Jobbing pages greet readers in old Laporte notices
A jumble of local items from Laporte era mentions visitors to Mrs. Sanders and church notices, court sentences for sodomy, a Miss Ila Lonn named dean, a wheat germination anecdote, divorce case, political chatter, schoolhouse contracts, thefts, Henry Augustine sightings, contagious disease rules, and clock care tips.
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Ila Lonn
John Lonn
Laporte
Fargo University
Neb
University of Pennsylvania
Miss Loon
West
India na Cranaportation Opens Summer Season With Fleet
Michigan City sees a busy start as two steamers carried about 3 500 passengers on Saturday and 1 500 on Sunday noon to the city. The Roosevelt skipped Sunday afternoon trips due to a Waukegan Milwau kee run. The big craft returned to Chicago last night and a weekday crowd rode the noon return. Regular schedule begins tomorrow with the States at 6 45 a m and the Roosevelt at 4 20 p m. Harbor boats number over 30 white wings lining the deck and crowds gather to watch the fleet depart for Chicago.
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Michigan City
Indiana Cranaportation Company
Chicago
Roosevelt
Waukegan
Milwaukee
Price Reductions of Auge thic Week at Specht Irinney Skinner
This week sales announce substantial price cuts on area rugs from Specht Irinney Skinner Co Valpo. Offers include 9x12 rugs in Brussels Axminster Velvet and tapestry styles with prices from 12.50 to 22.50 and quality levels noted.
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Brussels
Axminster
Invader Wins Twentieth Annual Chicago to Michigan City Race
Invader Otto Schoenwerk's 21-foot racer repeated 1910 triumph by finishing first in the 36 mile course from Chicago to Michigan City on Saturday. Lartkin, a 35-foot sloop, finished six seconds behind after starting 15 minutes later in a close duel for the time trophy. Invader’s corrected time was 4 32.3 with a margin of 21 minutes 15 seconds.
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Invader
Otto Schoenwerk
Chicago
Michigan City
Lartkin
Siven
Motorcycle crash near Westville injures Chicago couple
Herman Cook and a young Chicago woman were riding a tandem north on the Westville road when a calf darted into the path near the Lake Shore overpass. Cook was badly cut and injured. his passenger returned home that night after hospital treatment.
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Herman Cook
Cook
Pre-Columbian Voyages Questioned by Fiske
The article cites John Fiske asserting pre-Columbian voyages lacked historic impact. They led to two Greenland settlements but added little to geography or colonization and did not affect European awareness until Columbus's 1492 voyage unified eastern and western hemispheres.
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America
John Fiske
Greenland
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Farr
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Liporte
G. I. Christie
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Edna Deming
Elsie Ernst
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Francis Brown
Krueger
Stakholders
Henry Augustine
R. P. McLaughlin
Henry
John
State Board of Health
B. W. Douglass
Douglass
Specht-Irinney-Skinner Co
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Ifun
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Mutual
Oberreich & Arnold Jewelers and Opticans
A. Standiford
Westville
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Smith Premier ‘Typewriter. Co. Twc
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