Reformatory relocation conference outlining special session bill
Indianapolis dispatch reports a conference on the 1921 relocation law with Sen Estes Duncan and an advisory committee planning a public bill to be printed and mailed to lawmakers. Sen Duncan said copies should reach all legislators by Monday for the upcoming session. Senator William Swain favors moving the reformatory site between Anderson and Pendleton.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Sion
Estes Duncan
General Assembly
Duncan
William Swain
Pendleton
Seventeen or More Feared Lost in Northwest Sea Gale
A two day storm along the Newfoundland coast caused heavy loss at sea with at least eighteen feared dead. Vessels were driven ashore and crewmembers reported missing as relief and communication lines struggled to reach Johns, N. F. The disaster left property damage estimated around 250000 dollars and several survivors reported.
Bank robbers kill patrolman and wound sergeant near Grand Rapids
Four of six bandits robbed the Grand Rapids Savings Bank of 14000 today. Police stormed a house where the men hid. a patrolman Gerrit Brandema was killed and Samuel Slater was fatally wounded. The gang escaped with part of the loot, abandoning currency and bonds. State troopers joined searches. The gang fled after a car crash and commandeered another vehicle toward Lansing.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Grand Rapids Savings Bank
Gerrit Brandema
Samuel Slater
Lansing
Organization of Farmers 10 Solve Problem
Walter B. Remley of Waynetown Indiana told Kiwanis members that solving the farm problem requires more economic production and more orderly marketing. He runs Orchard Grove Farm near Waynetown and breeds Chester White hogs and Shropshire sheep.
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Waynetown
Kiwanis Club
Walter B. Remley
Indiana
Remley
Orchard Grove
Market Opens with Wide Hog and Calf Price Range
Local hive Market opened with varied livestock prices and strong demand. Calves and hogs showed notable figures while buyers eyed the broad price spread in early trading.
Odd Remedies and Quirks From a Bygone Almanac
The passage lists folk practices for fever and illness, noting old remedies such as swallowing spiders or dust, keeping feverish people in a paper slip, and a peculiar ritual of throwing back a loser word. It mentions naming the sick person with birth year and point of birth in a lonely pluck and warns against hair combings being thrown from windows to prevent baldness.
Funeral of Eli Shutts at Commercial Place home
The funeral for Eli Shutts age 72 who died at the Insane Hospital in Indianapolis Tuesday night was held at Donovan Jarvis’s home on Commercial Place Thursday at 2:30. Rev. N M Skinner conducted the service. Interment followed at Forest Hill. Shutts had been in the hospital for 3 weeks and died of heart insufficiency. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs Donovan Jarvis, of whom he had made his home.
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Eli Shutts
Insane Hospital
Indianapolis
Donovan Jarvis
Commercial Place
N. M. Skinner
I . Aterment
Forest Hill
Mrutts
Submarine S-48 Sinks near Bridgeport Harbor
The Lake Submarine S-48 sank off Bridgeport Connecticut last night and stayed submerged for twelve hours before ballast tanks were lightened and the crew escaped through torpedo tubes. Thirty members were taken to hospital for observation at the New York navy yard. Several crewmen were overcome by chlorine gas. Lieutenant Francis Adamys led the rescue effort.
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New York
Péc
Lake
Bridgeport
Gonn
Nothanlee
New York Navy
Francis Adamys
John Kendrick Bangs Surfaces in a Murky Scrapbook Fragment
Fragmentary OCR shows a jumble of names and phrases surrounding John Kendrick Bangs with scattered references to Hilti, MEG, and various misread items. The text is garbled and lacks a coherent event or context to form a clear summary.
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John Kendrick
Hilti
Aden
Height differences across nations challenge Napoleonic theory
The article notes wide individual height variation among famous figures and rejects a single Napoleonic rule. British anthropometric data place English male average at five feet seven and seven eighths inches with class-based shifts. Americans are reported taller on average, with regional variation among Scots Irish Welsh and English.
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Peter the Great
Abraham Lincoln
Walter Raleigh
Richard Burton
Alfred de Musset
Froude
Puvis
de Chavannes
Poussin
Lessing
Schiller
Lamartine
Sterne
W. S. Gilbert
Nature
British Association For the Advancement of Science
England
United States
Thunder Weather Foretold By Early English Author
An archaic verse-like weather omen links mornings of thunder in England to a sequence of cosmic signs. The text predicts death among learned men and judges on Sunday, women’s death on Monday, and a pestilent plague on Saturday, implying broad calamities tied to a tempest.
Sir Gilbert Parker Drafts Title in Studio Chaos
The novelist Sir Gilbert Parker works between rooms writing a title and another piece while changing chairs and composing. His restless habits include shifting seats as he writes.
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Gilbert Parker
Fragmented Phrase About Pain and Men Offering Aid
A garbled line notes that when it is shown a thing harms, several men show to help without pain, yet the text remains unclear and incomplete. The fragment hints at aid offered without pain but lacks coherent context or specifics.
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Tite
John Kendrick Bang
EPC
Pees
Okour
United Star
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Pibur
Ems
Harmer
Jersey
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