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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1928
Page
2
A screen adaptation scene unfolds in Kelly's Ringside Cafe. Chuck White pressures Rose Shannon in a Bowery room after a prior drink, and a failed kiss leads to a violent struggle when Rose defends herself, leaving Chuck injured and Rose shaken. The chapter ends with a murder by clock strike.
Alva E. Lisby treasurer of Putnam County Indiana invites sealed bids for the sale of 16960 road construction bonds for the W A Grogan emulsified asphalt project in Greencastle Township. Bonds dated July 15 1928 bear 4.5 percent interest with semiannual coupons and mature in twenty yearly series. Bids due by noon July 21 1928.
Hoover will be officially notified at Stanford University California on August 11 as the Republican presidential nominee. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas fixed the date with Hoover at a Commerce Department conference. Curtis will be notified at his Topeka home a few days later. Hoover plans to visit President Coolidge in Brule Wisconsin before returning to Palo Alto for the event.
The Treasury announced that on June 30 the per capita money in the United States was $40.52 based on a population of 118,364,000. This marks a 46 cent month rise but a 96 cent year decline. Total money stock stood at $8,117,768,000 with $4,796,408,000 in circulation.
The Pennsylvania railroad funds a one million dollar project to extend double track on the Indianapolis to St Louis main line. A three mile segment near Griffith and Adenmoor Illinois will remove two reverse curves with grading and a cost of 65 dollars per foot.
Mrs Arlie Fuller is ill with ptomaine poisoning under a doctor s care and slowly improving Everett Lewis sold restaurant furniture to Curran Bros of Bainbridge Several attended the annual basket dinner at John McCabe home near Morton Mr and Mrs Hutchins and son visited Danville Ida Putt under care preparing for Culver Hospital removal of goiter Fred Lockridge operated on for tonsil trouble recovering well Mrs Ida Batman of New York staying with Mrs A C Lockridge Detroit visit next week Mrs Shannon Greencastle and sister Alice Hicks visiting Kentucky cousin Mrs Ellen Owens and mother Mr and Mrs J F Grater planning Yellowstone Park trip Grater brother and wife of Chicago visiting in the store Putt Ko komo wife spending Fourth with mother s family Lovett family to San Antonio Kenny Lockridge returns Indianapolis for visit
New York reports Ernest W. Marland head of a $75,000,000 oil concern will wed his former foster daughter Miss Lydie Miller Roberts. Marland, 54, is to be reunited with his 24 year old fiancée recuperating from a nervous ailment in Atlantic City.
O A Day of the Second District writes to The Herald correcting impressions about the Grogan road bid. He explains asphalt bid by O J Larkin at 15494.50 prevented by law from switching to concrete for cost savings and notes Sweet and Wright bid 15800 would have been legal only if lower. He urges public understanding of statutory limits and prudent taxpayer use.
Syd Chaplin reappears in a new English comedy Skirts released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and showing at Voncastle Theatre this Wednesday. The film features his notable cross dressing in a minor role amid a plot about a bridegroom and his friend seeking a carefree London outing after the bride leaves with her mother.
Farmers battle rain years with weeds taller than corn as fields show stress from wet conditions. Nearby, family gatherings, church meetings, and visits fill the week with local advice and updates on residents health and travel. Raspberries ripen in parts of the area amid village activity and weather shifts.
In Clinton Falls the M P Church will host services Sunday morning and night July 15 conducted by Rev W E Wilmoth of Indianapolis. The Ladies Aid plans an all day gathering July 11 at the church and attendees are invited. Local residents note a well attended ice cream supper last Saturday night and mourn the death of Mrs Anna Alexander in Green Castle with funeral at McCurry Funeral Home.
Mrs Lizzie Hart and son Donald called on Mrs John Bee. Marel Ensor, working at Mishawaka, visits parents Mr and Mrs C Ensor. Thelma Humphrey and Georgie Arnold visit Thomas Bettis family. George Frank family with others visit Brazil and nearby households. Arthur Jones and Dan Hall families visit Frank. Fred and Steve Burk families visit Ezra Newgent. S Mrs O Ensor visits Mrs Ora Thomas.
Mrs Arthur Fry and Mrs Glen Hurst traveled to Brazil on business. Paul Frost from near Harmony stayed with grandparents Mr and Mrs W S Collins. Mrs Willis Scobee and children visited relatives near Mt Meridian Friday. Lightning killed a horse for Mrs C O Ewing during a July 4 storm. Mrs Hilliard Wamsley attended events in Indianapolis Thursday night. Ladies Aid to meet at the home.
Jacob Hirt of Moffett & Dobbs Buick dealers earned a Detroit trip from July 23 to 25 for top showing during May 1 to June 15. He won an electric sewing machine a Gladstone bag and a porch swing. his 433 1.3 percent ranking placed him among four state high honorees. He will tour the Buick factory and proving grounds on the 1,300 acre site.
Twelve dead and more than six hundred ill as Lee Massachusetts enforces strict quarantine. Public gatherings banned, restaurants closed after 8 PM, funerals private. Doctors from the state health department assist. cattle examined to curb milk spread.
Ellie Williams, a Pullman porter from Chicago, pleaded guilty in Ritxville Washington to attempting an assault on a young woman passenger aboard a Northern Pacific train. He was sentenced to ten years, the maximum penalty, after leaping from the train and being captured by a posse.
An 19th century remedy claims to cure malaria by rapid relief of biliousness headaches and dizziness from temporary constipation. It asserts elimination of taxing symptoms and produces copious watery evacuations and is highly esteemed for its effects.
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