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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1928
Page
2
By mail in Putnam County the rate is 2.00 dollars per year. Outside Putnam County the annual rate is 3.50 dollars. In Greencastle by carrier the weekly edition costs 1.50 dollars per year. Advertising rates are available on application.
In a 1925 serial, the Professor leads a robbery gang after $200,000 from Mercer National Bank. Chuck White vows to protect Rose Shannon, a cabaret dancer suspected of knowing the loot, as the gang closes in. Chuck fights, is overpowered, and bound while the Professor schemes to question Rose and flee by train in the night.
The piece argues Republicans use the Tammany Hall issue against Governor Alfred E. Smith to push a national campaign. It cites Smith’s record of tax cuts, social welfare, park and hospital funding, and independence from political machines, claiming voters see his progressive leadership as desirable for Washington. It notes Roosevelt and Hoover contrasts and features a Democratic club slogan by Leopold Strauss.
Japan enforces quirky traffic rules including a night time dome lamp requirement and mud splashers for wet weather. Studebaker representative notes tail light switch placement and bulb horn mandate as examples of Japan's exacting vehicle regulations.
Imperial Beach Calif Aug 15 residents oppose the noise nuisance from army and navy aircraft. They urge a mass meeting as aviators fly low over homes, spooking animals and breaking fences. Cows limit milk, hens abandon nests, hogs stay indifferent to the roaring planes.
Bodie California, once a booming mining hub, beds its resurgence as San Francisco and Los Angeles capitalists revive the Standard and Bodie Consolidated mines. Jim Cain, lifelong booster, predicts long prosperity with new machinery and water pumping efforts.
Lieut. R. R. Bottoms, a former army dirigible officer, found large helium deposits near Dexter Kansas. His company now operates acres of ground with leases, producing wells, and ships helium gas in large tanks, selling about two thirds to the U S government.
Jeffersonville Ind Aug 12 George Hess 30 of Louisville Ky regained his senses after his boat went through the spillway of the Louisville hydro electric plant. He was rescued by fishermen downstream after a fifteen foot fall and was revived to meet the coroner doctor and undertaker who waited to prepare his funeral but he survived.
Alfred E. Ullom of Hugoton Kansas died four months after learning he was heir to a $10 million fortune from a great uncle who had amassed wealth in the fur business with John Jacob Astor. The will released after the financier's death shows the fund remained intact until the second generation's passing.
In Columbia City Indiana on August 12 Robert Marker four years old, son of Mr and Mrs Boyd Marker, is dead after his younger brother Gordon three remains dangerously ill from ptomaine poisoning caused by meat eaten days earlier. Both fell ill last Wednesday.
Warner Bros comedy stars Clyde Cook in a dual role as James and Horace Bullard with Louise Fazenda as the other woman. Betty Blythe Jean Laverty and Arthur Rankin support. Graham Baker wrote the story and scenario. Ray Enright directed. Opens today at the Granana Theatre.
Esther Ralston stars in the Paramount mystery comedy Something Always Happens showing today and Tuesday at the Voncastle Theatre. The film mixes suspense with humor as ghosts appear in the plot.
A young woman bored with life enters a haunted English house where doors slam solo and ghostly phenomena unfold. Miss Ralston stars with Neil Hamilton in a Frank Tuttle directed production from Louis Lighton, known for The Spotlight and Love and Leary.
Mrs. Rose Miller of South Bend Indiana reports relief after using Konjola for eight years of rheumatic and stomach misery. She says three bottles ended grinding back and stomach pains and strengthened her nerves enabling better sleep. Konjola sold in Greencastle at Owl drug store and by major druggists in the region.
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