Five Grady house fires linked to local laborer
Donald McPherson, 26, of near Brazil, admits starting five fires at the Grady rooming house to create excitement. He turned in each alarm, was found near Reelsville, questioned by Fire Marshal Hoover, and jailed to face Circuit Court this fall. The report also notes basketball rule changes.
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Donald M’pherson
Brazil
Donald McPherson
Jennie Grady
Anna Grady
Charles Hoover
Greencastle
McPherson
Grady
Greencaselle
John Goddard
Reelsvile
Clay County
Hoover
New Basketball Rules Adopted by Rules Committee
Changes issued to coaches ahead of official guide in 1923 modify game bounds and boards. Technical fouls cover noncontact infractions while substitutions and timeouts adjust with ball possession and free throw schedules.
Announcement party honors two brides to be
Mrs. Julian D. Hogate hosted a morning double announce ment party for Ruth Ralston of Indianapolis and Mary Marguerite Dougan. The event featured garden flower decor, a double throne, fairy attendants, a kitchenette shower, piano numbers, and a luncheon at noon for the honorees and their friends.
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Danville
Julian D. Hogate
Ruth Ralston
Indianapolis
William Stewart LaRue
Hoosier
Mary Marguerite Dougan
Paul Thierfly
Winslow
Mary Martha Roberts
Catherine Darby
Louis Bain
Ruth Harney
Mary Agnes Showalter
J. H. Grimes
Auto Turns Over On Short Curve
Four young Anderson residents in a Chevrolet Touring car overturned after failing to negotiate a sharp curve at the Charley Runyan corner on the back bone road near Mt. Meridian. The car veered into a ditch, rolled onto its side, but no one was injured and the travelers resumed toward St. Louis. Ralph Knoll aided by pulling the car from the ditch.
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Anderson
Charley Runyan
Bone Road
Mt. Meridian
St. Louis
Runyan
Ralph Knoll
Victim of Horses Kept for Treatment in Indianapolis
Miss Lucy Garrett daughter of Frank Garrett of Fillmore and a Fillmore schools teacher was taken to Indianapolis on Thursday for head injury treatment after a horse kick weeks earlier. The wound failed to heal and surgery was planned to address the injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Garrett
Frank Garrett
Fillmore
Indianapolis
Miss Edna Arnold Tracks in Fillmore Friday
Miss Edna Arnold assisted Walter Campbell the County Clerk when visiting Fillmore on Friday.
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Edna Arnold
Fillmore
Arnold
Walter Campbell
Evangelist William Deal to Lead Nazarene Tent Meeting
Evangelist William Deal of Ashland Kentucky will conduct a two week Evangelistic Tent Meeting under Nazarene Church sponsorship. It begins Saturday July 14 and closes Sunday July 29 at the Lot corner of Main Street and Maple Ave. Services are nightly during the week and both morning and evening on Sundays per Mrs. Jay the Nazarene pastor.
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William Deal
Ashland
Maple Avenue
Main Street
The
Nazarene Church
Maple Ave
Jay
the Nazarene Church
Putnam County Young People Picnic at Snowden Springs
A community call urges every young person in Putnam County to attend a county wide gathering at Snowden Springs near Bainbridge on July 18, 1928 at five PM. The event includes supper and a mixed program to help youths know each other and commit to working together for the county's future.
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Putnam County
Snowden Springs
Bainbridge
Invitation to Youth Event With Church Leader Guests
The notice invites all youths who can prove their age and every church pastor as a guest. Churches are to arrange their own transportation and the church sending the largest number of youths will be honored.
Stilesville to Face Ott Webb’s Specials Sunday
Stilesville, the Midway Specials of HenDricks county, travel to Greencastle to meet Ott Webb’s Specials on the Zinc Mill diamond Sunday at 3 pm. Manager Brown’s veteran squad clashes in a rivalry game with Prizes offered for home runs and key hits by Greencastle players.
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HenDricks County
Stilesville
Midway
Greencastle
Ott Webb
Zinc Mill
Stilesvile
Brown
Putnam County
Star Store
R. P. Mullins
Charles Crawley
Herb Lempus
Indianapolis
R. H. Dawson
Miller
Bellmore
Ike Know All Weather Prognosticator
The note gives a forecast of generally fair conditions tonight and Saturday. It also provides sunrise at 4 27 and sunset at 7 14.
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Ike
Putnam County Farmers Hog Wheat Crop Amid Harvest Costs
Putnam County farmers, facing labor scarcity and high harvesting costs, are turning hogs into ripened fields to eat wheat. Threshing starts late with no wheat received at local mills yet, unlike last year when elevators opened on June 28. Rainy weather delayed threshing, but full operation is expected soon.
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Putnam County Agriculturists
Putnam County
Miss Farmer to Speak at Sunday School Picnic
Miss Jane Farmer, Putnam county Sunday schools youth superintendent, will give the evening address at the Miligan Park picnic on Saturday July 14. Merle Wilkinson leads the program with athletic stunts by Glen Robertson and supper served by Lela Hyded. the event promises elaborate, varied activities for all attendees.
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Crawfordsvile Review
Jane Farmer
Young People
Putnam County Sunday Schools
Miligan Park
Miss Farmer
Merle Wilkinson
Glen Robertson
Lela Hyded
Greencastle Band Concert Broadcasts Delayed
The Greencastle Band gave a well attended Thursday evening concert at 8 o clock. The band and its members show strong progress and plan weekly performances. All concerts will be broadcast by radio except Thursday night due to the absence of WLAX manager C W Otis from the city.
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Greencastle
C. W. Otis
WLAX
Lineman suffers severe injuries in fall near Greens Castle
George White of Indianapolis employed as a lineman by the Eastern Traction Co fell about 15 feet from a pole west of Greens Castle Friday morning. He sustained a severely wrenched back and minor cuts but doctors say injuries are severe yet not serious. White was taken to Green Castle and housed at the Pfeiffenberger residence on West Liberty Street. Cause of the fall is undetermined.
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George White
Indianapolis
T. H. I. & Eastern Traction CO
T. H. Tf
Eastern Traction Co
Greencastle
White
W. R. Hutcheson
C. W. Pfeiffenberger
West Liberty Street
Local Residents Travel and Church Class News
Ray Harper and J C Mullinix visited in Brazil on Thursday afternoon while Miss Martha Ridpath attends the School of Missions at Battle Grounds and will join the Epworth League Institute there next week. Charley Smith and wife, formerly of Greencastle now in Indianapolis, are visiting friends. The Fidelis Sunday School Class of the Christian Church meets at Miss Maxine Pollom’s home on South Indiana Street at 7 30 PM with officers to be elected. The class, aided by Miss Jane Farmer, recently secured a state charter and Helen Cox of Limedale teaches. The August Fidelis meeting will be at Mrs Mildred Nicholas’s Spring Avenue home.
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Martha Ridpath
Battle Grounds
School of Missions
Epworth League Institute
Fidelis
The
Christian Church
Maxine Pollom
Indiana Street
Jane Farmer
Helen Cox
Limedale
Mildred Nicholas
Spring Avenue
Valuable American Trees in Forestry
The article notes white oak and red oak as highly useful for their durable brown hardwood. It describes the white oak as the monarch of the forest, long lived and larger and stronger than most companions in the woodlot.
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School Book of Forestry
Child declares mother boss in family quarrel scene
Four year old Martha, amid parental dispute, interrupts and proclaims, Now, daddy, I want you to understand that mamma is boss in this house. The anecdote captures a humorous social moment.
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Martha
What Every Woman Learns
A wry Detroit Free Press quip highlights marriage strain and the costs of a planned home life as a husband may be late or absent, underscoring gendered expectations in domestic routines. The remark frames marital tension through dinner plans and unreliable evenings.
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Detroit Free Press
The Amende Honorable Term and Punishment History
The term originates in ninth century France. Traitors faced public shame as they were stripped of their shirts and led to the court with a taper to seek God’s mercy. Death often followed this punishment.
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France
Difference Between Pride and Vanity
A six year old girl explains pride as thinking ill of others and vanity as seeking others' opinion of oneself. Her witty distinction frames pride as dismissive and vanity as preoccupied with how one is viewed.
Willard to Receive About 120000 From Firpo Fight
Jersey City July 12 Jess Willard will take about 120000 and Luis Firpo around 80000 from gate receipts for the bout tonight based on estimated total receipts of 400000 Willard 30 percent Firpo 20 percent Official check however will not be completed until tomorrow Tex Rickard said attendance of more than 100000 included all inside the bowl Willard failed in his comeback as Firpo knocked him out in the eighth round of a towering heavyweight contest
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Jersey City
N. J
Jess Williard
Luis Firpo
Willard
Firpo
Tex Rickard
Jess Willard
Kansas
Boyle
Mrs Hallie King Divides Shares in Local Company
The will of the late Mrs Hallie King distributes 280 shares of the King Morrison Foster Co. She leaves 100 shares to her brother-in-law John King, 30 shares to each of four sisters, 30 shares to her brother and 30 shares to her mother.
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Hallie King
King, Morrison, Foster Co
John King
Indianapolis Stockyards Hogs Decline At Friday Auction
Hogs 14 000 head receipts with 1 100 calves and 400 sheep. Prices for light hogs 7 85 to 7 90, light mixed 7 50 to 7 65, heavies 7 40 to 7 50. Pigs steady at 7 50 down. Lows slightly lower and heavier 5 75 down. Cattle steady calves weak at 12 down and sheep steady with best lambs 14 or less. 10 000 to 11 000 hogs sold early with 6 000 to outside buyers. buying continued and outlook favorable.
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Indianapolis
Local social notes of Roy Harper visit and Manhattan trip
Mr and Mrs Roy Harper returned from a several days visit with his parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Harper of Reelsville Mrs Hanna Mullinix has returned to Manhattan after a visit with her sister Mrs Albert Hutcheeson on West Liberty Street
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Roy Harper
Thomas Harper
Reelsville
Hanna Mullinix
Manhattan
Albert Hutcheeson
West Liberty Street
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Nazarene Tent Meeting
Evangelist Wm. Deal
Ray Harper
This City
J . C. Mullinix
Charley Smith
Mother
Giant Kansan
Louis Angel Firpo
Jack Dempsey
MRS. King's Lock
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