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Cannot Give Away Money

CANNOT GIVE AWAY MONEY

QUEER CONDITION CONFRONTS COUNTY AUDITOR

Many Persons Entitled to Mortgage Exemptions Have Failed to Claim Them and $75,000 is Held Awaiting Claimants

Harry B. Smith, county auditor, is complaining because he can not give away $75,000.

That figure represents the amount that is due taxpayers under the mortgage exemption law, but which was collected in 1901 under the belief that the law was unconstitutional. Since that time, the Taxpayers Association, through its attorney, W. B. Schwartz, secured a mandate from the supreme court to compel the payment of the amounts due on mortgage exemptions.

“We are giving warrants for the payment of the amounts due those who come in,” said Mr. Smith, “but they are awfully slow about it. I can not understand what the reason is. To most of them, it means $13.”

Many of those who have claimed the money erroneously paid have applied it on the year’s taxes, so the county gets it anyway.

“Cannot Give Away Money,” The Indianapolis Sun (Indianapolis, Indiana), 20 August 1902, p. 1, col. 5; digital image, Newspaper Archive (http://www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 27 March 2014).

Rip-Roaring Platform Adopted By Democrats

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A RIP-ROARING PLATFORM ADOPTED BY DEMOCRATS

In Their County Convention, Which Was Attended By A Small Crowd

Democratic County Convention Got Plenty of Candidates

[Editor’s note: The actual article was much longer but I have included only the section that mentions W. B.]

Clark for Prosecutor

Charles B. Clark was nominated for prosecutor on the first ballot by the following vote: Clark, 294 1/2; Cox, 245 1/2; Barrett, 24.

The convention was literally stampeded for Charles E. Cox for criminal judge. Someone in Lawrence township tried to nominate someone else, but the convention would not hear him. Cox was nominated with a roar.

Ex-Judge and ex-Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan was nominated with another roar for circuit judge.

After several had declined to run, Edgar A. Brown, W. B. Schwartz and John Kingsbury consented to allow themselves to be voted for for superior judge in room 1. Brown was nominated by acclamation after part of the vote had been taken.

A Rip-Roaring Platform Adopted By Democrats,” The Indianapolis Sun (Indianapolis, Indiana), 27 May 1902, p. 1, col. 1-3; digital image, Newspaper Archive (http://www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 26 March 2014).

Strikes It Rich!

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STRIKES IT RICH!

Attorney Schwartz Lands a Fortune by Inventing a Typewriter

Lawyer W. B. Schwartz, 1130 Brookside ave., has invented a typewriter, which he has sold to the typewriter trust for something like $50,000 down and $3,000 a year to remain out of the typewriter inventing business until 1901.

The machine is a type-bar model. The type bars strike forward from the basket in the front of the machine in which they rest. The oscillating pointer directly in front of the platen shows exactly where the type will strike the paper. Mr. Schwartz has been invited to go into the trust and work out other ideas, but thinks he will continue his law practice. The company owning the patents when they were sold was composed of W. B. Schwartz, C. L. Holowel, Dunrieth, Ind., and Theodore Harrison, of Indianapolis.

“Strikes It Rich!,” Indianapolis Sun (Indianapolis, Indiana), 21 July 1899, p. 3, col. 2; digital image, Newspaper Archive (http://www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 7 March 2014).

Wanted

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WANTED – Situation as housekeeper, by lady: references. Inquire W. B. Schwartz. 94 1/2 E. Washington

“To Late to Classify,” Indianapolis Sun (Indianapolis, Indiana), 21 August 1897, p. 2, col. 5; digital image, Newspaper Archive (http://www.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 6 March 2014).