SAY! Column: Greencastle Debates City Hall and Hunts
Greencastle mayor states no new 100000 city hall will be built. Instead the fire apparatus will be moved to the street to free the main floor for checker players. A community house may be funded by a private donor to serve the checkers. Also notes Webb-Arnold hunt plans and local sports talk including Butler football and DePauw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Arnold
Greencastle
Ind
Charles McGaughey
McGaughey
Checker
Noahs Ark Exploration Association Receives Charter
Chicago December 4 The Noahs Ark Exploration Association received a charter to search for Noahs ark. William J Strong with H H Lurie and F W Thorne lead the effort to fund and coordinate a search for the ark for the 1933 worlds fair. Offices opened and airplanes will be used in the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Casualty list of hunters grows daily in Indiana
An Indiana casualty list tracks hunting deaths and injuries across the state amid a season of mishaps. The report cites youths and adults losing limbs or lives from careless handling of loaded firearms, with several fatalities in Muncie Worthington Evansville Anderson Bloomington and Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
INS
Indiana
Hoosier
International
William Johnson
Muncie
Donald Sherrow
Worthington
McClure Muffley
Evansville
Jesse Durham
Anderson
Maxwell
Elmer Harding
Metea
Harvey Harlow
Bloomington
J. W
Billy” Hill
Francis Mellen
Franklin Ind
Court Finds Perry Nichols Not Guilty of Incest
Perry Nichols, 41, of near Ladoga, was found not guilty in Montgomery circuit court after the prosecuting witness, his daughter Nellie Nichols, 19, refused to back up her statement. The judge was Jere West and the outcome followed her claim being recanted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Nichols
Ladoga
Jere West
Montgomery
Nellie Nichols
Crawfordsville
King George Condition Shows Slow Recovery Amid Fever Spike
London reports say the king had a fair night and doctors see improving infection, though temperature remains high. Sir Stanley Hewett and Lord Dawson keep vigil at Buckingham Palace as the crisis is not yet passed. In Aden the Prince of Wales arrives aboard the Enterprise after a voyage from Dar es Salaam.
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Harry R. Flory I
N. S
London
England
King George
Royal Physicians
Sir Stanley Hewett
Lord Dawson
Penn
Sir Stanley
Palace
Has Majesty
Aden
Arabia
INS
Enterprise
Prince of Wales
Dar- Es-Salaam
British East Africa
Africa
Auto Victim in Critical Condition After Hit and Run
James Humphrey aged resident of Mr. Meridian is reported critically ill after a hit and run on Martinsville street Saturday around 11 30. He and his grandson were walking waiting for Virgil Humphrey to return with gasoline when the accident happened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Humphrey
Meridian
Martinsville Street
Humphrey
Weather outlook fair with warmer Thursday
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday. Temperatures rise slightly on Thursday with the extreme northeast portion warmer tonight.
Indiana Rotary Leader to Speak at Greencastle Meeting
Worth W. Pepple, district governor of Rotary from Gary Indiana, will headline Greencastle Rotary Club’s evening luncheon at 6:50 today in the Christian Church dining room. Crawfordsville’s Frank McNutt will also attend as group representative. Pepple will address members and meet with club directors at 5 pm with Joe Bamberger, club president.
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Worth W. Pepple
Christian Church
Rotary Club
Joe Bamberger
Former DePuy President May Be Council Head
The New York Times reports Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the New York area as slated to become president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The council starts its sixth quadrennial meeting in Rochester, while Rev. Dr. B Parks Cadman’s term ends. Cadman is not eligible for re-election. McConnell, 57, assumed his New York charge last May after eight years as bishop of the Pittsburgh area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
The
New York Times
Francis J. McCoNnell
Methodist Episcopal Church
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Rochester
N. Y
Parks Cadman
Cadman
McConnell
Pittsburgh
Greencastle Elks to Hold Memorial Services
Twenty years ago in Greencastle the Elks lodge planned memorial services at their hall Sunday. Also noted were Mrs. Fanny Walls aiding ill Albert Flynn with typhoid, Mrs. G W Crawley and Edith returning from Princeton, and Joe Allen with Albert Houck newly initiated into the thirty second degree of masonry in Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle Lodge of Elks
Fanny Walls
Cloverdale
Albert Flynn
Joe Allen
Albert Houck
Indianapolis
Congress Gets Down To Work Early In 70th Congress
Washington dispatch notes the 70th Congress settling into a three month grind with major bills pending in the Senate and lighter activity in the House. Key measures include the Boulder Dam Bill, Caraway cotton measure, Hawes anti-convict labor bill, and a new Nicaraguan canal survey, with farm relief prospects uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
Congress
Senate
Republican
Prohibition Service
McNary- Haugen
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
Kellogg
Friends of the Navy
Bil
Sackett
Kentucky
House
Census Committee
McNary
Oregon
Agricultural Committee
Coolidge
Great White Plague Through History
The article traces tuberculosis as a persistent worldwide scourge noted by ancient scholars from Chinese records in the sixth century BC to Greek physicians. It describes forms such as empyema, pneumothorax, and hemorrhage mentioned by Hippocrates and recounts its enduring impact across social strata.
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Hippocrates
Tuberculosis Sunday Proclaimed in Greencastle
Mayor Charles McGaughey issues a December 9 1928 Tuberculosis Sunday proclamation urging citizens to buy Christmas Seals and Health Bonds to support the Putnam County Tuberculosis Association and Indiana related efforts. Also notes United Spanish War Veterans meeting at Dr Hawkins office tonight at 7 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McGaughey
National Tuberculosis Association
Indiana Tuberculosis Association
Greencastle
Putnam County Tuberculosis Association
Indiana
Gwin Ensign
Greencastle Indiana
Earl Fisk
United Spanish War Veterans
Dr. Hawkins
F. A. Ashworth
H. O. Irwin
Big crowd fills court house for gift distribution event
A large downtown crowd attended Tuesday night’s gift distribution by merchants of the Chamber of Commerce at the court house assembly room. Winners received cash and goods such as Kodak cameras, furniture, clothing, and shop vouchers, with prizes announced by judges Samuel Hanna L. E. Mitchell and Miss Ruth Owens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Court House
R. P. Mullins
J. F
S. C. Prevo
Samuel Hanna
L. E. Mitchell
Ruth Owens
Mullins Drug Store
Brown
Kodak
Ben Pace
Moffett & Dobbs
Harry Ragsdale
Ed Hamilton
Hester Williams
Beck Sales Co
Far H. Frazier
Cook Hardware Co
Ruby Cowan
Williams Tin
William Cunningham
Fitelforge Meat Market
Lawrence Long
J. B. McCurry
Imogene Williams
Tresslar
Melba Collins
A. Tony
Sanitary
Russell Firestone
Browning & Hammond
Fry Owen Glass Baker
Esther M. Benefiel
Todd & Son
Wanda Cunningham
Anderson Tire Co
M. FE. Wade
High Point Oil Co
Phillip Sellers
H. A. Sherrill
Oliver M. Dean
First National Bank
Xmas Savings Club
Mary C. Lisby
Central National Bank
Minnie Shuck
Lee Williams
Orvil Bitzer
Stark & Griffith
Burly Burnham
Franklin Street
Firestone
A. M. Alexander
Owl Drug Store
Duska
Lula Shildmyer
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DePauw
Wabash
Butler
Ried Low
Western Front
Halley Graham
Orie Covault
Fort Wayne
Oscar Dupree
Petersburg
Clyde Opliker
Roanoke
Robert Cass
P. Nichols
George
Ship of Health
Indiana Rotary
Depuuy
Francis J. M'Connell
G. W. Crawley
Edith
Princeton
William K. Hutchinson
I.N. S
Washington
Seventieth Congress
Cannon
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