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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1929
Page
2
Mr and Mrs Ross Hassler of Reelsville welcome a baby girl. Seniors in Cloverdale report surgery recovery for Homer Broadstreet. Many families visit Indianapolis and Washington DC. several entries on travels and relatives. City budget talks set for Tuesday with Vine and Bloomington streets contracts.
Chicago police hold eight men in a case of holding against their will and wholesale abduction of two 15 year old girls. The abductors seized the girls last Tuesday and confined them in a barn until Friday. Among those identified are Claude Montgomery 20 John Dempsey 21 Edward Conway 21 and Joseph Walsh 28.
Hogs rose modestly on the Indianapolis market with prices $11.40 to $12.15 per cwt and top$12.25 for 130 to 260 lb hogs. Cattle scarce and steady. vealers up 50c to $16. sheep and lambs steady with higher grade lambs $13 to $14.50. J F Gillespie sues Holmes Craver in Putnam Circuit Court for $25 note due 1918 plus $70 costs. Mr and Mrs J F B Cash return from a vacation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
Girly Return Home From Camping Trip residents report several local girls returning from Turkey Run after a week away. Greenlee Family Reunion Held at Kelly Home draws 66 members from multiple Indiana towns with officers elected and plans for next year at Coatesville home.
The continuation notes an emergency gear on the airship for added security. Twenty passengers join a crew of 41 for the Tokyo trip. Lady Drummond Hay remains aboard as the only woman passenger. Some travelers, now in Paris and Berlin, may depart early if the Zeppelin starts ahead of schedule.
A coroner’s inquest and private probe opened into a grade crossing wreck near Forney Texas that killed 13 people from two families and likely left another fatally injured. The victims from the Badgett and Henry families were in a small motor truck struck by a Texas and Pacific passenger train after a Dallas outing. Sherwood Badgett saw the tragedy from his home 300 yards away as the truck was hurled 200 yards, leaving many bodies unrecognizable. Others, including Andrew Sweeney and Lydia Cravens, had attended a local reunion nearby.
The Hurst family met at Blue Grove near Meridian with about 50 attendees from several states. Eldon Hill spoke on Hamlin Garland as Pioneer Days Historian, with Harold McNary and Forest McNary also contributing. Officers elected include Forrest G. Hurst as president and Pauline Hurst as secretary.
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