Parlor Riot Music Night Ends With Laughs and Complaints
A gathering at Mrs. Luella Frothingham's on the Drive devolved into a chaotic musical evening, featuring Uncle Heck the inebriated guest, soprano imitations by Imogene Glass, a clattering piano by Gladiola Hungerschnitz, and rough musical acts by Minnehaha Jones and the Pippin brothers. Narrator recalls feisty remarks about the performances and plans to host a quieter event at Forest Avenue once more.
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Mexican Congress
Luella Frothingham
Luella
Jack Frothingham
The
Anvil Association
Forest Avenue
Foliage Street
Frothinghams
Uncle Heck
Joe Morgan
Jack
Imogene Glassface
Imogene
Rufus Kellar Smith
Rufus
Hep
Claribel Montrose
Claribel
Poe
Juliet
Gladiola Hungerschnitz
Gladiola
Conservatory of Music
Elusive Snake Showman At Village Corner
A gentleman on a dry goods box in a prominent village corner brandishes a wriggling serpent and invites the crowd to gather for profit and entertainment. A skeptical citizen calls him an infernal office seeker promising to eat snakes to rid the county as the crowd disperses.
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Ellsworth
Kansas
City Star
Jones Breaks Silence With Brass Collar Dog Joke
The piece recalls Jones who enjoys a joke but can barely tell one. At a party she repeats a dog joke about a dog being the most musical animal because it wears a brass collar. The moment landed as she asked why a dog is musical and then delivered the punchline about the brass collar.
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Uncle Heck
Peter Grant
Martha
Hardy
Bunch Jefferson
Alice
Bud Hawley
Phil Merton
Dave Mason
Stub” Wilson
Jennie
Peaches
Pippin Brothers
Minnehaha
Clarence Smith
Lancelot Diffenberger
Hector Tompkins
Clarence
Lancelot
Hector
Mascagni
Jones
Indiana Counts 768 620 School Age Children This Year
Indiana reports 768 620 children aged six to twenty one this year, up 2 239 from 1914. White male attendance rose to 388 447 and white females to 364 023 as county tallies replace city data. Colored enrollments declined slightly, with 8 094 colored boys and 8 058 colored girls of school age.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Charles A. Greathouse
Ernest L. Welborn
Cities Fund for All-Time Health Officers in Indiana
Dr J N Hurty state health commissioner says three Indiana cities Gary Valparaiso and Indiana Harbor have funded work of all time health officers and Peru soon to follow Michigan City has labs for health study but no all time officer Gary Indiana Harbor and Valparaiso also have laboratories Daily reports to the state board of health are received from these all time officers They will devote full time to correcting unhealthful city conditions.
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J. N. Hurty
Indiana
Gary
Valparaiso
Indiana Harbor
Hurty
Peru
Michigan City
Harry
State Board of ‘Health
Purdue alumnus Scheuch named acting Montana president
Lafayette Frederick CL reports Scheuch, Purdue ’93 graduate, appointed acting president of the University of Montana at Missoula. President Craighead takes a long leave. Scheuch is likely to become permanent. Born in Spain, he is a descendant of Frederick Scheuch and has long service as consul at Barcelona. He was educated in Frankfurt before coming to Purdue.
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Lafayette
Frederick CL
Frankfort
Germany
Purdue
Indiana Brevities Chronicle Multiple Local Incidents
Bloomfield Maj James A Emery 60 dies suddenly at home after farm work. He served in Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines and was promoted major in the Spanish American War. Survived by two sons Nathaniel and Robert and daughter Mrs Jesse Brown. Covington Rev B T Clifton 27 arraigned on petit larceny, released on 500 bond. engagement to Miss Olcie Hesler announced. Indianapolis tri state furniture dealers alliance approved with Indiana delegates. Mishawaka Abraham Wills celebrate 61st wedding anniversary and 82nd birthday with family. Brazil gravemarker William de Brular, a grave digger since 1881, dug 3500 graves. Fort Wayne Mrs Carl Tigges dies after auto crash in heavy rain. Indianapolis Pansy Richards dies. Gabriel Alban suspected in shooting. Laporte Claude McKay fatally crushed at English Lake colliery. Boonville Earl Judking drowns at Menden coal mine pond. Gary Miller Beach to copy Atlantic City boardwalk style. Lafayette Alfred Richardson commits suicide. revolver. Laporte Miss Mena Zellon dies during hailstorm. Newcastle Union City chosen for Epworth League next year. Richmond Perry Blackburn charged with involuntary manslaughter in cemetery death.
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Wisconsin
Robert Emery
United States Army
Texas City
Tex
Jesse Brown
Covington
B. T. Clifton
Kingman
Salem
Olcile Hesler
Hillsboro
William Coffing
Veedersburg
Henry Zackmire
Clifton
Wabash College
de Pauw University
Miss Hesler
Indianapolis
Tri State Alliance of
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Ohio Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association
Elmer F. Gay
J. G. Antrim
Sheridan
E W. Showalter
Brookville
W. F. Evans
Wawaka
Brazil
William de Brular
Dg Brular
Fort Wayne
Carl Tigges
Earl Thompson
Thompson
Pansy Richards
Gabriel Alban
Laporte
Claude McKaay
North Judson
English Lake
McKay
Boonville
Earl
Gary
Miller’ Beach
Atlantic City
Lafayette
Alfred Richardson
Brookston
Mena
Zellon
Newcastle
Union
Richmond
Epworth ’ League
Perry” Blackburn
Ernest” ” Nordiesch
Sexton
Letheran
Blackburn
Blind Civil War veteran reunited with sisters after 52 years
Edward Lewey, a Civil War veteran, was found blind and living in a Kansas soldiers home. His three sisters from Chicago discovered him through ads, brought him to an eye specialist, and after surgery he regained sight long enough to recognize his sisters and describe their rings.
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Brother
Kansas
Chicago
Edward Lewey
Valparaiso
Ind
Poked Oar Into Whale Off Santa Barbara
New York tourist Frank Hamer, while paddling in a channel near Santa Barbara, mistook a massive whale for a rock. He escaped by rowing to safety as the whale surged and crashed, waterspout soaking him and his boat before fishers came to his aid.
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Santa
Barbara
Cal
Frank Hamer
New York
Hamer
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