Indiana Apple Exhibit Draws Big Crowds and Support
The Indiana apple show in Tomlinson hall ends with officials calling for state funding after strong educational gains. Prizes awarded include H M Widney of St Joe with 318 dollars, H V Elrod of Orleans grand sweepstakes, and multiple winners from Heacock Fruit Co and A A Graham. Officials push for legislature to finance future shows and note the event as a growing market.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Tomlinson Hall
Indiana Horticultural Society
H. M. Widney
St. Joe
H. V. Elrod
Orleans
Heacock Fruit Company
Salem
A. A. Graham
Liberty
Beat Plate
C. J. Pickering
Middletown
S. Billingsly
Greenwood
Thomas B. McMath
Broadway
Burnham
Jennings County
B. R. Smith
Apple Show Commission
Indiana Odd Fellows Lead Nation with 18 810 Members
Grand Patriarch W I Hughes reports Indiana’s Odd Fellows remain the world’s largest jurisdiction with 18 810 members as of July 1 1912 at Indianapolis. Incoming officers include J R Andrews River Vale as grand patriarch and J B Merriman Bluffton as grand high priest with re elections of W H Leedy Indianapolis grand scribe and J M Lang Sullivan grand treasurer.
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Indiana
River Vale
J. B. Merriman
Bluffton
S. O. Sharp
Indianapolis
W. H. Leedy
J. M. Lang
Sullivan
Hughes
Henry F. Fulling
Boonville
Park
Diamond
Parke County
Royal Center
Cass County
Elnora
Daviess County
Orleans
Sunday School Work Discussed at Indiana Institute
The Indiana Pastors and Superintendents institute opened at Roberts Park M E church in Indianapolis with large attendance. Rev Dr Edgar Blake of Chicago praised Sunday school leadership and building bigger schools while Mrs A A Lamoreaux urged five keys for church growth including loyalty and high ideals.
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Indiana
Roberts Park M. E
Indianapolis
Edgar Blake
Chicago
Methodist Episcopal Church
Blake
W. E. Carpenter
Brazil
A. A Lamoreaux
Sunday School Board of Sunday Schools
M. E. Church
Indianapolis to host next American Prison Association meeting
Delegates from Indiana, led by Amos W. Butler, discussed the Baltimore meeting of the American Prison Association. Indiana was well represented and Indianapolis received unanimous support to host the next gathering after a state committee vote.
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Amos W. Butler
Board of State Charities
Baltimore
American Prison Association
Indianapolis
Indiana
Buuler
Marshall
Shank
Indiana Promises Big Entry at International Live Stock Show
Indiana farmers forecast a record showing at the thirteenth annual International Live Stock Show to run November 30 to December 7 at Union Stock Yards Chicago. Indiana entrants plan 159 beef cattle across five breeds, 61 top sheep, 152 hogs, 172 horses and nine Shetland ponies.
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Indiana
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Rabies Found in Two Sullivan County Dogs
State laboratory tests on brain tissue from two Sullivan county dogs, killed after bites, confirmed rabies. Dr. B H Bland from Farmersburg had treated bite victims, and a head sample was sent to the pathology lab for examination.
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Sullivan County
Farmersburg
B. ‘H. Bland
W.thompson
Nationwide raids target doctors and druggists in race death crusade
Postal inspectors led a countrywide operation arresting 173 people in 72 towns over alleged use of mail to promote criminal medical practices or illegal drug sales. Chicago saw 12 arrests while cities from Portland to San Francisco and beyond contributed to the nationwide sweep begun Wednesday.
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Chicago
United States
Portland
Ore
Seattle
Oakland
Cal
Cincinnti
San Francisco
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
St. Paul
Denver
Spokane
Oklahoma City
Forth Worth
Omaha
St. Louis
Buffalo
Los Angeles
Mobile
Toledo
Minneapolis
Galveston
Salt Lake City
Ithaca
N. Y
Elmira
East Orange
N. J
Lancaster
Pine Bank
Cumberland
Carnegie Foundation Offers Pensions to Ex Presidents
Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation announce future pensions for ex presidents and unmarried widows of ex presidents without application. President Taft, retiring next March, will receive $25 000. The move follows long discussion of a congressional pension bill.
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New York
Carnegie Foundation
Andrew Carnegie
United States
Taft
Carnegie Corporation
Congress
Stepson Shoots Stepmother Then Kills Self in Hammond
In Hammond Indiana on Thursday nineteen year old Frank Cravens shot his stepmother Mrs Lincoln Cravens during a trivial quarrel and then shot himself. Doctors predict both will die.
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Hammond
Ind
Frank Cravens
Lincoln Cravens
French Aviator Andre Frey Killed in France
Rheims France Nov 23 Andre Frey a noted aviator was killed Thursday when his aeroplane collapsed during a flight around the aerodome and he plunged from about 150 feet authorities reported.
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Rheims
France
Andre Frey
France Warns Turks Over Violence Against Christians
London reports from Vienna and Constantinople describe widespread wartime turmoil. Austrian reserves mobilize near Serbia with 300 000 troops massed. Russian rail stock seized for frontier use. Nazim Pasha directs Turkish forces amid cholera and armistice rejections. Violent acts against Albanians by Serb troops are alleged, including mass executions.
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France
London
England
Vienna
Servian
Galicia
Dow Cossacks
Da‘ly Mail
Nazim Pasha
Tachatalja
Constantinople
Porte
Turkey
Wagner
Reichspost
Nish
Red Cross
Stepanovitch
Kratova
Zivkovitch
Stenitza
Sidna Allen Sentenced Fifteen Years for Massie Murder
Sidna Allen, head of the Allen clan, found guilty of second degree murder in the Hillsville massacre case and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for killing Judge Thornton L. Massie. The Hillsville shootout last March left five dead.
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Wytheville, Va
Wytheville
Sidna Allen
Allen
Carroll County
Hillsville
Thornton L. Massie
Four Guilty of Murder in Rosenthal Case
Four gunmen including "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie" were found guilty of murder in the first degree by a New York Supreme Court jury after just over an hour of deliberation. Sentencing set by Justice Goff. The verdict followed rapid court proceedings and an appeal likely from the defense.
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New York
Navy
Herman Rosenthal
Gyp the Blood
Lefty Louie
Goff
Jack Rose
Bridgey’ Webber
Harry Wallon
William Shapiro
Chaffeur
Sam Schepps
Jack Sullivan
Rosenthal
Charles H. Hyde
Schrank Declared Insane After Roosevelt Shooting
John Schrank, the New York man who shot Col. Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee last month, was declared insane by a five-physician commission. He will be sent to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane near Oshkosh. The report was presented before Judge August C. Backus as Schrank attended court. District Attorney Zabel said he would move to drop the criminal charge and commit him to the insane hospital.
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J. M. Lowe
Kansas City
Old Trails
Jesse Taylor
Jamestown
Ohio Good Roads Federation
Better Roads
Logan Waller Page
Washington
Office of
Public Roads
D. Ward King
Missouri
Charles P. Light
The
American Highway Association
Joshua Strange
Marion
State Farmers’ Congress
A. G. Bachelder
New York
Good Roads Department
American Automobile Association
Peter Huffman
Elkhart County
Boards of Commissioners
Clarence D. Boyd
Indiana State Bar Association
Milwaukee
John Schrank
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Schrank
Wisconsin State Hospital For
Oshkosh
Wis
August C. Backus
Zabel
Supreme Court Declares Bathtub Trust Illegal
The Supreme Court ruled that the enameling license agreements grouping sanitary enameled ironware makers violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, overturning the so called bathtub trust under the guise of patent protection.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Two Allens Granted Respite In Hillsville Murders
Governor Mann granted Floyd and Claude Allen a respite until December 13. They were condemned to death for their roles in the Hillsville courthouse murders in Hillsville Virginia.
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Allens
Richmond
Mann
Floyd
Claude Allen
Hillsville
Rockefeller Donates 5000 for Balkan Relief
John D. Rockefeller contributed 5000 dollars to the American Red Cross for relief work in the Balkan states. The donation raises the Red Cross total to 40000 dollars.
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Rockefeller
Washington
John J. Rockefeller
American Red ‘Cross
Mr. Rockefeller
Man Dies Rescuing Canary as Amityville Fire Rages
A fire at the Brunswick Home for Idiots and related buildings in Amityville killed Fritz Mondary, 30, after he reentered to save his canary. Eight hundred inmates were evacuated and several remain unaccounted for as walls collapsed and staff aided others. Firefighters from six Long Island towns battled the blaze.
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New York
Brunswick Home
Amityville
L. L
Long Island
Londen Hall
Fritz Mondary
New York City
Canary
Gren
Fifty Die In Theater Panic In Bilbao Spain
In Bilbao on Sunday fifty children and others died in a panicked crush at a converted circus cinema. Most victims were women or children as crowds packed the two cent admission. The film sparked a false fire alarm and the exit stampede left many dead or injured. the manager and staff are jailed pending inquiry.
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Bilbao
Spain
Fire damp explosion kills 24 miners in Alais France
Twenty four men died in a coal mine disaster near Alais in Gard department after a fire damp blast on Sunday. Rescue attempts failed as the entire mining crew perished.
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Alais
France
Nimes
Department
Gard
Prairie Fire Sweeps Sioux Reservation Region
Prairie fire swept a 100 mile by ten mile area across the Sioux reservation near Pine Ridge Indiana Agency in S D on Sunday and burned out in river breaks. A second item reports a Southern Pacific passenger train collision with a Texas & Pacific express at a grade crossing in Alexander Louisiana on Sunday killing two trainmen and injuring two.
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Pine Ridge
Indiana Agency
S. D
Sioux Reservation
Alexander
Southern Pacific
Texas & Pacific Express
Free to Women PISO More Tablets Recommended
Local remedy claim praises FREE TO WOMEN PISO S TABLETS as best for women ailments. Promises prompt relief after a two week course. An article Causes of Diseases in Women offered free from The Piso Company Box E Warren PA.
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PISO
Piso Company
Box E
Warren, PA
New Kind of an Irishman Definition That By His Own Confession
Jerome S. McWade recalls jokingly labeling a lawyer an Irishman by extraction after a customs dispute over Gobelin tapes. He recounts a retort about the lawyer’s earnings from Irishmen, framing it as a sly personal jab in a contemporaneous Becker case narrative.
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Sam Schepps
McIntyre
Becker
Jerome S. McWade
Duluth
Mick
Poor Girl and Husband Clash Over Burglary Night
A San Francisco Star report describes a distressed wife recalling six months of marriage and a broken confession. She recounts an argument about a burglar in their room and her husband’s hostile reaction with crude words.
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San Francisco Star
Charles
Removed Crawford Operated On What Did He Have
The note attributes that Crawford had undergone surgery and asks what condition prompted the operation. The source cites a terse New York Times exchange mentioning Crabshaw Money as a clue to the case.
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Crawford
Crabshaw
New York Times
Remark Sparks Question About 50 Value
A remark prompts questions about whether the amount in dispute equals 50. The exchange hints at scrutiny over a specific figure and its significance in the case.
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D. M. Perry
German House
Governor Marshall
Ralston
Adrianople
Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Cajers
Roosevelt
U.S
Cormission
Inn. Y
Man
Canary Bird
Carter
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