Flight Plans for Berlin Trip From Chicago
A Chicago plane with two pilots and a newspaperman prepared to depart for Berlin, Germany, on the first leg of a round trip. Cooperating pilots are Parker D. Cramer and Bert Hassell, associated with the ill fated Greater Rockford flight that ended in an emergency landing in Green Bay.
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Chicago
INS
Berlin
Germany
Parker D. Cramer
Bert Hassell
Greater Rockford
Green
Flight plan from Rockford to Sweden via North Beach
The journey begins with a projected hop from Rockford to Sweden by Robert Gast. The first stop is North Beach L I where the Atlantic flight will originate and the plane is due in Chicago Sunday. A Berlin bound leg via the northern circle route is under consideration.
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Rockford
Framed Bobby Doyle Faces New Escape Plan
The Wilkes gang member Bobby Doyle is said to have been framed in the killing of a policeman and to be aided by Beebe Barrett, Johnny, and Mary as they plot an escape. A knock at the door interrupts the plan with detective Biff Myers entering. The scene closes with Bobby stowing in a sofa hiding spot as tensions rise and the story continues tomorrow.
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Bobby
Doyle
Wilkes
Ancee
Beebe Barrett
Beebe
Wilmot
Don Wilkes
Mary
Johnny
Aow
Martha
Myers
Beebo
Biff Myers
King Monturee Syndicate
Joe
Thistles Eradication Law Passed by Indiana General Assembly
The 1929 Indiana General Assembly enacts a law banning Canada thistles on private land. Landowners must cut or chemically treat thistles when they bud or within five days after first bloom. If unpaid, the township trustee hires workers and places a lien on the property. violators face up to 10 dollars fines. Trustees failing duties face up to 25 dollars fines.
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General Assembly
Indiana
Quick Justice Meted Out To Fowl Thieves
Two 18 year old Bloomington youths were convicted of chicken thefts and sent to the penal farm for six months each after stealing 30 chickens from farmer Charles Hays. They sold the birds to Havens & Co for 23.40, paid 15 for a Ford, and confessed to additional thefts including chickens from John Trueblood and a cow from Barrow's father.
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Hand of Justice
Bloomington
Charles Hays
Smithville
Noble Vint
Oscar Barrow
Hays
Barrow
Havens
Graham Motor Sales Co
Ray H. Stephens
Vint
John Trueblood
Fury Barrow
Bloomington World
Huffman appeals Indiana Supreme Court in check kiting case
Walter A. Huffman, former Elkhart County state representative, convicted April 18 in Goshen on a $2,500 fraudulent check charge, filed his appeal today in the Indiana Supreme Court. He faced 1 to 10 years on one of 21 indictments tied to a probe of a check kiting scheme that cost Farmers & Merchants Bank of Foraker, Ind. $49,000.
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Indianapolis
Ind
INS
Walter A. Huffman
Elkhart County
Goshen
Indiana Supreme Court
Robert E. Proctor
Elkhart
Huffman
Farmers & Merchants Bank of Foraker, Ind
Son of former governor found dead in St. Louis
Smith Lane Dunning 59 telegraph operator and son of former Indiana governor Paris C. Dunning was found dead in a St. Louis hotel room. An inquest was planned. death believed from a heart stroke as Dunning was fully clothed and near supposed departure for work.
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ST. Louis
INS
Smith Lane Dunning
Ostal
Indiana
Paris C. Dunning
Dunning
Mary Frances Palmer
Drunk Printer Sends Odd Public Sale Bills
A Scottsburg Indiana printer, after a single drink, printed a farmer’s sale bills with humorous misprints. The bill lists bizarre items such as cows, piano mares, and a cow with ice cream attachment along with other odd farm tools and eager notes about future arrivals. The tale preserves the old joke of a drunken printer.
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Scottsburg
Ind
INS
The
Scott County Journal
Plane four days short of endurance record at Roosevelt Field
Martin Jensen's third attempt to set a refueling endurance flight in the monoplane Three Musketeers failed at 6 07 p m EDT. He attributed the stop to fuel line trouble but Emil Burgin, refueling ship pilot, found forty gallons remained and suspected a clogged line. Jensen was with his wife Marguerite and William.
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Roosevelt Field
New York
Martin Jensen
Jensen
Emil Burgin
Burgin
Marguerite
William
Schedule Sky Record Claimed By Fort Worth Flight
Uldrich falls short of a record by twenty four minutes after a 70 hour flight as Fort Worth last month set a milestone at 172 hours and 3 minutes and 1 second.
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Uldrich
Fort Worth
Tex
Missing Children Found With Stranger in Indiana
Sonny McDonald eight and Louise eleven were found unharmed in a ravine near Portland Arch on the Wabash river. John Wesley Eads fifty five, who claims Cherokee heritage, was arrested for abduction after the children said they had not been mistreated. He had camped near the McDonald farm while the parents authorized him to take them on his spring wagon. Akicna will be filed against to come from K.
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Lafayette
Ind
Sonny McDonald
Louise
William McDonald
Independance
Portland Arch
Wabash River
John Wesley Eads
Eads
McDonald Farm
Akicna
The Herald Greencastle Advertising Rates and Staff
The Herald established as the Star and Democrat in 1858 lists circulation details for Putnam County and outside, with Greencastle delivery rates and contact. It credits Charles J. Arnold as proprietor and Roy Bee as city editor and manager, noting publication daily except Sunday from 17 19 South Jackson Street.
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the Herald
The
Star & Democrat
Greencastle
Ind
Charles J. Arnold
CoRoy Bee
South Jackson Street
Indiana
Putnam County
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