plan Founders' Day events on August 5 in multiple cities led by B R Inman. Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson were nominated a year ago at Chicago. Jackson Boyd of Green Castle will speak in Washington, with Anderson hosting a park program and a barbecue. Women's groups promote equal suffrage within the program.
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Greencastle
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Limits Board's Authority in Franchise Case
Judge Purdum of the Howard circuit court ruled the board of public works in a fourth class city lacks power to grant franchises without city council concurrence. Indiana Railways and Light sought a South Main street switch to its power plant, received board approval, and installed the switch. Property owners appealed to the city council which ordered removal. an injunction barred city action. The council argued the board acted without authority.
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South Main Street
Governor warns on liquor and gambling enforcement at Terre Haute track
Governor Ralston declared he would insist the law be enforced against illegal liquor sales and gambling. He noted local authorities could control the situation without state intervention and expressed impatience over Vigo county sheriff’s inaction after a telegram from Rev. Paul Curnick highlighted ongoing violations. He spoke with a deputy sheriff before the afternoon races after failing to reach the sheriff.
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Ralston
Terre Haute
Vigo County
Paul C. Curnick
M. BE
Purdue Dairy Train Tour Details and Route
Purdue dairy department operates a special dairy production train on the Southern Railroad from August 5 through August 11 with thirty eight stops between Georgetown and Princeton. The consists include three lecture cars one livestock car and one flat car each lecture coach features a speaker on economic milk production emphasizing pure bred dairy cattle the Babcock test and milk scales to judge merit.
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Purdue
Purdue Dairy Department
Southern Railroad
Georgetown
Princeton
Marshall Likes Job As Vice President During Moose Banquet
Tom Marshall of Columbia City Indiana said he liked the job of vice president and praised the senate as a great institution. He spoke at a Royal Order of Moose banquet in Marshall town and noted the party in power bears responsibility amid tariff and currency bill discussions.
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Royal Order of Moose
Tom” Marshall
Columbia City
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United States
Loyal Order of Moose
Industrial University
Mooseheart
Aurora
Marshall
Indiana
Burnside breaks altitude record in Bath flight
Frank Burnside, flying a biplane, topped Lincoln Beachey’s 11 680 foot record with a 12 950 foot ascent over Bath area. He lived in Oneonta and remained aloft for one hour forty six minutes over a six mile course.
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Bath
Frank Burnside
Lincoln Beachey
Chicago
Burnside
Lves
Oneonta
Inspecting Packing Plants Under Federal Supervision
Washington July 28. Meat packing establishments under federal supervision at Chicago St. Paul Milwaukee and Indianapolis will be inspected by Dr M P Ravenel of the University of California. Dr Ravenel is also affiliated with the Wisconsin state university as a bacteriology expert.
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Department of Agriculture
M. P. Ravenel
University of California
Japanese cabinet blamed for weak diplomacy in land ownership row
Tokyo newspapers accuse the Japanese cabinet of adroitness failure in negotiations over Californian alien land ownership. They urge that advantage should be taken of Mexico. July 28 reported in a leading paper.
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Mexico
Troops Deployed as Copper Country Strike Turns Violent
Governor Ferris orders 2 troops of cavalry 2 artillery companies and all infantry to the copper country to quell a 15000-man miners strike. 2400 state soldiers guard Calumet Keweenaw. deputies attacked as strikers object to lawmen.
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Ferris
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Western Federation of Miners
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Alpena
Bay City
Vandercook
Hecla Company
Mulhall Breaks Down as Taft Involves Inquiry
Col M M Mulhall former chief lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers collapsed under two weeks on the witness stand before the senate investigating committee. He retracted a charge that former Representative James E Watson used private interests in 1909 while a member of the house to aid a tariff bill.
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Col. M. M. Mulhall
National Association of Manufacturers
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Mulhall
Walsh
Martin M. Mulhall
James E. Watson
Indiana
House
Watson
Briga dier General Abbey Heads to Lansing After Message
Kalamazoo Michigan July 25 Brigadier General P L Abbey head of the state guard started for Lansing in response to a message from Governor Ferris. Other items note a deadly explosion at the Canadian Explosive plant in Beloeil Quebec seven killed and injured.
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P. L. Abbey
State Guard
Lansing
Ferris
Beloei
U S Immigration Inspector Shot by Mexican Troops
U S Immigration Inspector Charles B Dixon Jr was shot in Juarez by Mexican federal troops while on duty He was later moved to El Paso for treatment Consul Edwards demanded immediate arrest and punishment of those responsible, straining US-Mexico relations in the wake of the shooting
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Washington
Tex
T. D. Edwards
Charles B. Dixon, Jr
United States
Edwards
Arthur Walker
Castro
F. W. Bershire
Charles B. Dixon
Wilson
Mexico
State Department
Thomas Edwards
Berkshire
Bryan
Huerta
Bernard
McDonapaiva
Hoosier News Briefs Report Fatal and Haunting Incidents
Richmond Pensylvanian railroad fireman Grover Spencer was killed when his head struck a bridge as the train passed, his body found in a creek after a search. Lafayette Peru bridge carpenter Fred Dunkinson was seriously injured leaping onto a pilot to avoid a fast passenger train. he survives. Rochester Talma in Fulton county quarantined for smallpox after a telephone worker returned home infected. Gary Greek Manuel Courttis marries 16 year old Julia Gatyas amid an arrest for kidnapping but the father relents. Peru baptismal bridge project halted awaiting bid rules. $40,000 allocated for a Wabash river bridge to replace the washed away structure.
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Grover ~ Spencer
Pensylvania Railroad
Spencer
Lynn
Pike County
Lafayette
Fred Dunkinson
Peru
Wabash
Sixth Street
Dunkinson
Rochester
Talma
Fulton County
Here
Warsaw
Telephone Exchange
O. M. King
Mary E. Kinkaid dies after hospital operation
In Shelbyville the widowed Mary E. Kinkaid aged 58 received a government pension back payment of 1400 dollars shortly before dying. She was taken to Indianapolis Monday for an operation at Methodist hospital which failed to save her life while she remained unconscious. Local notices also mention Franklin and Hopewell Threshing Company members and wheat deposits for grinding at Suckow Company mill.
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Mary E. Kinkaid
William Kinkaid
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