Pumpkins Loom as Indiana Harvest Cries for Labor
Indiana reports a boom in pumpkin production led by Boone and Montgomery counties. Farmers fear a frost will leave hills of pumpkins ungathered as shortages of harvesters threaten the crop. The Hoosier pumpkin has gained national and international notice, with farmers appealing for workers to gather the record yields.
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Indianapolis
Kansas
Dakotas
Indiana
Hoosier
Atlantic
Pacific
Boone
Montgomery
Purdue Students Beaten in Lafayette Riot
In Lafayette Indiana a riot between Purdue University students and city toughs left six students seriously injured and 15 badly beaten as they returned from a dance. A large crowd responded at the levee where the victims lay unconscious. five assailants were arrested during the melee. John Miller and M. J. McChesney of Charleston West Virginia were named among the most seriously harmed.
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Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
West Lafayette
John Miller
M. J. McChesney
Charleston
W. Va
Unique in Several Ways Linden Indiana Town Oddities
Linden stands out among Indiana towns with two railways and two churches but no station or preacher, two saloons that are empty, a hotel building yet no hotel, and no near-term prospects to fill these vacancies. The town seeks preachers and a hotel keeper but rejects any rumor of a saloon rush.
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Linden
Indiana
Zit
Warsaw Fire Spoils Big Summer Hotel
Rev P Heil pastor of the Evangelical church at North Webster led a volunteer fire company that saved the town from a blaze at a large summer hotel owned by Abner Warner. Town residents contributed about $2000 to aid Warner after the disaster.
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Warsaw
P. Heil
Evangelical Church
North Webster
Abner “Warner
Warner
Fepelvaings
Bequest News Arrives After Divorce Suit Filed
Evansville street tar conductor Asa Worley sued his wife for divorce claiming abandonment. A few days earlier he learned he would inherit about 40,000 dollars from Cincinnati, but soon after his wife deserted him and took most household effects.
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Evansville
Asa Worley
Worley
Kaolin Bed Found Near Princeton on Big Creek
Southwestern county excitement over a nine foot kaolin bed discovered along Big Creek. Specimens were brought to the ferry by F. Martii of Cynthiana and will be sent to State Geologist Blatchley for analysis to determine quality.
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Princeton
Big Creek
Ol .F. Martii
Cynthiana
Blatchley
Candidate for Joint Representative in Pike and Dupon counties
Samuel W Eb Dillon, of Petersburg, announces his candidacy for joint Representative of Pike and Duplin counties subject to the Democratic nominating convention. He claims to have contributed materials for local projects and seeks party support.
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Jasper
Samuel
Dillon
Petersburg
Pike County
Ary
Shimself.ag
Pike
Duodts
Prison wedding celebration at Marion County jail
A fragmentary report notes a prison wedding day at Marion County jail with celebratory elements described in unclear text. The event highlights inmates and staff connections during a ceremonial moment inside the facility.
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Sya Weading
Marion
Ithe
Sgra
Heritt
Fragmentary OCR of historic page shows garbled political notes
A damaged OCR fragment references President Roosevelt and mentions teeth and a tower. The text is highly unreadable with scattered phrases about governance and safety, providing little coherent event or names.
Church transfers and college presidency unsettled
Report notes disputed claims of a church figure being transferred by the Greenfield conference to the city and possibly taking the presidency of an eastern college. Separate items discuss a 30,000 shortage discovered in Vandalia railroad filings and alleged rebates to local manufacturers. The State Attorney plans to present the matter to the grand jury as the case proceeds.
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Indiana
M. E. Church
South End
Vandalia
Gibot
Grand Jury
Federal Égurte
Gas and Oil Venture Moves in Vincennes County
A group led by Charles El and Richard Veltch plus Vincennes figures sold part holdings to Indiana Refining Company of Georgetown for 350000 dollars. The deal follows months of exploration tied to gas and oil activity in the county.
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Jn pEighteen
Vincenngs
Charles EL
Richard
Veltch
Arom
Ttsburg
Itile
Sien Faerens
Indiana Refining Company
Georgetown
Wellman Expedition Fails After Severe Polar Storm
Polar expedition led by Walter Wellman abandons attempt to reach the pole after a strong storm. The airship America, shed earlier, faced worsening weather and was towed toward Glacier Bay. occupants were rescued as the balloon and car were dismantled.
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Frithjot
Schitzbergen
Wellman
Amer
Wis
Express
Viegel Bay Islands
Walter’ Wellman
Ching
Riesenberg
Vandman
Amperica
Robbery on Great Northern Oriental limited train No 1
Two masked men halted the Great Northern Oriental limited six to seven miles west of Rexford Montana early Thursday. They fired on passengers, blew open the express safe, found it empty, and fled with registered mail. A $10,000 reward was posted for arrests.
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St. Paul, Minn
Elliott
Great Northern Express Company
Great Northern Oriental Limited
St. Paul
Rexford
Mont
Explosion Injures Five On Wisconsin Farm
An explosion involving dynamite placed in a bundle of grain injured five people on a threshing machine Friday at Peter Peterson’s farm near Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. Investigation continues.
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Chippewa
Falls
Wis
Peter
Peterson
Isla
Young Washington Man Killed After Horse Flings Rider
C Berry Winship aged 21, a member of a prominent Washington family, was killed in Rock Creek Park when his horse shied on a road object. He was dragged by the stirrup, kicked, and died shortly after Dr. Glennon arrived. He had recently come into a large inheritance.
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Washington
Berry Winship
Rock Creek Park
Glennon
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Mr. Winship
Murdered in Mexico in Guanajuato sends consular telegram
A telegram from Dwight Furness United States consul at Guanajuato Mexico reports the murder of George Rose an American and the wounding of his wife by Mexican bandits at Guanajuato Rose 34 son of W W A D Rose Benton Harbor Michigan.
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George Rose
Michigan
Guanajuato
Laporte
Ind
Dwight Furness
Furnessville
United States
Mexico
A. D. Rose
Benton Harbor
Mich
Torturer Confesses Crime in Lincoln Robbery Case
Lincoln and county authorities say paroled convict Wehr confessed after pursuit by a bloodhound and arrest following the Saturday night robbery of Mr and Mrs Warren Mundy. He led police to $60 of the loot and implicated two accomplices in the masked attack on the Mundy home.
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Lincoln
Albert’ Wehr
Warren ‘Mundy
Wehr
Telegraphers End Strike Return to Work in Cleveland
In Cleveland Ohio a local telegraphers strike concluded Friday as striking operators including the union vice president returned to work with the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company.
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Cleveland
Postal Telegraph
Cable” Company
Head-On Boston & Maine Crash Blamed on Dispatch Orders
A fatal head-on collision on the Concord division of the Boston & Maine between the southbound Quebec express and a northbound freight occurred four miles north of Canaan Station Vermont. Twenty four dead and twenty seven injured as chaos followed light morning fog.
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Boston & Maine
White River Junction
Quebec
Concord
Boston & Maine Railroad
Canaan Station
Sherbrooke
Canaan
Lusitania Sets Transatlantic Steamship Record to New York
The Cunard liner Lusitania arrives in New York from Queenstown after five days and fifty four minutes at sea, averaging 23.01 knots. The voyage beats the Lucania’s Queenstown to New York time by six hours and twenty nine minutes, though not the overall hourly average. Other liners Kaiser Wilhelm II and Deutschland post higher per hour speeds to Plymouth.
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New York
Cunard Line
Queenstown
Sandy Hook
Lucania
Lusitania
Kaiser Wilhelm SI
Plymouth
Deutschland
Copper mining crisis risks mass layoffs at Butte
A producer consumer deadlock triggers copper surplus with Amalgamated Copper likely to shut Butte mines. Shares fell to 60.25 while 10 000 workers face unemployment as fuel and price pressures compound the glut and bank lending tightens.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
Butte
Mont
Amalgamated
The
Stock Exchange
Amalgamated Company
Amalgamated Copper Company
United States
United Metals Selling Company
Metal Exchange
G A R Encampment Ends at Saratoga in 1907
Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic concluded their forty first annual encampment in Saratoga New York on Friday adjourned until 1908 Installation of officers elected Thursday and appointive officers announced by Commander in Chief Burton took place Beath of Philadelphia installed officers Reports from the resolutions committee urged congress to authorize a soldiers hospital near the Gulf of Mexico raise widows pensions to twelve dollars a month memorials for union soldiers who stayed in the south and burial rights for widows beside husbands in national cemeteries new appointments include Adjutant General Jere T Dew Quartermaster General Charles Burrows Inspector General Col D R Stowitz Judge Advocate General L L Collins Assistant General J Henry Heacomb and Chief of Staff J Corle Winans
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Saratoga
N. Y
Grand Army of the Republic
Burton
Robert’ B. Beath
Philadelphia
Committee On
Congress
Gulf of Mexico
South
Burton’s
Jere T. Dew
Kansas City
Charles’ Burrows
Rutherford
N. J
Col
D. R. Stowitz
Buffalo
L. L. Collins
Minnesapolis
Minn
J. Henry Heacomb
J. Corle Winans
Toledo
Rogers Suffering Stroke Imperils His Business Role
Boston court hears testimony from Rogers relatives and his physician that Henry H. Rogers suffered a stroke last July and has been unable to conduct business. The Amalgamated Copper chief reportedly declines to attend court as judges weigh a $50 million royalty case against him tied to petroleum production.
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New York
H. Rogers
The
Ama
Mated Copper, Company
Europe
Rockefeller
Boston
Montana
Amalgamated Copper Company
William G. Rockefeller
Rogers
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Rockefellers
Henry H. Rogers
Somerville
Dewey Attends Funeral For Admiral in Brooklyn
Admiral Dewey and about a dozen fellow rear admirals attended the Brooklyn funeral of a senior naval commander. A lithographing establishment on Broadway was showing a reproduction of a naval officer's cabin.
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Dewey
New
York
Jrear
Brooklyn
A. Sbie
Broadway
Admiral Walker Dies at York Beach Maine
Rear Admiral John G. Walker U.S. Navy retired died Monday at York Beach Maine after illness. He served 49 years on active duty and chaired the Isthmean Canal Commission from 1899 to 1901. He was 72.
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York Beach
John G. Walker
U.S. N
S. A. Pickering
Salem
Mass
Washington
Navy
Walker
Imost
Isthmian Canal Commission
Boat capsizing in Delaware River claims four lives
In Philadelphia a 19 year old Ada Smith and 23 year old George Denver drowned when a heavily laden boat was struck by a swell and capsized midstream in the Delaware River near a 12 foot towboat. Mrs Ray Springer and her two Bil lingsport New Jersey children narrowly avoided drowning.
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Philadelphia
Ada “Smith
George Denver
Westville
Nv J
Ray Springer
Billingsport
N.J
Delaware
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Dr. Jekyl
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Hyde
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Bandits
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Rich Young
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